We held our daughter for the first time. My tears are flowing remembering the feeling of finally getting to see her beautiful smile and look into her eyes. We can't believe it has been a year already since we visited her in Guatemala. She wasn't quite 4 months old yet, but had the same smiley, giggly, easy going personality that she does now. Every minute that we spent with her was treasured, even that first night when we just laid awake and listened to her breathe. What a gift we had been given.




And even though we had to say goodbye for a couple of months, we know it was worth getting to hold her, feel her, play with her, and fall completely in love.
Today, a year later, we celebrated by taking a long hike on South Table Mountain. It was 60 degrees today, so we couldn't help but get out and soak in the sunshine. Gabi loves the backpack and has learned how to spur Joe to make him "giddy up". Jackson was grateful for the exercise as well.

We're headed to the National Western Stock Show with some friends tomorrow, so I'm sure I'll have some more pictures to post from that soon. Have a great weekend -- hopefully it's a 3-day like mine is! Yea!
Love,
Joe, Tara, & Gabi
4 comments:
Simply precious!
actually char said the above statement.
So happy for you all! What a gift you are for each other, and what a lucky little girl in her dad's backpack seeing the whole world!
how beautiful! How exciting is it to have another addition! One thing I love blog is it captures the memories and the beautiful pics of her growing up! btw - I've discovered the bargain way to baby the baby - I love babygap and gymboree but don't like the prices, but I found great deals on ebay and craiglist, even for new clothes with tags! also its so cool to be first-time pregger, everything is so new, that's awesome you and joe can feel the baby. I started to feel the kick around 23 weeks - which is late...but still awesome feeling!
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