Happy 1st Birthday, Holden!

A year ago, today, we were blessed with the birth of our son, Holden Carl Ruse. He graced the world with his pressence at 12:26am, weighing in at 6lbs, 6.5 oz., and 19 3/4 in. long. All day today, I've found myself replaying his birth over and over again in my head. It was the most beautiful, most incredible thing I have ever been apart of. I've always heard that as soon as your baby is born and they place them on your belly, that you forget all the labor pain, but I'm here to tell you that is not the case and if I think hard enough, I'm almost positive I'm having phantom labor pains. It's not that you forget the pain, it's that it just doesn't matter any more, not any of it. It's that as soon as your baby is in your arms, that you would do it over every single second for them. That is the exact moment when love can be understood. Now, the love of my life is 1. A toddler. He talks. He walks. He eats big people food. He can stack the donout thingy in order.

Why is it that all the good things in life seem to go by the fastest?

Tim made Holden a birthday video. Check it out: