Cadence Christmas Pics

Grandma Winnett took all of the kids to KiddieKandids for some pics and they are super cute!!

All of the Grandkids

Cadence getting tired......

Cadence ZONKED!! HAHAH!

Thanks Grandma for the pictures! They are fun!!

Winnett Family Pictures

We had our pictures done by a friend and they turned out really nice! Here are some! Cadence Climbing Trees

The Boys

The Girls

Granparents and Grandkids

Happy Halloween!!

Here is Cadence dressed up for trick or treaking at my work. She wasn't sure about all of the different people. But I love to show her off!!!

PARENTING – WOW!!

Can you believe that Cadence is already 10 months old?!?!? It is amazing that life moves the way it does. 2 years ago I couldn’t imagine having a baby, and now I can’t imagine life without her. I am overwhelmed by the feelings of love and amazement of her.
What a MIRACLE!!
What a GIFT!!
What a REWARD!!
The emotions I feel about being a lucky mother are unexplainable!! I feel lucky to have such a great Mother also. It is hard to imagine that I am loved the way I love my child. Not only by my wonderful parents but by our Heavenly parents! I can only imagine the pain, heartache, joy and pride that Heavenly Father felt when his son was sent to earth. He must have loved each and every one of us, his children, to do such an act!

How lucky are we? Well, let me tell you!! More than anything! Day to day life easily makes us forget the important things in life.
"We are out of milk."
"How will we pay for this bill?"
"I can’t believe they said that"
"Why can’t we afford this?"
WOW, I say those things all of the time! But they don’t even matter one bit! When you think why we were put on earth, why we have family, why we are lucky to know the people we know. Those unimportant things seem so, silly! I have decided to do an overhaul of the priorities I have. I realize that it is going to be difficult, but, I know I will be happier. Honestly, it will probably be a HUGE job that will take a very long time, but I think it is time to start. Even start with small things like family, church. Then bigger things like, money, home cleanliness, etc... Well, wish me luck!!

Back to Cadence ;o)
She is doing so many fun things! Instead of crawling, she likes to scoot on her bum. She loves to say MMMMMA MA MA! She loves to play peek-a-boo, and loves to be chased by Daddy. She likes tasting new things like the wall, dishwasher, and couch! She likes to pull herself up on things like the couch, wall and garbage can, EEW! One of her favorite things is when she hears music! She loves to Dance! And man oh man is it cute! She will stop whatever she is doing to bounce to the music. So, I suppose her name fits! She likes taking baths and is so fearless in the tub! She slips and slides around until it scares her, haha! She has learned to waive hi and bye. In fact this morning I dropped her of at Lisa’s house and while I was chatting, Cadence looked at me and waived bye, HAHA! She was excited to get to playing at the babysitters and decided it was time for me to leave. She now has almost 2 teeth on the bottom. One is all of the way out and the other is almost out. She still won’t let me get a picture of them! She is still a picky eater when it comes to baby food, but will eat until she is sick when it comes to table food. Sleeping? HAHAHA!! Well, I guess she isn’t a horrible sleeper, but she does wake up often. She can’t sleep without her binky and her Minnie (a small silky Minnie toy/blanky). She used to play with my hair to relax, but she has learned that she also has hair and stretches her tiny arm all of the way up to get it. She shakes her head no, and I am pretty sure she knows what it means because she does it when I try to give her gross baby food or change her diaper. Ryan and I love her so much and are so lucky to be her parents. I am happy she chose us!!

Some random pics :)

I love to see the Mountains

We went up the canyon with Jake and Brandy for pictures on Sunday and the leaves are starting to change! YAY they are so beautiful! I know it is early, but I can't wait for SNOW!!!

Cadence is getting over Strep Throat. Poor girl! I have been reading about strep throat and babies and it is rare that babies under 3 get it. So I wonder why she has it, and I hope she doesn't have the curse like I had growing up. I had strep all of the time! NO FUN!

More Pictures YAY!!

She always has that right arm out. Silly girl!!

Well, our family is doing good! This morning I locked myself out of my car and had to call a locksmith to get in! Sheesh that was fun! Atleast I didn't lock Cadence in there, I would have died!! No big updates today ;o)

Temple Square

The pictures are kind of dark :(

Cadence's 1st visit to Temple Square outside of my belly. It was fun!

Cadence

So, Since Cadence has been a silly eater and napper lately, I decided to take her to the Dr just to make sure there is nothing wrong.

The Dr said that she is totally healthy and happy!! Whew! Some babies are just more petite. She did finally gain a little weight though. She now weighs 14 pounds and is almost the 25%. YAY!! Being a first time mom is SOOO MUCH FUN!! ;o) Seriously though, I really love it! Cadence is honestly one of my BEST FRIENDS!! She is always happy to see me, even though I leave her all day to work :( tear... She is PERFECT!!!

NOOO

Cadence has figured out how to shake her head no! It is so cute!! I don't think she knows what it means, but I like to use it to my advantage. Like, "Cadence, do you love Daddy more than Mommy?" and she will shake her head no ;o). Or "Cadence, do you want Mommy to change your diaper?" HA HA!

I can't believe that she is almost eight months old!! Time really flies. Ryan and I are sooooo happy to have her. She creates a peace in our home that I am so thankful for!! She is such a good baby! I really can't complain. Of course, I will anyway!! HA HA She has become sooo picky with baby food and she still won't touch formula. I am not sure what to do with that. I know all babies are different, but she sure makes feeding her difficult sometimes. A food that she LOVES today she will not touch tomorrow. There is no rhyme or reason to it! She will shut her mouth so tight and there is no way to feed her. Of course, unless you give her table food. Spoiled little girl!! :)

Recently we re-roofed our house. WHAT A CHORE!!! Thank goodness we had a TON of help!! Thank you to:
David, BJ, Jake, Joe, Padre, Allen and all of their wives for letting them come over!!
Seriously we would have died without help!! And it is so great to have it done! WAHOO!!!

Bear Lake fun!

Short Update

Sooo, I haven't updated my blog for like a million years!! I am not a good blogger ;o). Oh Well. Our family is doing really well! Ryan has been working hard in the yard and trying to get rid of our EARWIGS! GROSSSSS! I hate earwigs! They aren't that bad, but they are so gross! I have been working and trying to organize our house (Never going to happen, haha). Cadence is doing really really good! She is sitting on her own and eating really well! Every night she is sleeping a little better. Hopefully soon I will be able to put her crib back in her room. Ummm, maybe not. I know she should be sleeping in her own room, but I miss her so much while I am at work and I just can't stand being away from her at night too. It seems like she hit a growing spurt because she just started wearing 3-6 month clothes and they already seem to be getting small. WIERD! Brandy and me took some 6 month pictures of Cadence and they are super cute. Here are a few. THANKS BRANDY!

I will update more soon, I promise!

OK OK! :) You asked for it. HAHA!! Here are some new pictures.

This one is kind of old, but really cute! Bath Time fun!

New toy! SHE LOVES IT! (Thanks Nat and BJ)

Sleepy

First time swinging. I don't think she liked it much...

Stephanie's baby shower - Sooo fun!! This is her and Deasen blowing kisses.

Cute new pictures of our sweety pie!

Cadence watching TV in Daddy's chairHer first pedicure :)This one looks like she is singing into a microphone! HAHASMILE!

ADORABLE!