When I grow up...

Carson has been making BIG plans regarding his future. Almost everywhere we go and anything we see's that he wants the sentence starts like this, "when I grow up" or "when I'm a Dad." Because he has these comments so frequently {it's borderline ridiculous} I thought it would be fun to keep track of what he thinks he wants.

When I grow up...

I want to be a firefighter and a doctor, a rock star and a Dad

I want a BIG truck to drive in the snow with...and a car
I want three kids and three car seats and their names will be Sally and Nick...I guess his wife gets to name one of them!
I want to be your neighbor
I want a lawn mower
I want a BBQ
I want a gun and a knife
I want a house; will you come visit me?

Now that I am writing this I can't remember all the rest but knowing him, there will be more!



Because of his firefighting ambition, Scott offered to let us come by his fire station. Carson was ecstatic...until we got there and saw the fire engines and trucks. Looking back he was probably intimidated by the sheer size of the engines and the new surroundings. I mean the tires alone where just as tall as he was!



When we left he couldn't stop talking about his experience. His favorite things included: the ax, 3 fridges, the hose and Scott. Scott, thanks for sharing your work with us!

Shirt dresses

For Cait's birthday, I decided to glam up some summer onesies.

The project was pretty simple and I spent under $15 for everything-pretty good huh?!

I purchased 3/8 of a yard of each coordinating fabric. I had to cut off about 6 inches of it but I used the leftover to make matching hair bows. Tutorial found here. The only thing I did differently was I always put my flowers onto hair clips so that they can be clipped to a head band and when Cait is bigger she can use them in her hair as well.

I ironed the hemline, then sewed it. Next I took to needle and thread to get the gathered look prior to sewing the fabric onto the onesie I sewed about 1/2 a part and them gathered it.



Finally I pinned the skirt to the onesie and after sewing around it and doing all of this 4 more times--waallla.


I love how they turned out and can't wait for her to wear them so with that said, I am wishing that it were spring!

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Look who's one!

Caitlin is a great addition to our family and I can't imagine our family without her {I guess that's not 100% true because it would be quite a bit quieter :] } This year has been an eventful one and I am kind of sad that it has gone by so quickly.

Despite the cold weather, I took her pictures Saturday and the cold helped us keep the photo session short!

Cait is a happy girl who loves to burrow into her blanket, wave hi and bye, "re-organize the cupboards"=everything on the ground several times a day. She babbles and says: more (signs and says), mama, dada, Uuh (up), and she loves to clap.



She is good at giving slobbery kisses, drinking from her sippy cup all by herself, and crawling as fast as she can. We honestly thought she would be walking by now but she's not interested, probably because she is such a proficient crawler and that's ok with us.

She loves to eat anything she can get her hands on! Her favorites being bananas, freeze dried yogurt bites, black beans, our cold cereal, and any type of snack cracker. If she has finished and wants more we get to hear a velociraptor roar from her.

She is determined, has quite the personality and we love her.



We celebrated with a family dinner yesterday. We are so fortunate to live so close to our family!

She lite up when we were all singing to her and ate her cake very lady like.


Clean & Dirty





Happy 1st Birthday Cait!

Yahtzee

This morning Carson and I were playing Yatzee and he rolled not one but two yatzee's! Both times the dice were solid 5's...maybe 5 is his lucky number! Needless to say he won the game!