Claire's First B-day

I can't believe that a year has past already. Yet, it seems like Claire has always been with us. She is a wonderful part of our lives. We'd like to share a little of her day's events. Here she is eating breakfast.

"Dip!"

Dancing with Daddy!

Modeling her swimming suit.

In the pool with Mommy. Claire loves the water. She would swim away if we would let her.

It was soon time to come in and have her party. We had a few neighbors and people from our ward that we have met over for cake and ice cream.

By this time she was pretty tired. But I think she enjoyed being able to make a mess of the cake with the encouragement.

What a messy face! But a cute one for sure. Afterwards it was straight to the bath and to bed. It was an enjoyable day for all of us. Happy Birthday Claire!

Claire more recently...

Claire's Jumperoo Movie

Here is a movie we made of Claire a while ago. She loves to jump!

Welcome to the Lone Star State

After living among boxes for weeks. We finally made the move to Texas. We loaded up all of our things, with lots of help from good friends, and Aaron drove a 16 foot Penske Truck all the way to Texas. Luckily, we have a friend doing his internship at Dell this summer and Aaron was able to have places to stay along the way as they traveled together.

Claire and I spent a few days in Owosso before catching a plane to Austin with our travel buddies, Johanna and EZ Brown.

Claire and I got to work right away (here we are taking a break for spaghetti) and got mostly unpacked. We gave away our old couch in Michigan and so right now we have a big empty space for one in our living room. We found a pretty good deal on one, but it will take three weeks to get it here.

We'll have more updates soon. Claire loves the pool we found out the other day so we'll get some pictures on our next swim.