Month by month: Michelle Obama's first year in the White House

20 January 2009: Barack and Michelle Obama at the president's inaugural parade in Washington on
Photograph: Ron Sachs

27 February 2009: The official White House portrait of Michelle Obama
Photograph: Joyce N. Boghosian/The White House

March 2009: Michelle Obama on the cover of US Vogue
Photograph: Public Domain

April 2009: With Oprah Winfrey on the cover of O magazine
Photograph: AP

May 5 2009: Michelle Obama makes opening remarks at the Time 100 Gala, a celebration of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world
Photograph: Evan Agostini

16 June 2009: Michelle Obama harvests the White House garden with students from Bancroft elementary school, Washington
Photograph: Rex Features/Sipa Press

7 July 2009: Michelle Obama visits the Sisters of Mercy St Dmitry nursing college in Moscow
Photograph: Dmitry Kostyukov/AFP/Getty Images

23 August 2009: The Obamas disembark from Air Force One on Martha's Vineyard for a week-long vacation
Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP

30 September 2009: Michelle Obama speaks in Copenhagen at a dinner supporting Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics
Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP

31 October 2009: The Obamas greet trick or treaters at the North Portico of the White House for Halloween
Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP

24 November 2009: The Obamas welcome India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, and his wife, Gursharan Kaur, to a state dinner at the White House
Photograph: Charles Dharapak/AP

3 December 2009: Michelle Obama reads Twas the Night Before Christmas to children at the lighting of the White House Christmas tree
Photograph: Jonathan Ernst

21 January 2010: Michelle Obama waves after speaking at the commerce department in Washington
Photograph: Cliff Owen/AP