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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

I'm back!

I'm back!!  I've totally be a slacker with this blog, but I'm really going to do it this time :)haha
I really want to catch you up on everything that's happened since November, but that would be a rediculously long post. So I'll spare you the details and just give the highlights.

We did a Thanksgiving/Christmas weekend with my Mom in Birmingham. The above picture is at the McWayne Center. Christmas is always a fun time but full of craziness. I spent a weekend in GA with the girls for Sasha's birthday, on the 18th. Jamie and I took Caden to Bass Pro Shop to take his picture with Santa. Caden didn't cry this year, but he still didn't want to sit on Santas lap. However, when he saw Santa for the second time he sat in his lap and did great. Here's a picture of Caden and Santa at his day care.

Jamie and I are the youth leaders at our church. We spent New Year's Eve at a party with them. Jamie and I left Caden at home and took a group to the Pro Life rally in Washington DC in January.
It was a good time, but a LONG trip. We drove and were on the go the entire time. Next time we'll plan a little down time. We spent some time praying in front of the Planned Parenthood in DC and then participated in the march.

My brother, Johnathan, and his family moved to the Birmingham area. He got a new great job. I'm happy for them, but sad for us. We miss them!!

I went with my coworker, Debbie, and a group of eleven teenagers to the beach for their Spring Break. It actually turned out to be a pretty relaxing trip. Jamie, Caden, and I went to Atlanta for Jamie's spring break trip. We went to a Braves game and just hung out. It was nice. The boys got some signatures to add to the collection.
Spring is full of birthdays in my family. My dad, both of my brothers, and my niece have birthdays in March. April is my birthday and was also Easter this year. May is Caden's birthday. He turned THREE this year. Where has the time gone? Another addition to our spring schedule this year was T-Ball.
If you know my little man, you know that he loves anything and everything to do with sports. I was a little nervous about starting him this early (he was only two), but he did great. He loved every minute of it! I'm so glad we decided to let him play.
My cousin, Kristian, along with others from our youth group graduated from highschool this year. Congrats!!
Daddy moved to Montgomery last weekend. He's been working there for years and commuting from Selma. It's going to be much easier on him to be living there. Once again, I'm happy for him and sad for me. Now it's just me and Andrew left of my family in Selma. It's weird. Such is life though, we grow up and move on. Who knows, one day it may be me moving away from my home town.
This past weekend Jamie and I took some of the youth on another trip. We met a group from CEC for Life and went to pray at an abortion clinic in Birmingham. This was not Caden's first time at a pro-life event, but it was the first time he knew what was going on (to the extent a three year old can understand). He knew we were there to pray for the babies and their mommys.

I couldn't get a good angle on this picture, but Caden has his hand extended toward the clinic praying just like his daddy. The whole group left there and drove to Smith Lake to spend the night at some friends' lake house. This is our group from Christ The King.

We swam in the lake and went on a couple of boat rides. Jamie and a few others actually jumped off of a 30-40 foot cliff into the lake. He said it was fun, but I was too chicken to try it. Caden didn't want anything to do with swimming, but he loved riding on the boat.

Well I guess that brings us up to date. I'm really going to try to do this much more often so there's not an information overload every time I post. :) Until next time....

my newest hobby

Can I just say that I absolutely LOVE seeing my little boy's face light up when he's excited about something. It's my favorite! :) I made Caden an appliqued drum shirt on Monday and he was thrilled. It's such a great feeling to make something you are proud of and have somebody that is as excited about it as you are. It's even better when that person is your child. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
A while back Mom/Memaw gave me a sewing and embroidery machine. It sat around at my dad's house for quite a while. However, in the last few months I've decided that I really do want to learn to sew. Until this point I've had the attitued that my mom could make anything I needed and probably do a better job at it than I could so why do it, ya know? It was a bad attitude to have, but it's the truth. My mom does live and hour and a half away from me and she has a life of her own. She is not my beckon call girl just waiting around to do things for me, and sometimes it's just hard to get around life to get to her. So, I decided it was time to take initiative and do it for myself.
My inspiration came from seeing another kid on a friends facebook page in the cutest little outifits. In the picture I saw, he had on an appliqued shirt with his name monogrammed on it and matching gingham shorts. I of course sent her a message to ask her where she got the outfit. She responded and I immediately went to the website to see about buying one for Caden. It was more that I spend on Caden's clothes. Let me just insert here that I am cheap. Really I am. In this situation I'm glad though because it provided a little kick in the butt for me. I was officially inspired to use my sewing machine.
My mom was thrilled when I called her and told her I was ready to learn how to sew. She said she had been waiting for the day. Okay so we were both excited. I am one of those people who jump into things with both feet. It's all or nothing for me. I get into something and I want everything that has anything to do with my hobby of the moment. She gave me a few lessons so I could make some shorts for Caden. He is like my little chearleader by the way. He was so happy that I was making something for him. Unfortunately it wasn't as easy as I expected and I still have about 5 pairs of size 3T shorts cut out that are not sewn together. Yeah, I'm like that. It's terrible...I know!
So maybe the actual sewing will come in time, but for now I'm happy with doing the applique and embroidery. I'll post more pictures of stuff I've made another time.