A New Tree

Diego was given a tree from our friend, Joey.. it's a messy tree. One that I really didn't want, at first. It's a Cotton Wood, I believe. I don't like this kind of tree because it has huge leaves, that you have rack and keep up with. The bark also chips off, which makes a mess. Anyway, we had this tree in a giant pot for several months, I guess after having the tree so long.. I got over it. Plus, Diego said he would keep with the leaves and whatever mess it makes.. and I plan on holding him to that ;)

So, Sunday Diego planted the tree. We were going to plant it, in the spot that it had been sitting.. but, ended up deciding that that spot was all wrong for it. It would eventually end up blocking our view. We found a different spot for it along the fence, a much better choice.

Happy living little tree.

Somebody decided to join us..

8 Months

Cash turned 8 months old yesterday! He's hit some pretty big milestones over the past couple of weeks.

• Teeth: check! yup, that boy has two pearly whites on the bottom. Which means he's now the proud owner of a toothbrush!
• Crawling: check! after a week or so of being on all fours, rocking back and forth.. he finally started crawling! He's been crawling really well for about a 2 weeks now. He loves chasing Mia & Marley around.. they are not thrilled about this.
• Pulling up: check! Seems like as soon as he started crawling.. he started pulling up. He mostly pulls up on our ottoman, but has recently been pulling on everything. I mean everything. Which means, you can't leave anything on the tables anymore!
• Words: check! I consider his first word to be Dada. He has also said Daddy. However, when saying these words.. his Dada was no were in sight. Over the past few days, he really started to say Mama and Mom. When he says this, he looking right at me.. or crawling towards me. Usually it's a string of moms. Momom Mama.. Momom. Love it!

We set out to take pictures next to this giant Cash mural.. unfortunately, the lighting was terrible, the buildings are just too close downtown... and this truck and these cables were in our way! Oh well, we tried.

Since we still had money on our meter, we just sat downtown in the shade.

Frank N. Cash

Cash's first Halloween, came and went.. though there were some frustrations, it was pretty good night. Cash had no clue what was happening, but he went along with it. We didn't get any good pictures that night, so we held a little front yard photo session the day after.

Opening his first presents, ever. Baskets from Mom & Dad and Granny..

How sweet, he reads the cards :)

A slinky!

Halloween 2: the next day

His costume was huge, we made some minor alterations.. and did the best we could with it. 6-12 months is just weird size! 6 month olds and 12 olds are clearly not the same size!

Aliya Turns 2

Everyone knows that time flies, but it really doesn't seem like it's been two years since I went to the hospital the day Aliya was born! But, it has.. and now she's a big girl!!

Her birthday was at a bounce house called Wazoo's off of slaughter.

Cash went down his first slide that day.. and he wasn't exactly thrilled.

He did get to play with some random kids though...

it's funny how little kids are interested in babies.

Several kids came up and asked How old is he? When is his birthday? What's his name?

Spontaneous Adventure

Diego started getting sick towards the end of last week, so Friday he decided to stay home. He requested that I get out of the house with Cash.. in hopes of keeping him from getting sick. We stuck to our normal morning routine, and when Cash woke from his nap.. he headed out of the house. I really didn't have much to do, just an errand or two. Once those were done, it was kinda like.. ok, what now?? I turned to one of my new favorite things to do, drive around and look at houses. I love looking at real estate in the northern downtown area.. like off Enfield, Windsor... all in there. So, I did that for a while.. and somehow got myself stuck in traffic on Mopac! Boo!

I was nearing 35th street when it hit me. Let's go check out the peacocks at Mayfield Park. On the way there.. I thought shoot, let's just go to Mt. Bonnell also. So that's what we did, we went Mt. Bonnell and took some pictures.. and then went to Mayfield Park for a bit.

I wanna live down there!

Have to have at least one Hipstamatic..

Mayfield Park is down the street from Mt. Bonnell,

It's a great location for picture taking!

(I had my bridal pictures taken there)

It was such a nice day, I loved being able to get outside..

and hang with my boy!

Cupcakes

I used to like to cook and bake and all that stuff.. but, over time I've gotten over it. However, my work has pot lucks every other week it seems.. and I just can't find it in me to make an actual meal type dish and bring it to work. I stick with either buying or making desserts. Since it was Halloween, I figured I could try and make something festive. I don't know where this idea came from.. I just decided to see if I could make spider webs on my cup cakes.. and it worked out well. I think they turned out pretty cute! These are the extras that stayed home.. (all of the ones I took to work had spider webs)

Salt Lick with Uncle Pumpkin

Any time we get a chance to go to the Salt Lick, we jump on it! When I was told that Diego and Cash would be going out to Driftwood for Uncle Pumpkin's birthday on Tuesday, I was a little bit jealous. Working at night is all good, until something you miss out stuff like this! Luckily for me, my boss is super nice, and let me have the night off! Yay!

Gotta take some pictures while we wait for Mimi & Papa Drew

Doesn't it just make your mouth water! Mmm!

Cash loved it!

Cash crashed on the way back to Mimi's house, so he & I skipped the cake..

Daddy took some pictures, so that we didn't miss out on Uncle Pumpkin's silliness!