Sunday, September 13, 2020

Caden - 9 months

 Caden is 9 months old! I don't know why, but this one just feels like he's practically a year old already and I just can't handle that. He's still just the sweetest, most contented baby and we couldn't love him any more!


  • Probably our favorite thing he does right now is this deep, growl. It's hilarious!
  • He's starting to stand up on things on his own! He's still a little unstable, but in just one week he went from not doing it, to doing it frequently so I say give it another week and he'll be standing up on everything!
  • He's a great sleeper at night and sleeps from about 8pm to 6am. We'd love it if he pushed it to 7am, but we'll take what we can get.
  • A third tooth finally broke through this month! He got his two bottom teeth at 5 months old, but we haven't seen any since. 
  • He still loves being outside which I love (I'm a little bit worried about the cooler weather and that we won't be able to just set him outside to calm him haha). 
  • He loves laughing at his brothers antics and he watches every move his dad makes.
  • He finally went to church for the first time. We didn't bring him for about 3 months after he was born because 'we heard it was going to be a bad flu season.' Enter Covid-19 and he hasn't ever been!
  • He is almost always perfectly content if he's being held (unless he's crazy hungry or tired), but he also does really well when he's set down. I might be remembering wrong, but it seems like his brothers didn't ever want to be put in the pack 'n' play, but he does ok in is a majority of the time.
  • He loves baby food and recently has started realllly liking our food.
  • We cannot keep him from crawling under the table (where he always finds something he shouldn't be eating). He also annoyingly gravitates toward the slider door and grabs the disgusting, dirty track. Blech! Good thing he's cute!

He went with me to Marshalls and was an absolute angel! Didn't make a sound. Just looked up at me with his adorable face.










Helping me put daddy's chair together :)

Monday, September 7, 2020

Cabin


Nolan had been talking for awhile before the trip about wanting to go to The Creamery again, but we had to make a few stops near Provo on the way down and kind of...forgot. Then after we left Provo he brought it up again. We checked the GPS and it was exactly 2 hours away and...that it closed in just about the same amount of time. Seriously, we had about a 5 min window or less to get there. So Justin put the pedal to the metal (of course not speeding though, because he's Justin). About halfway there Branson had to go potty so we made the fastest potty stop ever! We pulled off an exit, had him stand next to the car, then straight back in. Well, it was close, but we made it! With about 7 min to spare too!

Look at those happy faces! Totally worth it ❤

Fishing near Panguitch Lake

I just had to take this pick of Gpa and Caden

Uncle Andy is the best at teaching the little ones how to fish. We love him so much!


I guess it's a good thing we have Uncle BJ around because he makes us do ridiculous things like get small children up at 6am to go fishing out on the lake. But memories were definitely made so it was worth it!

Really though, we had a fun time and all of the boys caught a fish! Nolan was the most into it which I wasn't really expecting but it was so cute!

Why not bring a book? :)

Uncle BJ and Logan with their fish!


Love seeing these dads in action with their little ones ❤


Cute cousins!

Seriously though - this outing would not have gone nearly as well without Uncle Andy! Not in a million years! He taught the boys, kept all the hooks baited, and helped each one of the boys catch a fish. Thanks Uncle Andy!

Lunch in Panguitch

I'm so glad we brought this thing! It was so perfect to set outside on the porch to let the babies safely get some time outdoors. Emily even fell asleep out there!

















Nolan really wanted to catch another fish so Uncle Andy took him several times.

No fish was caught, but memories were made. I absolutely love this pic I got of the two of them heading off on an adventure!

Snuck off on a quad ride with my love!



I sure love these two! They celebrated their 65th anniversary while we were up there. Wow!

Nolan introduced Kirsten to Dungeon Mayhem and they were pretty cute talking smack to each other the whole time!

It's always sad when we have to leave!