Parties, Peaches and Pictures!

The birthday party was a success! Thanks to all of you who came and for the presents. We are truly blessed with wonderful friends and family! Aidan enjoyed his birthday cake and kept himself rather clean. I was a bit shocked at how careful he seemed to be with it. At the end he played with the icing that was left on his tray but other than that he ate his whole piece. He loved playing with the other kids and watching them play. Our house was packed with 8 kids and 12 adults. As you can tell from the pics baby Audrey stole my attention and I had to snap some cute pictures of her too.

I love this picture! Aidan loves to watch the cars from our front window. Now that he has gotten taller he can stand and look over our couch and watch them. Jamie captured this moment for us. I can't believe how big he is getting. Speaking of big, I think Aidan might be transitioning to 1 nap a day. Twice, this past week he has gone down for his afternoon nap and decided to talk and play the whole time. Today, he spent and hour and a half in his crib talking to himself. There was about a 20 minute time span where he was completely quiet and I thought he had fallen asleep but then he started jabbering again. I am thankful that he is content in his crib for awhile so that I can get some work done but if he is going to one nap a day I think I am going to have some trouble transitioning. I have thoroughly enjoyed his two naps because it gives me more time. It would be nice if I could keep him in the habit of having quiet time. It would be great for him to learn that in the afternoon he could take a nap or just have quiet time where you lay in bed for awhile. So far, he doesn't mind....will see if I can keep that up.

Last weekend my friend, Tiffany, and I canned peaches for the first time ever! We can 48 jars! In the last batch we were putting the cans in the cannor and we heard a pop sound. We thought it was strange and decided to investigate to see if the cans were OK. Tiffany was lifting one out when the bottom completely broke off and fell into the pot! We have no idea why it happened and we were quite distraught of the loss. She just decided to leave the peaches in the water and let the other jars continue their sealing process. I thought it was absolutely hilarious. I can't wait to enjoy the fruits of our labor! Aidan seems to really like peaches right now too so here's to having peaches all year round. I can't believe how "Suzie Homemaker" I am becoming. I have frozen strawberries and apples in my freezer and now 24 cans of peaches! I wonder what will be next. I have to admit though, it is really nice having these options around. These are some of my favorite fruits and when you can't get them in the winter it is nice knowing I don't have to pay an arm and a leg for them. Just have to go to my freezer or cupboard.
Today, we took Aidan to have some 1 year pictures taken of him. We went to Paramount Portraits. We had them do his 6 weeks pictures and we were so impressed we decided to do it again. We figured that 1 was a pretty big milestone. Aidan did so well. I wondered with him walking if we would have difficulty keeping him still but he did great and Scott was so good and keeping things moving and capturing Aidan's attention. We took some family shots as well. I can't wait to see the end results. I hope that we have lots of choose from.