for your reading pleasure:a trip down memory lane… since i don’t know how to get my archives working, i scrolled through and pulled up the 1st week of posts to this blog. read the 1st post ever below, then come back up here for the ones following. funny how i thought things would work out……

sparkle and shine is 1 year old! yep, that’s right. i started this here blog up a year ago. i did it as a way to keep my birthday resolution to keep a journal. time flies. it was a couple of months before anyone but me and husband actually knew about it, but that’s all…

we’re home we had a great time! i’ll tell all about our trip and meeting rachel later. right now i have a ton of catching up to do here at work!