Happy 1st Birthday to Valerie

Wow, a 1 year old. The time has flew by, it is so weird and I heard the time just keeps on flying. It's been a great year and so glad that Valerie has been so easy on us being new parents. She seems like such a little girl now. The party was great! The weather was hot and humid, but Thankfuly, there was never any rain.... phew. It was a great time celebrating with family, friends and neighbors.

The 4th of July

Here we are at our neighborhood's picnic at the park just 1 block from our house. We think Valerie had a pretty good time of it. Then, in the evening, we woke her up for her very first fireworks show which we also got to walk over to. She did really well, jumped a bit at the noise at first, then she was fine and dandy.