Here's to a FABULOUS 5 years!!!

The very first picture I uploaded to blogger.  Hudson at 2 months.

 Happy Anniversary!!  5 YEARS of blogging....WOW!  What a fast 5 years!  I absolutely love my blog.  I think I love and appreciate it more with every passing season of our life.  To think that I have my entire journey through motherhood journaled here on this blog is so amazing to me.  Matt and I will be talking about something and then we can't remember where we were or how old the kids were....and what do we do???  We go to the trusty blog to find things.  We love it.  Matt thanks me all of the time for keeping this blog.  I think it means just as much to him as it does to me.  When I think back to this post 5 years ago, I had no idea what was to come.  I set up my blog on a whim, really to just be able to comment on other friend's blogs.  Many of the blogs I read at the time you had to have a blogger acct to be able to comment.  I really did not know how to 'blog' or really what a blog was, so I just wrote about my favorite subject...Hudson.  And the rest is history.

The Mullins 3

Huddy's first birthday.

All I would have to say is "daddy's home" and the 2 of them would immediately go to the window.

This blog is so sentimental to me because when I started my blog I was this almost 25 year old new mom who was thrown in to the world of motherhood much earlier than we ever 'planned on'....life happens when you start making plans, right?  Matt and I were the first of all our friends to get pregnant & I did not have any mommy friends to reach out to to ask questions, vent, or just see if what I was experiencing was 'normal'...my blog became my way to just 'talk' about our life.  Thankfully over time the Lord blessed with many friends that were/are in the same stage of life as us, but during that time we did often feel like it was 'just the 3 of us' figuring things out.  Often during that first year I felt that Matt and I were total rookies in the world of parenting.  (We still have those days).  When I see pictures of us 5 years ago, it looks like we were such babies ourselves.  It was such a precious time in our life and in our marriage.  We were married barely over a year when we got pregnant with Hudson--and boy did it turn our world up-side-down, but I would not have it any other way.  Living in that teeny tiny apartment in Plano for that first year of mommyhood are some of my most treasured memories, & I would relive those days in a second.  We were so broke, but oh my goodness did we ever have the time of our life.  I love that I have that time documented on here.  I can immediately go back in my mind and relive those days when I see pictures and read stories on my blog.

Still melts my heart.  Such a special memory when Hudson met his baby sister for the first time.

She was the happiest, sweetest, cudliest baby girl EVER!  Still is all of those things and MORE!

1st Halloween with 2.

just one more of my little sweetness.

I have ~almost~ Hudson's entire life documented (started this blog when he was 3 months old), all of our vacations- both alone with Matt & vacations with family, Harper and Holton's pregnancies, the transition of one child to two, our moves from Plano to Fort Worth to San Antonio, the purchasing of our VERY FIRST HOUSE, the journey of finding our 'place' here in San Antonio, the joys and challenges of motherhood, all of our holidays & birthdays, every first that my sweet children have ever had, and not to mention all the extra everyday special life experiences that is sandwiched throughout.  What a treasure!!

Our very first house.  Still so special to me!

The Christmas of the Pirate Ship...such a priceless moment for Huddy...but really for us!

Our sweet little bumblebee.

Probably my most favorite Halloween yet!  They were SO CUTE!

I am in the process of working on making my blog into a book.  It's overwhelming.  I am breaking it up into calendar years starting with "The Mullins 3".  It has been fun going back through the first year.  It does make me extra sentimental, and inspires me to keep this up.

CABO!!  We want to go back next year.  We'll see....

Kids first time to the beach.  It was wonderful.

Disney trip.... best vacation we have had to date!!

2nd SF vacation.  Amazing!

Seattle/Vancouver vacation.

Mullins men 2010!

Colorado

SO in honor of my ANNIVERSARY, I am doing my BEST GIVEAWAY EVER (in my opinion)...my last 2 anniversary giveaways were pretty great--but this one is appropriate for all of you bloggers out there!!

1st time to Sea World after we moved here.

One of those nights you are glad the camera is near.

Visiting Gruene.  Hudson was obsessed with his Spiderman costume and fireman boots....he wore it to dinner..in March.  I LOVE it!

Sweet bluebonnet picture.

Forever a treasure of mine.  Could not have captured Hudson more perfectly.

Spring time fun.

ACU Leadership camps.

1st day of school.

I love this picture!  Harper's big girl room.

Most of you bloggers know FABULOUS KELLY who makes the blog world beautiful.  She has either blessed your blog by her creative touch, or has you drooling wishing you could have a makeover by her.  Kelly is so near and dear to me because we became instant blog friends a little over 3 years ago, and she has BLESSED my blog with so many amazing looks throughout the years.  I want to be able to THANK HER and PAY IT FORWARD to you....So I am paying for a FULL BLOG MAKEOVER for one of you lucky readers!!!  To top it off and make it even sweeter she is putting a 'rush' on it so you don't have to wait too long for it!  Isn't this exciting????? 

My sweet nephew Camden

We are HAVING A BABY!!!

IT'S A BROTHER!!!!

Since it is my 5 year anniversary, I will give you until November 5 days to leave your comment.  Because it is my anniversary, I want to know MY readers...ALL of you.  It will make my day!  If you normally don't comment, then leave one...just this one time.  I'd love to hear from you!  Even if you don't have an actual blog, but are a reader...just give me a shout out & comment.  This will be fun for me, and a special anniversary present from you to me!  :)

***To be entered in my FAB K GIVEAWAY, you will need to be sure and leave a link to your blog!  Thanks!!***