Henry is ONE!

Yesterday we celebrated our little guy turning one!  It was a happy day, with all of his family coming to celebrate.  I still can't believe he is a year old-Love you Henry!

Mamaw,  Maya and Henry

The Ward men 

Fall fun with cousins

Owen and Courty and Aunt Wendy and Uncle Ryan all came to visit this weekend. We went to Highland Orchards and pet the goats and got some yummy BBQ. Maya had so much fun playing with her cousins and can't wait for them to visit again!

4months

Big boy was 4 months on Friday! We have a doctors appointment this Friday --I'm very interested in how big he will be. Henry is such a calm and easy going baby. I'm hoping he will keep this calm attitude :-)

Maya's first pedicure

Is it too young to start pampering her? Too late! We had a girls day out on Saturday---with pedicures and gelato! Maya loved being with me and the neighbors and felt like such a big girl! She kept saying "girls day only-no boys!"

We will have to make this a tradition for the two of us :-)

Maya

Maya had her tear duct surgery yesterday. Matt and my dad took her to CHOP and stayed with her the entire day. The one picture attached is of Maya before the "giggle juice" and the other one is after :-)

She did great and was a great listener with the doctors and is back to her old self again today. She was a bit out of it when she got home yesterday. But nothing a marathon of Fresh Beat Band can't fix.....hoping they fixed everything and her ducts will open up!

The other picture is proof that she is back to her goofy ways today...some self-portraits were obviously taken on my phone without me knowing :-)

366 Days of Pinterest Project

I decided to take the challenge!!  I love this blog and have been inspired to work on some of my pinterest pins :-)

For 5th anniversary the traditional gift is "wood"....I had this pin http://pinterest.com/pin/215046950926453621/
 on my sewing board for a while and thought I would try out this sewing project.
**The key to this project is the foot you use on your sewing machine**
You have to use a free motion foot (which my sewing machine can't use--so I had to borrow my mom's sewing machine for a couple of weeks)

It was a difficult process and in the middle of creating the one for our anniversary I started a completely new one for my good friends who are getting married in September (our anniversary one is still sitting on my craft table)..

My goal for the end of the summer is to finish the quilt for our family :-)
But in the mean time, here is the quilt I made for Lauren's wedding.....She LOVED it!

The happy bride to be!

First swim

Today we went over to Tim's parents pool and took Henry for his first swim! Lauren was nice enough to take pictures :-). He seemed to somewhat like the water..wasn't crying too much at least! He was happiest though when I was holding him right up against me...I will have to get him in the pool more so he starts to really enjoy the water.