One Year Old!

It was about this time last year that a big storm came through Georgia and knocked out the power to our house for several hours. It was Angie's first day of not working, officially starting her maternity leave at the doctor's recommendation. She had gone swimming and walked around the mall for the day so when our power went out in the middle of the movie we were watching, we decided to just lay down in bed so she could rest. Before my head even hit the pillow, Angie's water had broken and started the series of events that would lead to Patrick being born the next evening at 6:47. We both sat up and tried to remember "what now?" We had things pretty well planned for getting to the hospital but the power being out wasn't really part of that plan. We searched for flashlights, tried to figure out how to get the garage door open and started calling family members to give them the heads up.

After 20+ hours of labor, our little boy, Patrick Joseph Flowers arrived to a very excited and proud set of parents and a very large family in the waiting room. And since that moment, we've been thanking God every day for the beautiful, loving gift that Patrick is to us.

I promised Angie I wouldn't write too much on this post (like I usually do) since there's a video to go along. The video below is a complilation of ones we've taken over the last year. We went back and forth between two songs but decided to use both in the end. It IS an entire year to wrap up, so I guess two song's worth of time isn't that outrageous. It's roughly split up that the first song is the first 6 months of Patrick's life and the second song is the other half. The best part of making it was that I got to go back through all our home videos from the last year to choose which ones to include. It was so cool getting to re-live all our favorite memories and tons I had already forgotten about.

We hope you enjoy it...