Weeks in pictures #4 and 5

Well we are well into the 6th week of the year and here I am just now posting my pictures from weeks 4 and 5!! Oopsie! That's ok though.  I think we are finally back in the groove of life at home.  I never ever imagined it would take so long! 

We've been really blessed with amazing weather so playtime outside has helped us stay busy and not get the winter blues.  One day at the park there were so many ladybugs! I showed caden that they were nice bugs and he had a blast looking for them and trying to catch them.

Get ready for a picture palooza!

I was so proud of him for being willing to let the bug crawl on his hand

OOH! lady bug mommy!

It's tickling me! :)

Hunting lady bugs with a new friend :)

Caden also had his second ever dentist appointment!  Just a quick checkup to make sure his teeth looked healthy. And they do! He did such a great job.  And I just love his dentist and the office staff for making Caden feel un-afraid!

Look at that little pro!

Caden got to stay up late for a movie night with mommy one night :) 

And Uncle Josh came in town for dinner!

We practiced some hand eye coordiation scooping beans with a spoon.

We played at a new park in town that has a really fun sand box!

And I just wanted to share a picture of some adorable little hands :) 

So i've selected all these pictures for my photo album, I just have to actually print them! ;) details. details. 

Week in Pictures #3

A few days late on last week's week in pictures but thats ok! We had a lot of fun last week.  I turned 28!  And let me tell yall I felt so special and loved!  Jeremy sent me two different gift baskets, I got flowers from my Mother in law, a dear friend surprised me with balloons and tulips, another friend came over and ate dinner with us and gave me a beautiful new apron! I got countless number of happy birthdays on facebook, texts, and phone calls.  And Caden even sang me happy birthday! It was soooo cute.  So thank you friends and family for loving on me!

Here's our week in pictures!

This picture was taken on my girls night out birthday celebration!  We all went to dinner downtown and then to an art studio to paint glass!  It was so fun and refreshing to do something new! Thanks ladies for making my birthday so special!

This was my photography class assignment last week.  Caden grew out of his first pair of cowboy boots so I wanted to feature them in a photo.  He was so sad and made the cutest little pouty face. Now I need to find him a new pair!

Cleaning windows are a weekly chore around here because our dogs love to slobber all over them! Luckily it's not viewed as a "chore" but a fun activity in caden's eyes!  He says "mommy my turn, my turn!"

One of caden's favorite things is to play tools like Daddy!  He used to have goggles his size but Chester chewed them up randomly.  So now he uses Daddy's.  At least for a little bit. Then they start to fall off and he gets mad at them. :) He's getting really good at screwing and unscrewing with his screwdriver!

Hope yall had a great week last week!

Week in Pictures #2

Happy Sunday! Last week was pretty busy and a little crazy towards the end with things deciding to break! And no they cant stagger out thier timing either, its got to be ALL AT ONCE! Luckily nothing was major, just very annoying and I have yet to fix the kitchen faucet. 

Anyway I did not want to fall behind on my pictures as I feel like I've fallen short on chores and unfortunately missed a couple of workouts towards the end of the week. 

I started taking a free online mini photo class to improve my photography skills and hopefully learn a little more about the different settings on my camera!  This was the first week and our assignment was to make sure our shot had straight lines and clean backgrounds.  Basically dont let your picture be crooked and make sure the background of your picture isnt too noisy and distracting from your subject.  I think I got some really great shots! Here are a couple from my little photo shoot:

I just love these little shoes!

We are only allowed to submit one photo to an online photo album for class and then the teacher chooses her favorites that best portray that week's lesson to highlight in the following week's email.  This one of Caden laughing is what I submitted.  He is just so precious! You cant look at that picture and not smile :)

There are a couple hundred people taking part in this class so even though I had hoped for feedback from the teacher I didnt get any.  But the students are all supposed to critique eachother's pictures so I got a couple of "tips" from others. haha. I say "tips" because I only got two comments, one was nice but told me my lines were crooked... yeah I tried my best to get caden straight on the porch but wiggly two year olds dont care about straight! I was just happy to get such a beautiful smile! Maybe she doesnt have kids ;) The other suggested I play with the color in the photo to make it pop more which was great advice because once I did I wished I would have done so before I submitted my pic!

I'm using the smiling one of caden for our photo album this week, and the others I plan to frame and put up around the house! Here are the other three photos Summing up our week :)

At Caden's first hockey game!  it was very difficult getting a good one of him watching the game so this was the best I could do.  He had a lot of fun even though we only stayed an hour.  The tickets were free courtesy of our friends Heather and her son Eli.  They were so cute jumping up and down and shouting along with the crowd!

Caden loves to pretend cook so I got him his own mini cooking utensils and gave him the smallest pot and pan from the cabinet.  We had fun "cooking" but really Caden just wanted to scoop and measure the beads.

Two of my beautiful Besties :) This was taken at April's (center) house for her kids joint birthday party! Both of her little ones were born in January so she had a super cute Hungry Caterpillar themed party.  We had to get a picture wearing our caterpillar headbands!

Thanks for sticking with me throug this long post! :) i'll try to keep my photo class pictures and Week in pictures posts seperate next week! My goal is for my everyday picture taking to be just as good as my practice ones!

Praying yall have a very blessed week!

Our week in Pictures

The first week of January was my recover week from our trip to Texas.  We drove home last Sunday so I gave myself a week to get unpacked and re-situated, and start my resolutions this week! 

You can read about my new year's resolutions here :)

One of my resolutions was to stay on top of pictures.  And to do that I ordered the project life photo album by Becky Higgins.

You have to order the components separately now which stinks because when I first looked at them you could order it as a whole kit! Anyway you pick which album you want, the coordinating journal cards (which are in the box) and then the photo pocket pages in the style you prefer. 

I am going to do four pictures per week to portray what we were up to!  Special times like Birthday and Christmas will also get their own week, but I will most likely do a separate simple photo album with those pictures.  I like the idea of having a special birthday photo album for Caden each year :) I already have his 1st birthday in a separate album, and still need to print the pictures from his 2nd birthday party. 

So I thought it would be fun to share with y'all the pictures I choose for each week!  This is for the first week of January!

Caden and his Awpaw! (My Dad) I came back from getting my hair cut and Dad had found caden's overalls and dressed him to match his own :) haha! It was so cute seeing them pal around in matching overalls.

Caden and his pal Rylie!  This was our first play date of the year!  Rylie is my dear friend April's daughter.  We went to her house and when this sweet ride was revealed Caden was so excited! I love that he was sporting the goggles from Rowan's tool kit.

I took this while we were playing at my sweet friend Heather's house! Caden's buddies with her son Eli.  I thought this picture was so perfect because Caden seems to have suddenly turned into this rough and tough, karate kicking, dinosaur growling boy and it's hilarious!

I had to include one of him and Eli together.  They were finding rocks to throw around. Thankfully not at each other :)

I'm sure you can already tell who will be in the majority of these pictures! I'll have to make it a point to have friends take pictures of me as well to throw in there!

So there you have it! Our first week of 2012!  Hope yours was a good one!