Since Jonah is my last baby, I fully expected to be really, really sad when he turned one. I LOVE babies, and my own just happen to be the most awesome babies ever, so I thought I'd be sad to know that we're done and on to toddlerhood (yes, I made that word up) with our last. I thought I'd be sad about how the year flew by and all "where did the time go?" and all that. But you know what? I'm not sad. I guess since we knew he'd be the last, we made a very concentrated effort to really enjoy him being a baby. And we did, and so honestly, it doesn't feel like it flew by. We feel ready for him to be a toddler...ready for the next stage of life. By the time be buy a house (hopefully next year) we'll be done with baby gates, cribs, maybe even diapers (not counting on that one though). It's a good feeling.

Anyway....Jonah is an awesome little guy! I'm so glad he's ours. God knew exactly the little person we needed to complete our family. I'm so excited to see the kind of kid he grows into and, eventually, the kind of man he is.

If you want to see the first half of his first year, click here: six months of Jonah. Here's the last six months of little moments and total cuteness:

 

They chose to do a first look at St. Mary's. It was a beautiful moment and I'm so glad they had those few minutes alone before the day got away from us.






This was the funnest bridal party I've ever photographed.








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When Daniel and I got married (almost 10 years ago) we didn't get to take a honeymoon. Even if we had been able to afford a trip, neither one of us had vacation time to use anyway. So we thought we'd take a trip for our first anniversary, but I got pregnant 6 months later and all our time and money went into working on our house. So, 10 years later, we had still never been on a trip alone. We decided the 15th anniversary of when we started dating would be a good time to celebrate, so we took a little 3-day trip to Chicago and Indiana Dunes.

If you read this post then you know how important I think it is to take tons of photos of everything. I didn't want to lug around my big camera, so I took my little point and shoot (a Nikon p300 if anyone is interested) and while the image quality is obviously not as good as what I would get from my DSLR, I'm still pretty happy with them and so glad we took so many photos!

This is kind of picture overload, but there were SO many that I liked, plus I recently had a client ask why there were no photos of my husband on the blog so I thought I'd share a few.