Look How Far We've Come!

This past Saturday we took family pictures for our Christmas card and also took Liam to have his picture taken with Santa.  The MOPS group at our church was doing the Santa pictures as a fundraiser and I just couldn't pass up the opportunity before Liam develops stranger anxiety and becomes fearful of strangers in bright red suits!

We didn't have much time to set up a photography shoot for our family pictures with our usual photographer (We always get our pictures done with one of my best friends from high school; check out her Facebook page!) so I asked my sister to take pictures of us on Saturday morning.  She took them on her iPhone and did some editing, then emailed the images to me and - voila! - family pictures that took less than 30 minutes!

After we took our family pictures we headed over to our church to get the Santa picture taken.  The MOPS group had hired a professional photographer to take them and I should be getting an email with the image that I can download and have printed myself.  I love this idea because now I can include the picture on our Christmas card!

Liam was so serious during his Santa shoot.  We could not for the life of us get him to crack a smile!  I'm sure he was a little dazed and confused by the whole situation.  I guess I should just be glad that he didn't freak out and start crying. LOL.

After all the picture-taking we did on Saturday, Jace and I were looking back at photos of us when we first started dating.  We gasped at how young we looked and reminisced about our "carefree" life before marriage and baby.  It seems like such a long time ago that Jace and I met and started dating.  But in reality, that was only a little more than three years ago!  To think of all the changes we've experienced and adventures we've had together in such a short amount of time is crazy!  God has been so good to us over the last few years and to think of what the future He has planned for us might bring brings tears of excitement to my eyes and an anxious flutter to my heart.  However, I must also remember to enjoy the moment I'm in right now as a wife to Jace and a mom to Liam.  Its tempting to wish for the blessings of the future instead of enjoying those of the present.  As my great-grandmother would always say, "Don't wish your life away."  Instead, I plan to smile at the past, laugh in the present, look forward to (not wish for ;)) the future, and praise God for all three!

 Our first Christmas together.  We had been dating for 2 months!

 One of our favorites from this weekend.  Almost 3 years since that first Christmas together.  We've been husband and wife for a little more than a year and half and are now parents to a 4-month-old!

Ground was broken last week in Ault, CO on one of the many exciting blessings God is working on for our future!