My apologies, my little climber, and a birthday shout-out!

Okay, so the Sophie's lucky break thing was a gimmick and I fell for it. There really is $5000 to win, but the voting process is ridiculous and is a scheme to get people to register for a stupid website or something. Anyway, if you voted, thank you. If you got to it and thought it was a waste of time, I totally don't blame you. I had no idea you had to register, then check your e-mail, then go back to the website, blah blah blah. Annoying.

So...to make it up to you, the start of today's Wordless Wednesday (which isn't really going to be wordless), is of pictures of my little nugget. I've just got to say, I fall more and more in love with her every day. I didn't think that would be possible, but it is. She is just so G.R.E.A.T and such a blessing to our lives. So, enjoy these:

In the past few weeks, Sophie learned how to climb stairs, which transpired the love of climbing on ANYTHING. The following pictures are a progression of her latest love of climbing on the block pile. Enjoy.
"Here I go."


"Hmm...I might want to take one more block with me up here."


"Woah...gotta get my balance."

"Finally...seated on my throne. Now I'm going to kick back and chew on a block."

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Okay, now moving on to a post that is way over-due! My friend Erin celebrated one of those milestone birthdays last week. Not only was the birthday itself a milestone, but also the fact that she achieved a HUGE goal of losing 20 lbs by that said birthday! (Click here to read about it on her blog.) Anyway, there are numerous people out there who think Erin is awesome and several of us wanted to show that to her with a little surprise get together. We enjoyed some delicious desserts and I'm sure she savored each bite, seeing as how she deprived herself of that kind of thing to lose the weight! Erin, you deserve it and we're all thrilled for you! Congratulations and Happy Birthday (last week)! Here are some pics of the gang as we enjoyed our friend and our sweets!

She is very excited about the mountain of goodness in front of her!

I must say, Erin pulls off the sweet smile you have to hold for the entire duration of the "Happy Birthday" song VERY well! I always feel incredibly awkward in those moments.

This was how Erin satiated her sweet tooth all of those months of dieting with WW.

The group.
Beth is to the left of Erin, and she organized the whole sha-bang. Erin was totally surprised!
On the far left is our friend Sarah who just had her baby girl, Charlie, last night!! Congrats Sarah and Scott! We can't wait to meet her. (She was 2 days away from her due date in this picture, but Charlie decided to wait another week to make her grand entrance!)

And this is where I'll cut myself off. Sorry for the long post. You may not return to your regularly scheduled day.