Paisley is 1 year old!

Wow 1 year old! When did this happen?!  Paisley is so much fun, Chad and I love just watching her. She's so smart, its awesome to watch her with a new toy and within minutes and few trys she's figured it out! She loves to talk just babbles on and on. Some things we can understand like; touch, bye bye, hi, dog, cat, look, mama, dada, milk, baba (bottle).  She likes to whisper in your ear. She crawls so fast now! She walks holding onto furniture and sometimes gets brave and takes a couple steps. So far she has taken a couple steps on her own. But she's more interested in crawling everywhere. 

For Paisleys first birthday we had a small bbq get together. Paisley was working on cutting a few teeth that day so she wasn't feeling too good. But she rallied and partied with everyone. She got into opening her presents and loved all her gifts especially the books and blocks she got. She really got into her cake!  I made her 3 cupcakes for a cake and she demolished them! Made a huge mess and had a ton of fun! 

Silly bedtime girl

Paisley crawling in her dress

Paisley jammin on Mothers Day! Caution the music is loud on the video!

Mothers Day 2014!

This is was my first Mothers Day, and was a great weekend! Miss Paisley Star was supposed to join us last year on April 30th, but as most of you know she came on May 15th instead. Haha

We had a little get together at our house and then breakfast at Gays. Everything this weekend was a lot of fun. I wasn't able to see my mom or sister this year. So Happy Mothers Day both of you! I love you both! I hope everyone had a good weekend full of love, happiness, and appreciation.  Moms help make this world go round. :-)

Chads homemade herbal shampoo

Chad is a super guy and deserves a shampoo that is up on his super level. Before he went gluten free his scalp was dry, itchy, and tight feeling. It got better once he cut out gluten. But over the years the issues have arisen again. So I decided to make him his own shampoo that is free of harsh chemicals, I suspect those chemicals are the culprits. Thanks to my fellow "crunchy" internet friends I devised a recipe for him. First I infused calendula, rosemary, rose petals, and plantain leaves. Then I added some tamanu oil, I chose this oil for its anti-microbial properties. And lastly, I added the tea tree, lavender, and rosemary essential oils. The "soap" base is Dr. Bronners in the unscented baby type. I put the soap in quotations,  because its technically not a soap since there are no chemical foaming agents in it. If you haven't tried it highly suggest it! Check out their website for all ita uses! I found out a couple years ago that I was allergic to sodium laural/laureth sulfate. Dr. Bronners works wonders for me! Ok enough of that! As you can see in the pictures the final product isnt much to look at, but so far Chad likes it! He wishes it would foam more. So I will tweak that when I make the next batch. Im pretty excited I finally made shampoo! Makes me think, what the heck can I make next! Thanks for reading! :-)

11 months old

Wow 11 months old! Time flies! Paisleys favorite things right now are: coconut pears, pointing and touching everything, saying and waving bye bye, standing on her own, playing ball, eating banana and watermelon by herself, emptying any sort of full bag, clearing the table with one swipe of her arm, and doing her best to make beat box noises like Dad. Shes just the cutest, so we think :-)