Happy Birthday, Baby

A big Happy Birthday to the most precious baby in the world: Our daughter, Annabelle Elizabeth. She turns one today. I've spent the past hour or so reflecting on the year gone by and the many changes it has brought.

It's hard when your life changes overnight. You check into the hospital one person, you check out another. Forever changed in society's eyes, for you are now this person called "mother."

But I know I can speak for Andy when I say we wouldn't have it any other way. So to Annabelle...

It's impossible to describe the love we feel for you. You bring laughter and smiles. You bring light and joy. Your face is that of an angel. And to see you is to be assured that, yes, there is a God because nothing so precious -- so perfect -- could be anything but divine.


Annabelle, day one, hour one.


Annabelle, almost a year old (and she's already perfected her BlackBerry technique!).