Garden Fresh...

PEAS PLEASE!!!

Caelan enjoyed LOTS of fresh veggies from our garden this year- peas, green beans, beets, zuchinni and squash!

Faces.....

..... and no he is not crying in them...

I think it was.... happy jabbering, high-pitched screaming, the stinky face and.... dunno.

Sittin' in My Truck

Pat and Lee gave Caelan a dump truck for his birthday... he has a great time with it on his own but of course it is even MORE fun if he can sit in it and get pushed around! These were just some really good snapshots of Caelan and... yep... Grandpa!!

Birthday Pictures Part III

PART 3

Last but not least of course...... we had an "open house-cookout-birthday party" a couple of weekends after his actual birthday. It was just grandparents and us on July 1st; then we had an open invitation to folks to stop by to say Hi, grab a burger, have a cupcake.... sit and visit. The downfall of Caelan having a July 1st birthday is that it falls almost on the 4th of July AND the Cherry Festival.... lots of tourists, activities, and people out of town. Not to mention that the 4th of July is the ONE time of the year that our boss mandates all of us to work.... understandable though!

So... there was still a lot of people unable to make it but we had a GREAT time and were thrilled to see people!

Tom Bonhoerst (sorry if I misspelled it Tom!)

Ya'll have probably seen Tom in other posts- he is our social worker through Catholic Human Services. He and his wife stopped by to say Hello and drop off a nice card and a GREAT book for Caelan. Thanks Tom! It meant a lot to us!



THE Cake!! Witzy the Duck!
Matt Ansorge (my friend from work- also seen in previous posts)- anyway- his mom made the cake and it was AWESOME!! Absolutely beautiful and tasted wonderful!! She also made a couple dozen cupcakes.


Rhonda (another friend at work) helped me make the posters for the party....(I just realized that for some reason there is a picture missing of the 3rd one)

I also made a little "banner" for his highchair!


We had lots of little rubber duckies everywhere- they were in all sorts of themes or outfits- I had a whole row dedicated to the military and there was also a set of medical personnel. I forgot to take a picture of them lined up. Anyway- Caelan loves to put them in his mouth by the head and crawl around.

Here is an attempt at a picture of the 4 grandkids (remember the attempt at Easter??) It is getting better! So here is Caelan with Samuel, Erin and Grace... and no one fell face first onto the floor this time!

THE Outfit....

I wanted to have a "special" birthday outfit for his first birthday... I was thinking Jon-Jon with smocking..... I definitely cant smock... and I did want a hand in the making of it. So Mrs. Ansorge (who was very patient with me as I tried to explain what I had in my head...) made this for him- it is BEAUTIFUL!! I almost cried when I picked it up! I cross stitched the duck that is on the front and I knew Mrs. Ansorge was going to sew it onto the front. She ALSO made the outfit reversible and embroidered his name on the other side!! It is sooooo awesome! It is sooooo special!! I just love it!!Don't worry.... he brushes his teeth after all the sweets!

Playing with his balloons the next morning....

Umm.... yes, I'd like a bath with those ducks please.........lots of ducks!! These are some of the ones left over from his party...

Birthday Pictures Part II

The 2nd Batch of Birthday Pictures

These are a few more pictures from the night of his 1st Birthday- some closer pictures of the spaghetti face and a bit more of the cupcake. There is video of him eating his cupcake but it is too long to post.

This bottom picture is of Caelan playing with the toy his "Southern Aunts" (and uncles and cousins) sent him. They also sent him some cute clothes- he really likes this toy a lot... it goes places with us!He is saying, "Thank you Aunt Mary Margaret, Uncle Jay, Aunt Sally, Uncle Jason, cousin Solon and cousin Luke!! I really like it!!!"

Caelan's 13th Month Birthday

Happy 45th Anniversary Mom and Dad

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad. Wow 45 years. Congratulations and hope you have a good day, Love Matt and Amanda. Miss Amanda and I can't wait until our 45th.

Everybody wish them a happy 45th when you see them.

Sorry the picture is a little old (last year from the NICU - it seems we don't have very many pictures that are not of Caelan).

Caelan's Birthday Evening

I will be breaking down all the birthday pictures into three sections..... these are from Matt's dad's camera, then I will post the ones from our camera of this same evening, then the ones from his cookout party on the Saturday that followed.

We had a spaghetti dinner first.... he was so cute with his orange face! He actually does really well with feeding himself but ya know.. s'ghetti can be messy for anybody.... granted, not in our hair.... or eyes... or ears.... but hey... good stuff!



Caelan opened several nice cards and gifts from grandma and grandpa, and from "Mama" and "Dada" and a couple from some friends.

Then we sang "Happy Birthday" to him and blew out the candle on his cupcake.....

We even had a nice bouquet of flowers! These are from our flower beds.

THEN of course we get to EAT the cupcake!!!

YUM! YUM! YUM!

Sorry so many are sideways.... I never have figured out how to rotate them on here! More to come in a day or so.....