Why wait?

Tonight we went to Relay for Life, came home and Caden had a VERY special birthday card to make at the island! I offered him some icecream, which now thinking back on it I think he also had some at RFL! Anyways, Brian and I were sitting in the den...Brian was trying to fix my car seat I broke...oops...and I was...well...reading Carrie's blog post about traveling. Brian asked Caden if he was almost done with his icecream. So...I ask B, "Did you make Caden a bowl?" B replies, "no...I thought you did" This is what we found....

Looks like he got down, took the icecream off the other counter and climbed back up and began to eat! HA...of course we let him finish. Afterall, he is a VERY sweet boy. By the way, this sweet boy isn't wearing diapers anymore at night time. He refuses. Tonights only night 2 but last night he was dry. For about the past month most nights he was dry but he still wanted a diaper. I have my theories that he was just going in the diaper in the morning because he was too lazy to get out of bed! oh well....he'll only do that once without a diaper!

Make sure you scroll down...I got behind in blogging so I think there are 3 or 4 new posts down there! Enjoy!

Boone

I forogt to add this to the last one. Every graduation we take a traditional sister picture. Here's our silly one! The nice, adult one for mom's frame.

While we were in Boone we decided to take some pictures at a local park! It was GREAT fun! Caden being silly on the rocks! Addison...she was very excited to be sitting on the bench!

Caden and Addison. Maybe oneday we'll get one of them both smiling!

Family picture. Also, funny story. When we sat down I had on my sunglasses, Ray Bans of course. I didn't want them on my head so I decided I would just lay them in my lap. Smart, right? Well, we take the pictures. All is good. THEN, my sweet husband got Caden up on the grass and came back for Addison. He took her and I stood up. Then Jenn said what just dropped in the water?!?!? MY SUNGLASSES! I panic. Brian hands Addison back to me and begins to search. Finally he found them between two rocks in this little babbling creek! Brian saved the day....and himself $100!

CONGRATS, J!

Last weekend Jennifer graduated from App State! We all headed up Friday and spent the night and had a GREAT time hanging out in Boone. Jenn is now on the job hunt! Not a fun task in this economy with about a million other business grads...okay maybe not a million but she sure does feel like she's competing with that many grads! Jenn, Caden and Addison!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARY!!

Today is Mary's birthday...that means my birthday is in just under 3 months. Growing up Mary heard a million times that she couldn't do something I was doing because I was three years older. Mary responded a million times with, "She's not 3 years older than me...she's 2 years..9 months..and 5 days older than me!" We headed to Winston tonight and ate at the Tavern in Old Salem. We got a few pictures. Just before Brian was going to take pictures with Mary and Caden the battery died! We'll be able to catch some more this weekend as we're headed to Boone for Jennifer's graduation! Caden and Addison in their sweet matching outfits!
Addison, Emma and Caden. Caden was really excited because I was making all kinds of crazy faces trying to get Addison to smile. It didn't work but he loved it!

Dad, Mom and Addison on the porch at the Tavern.

Caden and Addison on the brick sidewalk! She just adores him!

A little blurry but I love how excited she was!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARY!!!!

We've been busy!

We have been very busy this week. Caden finished up swimming lessons. In fact for his last lesson he convinced Jennifer to drive two hours home just to take him. I'm sure it helped that she wasn't going to get to see Jeremy for two weeks. So she got to see her 2 favorite boys and her favorite girl! She headed back this morning for one of her last presentations! We are VERY excited that she will be graduating next weekend!

Yesterday my Grandma arrived for a 10 or so day visit! We are VERY excited! Yesterday we picked her up from the airport and hung out until Mom got off work! This morning she wanted to go to Dillards. So Caden, Addison and I picked her up at 10 and headed to the mall...strolled Dillards and then headed to Friendly. She has MUCH better shopping than us up in DC but still enjoys some stores they don't have! For lunch she took us to BRAVO! After lunch I'm not sure who was more exhausted the kids, her or I. Well, the kids are now napping, she is out with mom and I am ignoring the laundry that needs to be folded and am relaxing!

I am not sure what we have in store for next week. I do know that Caden has "bike" day on Monday so we will be loading up the bike for school! Wednesday I am looking forward to the Mother's Day tea he invited me to! There is talk about us heading to Chapel Hill on Tuesday.

Enjoy the weekend. I hope the weather is nice here so that we can head to Caden's soccer game and then play outside for hours!

7 month pictures!

Addison is such a sweet girl. She is sitting up well now, starting to wiggle her way around on her bottom and eating puffs!! Isn't she the cutest thing you've seen all day!?!?!?

Easter, Pigeon Forge and other fun things!

Well...I took an unintentional blog break...but I'm back. It was way too much work to try to upload all these pictures at once. Also, I find that when I blog I get more pictures of the kids. These are also in opposite order of events....sorry. Blogger is not supper easy to move pictures around. This is Caden and Addison playing last night while I was at church! I love that they adore each other even if she does look annoyed! Can you believe this sweet girl is 7.5 months old? We can't!

Mimi, Pop pop, Ryan, Payton and Taylor came for a long weekend. We had a great time. We did the Science Center, Bumper Jumpers and of course soccer!

Addison at the soccer game!

Mimi and Caden at Bumper Jumpers.

Addison and I at Bumper Jumpers!

We went to Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge for our first vacation with just the 4 of us! We had a GREAT time! We went to a great place called Wonder Works!

We all had a great time! I think Brian could have spent an entire day there! Addison got in a great nap in the stroller despite the place being packed because of the rain!

Caden ventured inside the space ship!

Caden and Daddy were both astronauts!

Looking for a purple bead in over a million yellow and orange ones! They did not find it. Caden was done looking after about...oh...30 seconds!

Here's Easter...in reverse order of course! The playground continued! We NEVER could have imagined this being as big of an ordeal as it was! Also, Brian could have never done it without all the help he got. You saw in the last post that Matt helped level the land. Then the next saturday Jeremy and Andy came over and helped Brian. Sunday afternoon I helped (ha!) and then my Dad found out Caden and I were his only helpers. Within 5 minutes my Dad was over to help for several hours! Certainly he didn't think that Caden and I weren't ample help!

How could I forget that she helped too! Someone had to hold the box down and look adorable!

We enjoyed a nice Easter lunch at the Print Works Bistro!

Believe it or not Caden was more interested in Addison's Easter basket than his own. Each of our children get to use my first Easter basket for their first Easter. Addison has a VERY cute basket for next year...don't worry it was monogramed!!!

Emma wants to see what Addison got too! Maybe that rattle was more exciting than I...I mean the Easter Bunny thought it would be!