Cade & the Cousins

We had a great day yesterday!! Cade and his cousins Madison and Sidney went to the park to play. Madison is the oldest (6) and Sidney is about 19 months old. Cademan had fun taking pictures and doing his favorite thing SWINGING. He loves to swing. He even went down the slide (with a little help from Dad). It was a great time!!

Little Man and Pops

We went to visit my dad this weekend. We had a great time. Brenda, my step-mom, cooked it up and we ate and ate and ate. Cade had a great time chasing the cat and just pretty much crawling all over the place. I even got to play golf with Tony and Dad. Tony pretty much killed us on the course. That means I need to practice a bit more. On Saturday we traveled to Shreveport to visit my Uncle, Aunt and Cousin for the day. We had a great time with them. My uncle David told a few stories and I got to catch up with my cousin Julie, who I haven't seen in so long.

Keep checking for more updates.

Team Bedard in DFW

Ok so we decided it would be a good idea to travel to visit family and friends during the month of July. So we left A-Town last Wednesday afternoon and have been to Grapevine, Lindale then back to Grapevine. We will be visiting my sister and her husband in Keller this weekend and Mindy's brother, sister-in-law and their 2 kids are coming to town from Atlanta. We will be hanging with them as we celebrate Mindy's mom's birthday. It will be a great time. Then Cade and I will be doing some visiting on our own while Mindy goes back to A-Town for a DR. visit. Then its back to Grapevine for a couple of days then I will be driving with my brother Tony to Colorado Springs where he is moving the end of the month. Then back to DFW and back home to A-Town (I will be referring to Abilene as A-Town hence forth). One full month of travel then one almost full month of recovery, preparation, etc as we await baby number 2 (its a girl but we have not decided on a name yet but have gotten plenty of suggestions). We are looking forward to visiting with some of our VA friends the middle of August!!!

It will be a great month of July and we look forward to visiting with so many of our family and friends. We will be updating pictures and videos as we can get to the computer. We wish everyone a great summer!!!!

Cade's First Unassisted Popsicle

This is priceless. We were eating Popsicles and Cade decided he wanted to feed himself. The video speaks for itself. Enjoy!!

My wife

Well, I just had to share this great picture of Mindy. Our VA friends the Werts gave us some gifts before they departed back home. You can see a couple of them in the picture. The ice cream scoop actually came from the Blue Bell ice cream plant. We have gotten some use out of it this summer for sure. The hat looks great on Mindy.

We have finally gone through every box and unpacked every dish here. It is a good feeling to finally have some things set up. My (Chris) office is ready for the upcoming semester. Mindy even has a little section of the front room she is calling Mindy's Pretty Room!! Cade has learned to navigate the halls of our house and can even go up and down the ONE step we have in our living room. Summer is here and we are about to depart for some adventures during the month of July. We will be visiting family, celebrating birthdays, and hopefully catching up with some old friends. We have been so blessed to have the Youngs in town to hang out with!!

For those of you that don't know, our 2nd baby is due to enter this world on August 29th. I start school the Monday before that (25th). It should be a busy week but we are very excited about it. I am even looking forward to homework (we'll see how long that lasts). I will be working toward a degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at ACU. It is a 2 year program. Anyway, that is the scoop here in Abilene. We will be able to blog more in the coming weeks as we travel so check back to see all our adventures.

Its Zoo Time

We took a little trip to the Abilene Zoo today. It was great fun!! They have like 500 animals there and it took us hours to walk through (actually we got there at 9:15 and were back home by 11). But Cade had a great time. We went with our good friends Brandon, Jana, Rowan, and Skylar Young. I think Cade's favorite thing was feeding the ducks. He definitely loved the Giraffe and the Lions!! We will be posting more of our Abilene adventures soon!!

Cade's First Text Message

Thats right you read correctly.  Cademan sent his first text message today.  I was sitting on the couch and heard my 'you just received a text' sound on my phone.  I picked it up and saw it was from Mindy.  The catch is, she wasn't holding the phone, Cade was.  He had sent me a blank message.  He is a genius!!!  

We will update this more now we are getting settled.