I know it's been, well, forever since I've posted, but it's been a little crazy here! Since July, Blake has learned to walk and feed himself. My baby is growing up, he turned one year old in February, and is now 16 months old already! We also took a 2 week vacation to California for Christmas, Pat and I celebrated our first year of marriage in April, and we are now in the process of closing on our first house! So, a lot has happened.  Here are a couple of pictures, just to show you how big Blake's gotten and show you a snapshot into our life!

Blake was a monkey for his first halloween, and was adorable! Funny story.. Even though my sister-in-law and best friend, Kristen, lives in North Carolina, she dressed her son in the exact same outfit for his first halloween that night! How crazy is that?

Family picture at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, California. We went there with my parents and sisters to visit my brothers and their wives, and we had a blast! This trip to the aquarium was a huge, full family trip, and Blake loved it! He even touched a starfish!

Blake completely destroyed his birthday cake. It was a two layer chocolate on chocolate cake. At first he was really unsure about what he was supposed to do with it, but he figured it out pretty fast.

My guys after Blake's first hair cut (I had just cut Pat's hair too). Aren't they a good looking bunch? I'm a lucky girl

Married for one year, and we both got iPhones! My mom was great and kept Blake overnight, so we got to go out, have some fun, then come home and have the night for just us! It was nice.

 

And oh yeah, Blake loves video games, just like his parent's do.

Here's half of my stash of cloth diapers! Aren't they cute? If you'd asked me a year ago what I thought about cloth diapers, and if I would ever do it, I'd say they were gross and NO! However, Blake has a really sensitive little tush, and I was either preventing or treating a diaper rash, and I got sick of it! The last straw was when his little booty was so sore that I couldn't even wash him with water without him crying, so I talked with a friend of mine who CDs her daughter, she educated me a little, and we made the big switch! Is it gross? Yeah, but it's about the same as changing a disposable diaper, PLUS these save you money! We were spending $60+ on diapers EVERY MONTH! Since buying my stash, we haven't bought any diapers! In 5 months!! That's savings of $150 so far (we would have spent over $300 on diapers in that time, instead we only spent that $150 on cloth diapers, and they are reusable, that's a one time cost)! Plus, with these ones it's practically the same as using a disposable when putting it on the baby. I'll do a post going into cloth diapers a little bit more at a later date, but I'm pretty passionate about it. I mean, I totally would have used them from the time that Blake was a newborn if I'd been more educated. I, like so many other people in this world, thought that the big flat diapers that you have to fold, secure with pins, then cover with plastic ugly pants were it for the cloth diapering world! My, was I wrong!! Anyways, enough of my rambling on that subject, I'll save it for a later post.... But here's my diapers, again, aren't they cute?!

And my little man! This was just today, so it's the most recent picture I have of him. Huge, right? He walks, and talks, and I love him to death! He's still a major pain in the butt, but a cute one, so we put up with him ;)

Anyways, now that you're all caught up.. I really am planning on keeping up with this blog now. I have new inspiration, plus I want to do tutorials and such on my projects! I've been following several other blogs, and just really wanted to work on mine and keep it going, and hopefully everything that's happening in my life now will help me keep up some good and new material! So, until next time! <3