My first Mother's Day

Alyssa made us matching dresses as my birthday present this year...so we wore our matching ensemble for the first time on our first Mother's Day and got lots of compliments! Thank you so much Auntie...and Grandma too for all your help

Jason and Caelyn brought me a card this morning and it was really sweet to see her tiny hand, hand me such thoughful words of affirmation from her dad! Jason made me breakfast and got Caelyn ready for church. And after church my family came over for a Mother's Day lunch at our house and it was really nice to be with them. I feel so blessed to have Jason and Caelyn and such a great extended family!

the loves of my life

Jason took Thursday and Friday off and was very busy in the backyard! He laid all his forms for the concrete curbing, had some good friends come help him pour the concrete, taught me how to help him edge the curbing, and then laid sod in our backyard!!! The sod got delivered at 3:20 a.m. and we were both so excited we went out front and thought about putting up his flood light in the backyard and laying it then...but knew that Caelyn probably wouldn't be aware that we would like to sleep past 8! So Jason just got up at 6:50 and laid the grass that morning...so when Caelyn woke up she was very excited to walk in her new backyard!!

Fun times with Dad....

Out on the patio and look what we found...... a ladybug!! Caelyn loved having the little creature crawl all over her although she desperately wanted to catch it!!

"don't worry dad, I got this" - Caelyn

The other night after our bath dad decided to do Caelyn's hair in a new way to show off the amazing body it has. After looking at the photo Caelyn decided she likes her other hair do better :)

She's "tutu" cute

I've grown this big...

mom made the tutu and the photos are taken by her ever so talented dad

Caelyn Elise Buss

8 1/2 months

Lots of love in our home

I love Jason and Caelyn loves mom (and dad too!)

Caelyn meeting her great Grammy from Texas

Sporting our "courage caps" in support for a friend who went through chemo...she is an amazing girl with such a sweet spirit and her grandma made these hats for her to wear each week! Her grandma kept making them to raise money for Relay for Life!

Emily we LOVE you!!

Sprinklers!!!

Jason and his dad trenched the backyard and a good friend came over and helped Jason get all the sprinklers put together. It rained last week so we are hoping that this weekend Jason will be able to lay the forms for the curbing. We were also able to get some trees with Buy One Get One Free coupons from the Home Depot Garden Club, so we now have 8 new trees planted too!

Spring Fever

...Adorable...

Here are some pictures of our backyard in renovation. Jason has been terracing the back of the hill and we hired a man to come use his bobcat to take all of our extra dirt, and it was well worth it. He ended up taking 25 yards of dirt!!

Before

in progress

after...

The next step is sprinklers, 3 foot retaining wall, and sod!!! I can't wait to have a backyard to play in with Caelyn.

Enjoying bubbles with Grandma Pam on a beautiful spring day

Happy Birthday Grandpa Jim

Celebrating Grandpa's birthday and getting some yummy yogurt

Uncle Greg and Auntie Alyssa

yeah we love dessert!

I can't believe that one day she'll fill this highchair!

We've got alot of body in our hair, good thing Dad found the hairbrush Mom misplaced! I am so amazed by how much hair she has, and it is getting so long and full!

So these days Caelyn in all about standing up...she has taken a few steps with help! She loves to grab your hands and pull herself from sitting to standing up! I'm afraid we are going to skip the crawling stage all together. In this clip you can see how strong her leg muscles are and hear her precious laugh.

Easter Pictures

Kenzlie and Caelyn wore matching dresses to church on Easter! Both girls were born in August of last year.

Grandma shot :)

I think that Caelyn will have allergies just like me, her eye kept watering and she had a runny nose all throughout the beginning of last week.

Angela's family...Caelyn was napping so she missed the photo shoot

anticipation of what the Easter Bunny brought her...

the toy is by far the most interesting

tasting the basket

checking how to launder these new clothes

Such a fun day filled with worship and family!