Daddy's boys

Cade's big boy room

Here is a little start on what we're doing to improve Cade's big boy room. His bedding is an airplane theme although he loves ANYTHING with wheels. So it will have a touch of trains, tractors, and trucks too! Below are some pics of a little bit of creativity from me and my dad. The dark blue was suppose to actually come all the way up to the lightest blue stripe in the middle. You can sort of see the medium color of blue between the light stripe and the dark blue. We messed up when we taped off the room. It looked pretty cool though so we ended up leaving it. Too funny!

Cash's baptism

These are about the only decent shots we got of Cash's baptism at the church. But I do love this first one of him in his baptism dress that has been passed down several generations.

We asked my cousin Sarah and her husband Cody to be Cash's godparents. They are such a huge part of our lives and are going to be great role models for Cash.

Cash with his daddy, brother, grandpa Bryan and great grandpa Wayne

Cash and his godfather

Papa Jay's birthday weekend

March 14th was my dad's birthday. He turned the big 6-0! I think he had the best birthday yet with his dad, all of his boys, and not to mention the fabulous women in his life! We grilled out and had ice cream cake Saturday and then went bowling and out to eat later that evening. Hope you enjoyed it Papa Jay!

A cute little birthday video. It has to be turned up pretty loud in order to hear what Cade is saying.

Our baby is 3 months old!

A weekend visit with The Youngmans

A couple of weekends ago we traveled up north to visit my brother and his wife Jessica. We mostly just hung out around the house and went shopping and to Chuck-E-Cheese's on Saturday. Cade had a blast playing ski ball and shooting some hoops! Why didn't we think of this sooner? :)

Cade & Cash

Cade LOVES to hold his "baby broder"

Make Room for Daddy

The other day my cousin Sarah came over to "214" and Cade wanted her to go play in his room. Since Cade has been sleeping in his toddler bed, we have all been trying to make a big deal about it to him so that he will continue to do a good job and stay in his bed all night. So Sarah pointed to his bed and said "is that your bed Cade?". Cade responded, "no, dat Owie's bed" (not sure where that came from other than that he loves to have anything of Owen's so maybe it makes him feel better to think it is Owen's bed he is sleeping in). Cade then pointed to a piled up blanket and pillow on the floor next to the bed and says, "dat daddy's bed." Daddy has had to camp out next to him during the transition but has since returned to his own bed only to find his 7 week old on HIS side of the bed. Poor dad! :)

Snow Sledding w/Adyson

Adyson and Cade went sledding last weekend while the weather was actually nice and not too cold. Adyson had fun, but Cade wasn't too sure about it.

Cash money

Just a few pics of Cash's biggest smiles recently.

Holiday Pics and Prayers Answered

Christmas morning...

A drumset and a tricycle Cade had that we finally put together! Cade's favorite character from the Doodlebops is Moe-the drummer. And I must say, Christmas morning was wonderful being settled in our new home and having a healthy new baby boy. What a relieved and peaceful feeling that was!

opening presents

Uncle Kody putting Cade's toy truck together for him.

going for a ride around the "circle" in the house with uncle Kody

Random pics of Cash



Cade playing with his new toolbench from Uncle Matt & Aunt Jess.
Reading Aunt Jess' steamy novel ;)

Goofing off with Adyson


These two were having a blast and were repeating anything the other one did.

Cameron's 1st birthday party! I didn't get a picture of him with his cake or anything, just this one of Cameron and Cade looking oh so cute! Hopefully his momma will show off the highlights from his big day on her blog soon.

Just a cute pic of Papa Jay & Cade

One night over the holidays, we had all my family that was in town over for dinner-well, pizza- I didn't cook or anything :) These are just a couple of pics of Owen and Cade that I thought were cute. They are little red faced from running and playing the entire evening. They have the best time together as long as they are not wanting the same toy!

Christmas night

Christmas Eve pics below...

Gramma Gaye and sweet baby Cash- or 10 pounds of Cash as she would say :)

Cade's Thomas the Train helmet which he loves! He thinks it is a football helmet and runs around saying "hut-hut". He has knee pads too. It is a wrestling match trying to get them off of him every night, but totally worth it I guess to see that smile. Thanks Gramma Gaye and Papa Jay!

In other news, my brother Matt and his wife Jessica are expecting their first child in August! I am ecstatic to say the least!!! I absolutely cannot wait as I have seen how wonderful they are with both of my boys. They are truly going to be the most loving parents anyone could ask for. God help them if it is a girl, because I will be spoiling her rotten. They should find out the gender sometime in April so we are all patiently waiting!

And last, but certainly not least, I must give a shout out to the dear Lord and thank him for answering our prayers Christmas Eve night when my father, out of nowhere, started having severe pains as if his hernia had returned and fell to the floor and could not get up. We called 911 and they took their own sweet time to get there. He was in so much pain he begged and begged the EMTs to give him something for the pain on the way over which they normally cannot do, but finally did after seeing how bad he really felt. So off to the ER he went and come to find out, well nothing actually. We found out nothing. They never could tell what it was related to but it wasn't his hernia-so they say. They released him about 2:00 am Christmas morning and all was back to normal. We had a wonderful and blessed Christmas day!