I Am One!

We celebrated Cash's first birthday at our house two weeks before Christmas. Unfortunately, there was a huge snow storm in the days before, and our guest list went from 30 to 10. It was okay, though. He had a great time and loved every minute of it. While he got an entire garage full of trucks (fire trucks, Tonka trucks, etc) his favorite toys were his books (go me!!!). We also collected several donations for Toys for Tots...a tradition I will try to continue as he gets older.

Thanksgiving

This year's Thanksgiving was extra special. We went to Michelle's like we do just about every year. This year our long lost cousins, Josh & Bekah, were there to celebrate with us. It was the first time our whole family has been together in a long time. It was good to see them!

The Zoo

Cash and I found ourselves with a free afternoon (a rarity) so we hightailed it to the zoo. He looooooves to make animal noises. He makes dog, cat, girraffe (???),tiger, and monkey (his favorite). It was just the two of us, and we had a blast. Mom actually got a little exercise too.

Christmas

Our Christmas was wonderful. Cash enjoyed his first (lucrative) Christmas. He got a red wagon, a train, a slide, and several books. He enjoyed being the center of attention for 15 or so fascinated adults.

We spent Christmas Eve at my Aunt's house in Pioneer Town. Kamden calls it "That Cowboy Town." He is obsessed with looking for gold every time we go there. The kids played Beatles Rockband, and our whole family joined in for several rounds of "Yellow Submarine." We threw Cash in his brand new li'l red wagon (thanks, Grandma Dona!) and pulled him into town and to visit neighbors.

Christmas day was frenzied but fun. The kids woke up to a ridiculous amount of presents. After devouring them, Cash & Kamden boarded the li'l red wagon to walk down to Shane's parents house. We had a quick dinner and caravaned down to San Bernardino to visit Shane's 95 year old grandmother in her assisted living home.

Voted Least Likely to Have Her Own Blog

I have spent many hours (of work time of course) stalking my friends via their cute/clever blog pages. While they are very entertaining, I never saw myself as someone who would keep their own blog for several reasons. First of all, I can't even seem to update my Twitter status in a timely manner. My entries would be posted months after the event took place. Furthermore, I am terrible at taking pictures of my family...I usually have to steal them from the web pages of family members. Finally, the topics of my blogs would be as interesting www.watchingpaintdry.com (which is a real website and much more interesting than you might think).

I have decided, however, that my son's first year of life came and went too quickly with too little documentation. This would be a perfect way to chronicle my family's special moments (and a lot easier than pouring over a scrapbook project).