Happy Birthday Sweet Cade

Cade turned one on Friday, and on that day I realized that a miracle it really was that he is alive! On the day he was born I was told that I had a maternal-fetal bleed, meaning blood from the Cade was going through the placenta and back into me. Cade was born with 1/3 of the blood he was supposed to have. He had to have 2 blood transfusions and lived in the NICU for a week. However, it could have been SO much worse. I was also told that this "condition" is thought to be a big cause of still births. I had felt Cade stop moving and went to the doctor - and that day ended in Cade's birth by emergency C-section.
I am SO thankful to have Cade in our lives!! He is my little miracle!!
We had a great time celebrating his birth with our family:


And we ended the day with a little announcement...
Cade is going to be a Big Brother in October!

Recent Pictures...

Weekend Projects!

This weekend Ryan and I were both busy with a few projects. I was asked by a friend to make a baby shower gift for her co-worker...so I put my new memory card and sewing machine to work! It was SO much fun, and pretty easy. I am sorry I can't turn the pictures, but I did figure out how to resize my pictures so I can easily upload! YAY!!

While I was sewing Ryan was outside building us some new storage! I love them!! We are still working on organizing them, but I love that I have an easy place to hide toys ( 4 baskets in the bottom), and we have somewhere to display some pictures that we couldn't put out before due to the risk of a baby throwing it on the ground!

Be back soon with a post of my babies! :)

Life is busy

Life has been busy around this house, and technology has not been cooperating, thus no pictures :(

Cade's Newest Accomplishments at 10 months:
Waves "hi and bye"
Gives "fives"
Claps when you say "yay!!"
Answers the question "How big are you?" by throwing his hands up over his head, which is followed by Reed saying "Baby Cade is so big!" and then "I'm so big too"
Makes kissy sounds/ gives big wet kisses on the lips
Eats almost all table food
Stands by himself for a few seconds (getting longer everyday)
Walks with a walker like a champ!!
LOVES to play ball
Gets VERY excited everyday when Daddy comes home!!

Reed's Accomplishments:
It amazes me how many words Reed knows/can say or attempt to say! It is so fun to listen to him talk and tell me stories!! Such a big boy!!!
Is still working on potty training....I think #2 scares him...

What fun these little boys are!!

update attempt

I have been trying to update the blog regularly for awhile, and each time I fail. Sorry for such a long break!

Where to begin?
It is hard to believe that Cade is already 8 months old. He is a sweet little guy. He LOVES his brother, is sitting up and almost crawling, eats almost anything (shocker!!), makes motorboat sounds, claps, is very ticklish, slightly bigger than his brother when Reed was his age, loves his paci, and cries when Mommy walks away!

I think it is even harder to believe that Reed is almost 2 1/2. He is SO much fun! He talks all the time, and will repeat what he is saying over, and over, and over until he knows you know what he is saying. He loves choo-choo's, to ride his bike, color/paint, play any kind of sport, help bathe "his baby". He can repeat his ABC's, knows most of his colors, and can kinda count to 5 (four is hard to say, lol). At night Reed has started praying with us and "thanking God" for EVERYONE he knows..."thank you for Momma and Dada and Gramma and Pawpaw and "gigi" aka Casey, and Leo and Uncle and Mimi, and "B", and Poppy, and both Nana's(but that is hard to say), and "gem" aka Gabe, and last night he prayed for his friend Avery saying "I ran round with Avery". I really should get it on video. It is funny because sometimes he throws in his favorite toy of the day - "thank you for choo-choos" is one we hear alot! LOL

I LOVE being a stay at home Mom! I LOVE watching them grow and learn! I can't wait to see what their future holds - they are such a blessing!!

album 09\01\09 (37 photos), by ashley dender

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Changes

We were busy this weekend making some cosmetic changes to our house.

First we painted our red door ... black. It took 1 coat of primer, and 3 coats of black. Of those 4 coats I think Ryan painted 1/4 of one coast... Yet, somehow the only picture I have of the door while still in its "before" stages happened to be while Ryan painted of the door. Rest assured I painted all of the rest.

In case you couldn't see what was on our door, it is this cute "D" I painted.

Ryan also got his truck out of the garage this weekend ( Reed was very excited to go for a ride in it with "Uncle" and Daddy):

And when the truck left the garage he uncovered this little diamond in the rough...

The table is from Goodwill a number of years ago, and lived in Ryan's apartment in college.

When I saw it on Saturday I quickly and excitedly exclaimed "Can we paint that?! A little sanding and a little spray paint and we have a new practically free end table! I LOVE it - I will try to get a good picture of it with the lamp I intend to find or buy soon!Speaking of cosmetic changes...this couch is getting a big one! I bought this couch at a garage sale when we first got married. Little did I know that our puppy liked tearing the fabric off of the couch. We have since tried slipcovers, but anyone who has ever used a slipcover knows how terrible they are!! They don't fit quite right, the move around, oh, and they shrink when you dry them!

That is why I have decided to recover the couch. I started yesterday and it is going well so far.

Here the couch is in the first stages of just being pinned - but I will be sure to show you a finished picture. I am so excited about what the couch will look like! It is white, but will be easy to wash (and bleach) and the fabric was less the $5 a yard, making it less than $50 for a brand new couch!!

Ill be back soon with pictures of the boys!!