Our first bicycle ride!

We did our first family bicycle ride on Saturday!  REI is having their anniversary sale this week and we got the cycling kit on sale for our Child Transport System just in time for summer and to practice up for when my family visits in July!  We want to do the Route of the Hiawatha then with my parents, sisters, and nieces!  That trail is 15 miles long but very easy as it is an old railroad route, so it has many tunnels and trestles along the way!

We just did a 8 mile loop from our place around the Miller Creek area!  Tom thought this was only like a 4 mile loop, but we checked it yesterday in the car and it was 8!  My guess was at least 5 miles but I was wrong too.  Titus did pretty good, he got crabby a little over halfway through I would say, but he wasn't too bad.

Daddy did the harder job!  Although he said it was pretty easy.

Who is that little man, eatin his snacks?

This was along the road, I thought it would be cool to get a pic!

Walking, Climbing & Much More!

More and more I know I am really enjoying my time at home as a full time mom.  Titus is just growing into this fun little boy and he is so precious in so many ways.  His smile is precious, his personality is precious, his learning capabilities are precious, his tender heart is precious and his spirit is precious.  Thank You Father for such a precious child to call my own for the time he is here on this earth.  May I be faithful to nurture his heart into a young boy who loves You in every way.  He has already shown concern for others, when we are around other children and they get hurt or start crying for other reasons, he goes to them and seems as though he is curious as to whether they are okay.  I just love watching his interaction with others, he is very curious and ready to "play" with others.  Makes his mama's heart just melt.

Daddy captured a great smile that I wanted to share with you all!  He has 8 teeth!

My cousin Heidi just graduated from Valley Christian High School here in Missoula last Sunday and this was a toy that my uncle put out for the kids to play with, his old set of roping horns!  Titus loved it, notice the verse reference on the "ear tag".

At 49 weeks, last Saturday, Titus started taking his first steps!  Every time we would get out the video he would resort to crawling!  He is doing it more everyday, I WILL catch him with my video eye!

Trying to get him to balance to walk on his own at the dance following the graduation party!  A first ever Valley related dance, woohoo go Valley!  Daddy dressed him for church that day!  Can you tell?  Mom picked the shirt out at the store though!

We did our first backpack hike last night!  Very awesome!  We went up to the "L", only 1 1/2 mile round trip and elevation gain of 500 ft.!  It was much easier than the time we did it last year just after I had Titus!  It was a breeze compared to what I remember then!

"L" stands for my Love and Lil Muffin in my opinion!  Ha!  Titus loved the backpack, he was just "chatting" away and enjoying his snacks mommy brought him!  I was shocked, he did much better than the first time we tried it, course he was much smaller then.

The view of good ol Missoula from the "L".

Some beautiful wildflowers we saw on our hike included the Indian Paintbrush!

Titus missing his oldest cousin, Gracie!  He was "chatting" away at her pic and loving the frame she is in.

Can you say "spider man!"  He climbs up on the rocking chair himself and then decides he wants to go for the speaker and climbs the back of the chair!  Yes, he does know the word "No!" already but I wanted to get a pic of it first!

Mother's Day Weekend with Some Family!

Tom's brother and his family made it here this last weekend after a busy week for them in their travels from AZ.  They visited family in Great Falls, Bozeman and Missoula all in the span of 10 days with their two girls!  Saturday we met them at the market downtown, yeah for spring, that is one our favorite spring/summer things to do, go to the Saturday Farmers/People's market and get some fresh produce while drinking some good coffee and eating yummy pastries from the great vendors down there.  This last weekend had only been their second week down there so some stuff is missing but I was surprised that there was still a lot of stuff there.  Then we went to Costco to get a few things and some of us ate some lunch there and then the boys needed to hit REI to look for some shoes and us girls headed back to Lolo where they were staying for the weekend so that the girls could possibly take some naps!

Cousin Zowee (6 yrs.) & uncle Kevin (ageless!) enjoying some kettle corn at the market!

Cousin Noelle (3 yrs) got to ride with Titus in his chariot when she was tired of walking at the market!  So nice!

Titus got his first taste of chocolate on the way to Lolo that day by surprise to all of us except little Noelle who was trying to feed it to him! It was in a kid's Clif energy bar so needless to say the poor boy did not have enough teeth to chew what he had been given and sadly the poor baby ended up choking on it! Poor Zowee was very grossed out by his chocolate puke all over his face and little Noelle did not know any better and little Titus I think was as scared as his mama was, he was crying and I was about to continue freaking out after my initial reaction but the Lord quickly reminded me that that would not help the situation and Noelle didn't know any better. It had slipped our adult minds to remind them not to give the baby anything without asking the mommy first! Anyway, enough of that, we learn from our mistakes!

We had a little cookout that night in the fire pit at the place where they were staying (Carolyn's parents' place). Had some good turkey dogs. We didn't stay too late, Titus needed to get to bed and hadn't had both naps he usually does during the day. He was very tired!

When we got home Saturday night, Titus pretty much stayed asleep from car seat to house!  Daddy was enjoying this!

...and an hour later, before we decided to disturb him to put his jammies on him.

 Sunday morning we met them at church and we attempted to put Titus in the nursery for the first time! He is just in that stage where he wants to be moving around and so we thought the nursery might be a better option for the time. Well he was not about to adjust to that the first try. He lasted about 10 minutes before our little number showed up on the screen to let us know we were needed for him. We will keep working on easing him into it. Then we all went our separate ways so that Titus could nap and they could get things in order for leaving on Monday. After his nap we went out to Lowe's to look for something to plant some flowers in that we can hang over our rail on our little porch out front and we found something that we think will work. Then we met up later with the fam at a Mexican place in Lolo and that was oh so delicious and stuffing! And then we went back to their place to hang out for a little bit and have some dessert! Carolyn had bought a pie at the market, it was supposed to be a blackberry? pie but it did have an M on it so maybe it was Marion berry? either way it was very yummy!

Uncle Kevin reading Titus a book just before we had to say goodbye!

How was your Mother's Day weekend?  Hope you spent some good time with family whether it was just your own or relatives included!  It was so nice for the cousins to get to play together and see how much Titus was interested in being with them, so cute!  And we had some really good time with Kevin and Carolyn and the girls, although I don't know how fond Zowee is of not having her uncle Tom to herself, now she has to share him with Titus and Noelle.  Noelle has grown so much in many ways and LOVED playing with Tom and I which was something new for us!  So special!

Exciting News!

Hey I have two exciting things to share!  One our family is here to visit this weekend from AZ!  Tom's brother, Kevin, and his wife and kids made it up to MT this week to visit her grandpa in Great Falls and sister who is about to have a baby any time in Bozeman and us here in Missoula!  We are excited for the cousins to play together and get some cute pics.

The other exciting thing is that I am starting my own business from home, which most of you may know!  I am making bracelets for Mothers, Grandmothers, etc. and I am calling it 'Adorned With Your Little Blessings'!  So check it out, I made a separate blog just for this, Adorned With Your Little Blessings , also listed under my blogs I follow down on the right or find us on facebook under same name!  I would love to make something special for you for yourself or for a gift for your mom or your grandma!