The King returns for Halloween!

Kade made a pretty cute Elvis Prestley with his great jumpsuit featuring an eagle and sequined belt and flared legs. What is most amazing is how he was able to grow such good sideburns to go along with his costume! We had a fun day full of food and family. We celebrated Kara's birthday and went to Tucanos with Luke's fam, ate our traditional pizza dinner with my parents, and went to our ward Halloween party. Happy November 1st!

A New Bag of Tricks

Kade is now 6 months old! Hard to believe it! He has all kinds of new skills including #1: playing in his jolly jumper. The picture doesn't make it out to look like he enjoys it at all, but when he gets in a few good jumps in a row and goes air-born then we get some good smiles.



Skill #2: He is an accomplished sitter.



Skill #3: He has entered the ranks of professional boxing and can take down opponents 8 times his size! That is sweat on his shirt from working hard--not drool :)


Skill #4: He has outgrown his infant carrier carseat. He is now in a luxurious and larger carseat and likes being up higher and looking around while we are driving. This is his new Britax Marathon, a wonderful baby shower gift from Grandpa and Grandma.




Skill #5: He is a stink bug sleeper. What a cutie!

Our Apologies

Hi Aunt Char, I am sorry that there are no cute pictures of me posted today like my mom promised to do. Last night our power was out and our internet didn't work. She will get some pictures up soon. I love you and I'm excited to see you soon! Love, Kade

The moving mess!

We were excited this past weekend to move into the other apartment above the mortuary. It is significantly larger and we figure since Kade will crawl, walk and then run before Luke is finished with school and we move out, that it is worth it to spend the time moving to the bigger apartment. Luke rounded up a bunch of his friends and they moved all the furniture and heavy things on Friday night. We were out of the other one by Saturday night and are mostly into our new one. Kade was a good helper :)

Wrapped around his finger!

Kade effectively has finagled his way into our hearts and is our favorite! I don't know if it's the contagious smile, the oh-so-cute laugh or the evolving facial expressions that keep us begging for more! (Kade is the baby; Luke, my handsome husband, also has these characteristics and I must be very flexible as I wrap around two fingers)

He is getting so good at grabbing and holding on to things and now he gets mad at these toys on his swing because he can't pull them down far enough to get in his mouth.


Looking very handsome in his sweater vest.

No pictures :(

I was wondering why I don't have any pictures from recent weeks to put on the blog. Here are my reasons: 1) When I went to Seattle to visit Janetta, Luke went hunting and took the camera. 2) While Luke and his friend Dave were coming back from hunting, the brakes went out in their truck--luckily they weren't hurt and it turned out okay, but the truck sat up in Heber at a repair shop for a week. 3) After Luke got his things back that were in the truck, we didn't bring the camera up from Luke's Jeep. And so, alas, we have no pictures of our adorable Kade for the past few weeks except the ones from Janetta.

But we are doing well. Kade continues to grow like a weed and is now 19 pounds! He smiles, rolls over, holds onto toys, has a wide repertoire of sounds, and makes us happy. Luke started school and is enjoying it so far. Tiff is working 2/7 and liking being home for 5/7 nights a week. We get to move into the bigger apartment at the mortuary some time this month and will post some pics of it when we are settled.

Baby update

We have successfully transferred Kade to his crib in his own room. Here is our little buckaroo's cute cowboy blanket from Aunt Shawny.

He is just so sweet!


He loves sitting up in his Bumbo so he can see what is going on.



I had Kade all dressed for swimming with our ward and he fell asleep so he didn't actually get in the pool. This shows off his rolly polly legs and chubby feet :)

I am back at work now (2 nights a week) and Kade takes his bottle well now. He ate 10oz at one sitting for Grandma! We love our little monkey boy.