Then and Now

When Harris was born we began taking pictures of him with his giraffe stuffed animal in our chair in the living room. This way we could look through the pictures and see just how much he had grown and changed from month to month. As you can see, a baby undergoes a lot of changes in one short year!

3 Days Old




1 Month

2 Months

3 Months

4 Months

5 Months

6 Months

7 Months

8 Months

9 Months

10 Months

11 Months

ONE YEAR OLD!!!!

This past year has been amazing in its joys and yes, a few challenges. It is wonderful to see that our tiny infant is turning into an joyful, smart, and opinionated toddler.

Happy Birthday!

We recently celebrated Harris' 1st birthday. Clay and I cannot believe how quickly the past year has flown by. It seems just like yesterday that we were bringing him home from the hospital and waking up all hours of the night. Now we are following him as he crawls up the stairs and watching him go through our cabinets in search of the ideal piece of tupperware. The past year has been the best of my life and I cannot imagine the adventures we have to look forward to.

Happy Birthday Little Man!

Poppy and the heat wave

We have had a fun few days. My dad, aka Poppy, and his friend came into town from Texas. With them they brought their friend the heat. That's right. They thought they were coming to Oregon to escape the excessive heat, but instead just brought it to the northwest with them. At one point it was 107 degrees...an all time Portland high. Oh, let me also mention that we do not have air conditioning in our home. Fun stuff! Oh yeah, one other thing. Our electricity went out not once, but twice. Even more fun! It really wasn't that bad though and we did not let it stop us from having a good time. We just escaped the heat by heading to the beach and Mt. Hood. We were able to do some tide pooling and hiking. In fact, Harris did his longest hike to date, 7 miles! I think that is pretty impressive for an 11 month old. It was great having Poppy (accidentally wrote "Poopy" first) in town and can't wait until we see him again.