I had so much fun making Caches 1st birthday cake. Cache loves cars so i thought it would be cool to make him a car cake. He loved it!


Cache was so funny when he ate his cake. He would only eat little pieces at a time. I was a little sad that he didnt just dive right into his cake and get messy. I guess thats my fault because i never let him get messy with his food.





Cache wasnt to excited about opening the presents, but he loved all of his toys. He got so many toys that my living room is now a toy room. I am running out of places to put all of his toys.


Im so glad my baby had a great 1st birthday. It was so nice having my parents here for his birthday. Cache really liked having the extra company. He loves his papa (grandpa Lenny) so much. When he would wake up in the mornings he would go find papa so he could sit on his lap and eat cookies. Cache was sad to see g-ma and papa leave. He cried when papa started walking in the airport. Its amazing all of the new things Cache is learning here lately. He is starting to say a few words and i love hearing him talk. His favorite thing to say is hi dad. He calls all food and drinks gum. He also can say bye, nigh nigh, mom, outside, please, but it sounds like peas. He is learning no and yes. When he says no he shakes his head back and forth. He doesnt say yes yet, but he will shake his head up and down. Instead of pointing to things with his pointer finger he points with his thumb. He loves walking around outside. He tries to pick up all the leaves and bring them home with us.

Cache will be one year old next wednesday. I can not even believe how fast this past year has gone for us. I look at all of Caches baby pictures and feel like i have already forgot so many things. Next week i will post pictures of his birthday party. I just wanted to post a picture of Cache at 2 weeks old so everyone can see how much he has changed..

Little Boys

My baby is almost one. Just another 38 days til his 1ST birthday. I was really looking forward to his birthday until it hit me yesterday.. My baby isnt going to be a baby anymore. My little boy is becoming Mr. Independent. He loves doing everything on his own. He has been such a naughty boy lately. He will only eat if he is the one putting it in his mouth. He doesnt want mommy to feed him anymore. This has been a challenge and a very messy one at that. I swear i have to change his clothes three times a day because all the food he drops on himself. I am so proud of him and all of his accomplishments. I am so amazed by all the things he is learning everyday. Lately he has been such a meany though. When he gets mad he hits his head on the floor over and over again. If we take something away from him he will start smacking himself in the face. He thinks it is hilarious to kick us. I dont even know where he learned all of this. Logan and I are not like that to him or each other. I think he is too little to pick it up off tv. I really just dont know. I HOPE it is just a phase. I never had any brothers or close boy cousins growing up. I never knew all the things that little boys do. I am really surprised somedays. I know this is just the beginning too. I know that every birthday that passes will amaze me, that i survived another year with a son. I Love having a little boy. I am so blessed to have him as my son. Everyday with him is a great day.

New year already?

WOW! Cant believe its already 2010. This pasy year just went way to fast. This very time last year i was counting down the weeks to be done with pregnancy. This year im counting down the weeks to my babies first birthday. Cache keeps getting more fun everyday. I love him so much and i really am so blessed to be his mommy.

Cache got so many great toys for christmas. His first christmas was so wonderful. Thanks everyone for helping us make it so special. We had such a great time in Utah for the holidays I was glad we got to spend so much time with our families, but said that the time there went so fast. Its good to be back home(our home) because christmas really killed mine and Logans diet. The beginning of december we started being more healthy. I hate using the word diet because a diet is something we all start and stop, but a life change is something we keep doing. We started eating healthier. No more eating out for us. Logan is already a gym rat, but ive been working out alot more too! I lost a whole ten pounds in just a couple of weeks before going home for christmas. My goal for 2010 is to get in my old jeans. My pre-baby jeans. Im laughing at my self right now, but im going to try hard. Im almost there. Going home for christmas set me back just a little. Too many cookies i think. It wouldnt be christmas with out the candy and the tight jeans right? I really do miss Utah and ive only been home a few days. Good thing i have lots of sunshine to take my mind off of being homesick. The weather here in Monterey has been avg. 65 everyday and low 50's at night. Im really enjoying this winter because every winter after this will be full of snow. Cache is sick again. Poor baby. He never gets sick and all the sudden he has got sick 2 times in a row. I wish the viruses would have decide to spread them selves further apart. I really miss getting good sleep. The first time he had H1N1 and this time croup. Neither one has been fun, but i think he is recovering faster from the croup. We took him to the doctor last night and he gave Cache some RX to get better. He also told us to give him popsicles. (Pictures above) We found these mini fruit juice popsicle at the grocery store and they are perfect size for Cache. Hope everyones holidays were wonderful!

Happy Holidays

Ok so i really have been slacking on my blog. Sorry everyone, but FB has become way to convienent. I just wanna update everyone on whats been going on with us. A lot has happened since we moved to california. We really do love it here. We are in walking distance to the beach and the beach has an awesome path way that follows around most of the peninsula. We really do enjoy being able to go down to the beach and take Cache for walks. He loves staring at the ocean. I think is amazed by it. The weather here has been so great. Its usually 50's or 60's during the day. I feel bad for all my family that has to shovel everyday before they go to work, but i am so grateful we dont have to do that here. Cache has learned so much since we moved here. He started sitting up right before we came. Then he started crawling and now he is almost walking! He can take about 6 steps before falling now. He gets so excited and then falls. He just keeps getting more fun. He sure is mean though. Cache loves hitting us and telling us no. Thats right Cache says no. Its pretty much the only thing he will say. When we take things away from him he will scream at us instead of crying. He is not afraid of anything or anyone. Such a little flirt when we go to the store. Logan has been doing great in school. He is loving learning portuguese. I am so proud of him, but i think i need to learn a little now so i will know what he is saying. We are so excited to be coming home for Christmas. Logan needs a good break from school and i need a break from being home all day. We are so glad that we can go for so long. Pretty much everyone has heard the news now.. Logan might be leaving us for a while. It is only 75% chance that he will go this time. (depending if we get back in time and what not.) Nobody get upset now i really would not like to think about it unless i have. Deep down inside i am preparing myself. I will be going to beauty school this summer. I am so excited to finally go. If you have known me for a while, you know this has been a passion of mine since i was very little. That and being the first women president and painting the white house pink. I think i will have better luck with beauty school. The only thing that will be hard for me is putting my baby in daycare. I have been so lucky that i have been able to be a SAHM. I really have enjoyed all the time i have spent with my baby and i will really miss it when i start school. I think Logan might have a heart attack when Cache goes to daycare because he is such a germ freak. You all know how he was when Cache was born. I really love my husband for bein such a clean freak. Cache and i have been sick with the flu. YUCK! Logan has been keeping up on cleaning the house. He really loves that lysol we had to go buy more because he uses it so much. That and hand sanitizer. At least our house is flu free! i dont even know where we got it. We never leave the house. I hate driving around here. One last thing my sister, Brenda, is pregnant with baby #2. I am so excited to have another niece/nephew. We dont know the sex yet, but i am very very excited. She is due in april right before we come home again. I hope everyone has a great Christmas! Wish you all the best of luck in this new year coming up!

Finally updating

Dirk and Cache want to be like grandpa Lenny so they grew mustaches. If you ask me Dirk looks just like grandpa Lenny...

I just have to brag about my little guy though. Its amazing how fast he has got big. He is so amazing! I hope he starts crawling soon. He can get up and rock and then falls over.

When we got back to Utah we finally blessed Cache. We didnt want anything big because we planned it kinda last minute. My little man was so handsome and he was so good the whole time.

I am finally updating my blog after.. hmm who knows. Its been forever. So much has happened in the past few months for the Archuleta family. We moved from AZ to UT. Longest drive of my life and i might add that it was the most tiring drive too. I have to give my dad a big thanks! He was such a trooper and drove the whole time (18 hours) with no sleep. We pretty much drove from the bottom of one state to the top of another. I did get to see the north rim of the grand canyon and that was pretty amazing! The pic of above isnt the best, but any picture i put up wouldnt even begin to show how beautiful it really is.

Its raining its pooring

Its been raining for a few hours down here, but i took pics about 20 minutes in to the storm. You wouldnt believe how bad it is...