We've been in this home 2 years now. The basement decor never seems to make the cut when it comes to the monthly budget, so I've been doing my best.

We had a coffee table that once matched this end table.


I decided to change it up.


Maybe someday I will buy some new furniture for the basement, until then, I'll just keep pretending I know what I'm doing.

I was doing laundry and asked sienna to go get me some hangers. Like a good girl, she went and got hangers . . .

by taking all of the clothes in the closet off of them.

My little guy is 1! I can't hardly believe it. Kade is such a lovable sweet baby. He is and has always been a mama's boy. He is finally walking, and "exploring". He can say mama, dada, ot oh, mmm, and no. He points to things he wants, and usually always gets them. He loves to wrestle with his older siblings. He is already trying to keep up. I'm so glad I get to be his mama.





His favorite part of the party was the balloon that Aunt Bailey brought him.

I was so glad the boys agreed to dress up as a family. I realize the I probably don't have too many more years of it.



With all of the craziness of the deer hunt the week before Halloween, we ended up carving pumpkins on Halloween afternoon. Luckily Steve got home as we were finishing up. Bronsen and Parker still hate digging out the guts, but loved doing all their own carving this year.



Perfect size pumpkin for my little guy!!



Until Next Year . . .

There has been a little discrepency about when Kade's first steps were. Mostly, me not believing that he took them when I was gone. So, here are his OFFICIAL first steps. He took 2 steps!!! He is my slowest walker, but he's getting there. Another month and he'll be crusing everywhere. I can't believe he is almost one. Where does the time go?

Sienna is my sweet, loving, wild child. She is so quick to get into trouble!
This particular day, Parker accidentlly hit her with the back swing of his golf club. And if you know Parker, he doesn't do things half hearted, it was all out!

But luckily they are still friends and although there is still a small bruise, she's healing fine.

I was trying to get Kade down for a nap. I was careful to feed him in the living room with Sienna as to decrease her unsupervised time. But I guess that's not good enough because in the time it took me to sing "Twinkle, Twinkle, little star" she had accomplished much. She had got a pan from the cupboard and put it on the stove. Got the eggs from the fridge, climbed up on the counter, cracked the egg in the pan, without even breaking the yolk.

Maybe not my best parenting decision, but I decided to light the stove and let her cook her egg.

Scrambled of course. Who knows, maybe some day she'll become a world famous chef and I'll be thankful for these pictures. If not, I hope she learns how to cook a good healthy meal for her family.

This was supposed to be the year for boating in our household. But thing just didn't work out that way. We did finally get the boat fixed, and back to Lake Powell. It didn't turn out to be the best trip, but memorable none the less.

Just look how happy he is. This is the sole reason we own a boat!

Every boat needs a good flag man!

Kade loved munching on the watermelon!

But wasn't such a fan of the water that day.

And Nate, hopefully we gave him his wake boarding fix.