2010 in review!

2010 proved to be, hands down, the best year of my life. It was my first full year to be a mama and I loved every stinkin minute of it!

January

We went to the park and tried swinging for the first time!

 

Kade also started sitting up by himself!

February

Mom and I went to Chicago and got to go to the Oprah show! It was so much fun!!

And we had record breaking snow in the metroplex!

 

March 

Kade starts crawling!

 

And we start to spend a lot of time outside!

 

April

Kade celebrates his first Easter!!

 

May

We go on our first vacation as a family of 3!

 

 

 

 

 

June

Summer begins with more time outside and a lot of time in the pool!!

 

Kade also graduates at Little Gym!

 

July

Kade's first 4th of July!!

 

Plus another week at the beach!

 

 

And a week at the lake!

 

August

This little cutie marched his way to ONE YEAR OLD!!

 

 

September

First trip to the State Fair!!  

And Kade got his first haircut!

 

October

Halloween!!

 

 

November

Cooler weather, and Thanksgiving!!

 

 

December

Christmas, decorations, cookie baking, and a trip to D.C.

 

 

 

So here were in 2011. It is already proving to be a great year. We have lots of fun and exciting things coming up in the next year, hopefully selling our house and moving, and Bryan and I might take a parents only trip somewhere, possibly to Europe! Can't wait to see wait else 2011 has planned for us! 

Washington D.C.

The first two years that Bryan and I were married we traveled quite a bit. We had so much fun, but we thought after Kade was born our travels would slow down a lot. But 2010 brought us more traveling that we could have even hoped for! In February, my mom and I went to Chicago for several days because I won tickets to the Oprah show! We had so. much. fun! In May, the three of us set out on our first family vacation to Cozumel, Mexico. It was different than any vacation we had taken in the past, but we realized we COULD travel with a baby. We spent a week at the beach with my family, and a week at the lake with Bryan's family. By the end of summer, we thought our travels for 2010 were long over. But we were wrong, Bryan's grandma gave us a week to use at one of her timeshares before the end of the year! We looked around and decided to go to Washington D.C. And I am so happy that we decided to go!

Our trip was just wonderful, Kade was about as perfect as a 15 month old could be. We brought along the jogging stroller and tons of snacks, and we were able to do everything on our list. We saw every monument, went to all the museums we wanted to, and went on a tour of the capital and white house! It was the best, best trip. The weather was perfect (minus one day when a cold front was blowing in,) the town was decorated for Christmas, and I fell in love with the city!

Our first night there, we decided to go walk around. Kade, all snug as a bug, fell asleep instantly!

 



 


 

 


 

 


 

Halloween

Halloween this year was a lot of fun, although Kade didn't totally "get it." We had several little kid Halloween parties to go to and they were a lot of fun, seeing all the tots dressed up. On actually Halloween day Kade was still trying to get over a nasty stomach bug, plus it we had above average temperatures. Not good for a little boy whose Mama decided to dress him up like a dragon in a full on suit. He was miserably hot and not feeling well at all. We went over to Brad and Kristen's to trick or treat with the girls and see them all dressed up for Halloween. We only made it to several houses with Kade before he was done with it all, so we just decided to call it quits. We had a lot of fun, but I think Kade had just about enough of Halloween!

 

 

 

 

Catching up...

I have a lot to catch up on. My last post was in October I believe. We had so much fun this Fall I guess I didn't have time to write about it! I love Fall. It is without a doubt my favorite season, and Fall 2010 did not disappoint! It was spent with several trips to the pumpkin patch, cooler weather, lots of playtime outside, too many pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin carving, trick or treating, and SO MUCH FUN! Here are A LOT of pictures from this past fall!




 



 


 


 




 

Crazy scientist hair

When Kade was born, he had a decent amount of dark hair. Then somewhere around the 3 month mark my little boy went bald...very bald (minus a strip on the back of his head.) Slowly over the course of this last year he had FINALLY started to get a decent amount of hair. Most of it is on the back of his head, but we were willing to take whatever we could get.  Around 9-10 months he started to get the most precious baby curls around his neck and ears and I thought there was NO way I would ever cut his hair. Well, just a few short months later those sweet curls turned into these straight, stringy, frizzy, semi curls- we started calling it his crazy scientist hair. After a few weeks of discussion (discussion = Bryan telling me it was time to cut it and me ignoring him) I decided it was time for the cut. And at the ripe old age of 13 months, Kade got his first haircut! I, surprisingly, wasn't as sad as I thought I would be!

Here he is the before!

 

Crazy scientist hair!

 

Getting all ready to go.

  

 

The finished product..I am not a fan of the mohawk, I prefer the comb over :) Kade was also "over it" at this point.

Weekend of firsts...

We had a wonderful, fun filled weekend! It was a weekend of a lot of firsts for the big man. Bryan was off on Friday so we took Kade to the State Fair for his very first time. I LOVE the fair and everything that goes along with it (including all the fried food :) The weather couldn't have been any prettier and Kade was just perfect the whole time we were there!

Kade and Big Tex

 

The whole gang.

 

Next on the list was to get Kade his very first State fair corn dog! I think he loved it!

  

Then a stop by the petting zoo...

 

A little stop inside the children's aquarium. 

  

And we finished the day playing in the children's museum!

 

And this is what I saw about 2 minutes after getting into the car...

 

 Saturday, I took Kade to a birthday party. My social little boy has 3 parties in the next few weekends! Later that night, I ditched the boys and went to a wedding with Lauren. We had a blast and danced the night away :) And on Sunday Kade got his very first haircut...but I will save that for the next post!