Family Pictures

Thanks to my mom for taking these pictures and thanks to Angie for letting us use this beautiful spot.

5 Months!!

I can't believe Caleb is already 5 months old!! He is growing so quickly. I just love him and want to squeeze him... gently. :) A LOT of changes have happened... and A LOT of them have happened within the last couple of weeks!

1. Caleb rolled over for the first time ON PURPOSE on Monday. August 16th. He is now rolling over all the time. I can hardly keep him on his back. I have a feeling crawling is in our near future.
2. He is CONSTANTLY grabbing for things. And succeeds the majority of the time! He gets a bit frustrated when he wants to grab something but it is stuck onto something and he can't grab it. It is pretty cute to watch. He has some busy hands.
3. He is sitting up by himself. I still need to keep my eye on him so that he doesn't face plant. But he does really well.
4. He turns to sound perfectly... even when he hears the kitty at my parents he will turn to look at it.
5. He reaches out to me. I came home from the store and he got so excited and put his arms out. I about died.
6. He is starting to play games with us such as peek-a-boo. (Us doing the peek-a-boo part and him doing the laughing part). :)
7. Drum roll, please.... he ate rice cereal for the first time on Monday. HE LOVED IT! I mean LOVED LOVED LOVED it. He chomped down on it as if it were a steak. We video taped it... which will be in a later post. :)

He is growing so fast and there are so many things that he is doing... I wish I had more time to write them all down. I will try in a later post. :) All I know is that he is so cute and we love him and are so grateful to be his parents.

Happy 5 Month birthday! :)

whats on my mind?

Background: Some friends of ours invited us to dinner and I asked if I could bring anything. Through text messaging we got side tracked and were talking about other things. I knew that she was at target and she always finds great deals.

Story: So, through a text message she asked me, "do you have any baby carrots?"
My response, "are they on sale?"
Her, "no you silly girl, I was thinking if you did, you could bring them to dinner."
Me,"well, the reason why we haven't started Caleb on foods is because my mom wants to be there and to take pictures. So I need to wait until next tuesday when they get back. So until then... wait. Are you talking about baby food carrots or adult actual baby carrots?"
Her, "I was talking about adult baby carrots. But all of that is good to know."

I am pretty sure I laughed for a good 20 minutes over that one. I have been feeding Caleb so much lately all I can think about is "I can't wait until we start rice cereal."

New Dining Room Set

So Matt and I found this beautiful solid wood table and chairs on Craigslist. It was originally all brown so we spiced it up and painted it and gave the seats a new fabric. We forgot to do the before picture... but here are the after pictures. :)

Learning names can be pretty funny...

Having Some Fun with Caleb

Caleb's First Church Outfit

I haven't really had Caleb wear official church clothes... just an outfit of some kind. But today was the first day he wore a button up shirt and nice pants. (Other than his blessing day, of course).

Caleb's First Time Going Swimming

The other day we went to a birthday party (happy birthday Eja) and they had a little kiddie pool so we put Caleb in it. At first he curled up his little toes and fussed because it was so cold. But then he realized it was pretty fun so he splashed around and was loving it. Matt and I realized we needed to take him swimming! We took him to the Aquatic Center yesterday and he had a pretty good time. :) He was so mesmerized by the water and all of the little kids. It was so hard to take pictures of his cute face because he wouldn't look away from the water or the other kiddos.

Here are some pictures of my two loves of my life swimming away....















Someone splashed them, while getting out of the pool, right when I took this.



caleb fell right asleep after swimming on our way home. He was pooped.

Matt's Graduation

Hurray! Matt graduated! We had a surprised graduation party for him back in June when he graduated. Our dear friend Ashley made these adorable cupcakes. I keep on telling her to start a blog because she always has the cutest and most creative ideas. Anyway...

He has worked so hard. If I may brag about my husband for a moment....

Matt completed his associates in Allied Health and bachelors in Health Care Administration in just a little over one year.

(This online school that he went to allows students to take as many courses as you are able to within a year and you pay a flat rate for that year. So whether you complete one course or 20 you pay the same).

Matt completed over 30 classes (over 90 credits) within that years time. He worked SOO hard. He completed a course every week to 2 weeks. He rocked the house. He sacrificed a lot by being able to finish so quickly. He sacrificed hanging out with friends, going golfing, the movies, all of the fun leisurely activities... he sacrificed. As many of you know, he work at 5 AM every day so he has to go to bed early too. He has been putting in 15 hour days for the past year and even though he was pretty burnt out within the first 6 months, he endured well. VERY well. :)

Matt is such a hard worker and I am so blessed to have a husband that gives his all in everything that he does. He is amazing and I love him.