Vocabulary of a 1 yr old

I find it very interesting that most of Cades 1 year old friends are either off and walking or talking up a storm. I have yet to find a child that is doing a lot of both. Cade falls into the talking category. It seems like every day he is saying a new word or at least giving it a try. I love the expression people give me when they ask what words he can say and I start bouting off his lengthy dictionary of words.
Here are Cades words:
Mama
Dada
Bye Bye
Ya
Hi
Baby
Book
Night night
Two
Cheese
Dog
Movie
Down
Cup
Ball
Bubble
Bath
Hot
What is even more amazing to me is that he knows when to use the majority of these words. For instance, he will be crawling along upstairs and see his bathroom and immediately point to the tub and say bath or bubble. When it's getting close to his bed time we will say "Cade are you ready to go night night?" and if he is ready he will lay his head down on the floor and say "night night" when he is thirsty he asks for his cup, when the TV is on he will say movie over and over again. I am amazed every day at how far he has come in the past few months with his words and his association of things to them.
What a big boy I have!

House Inspiration

This is a blog I subscribe to. I don't remember how I found it, but I love it. Her name is Haley and she has amazing style, is an amazing photographer, mom, decorator and pretty much everything else. Her kids are absolutly adorable especially her daughter Millie, I just think she is so beautiful for such a little girl. She also has an 8 yr old son and twins that are about 3 months 5 kids!!! That is just CRAZYNESS.

Anyways the reason I wanted to share about her is because there house has recently been put on the market and I WANT IT. I don't want it in it's current location of Provo UT, but move it to Bend and I am all over it. When I looked at the first few pictures of the outside I thought it wasn't anything special, it was built in 1966 so I thought it would be old and outdated. But she proved me wrong. Just like everything else about her it was amazing. As I continued to scroll through the pictures I fell in love with every room and every detail of there home (the kitchen could be a little bigger but it would work), from the colors on the walls to the furniture I just love it all.

I know I can't buy this house for myself but I can get inspiration and decorating ideas from it. My dream is to have an office/work space of my own like she has as well as a designated "play area" for all of the kids things. I know these things won't be possible in the current house we live in, but I will defiantly keep her post/pictures in my "house idea" folder for a later date.

Fun necklace

A few weeks ago we got together with the Andersons to watch some football. Ok well they guys watched football and Amber and I did a little craft blog hopping. We came across a super fun blog where fabric "bib necklaces" were shown. We both immediatly fell in love and decided we had to duplicate them. So we got together last week and each put one together. Here is how mine turned out. Pretty fun and different isn't it?

1st Birthday Bash

I can't believe I no longer have a baby, but a 1 year old toddler!

We had a great birthday weekend. My family came over Friday to help us get things ready for the big party on Saturday. Cade had so much fun playing with his cousins Jaxon and Jace, it was adorable to watch Jaxon and Cade get all hyper together. It was such a blessing to have the help of my mom, sister and dad. I thought I was super prepared and had everything organized but there was just so many last minute details I would have never been able to get it done without there help.

The party on Saturday went very smoothly. I was a little worried about there not being enough space in our backyard for everyone, but we all fit! Cade did amazing! Saturday morning he woke up with a runny nose but that didn't stop him from having a blast. He eat his cupcake, opened presents, played with all his guests and not once did he get fussy.
It was a great day! Cade was exhausted and once we put him to bed Tyler and I were able to go out with his family and watch the Beaver football game at Bostons. Cade was babysat by his greatgrandma. I'm sure not many babies have the opportunity to have there great grandparents be such a big part of there lives.

We are so blessed to have so many awesome friends here in Bend and such amazing family! Thank you everyone for making Cade's 1st birthday a memorable one.
Here are some pictures from the celebration

Changes in Life

I can't beleive I am finished nursing Cade, or better put; that Cade is finished nursing!
My goal was to nurse up until Cade's 1st birthday, but things don't always work out the way we plan them. I remember that first week of nursing being in pain, crying and thinking to myself "I have to do this for an entire year!" But after the pain of the first week it became easy and natural. I can't say I loved it ALL the time; Cade was such a high maintenance nurser, he needed to have it perfectly peaceful and quiet, no TV, no talking on the phone, and no interruptions. This made it hard to nurse on the go, so EVERYTHING had to be planned around when i needed to be home next to feed Cade. However frustrating and at times inconvenient it was there was always joy in the actual task. He loved to play with my face while he nursed he was constantly rubbing my lips or playing with my ears and when he was a new born baby he would just stare into my eyes the entire time (until he fell asleep of course). It just melted my heart.

Looking back on the 10 months I spent nursing Cade I started getting sad to think that the 1 on 1 intimate time was gone but after the first couple days with the sippy cup my sadness was washed away! Cade now loves to cuddle while he drinks his cup! He will even drink it with other things going on in the room around him ie. tv, radio, people. So even though it's not as physically close as it was before, I am so happy that we still have that special still/quiet time together. Because anyone who is around Cade knows that he isn't still/quiet for very long :)

A visit from Allie & Owen

I love having company and this week I got a great surprise! My cousin Allie and her son Owen came to visit Monday till Wed afternoon. Allies husband works out of town quite a bit and he left for WA on Monday for a few days. So they decided to drive over the mountain to Bend. We had a blast hanging out in the sun, playing cribbage, going for walks and just talking. It has been way to long since Allie and I have spent quality time together and I forgot how much fun we have. On Tues night we played a cribbage tournament and between hands we got to being crazy and laughing so hard. It was so much fun and totally reminded me of when we were young! Here are some pictures from there visit.
Thanks again Allie for coming to stay with us!!

Spinning Circles

Wordless Wednesday

I have been married for 4 years!!

As crazy at that sounds it doesn't supprise me at all. Ever since I was a little girl I couldn't wait to get married so the fact that I was married at 21 doesn't shock me or my close friends and family.

Looking back on the big day there really isn't anything huge that I would change. I still love my dress, love the colors we chose, love, love, love the flowers, the cake, the location and the people in the wedding party. I guess if I picked one thing to change it would be the way I wore my hair! Lame I know but that's all I could think of.

The past 4 years have been the best and most challenging 4 years. Not only did Tyler and I move to Bend right after getting married (the day we got home from our honeymoon to be exact) which put us 3 hours away from both sides of our family, but we also started our own family. 2 HUGE things!! As sad as I get at times that we are away from our families, it has been such a great way for Tyler and I to rely fully on one another and build our life together. These are only 2 examples of the blessed life that we are living together!!
I am excited to see what the next year has in store for us.
Happy Anniversary Tyler!
I love you!

Designs by Meg

Earrings For Sale
Here are a few of the earrings I have for sale. Let me know if you are interested in any of them. I am able to switch out the earring hooks and replace them with Stirling Silver for an extra $2.
More designs to come!

$12

$10
$12

$8

One thing leads to another

So this evening I have found myself really sidetracked from what I had planned on getting accomplised. After I put Cade to bed I began straightening up the house and noticed I had a lot of laundry to do. So I sorted and started a load, while doing this I found a bunch of random things in the basket on the dryer so I began putting them away. I took a huge pile of rags out to the garage, while putting them away I eyed the stepping stone my mom & Cade made for me setting in the garage and decided it was time to find a home for it, so I headed outside to scope out the perfect spot. While scoping I noticed a tun of little weeds growing in my flower beds so I began pulling them..... 45 min later I remembered what I originally set out to do, Laundry!!
Do you ever have times this? I feel like it is the store of my life!!

Earrings

So after my first official jewelry party last week (thank you Jenna for hosing it at your house) I am excited to get my creations out there to more people. I have several earrings left and will be posting them to my blog, so if you are interested in purchasing them, it will be a first come first serve.
Keep your eye on my blog for whats available.

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 :)