Happy First birthday, Niece!

My niece's birthday was two weeks ago, but I'm just now blogging about it. Oops.

Bad Aunt award. Anyways...

I can NOT believe that my niece is one year old already. It literally seems like just yesterday I was driving down from school to go to the hospital and meet her for the first time.

This was the day after she was born. My parents and I took dinner to my Brother and SIL so they didn't have to eat anymore yick-yack hospital food. During this time I was able to hear a lady SCREAMING while giving birth two doors down. One word: epidural.

It seems like just yesterday that I was holding her in her first PUMA jacket...

Or that she was sleeping on Pe-Pa's shoulder.

This was taken on New Year's Day. My brother brought the kids over after church (the day I was baptized, woop woop!) and we had our usual holiday dinner.

We took our first self-y together before her big brother's second birthday party.

I'm sorry, but there are really no words for how adorable she looks here.

I loved getting random picture texts of you while I was back at school. Like this one of you, in the toy bin, no less.

She was the first to greet me when I got home from my road trip this summer.

The last time I babysat her before I came back to school, we took plenty of self-ies.

And, the most recent picture of her from her birthday weekend. She's looking adorable in her Target outfit from me. Again, it seems like just yesterday when she couldn't even sit up in that car and now she's pulling up on it and climbing in all by herself.

Happy First Birthday, Emma! I love you so much and I can't wait for you to grow up and spend more time together. Time flies and I feel like the next time I blink you'll be five years old!