New year, New look

So I finally got caught up on my blogging and decided it was time for a new background & design. What do you think? I love the picture of Lincoln in the header... he was finally all warmed up and giggling his little heart out while Nate tickled him. The pictures are all from our family photo shoot in November by Abbey Khyl, whose photography is both affordable & gorgeous! We used one of her pictures on our Christmas card & I don't doubt we'll use her mad skills again when that time of year rolls around again.

Here are a few others I love (and sorry if they are a little grainy - I had to compress the heck out of them to get them to load on my slow computer):

Happy Dirtbeats!

Lincoln is 2!! His birthday was the day after we closed on the house and was much more low-key than last year because we were up to our eyeballs in wallpaper remover. We took him out to McDonald's for his favorite meal (chicken nuggets & apple slices) and let him play in the playplace for as long as he wanted.

We had a few people over for cake a couple of weeks after we moved in and I managed to make Lincoln a passable tractor cake though the majority of my cake decorating stuff was still packed up. I wouldn't say I was pleased with it, but Lincoln thought it was grand and that's all that mattered. His big present from Nate & I was a little rug with roads on it to drive all his little cars. He loved it!

We are just so incredibly lucky to have this little guy in our lives. He is sweet and loving and SO funny. Happy Dirtbeats Link-meister! (For those that haven't heard him, "dirtbeats" is how LJ pronounces "birthday")

The cake

Yum! The best part was driving his tractor through his cake...

Playing with his new rug