I think my heart might explode.

I'm realizing more and more how fleeting my time with Isla as a baby, actually is. She is growing so so fast and I am doing my best to savor every moment. I have been obsessed with her from the day she was born and that obsession grows immensely every day. However, in her first few months, I made sure to put her down so she wouldn't become dependent on being held. I would only rock her for one or two songs worth before bed because I wanted her to be able to fall asleep with out me having to rock her all the way to sleep. I also never "jumped" at the sound of her cries, I'd give her a chance to work things out on her own. I guess you could say all of those things have worked...she is content to play and be by herself, she sleeps like and champ and can sleep anywhere (lucky for me and my late night craft nights) and she rarely cries. Isla is what I'd like to call a "super, magic, dream baby". She takes everything in stride and is such a sweet, happy little soul. She has so much personality and a funny little sense of humor. I'm convinced, with each new day, that now that I have her, my life would not be complete without her. She is such a joy and I feel so blessed that I get to be her mother. In spite of all of my earlier efforts to restrain myself, in order to encourage Isla to be a content, independent baby, I am finding myself wanting to hold her more, and rock her to sleep,(and then some). And I am caving, practically crumbling, when she cries, "ma ma ma ma".

The quote by Elizabeth Stone, is quickly becoming one of my favorites. "Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." True words, Mrs. Stone. True words.

Fresh & Unique

Guys, I want to win this. This giveaway from Freshly Picked got me to blog even! I haven't blogged in months and yet, here I am. That is how badly I want this. These moccs are a thing of beauty. I had a dream the other night and it went like this...Cade, Isla and I are on an awesome road trip together. Somehow we are able to visit all of my dream destinations just by driving along the California Coast. It's pretty cool, albeit geographically impossible. I don't know how it happens, it just does, mmmkay. The weather is perfect, not too hot, not too cold. We drive with the windows rolled down and Nixy, LOVES it! (Oh, yeah. Nix is on this road trip too...kitty wanted to stay home though) Cade is driving and bobs his head and taps his fingers to the beats of the perfect road trip mix. I'm leaning back with my feet resting on the dash. The sun is shining and warms my face as I wave my hand out of the window and let the wind whip my hand up and down. We never have to fill up our gas tank.(well, we probably did once at the beginning...lets not get too crazy!) We don't have to get back to work, or school, we have unlimited time off. Money isn't an issue either, we are able to do what we like and we're not held back at all! We eat whatever we like and can't seem to put on a single pound! Oh, and did I mention, we are all rockin' freshly picked moccs!? Isla looks the best in them, though. Adults don't really wear Freshly Picked, but it's a dream so those things happen, ya know? Yeah, Freshly Picked moccs are the good things that dreams are made of.

x f i n g e r s c r o s s e d x

Yay, for fall and photo friends.

The colors of fall were begging to be photographed. This photogenic field lives just across the street from where we live. A perfect place for an impromptu family photo sesh, don't ya think? The plan was to just use my tripod and get my exercise in for the day, by running back and forth between the timer button and the photo-ready position. (yeah, I need a remote. I know this) Just as we were headed across the street, and Cade had finally gotten up the courage to trespass into the field, (shhh...don't tell) my friend Abby called and said she wanted to stop by and say hey. Perfect timing! She agreed to be our photographer! Woot! I much preferred this situation. I was not looking forward to running back and forth for a half-hour. That would be a little too close to exercising, for my liking. I'm just not ready for that type of thing in my life right now. haha. It was a fun time. We got some good "normal" pictures, but most of my favorites were the ones that were taken in search of those normal pictures. I had a hard time narrowing my favorites down for this post, so feast your eyes...











This picture makes me laugh out loud. Isla's signature scowl at its finest!

Yes, we kept shooting through the tears. So glad.


But only for a little bit. Isla got plenty of binkie breaks.

Bath Babe

I seriously can't get enough of this bright eyed beauty! Cade is such a trooper for putting up with me and my wanting to take a picture every 5 seconds, even simple moments like, going from the bath to the changing table. I can't help it that if at the exact moment I look at her, she just happens to be in the perfect little pose and the lighting is all nice and bright!

Halloween Spooktivities

My little Isla was a crow for Halloween. Since I was a witch, I figured it made sense that she would be my little pet. Cade was Batman. That makes sense too. Batman was married to a witch, I'm surprised you didn't know that.



Halloween day, we met my parents for lunch. They went as their alter-egos. Their wigs were pretty funny.

Isla enjoyed herself as well. Her smile is my favorite.

We went trick-or-treating to Grandma and Grandpa Seeholzer's house that night. We love visiting them! Aren't they so cute.

The week of Halloween we did other fun things. We had a little pumpkin carving party at Cade's family's house. We had a pumpkin carving "contest" (we all won) Good times were had!




Kiana, Briellie, and Isla. These girls are going to have a billion pictures similar to this that they'll be able choose from to copy in twenty years. It'll be awesome.

Cousin friends. These two like each other. They told me. It was funny they were both dressed so similarly! We didn't even plan it!


We also went to the pumpkin walk. It wasn't even cold this year. However, we still bundled up. It's tradition!



Photos snapped in the dark, while walking at the pumpkin walk, are usually awesome...obviously.


Hope you all had a Happy Halloween, too!