Baby girl's first birthday party

December is a big month for our family. Both Baby girl and I celebrate our birthdays. We are both Christmas babies. Baby girl turned 1 this year. It's hard to believe how quickly the time as gone by. My baby girl is turning into toddler girl.

I had a combined party for her and two other ninos at the local BK before we left for break. Another boy in the ward has his birthday on the same day, but he turned two. And another little cutie, the one in the pictures, has his birthday a week later. I love his shirt, "Mr. One-derful". L has a cute first birthday shirt sent from her Auntie Susan.

I let L eat her own chicken nuggets and french fries. She didn't eat many of her chicken nuggets, but the girl took care of her fries!
Here are some pictures. Special thanks to Angela for actually using her nice camera and taking these. I was distracted and didn't take as many as I would have liked.

We had some interesting events happen during the party. First, little Brooklyn decided she would blow out the birthday candles for all the kids (see the first pictures). And then the second thing that happened was L hit her mouth on the table right as I was trying to give her the cupcake. Her gums bled a little bit. Poor little girl! Guess it was her party and she could cry if she wanted to. Okay, okay! Cheesy, I know. :)

Blogging: My new hobby?

So last night at girls' night I was telling all my friends that I need to make sure I know their blog addys before I leave Philly, and one of my friends said, "Yeah, and, Holly, I need yours too." I then confessed that I had started a blog when B and I were first married, but have not been updating it. Shame on me.

Somehow I managed to keep a handwritten journal for baby girl but couldn't manage to upload a few pictures now and again.

Here are some recent family pictures we took at a nearby park here in Philly. Hope you enjoy! There are tons more that we are putting into a family video and will use in place of Christmas cards this year. After a long discussion over the costs of making and mailing photo holiday cards, we just decided to go virtual this year to cut costs. The video should be out in your email boxes before Christmas. . .if not they will welcome you into the new year.

This Christmas baby girl and I will be visiting my mom and dad in California and then meeting up with B in AZ after a few days. It will be nice for the grandparents to see baby girl. She is growing up so fast. Her birthday is less than a week away. She is running everywhere and causing mischief. We love her so much.

Hope everyone is enjoying this Christmas season.

Love,

The Michauds

Whoops!

Well, it has been a little while since my last entry. A lot has happened since that last entry. B and I were married on March 19, 2010. We had an awesome honeymoon cruise in the western Caribbean. I moved to San Francisco while B finished up dental school. We found out we were expecting a honeymoon baby. B graduated in June 2010 from UoP school of dentistry. We moved to Philly. In December our baby girl was born. Now B has finished his first year of residency and we are on our last year of school.

Whew! I think that covers it, for the most part.

New blog

I decided since I am moving across the country from family and friends that I would take up a new hobby. . . blogging! I really want to use it as a tool to keep people updated on our family adventures. The next few months and years will definitely be an adventure as Braden finishes up dental school and starts his residency. I will be a 3 month tourist in the wonderful city of San Francisco and then will be working in Philadelphia once we move there. It is still to be determined what I will be doing once we get there, but if anyone knows of a really awesome job out there, just let me know.