Pretty in Pink

Well our baby is ONE! Don't worry I didn't cry too hard. Everyone tells you to enjoy it and you think I've got 18 years to enjoy it, but they were right, the first year really does fly by! But while I'm in the same breath, I must say I'm glad that first year is over. The tiny baby stage is hard and it seems that every month got easier and easier. I love this age, Harper is getting to be more fun every day. She laughs at us, claps her hands, runs all over the house and has a little bit of an attitude. I know this next year is going to present its own challenges, but our kid is so fun and I know it's only going to get better.

I promised to tell you about Harper's birthday party and boy was it a PAR-TAAY! The theme of the party was Pretty in Pink. I actually saw the idea on Pinterest and started planning this party when she was about 5 months old. Hoping that I would be working by her first birthday (thank goodness I am) I thought I would get something’s started while I was staying at home. I still felt extremely stressed to get everything done, so I'm glad I started when I did :)

So basically everything was pink...Harper wore pink, all of her guests wore pink, the cake was pink, the drinks were pink and the favors (candy) were pink! PINK, PINK, PINK!!

Harper loved her cupcake! She couldn't get it in her mouth fast enough. We may have created a sweets monster. She had so much fun (and sugar) on her big day that she crashed pretty hard after the party, but she was a trooper.

We're looking forward to birthday #2!! (on a smaller scale of course)

As you can see even her daddy wore pink!

 

Pink!

 

363 Days later...

I am so ashamed that the last time I blogged was on January 11, 2012 and it was 8 days until my due date. As most of you know Harper came 7 days later, but not on her own accord. It was a wild 31 hours before our bundle of joy was placed in my arms and life has never been the same since and we wouldn't have it any other way!

My resolution for 2013 is to try and be better at blogging about the happenings in our lives and our little Missy.  It was, however, fun for me to read through all of the posts that I wrote during my pregnancy. The anticipation of Harper's arrival was almost too much to bear. So here we are almost a year later and our baby girl is about to be ONE!! We are the luckiest parents in the world. Harper is the most laid back, easy going baby I think I have ever met. Sometimes we ask ourselves how did we get so lucky? Actually we say...maybe we shouldn't have anymore, because our next one is sure to give us fits :) Don't panic yet, we will most likely have another child but for now we're just going to enjoy Harper!

2012 Samson update:
Since it's been awhile I thought I'd take this a minute to update you all on our 2012. We've had a very busy year with lots of exciting changes. One week after Harper was born Aaron flew to Austin, TX for an interview with CPL labs. About a week later we were making the biggest decision of our married life thus far. To pack up our lives in Lexington and our small baby and move 1,100 miles to Austin. We made the move in March with the help of my mom and Terry. We had 4 adults, two dogs and a 2 month old baby. It took us three days to get to Austin and many, many stops along the way to feed the baby. We were fortunate enough to get a contract on our house the day before we moved and closed on the house at the end of April. It was a true blessing to have that taken care of. Aaron started his new job just a few days after we got here so it was just me and Harper. I started looking for work almost immediately after we got here, but as we all know the economy is tough and it took a little long than we expected. It was hard to be turned down for 3 jobs, but the silver lining was that I had 7 months with my baby girl. I will always cherish the time I had with her because that is time I will mostly likely never have again. The right job finally came along in October with Austin Habitat for Humanity as the Community Outreach Manager and it has been a perfect fit for me. This is truly the first job that I've had where I can see myself long term! So those are the major highlights of our 2012 and we are extremely excited for 2013. We have decided to build a house in Pflugerville, TX (north of Austin) and expect to be in it by June! Wish us luck during the build process, I'll keep you posted on the progress.

Of course our next major milestone is Harper's birthday on the 18th and we are really excited that both sets of her grandparents, her great grandmother Nonie, her aunt Jordan and uncle Ryan will be here with us to celebrate her big day! We already know that Harper loves sweets! We had the opportunity to have her pictures taken with a small cake, she dug in and LOVED it!! So I'm thinking she will enjoy her cake on her actually birthday as well. I'll be sure to post some pictures after her party.

I hope you all feel up to date on the Samson's. I promise to not go 363 days before the next post :)

Erin