Oh this has to be my favorite picture of 2006. Our good friend Russ, who shot our Christmas pictures this year, snapped this while I was switching sweaters and I just love it!

Almost as amazing as becoming a mama has watching the man I love become a daddy–a sweet, good, strong, hilarious daddy. Right before this picture she was stomping her hot pink boots up and down the halls of Nazereth Chapel as fast as her legs could carry them. The echoing clomps were far to exciting to quiet and her energy was delightfully uncontainable. And yet for this sweet moment she is still.