SnOw DaY

Yep, we actually had a snow day today. Dan got the day off of school and spent half of it working on the getting an inch of ice of the entire car! It was fun, watching the snow fall so hard. Of course it is nothing compared to Utah snow, but they sure were making a big deal about it on the news! "Snow storm of '09." So we took Hayden out just for a second. It was pretty cold but here is the little man!

Mom getting him all bundled up.

Dad, letting him have his first experience with snow.

after the adventure, big smiles!

Hades showing off his "snow boots" AKA cowboy boots that are WAY to big for him, but the ARE boots!

5 Months

Today Hayden is 5 months, and boy is he growing! The poor little guy has had a cold all week and is just miserable. I wish so bad I could make my little boy happy. He sure makes me a happy mom. Here is a list of things Hayden has been up to these last few weeks...

- He has found that he loves anything that mom and dad have. Especially the remote!
- He will smile at just about anything, even if he is in the middle of a tantrum
- He can sit up by himself
- He has no interest in rolling over, no matter how much coaching he gets
- Books are the coolest new thing
- He attacks cereal, like mom attacks a bowl of ice cream
- His head is getting some peach fuzz
- He thinks Dad is SSOOOO much cooler than mom.
- He loves to eat his hands so much that he wants other to eat them too!
- peek-a-boo is the most hilarious thing ever

So my sister's friend Ali does photography and is awesome at it. She is the one who did our recent family pictures. She is doing an incentive drawing for 50% off, you just have to go to her blog @ http://blissfulmemoriesbyali.blogspot.com/ and follow her instructions on how to enter. You can also check out some of her cute photography, she does great work! Keep in mind this is back in Utah.

Anyone else into this show? I am SO addicted! Last night got me good. I was dropping tears left and right about the Dave and Jerry. Do you think they made the right decision to send Jerry home? Or did you want Dave to go home? I am just glad I wasn't responsible to send anyone home. But seeing Jerry's transformation made me feel good enough that I could go to sleep last night! Let me know what you thought.

Hayden's Blessing

When we went home we blessed our baby boy. We gave him a name and a blessing in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. It was performed at my in-laws and everyone in my immediate family attended. Daniel gave the blessing. It was an awesome experience. I want to let you know how grateful I am to be a part of this Church and raise my family with the knowledge that I have of it. I truly believe God is the way to happiness. I will try and raise my children to find that happiness.

Threw all the busyness going on, I didn't get a family photo, HELLO HOLLY! But we got plenty of Hayden in his outfit that Liz helped me make. He looked super cute. Such a special day!

Holiday Fun

Okay, so I am finally in the mood to post. I had a horrible trip home (flying with the flu) and my attitude is just getting back to normal (yes, I enjoy being lazy and not doing anything around the house bored out of my mind!)
Anyway, the Holidays were such a blast. We had so much time that we weren't freaking out about what time we had to be as so and so's house so we would be able to make our next stop on time. Just nice relaxing fun. AAAAAAAAaaaahhhh. We stayed at my in-laws house, and had the pleasure of Jason's family joining us. His girls are so cute. Almost every morning you would hear them outside our bedroom, "Wake up Daniel, wake up. I want some cereal." Not to mention the girls loved Hayden. The last couple days they figured out they could tease him and steal his binky, oh was that hilarious. But I have a feeling that lily the youngest is going to be the mischevious of all, that little cutie! I totally found my 2nd true love, the Wii. yeah I spent the entire day smothering Stacey and Dan at darts and even won Stac on some triva. Maybe I need to start writting Santa Clause again, to get one at my house :)
Back at my parents house we ate, ate, ate and I even think we ate more! Oh thank goodness I got the flu to take away all those extra holiday pounds! All of the girls had a couple craft nights (Lori the BUM decided to skip out on us!) Thanks Jam, for getting everything all ready for us. I am going to have some sweet Christmas decorations next year, that I will decorate keen's house with because I left them there! We had an awesome tubbing experience where I popped a tube ALL BY MYSELF! I blame it on the holiday pounds :) and I totally white washed Jam on the ground in front of the whole world, wow I got her good! EJ you watch out next time I am bringing my snowball maker! Keen gave Jam and I a "real" work out with the "P90X workout system" now say it again real slow and with a deep voice, "P90X workout system" lets just say that Tony the instructor will be recieving hate mail from my buns and thighs for the next month and a half! Then there was hot chocolate at the Willard lights where Lori almost puked in the car. And who could forget New Years Eve. My favorite Holiday. We partied with amazing food all night long! Mike full filled my dreams when he whooped out his gutar. SO SO SO much fun. Dan finally had to beg for me to go home and hit the sack.
It was just a blast the whole time. But there is always draw backs from being away from home. Like Hayden not sleeping threw the night, and pooping on all of poor lily's things! Or waking up with a huge knot in your back every morning, and not drinking out of the milk jug. But now things are back to normal. Hayden is back to being a sweet boy and sleeping 7-10 hours at night, and I can now walk normal (no thanks to Tony!) I miss all my family and hope to kick it with them again soon! Love you Mom!


Yeah, my mom has a "little" addiction to gambling. Lets just say this wasn't the first time she played this game!

The bowling alley where I contracted the FLU!

New Years Day (7 years to date of our first kiss!)

Mom and Dad bored out of their minds watching the girls sing!

A little bit of karaoke

Corbin was just the cutiest thing to Hayden. You would walk in the room and find Corbin cuddling on the floor with Hayden. But I don't know what I am going to do when my boy gets as big as Corbin, SO MUCH ENERGY!

One of the many "sleepover" parties that Ellie and Abbi threw.

More snuggles.

My crippled Dad who just had knee surgery AGAIN!

Jam getting ready to punch Tony, while Colleen comes behind with a karate chop.

Funest thing about being home, playing games until the wee morning hours!


Haydens Christmas P.J.'s while Ellie is playing doctor on him.

Opening presents Christmas morning (Me and Hades totally scored!)

Getting ready to watch the most anticipated show of the season!

You guessed it.... California Raisins Christmas Claymation. Also with the Easter and Halloween additions!

Tea Party with the girls. Yes, my son is a the underwritter for Java the hut!

Family Photos

While we were away for the Holidays we had family pictures and they turned out SO good. I have to admit my little man is getting more edible everyday! Daniel is always my sexy man! But I have TONS to blog about but not in the mood today. I will post more later but these pictures cannot wait!! ENJOY!

















....and yes it was freezing cold!