1st Mother's Day

Dylan,

Waking up on my first mother's day next to you was such an indescribable feeling! Thank you so much for making me a mommy. Being able to experience that special love with you is the best part of my life. At just 9 months old, you do things that make me feel so special and loved, like when you are laying in your crib for bedtime or nap time and you hold your hand out with your eyes closed so that you can reach out for my hand and hold on to it, so that you can fall asleep faster. That gives me butterflies every time you do it. I look forward to spending many more mother's days with you and I hope the next few years won't go by too fast so that I can enjoy them.

Last night when I was holding you while you were falling asleep on my first mother's day I was thinking...I love that you are all mine, but I also know that you can only be completely mine for now. One day you'll grow up and  will fall in love with someone and have your own baby, and will be dedicated to your own family and career. Despite that, I want you to know that I am completely yours forever.

I love you with all of my heart and soul.

Master's degree

I wasn't sure if I wanted to walk or not at first, but then I felt like I really needed that moment to celebrate and reflect the past year and a half. I found out that I was pregnant after the first night that I went to class. Along with this, we've definitely had a rough past year and a half, coincidentally as soon as I went back to school, and have had a lot of bumps along the way so there were many moments when I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to or want to continue with pursuing my master's degree. Dylan gave me the strength to continue, and I knew that I was doing it it for him too. Hopefully this will one day show him that it is possible to pull through with determination through life's unexpected challenges and reach your goal. Thank you Dylan for technically going to all of my classes with me and staying up late with me to do papers :) Feeling you kick around in my belly while sitting in class was a sweet reminder to keep going. Being able to see him when I walked across the stage was a great feeling, and having my family and best friends there also to show me their support made me feel like the luckiest person ever!

1st Easter!

Before too much time goes by, since i've been lagging on my posts, I wanted to share some pictures of my little love's very first Easter! It was very exciting to watch him discover and open his first basket, get to spend his first holiday with his great grandma who is here from Europe, and it was extra special because grandma Ana got to leave the hospital for the day to spend a few hours with him! It is the simple things like just getting to see each other and spend the day together sometimes that are the most special moments in life and we tend to forget that and take advantage when we are so used to usually seeing our loved ones any time.

4 generations reunited :)