Our Family Pictures!

We got our family pics and we love them, our photographer took so many 600 in total!! Here are a few of our favorites!!

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Tate's 12 month stats

Tate had his 12 month appointment last week, he is a very healthy boy everything looks great!

Here are his stats:

Weight: 23Lbs 51%

Height: 32inches 95%

He is so cute!! He is officially a toddler he is walking everywhere!! He likes "playing" piano, absolutely loves playing with his cars, he loves cars period, even when we are out in the back yard he hears a truck going by and gets all excited!! Loves animals, I can't wait to take him to the Zoo and the aquarium!! He especially loves dogs!!
He loves scrambled eggs, peanut butter & jelly sandwiches and mandarin oranges. Had no problem switching from formula to whole milk. Loves Ice Cream!!
He loves to be tickled and likes to tickle us back, adores his daddy when daddy is home no one else exists. Says Mmmm! when he is eating and when he is hungry, plays pick-a- boo and hide and seek. Gives cuddles all the time this is a new thing and we love it. He likes his back scratched.

Anyway he does so many cute things I could go on and on about him, can you say :"Proud Mama"!!

Our 5th Anniversary!!!

This has been the best 5 years of my life, they haven't been always easy but definitely the Best. I married the greatest man, Garrett is everything I ever dreamed of and more. I wake up everyday knowing that I am loved and that I love him so very much. I love seeing him with our baby boy, he is caring, affectionate and fun. Garrett makes me laugh everyday!! I only hope that I can give back to him as much as a get from him. He and Tate are my everything.
I love being married to Garrett!!
I love you sweetheart Happy 5th Anniversary, you make each day an adventure!!

This year we decided to take family pictures as part of our anniversary so we did that on wed May 12th. It was special because it also was Tate's 1 year pics. So Cute!! I will post them when I get them, I'm so excited to see how they turned out. We had so much fun our photographer was awesome.

Also we have a tradition of going to Mimi's Cafe for breakfast and then we have all day to just geek around. Yay!!!



We look so young!!!

Tate's 1st Birthday!!

My little guy is one year old. I cannot believe it!! We had a little party for him on Saturday he had so much fun!!
The past year has been so much work and fun, Tate is a blessing in our lives, Garrett and I love this little man so very much, we enjoy him to the fullest. being parents is not the easiest job but it's the most gratifying. I am so grateful that I was blessed with such an amazing family. Life couldn't be better!!

Here are some pics:

May 16th. 2009


a year later...


we had a pinata


Grampa gave him this cool four wheeler.


More gifts... he loved the chair grandma Volpe gave him...



Super cute animals ... and even better on wheels, it made his day...


We had to take his cake away from him after awhile, I got worried that he would get a gut ache. when we did
he "said" ALL DONE!!




Atacking his b-day cake.. Can you say SUGAR RUSH!!!!!!!













My cute birthday boy...

A lot of 1st's this week...

We had a ot of first time stuff happen this past week or so.

The best one is that I officially have a Toddler that's right my little guy started to take his first steps I'm so proud!! it started out just two steps at a time last Saturday but now he is up to about ten at a time I can't believe it!!! He still wobbles and falls on his bum most of the time.

We got him in his new car seat (facing forward) which kinda scares me but he loves it!!

Oh and we got his first hair cut, his hair was so long and he started getting really frustrated because it started falling on his forehead and in his ears, HA HA!! We took him to this place called COOKIE CUTTERS and he got to sit in a little car that the horn actually honked he loved it!!, it was great he did awesome didn't even cry. He didn't like the buzzer by his ears I think because it tickled.

Everyday he learns something new , it's so amazing to see him grow. I love this little guy so much!!!

After his hair cut he got a balloon, as you can see by his face he loved his balloon.




Right before he got his hair cut!!


This is the before.


He woke up from his morning nap,I went to get him and this is what I found!! He took his pants off!! STINKER!


We put a 30 gallon container at the bottom of the stairs to keep him from crawling up. Well as you can see he found out that he can go over it.


In his new car seat, he is so cute he does car noises every time we go out.



I ask him to "call" daddy so he picks up my phone puts it by his ear and says( in baby talk of coarse) HELLO!!

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11 Months!!

My little guy is 11 months old!!! The last year has gone by so fast, I can't believe that next month is Tate's 1st Birthday!! I'm excited but also a Little sad they grow up way to fast, that's why I'm just enjoying the now and all the silly and wonderful things he does because I know he will grow out of it soon.

It's awesome to see his personality come out. He does the Oh O!! games I guess its fun to see mommy pick up the bowl from the floor over and over again. He has learned to "melt" when he doesn't get his way ( MELT= this is when you chid starts "melting" out of your arms to the floor and fake crys).
Oh and he grinds his teeth it drives me crazy!! He has 7 teeth going on 9 maybe 10 those are still working their way out, so the drooling is constent.
Oh and yes, he has learned to scream that very high pitched scream that makes your ears ring.
It's been so much fun and he has been keeping me really busy!! I love it, I love being a mommy!!

Here are some pics:


He loves to walk around with his walker , It's so cute he looks like a little old man walking.


In his car seat (which is way too small for him but we are holding out to put him in his new forward facing car seat). Anyway he is so cute making "raspberries" and every time we get in the car he starts making car noises "brmmmm" "Brmmmm". Don't mind the crumbs on this child he had just had a very yummy cookie!!








Having fun with Daddy!!


Getting into stuff he has no business touching, the stove was child proof!!!


Everyday he has to take out all our DVDs and put them back in again, the cute thing is he looks at each of them almost like he is studying them!!


We house sat for my sister-in-law and this is what I found he took all his clean clothes out of his bags, Naughty, Naughty!!


Super Cool Baby, Look at that handsome man!!


So since we have been giving him "table food" or as we call it "big people food" he has decided he does not want baby food anymore, that's right every time I try to feed him any kind of baby food he spits it right out, Stinker!!!
Anyway he has become the biggest "MUCHER" we cannot be eating anything around this kid he will come up to us and either just stare at you or open his mouth or make as much noise as possible until you give him some food!!




Laundry basket "Super Baby Car", Garrett will tug Tate around in the laundry basket and make car noises, it so cute!! He loves it!!


He love looking at his animal book, and now he can make the animal noises when he sees them.


We have this gate blocking the laundry room, I was doing laundry and when I turned around this is what I found. My baby boy at the gate with his toy keys in his mouth, kinda of reminded me of the dog in Pirates of the Caribbean.

I can't keep up!

Life is busy right now but I love every minute of it, Tate is so mobile. He is 10 months old I can't beleive that he will be 1 year old in two months, time has gone by so fast.
He gets into everything, loves going up the stairs and is determined to get up on the couch( its only a matter of time). He opens drawers and doors, when I'm folding laundry he takes clothing out of the basket, he likes climing over everything! and absolutly loves the dvd/VCR and the directv box because of the buttons, he gets the remotes and starts pushing every button possible he actually got our Tivo to record a whole bunch of stuff! And he loves to "walk" when we hold his hands, I have a feeling once he learns to walk theres no stopping him.
And as always he is still a talker, yap yap yap all day long. Loves laughing with his Daddy they make each other laugh.
I'm looking forward to spring and summer and do lots of fun stuff.

Here are some pics: