"watch me grow!"

so we had the joy of celebrating a momentous occasion this past week, my tiny wee man has celebrated his first birthday!! as of june 24th, my "good yew" (don't ask) is one year old!! he's gotten so big and has grown and learned so much! he's been such a joy to us that i have to celebrate by sharing some of my favorite pictures from his first year of life! so hang on to your toes and get ready for some major cuteness!



my tiny mans tiny feet... oh they start so small!


this is my tiny man in the hospital on his way to get some fluids, he had a hard time getting here, and needed a little extra boost to get him going...

now he's getting his fluids and his coloring is so much better! cute and pink!


this picture was placed in the "kaiserslautern American" (the base newspaper in Germany) to announce his birth!


august 2009. 2 months old and he's already getting chubby!

September 2009, his first "sleeping bag".




October 2009, visiting grammy in utah!


also October 2009, can you guess the occasion?


November 2009, this boy LOVES his dad..

so dang precious!!

Nov 2009


Dec, can you believe, even though he's only 6 months old in this picture, he's wearing a 12 month outfit?? now that's my superman!!


Christmas day! and a new toy to love!!

January, and he's finally holding his own bottle, (it makes life a little easier..)

February is family picture time, and this boy LOVES getting his picture taken!


February also marked his first oreo cookie.. it was a hit!


Caydens first easter! we had a barbeque at a friends house and he had so much fun!

May, and my man is 11 months old! and he's an absolute charmer!


june 24th, my man is one year old! and following tradition he has his very own cupcake! to do with as he pleases!

and he pleases! yes, i did the blue frosting on purpose..

MMMMM that was tasty, now its time for a bath!

Friday the 25th of june, PARTY TIME! we had his party at peter piper pizza (its the pizza people pick) and cayden had a blast! he went on all the little rides and screamed his head off when the ride ended, his favorite was the little merry-go-round! isn't he cute?

time for presents! his big sisters were such good helpers!

presents were a little hard on him because he didn't understand that we were taking the toys away from him so he could open new ones! he got so mad because he'd open a toy, LOVE it and we'd take it away, and give him a new one and he'd LOVE it! and we'd take it away.. poor tiny wee man...

after cake and presents it was time for more rides, yay for trains!

this was his cake before we tore it apart. it was a cupcake cake, yes, the ocean part is chocolate cupcakes and the beach is vanilla cupcakes. so yeah, its been a fun year.

a day on the beach

HELLO ALL!

so believe it or not we are still living.... all is well.:D
we had the opportunity a week or so ago ( I know I haven't had much time to post anything until now...) to visit the beach! and oh what fun it was! yes we will be going back, but chances are my camera will not be going, because well, there is sand EVERYWHERE!! and it gets into EVERYTHING!! and I'm not going to risk my camera again...but then again I'll probably change my mind and bring it anyways....anywho.. we had so much fun, Cayden was Mr.Braveman, I'd sit him down just where the waves were hitting his feet and he'd start crawling toward the water until the waves were almost splashing his little face! Don't worry i had a good hold on him, he wasn't going far... if i took him out of the water he wasn't only upset, he was enraged! he'd scream and scream until i took him back out again.. which is one reason i burned so badly..yes, i got the worst burn i have ever had, in fact, I'm still burned, its still uncomfortable...ow. the girls, OH MY GOSH.. you'd think they'd never seen the ocean before....oh wait they hadn't.. they had a blast! you know what? look at the pictures..just look!



sadly this is the only picture I'm in...unfortunately its only my feet, and even worse, they're out of focus....


another of my men, 'ain't they cute?

Nikoy was walking around with a turkey and cheese sandwich and the gulls were going berserk! they literally were inches away from her!

she liked to chase them around yelling, "dirty birds! dirty birds!" i have no idea where she got the idea that they were dirty, i thought they were awfully pretty myself...

my girlie's enjoying the surf! awww the relax swoosh of the water....

my little beach bum... ain't she cute??

so yeah we had a blast! it was about a 3 hour drive, we had to hop a fairy!...a smaller boat, i dunno if fairy boats are spelled differently then like fairy princesses, but either way, our car was on a little boat that helped us cross a river, it was awesome. the beach itself was beautiful, if you got past all the seaweed. there were so many sea shells i was in heaven! my hope is to one day find a whole sand dollar...i found most of one, hopefully next time I'll have better luck... the water was warmer then most swimming pools, needless to say it was a heavenly day, with a slightly hellish end, seeing as how i had to make a 3 hour drive burned badly enough we could have gone home and had friend sherry for dinner... seriously.. no more stupid spray on sunscreens for me, no no no..... any who.. as a bit of an update Cory has started part one of his summer semester. he's still working full time over at the hospital, working his way up to phlabotomyst! (that's a fun word!!) I've been looking but i dunno if its in the cards because after over a month of begging and applying i haven't had one call back, so i dunno.. anywho.. I've also updated my photography blog, keep in mind its just a hobby, I'm not going for any professional type stuff (yet). right now i do it because it makes me happy. so yeah. http://sherryshobby.blogspot.com go check it out!