Camden at One

Camden loves
1. Balls...and he can throw them well too.
2. Cookies...he will do almost anything to get one.
3. Mom....he is still a mommas boy.
4. Crackers....if you say the work cracker he perks right up.
5. Outside....he loves to be outside, he will point to the door and say Out.
6. Walks....he about falls out of my arms trying to jump into the stroller.
7. Animals....he loves animals especially the neighbors dog. If we pass the neighbor's dog without saying hello we have a problem!
8. Bread and Grapes...it amazes me how much bread and grapes he can eat.
9. Apri...he wants to do everything she does. They also have fun chasing and tackling each other.
10. Phones...he loves to steal the phone and say Hi.


Words he can say....momma, dada, out, caka(cracker), uoh, no, wow, hi. He babbles non-stop. He will talk to you and have a whole conversation but we can't understand him yet!
Camden is such a fun little guy! He loves attention!! He loves to make you laugh. He has been such a good baby and we just love him! Can't wait to watch his personality come out more over the next year! We are so glad that Camden is a part of our family!

ONE!!??

Camden is ONE!! Can you believe it?? I can't! I am so sad that he isn't my little baby anymore. Yet, at the same time I am so excited for him to be growing and learning new things. This is my favorite age when they start talking more and more! He is just on the verge of walking to. Really he can walk he still just chooses to crawl because that way is still faster.
Yesterday we had a fun day to celebrate. We went to the park and had some fun. It was a little chilly but Camden and Apri had fun playing on the slide together.

He loves the swing

Daddy and Camden at the park

Then in the evening we had some of our friends over to carve/paint pumpkins and eat cake and ice cream.


The football cakes....I always have fun decorating the cake!

Another picture of the cakes!

Camden loved his little football cake! This boy is in love with balls! Ball ball ball ball ball....in fact I think that is favorite word! Wayne is hoping he will grow into a quarterback....we will have to see. Camden was a little timid at first and then he dug in as you can see.



It was a fun day! I am so glad our friends came over to join in the celebration. It was hard to be away from family. Halloween is a pretty big holiday for my family and we always had big family parties for Apri's Birthdays. I was grateful to be busy planning and getting ready so I didn't have to think of missing family too much!

Storytime Trick-or-Treat

Today at storytime Apri got to go trick-or-treating. Holidays get more and more fun every year! She really understands Halloween this year and gets so excited about all the treats. Camden didn't know what to think. I was surprised he kept his outfit on I thought he would get mad and want it off. He was interested in every one's costumes. He loves Apri's costume he laughs every time she puts it on. Like it is some sort of joke or something!? It was a fun start to a fun our Halloween week!!

Whitney and Apri

Rachel and Apri

Camden crawling around the library

Trick-or-treat!!

Camden checking everyone else out

Apri at storytime by some of her friends

Storytime circle

No more Visitors :(

That brings us to the end of our two weeks of fun! The morning Val and Elaine left Camden opened some birthday gifts from them. If I would have been thinking I would have made some cupcakes or something and celebrated more. Oh, well.... He got some fun new trucks that he loves. He found his motor just like Grandma said he would. Elaine told Apri that all little boys have a motor and Apri looked at her like WHAT?? But she was right!!

Hmmmmmm.....what are these??

Camden opening his presents.

Saying goodbye to the kids.

Thanks again for the fun gifts and the wonderful visit! We miss you already! Now every day Apri will mention something about visitors. "We need more visitors" "No one is visiting now" "Someone needs to visit us from Utah" I agree!!! Everyone is welcome let us know when you will be here!

Fort Donaldson

On our last full day with grandma and grandpa Larson we went to Fort Donaldson. Which is a civil war site. It was really interesting. If you want to learn more about it go here... http://www.nps.gov/fodo/

Apri loved the cannons. The funny part of the day was we had a map of all the stops you could see at/around Fort Donaldson. There were 11 or 12 stops listed. Apri insisted that we see every single one. Grandpa was particularly impressed with her persistence and endurance. We never would have guessed that Apri would have been the most interested in the civil war historic site!! Who knew?? Really I don't think she was very interested she is just very persistent when she has an idea. She always likes to finish what she starts. It is a really great quality most of the time....sometimes it is exhausting!

Grandpa Grandma and Apri by on of the Cannons

Camden crawling around!

Apri with a Cannon again.

Cannons by the river, this battle started on the river.

Trench around the fort

Everyone looking at the fort.

Fort Donaldson Cemetery

Val and Apri at the last stop!

The Homeplace

One day while Grandma and Grandpa were here we went to a place at LBL called The Homeplace. It is a working history farm. We went with our friends the Bakes and the Walkers also. We had soooo much fun! I really enjoyed it. We started with a picnic because the weather has been wonderful! It is so beautiful here in the fall I love it. On this farm they had old homes and barns and animals. Camden went crazy for the animals. He would have jumped out of the stroller if he wasn't strapped in! It was a fun day and I have tons of pictures. I had way to many to pick from......

Dress up time....Katie(Walker's Neighbor),Claire, Apri, Alli, Jonathan, Rachel, Olivia

Magie didn't like dress up time :( He he too funny!!

Apri....isn't she the cutest little farm girl!

Camden and Apri. It cracks me up how she is smashing the hat on Camden's head so I can hurry and snap the picture before he rips it off!

Cute little Olivia!

Me and Apri

Janice, JJ, and Me taking our turn to dress up!

Grandma and Grandpa with Camden

Camden trying to pet the sheep. He loved the sheep he cried when we had to leave them.

Porch of the Farm House

Magie, Olivia, Rachel, Claire, Apri, Alli, Jonathan, Katie(Walker's Neighbor)

Grandpa and Apri with the Horse

Jonathan, Alli, Apri, and Claire

Camden playing in the leaves.

Told you I had alot of pictures and I didn't even post half of them! It was so hard to pick I had tons of good ones! Thanks for planning JJ, it was a blast!

Grandma and Grandpa Larson

Right after I dropped Samantha off at the airport I picked up Wayne's parents. They couldn't have planned it better. It worked out perfectly! We were so excited to have them come. I was hopping Camden would start walking while they were here but he didn't! :( They arrived in the evening on Saturday so we just relaxed Saturday and Sunday we went to church and relaxed some more. Monday I had to get some stuff done but the rest of the week we saw and did lots of fun things.

This is a picture of downtown Hazel. Hazel is the town that we live in. Usually I will talk about Murray because we are only 4 miles from Murray and it is bigger than Hazel. Hazel is very small but they have this strip of cute antique shops. I had never taken the time to go down and look. So we went down one day and checked it out. Some of the stores just had junk but some of them had really neat things. Problem is all the cool things are expensive!! I was glad we went and checked it out. I will be going back the next time I need furniture!

We took a day trip to Paducah. This is where grandpa hung out the whole day! He loves to watch the river. Grandpa and the kids had fun throwing rocks in the river.

Curtains

Here are the awesome curtains I made with my sister! I give her all the credit....she is a great helper! Actually I am the good helper because she did most of the work. The best part was Samantha wanted to see the finished product hung so it gave me extra motivation to get the project done. Usually if I have a project like this I will drag it out for weeks or months. I also had to borrow the sewing machine from my friend JJ and didn't want to keep it forever. Thanks again JJ! I am so glad to have them up!! Now I need to make some to hang in our kitchen. When are you coming to help me out with that Samantha??

Our room before

Our room after



Camden's room before

Camden's room after


Apri's room before

Apri's room after