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Update number 2 will be coming shortly...I promise. Look for what we've been up to this summer!

The Big One!

Unfortunately, none of the pictures of Tyler's birthday turned out on my camera. They were ALL blurry...stupid camera! I finally went to my parents' house and got all of their pictures off of their computer. I went and bought a cupcake on his actual birthday since his party wasn't for a few days and it was a big hit! We haven't found a food yet that this kid doesn't like! Doesn't that look like the face of a satisfied one year old?

Mommy & Tyler at his party.
I made this cake for the guests. I had all intentions of making a monkey cake, but I was way to busy to take that on so I decided to experiment with marshmallow fondant. It turned out okay.I made a separate little cake for Tyler with a little monkey on the middle.

Luckily Kaylee was there to help blow out his candle. What would he do without such a good cousin? Thanks Kaylee!

We can't believe that Tyler is already 1! He started walking the day after his party and has been running all over the place ever since!

I think I got a little carried away with the camera!

These pictures are from a couple of weeks ago. We went to the park four times in three days. I decided that since I never know if my pictures are going to turn out clear or not I would just take a million and see what I came out with. I couldn't figure out which ones to post so I thought I would just put up a slide show with a bunch of them. Enjoy!

Photo Overload

I know I say this a lot, but here I am again...doing some catch up work. Every day I think, "I should update our blog tonight." But when I sit down I realize what a huge job it will be since there is so much to document. So, here it is finally. Hopefully I will remember everything since I have to go back two whole months! This first picture is so funny. One morning I went to go get Tyler in the morning and when I walked to his crib this is what I saw:

(I must tell you though, his legs were NICE and toasty!) This next picture is just us playing. Don't mind my red eyes. I wore my contacts and one of them had a tear in it but I was driving to a baby shower by myself and I couldn't take it out.

Tyler was feeling exceptionally photogenic this day so I couldn't resist. The many faces of Tyler:

Gotta love him! I mean, just look at that last one again. What a smile! This next picture is what Tyler would do since he couldn't crawl. He would walk his feet forward and then move his hands while on his head. Where did he come up with that? Whatever works, right?

Ok...many of you may think I'm crazy for this next story, but whatever. Tyler's hair has been driving me crazy for a while now. It was hanging over his ears and I kept wanting to cut it. Then one day we were at church and someone said to me that Tyler had a mullet. That was it; it was getting cut...and soon! That Wednesday, March 11th, I sat him on the changing table, gave him a toy, and started cutting.

Here is the before picture:

After: "How do I look?"

"What about this side? Is it even?"

That same day Tyler also got his second tooth. Then on Friday he pulled himself up for the first time on our TV unit. Monday this is what I found after his nap:What a big boy! Tyler is definitely a BOY. He loves any kind of ball and is a great basketball player. I'll try later to figure out how to post a video on here, but I don't know how yet. I almost forgot...Thursday, March 19th Tyler FINALLY started crawling! He's all over the place now.

Playing guitar:

This right here is Tyler's whining face. I just thought I would share with you. He's not ALL smiles. We see this face quite often actually.

He loves reading. He likes to take every book off the shelves and look at them. He actually likes to take every toy out too and not play with them. Kids!

We started giving Tyler some of those little Gerber Graduates puffs and one day one didn't quite make it into his mouth. "What, do I have a booger on my face or something?"

Mr. Handsome

Tyler giving kisses to his "friend." They play every morning.

Our little Sports' Fan. Patrick and I got to go the Angels' game a couple of weeks ago. We sat in the eighth row just in front of 3rd base. They were GREAT seats. It was also free blanket night! We didn't even have to pay for the tickets...even better! We did forget our camera though. :(

We were going through Tyler's 12 month clothes a couple of weeks ago just to see what he has already. We bought this little onesie when I was pregnant and Pat has been looking forward ever since then to the day when Tyler could wear it. We tried it on and it fit perfectly. Daddy is very jealous though because he doesn't even have a jersey yet. Boo hoo....Too bad they got new uniforms this year!

Happy Easter!

Once again we decorated eggs with Rebecca and Jaime. Something tells me it will be a little more eventful when Tyler can join in. I made one for each of us: Patrick, Kelly, and Tyler.

The finished products: Pat's are in the back & mine are in the front in case you couldn't figure that out. ;)

I was in charge of bringing dessert to Easter dinner and I always feel like I have to come up with something new and exciting. Let me just ask, "What was I thinking?" I made these little cheesecake eggs. They took two days to make and were a PAIN in the rear! They were delicious though.

Pat got to help me "decorate" them. It was a little more exciting than the regular eggs.

I had also bought some strawberries the day before so at the last minute I decided to dip some of those too. TASTY! I love strawberries.

We didn't get any real Easter pictures of Tyler since he spit up all over his sweater! Here he is in his church clothes though. I bought this gate to take to work but it's too big. It works great in the living room when I can't keep an eye on him. He loves to just walk around the edges. We just put a bunch of toys in there and he's good to go.

I just love this kid so much!

I think he was trying to escape!

I think that's enough pictures for one post. There are plenty more for a second post very soon. I PROMISE it will be soon!

"Happy Two" Kaylee!

This incredibly cute little girl turned two last week. I can't believe it! It seems like I just posted about her first birthday. We love our niece so much. She had an Elmo party last Saturday. It was lots of fun as you can see.

I made an Elmo cake for her and the more I think about it the more glad I am that she didn't want a Dora party! I found the idea for this cake online and it seemed so easy. Unfortunately, things did not go as planned. It said to draw the picture on wax paper and cut it out. Place it on the cake, trace around it with a toothpick and remove the wax paper. The outline will be there for you to fill in. Sounds easy enough, right?I found the picture online and re sized it to fit the cake, traced it on wax paper, cut it out, put it on the cake and traced it, removed the wax paper, and there was no Elmo there! All I could see were the eyeballs so I had to freehand the whole thing...no fun! Then when I mixed the dye into the frosting it must have heat up too much because when I was using the star tip for the fur it just came out as runny blobs so I just filled the whole thing in and textured it myself. It turned out much better than I expected considering all of those little pitfalls. All that mattered was that Kaylee like it...I'm sure she wouldn't have cared if it looked like a big red blob though.

I think she liked it, don't you?

This is what Tyler did the whole time Kaylee was opening her presents. I tried getting some better pictures but I hate my camera because they ALL turned out blurry. Boo hoo! I miss my red camera so much.

Kaylee made out pretty good...she even got a CAR for her birthday! I thought you were supposed to get your first car when you turn 16...times have sure changed. We took Tyler to the park the other day and there was a girl driving this convertible through the park. It was very realistic! What will they come up with next?

Milestone Alert!!!

We hope everyone had a Happy Valentine's Day yesterday. Ours was pretty quiet. We pretty much stayed home...I did have to go to Target & Babies R Us. I was wishing the whole time that I was home though becuase there were a MILLION people both places.

I've been wanting to post all week but I haven't quite had the energy. Tyler and I were both terribly sick this whole last week. Just today we're starting to get better. So again I have to do some catch up blogging with lots of pictures of the past couple of weeks.
Bath time is so much fun for Tyler. It used to be such a chore, but he seems to really enjoy it these days. And the rubber ducky doesn't hurt the situation.
Mommy has more fun after the bath as you can see. I need to use my skill somewhere! :)

Just goofin around with daddy.

Okay dad, is this how I hold the bat?

I think I better put that thing down before someone gets hurt!

Here is Tyler's idea of hard day at work.

If only this were true for all of us!

Now come give me some lovin!!!!!

Tyler is always a little lazy when it comes for breakfast time...or any meal time at that! He likes to lounge around with his feet up and just wait for the food to arrive in his mouth. What a life!

but who could resist?
I've been wanting to post this for almost two weeks now, but Tyler got his FIRST TOOTH!!!!

Last weekend, we had some friends over for dinner. Here's Tyler entertaining his first houseguest.

They're only seven days apart, but Tyler looks like a little shrimp next to Chase. Sorry Tyler, you didn't get the tall genes.

We hope you all are doing well. Just a reminder that our blog will be going private very soon. If you haven't given me your email address yet please do so. Thanks!