Christmas Travels!

We're heading out today and won't be back until sometime on the 31st. We're going to do Christmas with Josh's family today and tomorrow and then tomorrow night we're driving to Tennessee. My family always rents a cabin at Christmas time so we will be there until the 31st. I am so excited!! We eat and relax all week.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!

Christmas Card Carousel

This is the first year we've done family Christmas Cards so I'm joining the Christmas Card Carousel here.
We were going to have professional pictures of the boys done this year, but ran out of time so we took them ourselves. I think they turned out pretty good for us doing them ourselves.

Family Santa Photo!

We took the boys to see Santa Sunday. We stood in line for 2 1/2 hours and Cayson would NOT sit in his lap! The minute he realized his daddy was trying to hand him off to someone he screamed! So...we took a family Santa picture! I wonder if that means we all get gifts from Santa ;) Anyways, here is our sweet picture that I will treasure forever!!
Oh, and kind of funny story. Santa thought I was the sister of Hayden and Cayson. My dad had walked out to the car and my mom was standing with us and I guess he thought Josh was married to my mom and I was the daughter! Hah! My mom is pretty young and could definitely pass as the mom of Hayden and Cayson and she looks even younger than she is. (I won't give her age, but she's younger than 41, but not in her 30's ;) ) We actually get funny looks a lot. We met my mom the other night because she was picking up the boys (again my dad was not with her) and it seriously felt like everyone was looking at us when we were walking out of the restaurant. I'm sure they were trying to figure out which one of us was married to Josh and the mom of Hayden and Cayson! :)

Cayson's Birthday

Cayson's turned 1 on November 3rd. We had his party that following Sunday. We really didn't do a whole lot. I know it's his first birthday and everything, but I wasn't really anticipating a lot of people, because we had it on a Sunday and most of Josh's family would have to come in from out of town. We would have had it on Saturday, but as I mentioned in the post before, we took the boys to ride the polar express in NC!

Here's some pictures of Cayson's birthday party!

Cayson's smash cake

The big cake


Trying to decide what to do.

Then daddy put his face in it and he was through with it after that! He didn't eat one bite of his cake!
Hayden and Cayson with my papa:)

Opening presents with big brother, Hayden, helping

Hayden playing with Cayson's new toys!




Now pictures of his first hair cut :(

Please ignore the silly face I'm making. I was in the middle of laughing.

It took 3 of us to keep him still

Isn't he handsome?? I can't believe he's 1!!

About my sweet 1 year old!

• He's walking!! Everywhere!!
  
• You can definitely tell he's the baby of the family. He plays that roll well.
• His personality is so different from Hayden's. Hayden was more independent. Cayson is much more cuddly than Hayden was. Cayson loves to be held, kissed, rocked, cuddled.
• Cayson is a total mommy's boy whereas Hayden was all about his daddy!
• He gives kisses with his mouth wide open right on the lips! Those are the best!
  
• He's wearing 12-18 month clothes for the most part, but lately we've been buying him 18-24 month shirts because he's got a chubby little tummy, but he's short so 18-24 pants are too long!
  
• He's in size 5 diapers!
  
• He only has 4 teeth. Two on top and two on the bottom.
• He LOVES ritz crackers. Seriously, I think we go through a a pack a day!
  
• He's a GREAT eater. He eats everything. Josh was feeding him spinach the other day and he was gobbling it up. Hayden was never that good of a eater and was and still is SOO picky, but not Cayson!
  
• All of a sudden he hates baths. I don't know if Hayden did something to him in the bathtub one day, but he used to love them now he cries if he thinks we're about to put him in.
• He loves his big brother. He just sits and watches him!!