Happy Holidays!

It's that time of year and crazy as ever! I'm so far behind on my blog its ridiculous, but I do have a valid excuse...still no computer! I'm at my mom's right now making our Christmas cards and thought I could update my blog while I'm at it! Things are SO great and Cade is just SO dang cute! He's doing and saying some pretty funny things that I will have to remember and blog at a later time! These are our family pictures and Cade's 2 year old pictures that my little sister Jen took for us! I thought they turned out great! Hope all is well for everyone and you have a wonderful holiday season!!

Funny Prayer

Still working out the whole computer thing so no pictures for now, but a funny story will do!
To preface the story, Cade is a little bit obsessed with the movie Tarzan! If we are in the truck he will say "no birit (Spirit) mite now, dust tarzan....... no herteese (Hercules) mite now, dust tarzan......no piddy show (Charolettes Web) mite now, dust tarzan". You get the idea. Anyhow he is a little scared of the big gorilla Kerchek, but likes him at the same time.
We were at Bryan's parents house for dinner one night and Cade wanted to say the prayer....so I'm helping him: Heavenly Father "hembee bader" thank you for this day "mm day" thank you for our blessings "mm bessings" thank you for our family "aw bamly" please bless the food "bess bood" help us have a good day "hab dood day brum tercheck".............Yep! Cade wants everyone to have a good day and be safe from Kerchek! I had to end the prayer there because I was trying so hard not to laugh. It's so funny what goes on inside their little heads.
He turned 2 on September 11th! His stats are 27lbs 15 oz. and 34 inches tall. We got him a pony, yes a real live pony! Her name is oreo and Cade loves her so much and loves to ride her. A few things about Cade at age 2:
*He is very independent (good and bad)
*He's getting good at doing chores: making his bed, cleaning up his room (clothes, toys), brushing his teeth, PRACTICING on the toilet (that's a touchy subject!), putting his dishes in the sink, putting on his own clothes and shoes, feeding Oreo and Jack.....
*He uses his manners MOST the time and sometimes I don't have to cue him! It's so rewarding when he says please and thank you on his own!
*Sleeps and for the most part STAYS in his "big boy bed"
*Loves to read books, do puzzles, color, figure things out and just play!
*Gives a good double thumbs up!
*Usually can tell you right from left
*Knows ABC's, Colors and Numbers and most Shapes
*LOVES to help dad with whatever he is doing! He thinks daddy is pretty darn cool! Bry was working on the chicken coop and had his drill and hammer, well Cade had to have his too and followed Bry around just copying him. It was so cute!
*Is pretty good and sharing and playing with other kids.
*He's always thinking of something and already tries to do things behind our backs (especially find the candy and eat it before we find him)

Ok so I'm a proud mom and this list could go on for a while, but I do like to jot these types of things down so I can remember and it'll be fun to show Cade one day! We love Cade so much! It seems like everyday we say how cute he is and how much we love him to each other. He has been such a blessing and so much fun in our family. He has taught us many things as well and we are so thankful that we could be his parents! WE love YOU Caders!

Back to feeling Naked!

Word of advice to those out there.........back up your computers! However you can, do it! We didn't and our computer crashed and we almost lost everything. This is why I have been missing for a while, I haven't had a computer! So, we got a bug, it was sending out nasty emails to everyone and then it CRASHED! I took it in to SCION COMPUTERS in Idaho Falls (shout out!) and my brother said if this guy (Benjamin) can't fix it then no one can! A few days go by, still no word on the computer and then he calls. He says he is so disappointed but he can't even get it running basically. WHAT!? All those pictures if my little man....GONE! NOOOOOOOOOOO! So he tells me we can send it to a Clean Facility in Boise where they take it apart piece by piece "clean" it and put it back together, recover your data and call it good. Oh, here's the best part, the cheapest they've done it for is $850! Nope that's NOT a joke, and it's NOT for a new computer, it's just to retrieve all our data! Gasp, eyes wide, jaw to floor, feeling light-headed and then I fall. But we HAD to! We have to have those pictures! I can't tell Cade, "we don't have any pictures of your first 2 years of life because we were too cheap to fix our computer at the time". So we get it ready to send to Boise and Benjamin calls me up and says since you're sending it to Boise there is one RISKY thing I could try. Yep, go for it! we are screwed anyway! So, he tries it, and he recovers MOST our data!!! And for only $250! Thank You Benjamin! For now, we have set up our OLD laptop and it's getting the job done, SLOWLY, but surely. I installed the printer the other day and it took 3 hours! LOL! I need to be thankful I have a slow laptop and my pictures and data recovered. I shall catch up on this D#*@ blog one of these days!

I'm Back...........

...........and don't feel naked anymore! I got my camera back and I'm back in action but had to laugh at myself because after I downloaded some new pictures, I realized I still had some I need to catch up on! Oh well! This summer has been fun and busy! I tried my best to be active and get Cade involved in as many "activities" as I could, and we still have some to go! Caders LOVES to be outside! As long as theres horses, Jack, Puddy, dirt, WATER, rocks, climbing, grass, did I say horses?, Zoom Zoom, and any other typical boy-thing count Cade IN! Cade is almost 2 (in september) and I can honestly say I've loved every moment! Sure there are hard times but the good definetly outshine them! This little man makes us laugh and we love him SO much! He is such a special blessing in our lives and I feel lucky to be his MOM!

P.S. These pictures were taken in May and YES Cade has a beenie hat on and a nice warm jacket because it was still COLD!!!

This little man loves anything to do with horses!

This is one of my favorite things that Cade does! He loves his books! Now what he will do is read the book out loud and imitate how I read it to him. It's sooooooooooo cute and makes me feel like a good mommy!

NAKED

Lately I have felt so naked because my camera BROKE! Yep, my nice Cannon Rebel XT camera! I had to send it to Boise to get it fixed and a cool $200 later I will be getting my camera hopefully by the end of this week! It broke in the middle of June and of course we have had swimming lessons, Ross Park, Family Reunions, and much more! Cade has been doing so many cute things and my garden looks great and I haven't had my camera to document any of it! I thought I was almost caught up with my blog, ha ya right! Oh well, can't wait to get it back!

Life Lesson

Any time you talk to your Grandparents you can probably learn a thing or two! Well, my sister told me this story that my Grandma and Grandpa Thompson shared with her.

I guess that my Grandparents had gotten in to a pretty good fight and my Grandma had just had it! So she says to my Grandpa, "let's write 5 things we hate about each other on a piece of paper and just get this over with". As my Grandpa is telling the story he jokes and says "I thought she said 5 PAGES......hahaha". Off they go in to their seperate rooms to work on their lists. After a certain amount of time they come back together to share their "hate" lists. My Grandma puts her paper down on the table and sure enough there are 5 things written down that she hates about my Grandpa. Now she wants to see my Grandpa's list so he sets it down and there are 100 things written down that he LOVES about her!

I love this story. It speaks volumes about finding the good in a bad situation and my Grandpa Thompson is truly the best at that! He is such a great example of thinking positive and "life is what you make it"! My Grandma is a neat lady too and she cracks me up! I think she is too hard on herself and doesn't give herself enough credit! I love my Grandparents!

Biggest Loser!

If you didn't watch the Biggest Loser this season, you missed a good season! There was a father/daughter couple from SHELLEY, IDAHO!! So, here's MY story in a nutshell: I was working late one evening and my boss says to everyone: Hey that girl from Shelley from the Biggest Loser is coming home and she missed makeover week by one week so her dad wants her to get a makeover, does anyone want to do it? UH let me think!? YES!!! I wasn't the only one that wanted too, so me and a few other gals from Carlisle Beauty did Kaylee's makeover when she came home. Moses (her dad) was with her and we talked and asked questions the WHOLE night. I think I ended up leaving around 10 but the girls said they were there til about 11.

Anyway, the next morning was her big reveal to her family and community, which was at Shelley High School just 2 miles from my house! So of course we went. We were coached on how to react at certain times and had to film things a few times so they could get different angles. It was a fun experience to be a part of. Funny part is they didn't even use that footage because Kaylee had to go and get a boyfriend, who just happened to be on this seasons show as well, and you know Hollywood, they like a good love story for some ratings! So they used some new footage! I was sad because I went and did her hair in the morning for the reveal at the school, so I was excited my hairstyle would be on TV! OH WELL! Kaylee ended up playing volleyball with my family on an Apple League, it was lots of fun and she drew a crowd everytime she was there! Moses is hilarious and SO nice! I'm glad I got to meet them!
Jen and Lajae and Caders just waiting to see Kaylee and Moses!

Her mom really didn't get to see her until this moment because the camera guys wanted a real reaction.

Moses talking about their experiences

Moses and Jen and LaJae

Moses and Me

Moses, Kaylee and her boyfriend Vance (white team) came to my parents house and talked with my whole family about their experiences and what motivated them to go on the show, during the show and when they came home. It was fun to hear the inside scoop and also know what they learned. It was so fun and we were so grateful they took time out of their schedules to come talk to us!

Kaylee with Jen and LaJae

Kaylee and Me.

Now that I have celebrity status on my resume I'm sure they will be calling me for next seasons makeover week! Keep dreamin, I know!

Catchin UP!

Cade is between 16-18 months in all these pictures. (don't worry, he's almost 2 for reals!)

Sometimes when it gets "too" quiet this is what I will find Cade doing..........reading! I'm so thankful that he loves to read at such a young age. This was so funny though because he dumped all his toys out of this basket and climbed right in. I bet he stayed in there and read for a good 10 minutes! He cracks me up.

Cade was being so cute sitting on this chair and just posing for me! I love him.

Cade is definetly his Dad's boy when it comes to loving the outdoors. NOt saying that I don't, I just like to stay warm inside too. Cade (and Bryan) could stay outside all day long, be frozen and not really care! I will have to get use to it, or I'm sure I will be left out!

The only gloves we had for Cade were mittens so it took him a bit to figure out how to pick up things, but he did and loves to throw Jacks ball for him.

Cade loves going on horse rides with Daddy, and I think Daddy likes it just as much.

Me with my cute hat the my sis-in-law Em made me! I wear it ALL the time!

Yes, our goat has his head completely bent backwards. He is a funny, weird little goat but we like him because he eats all our weeds. Cade loves him and he tolerates Cade.

Puddy does this all the time....we're not sure if it's normal goat behavior........?

Cade loves to try on mom and dads shoes. I love his concentration. He does have pretty good balance.

I love his face, he gets so excited!

This use to be my real phone and Cade would always seem to find it and connect to the internet. I finally upgraded and this became a play phone, well he's no dummy he hated it when it didn't work!

This was the first snow of the season and I felt like a good mom for bundlin Cade up and actually goin out and playin! Pat on the back for Tiff.

Peek-a-boo! Cade got this little farm set for his birthday and he absolutely LOVES it! Borderline obsessed!

Sometimes Cade likes to help clean out the cupboards, even when they don't need cleaned out!

Classic picture of Cade, one sock off (usually both end up off, and trains all lined up!)

Cade has a really good view of all the horses and Jack's pen from this window. (No, I'm not an unfit mother, it looks like I'm standing far away from him but I'm not!)

Hooray! I "caught up"! yeah right!