1 year already?

I didn't realize that I've been blogging for a year now -- I doesn't seem that long -- SO much has happened in this past year. I was just looking back through some old posts and saw that I started blogging in April 2007 -- WOW!

Funny, how it's my toddler's birthday yesterday. I think that's the reason I started blogging. I still have not completed a 'one year' album for my daughter. I was into Creative Memories before I got married and made a lovely engagement photo album and a beautiful wedding album and knew in my mind that I would continue scrapbooking when we had children.

Funny, no one told me that I would rarely have free time and when I did have free time that maybe my priorities would change!

It was my daughter's 2nd birthday that made me realize that I was getting anywhere with photo albums -- there's not one picture of my daughter in a photo album, pretty sad, huh? The pictures are all cropped and ready to be put into an album, but I can't find any time to sit and scrapbook -- thus, the blog appeared.

This blog was started to document our lives, my daughter's life and the struggles and joys we encounter. I LOVE blogging. Even though I have no fancy page with lots of details and no high-tech links to other various websites and blogs -- I love that I can be as simple or as complex as I want to be when I blog. This is my diary -- I'm still learning each day.

Here's a link to one of my first posts, and in recognition of the big birthday girl -- it's a link to her 2nd birthday: http://wearereilly.blogspot.com/2007/04/im-two.html

Here's to another year -- a year of blessings and joys!