Vander's ONE year birthday! May 11th!!!

I must say, This has been the most incredible year of my life!

This amazing, sweet ADORABLE little baby boy of ours has brought SO MUCH

joy and happiness to Keith and I and to all the rest of our families! I honestly can't even put into words the LOVE I have for this little guy! I never could have imagined having this AMAZING blessing of being the mother of this little boy!

When I pray, I always thank Heavenly Father for sending me this beautiful little angle! I would do ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING for our little Vander!

It is truly miraculous the love and tenderness that comes with having children, it is something that almost can't be explained, it's just something that you will learn and feel yourself when you have your own babies.

I look forward to watching this little boy grow and grow! However, it is hard to watch them grow fast! I have tried to make sure to soak up every moment with every smile, laugh, cry, when he wants me to just hold him! Just everything! He is so smart and loves everyone around him! He is also loved very much in return! People just fall in love with him and his sweet little personality!

So with this all being said, here is the post of Vander's first birthday! I don't want to say to much for these first photos of his little photo shoot so just enjoy!

These are Vander's one year pictures that Vander and I did together!

We did them when Keith was out of town as a surprise!

I absolutely LOVE Vander in all these photos!

It was so fun doing this photo session with him! He was such a good little boy!

I will always remember it!

I just can't get enough of him!

That white blossom tree we were in front of was breath taking!

This Picture above is so cute! All the sudden this big gust of wind came and blew right over us and his hair over and he got sooooo excited and we got a picture right as it happened!

He is so precious!

The picture above is one of my favorites!

I handed him that dandilion and he thought it was so neat! He looked at it as if it was the most beautiful thing!

Now he is giving it to mommy!

I TOTALLY LOVED how much he loved to touch my pregnant belly! It was as if he knew his little sis was in there!

I had some photos done of him with his cars because he LOVES cars and trucks! And motorcycles to:) I wanted it so we always knew how much he loved his little cars! The red one my dad got him along with a couple others he plays with from my dad!

The black and yellow truck is from his daddy!

It was the first truck/toy with wheels that his daddy got him!

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This picture of Vander and his papa Crocker I just HAD to throw in!

This was from our sealing day which was just a couple days before his birthday! I had never seen it until I saw it on my sis in law Truly's blog and I about died when I saw it! I fell in love with it! We actually copied it and got it framed and gave it to papa for Father's Day! We got a copy for us to:) Thanks Truly I LOVE IT!!!

This was the day we celebrated Vander's birthday! It was just a couple days before his actual birthday but we did his big party because Keith's parents and sister and her family was in town for our sealing so we celebrated everything this weekend! It was a very busy weekend might I add with all the fun stuff going on! Here we are at a park celebrating our nephew Easton's birthday which was the day before Vander's! So he got his own little party at the park and later it was Vander's party!

He LOVES swinging! And he loves when papa pushes him on the swing!

With the family!

Our little buddy was alseep hence his absence from the photo:)

Below aunt Truly feeding him watermelon! He LOVES watermelon, this was his first time eating it like this though! It's usually cubed up! But he loved it eating is this way!

Ok this photo above cracks me up! My baby has one shoe missing, and he is practically in the splits with a purple fuzzy bib on! Which the purple fuzzy bib belongs to Truly's girls! I just didn't have one with me! But he is enjoying is watermelon and thats all the matters:)

The big Birthday party for our V-MAN!!!

Mommy and daddy made the cakes!!!

Topped with a truck of course! Don't know why this photo is sideways!

In his little chair that papa and grandma got him!

Hitting his car pinata!

He had so much fun hitting it! Of course he had a CARS theme birthday!

Let the fun begin!!!

At first he ate the sprinkles before he dug in!!!

Such a good sport!!!

Present time!!! We took it inside cause it got pretty cold outside! Daddy helps him open!

Don' tknow why this picture is side ways but this little Harley Davidson vest his little cousin Easton gave it to him! It was his and it's to small now and he wanted to give it to Vander! I thought it was to sweet! And that vest papa gave to Easton and now it's Vander's! Papa is really into bikes and has a beautiful one himself! I can't wait til he wears it! It's going to look so awesome!

This is Easton!

So funny! Papa and grandma gave Vander these blocks and all he wanted to do was climb on them! It's really sweet to, when Keith was little his parents gave him blocks like these also!

The BIG birthday present from mommy and daddy!!!

Oh boy!!!

His own BIG green car!!!

He loved it and still does! Look how excited he is!

Funny though! instead of HIM riding in it, he wanted to push his cousin Lindsey in it! Really! He just wanted to push it! He still does this from time to time now and he will push it even if no one is riding in it!

This picture is for you Truly!!! I knew you would love it!

Another CLASSIC face of Lindz!!!

Vander was really good with sharing it with the girls, but here he looks like he is saying, OK!!! It's MY birthday present move it!!! HA HA!And the girls were obviously fighting over it to! And they are both wearing Vander's jackets here! How sweet:) It was cold that day!

These pictures were on a different day but they needed to be added cause they are to cute! and I love the picture of my boy below tryng to pull his hood off! It was pretty funny!

This was Vander's actual birthday! Keith and I took him to Pirate Island!!! And papa and grandma came by as well! It was really neat there! And he looked so cute in his little pirate atire!

He even got a sword!

SO cute in his little bandana!

My mom said when she walked up and saw it on him she couldn't believe how cute it was!

Eating some dinner! He loves peas!!!

With my papa!

Daddy took him on a few little rides! He wasn't to sure about them though!

Keith and I saw this little tiny cake and just had to get it! We wanted another birthday cake for him for his actual birthday and how perfect this one was! And how awesome it was that it was a cars one to!

Happy birthday Vander!

Make a wish little man!

I saved one of my favorite pictures for last!

This pictures says it all!

Vander is such a happy little boy!

He brings so much joy to everyone around him!

We have loved every minute of everyday this last year!

We look forward to all the years to come and watch all his little milestones!

We love you so much little buddy!
Happy one year!!!

Vander's stats at one year

Weight: 21.1/24th percentile

Length: 32.5/98th percentile

He is a tall slender boy!

He will be taller than his daddy!!!

Vander's first words:

uh oh!

Dad/dadda

Vander's new words as of recent:

Hi

hello

mama

jibber jabber/words that he is trying to say

Tries to say balloon it comes out doosh!

Vander can understand extremely well!

He knows what you are saying to him more than what he can say!

He knows what things are even though he may not say them yet! He is very smart!

Vander's loves:

-Mommy

-Daddy,

but always wants mommy first! He is a mommy's boy:)

-His yellow blankie!

His new thing is when we go and get him in the mornings

or when he wakes from a nap right when we walk in the room he points down to his blankie and wants it to come out with him!

-His bottle

He knows when it's night night time/nap time! and he loves to have his bottle!

-Elmo!

He is fasinated by that furry red mumpet!

-Cell phones

We never showed him what to do, he just started to hold it up to his ear and tries to say hello it's so cute and he acts like he is talking! He learned from watching us!

-Giving kisses

They are open mouth kisses right now! it's so funny and cute

-Loves

When we say can I have loves? He lays his head on you, your shoulder or chest its so sweet

-Going outside

He loves going for walks in his stroller or new green car!

-Balloons

He loves them! Infact anytime we go to Walmart or where ever

they have them he always lets us know when he an see them! He points them out and

usually we end up getting him one!

-Balls

They were one of his favorite toys to start out with!

-CARS CARS and TRUCKS!!!

He just started liking them! He has alot and always plays with them

and makes little motor sounds! I love that he is into all the little boy things! And it started out

at a very early young age might I add!

-Walking

He honestly just decided he was gonna start walking!

He just started and is doing awesome! I will have to post a video of that!
-Itsy Bitsy spider!
He loves the Itsy Bitsy spider song! When you sing it to him he does the actions!
He puts his little fingers together and does the cutest little actions as you sing! He knows wash the spider out
and out came the sun! It's so cute!

-His papa's and grandmas!

He Loves papa Vanderwel! He is his buddy! He will go to him anytime!

And papa Crocker he ALWAYS takes to when they come into town!

You would think he sees him all the time!

And he has a tender place in his heart for his grandma Joanie and grammy Nana!

-Snickers and Harley

He loves our dogs! He actually like to torment Snickers!

I don't know how much she always likes him though! lol!

-Climbing

He LOVES to climb ANYTHING! We have to be very watchful now!

-Laughing

Keith can make him laugh that deep gut laugh and it's soooo funny!

He is always such a happy baby!

Well that somes it up for now! I can get into the foods later! But I just wanted to share a bit about our buddy so everyone could get a glimpse of what we get to be around

ALL THE TIME!!!

We love it!