Gone Fishing

This weekend in Idaho it was Free Fishing day on Saturday. So Jared, Cash, my sister Cydnie, my brother-in-law Shane, and I took a trip up towards Ashton to try it out. The boys including Cash were all pretty serious about it while Cyd and I mostly watched, oh and kept Cash from going in with his bare hands to fish. Although we had no luck catching anything we had a lot fun :)

Cash cracking up!

This was on Easter and it was so cute. Uncle Shane was making Cash Laugh so hard he was falling over :)

It's been awhile...

Picture: Cash after destroying his peanut butter and jelly sandwich :)

It has been a long time since I posted anything. I don't have any real excuses other than life has been keeping us pretty busy :) Especially our little Cash. I thought I had my hands full with him before but the more he becomes a little boy and not so much a baby things just get more and more exciting.
He is 19 months now and also just getting started in nursery. While Jared has been counting the months down for this time, for me it has been bitter sweet. The first week we left him in nursery was very nerve wracking for us not for fear of Cash being sad or hurt, but instead fear for the leaders and how they would handle him. Our fears were confirmed when i came to pick him up and they hurried him out the door and let me know that " he is a bit aggressive but they were dealing with it." I can proudly say though he is improving and I'm sure it is partly due to the amazing patience our sweet nursery leaders have. :)
Cash is boy through and through. He loves wrestling with his dad, playing outside, knocking over his blocks, and all animals especially horses. He is such a joy in our lives and not a day goes by that he doesn't make me laugh.

A video from our nativity...

Meeting Santa & Christmas Jammies :)

Cash is just suffering from a little Christmas shock in this one ha ha :)

Dez in his Christmas Pjs

I had to post this one so you could see Cash's cowboy boot slippers!

Laney and Livvy Best Friends

Casey hoarding the dinosaurs Grandma gave to all the boys :)

Sam showing off his spidey sense

Jessie was more into his dinosaur getting a picture than himself

I love this picture Cash just was not sure what to think about Santa, his face says it all :)

Cash Sweet as a Lamb ...

I know it has taking me awhile to post anything since Christmas but better late then never right? This year we spent Christmas up in Washington with my family and it was so much fun. One tradition we started this year was doing a nativity with all the grand kids. My mom, whose sewing abilities seem to be endless, helped make outfits for all the kids parts. The nativity included Mary and Joseph ( Sam and Livvy) the 2 oldest grand kids, an angel (Laney), three wisemen (Jessie, Casey, and Gabe), a sheperd (Dezmond), and last but not least a lamb (Cash); oh yeah and a doll played the most important part of baby Jesus. These pictures were when we tried the outfit on Cash for the first time and it was obviously very tiring :) Anyway it all turned out really cute while the little kids atempted to hold still for the nativity us adults sang away in a manger on Christmas eve for our big Dickson Family Party. I hope we continue to do this tradition because it turned out so cute and got the little kids excited about the story of the first Christmas. Although as years go by we will probably have a whole herd of sheep and maybe more than three wisemen :)

Decorating the Christmas Tree!

For Family night this week we got our Christmas tree! I love Christmas trees and maybe I'm a little bias because I'm from Washington and it is very convenient to go to the local Christmas tree farm, but I have to have a real tree! I have to have the smell, the look , all of it :) Anyway here in Saint Anthony Idaho our options are limited on choice of tree. There is no looking and deciding what height you want how full you want it, ect , ect; but instead you go down the street to the local grocery store and leaned against the store outside are pinetrees all bundled up like shrubs and you pretty much just pay and grab whatever is left . So when we went I waited in the car with Cash and Jared comes back with a huge bundle in his arms and says " I chose the biggest one! :) " While not wanting to ruin his enthusiasm I smile and think "I hope fits our little apartment." Needless to say our Griswold family Christmas tree had about a third of it sawed off when we got home so it would fit, but thats not all, due to the below freezing temperatures when we took the twine holding it all together in hopes to reveal our gorgeous full tree nothing happened it was frozen in a tree tube. No worries though after some tender pulling of the branches and cranking up the heat are tree blossomed and was beautiful!! So despite all the work that goes into having a real tree even the vacuuming of never ending pine needles is is still soooooo worth it!!! :)