Holiday vacay

It is the saddest week. After a long, relaxing, school-free, family filled break, Scott is back in class which means late nights at the library. Cash and I are sure going to miss all the time and attention we got from daddy. It's now back to me and Cash, all day, everyday...which is kinda awesome. Especially on days he wants to cuddle and nap with mom.

 The Christmas decorations are all down and now it's time for some Valentine decor to be put up. I loved having the tree decorated for Cash to look at, he would just stare at it for at least 30 minutes everyday. It also was an easy way to calm him down, take him to the lit tree...he would stop crying and just stare. Along with Christmas lights, Cash really enjoyed Christmas music and wrapping paper. Those three things were probably made his top favorites. Next year I'm sure it will be candy canes :).

We spent Christmas in Vancouver with Scott's family and New Years in Prosser with my family. Even though Cash is only 16 weeks it was still so special having him with us for the holidays and seeing him experience Christmas for the first time. Cash's grandpa Loren dressed up as Santa Christmas Eve, I don't think Cash really looked at who was holding him but just smiled away while we snapped some pictures. We helped him open his presents Christmas morning and he seemed amazed by the ripping of the paper...oh and he liked the presents too I guess ;). He got lots of toys and jammies!
As for New Years of course Cash didn't stay up and neither did his parents ;). I debated on whether or not it was worth it to stay up until midnight and lose my precious hours of sleep. Nope. Scott and I kissed goodnight at about 10:00pm! After having a baby I have said goodbye to late nights, I kinda enjoy going to bed early. Still not a huge fan of the early rising yet though.
Cash's face in all the pictures Christmas morning melts me, his lips and cheeks are so relaxed and chubby. Scott and I call them his bulldog cheeks :). I'll cherish his first Christmas pictures forever!

Pumpkin patch with our little pumpkin

I love everything about Fall, I love it even more now that we have a baby boy to share all the fun fall activities with.
Our first family outing (besides grocery shopping and doctor visits) was to a pumpkin patch this past Saturday. Cash had so much fun even though he slept most of the time in his wrap ;).

We went to a cute little place called Jim Dandy Farm.

It wasn't an actual pumpkin patch but instead there were lots of pumpkins already picked and scattered around a field. We picked out a big, medium, and small pumpkin, one for dad, mom, and baby. I still can't get over how cute Cash's little pumpkin is! Everything is so much cuter in baby size!
As we were leaving the sweet owner came out after us and gave us a tiny little white pumpkin for Cash for his first Halloween.
 I'm so excited for all of his first holidays.

Happy Birthday America!

This fourth of July was spent in Vancouver with Scott's parents. It was a fun weekend filled with many block parties, delicious food, friends, family, games, and fireworks. What more could you ask for?

I loved that the fourth of July fell on a Friday because it made the weekend feel so much longer.

Scott and I have recently become obsessed with the card game called 'Bohnanza.' Side-note, we ordered it off Amazon on a week day and received it in the mail the next morning! Gotta love Amazon Prime, and my sister for letting us use her account ;). We probably played it about 10 times this past weekend, I highly recommend it!

Here in Vancouver the firework shows are not only on the 4th but the day before as well. They are pretty crazy...great, but crazy. When I say crazy I'm saying that you are literally about 20 yards from where they light them off and there is a continuous explosion of fireworks from start to finish. By the end of the show you can hardly see from all the smoke. There is also a chance that one of the fireworks will fall over and fly into the crowd, which has happened and did happen this year. I would be lying if I said I wasn't nervous to watch the firework shows. I didn't want the fireworks to be too loud for the baby! Scott convinced me that the baby would be fine, and that he is swimming in amniotic fluid so the noise would be very faint.
I still covered my stomach with lots of blankets, just to be safe ;).

Last year Scott and I came up with (what we thought) a funny patriotic photo, so this year we thought we should top it and incorporate our little baby.

This was all Scott's idea, he thought it would be the funniest thing to wrap a flag around my baby bump. To my surprise, I actually really love this photo!

Oh you know, just draping the flag casually on the shoulder, compliments of Velenti

The baby loves to be kissed by his daddy

Can you guess who thought of this photo? Haha "guns, motorcycles, and sexy women"

Happy Birthday America, we love celebrating you!