Easter

We had four Easter egg hunts!  Jaden loved collecting eggs but it took a few minutes for him to get the hang of it.  He wanted to open his eggs and eat his candy rather than keep picking up more.  Our first egg hunt was in mesquite with the Hunt family.  

The second Easter egg hunt was at the little league field.  The candy wasn't great but the kids had fun anyway.

My mom always does fun easter things for the grand kids!  We had a water party and easter egg hunt on the saturday before easter.

By the time Sunday rolled around and we did an Easter egg hunt at our house Jaden was all egged out.  He just picked up some food from his easter basket and wanted to sit and eat it.  

We took a ride down through the farm to see the new baby cows.  Jaden loved them and would moo at them.  The mama cows weren't to sure about us getting so close to their babies.  I swear one of them was growling at us!  

Oregon

Terron and I took a little trip to Oregon the week before Christmas!  It was beautiful!  I couldn't believe how green it was even in the middle of Dec.  We ate some amazing sea food while we were there.  Eating fish that isn't caught fresh just won't measure up to what we had there!  We spent 4 days there and spent a lot of our time just touring around.  We spent Sunday Driving up the coast.  Which was also gorgeous!  I was in heaven with all the green.  If you know me very well you know that I hate our sage brush and cedar trees.  It was so fun to get away but I missed my baby boy so much!!!  I was definitely ready to get home to see Jaden.  Only time will tell whether or not we will be visiting Oregon again soon...................

Birthday Party/Family Pictures

Happy Birthday to my baby!  I still can't believe he is 1.  He is so full of spunk and trouble but I love him so much.  Terron and I can't imagine our lives without him!  He is our greatest accomplishment and blessing!

This year I decided to make him a farm cake.  I think it turned out pretty good and most importantly he loved the way it tasted!

He was so spoiled with all of his presents!  We are so glad we have so many family members that love Jaden as much as we do and came to help us celebrate!

My baby all in camo!

This is the new form of entertainment Jaden has found!  Anything he can get into that he shouldn't.  His other favorite place is on the back of my couch looking out the window like a dog.

We got our family pictures done by Morgan.  I think they turned out really cute.  We didn't get any big smiles out of Jaden but he still is the most handsome little boy I have ever seen!!!!!

24th of July

Our day started out of course with the parade which Jaden loved!  One of his favorite things to do is sit outside and watch the cars go by so to see them up close and all dressed up was right up his alley.

Our next stop was a BBQ with the Trumans and then to the reservoir for fishing and more food.  Ter took Jaden swimming.  I thought he would hate it but he loved it cold water and all.

A little cousin love!

Peyt and Ash were determined that they were going to feed him his baby food, I think he got more all over his face than in his mouth.  He was a pretty good sport about it:)

After we got home we went to my mom's house for fireworks.  Every year we have a fireworks show at her house.  Terron and Jed took care of our entertainment that night and did a great job!  Jaden loved all of it and wouldn't take his eyes of the fireworks.  We finally got him to bed around midnight that night.  I was feeling kind of bad but I figure a couple times a year of going to bed late can't hurt to bad.

Camping Fun/Funny Faces

Jaden has a new passion in life......Yelling.  He has got to be making some kind of noise all the time.  It really is fun and cute until we go somewhere or are trying to have a conversation.  He is getting such a cute personality and it is so fun to watch him change from baby to a little person.  He is very strong willed all ready but he is so much fun!  I captured his progression of making a little noise to yelling and then laughing so hard at himself for doing it!

We went camping for the first time with Jaden last weekend.  We did pretty good the whole weekend.  He was a trooper through all the heat and the bugs.  We spent a lot of time on the ranger riding through the hills.  We lost Miley out there on our last day of camping and couldn't find her.  We went home pretty sad.  About five days after we got home my mom called someone she knew that lived in the area we had camped and sure enough one of her neighbors had found Miley.  Terron drove out the next day to bring her home!  

Out fishing.  Everyone caught a fish but me.  I think they hate me or something because I can't catch a fish to save my life.  Thank goodness the guys caught about 15 so I didn't go hungry.  

Nap time was a little rough, or should I say it just didn't happen at all.  It was more just fun and games to Jader.  It didn't help that the trailer was 90*

Enjoying a nice cool night by the fire!

Jaden pictures

Summer is flying by and Jaden is growing like a weed.  He is such a sweet little boy that is full of smiles!  He is already a thrill seeker, the crazier ride the better for him.  But when he does hold still (normally when he is asleep)  he looks like a little angel!

He loves to chew on everything!

He was so sleepy I gave him his bottle in his high chair while we ate dinner and before we knew it he was sound asleep.

Jaden went on his first tractor ride last week.  He was scared to death when we first climbed in with daddy but he slowly warmed up to the tractor and decided it was pretty fun.

This is typically what I find when I leave Terron babysitting Jaden.  

I love this picture!  I don't know why but there is something adorable about a baby's naked bum!  

Life Lately

My most recent exciting news!  I finally got the internet.  I have felt so cut off from the world without it.  Maybe now I can keep my blog updated :)  Jaden is full of it but he is so much fun!  There isn't to many times you can catch him without a smile on his face.  He is already 6 months old!  I don't know where the time goes.  I have absolutely no idea what Ter and I ever did without him.  He isn't crawling yet, thank goodness because when he does watch out.  He is always busy and moving though.  

He loves books!  We have a little bed time routine and Terron reads to him most every night after bath time.

Bath time is quite an adventure and he loves it!  I think we get about as wet as he does but he has fun.

He is doing really good with a sippy cup, he mostly just likes to chew on it.

We just recently took a trip down to the fire station.  Jaden got to ride on the fire truck and got lots of cute pictures.  I don't know who enjoyed the fire truck more the little kids or the adults but we all had a lot of fun.

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Of course we cant forget about motorcycles.  Yes Jaden has already been on his first motorcycle ride.  No worries to your mothers that are freaking out, it was on a little bike and we went really slow.  Jaden really did love it though.  I am afraid that even at this young age he has some thrill seeking in his bones.

Of course there is also dinner time.  He loves food, any food, all food especially table food.  We have just started giving him tastes of food but would eat anything you put in front of him, as you can tell he is definitely not starving.