a year ago today...

In the absence of a daily phto of the babe (since she's been sick since Monday and has either had goop coming out of her eye or her nose... or both... and I havent wanted to take pictures of that) I thought I would go back in my "My Pictures" folder on my computer and see just what we were up to a year ago today.

I have no pictures from July 30th, however I do have a group of pictures from a Stone Mountain trip we took July 29th of 2007. Close enough.

This is Jim watching Tucker fetch a stick. Isnt it peaceful? We were peaceful. Peaceful, calm, did whatever we wanted when we wanted (we happened to head out to Stone Mountain after work this day on a whim) and were patiently waiting for a baby to come into our lives and turn everything upside down!

And that she did. Now we have wonderful Madelyn in our lives. And although we might not be able to head out to Stone Mountain after work to take advantage of the long days of summer because Maddie is in bed by 7:30pm, everything we do is more meaningful because she's with us. Just seeing her watch Tucker and get so excited when she sees him doing something as simple as fetching the stick makes every sacrifice we make worth it. Its so much more fun to do the simple things in life with her than when it was just the two of us.

So looking back at old pictures and remembering how we were and the anticipation we felt made me feel very thankful and blessed that we have a happy, healthy baby Maddie in our lives. She's brought us nothing but joy since August 28th, 2007. We love you baby girl!