The Great Wolf Lodge

This last weekend we got the privilege of attending our first Edward Jones regional meeting. It was held at the Great Wolf Lodge in Washington. We had a great time meeting new people, playing at the water park and eating some good food. Cade had a blast meeting all the other kids. He truly is a people person. He also had a blast in the kiddy pool. He was content to sit and splash around for hours. I am feel so blessed that Tyler was hired with this company! Everyone was so welcoming and supportive of us over the weekend, the other wives took interest in me our family and were very open to us. I didn't expect this at all! I am excited to be along side Tyler in this new career journey. We are all looking forward to the Summer meeting in 2011 because we will be back at the Lodge and Cade will be a great age to more thoroughly enjoy the pool.

Here are some pictures from the Lodge:

Crawling. Sitting up. Clapping

Kicking myself AGAIN for not having the camera

So I think I am going to start a regular blog post about cute things that happen when I dont have a camera.

Today at church I was talking with my friend/neighbor Heather, I was holding Cade and Heather was holding her daughter Maggie. Well Cade was making the moves on Maggie BIG time. He kept rubbing her face, feeling her hair and after a while he went in for the big KISS!!! Totally leaned in open mouth and planted one on her. I couldn't beleive it, I have always been the only girl (besides his grandmas and aunt) that he kisses! After that 1 time it was all over, he was kissing her over and over. I think he may have his first crush!

Pool Party!

I have been dying to get Cade a little kiddy pool for our backyard. With the hot sunny days last week, Tyler finally went to the store and picked one out for us. Cade and I both love the one he choose, a cute blow up turtle!! Tyler bought it on Saturday and once he brought it home, the clouds started rolling in so we weren't able to set it up outside. Same thing happened on Sun afternoon, clouds and rain! I was getting really antsy to put Cade in it so I decided to set it up in the kitchen! Cade absolutly loved it. He seriously played in it for about an hour Sunday evening!!

We can't wait to put it in the backyard!

Birdie Sling Bag

This weekend Jenna came to visit. Each time we spend the weekend together we try to have some sort of project to do together. We have made curtains and earring and this year we tackled a bag by Amy Butler. It ended up being quite a challenge and very time consuming. We spent Friday evening cutting out our pieces and all afternoon/evening Saturday working on sewing the bags. Jenna brought her sewing machine so we could each be working on them at the same time, however she forgot her presser foot at home! (just a minor detail) So we ended up sharing my machine which took a lot longer. But if it wasn't for Jenna and her great sewing skills I probably wouldn't have been able to complete the bag by myself so I was very greatful we worked on them together!!

Clapping Cade

I know it's a short video but I couldn't resist.
Cade is so proud of his clapping.

Kicking myself for not having the camera

Wednesday was one of the most perfect spring evenings in Bend. The sun was out and it was still about 70 degrees. After dinner Tyler and I decided we should take a walk, so we left the dinner dishes on the table and headed out. We weren't sure where we were going to go at first but after a few blocks Tyler decided we needed some ice cream. So we walked to Ben and Jerrys in the Old Mill.
We have a perfect trail from our house that goes along the Canal and drops us out on Brookswood. It is great because we don't have to walk on the main busy streets. Well we got to our destination, got our ice cream and found a picnic table outside to sit at. Cade started going crazy when we were eating ice cream and not sharing it with him so I decided to let him try it. It was super funny! He didn't like the coldness in his mouth but he liked to rub his lips all over it. So I put the spoon up to his lips and he started shaking his head back and forth getting his lips all ice creamy!
I just wish we had remember the camera to caputre this.
I guess our memories will have to do!

Tackle-It Tuesday

Before

After

Today I finally decided/felt like it was time to start planting some flowers in our backyard. Living in Central Oregon I feel like we have to wait longer to do any gardening or planting because it still gets so cold at night. However, with the beautiful weather we had this weekend I couldn't wait any longer. Today I gave myself permission to purchase flowers and plant 1 of my many pots. Cade and I walked around the gardening center at Fred Meyer for about an hour trying to decide what flowers to get. I always have a vision of what I want the arrangement to look like but usually can never quite get it right.... until today!
I am VERY happy with the flowers I selected and love the way they look in the pot!
Little by little I will get my other pots planted as well. Flowers are expensive, especially when you like your pots jammed packed with color like me :)

Enjoying the warm weather

Cade absolutly loves being outside, so Friday afternoon I moved his wagon of toys to the front yard. He sat and played while I did some yard work. It lasted about 30 min before he started sneezing, coughing and getting watery eyes. I have heard that babies need to be exposed to something for 1 yr before they can actually be allergic or have allergies but I say not true! Poor Cade has been miserable ever since. He won't stop sneezing and his nose is SO stuffed up and running. I sure hope this isn't how it's going to be everytime we go outside!

Mothers Day/8months

I had an excellent 1st Mothers Day. I was surprised Sunday morning with a cute little purple flower, a sweet card, and my favorite Starbucks coffee. Cade picked out the flower all by himself. Tyler said he put Cade in front of all the plants and said "which one should we get mommy" and he immediately reached out and grabbed the one he liked. :)
After church we met up with Tyler's family over towards Mt. Hood and did some Morel mushroom picking, or attempted to pick them. We only found 3! Apparently it was still a little early in the season for them. But we had a great time out in the forest despite our luck.

Today was also Cade's 8 month birthday. He is..
17.4 lbs
Eating 3 solid food meals a day
Rolling where he wants to go
Waving "hi"
Attempting to clap his hands
Saying "mama"
Loving being outside
SOOO Stinkin Cute!

Cousin Jaxon's stand up act

Wordless Wednesday

Tackle-It Tuesday

Making jewelry has been a hobby of mine for quite a while now. I have made a few pairs of earrings for Jenna and she said that she gets compliments on them all the time! So she suggested hosting a jewelry party at her house. I am very excited to get my creations out there and on the ears of other girls besides myself . Tuesday I worked on some new earring. I was able to make quite a few pairs and I really like all of them. These are some of the ones I made.

Wordless Wednesday (on a Fri)

Beautiful Day in Bend

Sunday was the first real spring like weather here in Bend.
It was sunny and 67 for most of the afternoon and that brought EVERYONE outside. After church we took Cade to the park for the first time. We packed a picnic lunch and met Robert, Sam and Emma there. Emma has been to the park before so she was able to show Cade how everything was done. Cade ended up with a little burn on his cheeks, I didn't even think to put sun screen on him. It did give me the chance to crack open one of my aloe leaves and test it out! It worked GREAT, today his burn is gone!
Thanks Katie for the great plant!

Wordless Wednesday

Ok, I know this is supposed to be "wordless" but I have so much to say! My nephew Jaxon is the best! His little personality is so funny yet so sweet. When he was little I always worried that he wasn't going to know who I was because I live far away from him. I would pray that the Lord would some how allow him to remember. Well my prayers have been answered tenfold! Not only does Jaxon know who I am, he asks for me all the time. Amy has to wait until the day I am planning to come visit to tell Jaxon because he will continually ask for "auntie Meggie". The last time I went over to visit, Jaxon knew I was there because he saw my car!! He even recognizes my car!! He came into my parents house and immediatly said "where's Meggie"!

Jax and I have a special sound we make to eachother. If I want to get his attention I will go "psst" when he hears it he immediatly does it back to me. We can go on for ever doing this back and forth to eachother. It is such a blessing to have such a special bond with my nephew.

He is now really into Tyler as well. When Jaxon left my birthday party over the weekend he walked out the door then immediatly turned around and came looking for uncle Tyler, Jaxon realized he had forgotten to give uncle Tyler a good bye kiss. How stinking adorable is that!!

I love watching Jaxon grow and I am so excited that Cade gets to grow up with Jaxon and Jace. I can't wait for the day both my nephews can come have weekends with auntie Meggie and uncle Tyler!

I love you Jax!

Tackle-It Tuesday: Master the Sewing Machine

For my birthday this year my mom and dad got me a sewing machine. I have wanted one for a very long time and dropped lots of hints! For Christmas a couple of years ago my mother-in-law got me a really old vintage Singer, but since it is so old it doesn't work very well. So now I have a brand spanking new one and I couldn't wait to put it to use.

Today I organized all my "sewing stuff" threads, pins, bobbins, scissors, seam ripper; it all now has it's own home in my handy sewing basket.
I also spent some time working on mastering threading the needle and winding and placing the bobbin.
My first project was a little table cloth for the end table next to the rocking chair in Cade's room. I used some left over fabric from his bedding so it all ties together. It actually turned out pretty good!

Wordless Wednesday Part 2

Wordless Wednesday Part 1

Tackle-It Tuesday: Organize Cade's Clothes

I have been putting off this little task for a while now. But today I got annoyed with the fact that each time I opened Cade's closet, clothes would come spewing out. So I went to Walmart and got some storage containers and began digging through all his old clothes that don't fit anymore. I organized them according to size and put the different sizes in separate containers and even labeled the containers with the appropriate size. Now there are no more clothes on the floor or over flowing out of his closet.
I have my mother to thank for my ability to organize. Thanks mom!!
Going through all those clothes made me so sad at how big Cade has gotten, and so fast! I was "folding" (as good as you can fold NB cloths) the outfit we brought him home in and I couldn't believe he actually used to fit in it

The big 25

I had a great birthday yesterday! It started out with Tyler preparing me some yummy french toast for breakfast. He had it all ready by the time I woke up, along with my gift, a birthday balloon and the cuttest card ever from him and Cade.

My afternoon was pretty chill and relaxing, I did a little shopping and just hung out at home. Later in the day we went to Steve and Sharon's house for a Settlers of Catan game night. Sharon even made me a birthday cake and everyone sang happy birthday to me, it was so thoughtful! I have yet to win a game of Catan, the "it's my birthday" pity line didn't work on anyone!
Thanks everyone for making me feel special!!

Wordless Wednesday

Tackle-It Tuesday

From my previous post, I had start the laundry and work at the pre school on my to do list for Tuesday, pretty easy and not much to tackle right?! Well Tuesday turned into a "cram it all in" kind of day and made up for my lack of tackling last week.
So this is the run down of my day:
8:00 Start laundry
8:15 Shower/Get ready
8:45 Make pumpkin bread
9:00 Feed Cade
9:30 Put Cade down for a nap
9:45 Prep the filling for Calzone
10:00 Clean my kitchen
10:30 Put together a bag of clothes I don't wear anymore to take with me to a Clothing Swap
11:15 Eat lunch
12:00 Feed Cade
1:00 Work at the pre school
5:15 make dinner
6:00 Clothing Swap
9:30 GO TO BED!!

It was a crazy busy day but it was a lot of fun to be so productive and have such a fun time at our little clothing swap. It is such a great idea, just put together all your old cloths you don't wear anymore and invite some friends to do the same and swap cloths. Here is an article Amber found that has a good write up on it. http://www.bendhomes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090211/NEWS0107/902110315

To Do List

So this week I have quite the list of things I to do. If I do it all I will feel very accomplished!
Here it is...

Monday:
Go to the gym

Clean the upstairs

Take Cade to dr. appointment

Dinner at Deschutes Brewery

Tuesday:

Start Laundry

Work at the Pre School

Wednesday:

Go to the gym

Work at the Pre School

Thursday:

Bible Study

Work at the Pre School

Friday:

Relax! It's my Birthday!!

Tackle-It Tuesday: Sanitize

With Cade and I being sick the last few weeks, I have felt like there are germs and sickness just lingering in our house. So yesterday I decided to wash all the blankets, sheets and towels as well as go through and sanitize all of the toys that Cade chews on.
Now my house feels healthy again!

6 Month Pictures

P.S. All of these pictures were taken on the same "sit up session"! He is up to almost 1 min of sitting by himself !

These are the moments

I usually don't rock Cade to sleep, I think it is important for him to be able to fall asleep on his own. However last night he was in such a cuddly mood I just couldn't resist. He was practicly falling asleep while I nursed and burped him, so when he was finished I snuggled him tight and wrapped a blanket around us both. I began humming and singing him lulaby songs very softly in his ear. He absolutly loved it, if I paused or stopped he would start doing this sad little whimper until I started again! Talk about melt your heart!

Nursing has been such a blessing to me in many ways. One, being the ability to take off my baby weight really fast :), but more importantly it has been such an amazing time for me to pray over Cade and daily give him back to the Lord. Through my prayers and quite time I have been reminded that Cade is my son but ultimately he is the Lords, Cade was given and entrusted to Tyler and I, so I want to make sure that we take every opportunity to seek the Lord for wisdom and dirrection for every part of Cade's life, the big things like developement, health, salvation, and also the little things like sleep and bowl movements (or in Cade's situation, lack of bowl movements).

These are the moments that will forever be etched in my memory.

My 2 Front Teeth

Time Flies when you have a little one

Today marks Cade's sixth month in our family. Six months, I can not even believe it has been 1/2 a year already! I can honestly say that these six months have been absolutly amazing and I couldn't have wished or asked for a cutter, happier, or more precious baby.

Here are some of Cade's favorite things:
Eating his solid food. So far he has tried sweet potatoes, squash, pears, bananas & avocado. Of those foods he prefers sweet potatoes, pears and bananas.
Jumping in his jumperoo while screeching really loud.
Reading and eating books, he has a fascination with paper.
Playing peek-a-boo.
Sitting up by himself, only for about 10 seconds though :).
Chewing on his tongue, he loves the feel of his 2 bottom teeth!
Getting lost of attention for the kids at the Preschool I work at. (Hey I get paid to have little kids entertain my son, who could ask for a better job)
Shadows, Cade is fascinated with shadows, when I change his diaper and he sees our shadow on the wall he scratches and claws trying to get it.
Bubble Baths.

I will post 6mo pictures of Cade soon, I haven't uploaded them from my camera quite yet.

Snowy Day

On days like today it is so nice to be able to stay inside and just hang out.
When I was working full time I would wish so bad that when it was rainy, cold, snowing or even a beautiful sunny day, that I could stay home and not go into work. Now as a stay at home mom I have that freedom! It is the best. Today with the wind blowing and the snow flurrying down, the crock pot was calling my name. I had a roast that I have been meaning to make forever, so I chopped up some garlic added a few basil leaves and left the roast in the crock pot all day long. What an amazing smell that is! Along with our roast I made mashed potatoes, gravy and corn.
Yummy!

If I was on top of it I would have taken a picture of the beautiful meal like Megan Caston does, but I always think of things like that when it is too late.

Wordless Wednesday

Tackle-It Tuesday: Get up before Cade

LOL!
I know, I know I'm laughing at myself. Hey I have to start somewhere. Even though I didn't physically "tackle" anything around the house I felt accomplished to have eaten breakfast and had some "me" time before cade woke up.
Next week I will set my goal a little higher!

Gerber

I want to know what is up with the brand Gerber's sizing?
Cade is almost 6 months and he is wearing 18 month plain white onezies from them.
Could there sizing be any more off....
weird!