Quilts

Jace & his quilt

Cade & his quilt

Pictures from Christmas

Cade's new cowboy boots

The best Christmas present!

Checking out the new toys w/ Grandma Shireen

Laura and I

All bright eyed on Christmas morning

Christmas 2008

This year Tyler, Cade and I were able to spend time with both of our families. Christmas Eve was spent with my mom, dad and grandpa. We had a nice relaxing evening at my parents house with a yummy ham dinner. Christmas morning my sister came over with her 2 boys Jaxon (2) and Jace 2.5 months) (her husband had to work... sad I know) for breakfast and "prizes"; as my nephew Jaxon calls them.
Unfortinatly my brother Brett was not able to make it down from Seattle. The weather was too crazy for him to make the trip.
We missed you Brett!!
Cade and Jace got to celebrate there 1st Christmas together. Grammy made them both amazing quilts. Cade's is a camping theme and Jace's is trains and airplanes. Thank you grammy June for the great cozy quilts!!
Something new we did with some family from my dads side was a Progressive Dinner. We did each course of our meal at different house. We didn't go with your typical Christmas meal, instead we went Itallian.

Christmas Menu:
Appetizers: Calazone Rolls @ Colby & Laura's (AMAZING!)
Salads: Green Garden Salad @ Amy & Jay's
Main dish: Red Sauce Spaghettie, Chicken Fettuccine & bread @ Aunt Sandie & Uncle Darren's
Dessert: Mint Brownie Cake & Cookies @ Allie & Tad's (so sad we weren't able to make it to dessert)
This is such a fun was to celebrate with friends and family. My favorite is to see everyones houses all decorated for Christmas.

After the Progressive Dinner Tyler, Cade and I ventured off to the Mackesons to celebrate Christmas with them. We had a great time hanging out with Tyers parents, brother and both sets of grandparents. With all these people it is inevitable that Cade was not lacking attention.

I hope all of you had as blessed a Holiday as we did.

Grandpa & Cade

On Christmas Eve My dad got Cade giggling so hard!! Nobody has been able to get him laughing like Grandpa did. Luckily Tyler was able to capture part of it on video.

Winter Wonderland

Winter in Central Oregon is so amazing. While the Willamette Valley is freaking out because of there snow, trapped inside scared to drive, we here in Central Oregon take it as just another day. I love how the snow doesn't stop us from living our normal lives. Tyler and I took Cade out for a walk in the snow for the first time the other day he loved it and was totally just mesmerized by the fluffy white stuff.
It is always hard to leave our Bend winter wonderland and head to the valley for Christmas, I hope this year the snow in the valley will stick around long enough to give us a white Christmas.

All Smiles

Tyler and I have been blessed with such a happy boy.

Cade is always smiling and it is by far the cutest smile I have ever seen! When he was about 5-6 weeks I was starting to worry that we were going to have a grumpy baby on our hands but it just turns out that he hadn't quite developed his smile yet. Now he is unstopable. It is hillarious when he wants to be upset and cry but happy at the same time, he is fussing but with a smile on his face. Quite funny to watch.

December

It is so amazing to me that December is already 1/2 way over.

Time sure does fly when your having fun and being a mom! So far this month Cade has experienced a lot of 1st's.

First time going to chop down a Christmas tree
First Snow
First time sleeping entirely through the night 8pm-7am!!
First signs of teething

Those are just a few of his firsts. Tyler and I are so excited to spend our first Christmas with our little man.

So frusterating

Be warned... this post is going to be a little bit disgusting, but that is my life as a mom.
So Cade only poops about once every 9 to 10 days, which to me seems so crazy but according to his doctor is nothing to worry about. He isn't fussy with a stomach ache or constipated so he is just taking in all the nutrients from my milk (or so the dr. says).
Well the really frustrating part is, when he goes HE GOES and it is everywhere. Today was his day to go, we just got home from having lunch with Keri and Jonah and I could tell he was working on something. When I took him out of his car seat it I knew immediately it was not going to be pretty. It was so bad, it had come up out of the back of his diaper, all over the back of his onezie, out the leg of his diaper on his pants and onto his car seat. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! To clean him up I had to throw him in the bathtub.

This can't be considered normal can it?

Thanksgiving

So I'm finally getting around to blogging about our Thanksgiving. We spent the weekend at Tylers parents in West Linn. Cade enjoyed his first Thanksgiving and even sported a great Indian headdress that I made for the occasion :)

I was in charge of making pies for dessert, I had only made one other pie in my life so I was a little nervous about how they would turn out, but I have to admit they were tasty and beautiful.

On Saturday Tyler and I went to the Civil War game in Corvallis... it was so sad that the Beavers lost but we still had a good time with my cousin Gena and her husband Bryce.