Chair re-do & Cache swings!

So...I have this yellow chair that a friend found for me at a yard sale and I am dying to make it over, BUT I can't decide on a fabric because I have all these stipulations the said fabric must meet. Well while I was fabric shopping I found this really fun fabric and I loved it but I didn't want it for the yellow chair so I went and found another old chair and recovered IT with the fun fabric--did you follow all that??? So here is old chair....


Does it make you as happy as it makes me? I can't take all the credit for it though. I had to have Jon help me take it apart and paint it. Jon actually enjoyed the process as well so I told him his next project is to build me a TV stand...we'll see about that one. BACK to yellow chair...I want the chair to have lots of functions FOR EXAMPLE: for my house, for photography stuff, and I don't want it to look "girly"...as much as i LOVE girly there are a lot of boys in my house and I want to be able to sit Cache in the chair and take pictures of him and it not look weird. Make sense? YEs? Okay so now I need your help...do you have any fabric ideas? I want it to look really nice and meet all those specifications...I guess it would help if i showed you yellow chair or THE BEAST as I refer to it now.
See what i mean? I know it has a lot of potential...I just can't find what I'm looking for yet. It is going to be a lot more work because it's going to require reupholstery, but I'm pretty sure it will be beautiful when I'm done with it.

Now to the cute baby--isn't he the cutest EVER? He loves to swing!


Adios.

Cachey boy

I don't know why, but Cache has this thing about sticking things in his mouth putting his head up and going "wuh-wuh-wuh".....

Anyways so many new Cache things! Now that he is a year old he is finally in the forward facing car seat! So exciting for him...and us. Now he can see where he is going and it's nice to be able to hand things back to him.
And he is now walking! He could have started walking a long time ago but he was too afraid to let go of our hands and he finally got brave and just went for it. He walks all over the place now...occasionally he defaults back to crawling still. Its kind of funny because he walks like Frankenstein-both hands up. Last night I was making dinner and i hear this little pitter patter and Cache is walking over to me with both hands in the air and one hand holding my cell phone...I don't know why, i just thought it was so cute.

We also now have teeth! Two to be exact...they caused a lot of mayhem around here-talk about crabby baby! I think this picture is pretty funny, he couldn't figure out what i was trying to do. Notice the milk all over his face...
This one he got away from me before i snapped the picture and it just makes me laugh so I added it. ;-)

Extreme Home Makeover

Just about a week ago we had all the Extreme Makeover Home Edition people here in town. It was actually a very cool thing! It really united the community and it was amazing to see what that they could put that house together in that little time! There was literally no house one morning and then that night we went by and a house was standing there! The family seems very deserving, a single mom with 9 kids who battled breast cancer. Last year their dryer caught fire and burned their house.Isn't the house beautiful! I'd live there! This second picture is of them setting up an assembly line to move in the furniture.

The night before the revealed the home to the family they had an auction to raise money for the family....
The reveal happened during the day while I was at work and we were not able to make it to that, but we went over later that night. They had a small little private performance from Kylie Minogue right in front of the house for the family as a surprise and so we got to go to that. It was pretty cool because they were taping it for the show. They had us all cheering over and over again doing multiple takes and all kinds of stuff. It was really fun! They also were shooting footage for commercials that will be airing in France. It was funny because they had Ty trying to say things in French and then they would cue us and we all had to cheer.





Anyways, it was a cool experience. Maybe we'll be on TV when the show airs! Haha. I doubt it actually, but lots of fun regardless!

Cache turns ONE!

I can't believe my little baby is ONE now? How does it go so fast! He has changed so much and we love him so much! I never knew having a baby would be so fun! We celebrated his first birthday at one of the parks here in town. Cache's Grammy and Pop were able to be there, both sets of my Grandparents and our friends were all able to come.


I love the concentration on his face! Haha. He is such a funny kid.
He didn't really understand the whole "presents" thing, but I'm sure next year that will be the highlight of the party...maybe? Haha. Some of the things Cache got are a forward facing car seat-which was something Jon and I were looking forward too big time, a wide assortment of balls, books, a little people farm and car thing, and lots of other fun things. Here is the Cake before he demolished it...I made him his very own...it was pretty ugly, but it worked! Haha. It was so hot outside the by the time we gave it to him a lot of the frosting had melted off the sides.

Mid way through demolishing his cake. I'm not sure a lot of it made it into his mouth, but he loved being able to do whatever he wanted to it.

Cache we love you more than anything in the world! You are amazing! Happy Birthday baby!

Side note...his birthday was awhile ago--I just barely got to posting this though.

Extreme Home Makeover/Jillian Harris

Our town is going crazy this week...Extreme Home Makeover is here in town! Jon and I signed up to volunteer to help, but they have had so many volunteers it doesn't look like we will get to help. LUCKILY i have friends that have the hook-up. My friend called me and told me there was kind of a "secret" softball game going on with some of the cast from Extreme Home Makeover and so Cache and I ran out to check it out! I was SO star-struck! Haha. Jillian Harris is helping the Extreme Makeover team and she was at the softball game and was nice enough to hang out, talk and take a picture with us! She was my favorite Bachelorette and she is SO nice! AND super tiny...like 4'11... Anyways here is a picture, never mind me I look nasty...especially compared to her. I am so excited right now I can hardly contain myself!
She was really nice to Cache she waved to him and told him "I love your name!". Haha. Anyways, it was pretty cool.

My baby is getting too big!

In less than a week my baby is going to be a year old! How did that happen? It went WAY too fast! As far as milestones go he still refuses to walk...we used to try and walk him between the 2 of us, and he was getting so good! BUT then he took a couple of falls and ever since he refuses to walk anywhere unless we are holding his hand. His favorite words right now are WOW, Uh-oh, Ball and Bubbles. He loves dogs. If he see's a dog or hears a dog he makes a little "woof woof" barking sound. While I was going through the paper there was a picture of a dog on one of the inserts and Cache came over and started barking and pointing at the dog...so he's got dogs figured out now.
Here are a few pictures of Cache and our friends little boy Harrison...

Trip to Washington

I have not been a very good little blogger lately. Life just seems really busy lately and computer time seems few and far between. At the begining of July we made a quick trip out to Washington...unfortunately we had to come home early, but things happen sometimes. While we were there we were able to cram some fun in. I celebrated my birthday there, we had the 4th of July there, went to a Mariners game, and went to Friday Harbor. Here are a few pictures, I didn't have time to get them resized so I had to put them in a collage. The pictures look really small, but if you click on them it will give you a bigger image.