Harper's Second First Birthday Celebration!

As many of you know, Harper was lucky enough to have TWO first birthday celebrations - one in Austin (pictures below) and one in Denver. We're all lucky to have so many people that love her and want to celebrate her first year with us. Here are some pictures from the Denver celebration:

Harper's First First Birthday Celebration!

As promised, even though they're a little late...here are some pictures from Harper's "first" 1-year birthday celebration!

Look at her go, she's a walking girl!

Yes, it has been pointed out to me many times that I failed the blog-a-day challenge...but let's look at the positives here, people - at least it's got me blogging again, right? Right.

I still need to sift through all of the birthday pictures and post some good ones, but I wanted to be sure to share H's big news - she's walking! She's by no means nimble on her feet, and she still prefers to crawl when she wants to get somewhere quickly, but she's taking lots of steps on her own. I'm proud to say that her first steps were to get to me, and she landed on me with arms outstretched for a hug - definitely melted my heart.

Here's a video - this is actually not her best walking display, but I love that she's truly "toddling" and actually falls down and gets back up and keeps going.

Forgive the crazy camera work at the end - she wants a hug as a reward for all of her walking displays, and it's hard to play camera-woman and hug-giver at the same time.