Caden's ring bearer debut

This weekend, my cousin got married - congratulations David & Rebeca!

Caden was the ring bearer.  

This was the only non-blurry picture I got of him, but isn't he cute?!  

He and my two nieces (the flower girls - Madelyn, 3.5, and Riley, 1) made it all the way down the aisle eventually (thankfully!).  Hillary and I were kneeling at the front of the church, looking like idiots, trying to get them to come to us.  Madelyn did fine, of course, and Riley pretty much followed her big sister.  It was a long aisle, and Caden didn't see me until the last third of it, so he got a little distracted several times during the first part.  Once he saw me, he grinned and ran toward me - it was so cute.  All the guests clapped when they finally made it to the end of the aisle :).

It was a fun & busy weekend with all the family in town.  I'm pretty much exhausted now, and also pretty much over being a 9-month-pregnant single parent of a toddler.  Wade gets home this weekend.  I can't believe we're going to actually have another baby in the next month.

Remembering mom

4th of July tradition of visiting the cemetery

I can't believe it's been 4 years since we said goodbye to mom.  My sweet baby boy twirled and trotted and giggled around the cemetery today, full of life that I know mom would have loved to see.  I hate that I can't "remember" her as a grandmother, since she never got to be one - I just have to picture what it would have been like.

Even though he can be a frustrating toddler many a time, Caden has been showing more and more sweetness lately, which is so fun.  He'll wrap his arms around my neck and hug me tight, or just giggle and grin when I go in to get him in the morning or after a nap.  He'll crack himself up doing random stuff, or come and lay his head against my belly for a minute or two randomly.  I hope he stays that way when baby sister comes!