Goodbye 2014, It's Been Real!

Happy New Year's Eve!! I cannot believe we are saying goodbye to 2014 already. For the first year ever it actually brings a tear to my eye because I'm starting to realise that my father was right when he told me to embrace every moment because babies grow up way too quickly.

I've had some of my highest highs and lowest lows trying to navigate this weird, wonderful, and difficult thing called motherhood. Thankfully Cyril, Josh and I have figured it out, barely, and we're now able to enjoy it a bit more, well most of the time that is :) I thought it would be fun to look back on this eventful first year of Cyril's life with some of my favourite photos, in no particular order :)


Fresh out of the womb, Cyril at 2 weeks.

My little lamb, 2 weeks.

Autumn family photos, 7 months and rocking the carhart's!

Watching the ducks, 7 months.

Loving piggy back rides!

Meeting his cousin Anisha, 3 months old

Hanging out with his best friends, Talkin Tairn, 4 months

Beach walk in Mill Valley, 7.5 months old

Pool time with daddy at Bea's 3rd birthday, 4 months old

You talking to me???

Surprise baby shower that ended up not being a surprise, 32 weeks pregnant

Obsessed with rocking chairs and instruments, California

Just a little wine tasting fun with my best friends!

Fourth generation photo shoot, 5 months

Feeling grandpa's beard, 5 months.

Communicating with the gorilla at the Santa Barbara Zoo.


Baby in a basket.

Eating sand at mondo's beach while mama and dada surf.

Cyril's first Halloween, wearing Tam's costume!

The crawling tiger.

Not scared of the werewolf at all!

Beautiful day for his first wagon ride at the farm.


The only way he would sleep, 2 days old.

Breastfeeding struggles, 3 weeks old.

Photoshoot in Manchester, 3 weeks old.

First Easter, 6 weeks old.

The first time Cyril slept more than 5 hours in a row so we celebrated with a beer!

Nursery guard dog.

First hike with my new friends and our babies, beautiful but exhausting, 7 weeks old.

My brother had his baby in May and his name is Huckleberry :)

Doggy Love, 3 months

Baby in a bucket before swimming.

Amazing blue eyes.

First time standing, 20 weeks.

Cyril lifted up her dress so she pulled his hair.

Fascinated in the sensory room.

Learned how to sit up so he could ride in this wagon in Olympia.

Petting the baby animals at the fair in Massachusetts.

That's a big pumpkin!

                                 
                                     



Fourth generation, Karas style!


First tractor ride.

First time eating in a high chair at Booths.

Baby sensory with his girlfriend.

Flying again, this time to California!

Having a well deserved beer in Cali.

Newborn love



Baby shower at Ribbie Hall Spa

Maternity photos, 34 weeks.

Birth day

First bath, 2 weeks old.

Karas's come to England.

Baby on a surfboard, 6 weeks.
The Bast's come to town, 33 weeks pregnant.




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