I love my MiMi

Hands down I have the best mom ever...okay I know that is a little biased, but she is so wonderful not only to me but to her grandson. I wanted to share because I truly do appreciate her and my dad and all the time they want to spend with Cash. So my mom's birthday was on April 4th. This happened to land on a Friday....so lucky! Everyone wants their birthday to land on a Friday. So she calls me early that week and asks what me and Bret have planned for Friday. I ask, "you mean what do we have planned for YOUR Birthday?" She responds with no I mean are ya'll going on a date night? To this I say, "Are you crazy it is your birthday you aren't going to babysit!" This is the end of that conversation because I thought surely it was just a kind gesture and now she realized it was her birthday and she would take advantage. So skip forward to Friday afternoon, I get a phone call from Mom, "I'm on my way, can you get Cash's stuff ready for him to spend the night?" To this I say, "No mom it is your birthday." And her response is, "All I want for my birthday is Cash, I just want to cuddle and love on him he makes me so happy!" What could I say to that????? Mom has taken Cash probably every Friday since he has been on formula to spend the night at her and Papa's house so that Bret and I can have alone time. We count our blessings often and are so grateful for all they do for us! Mom and Dad we love you!

48 Reasons I love my mom

1. She gave me life

2. She always laughs at me like I am the funniest person alive

3. She is always right...I know I should just give in and buy the Playtex throw away bottles!

4. She always has an solution for every situation I get myself into

5. She is my biggest cheerleader and always has been even when I was a brat

6. Her shoulders to cry on

7. Her arms that give the best hugs

8. The way she shakes her head back and forth when she dances...too cute

9. Her constant support of my actions even when she thought I was going to start wearing prairie dresses when I joined the church...I still get a kick out of that one!

10. How she will go visit a temple no matter what city we are in and wait for me to do a session because she knows how important it is to me

11. Her love for my son

12. Her love for my other children that aren't here yet...we talk about them a lot now

13. Our shared love for heels...I know where I get it

14. Her new found like of modest clothing.."I'm slowly working up to the whole garmet thing"(her own words)

15. The kind way she puts me in my place when I am being judgmental of my little brother

16. Her smile

17. Her big brown eyes

18. Her love of Keith Urban

19. The fact that if I ever have a question about anything within 5 minutes I have 4 articles or links to web pages on the subject

20. That she married my Daddy twice!!!

21. She always puts things into perspective for me

22. Her intuition, can't put anything past her

23. Her wonderful sense of forgiveness

24. Her strong support of the Mormons even though she is only "Mormon Light" currently

25. How she is at my house every Friday to pick Cash up to go play at MiMi and PawPaw's house

26. Her love of all things DAISY, except the perfume from Marc Jacobs

27. The fact that she thinks I should name my next kid Diemer

28. Watching Grey's Anatomy together

29. Reliving the days of watching our favorites together: ER (when George Clooney was on), My So Called Life (who didn't love Jordan Catalano), General Hospital (such a sick guilty pleasure), and this is reaching far back Sisters (remember the one girl character Teddy)

30. She was willing to stop and eat 4 times during a day of running errands in my 9 month of pregnancy, needless to say didn't get much done..I was so hungry!

31. She was in the delivery room when Cash was born (Anybody that knows me knows the drama that proceeded this!)

32. She was the best nurse to me after I had Cash, I couldn't have done it without her

33. She plans her vacation time around mine and Bret's schedule so that she can watch Cash while we go out of town

34. Her love of work, she is the hardest working woman I know

35. How she could spend a entire day at an office supply store

36. How organized she is...you should see this woman's bathroom drawers

37. The fact that she keeps all of my cheerleading memorabilia at her house even though I have plenty of room to store it at mine

38. That she doesn't say anything when she comes over and my house is a complete wreck

39. That she loves my husband

40. She sends me notes in the mail just to tell me how much she loves me

41. She always sees the positive in things

42. She loves spending quality time with me

43. She is always game for a project

44. Her love of Excel Spreadsheets

45. She read a book about a teenager being in love with a vampire all because I recommended it

46. The fact that she fell in love with that same book!

47. Her pretty hair, I have always loved it and it is more beautiful now than ever before!

48. Lastly, that I know we will be together forever...whether she likes it or not!!!

I LOVE YOU MOM! Tell Dad he will get a special post as well when his birthday rolls around!

Blake the Snake and Cash

My heart just melts watching Cash with his cousins, especially Blake. For some reason Blake just loves taking care of Cash. Everytime he is around he is always asking either Bret or I if he can hold Cash for us or feed him or even change his diaper. Even cuter is when him and Payton are together and then they play house with Cash. Payton is the bossy mom and Blake is the dad that doesn't quite listen!!! Here are some pictures from the other day when Blake was over....these pictures aren't posed I promise! He is so sweet to my baby boy I can't wait until they can play together!

When we walked into the room, Blake was cuddling Cash so cute when he fed him. How can you not love this kid?!?!?!?!


Bret happened to walk in during Blake's feeding time and wanted to tell him how much he loved him, another cute moment caught by the camera!

Blessing

Cash's blessing happened over a month ago, but finally here are the pictures. My father in law, Vaughn, blessed Cash at church on March 30th. It was so beautiful, he did a great job! A lot of my family and friends came to support us and Cash and I was very greatful for that. We had a big gathering for dinner afterward and had lots of fun doing the usual Sunday rituals...yes there was a game of Choo Choo!!! So here are the pics...enjoy!

Cash sleeping...he was wore out from his big debut at church.

Daddy and Cash bundled up in the pretty white blanket Great Grandma Eloise made him for his blessing. Cash is saying Horay! I am now officially on the church records!

MiMi and Cash cuddling...he sure does love his Mimi!

Cash and Aunt Betty enjoying some together time!

Last but certainly not least Cash and girlfriend Emerson. This is our friends, Alex and Amanda's daugher Emerson, she is 7 weeks older than Cash and they love holding hands...how cute, is it too early to pick out a daughter in law???

They change so fast

I took some pics of Cash before I left on our ski trip and now that I am finally getting around to posting them his face has filled out so much in a month!!! Here are the fun pics...trying to figure out my camera still, but I like how in some of the pics his eyes look blue...although he is probably going to have some eye damage from the constant flash!!!

Mom just hurry up and change my diaper!

Wow mom you really know how to make me look even more white than I already am!
Okay I am playing with my tongue because I am so bored
When I get excited I like to make my eyes really big!!!

I just realized how gay it is to type as if your 4 month old is talking but thats what moms do, right!!!

Crested Butte

So about a month ago Bret and I went with our good friends Alex and Amanda on a vaca away from the kiddos for some great skiing and snowboarding. Here are some pics of the trip. Of course no action shots as I was too scared to ruin my camera, since I spent a lot of time playing in the snow with my snowboard!!! So we have some great footage of our karokee night but I have to learn how to edit the songs together for a montage...so if anyone has some tips let me know.

Alex and Amanda

Oh how cute.....

Dowtown Crested Butte...loved this town it was so picture perfect it looked like a movie set the buildings were so cute. It snowed so much while we were there it was awesome.
I am by no means a photographer, but I loved the way the flash reflected off the snowflakes.
I thought this sign was pretty funny.

Some very random people walking the streets

The mountain. It was so pretty and we had so much fun. We hope to make this a family tradition. There were so many kids skiing and I couldn't help but picture little Cash having fun.

Family Vacation

Okay so I am about two weeks later than my sister in laws to post about the fun time we had on our family vacation to Austin. Thanks Ann and Vaughn for always thinking of fun ways we can spend time together as a family. I seriously went through withdraws when we got home because it was awesome to have all the sister in laws and cousins around day and night and early morning...yes that was something Bret and I had to get used to kids wake up early....Cash isn't quite there yet!!
So here are some pics of fun times we had on our trip. Thanks to Danielle for sending me the pics...me being a first time mom I only took pics of Cash the entire trip....I will get more practiced I'm sure.

Cash getting excited to see Shamu!
Cash worn out from his day at sea world, gotta love the baby borjn!
Daddy and Cash watching some March Madness, this is probably going to be what the rest of his life will look like...those Andrus boys always watching sports!
What a doll...this was a total flirt moment with Aunt Danielle.
Bret showing off for the neices and nephews. I forget which one of us was a cheerleader?

Uncle Bert and Kali enjoying a ride in the river

Ann had a photographer come to take family pictures and this is us waiting for him to get set up.

Of course when the photographer was ready Cash was in the middle of eating so I am sure there will be some funny family pictures because the boy screams when you take his food away!

We LOVE Dr. Wilson

Here is Cash with the best OBGYN in the world...Dr. Wilson! I had to brag about my doctor...he is so awesome...and Bret loves him too. They had so much fun the day of the delivery talking about their IPhones it was so cute. I have a video that Bret took of the c section surgery that I will post once Bret is done editing it so everyone can see the great work Dr. Marky Mark Wilson does....or if that is too much for you, just take my word! We are so very blessed to have him as our doctor! Thanks Wilson!