Happy Holidays! We hope this little letter finds you and yours healthy, happy, and enjoying the Holiday Season. This is our first attempt at a newsletter. We are hoping to make it a tradition to send a little note with the highlights from our year. This year, we’ll make it short and sweet. Surely, as time goes on and our family grows, the letter will get longer, but since this is the beginning…
We spent much of our year anticipating and preparing for the birth of our first child. In January, Jacob surprised me and whisked me away to spend a long weekend in the San Juan Islands to celebrate our first anniversary. It was absolutely beautiful, and we lucked out with great weather for hiking and exploring all around the island. On my birthday, we had the ultrasound that told us we were likely having a boy! We painted his room and got everything ready. We waited and watched my belly slowly grow to look like a soccer ball.
Sawyer James Carter entered the world on June 12, 2008. He weighed a mere 5lbs 12oz. and was super alert at birth. Just as we were enjoying the thrill of welcoming a new life to the world, we also had to say a bittersweet good-bye as my grandfather passed away two days after Sawyer’s birth. We are sure he gave Sawyer some words of wisdom as they passed each other in the corridors between heaven and earth. Our son is such a miracle and a marvel, just bursting full of smiles and energy. We absolutely love being parents to such an amazing little child. He fills our lives with joy and keeps us grinning…sometimes even at 3am.
We were also blessed to be able to get together with family several times throughout the year. We had a fun and low-key summer, and were blessed to spend some time together as a new little family on the Oregon Coast early this fall. We enjoyed some hiking, hunting for lighthouses, and time spent together walking on the beaches.
Jacob continues his amazing work as a Graphic Designer at Mint Design here in Seattle. I love being a stay-at-home momma and sometimes still wonder if people think I am Sawyer’s nanny when they see us at the park. People have begun to inquire about my love/hobby of photography and I have begun working with babies, children, and families and am planning (with Jacob’s help) to start a small business next year, just for fun. Sawyer continues to grow “like a weed” (only much cuter!). We are hoping he will hold off on crawling until after the holidays, as he’s raring to go! This should be a very exciting new year ahead for all of us!
We spent much of our year anticipating and preparing for the birth of our first child. In January, Jacob surprised me and whisked me away to spend a long weekend in the San Juan Islands to celebrate our first anniversary. It was absolutely beautiful, and we lucked out with great weather for hiking and exploring all around the island. On my birthday, we had the ultrasound that told us we were likely having a boy! We painted his room and got everything ready. We waited and watched my belly slowly grow to look like a soccer ball.
Sawyer James Carter entered the world on June 12, 2008. He weighed a mere 5lbs 12oz. and was super alert at birth. Just as we were enjoying the thrill of welcoming a new life to the world, we also had to say a bittersweet good-bye as my grandfather passed away two days after Sawyer’s birth. We are sure he gave Sawyer some words of wisdom as they passed each other in the corridors between heaven and earth. Our son is such a miracle and a marvel, just bursting full of smiles and energy. We absolutely love being parents to such an amazing little child. He fills our lives with joy and keeps us grinning…sometimes even at 3am.
We were also blessed to be able to get together with family several times throughout the year. We had a fun and low-key summer, and were blessed to spend some time together as a new little family on the Oregon Coast early this fall. We enjoyed some hiking, hunting for lighthouses, and time spent together walking on the beaches.
Jacob continues his amazing work as a Graphic Designer at Mint Design here in Seattle. I love being a stay-at-home momma and sometimes still wonder if people think I am Sawyer’s nanny when they see us at the park. People have begun to inquire about my love/hobby of photography and I have begun working with babies, children, and families and am planning (with Jacob’s help) to start a small business next year, just for fun. Sawyer continues to grow “like a weed” (only much cuter!). We are hoping he will hold off on crawling until after the holidays, as he’s raring to go! This should be a very exciting new year ahead for all of us!
Sending all our love, and wishing you all a blessed and very happy New Year!
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