Hawaii pictures

Maui

Tyler, Cade and I got to take an amazing tip to Maui last week.
We had a blast! The weather was perfect for our time on the island. It only rained the first day which was ok because we used that day to check out the Maui Ocean Center. All the other days was sunshine and high 70's low 80's.
Some highlights of our trip:

- Seeing Cade's little feet
- Swimming in the clear blue 76 degree ocean
- Taking Cade swimming for the 1st time. He LOVED it!
- Snorkeling with the turtles
- Going to the Old Lahina Lu'au
- Laying on the beach reading a good book
- 1 week of non stop time with both of my men
- Dinner with Jeff & Megan at The Melting Pot
- Coming home with a tan

Lots of pictures to follow
:)

Cade's Dedication

So I am officially a blog slacker.
Cade was dedicated on January 11th and I am just not getting around to blogging about it.
Anyways, it was a great Sunday. Both sets of Cade's grandparents were able to make it over for the celebration. Cade got all dressed up in his button down shirt and sweater vest, he looked so cute.
Tyler and I are so blessed to have such an amazing church family here in Bend. We would be lost without it.

Cursed!!

I swear we are cursed when it comes to ordering/getting items online.
It all started when we made our baby registry at Babies r us. Some of my girlfriends ordered us the jogger we registered for. They conveniently had it shipped to our house and I was so excited to come home from work to a package waiting at the door. I immediately opened it and to my disappointment found a bent up stroller frame that couldn't even be fully opened. So needless to say we sent it back and ordered a new one. That was item #1. Item #2 was the portable swing we got as a gift off of our Babies r us registry. It worked for about 2 weeks then the motor went out. Item #3, our pack-n-play, also off of our Babies r us registry came with missing/wrong pieces to assemble the changing table feature. Now item #4; just yesterday Cade's Jumperoo finallycame. I got it all put together, went to attach the last toy and what do you know.... it was broken!! Seriously people is there some hidden thing attached to my name, address, or credit card number that says "send me the broken one"? I was so irritatted and annoyed yesterday after finding the jumperoo broken I had Tyler deal with taking it back because I didn't even want to think about it.
All of these experiences make me never want to order something again!!
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!

Cade on the Move

This past weekend my sister called to say that her son Jace who is 3 weeks younger than Cade, is already rolling over from his tummy to his back. Well Cade must have his dads competitive side because this morning he was rolling over himself. He couldn't let his cousin get to far ahead of him. Check it out!

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.

My weakness

So those of you who have been following my blog since last year may remember this post; New Years Resolution.... well my resolution to stop drinking coffee only last a whopping 3 months, which is pretty good for me I think. But with being a stay at home mom, being at home most of the day and not to mention the time of year, my coffee addiction has become worse than ever!! There is nothing better than on a cold day drinking a warm cup of coffee with French Vanilla creamer or even better a pumpkin pie latte from DB or Bellatazza.

So to give you an idea of how bad my coffee addiction has become let me just tell you this... on Tuesday I made a 5 cup pot of coffee in the morning and by about 3:00 I had drank the entire thing by myself! For the rest of the day/evening I could not sit still. I was pacing back and forth, going from upstairs to downstairs and fitiling with everything. It was bad. Since that day I have limited myself to 1 maybe 2 cups a day and I have doubled my H2O intake to help me feel better about all the coffee I drink.

I guess I could be addicted to worse right....

Scrap booking

Scrap booking is one of my favorite hobbies. I haven't been good at keeping up on it since Cade was born. So the past couple weeks I have been diligently working on getting caught up. Here are some of the layouts I have completed...

Cade & I

So as the mom I feel like I am always the one behind the camera. I was looking through all of our pictures of Cade so far and realized there are none with me and Cade together! That is something my mom talks about all the time, how she is never in any pictures because she is the one taking the pictures. So last night as I was getting Cade ready for bed I called Tyler in to get a few shots of my boy and I. Even though he was stubborn and wouldn't give us any of his adorable smiles, he is still the cutest baby boy I have ever seen!

Look what I found!

Oh yes Cade has found his hands and fingers. I haven't decided if it a blessing or a curse quite yet. Blessing- he is weening himself off his pacifier, curse- the pacifier we could control but the thumb sucking we can't, and he hasn't mastered the art of thumb sucking fully yet. He tries to shove both fists in his mouth, after slurping and slobbering for a couple minutes he gets frustrated and erupts into an immediate cry. It really is sad to watch because I want to help him place his thumb but it just doesn't work like that. I just hope he doesn't end up sucking his thumb as long as I did.....

Chit Chat w/ Cade

Cade has found his voice and it is the cutest thing I have ever listened to. Check it out.
P.S don't mind the annoying "mother" in the background. Why is it that your own voice sounds so retarded on camera?

Bumbo Baby

Cade's neck is getting so strong I thought it was time to try out the Bumbo seat. He did surprisingly well. He especially liked facing the mirror and checking himself out. I know I'm a horrible mom for having him up on the counter, but give me a break, it's not like I'm going to walk away and leave him unattended.