A little laughter

Whew...mom tells some pretty good jokes :-)

He's caught a big one!

Caleb's newest finger obsession: the fish hook. I can't keep this little one's fingers out of his mouth.




Yes, I'm talking about you cute guy.

We give thanks

Thanksgiving was wonderful this year. The Jones' were gracious enough to have us up yet again. We love getting to see them, which unfortunately isn't very often, but when we do it is always a good time! Dinner was amazing, company was superb, and best of all, Caleb was an angel all day.

Our little family really is so blessed. Actually that is an understatement. But I don't know how to express in written word all of our countless blessings. Justin has a good job and is an incredible husband and father, we are absolutely loving being parents to Caleb, and we have so many loved ones to share our days with. This time of year makes me realize just how important the family is, and we are so blessed to have not only our little family, but parents and siblings and cousins and grandparents who we love so much and who share their love with us as well. Speaking of grandparents, Grandma Blackham sent out a super cute outfit for Caleb for Thanksgiving, thanks Grandma! Caleb was the cutest little Gobble-Gobble turkey ever for Thanksgiving.

And thanks again to Amanda and her family for having us up for Thanksgiving! We are so grateful to have been able to share this holiday with your family!

Caleb getting loves from his cousin Sarah, she tells me each time I see her what a great babysitter she is going to be for Caleb someday and I believe it!

Once again, our view!

I was going through some old pictures on our camera (from this summer & whatnot) when I came across this stunner. And I know you're wondering, but this photo is not photo-shopped at all!

And a close-up on that rainbow action. Such a beautiful land we live in!

Picture Post

I am not taking nearly enough pictures to document Caleb's baby-hood! I did snap some cute pictures of Caleb while getting ready for bed last night. He turned 5 months this last Sunday! Some specs on our 5 month old:
|| He still LOVES his fingers/fist/hand, my fingers/fist/hand, ...anyone's fingers/fist/hand really. Or, let's be honest, any object that can fit into his mouth.
|| He is eating rice cereal and oatmeal for dinner, followed by ~6 ounces of milk. He is becoming quite the healthy eater!
|| His daytime schedule is still somewhat up in the air, but his nighttime routine is great. He goes down to bed between 7-7:15, sleeps without a peep usually until 6:30 for his first feeding. Then back to bed till 8 (or at least that is what he did this last weekend and we LOVED it, never has 8am felt like sleeping in for us but it sure does now). Honestly his schedule seems to change almost every 3 days it seems like, but he is getting plenty of sleep and food so we are happy with that.
|| His personality is so funny. He knows what to do to get your attention, has the cutest fake cry/whine, and LOVES to be played with. His smile lights up our world and thankfully he gives us his smiles all the time.





And in other picture updates...
While spending [too much] time on my iPad looking at recipes and Pinterest, I have been fascinated at how creative people are online! Ideas like this one or this one have me intrigued and keep me busy! Here are some things I have done recently for the fun of it..

|| A grati-turkey made out of leftovers from Caleb's Halloween costume. We write things on the paper feathers each day for something we are grateful for.
(*IF by chance you do enlarge the turkey picture, your eyes do not deceive you, there is a certain person in our household that wrote they were thankful for oreos....sigh)


|| Can you guess what this is a picture of?



|| Maybe this picture will be a little more obvious... The floor of our closest is carpet, so we will put Caleb down there with some toys in the morning while we get ready. I decided to join Caleb one morning and when I looked up I saw the underneath view of our hanging shirts. It made for pretty interesting pictures!




|| And from one of the links above with the paper wreath, well since I already had most of the necessary components (an old book, sponge, brown paint, hot glue fun) and since Roberts on Tuesdays lets you double up on coupons, I made this project for a whopping $4.00 (for styrofoam wreath and Thanksgiving-themed scrapbook paper).



Now time to get back to Thanksgiving baking & preparations! Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Trick-or-Treat!

Halloween wasn't incredibly eventful this year. I usually get really into Halloween, decorating, planning my outfit, etc. Staying at home makes it so I lose touch with the world it seems like, but I did at least make Caleb's first Halloween costume. I didn't even think about costumes for Justin and I, granted I am sure Justin is relieved over this fact-he doesn't like Halloween much. Caleb and I, along with my sis and her son and daughter, went to Pinnacle in the afternoon for their festivities and to see Justin. It is the best possible trick-or-treating scenario, hallways filled with offices with a bucket of candy (unmanned) right in each office doorway. If I were a kid I would love it-and totally rack up on candy!

We're looking forward to next Halloween when Caleb will be walking around and slightly more interested in the holiday. At least his bedtime will be a little later so he (we) can go out and enjoy some of the evening. We were going to go to our wards trunk or treat but Caleb fell asleep on the way there, haha, oh well! I plan on making up for this year, I have plans for Justin, Caleb and I to be Barney, Betty and BamBam Rubble! (jk, I've already tried talking Justin into that costume, no such luck haha)

I saw a cute baby Angry Birds costume online back in September and figured it looked easy enough to replicate. So that is how Caleb became an angry bird for Halloween :-) Here is the original costume.

And here is Caleb's version (so happy to finally be getting him to smile for the camera!):



And because I'm a dorky mom who wanted to make Caleb a real angry bird:


...And in case you don't know what an Angry Bird is... its a app/game for androids, iphones, ipads where you sling-shot flying red birds into a quasi-fortress to knock it over and squish pigs. Totally weird sounding eh? Here is a pic of what the game looks like: