Happy Birthday!

To Asher!!! Yep, it is true- Asher is one! Well officially at 3:28 p.m. today he is one. Everyone keeps saying "It went fast didn't it?" Well, life goes fast. So I knew not to take anything for granted and to enjoy every moment with him. Even the nights of getting up 3 times I would just hold his little body and cradle him against me, feeling him warm breath and smelling his sweet baby scent. Touching tiny fingers and ten little toes. Amazed that God grew such a wonder inside of me.

I have loved cradling him to my chest when he was a tiny newborn, to watching him learn how to smile, hold his head up, roll over, discover fingers and toes, sitting up, crawling and babbling. Now he is such an incredible little toddler. He is walking ALL over the place, he is saying new words and he understands so much. He is an absolute sweetheart and he just loves to make us smile. He loves hugs and kisses and his day is not good until his quota gets filled.

Every morning is for Asher and I and he nurses then cuddles against me and is so still. We just sit there loving on each other. Every night just before I put him in his crib he leans in and gives me one last drooly kiss. He is so precious it makes me feel like my heart might burst or like I could cry from the tenderness of it. I always imagined how much I would love my baby but I never imagined this. He is such a little bundle of joy and happiness and he keeps us laughing all day long. His antics just keep on getting funnier and sillier. I love watching him grow into such a little boy.

I have the feeling time is going to start moving even faster and I just try to take in EVERY moment. He is such a perfect mix of Aaron and I and I have to laugh when he does something that SO mimics us. I just thank the Lord for always protecting him from womb to birth through his first year and for many more. I am just amazed at the process of life and how precious it all is.

The scripture that I always got while I was pregnant with his is
Psalms 139:13-17
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.

14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

I just thank the Lord for Asher and pray for wisdom over Aaron and I to raise Asher into the incredible little man God created him to be.

Happy birthday Asher Joshua!!! We named you Asher which means 'happy' and you are truly the happiest baby!

Asher just seconds after being born




In Daddy's arms for the first time





Welcome to our lives tiny one....








And now a whole year later.......























We love you so much!!!!

















See you at the party next week!!!