Happy Birthday Ben

Ben turned 1 on Tuesday August 24th. We celebrated with our families over the weekend and had a little dinner with him on his birthday. It is amazing that it has already been a year. It seems not long ago that we were taking parenting and childbirth classes. The last few days, we have been remembering what we did exactly one year ago on that day. We are so happy that Ben is in our lives and has blessed our family.

Here are some pictures of Ben over the last year.

Walking/Running

Suddenly, Ben has gone from only crawling to sprinting.

At the Chief's game

Saturday night we went to the Peoria Chief's game with Grandpa Van Hise, Uncle Jimmy, Aunt Danielle, and "Uncle" Luke. We brought Ben's booster seat and attached it to one of the stadium chairs. Even though it was a night game, it was very warm. Ben started out looking like this:

But soon looked like this: