Life with my boys!

Happy 4th Birthday!

2010-06-05T09:40:00.000-07:00

Hayden, Can you really be 4 years old today? Where did the time go? It seems like just a short time ago you were just a baby, and then a 2 year old who I worried would never talk. Now you're 4 and you NEVER stop talking! You are independent, stubborn, talkative, always have to have things your way, and a terrible eater. Yet, you are also an extremely lovable, full of energy, funny, smart, beautiful 4 year old boy. You love to be outside, love your momma, try to act like your daddy, and pick on your brother one minute but hugs and kiss him the next. You love trains and cars! You love to take all of your toys apart which results in lots of toys getting thrown away because we lose pieces. Everything you have has to have a trailer, which you learned from your daddy since he always has a trailer with his lawn equipment in it. As frustrating as it can be that all your toys are tied together and I can never find my hair twisties (because that is what you use to tie your toys together), I hope I never forget that you did that at this age! Four years ago today, your daddy and I went to the hospital so excited to meet you! I wondered what you would look like, what you would be like, how my life would change with you in it! Today, I can say you were the most wonderful surprise! There are days I go to bed exhausted because of you, but then you come cuddle up next to me and tell me, "I love you mommy princess!" and I can't imagine my life without you in it! You tell me you will always be my baby, but one day you will grow up like daddy. I never knew how fast time flew by until you were born. I never knew I could love someone so much! Happy 4 years my sweet baby boy! You are so special and so loved!!

Top 2 Tuesday: Dates

2010-05-25T08:43:00.000-07:00

Josh and I hardly ever go on dates! With two boys ages 4 and 19 months-it's hard to go anywhere. Our family is 2 hours away so we rarely have anyone to watch the boys. When they do happen to get the boys for the weekend our idea of a date is sitting on the couch relaxing and enjoying the quiet and not having to get up every 2 minutes to get the boys something! Hah!

1. Our idea of a date when the boys are around is waiting until they go to bed and watching shows we have dvr'd or a blockbuster movie with a bowl of ice cream!

2. When we do have a weekend alone, we will usually go out to eat and go see a movie. Sometimes we will go to the mall or a local outside shopping center and walk around, or go get ice cream at Coldstone!

I know-not very original, but it's hard with little kids. Maybe when they get older, we will have more exciting dates!! :)

Show us your life-Favorite Books/Children's Books

2010-05-14T06:18:00.000-07:00

Kelly at Kelly's Korner is doing Show us your Life-Favorite Books and Children's books today.

I love, love, love to read! I am in school to be an elementary teacher, so I have some favorite Children books too. Some of my favorite are...

Anything by Beverly Cleary

A Bad Case of the Stripes-This is such a cute book!
I loved The Baby Sitters Club books growing up and the Sweet Valley Twins series!

I love anything by Judy Blume

I love these Junie B Jones books. They are so cute and I love Junie!

I have many more, but this post could get really long!

I still love to read any chance I get, though it's harder now with a family and trying to finish school. I love to read anything by Nicholas Sparks, Jodie Picoult, Sophie Kinsella, Danielle Steel, Nora Roberts. I have lots of other favorite authors as well. I recently read The Help, which I really enjoyed! I love The Harry Potter series, and the Twilight books as well!

Happy Weekend :)

2010-04-16T05:35:00.000-07:00

I'm so glad classes are over for this week! We don't really have anything planned for the weekend. Josh is working tomorrow and I have school work to do for next week-but next week, the majority of our big projects are due so the last week or two should be less stressful! After classes, I will have a couple weeks of a break, before my summer class starts. I really tried to avoid a summer class, but it was inevitable if I want to graduate next May! But one class isn't too bad! But anyways, I am planning on finishing the Beth Moore Book- "So Long Insecurity". My friend and I are going to a simulcast conference to watch her next weekend ( We waited too long and couldn't get tickets for the "real deal". ) Does anyone have any exciting weekend plans?

Our Weekend!

2010-04-13T07:53:00.000-07:00

We had a good weekend. Josh's work load was minimal so we got to spend more time with him than usual on the weekends. Friday night, Josh and I watched the movie Everybody's Fine. I've been wanting to see it, but we usually don't rent movies unless we can get them using a free red box code and the last few times he has gone up to a red box, they don't have it. So, we splurged :) and rented it On Demand.I'm so glad we did. It was so good, but I cried the entire time! You know when you cry a lot, it can be exhausting? I told Josh after we watched it, I was exhausted from crying so much! I don't know if everyone would find it that sad, but my entire life, I have had this thing for older men being lonely and not having anyone! It just broke my heart that he was by himself and he had to go visit his family to see them. A lot of other little things happened along the way that were sad, but I won't ruin it for those that haven't seen it yet. If you haven't seen it, you should definitely rent it. It was good!

Saturday-We didn't do too much. Josh worked a little bit in the morning and the boys and I hung out. I did some school work that I needed to get finished for this week. When Josh got home, we went grocery shopping and then went and ate Mexican ( I had to get the chef's name for something we are doing for one of my classes).

Sunday- We got up and went to church and we tried a new Sunday School class. This is really stepping out of my comfort zone, but we joined our church a little over a year ago and really haven't done anything to get involved. I had been praying that God would open a door for us to get involved and a couple weeks ago, Josh got an e-mail personally inviting us to this young adult Sunday School class and I felt like it was an answer to my prayer so we went. I really liked it and I think Josh did too. Everyone was really nice and it's not too big and we weren't the only new people so that was good. I still am positive we are probably the youngest couple there, but I guess I just need to get used to that! After church we went to Subway and then came home for long naps. Then we took the boys to the park for a little while. We had told Hayden we would take him to the pool, because they just opened our community pool, but we have had some cold mornings and nights and were afraid the water wouldn't be warm enough, so we settled for the park! I didn't take any pictures though! My camera's battery is about to die and I need to charge it!

Easter 2010! (lots of pictures)

2010-04-05T06:20:00.000-07:00

We had a great Easter with family. We originally did not think we were going to be able to go to South Carolina to visit, but Josh worked hard on Friday to get everything done for work that he was going to have to do Saturday so we could go! I'm glad we did! Saturday, we went to Josh's parents (gigi's and papaws). Hayden and Cayson's cousins were there and they played outside ALL day. We had an Easter egg hunt and they dyed Easter eggs! Cayson thought he would try and eat the Easter egg dye, so his lips were blue the rest of the day :)

Then Sunday, we spent Easter with my family. We went to church for their Easter service, but only stayed about 10 minutes. Since it's not our church, I do not feel comfortable taking them to the nursery because we just do not go enough and Cayson can be really funny about who he will stay with, and they just were not going to last the whole church service. They were not bad, but they were making noises and moving around and we finally just left because some of the church members were being slightly dramatic and turning around and staring at us! But after church my family came to my parents and we had a yummy Easter lunch and had another Easter egg hunt for the boys!Hayden and Cayson's Easter baskets. The Easter bunny brought Hayden a memory game, a nerf gun thing, bubbles, a football, m&m's and smarties. Cayson got a new Mickey Mouse club house juice cup, a ball, bubbles, smarties, and goldfish.

We took family pictures after church because we were rushing out the door and didn't have time to before church.

My brother and me.

My parents, brother and me.

My little family!

My sweet boys!

Hayden and daddy putting together an Easter gift from grandmother!

What kids say!

2010-04-02T11:09:00.000-07:00

We weren't planning to go to South Carolina this weekend for Easter, because Josh had a job he was going to do all day tomorrow. But, he called me this morning and asked if I wanted to go because he thought he could get that job finished today. So of course I said yes. I told Hayden a few minutes later we were going to go to mimi's and papa's (my mom and dad's) later today so we needed to start cleaning up. He looked at me and asked and gigi's and papaw's (Josh's mom and dad)? and I said yes! He looked at me and said, "Mom, that is amazing!" Haha! He has been using big words lately and I think it's just the cutest thing.

He said something else that was funny this morning. He was laying on the couch watching his cartoons (like he does every morning) and Cayson went over and was talking (babbling) and Hayden said, "Cayson, shhh! I can't concentrate!" Hah!

New read

2010-03-12T05:47:00.001-08:00

I haven't been blogging this week, because my free time has been spent reading this...I love to read and I love Jodi Picoult. It's really good so far!

Our day at the park! (Lots of Pictures!)

2010-03-08T06:46:00.000-08:00

I haven't posted in awhile, because something happened to my camera lens and I had to send it to Nikon to get it fixed! But, this weekend was so pretty and we took full advantage of it. I'm really hoping the winter weather is gone! I have been wanting to go to this park near our house and get some pictures of the boys, so after Church Sunday, Josh and I got the boys dressed in one of their matching Spring outfits and took them! I can not believe we have not been to this park. We have lived here for 2 1/2 years and this park is only like 3 minutes away from our house and it's so pretty. The playground was crowded so we will probably never go there for the playground since we have another really nice park with about 6 different playground near our house and they aren't near as crowded, but to walk around and take pictures and even have a picnic, this one was perfect!Here's some of my pictures at the park!I was hoping to get more of the two of them, but unfortunately Hayden is my child and all he could worry about was Cayson falling in the pond...even though he was no where near it most of the time and when he was even slightly close, Josh or I were right next to him!

My boys and me!
There were people riding their horses and they stopped and let the kids pet them!
This one makes me laugh! I'm not sure what Hayden was doing.

We had a great time and I think I got some pretty good pictures! I can't believe how old my boys are looking!

Julie and Julia

2010-01-20T10:56:00.000-08:00

If you haven't seen this movie and want to and don't like to know the endings(like me) before you watch don't read.
Josh brought this movie home yesterday for us to watch. I wasn't sure I wanted to see it when it first came out, but had mentioned wanting to see it a few days ago since there aren't really any movies out currently that I want to rent. I actually enjoyed it for the most part. It made me hungry though:) I also thought the Julia parts were kind of boring and her voice really bugged me throughout the movie. I also didn't like that Julie never got to actually meet Julia, but overall it was pretty cute. I'm glad I didn't spend the movie to see it in the theater though. Some of those recipes, I really want to try. Josh and I were both salivating over some of those dishes!

We're home!

2010-01-05T07:16:00.001-08:00

We are finally home. It seems like forever since we've been here. In fact, Hayden asked me this morning why we were at his house? We have been to Josh's grandmother's, the mountains, Josh's parents and my parent's house in the almost 2 weeks since we left so I guess I can not blame him by wondering why we are back at our house. Anyways, we had a great time, but are happy to be home. We started our Christmas festivities at Josh's grandmother's on the 23 and then left on the 24th around 8:00 pm. We got to Tennessee around 3:00 am on Christmas Morning. My poor mom and papa stayed up waiting on us. We thought both boys would go to sleep immediately upon our arrival. If we had any trouble it would be Hayden since he slept our whole trip, but all we would have to do is put him in the bed with us and he'd be fine. We thought Cayson would lay right down since he was awake most of our trip. Hah! He had other plans and kept his daddy up all night and then slept almost all of Christmas day and so did my poor husband! We had a great, relaxing time in the mountains though and Cayson was fine the rest of the week. We didn't do as much as we normally do, but it was nice to be able to relax and not have anything to do. We left on the 31st (Josh's birthday...He turned 25!) and went to my parents house to spend a few days with them. We always do a big New Year's Day dinner. However, I did not stay awake to ring in the New Year. Hayden and I fell asleep around 11:00 pm and that was just fine with me! Yesterday, we went to the hospital because my papa had a coronary(I think that is the name) cath put in to look at his arteries. We were afraid he was going to have to have bypass surgery, bu the doctor's were able to put stints in instead. He is doing well and we are so thankful he doesn't have to have the bypass surgery and is doing good. While I was at the hospital, my boys went over to Josh's parents to hang out for awhile. Once I was able to see my papa after the procedure and talk to him, I met Josh and we were on our way home. My dear husband turned the heat off though and when we got home it was 50 degrees in our house. So he turned the heat on and we went and ran some errands to let the house warm up some. So we finally got home around 8:30 last night and today I have been trying to get bags unpacked, wash cloths and all that good stuff. I start school back on Thursday and we are going back to SC on Friday for a wedding we have this weekend so I'm trying to get our house in order.

Christmas Travels!

2009-12-23T06:20:00.000-08:00

We're heading out today and won't be back until sometime on the 31st. We're going to do Christmas with Josh's family today and tomorrow and then tomorrow night we're driving to Tennessee. My family always rents a cabin at Christmas time so we will be there until the 31st. I am so excited!! We eat and relax all week.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!

Christmas Card Carousel

2009-12-16T10:52:00.000-08:00

This is the first year we've done family Christmas Cards so I'm joining the Christmas Card Carousel here.
We were going to have professional pictures of the boys done this year, but ran out of time so we took them ourselves. I think they turned out pretty good for us doing them ourselves.

Family Santa Photo!

2009-12-16T10:32:00.000-08:00

We took the boys to see Santa Sunday. We stood in line for 2 1/2 hours and Cayson would NOT sit in his lap! The minute he realized his daddy was trying to hand him off to someone he screamed! So...we took a family Santa picture! I wonder if that means we all get gifts from Santa ;) Anyways, here is our sweet picture that I will treasure forever!!
Oh, and kind of funny story. Santa thought I was the sister of Hayden and Cayson. My dad had walked out to the car and my mom was standing with us and I guess he thought Josh was married to my mom and I was the daughter! Hah! My mom is pretty young and could definitely pass as the mom of Hayden and Cayson and she looks even younger than she is. (I won't give her age, but she's younger than 41, but not in her 30's ;) ) We actually get funny looks a lot. We met my mom the other night because she was picking up the boys (again my dad was not with her) and it seriously felt like everyone was looking at us when we were walking out of the restaurant. I'm sure they were trying to figure out which one of us was married to Josh and the mom of Hayden and Cayson! :)

Cayson's Birthday

2009-12-03T06:08:00.000-08:00

Cayson's turned 1 on November 3rd. We had his party that following Sunday. We really didn't do a whole lot. I know it's his first birthday and everything, but I wasn't really anticipating a lot of people, because we had it on a Sunday and most of Josh's family would have to come in from out of town. We would have had it on Saturday, but as I mentioned in the post before, we took the boys to ride the polar express in NC!

Here's some pictures of Cayson's birthday party!

Cayson's smash cake

The big cake

Trying to decide what to do.

Then daddy put his face in it and he was through with it after that! He didn't eat one bite of his cake!
Hayden and Cayson with my papa:)

Opening presents with big brother, Hayden, helping

Hayden playing with Cayson's new toys!

Now pictures of his first hair cut :(

Please ignore the silly face I'm making. I was in the middle of laughing.

It took 3 of us to keep him still

Isn't he handsome?? I can't believe he's 1!!

About my sweet 1 year old!

He's walking!! Everywhere!!
You can definitely tell he's the baby of the family. He plays that roll well.
His personality is so different from Hayden's. Hayden was more independent. Cayson is much more cuddly than Hayden was. Cayson loves to be held, kissed, rocked, cuddled.
Cayson is a total mommy's boy whereas Hayden was all about his daddy!
He gives kisses with his mouth wide open right on the lips! Those are the best!
He's wearing 12-18 month clothes for the most part, but lately we've been buying him 18-24 month shirts because he's got a chubby little tummy, but he's short so 18-24 pants are too long!
He's in size 5 diapers!
He only has 4 teeth. Two on top and two on the bottom.
He LOVES ritz crackers. Seriously, I think we go through a a pack a day!
He's a GREAT eater. He eats everything. Josh was feeding him spinach the other day and he was gobbling it up. Hayden was never that good of a eater and was and still is SOO picky, but not Cayson!
All of a sudden he hates baths. I don't know if Hayden did something to him in the bathtub one day, but he used to love them now he cries if he thinks we're about to put him in.
He loves his big brother. He just sits and watches him!!

I'm back!

2009-11-23T06:40:00.000-08:00

I realize it has been JULY since I lasted posted! I can not believe I have not blogged since then. I do however read blogs all the time. I've just been busy with school and the boys. (I know that is always my excuse). Anyways, I realize no one probably even comes to my blog anymore, but I'm really going to try and blog more often! We have had a lot going on and the boys are getting so big. I have lots to share!

Right now, we are getting ready for the Holiday season! This is my favorite time of year. Although, I wish it would actually get cold and stay cold here in Georgia! We've had warm temperatures all through out November and I'm ready for some cooler temperatures. I'm also wishing it would stop raining!! We have gotten so much rain lately. It's a complete turn around from the drought we experienced previously and I guess I'd rather have rain than no rain, but this rain is really messing Josh up with his work (He owns a landscaping business). So when it's raining, he's not working, which means he's not making any money! Hopefully, next year we will have a happy medium between the no rain at all and the floods we've been having this year :) Anyways, I'm so excited for Christmas this year. Hayden is 3 and will be at such a fun age! He's actually got some things he really wants and he's actually into Santa this year (and we have definitely NOT been using the Santa is watching you thing to get him to do things...like go to bed at night;) ). I'm excited about watching him on Christmas day. We took him and Cayson a couple of weeks ago to ride on The Polar Express in North Carolina and Hayden had so much fun!! He loves trains and was just so excited to actually get to ride on it (that is where are picture up top is from and if you noticed, Hayden is not looking at the camera, because he is too busy looking at the train). Here's some pictures...

Josh and Cayson before getting on the train!

Josh and Hayden on the train

All 3 of my boys!! We had a lot of fun!

We also celebrated Cayson's 1st birthday this month! He turned 1 on November 3rd. He also got his 1st hair cut. He's looking like such a little boy and walking everywhere. I can't believe how quickly this year flew by. I'll try and post some pictures of his Birthday in another post. This one's getting kind of long!

I know I have mentioned a lot about Christmas and we haven't even gotten to Thanksgiving yet. We are very excited about Thanksgiving as well!! We are going to South Carolina on Wednesday and staying until Sunday. We are doing Thanksgiving on Thursday with my family and then Friday with Josh's. Josh and I are having a movie date night on Friday as well. We figure we won't be hungry after all the food we will have stuffed our faces with Thursday and Friday so we are forgoing dinner and going to see New Moon and The Blind Side. Two movies, we have been dying to see. (Well maybe not New Moon for Josh so much, but he loves me so he's going to sit through it with me). Then on Saturday I'm going shopping with my mom and mama! Then on Sunday we are eating at a Japanese restaurant for my brother's birthday which was this past Friday (he turned 17). Can't believe it!! So we have a busy week, but are very excited to see everyone!! Well, I know this post has gotten long. (I'm trying to make up for the 4 months of blogging that I've missed). I'll be back to share some more of what we've been up to!!

Our Weekend 07/24-07/26

2009-07-28T04:57:00.001-07:00

We had a pretty normal, uninteresting weekend. We did go to a soccer game on Friday though. Josh's sister plays soccer and their team made it to the playoffs so we went and watched them play and they won. Since Hayden was at the beach with my parents, we just took Cayson and he was so good. We took his carseat in and he just sat there and looked around pretty much the entire time. If Hayden had gone, he would have been good too, he just wouldn't have sat there the entire time. Then Saturday, Josh had to work so Cayson and I just hung out. He slept most of the time (I think he might be having a growth spurt) and I cleaned some and enjoyed my last day of only one child. When Josh came home we both laid on the couch through 2 lifetime movies before we finally got up to get ready. (Yes, I have a sweet wonderful husband who will watch lifetime movies with me and I think he actually enjoys them!) We met my parents at Outback later that night to pick Hayden up, and then had a reality check when he talked the ENTIRE way home! Hah! But, we really were so glad to have him back home. Josh and I both missed him so much. Cayson did too! Then on Sunday we got up and went to church, ate brunch at IHop, and then came home and while the boys were napping Josh and I spent our time playing scrabble. We played once the boys went to bed for the night as well. We were actually looking forward to playing. You know your life has gotten boring when you look forward to playing scrabble. We're like an old married couple ,and we're only in our early to mid twenties! Anyways I got a couple of cute pictures of the boys this weekend that I wanted to share.

This is on Sunday Morning before Church. My boys really do love each other. I hope it will last! Hayden sometimes gets mad at Cayson for trying to play with his toys (We're working on sharing), but for the most part they are so sweet with one another.

See Holly in the back ground?? She can't be left out and she LOVES Cayson, so 99% of the time she is right with him.

Later Sunday afternoon, I was on the computer and Hayden came in with this Awful hat (Josh and I disagree on football teams and unfortunately I think my boys will probably side with him) on, but I thought he was cute anyways, so I took a couple of pictures of him.

Show us your Dress!

2009-07-24T06:19:00.001-07:00

This is the first time I am participating in the Show us where you Live or now the "Show us your life" Friday's on Kelly's Korner. I'm excited to participate. Today is Show us your wedding dress. None of these are really full length pictures of my dress. All I have are prints and these were already scanned onto the computer. I'm too lazy to scan any others, but I think you can see it for the most part. I loved my wedding dress! My husband, Josh, and I will be married 3 years in August! I can't believe 3 years has passed since this day...

MckLinky Favorite Photo-Blog Hop

2009-07-07T07:02:00.000-07:00

8 months!

2009-07-07T06:14:00.000-07:00

Cayson turned 8 months old last Friday, July 3. He is getting so big!!

Things he is doing now...

1. Crawling around everywhere(he has a cute crawl...he will crawl a little bit and then push himself in a sitting position and then crawl a little bit more and then do it again. It's funny!)
2. "Talking" This is something he has started within the past week and he "talks" nonstop. I love the little babbling stage. He is saying dada and baba. Hayden is so funny with this, because we will say," Cayson say dada" and he will, so Hayden's been going up to him and saying, "Say Hayden" over and over again.
3. Blowing bubbles. He blows bubbles all of the time. He likes to do while he's eating too and then gets his food everywhere.
4. Still sleeping great! He goes to bed around 7:30 or 8:00 and usually wakes up the next morning around 7:30 or 8:00 for a bottle. He's gotten to where he takes 1 long nap. He'll lay down around 10:00 or so and sleep for 3 or 4 hours.
5. He's gotten better in the car. For some reason he's the only baby I know that would not fall asleep in the car. He's pretty perfect all the time, but when we would get in the car he would start fussing, but when we went to SC last weekend he was great the whole time.
6. He has started pulling himself into a standing position.
7. He still does not have any teeth. Hayden got teeth right around 4 months, so this is new for me. We keep joking that we're going to have to get him false teeth. The doctor doesn't seem too concerned so we're just waiting for that first tooth! Hopefully, it will come soon!

We just love him so much! He was a perfect addition to our family!

Birthday Boy!

2009-06-05T09:45:00.001-07:00

Hayden is 3 today. I really can't believe he's 3! He's getting so big. For the most part, I really enjoy this stage. He's beginning to be more independent and it's easier to take him places. I'm sad he's growing up, but it's fun to watch him now and see his personality developing. The only thing that I don't like about this stage is the non stop talking!! I mean really...it's NON STOP! What really gets me though is that his teachers at day care say they can't get him to talk. We always tell them they need to come home with us, but then maybe he wouldn't talk then either. It's just funny because as soon as we leave he talks until he goes to bed! Now Josh and I wonder why we ever wanted him to talk. Haha! But it really is amazing to hear him and watch him. He is just learning new stuff every day and sometimes he says thing and I don't even know where he learned that. Anyways, here are some pictures of my birthday boy!

His daddy just had to give him a gift on his birthday...even though his party is tomorrow. So unwrapped and everything he got some baseball stuff. Excuse his hair...he had just woken up.

So excited!

Just in case you noticed...his crocs are on the wrong feet. Josh and I stopped arguing with him because he insists on wearing them like that.

7 Months!

2009-06-03T08:35:00.000-07:00

Today my baby is 7 months old.

Things he is doing now.

1. He has started eating yogurt. We give him vanilla flavored and he LOVES it!!
2. He can get up on his hands and knees at the same time. He even pushed himself into a sitting position twice now. I really think he will start crawling any day now. He's so close! I'm not sure if I'm excited about this phase or not, because now I won't be able to keep him still.
3. He still doesn't have any teeth. I know Hayden had teeth before this...he got his first tooth around 4 months so hopefully he will get some soon.
4. Smiling and laughing all the time.
5. He likes to watch Hayden's cartoons and loves to watch his big brother. I'm just sure he's watching all the things Hayden is doing now that he shouldn't be and can't wait to test my patience too! :)
6. Tries to grab the spoon away from me while I'm feeding him.

Here's a couple of pictures of him trying to sit up. (I think my wonderful husband deleted my Adobe photo shop off my laptop and I just now realized it... so these pictures don't look great because I couldn't edit them.)

Hey mom...what you doing?

He's starting to get angry here. This was right before he gave up and toppled over!

Our Weekend!

2009-05-18T07:10:00.000-07:00

Josh, the boys and I went to my parents this weekend so we could go to a wedding. My best friend growing up got married and it was a beautiful wedding. We were best friends for years. Then I moved schools and we kind of lost touch, but it was so wonderful being able to see her get married, and yet kind of weird too. I have so many memories of us a little girls and it truly seems like just yesterday. Anyways, we had a good time! We didn't get to stay for the entire reception, because we had to get home to our boys who my grandparents were watching since my parents went to the wedding with us.

Here are some pictures... Josh and me at the reception
My mom and me at the reception. (I know she looks kind of tired...she's been sick for the past week) Me and the Bride, Anna. My mom had to get this picture. She has a picture of us,when we were little, that Anna gave me when we were younger playing in leaves and she wanted a picture of us to put beside it.
Josh and me before we left the reception.

6 months!

2009-05-05T07:29:00.000-07:00

My little man turned 6 months old Sunday, March 3rd. He's getting so big!

What he's doing:

Rolling around everywhere! I think he wants to start crawling too. He can get up on his knees and his hands. He just hasn't figured out how to do both at the same time yet. So, I'm thinking maybe by next month he will have mastered this.

We had to go to the doctor 2 weeks ago for an ear infection and he weighed 17 pounds 1 ounce. Oops! This reminds me, he has a doctor's appointment coming up really soon and I have no idea when it is. We may have missed it...off to call! Update: We went to the doctor today and he weight 18 lbs! He's in the 59th percentile!

He's a big eater. He's eating oatmeal in the morning, 2 things of baby food at lunch and 2 things of baby food at dinner. He's also drinking three 8 ounce bottles of formula.

We introduced juice to him this month. I dilute it heavily, but he seems to like it.

Here are some recent pictures!

I love his chunky little legs!!

Our weekend 04/25-04/26 and lots of pictures!

2009-05-03T07:10:00.000-07:00

I have been meaning to post this for several days, but have been busy studying for finals. Anyways, this was our weekend. We had a great one! It's going to start with Sunday though, since I downloaded the pictures backwards and I'm too lazy to fix them.

Sunday we went to the park. We have a really nice one about 2 minutes away from our house and Hayden loves it! We are going to start going every Sunday, after church. Though, we didn't go the past weekend due to the swine or H1N1 flu going around. I'm really trying to limit their exposure to another people right now as much as I can, but once it settles down, we will start going every Sunday.

Saturday, we had a festival type thing in the city we live in. We missed the parade, but we went to the festival and walked around. It was pretty neat. Their were lots of businesses set up advertising their business. Josh said he's going to try and do that next year. But they had lots of food and activities set up for children. It was fun.

Here's Hayden on the pony. I was telling him to smile at daddy, but I think he was a little nervous about riding. He had fun though.
Here's Cayson watching his brother. He was great the whole time. He's like his brother and loves to be outside.
Hayden was showing me what pony he wanted to ride.
This is so funny! They had a little place set up where you could go and pet the animals. Hayden had so much fun doing this. He likes to terrorize the animals though. He was chasing them instead of petting them.

Here's Hayden sliding on the big inflatable slide thing they had. He loved this!

Time Out!

2009-04-18T10:28:00.000-07:00

Hayden has now started putting us in time-out for things that he doesn't like. It's too funny. Yesterday, Josh said something to me(I don't even remember now) and for some reason Hayden didn't like it. I don't know if he was trying to talk to me or get my attention or what now. But, he looked at Josh and said, "Don't talk to mommy, daddy! You need to go to time-out." Haha! It was so funny. So, Josh went and sat in the corner like Hayden told him to. Hayden's nice though and only made him sit there for about 5 seconds before he told him he could get up and grabbed his hand to help him. I guess it was just on his mind because while he was at his school yesterday a little girl bit him on the finger. I think they were trying to play with the same toy. I was so proud of him for not biting her back. The teachers said that he just kind of looked her with this face of shock...like why did you just do that to me. But she had to sit in time-out. So that was all the could talk about yesterday...the girl biting him and her having to sit in time-out. But I just thought it was so funny that he told his daddy he needed to sit in time out.

Our Weekend and lots of pictures!

2009-04-15T17:47:00.001-07:00

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and a wonderful Easter. I know it's a little late, but anyways...we had a good Easter weekend. We spent the weekend with my parents. Saturday, we gave my uncle's fiance a wedding shower. They got lots of great stuff. Most of it was pink...Becky (his fiance) is obsessed with pink so now just about everything in their kitchen will be pink. It was fun though and we had good food...and strawberry cake...my favorite!!! On Sunday, we went to my parents church (although I'm thinking some maybe wished we hadn't...I'll tell that in a minute) and then had lunch with all my family at my parents house. Josh and I completely missed the service because we took Hayden and Cayson in with us instead of taking them to the nursery because it's not our regular church and I didn't want to leave them somewhere unfamiliar and then during the service Hayden got sick. He had gotten sick earlier in the morning and while we were slightly concerned he acted fine and didn't get sick for like 2 hours and both times it was after he drank Sunny D. We kind of began to wonder if it was the juice. We are 99.9% sure he didn't have a stomach virus because if my mom or I come anywhere near someone with it we both catch it and neither one of us got anything...so I don't know what was wrong with him. After he got sick he kept saying he wanted fries so we stopped at McDonalds and got him hash browns since it was too early for fries. After he ate them he was fine the rest of the day. But other than that we had a good day. We got to spend the day eating yummy food and Josh got to go to a Clemson game with my aunt,uncle, cousin and brother. He had fun...even though he isn't a Clemson fan and told the guy sitting beside him he was rooting for the other team.
Here are lots of pictures from our weekend! I wanted a family picture so bad, but we didn't have time before church and when we got back Hayden had sunny d all over his shirt and by the time I washed and dried them we had all changed.
His daddy loved this picture...ha! (He is not a Clemson fan!)

The next pictures our of Hayden's Easter Egg Hunt.
Haha! I think he's too cute!
I thought this was sweet!

5 months!

2009-04-05T09:55:00.000-07:00

Cayson turned 5 months Friday. He's getting so big!He was a little slow on rolling over, but is now rolling back to front and front to back constantly. He loves being on his tummy too and as soon as I lay him in his crib he is flipped over on the tummy. He is eating baby food and loves it. I give him cereal and fruit in the mornings and then a veggie and fruit for lunch and veggie and fruit for dinner. He usually has 2-3 bottles during the day as well. He's a good eater. He loves his big brother and watches everything he does and laughs at him. (I'm scared! :) ) He is just the sweetest thing. The only time he ever cries is when he's hungry or tired and when he's tired he just kind of whimpers. He really likes playing with his little toys. He also sleeps great. We get about 12 hours at night and he's taking 2 naps during the day. Usually an 1 hour long one in the morning and 1 2-3 hour one in the afternoon. We just love him more and more and are so glad he is in our family. I think he is going to be much more mellow than his brother...at least that is what I keep telling myself, and everyday I beg with him not to get any bigger. It seems like yesterday that we were in the hospital with him. :(
And here's a picture of my other munchkin! He's soon to be 3! Where does time go?! :(

March Pictures!

2009-03-13T07:34:00.001-07:00

It's been awhile since I've blogged. I'm a horrible blogger...I've just been so busy. Well actually, this week I've been on Spring Break and I've just been lazy! But anyways...I've gotten some cute pictures of my boys I wanted to share!

I love this picture!! I can't believe he's 4 months already, and my big boy is already in 6-12 month clothes!

Don't you just love a sleeping baby?! Unfortunately after I took this picture he woke up and it took me about an hour to get him to go back to sleep. Not sure how many more sleeping baby pictures I'll take.

Sweet brotherly love! I hope they will always be close!

Our snow of the year. It's so funny how our weather is, but we lived in the South all our lives so we're used to it. It snowed one day though and then the following week it's 80 degrees and now we're back down in the 50's for a couple of days. Anyways, Hayden wasn't so sure because I couldn't find his gloves anywhere so his little hands were cold. He was only out there for about 5 minutes. I felt bad that we could not find his gloves so he could play in it longer.

Here's a picture of my hubby in the snow...just cause I think he's cute! :)

4 months!

2009-03-07T06:23:00.000-08:00

My baby was 4 months on Tuesday. He got to spend some quality time with his daddy yesterday. They went to the doctor for his 4 month appointment. I had class from 9-1:30 so I wasn't able to go with them. It went well though. He weighs almost 16 lbs and is 25 inches long. He had to get 2 shots too:( I don't mind missing that. I hate to see him cry.

He is still a really happy baby. Only cries when he's hungry. He has had a few grumpy moments, but I think he may be getting a tooth. He's been drooling a ton and trying to chew on everything.

He is so close to rolling over and could do it if he wanted to. He is rolling on his side, but then stops and plays with his feet. It's cute.

He laughs all the time and loves his big brother. He always is watching him and laughing at him.

We started cereal. I tried it in a bowl feeding him with a baby spoon first, but he couldn't quite figure out how to swallow it and his tongue kept pushing it back out so we've been putting it in a bottle and he likes it that way. The doctor also told us we could slowly start introducing baby food so I'm excited about that. I love being able to feed them food and not just formula.

Our weekend!

2009-02-24T16:26:00.000-08:00

This past Sunday we had our boys baptized and joined a church we have attended for the past couple of months. It was a really nice day. Our families got to join us and we went out to eat to Provino's afterwards. Provino's is a really good Italian restaurant.

Saturday we went to have the boy's pictures made. We had made an appointment at 4. We got
there about10 minutes early and they told us they would get to us in about 20 minutes. Well, after we sat there forever and they were only on their 3:15 appointments Cayson needs a bottle and then proceeds to have a major blowout all over his outfit he was wearing in the picture and Sunday when he got baptized. So we had to change his appointment,but it was really fine with me. We were all getting hungry and probably would have sat there for another hour. So,we went on Sunday evening and they turned out pretty good. Hayden and Cayson both have extremely dry skin and because Cayson's is so sensitive anyways just being a baby he's little cheeks were so red and dry. Poor thing! It itches him so then he scratches at it and gets little scratch marks on his face. So all this was kind of noticeable in the pictures. But, I really wanted a picture of them in their Baptismal outfits and knew if we waited we would never get it done and also run the risk that Cayson would not fit in his.

Here are some of my favorites.

Success so far!

2009-02-17T16:10:00.000-08:00

I was a little nervous starting back school. It's been a little while since I've been in class and had to take tests and study. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to handle everything especially with 2 kids on top of it all. It's been a little tough...mainly getting into a routine. Josh is working lots so I'm at home by myself with 2 kids and it makes it much more difficult to get stuff done and concentrate on studying, but today I got my first test back and made an A and I made an A on a project I got back last week. So, it's going pretty well, but it is definitely a lot harder with 2 kids. However, in a way I think it helps me because when I get some quiet time I completely devote that time to school work since I don't know how long that free time will last and I really don't do well staying up crazy hours to get things done. I'm one of those people that needs at least 8 hours of sleep to function and would really prefer about 10.

Valentines Day!

2009-02-16T16:46:00.001-08:00

We didn't do much for Valentines Day. I actually went to my parents the day before because I made a hair appointment for Hayden and the soonest day she had available was Valentines Day and he was needing it bad. Josh had to work so he stayed here and plus we don't have anyone around here I know and trust to watch my babies for us to go out on a romantic date or anything. I also choose not to go out on Valentines Day nights. You may not know this about me, but big crowds make me really anxious and I can get a little frustrated and moody so we try and avoid big crowds and long waits. But my sweet husband didn't let me go without something. He never misses a holiday and I feel bad, because I never get him anything. He tried to surprise me, but Josh is horrible keeping secrets and told me he got something and wanted me to guess. Well, I did. I hate when he does that to me, because I really do like surprises and he never can surprise me because he can't keep secrets. Anyways, I have been wanting a Vera Bradley make up bag so he picked one out for me and did a really good job. I love it and it's a lot better than the old one I had. He also got me a really sweet card!

3 months!

2009-02-16T16:20:00.000-08:00

I know I am so behind. Cayson turned 3 months February 3rd, but a little late is better than never right?? Anyways, I know this has been my excuse lately, but I've been so busy with school and spending all my time away from studying with my 3 boys.
But here is my little monkey!
He is getting so big! He is the best baby though. We just love him. He is always full of smiles and rarely ever cries except when he is hungry. He has gotten to where he eats 8 ounces of formula at a time and he is sleeping great! He goes to bed sometime between 6:00 and 7:00pm and sleeps straight through until about 7:30 am. He also takes 2-3 naps during the day. So we feel really lucky that we got another good baby. Hayden was like this as well. They just know their momma couldn't handle colic or no sleep.

And... here is a picture of my other little man in my life just because I think he's so cute!

We got a few little snow flurries so here he is trying to catch the snow with his tongue.

Christmas Pictures

2009-01-21T09:40:00.000-08:00

I know it's really late to be putting up Christmas pictures. I meant to do it much earlier, but have been so busy with school and trying to get in a routine with all our busy schedules. So anyways, I guess better late than never. Sorry, these are not in order!

So excited!!!
Riding his new tractor!
His only nap the week we were in Tennessee.

My sweet chunky monkey!
Bath time!
My silly little elf!

After a long car ride it's 1:30 am and of course Hayden's ready to go.

Quiet House

2009-01-20T06:21:00.000-08:00

Well, my babies are both in daycare today. It's amazing how when you have 2 little ones that you are home with all day you wish you could have just a few moments of quietness, 5 minutes without a baby crying or a 2 year old repeating stuff over and over again, or wish your 2 year would stop harassing the dog and chasing her around the house making her bark while he's squealing with delight. However, when they're not here I hate the quietness. I'm sitting here waiting for it to be time to go to school so I'm not sitting in our house without my babies and hopefully will be so busy at school I won't have time to think about them. Then, when I leave I will get to go pick them up. I think it went alright. Cayson was slightly easier to drop off because he's so little he doesn't care who has him as long as he's being fed, held, and changed, but Hayden was harder. I've also been at home with Hayden for 2 1/2 years. He's not used to having to share his attention or get up early, or not be able to choose what he eats for breakfast, lunch and snacks. He walked right in wanting to play with the trains, but when we started to leave he got a little teary. I hate this, but I couldn't hold it in. I didn't even hug him before we left because I was afraid I was going to lose it right there in his classroom and then upset him even more. I know it will get easier, and he's only going part time for right now. Plus, I can watch him on the internet as soon as it activates, but it's still hard knowing someone else is caring for your babies because you can't.

Daycare

2009-01-19T15:43:00.000-08:00

Well, my kiddos start daycare tomorrow. It's been so stressful trying to find one. We went to one today that I was sure we were going to use, but I hated it from the moment we walked in. If anyone knows me, they know I'm horrible at pretending things or lying or anything like that, so as soon as we got to the car Josh said so I guess they're not going there are they? Then I proceed to get teary eyed because this leaving my babies has been so hard on me. I have to go to class tomorrow and I missed a class last week because of the day care situation and can't tomorrow so us finding something today was crucial. So, my wonderful husband who really needed to go to work took me by another daycare that I've looked at, but is kind of expensive. Well, they didn't have anything available for part time which is what we are looking for right now, and the full time is so expensive. So we start going home and I'm so frustrated at this point. I don't know what we are going to do and we pass another day care on our way home, which we've passed numerous times before and I don't know how we missed it. So, Josh stops and goes in, talks to a lady for a couple of minutes and then comes back out and tells me to come look at it. We go in and I love it. I mean if I'm going to have to leave my kids somewhere this is where I want to leave them plus it's really close to our house. They have a code box on the outside and you get a special code you have to enter before you come in and then there's a computer to sign them in and once you do that opens the other door where the class rooms are at. So I feel really secure about leaving them there plus they have this thing called watch me grow where you can go online and see what your children are doing at all times. The only thing was they don't have space available for Cayson right now and probably won't until March 1st. After much consideration and lots of tears (I don't know why I'm so emotional about this) we have decided to go ahead and put Hayden in, and we are putting Cayson in the other one and we will switch him over when the one Hayden is at has space for him. This one Cayson will go to has the same safety features and it's a good day care as well, but it's really expensive (especially when we're paying for it so I can go to school...not because I'm working and bringing in an additional income) and they don't have anything for part time available so Cayson is enrolled full time which I doubt he will go and Hayden will go to the other one 3 days a week. Hopefully something will open up for Cayson really soon. However, I'm a little emotional about them not going to the same day care. I know it really doesn't matter because they won't be in the same room or anything, but it just makes me sad. Not to mention it's slightly inconvenient for us to have to drop off and pick up at 2 daycares, but they aren't that far apart and they are both on our way home. The inconvenient part will be that I have to pick Cayson up and get him situated in his car seat only to drive 3 minutes down the road and have to get him out of his care seat and go get Hayden and then get them both back in their car seats, but hopefully this will be a short term arrangement.

I'm dreading tomorrow though. Even though I feel comfortable in our daycare choices I'm really sad about not being able to be with my babies. I know it will be good for them though, and once I can finish school next year it will be good for me and our family. I know I will be an emotional wreck though and will probably be stalking them on the internet feature they have watching them to make sure everything is ok.

Recent Pictures Coming!

2009-01-16T09:54:00.000-08:00

In between taking care of the kids by myself (Josh is working a second job right now and isn't getting home until 9:00 pm), going to school, studying, trying to get child care while I'm at school situated I have been working on editing some pictures. I hope to get them up sometime today or tomorrow.

I haven't abandoned my blog!

2009-01-14T06:49:00.000-08:00

I know it seems like it since my last post was in mid December. I have lots of pictures to post and I've had plenty of stuff to blog about, however I've just been so busy I haven't had a chance. I started back to school full time January 5th so I've been trying to get back into the routine and it makes it slightly more interesting when you have 2 children you are trying to arrange child care for. Josh and I have been on the daycare hunt for about 2 weeks now and are still looking. I'm just having a really hard time thinking about someone else watching my children. I've been at home with Hayden since he was born and for me to have to hand him and Cayson over to someone else's care every day makes me really nervous, but I think it will be good for them, especially Hayden. I think Hayden will really enjoy playing with boys and girls his age and the structured environment will be good for him. I just want to make sure when I leave them every day that I feel 100% comfortable leaving them.

Anyways, I'm really going to work on updating my blog more often. Hopefully, once we get everyone settled into a routine I will be able to keep this blog updated.

Our Christmas Card!

2008-12-20T06:59:00.001-08:00

This is our Christmas Card for this year, although we did not send them out. We went to get the boys pictures made for Christmas this year, and part of the package was getting Christmas cards so we just picked this one. I didn't want to send them out though because this is one of the pictures everyone is getting and I didn't want them to see their picture before Christmas. (I don't think anyone in our family reads my blog) They are also getting an individual picture of Hayden and Cayson. I will put those up later. I think they turned out pretty good. I just wish we could have gotten one of them together with Cayson smiling, but maybe next year.

Pictures

2008-12-07T15:20:00.001-08:00

Here are a couple of 1 month pictures. Cayson went to the doctor the other day and weighed 10 lbs 3.5 ounces and was 22 1/8 inches longs. He is starting to stay awake longer during the day and is definitely more alert. We've even gotten a couple of smiles out of him. Also, I *think* we have gotten into a night routine. He is going to sleep around 11:00 pm and getting up around 4 am or 5 am to eat and then going back to sleep until about 8:00 or 9:00 am. He is also sleeping in his crib and not in our bed for the first stretch. Then we let him sleep in the bed with us. Once he starts moving around more though we will probably not do this anymore. For a couple of weeks there, I didn't think he was going to ever sleep in his crib. We would get him to sleep and about 5 minutes later would wake back up.

Now here are some pictures of Hayden. I'm afraid we have the future class clown. He is the biggest goof ball and we just can't help but laugh at him. He was totally hamming it up for the camera! Oh, and yes we have Reba on in the back ground. I think Josh and I have seen each episode at least 10 times but we watch it every night from 6-7 and 8-9.

1 month old.

2008-12-03T17:43:00.000-08:00

Cayson is 1 month old today. I knew it would go fast, but it really doesn't seem like he should be a month old today. I think he is a bit spoiled, because he has been held pretty much 24/7 since he was born and now I can hardly set him down or he cries. I think he is going to be our cuddle bug. He loves to be close to us all the time and is just happiest when he is being held. Hayden is so independent and always has been. He would sit in his swing for hours if we let him. Cayson sits there for 2 minutes and if you are out of sight he starts crying and will stop as soon as you pick him up. He's a good baby though. We go for his 1 month appointment tomorrow and I bet he weighs 10 pounds. (He was 7lbs 8oz at birth). I'll add some recent pictures later.

2 weeks old

2008-11-17T19:24:00.001-08:00

Just wanted to share a picture of my sweet baby. He's 2 weeks old today. I can't believe it's already been 2 weeks. He's so good and we are enjoying him so much!

Cayson Blake is here!

2008-11-11T06:37:00.001-08:00

Cayson was actually born Monday, November 3rd. I started having contractions around 8:30 pm Sunday night. We got to the hospital around 12:30 am and he was born Monday afternoon at 12:57 pm. We almost didn't go in because I seriously thought it was all in my head since I couldn't believe he was going to be born on his due date. Our nurse told us only 3% of babies are actually born on their due dates with natural labor so I thought it was kind of neat. Anyways, Josh made me go. He called our doctor and she told us to come on in. I was so afraid they were going to send us home and I was going to look stupid, but nope he was born a little over 12 hours after we got to the hospital. He weighed 7 lbs 8 oz and was 19 inches long. We had some little problems. My blood pressure dropped at one point to 80/50 and I had to wear an oxygen mask for several hours. I then got a fever and they had to start antibiotics. When he was born he had swallowed lots of amniotic fluid so I didn't even get to hold him for like an hour after he was born because they were trying to get it all out. Because of whatever was going on with me Cayson got an infection and our expected short stay in the hospital turned into almost a week long stay, so Cayson could be given antibiotics through an iv. We got to leave Saturday morning and have had a nurse come to our house to finish the antibiotics. She finished this morning and I'm so glad. My little man has been through so much since he's been born and I'm just ready to get into a routine. It was so hard being in the hospital for so long. I felt fine so I was ready to leave Tuesday morning, but ended up being discharged Wednesday. However, the hospital was nice enough to let me stay in my room the whole time Cayson was there. It was rough because I was bored and couldn't leave the room or they wouldn't hold my room and it would have been so much worse to come home without my baby, but everyone is doing great now and I'm so thankful! He is such a great baby. We have yet to really hear him cry. He's just so content and we are enjoying him so much. I don't even like to put him down. He's a bit spoiled because my mom was here pretty much all week and then my grandparents came down so he has been held pretty much 24/7 since he was born. Oh, and we decided to change the spelling from Cason to Cayson. Dh decided that he liked the y in it better.
Here are some pictures of our sweet baby boy!

1st Picture
I love this picture of my 3 boys. I love them so so much! I feel so lucky that I have them in my life!

Daddy loves his baby boy

Ready to go!

My sweet baby boy!
Testing out his swing!
Big brother is a big help already!
Kisses!
I think he loves him!

39 week appointment.

2008-10-28T16:17:00.000-07:00

I'm not adding a picture this week because I changed into raggedy clothes before I remembered to get Josh to take a picture and I'm too lazy to change back. Anyways, my appointment went well today. He said it looked like I could go any day now and was actually going to induce me tomorrow morning, but they only allow 3 elective induction per day and it was full for tomorrow. Thursday and Friday wouldn't work either because they are understaffed those two days so they decided not to schedule any inductions. I wouldn't schedule an induction for Friday anyways since I really do not want him to have a Halloween birthday if I can help it. I have to go back on Thursday because I had some protein in my urine and they want to check for preclampsia(sp), but he said it was probably fine since my blood pressure was 102/60. So, I go back on Monday(which is my due date) but he really doesn't think I'll make it. However, if I do we will schedule an induction then for probably Wednesday since Tuesday is election day and we've got to go vote, so our little man should be here sometime next week at the latest. I can't wait to meet him!

Our Weekend! Lots of pictures

2008-10-20T10:14:00.000-07:00

My parents came down this weekend to bring us furniture for Hayden's room. We had a good weekend and it was nice to see them and us not have to drive the 2 hours. We spent Friday night cleaning up. I took pictures of Josh mopping b/c I think he's just too cute cleaning and he was doing this while I was sitting upstairs wasting time on the computer. I have a pretty good husband.

While Josh was cleaning Hayden was running around the downstairs being a wild man like he always is when his daddy is home.

Here's some pictures of him cheesing for the camera! Isn't he cute?!
Here's a cute picture of Hayden and Holly (partners in crime) on Friday. For most of the day they are together running around and getting into everything they shouldn't be.
He's such a ham! He loves the camera!

Saturday afternoon my parents got down here late afternoon. I met my mom at the mall while my dad took the furniture to the house for him and Josh to unload. My mom and I walked around for a few minutes and then went to babies r us so I could get a couple of things for Cason. I got this diaper bag in navy blue.

I'm really liking it! It's got lots of room for me to put all of Cason and Hayden's things is. I also got a boppy. I didn't have one for Hayden, but have been told I needed one so I got one. I also wanted to pick up a couple of clothing pieces and I did the dumbest thing. I got him some white short sleeve bodysuits that he could wear underneath his clothes which I did fine with. I got 0-3 months and then I got him some little pants he could wear over the bodysuits and some socks. Well, I got 3-6 months pants and 6-9 months socks. I don't know what I was thinking, and now I can't find the receipt to take them back. I can use the 3-6 months pants, but the 6-9 month socks I doubt we will use, since it will be summer time before he can wear them and then he won't need them. I think it's starting to show that I haven't gotten nearly enough sleep!

Anyways, after that my mom and I picked up an Applebee's platter and went back to our house and watched the Carolina game with Josh. We were really good sports because we are not Carolina fans. We are 100% for Clemson, but we watched and tried to root for those chickens, even though our Tigers lost earlier in the day. But it wasn't a good night for the South Carolina teams Carolina ended up losing after a close game.

Sunday, we got up and ate breakfast. My mom and I went through Hayden's clothes and put them away in his new dresser. The day before there was a train at the Mall of Georgia and my mom really wanted to take Hayden and let him ride so Hayden and I went with my parents to the Olive Garden for lunch and then took Hayden to let him ride the choo choo (that's what he calls it). I tried to get some good pictures, but was having a hard time. There were too many people in my way. Hayden's not too sure about what they are about to do.
I'm trying so hard right here to get him to look at me.
Then we went into the mall so I could get Hayden a belt and some socks and we had to stop and ride the choo choo and car in the mall.
Here's Hayden sitting on it.
My dad put money in it then and Hayden wasn't too sure he wanted to be on it anymore. He was trying to get down.
He wouldn't let go of my mom.
Riding in the car!

I was hoping Cason would decide to come this weekend since my parents were already here, but no such luck! But we had a good weekend anyways. It was nice to get out and do some things with Hayden before his brother gets here. Josh has been working every weekend for the past 2 months so we haven't gotten out too much. Josh and I wanted to take Hayden to the pumpkin patch once I got back home but Hayden hadn't had a nap and was grouchy, so maybe next weekend!

38 week picture!

2008-10-20T06:04:00.000-07:00

I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow, so hopefully there will be some progress I can report! I plan on asking them tomorrow how long overdue they would let me go. I was really hoping to go early but we will see. I can stand 2 more weeks, but I'm really hoping this doctor's office will induce at least on my due date if he's not here yet. This past week has not been fun. The few maternity clothes I have that still fit are starting not to fit anymore and getting up every hour at night to go to the restroom stinks, but at least it's getting close to the end. The days just seem to drag by though now.

37 weeks!

2008-10-14T07:21:00.000-07:00

Cason now weighs between six and eight pounds and measures 18 to 21 inches long. He'll continue to gain weight this month.

I can't believe it's getting so close. I had my 37 week dr appointment today and it was pretty good. No weight gain and a good 2 cm dilated which is progress from last weeks barely 1 cm, so hopefully we will meet this little guy soon. I'm really hoping he comes next week. I know it's wishful thinking, but Josh finishes his last big job this Saturday and then things slow down so it would be the perfect time for him to make his debut! I know I could walk around for 3 more weeks at 2 cm, but I'm hoping that's not the case. I'm going to wash all of Cason's clothes and get our bag pretty much packed and have Josh put the carseat in the car tonight so we are all ready! I just hope Hayden will be okay sharing the attention, but I really think he's going to be a good big brother. We've been trying to get Hayden to say his name and yesterday Hayden started calling him Cay Cay. It's so cute. He got a hold of Cason's ultrasound pictures and was walking around saying baby Cay Cay.

1 more month!

2008-10-03T06:41:00.000-07:00

I have exactly one more month until baby Cason's due date. We're really hoping he'll come the last week of October. That would be perfect for both Josh and me, but unfortunately it's not up to us! Anyways, this is going to be a busy month. We've got lots of last minute things to do. I started making a list yesterday and we are going to do a little bit daily. We are probably going to have a good bit of company though at our house and I want it to look decent, plus I do not want to be cleaning and organizing with a baby. Hopefully, this month will fly by though since I've got so much to do. I think I'm starting the nesting phase because I suddenly have this great urge to organize everything like our pantry and closets so hopefully I'll gets lots finished!

Birthday Weekend!

2008-10-01T05:50:00.000-07:00

Last Wednesday, September 24th, was my birthday. I had a great birthday. My wonderful husband got me a new pair of sperry's and surprised me with a birthday cake and a sweet card from Hayden.

Then this past weekend I went to my parents and we celebrated then. Josh didn't get to go because he was working but Hayden and I had a good time anyways. We went Friday and went out to eat with my parents and then my dad went to work. So, my mom, brother, Hayden and I went grocery shopping to get the stuff for my birthday meal. (My mom asked me where I wanted to eat at and I told her I really just wanted her to make me my favorite meal and eat at the house.) Anyways, Hayden was wild and I ended up having to chase him around Bloom while my mom and brother (who were oblivious) checked out. He ran to the freezer section and was yelling pi pi. (Which is pizza in Hayden's words). Everyone was looking at him laughing and I was so embarrassed especially after running around the grocery store trying to catch him 8 months pregnant. I'm sure that was a sight to see. Saturday night all my grandparents came over and my mom fixed beef tips over rice, pineapple casserole, green beans, and rolls. Then we had my favorite cake...strawberry with cream cheese icing from Cakes by Shirley. Yum!! I got some money from my family so my mom and I will go on our annual trip to the Mall of Georgia after Cason is born.
Then on Sunday my mom and I went and saw Nights in Rodanthe.
I hadn't read the book so I really didn't have any idea what it was about, but it was good. However, I really wanted it to have a happy ending and it didn't! So, I hated that! Anyways, it was a great weekend!! I needed a nice weekend away. My weekends have been pretty boring lately with Josh working so much.

34 weeks!

2008-09-24T18:06:00.001-07:00

I'm 34 weeks this week. I only have 6 weeks left and I'm really hoping for more like 4. Cason is now between 19 and 20" and weighs about 5 lbs. He's the size of a medium pumpkin! :) Anyways, I had an appointment on Tuesday and everything looked good. I've gained 1 lb in the past 4 weeks, which isn't too bad although I feel like I look like I've gained about 5. Anyways, that puts my total to about 25 lbs. So, I'm hoping not to gain too much more. His heart beat has been pretty consistent. It's been in the 140's the whole time. It was 145 on Tuesday. I go back in 2 weeks (at 36 weeks) and then I go every week up until delivery! It's getting close!!

Bedding Decisions?

2008-09-10T09:35:00.001-07:00

We've got to buy Hayden new bedding since we moved the crib and Hayden's old bedding into Cason's room. I'm having a hard time deciding what to get. I've got it narrowed down to two, but can't decide.

I was all set on the sports one, but recently Hayden has really taken to trains. He says choo choo about 1,000 times a day. So, I really don't know. In some ways I think he could use the sports one longer(it looks a little older), but I like both of them the same. So, what do you think? Which one do you like best? Help me out please!!!

Some recent pictures I love!

2008-09-10T08:39:00.001-07:00

I don't know what this face for, but love it! haha!
Hayden and daddy being goofy!
Hayden fell out of the pool and Josh is laughing at him! Poor baby!

32 Weeks!

2008-09-08T10:10:00.000-07:00

I'm 32 weeks today. I can't believe Cason is now probably somewhere between 4 and 4 1/2 lbs and 15-17 inches long. I only have about 6 to 8 weeks left. I'm hoping it's closer to 6, although we still have have some stuff we need to do before he's here and Josh has some big work jobs he's doing and he's working really hard to get them finished over the next couple of weekends so he can devote his weekends to us once the baby is here. It stinks now though because he's working every weekend all weekend. But hopefully these next weeks will go by fast. I'm going to the doctor every 2 weeks now, which makes time go by a little more quickly. I have an appointment tomorrow, although if it's anything like the last couple it won't be exciting at all. We are also going on the hospital tour on Thursday, so that should be fun!! Here are my most recent pictures!

31 weeks!

This one was taken last night so 31 weeks 6 days.

Potty Time!!

2008-09-03T09:21:00.000-07:00

We bought Hayden a potty probably 5 or 6 months ago with the hopes that we could have him potty trained before Cason gets here. We would really prefer to not have to buy diapers for 2. Anyways, we haven't been pushing it that much..just trying to get him used to it and having him sit on it. Well, the other day I bought him some lollipops to bribe him with. I've let him run around without a diaper in the morning to see if I could get him to go that way..well this morning it worked!!! I noticed him acting funny and he then went to grab a diaper and I told him to go sit on his potty. He ran to it and peed!! He has gone twice today on his potty so I think we may be on to something! I'm so proud of him! We cheered and clapped, his potty sang to him (yes, we have a singing potty), and had lollipops!! Hopefully we can have him pretty much completely potty trained by the time Cason is here, so that gives us about 8 weeks! I hope this wasn't a fluke, but Hayden is really pretty consistent. Once he gets the hang of something he sticks to it so we'll see!

My new favorite website!

2008-08-30T08:00:00.000-07:00

Endless.com

They have the cutest shoes, and I'm definitely getting these for Hayden.

I love them!!! Plus, they have free overnight shipping.

Happy 2 Year Anniversary!

2008-08-27T07:35:00.000-07:00

Our anniversary was actually the 26th, but I didn't have a chance to post. I can't believe we've been married for 2 years, but they've been the best 2 years! I love my hubby and our life together. I've got one of the best husbands!!! Here are some pictures of us on our wedding day. Sorry they're out of order. I'm too lazy to fix them!

Ok..so I tried to be a good sport about this, but I was actually mad. I told him not to do that to me! :) Oh, and I did get him back worse than he got me..unfortunately there is not a picture of it!

Our first dance!

Haha! I love this picture!

30 weeks!

2008-08-25T03:05:00.001-07:00

This may be the last picture you see. I'm getting more and more self conscious of taking pictures the bigger I get. Hopefully we only have about 8 weeks left. I know he'll come when he's ready, but I've been letting him know for months now that his mommy would really appreciate him coming at about 38 weeks. I'm already really uncomfortable and despite the exhaustion, I'm having a really hard time sleeping. Well, I get to sleep fine, but if I wake up which is inevitable due to Cason sitting on my bladder, I can not get back to sleep. This is why I am up at 5:30 Monday morning writing this post. Anyways, I go to the dr this week and then I see them every 2 weeks from here on out so hopefully that will make the next 8-10 weeks go by pretty quickly!

Tagged..

2008-08-20T17:52:00.000-07:00

Yay! I've been tagged for the first time!

8 Things I am Passionate About (in no particular order):
My faith
My family
My friends
finishing school and pursuing my career
being a good mom
being a good wife
Saving money
Learning more about photography

8 Books I Have Read and Enjoyed:
Twilight
New Moon
Eclipse
Breaking Dawn (All by Stephanie Meyer)
Two little girls in blue (Mary Higgins Clark)
The Choice (Nicholas Sparks)
At First Sight (Nicholas Sparks)
Remember Me (Sophie Kinsella)

8 Words/Phrases I Say Often:

Hey Punkin Head (I call Hayden this)
Hey babe!
Love ya!
Call me back (I'm always telling Josh this)
What checks came in today?
What did you do today?
What's for dinner?
Yep!

8 Things I Want to do Before I Die (in no particular order):

Finish School
Have a career that I enjoy
Go to London
Take Hayden and Cason to Disney World
Go on a honey moon with my hubby. ( we never got to do that)
Watch my boys grow into loving husbands and fathers like their daddy.
Read as many books as possible
Visit every state and travel to as many different countries as possible.

8 Things I Learned This Past Year:

Money and Family do not mix...especially when these particular people think the world owes them something.
It seems like God always provides you with exactly what you need.
Let the tough times bring you together instead of tear you apart.
Sometimes I have to do something for myself to make me the best mom and wife I can be.
There are some things I just can't control and I can't dwell on them.
Money isn't everything and it's not what makes me happy.
To tell my husband how much I appreciate him and praise him for those small things he does.
I love my child more than anything, but I'm not happy being a stay at home mom and I shouldn't feel guilty for wanting to pursue a career that makes me happy.

8 People that I Tag:

I don't have anyone else that hasn't already been tagged, but if you see this and want to participate please do and then let me know so I can read all your answers!!

Hey! I look like you mom!

2008-08-14T09:00:00.000-07:00

Hayden today brought me a soccer ball that he was trying to put up his shirt. I guess he wanted to have a preggo belly like me. He then grabbed the camera off the table and brought it to me. He sees daddy taking pictures of my belly and he wanted a belly picture too. Sometimes I'm amazed at this personality Hayden has developed. He's so funny!

Here he is posing for me!

Another story from today. He has this piano and the batteries are dead. So today he had it flipped over and he kept trying to bring me a fork to unscrew the battery thing on the bottom. It was actually quite frustrating because I was trying to explain to him that I could open it with the fork..that I needed a screwdriver and he was just going to have to wait until daddy came home. He finally stopped, but he did not forget about it. Josh came home for lunch today and as soon as he walked in the door he walked over to the piano with the fork and was saying dada. I just can't believe how smart he's gotten! First of all to know that it wasn't working because it needed new batteries and then to know where the batteries go. I don't know where he learns these things from, but it truly amazes me!

27 week belly picture!

2008-08-05T06:31:00.001-07:00

Please excuse how rough I look. For some reason, I always looked exhausted in pictures while I'm pregnant. I only have 13 weeks left. I'm secretly hoping maybe it will only be more like 11, since Hayden was 2 weeks early! I'm so tired of being pregnant and I'm ready to meet my other little man!

25 week picture!

2008-07-27T18:38:00.001-07:00

Here's the 25 week picture I said I was going to post in one of my recent threads! Josh is making fun of me for how much my belly has grown over the last few weeks. Some days I seriously wake up and think it grew over night!

Twilight Series!

2008-07-21T08:10:00.000-07:00

I finally got up to date and started reading these books. I have heard people go on and on about this series and thought to myself there is no way I am going to enjoy a book about a vampire. Well, I went to my parents a couple weeks ago and my brother had the first 2 since he had to read them for school last year. I brought them home with me just thinking I would read them if I got bored and had nothing else to do. Well, I started reading the first one and haven't been able to put them down. I finished New Moon yesterday, so Josh and I went to Barnes and Noble so I could get the third one, Eclipse.

The 4th comes out on August 2nd and I'm so excited!! I'm sure I'll be finished with the 3rd by then. Josh has been calling me a nerd, but I don't care. If you have read these books you probably understand the excitement! So on August 2nd I will be at Barnes and Noble to get Breaking Dawn!

Only 15 more weeks left....

2008-07-21T07:43:00.000-07:00

I'm 25 weeks today! I've got 15 more weeks, which seems like such a long time from now. Yesterday, we moved Hayden's crib and dresser into Cason's room and got it all set up. (Hayden has new furniture) I've been going through all of Hayden's clothes to see which one's Cason can wear, so there are piles of clothes all over his room that I have to put away, which I will probably do today. I've got to wash them too, but will probably wait until October or I'll just have to wash them again. I feel like I'm already going through the nesting stage..wanting to get everything done. I'm just so ready for him to be here, but a little nervous as well about having 2 little ones at home.

Anyways, Josh took a new picture. I have finally really popped. Even one of the nurses noticed last week. We had been in there 2 weeks earlier and then had an appointment last Monday. She had made a comment the 1st time of how I looked so small, well last Monday she let me know that I definitely had a belly now. I had gained 3 lbs also in 2 weeks. I asked Josh if he thought Cason had gained 3 lbs?! Haha! He had only gained 1/2 lb. :( The picture is on my other computer so I will post that later.

2 of my most favorite people!

2008-07-08T11:35:00.000-07:00

Aren't they cute? I love them!!

21 weeks 5 day belly picture!

2008-06-28T07:05:00.000-07:00

Our first baby buy!

2008-06-28T06:53:00.000-07:00

Josh and I went to Gymboree the other day, since they were having a pretty good sale, and bought some stuff for Cason. I love buying baby clothes and I think I got some cute things and all this was only like $50, which is really good for Gymboree. Plus, I now have $50 in gymbucks, so I will definitely be going and buying some more stuff for him soon!! The top outfits are 6-12 months..I just hope they fit him during the appropriate season.

We have a name and a picture!

2008-06-24T17:37:00.000-07:00

Our little boy's name is going to be Cason. My friend Casey suggested this name to me when I first told her I was pregnant! I loved it when she first told me and Josh liked it as well. So here's the most recent picture of our Cason Blake!
This is really the best picture we got. His daddy says he must have my stubbornness since for about 30 minutes he would not show us his face. However, he wanted us to know he was a boy because his little butt was sticking straight up at us! Thankfully, we probably will get another ultra sound in the next few weeks so hopefully we will get some better pictures I can share.

U/S results are in!!!

2008-06-24T07:16:00.001-07:00

We are excited to say that Hayden will be having a little brother!!

I told Josh that means I'm still the Queen of the house and I expect to be spoiled by my 3 men!! :)

Anyways, we are really excited. He looked healthy and is measuring right on schedule. He weighs almost 15 ounces.

I may post some pictures later, but they are pretty disappointing. He was facing down with his butt in the air and we weren't sure we were going to get a picture of his face. At the very last minute he did decide to give us a little glimpse of his face, but other than his sweet little face and a money shot there's not much to see.

Big Ultrasound tomorrow!!

2008-06-23T19:04:00.000-07:00

Tomorrow at 8:15 we will hopefully be finding out if Hayden will have a little brother or sister! I'm so excited, I can't hardly stand it! I hope I can sleep tonight! Please send us lots of open leg vibes! If you want, leave me a comment with your guess. I'll post an update sometime tomorrow!

Yay!

2008-06-13T07:02:00.000-07:00

Our puppy slept in her room( the half bath) last night. Since we got her she has refused to stay in her room without letting us know how much she hates not being with us. She has been sleeping with us, but last night I just couldn't do it. She sleeps right up next to me putting her head underneath my chin and I haven't been sleeping great because I've been afraid I would squish her. Anyways, last night was the best sleep I've gotten for the past couple of days. I'm excited!! We'll see how well Josh does with her this week while I'm not here. He spoils her.

We got a puppy!

2008-06-09T18:01:00.000-07:00

I've been wanting a puppy for a couple of months now and I was looking online at the classifieds yesterday and saw one that I had to have. After talking (begging) with Josh we decided to call and go look at it. Well, she came home with us. We named her Holly and she is a Pomeranian. She's good, but is like a newborn. She sleeps during the day and then wants to play at night so I was up a couple times last night with her and she finally ended up in the bed with me at about 6:00 am. I guess she's just preparing me for November when we have our new baby. Anyways..here are a couple of pictures. Isn't she cute?

Hayden giving her kisses!

Happy Birthday Hayden!

2008-06-05T09:40:00.001-07:00

At around 2:00 pm today my baby turns 2!! I can't believe how fast the time goes by. We had his birthday party at my parents this past weekend. I added a couple of pictures.

About 5 minutes after we left my parents.

18 weeks today!

2008-06-02T18:56:00.000-07:00

18 Weeks belly picture! Only 2 more weeks until the half way point!! :)

Baby birds!

2008-05-25T07:30:00.000-07:00

I posted about the birds nest we found in our door wreath. Well, this morning Josh found that 2 of the eggs had hatched and we now have baby birds. They're kind of hard to see, but you can click on the pictures and get a bigger picture. Aren't they cute?

A tragedy in Steven Curtis Chapman's family.

2008-05-22T17:39:00.001-07:00

Their 5 year old adopted daughter, Maria, was killed yesterday after being hit by a car in the family's driveway. Please keep this family in your prayers as they are going to have some rough days ahead of them. If you would like to read more about what happened and about this little girl there is a blog set up in her honor.

http://chapmanchannel.typepad.com/inmemoryofmaria/

16 weeks today!

2008-05-19T18:49:00.000-07:00

I'm 16 weeks today! Only 4 more weeks until the half way point and the gender ultra sound!! I can't wait!

Help us pick a name!

2008-05-12T10:25:00.000-07:00

We have a list of names we are trying to choose from. You can go to the site and vote for the ones you like and dislike.

Thanks!

Birds Nest!

2008-05-06T11:57:00.001-07:00

We got this wreath as a moving in gift. Well, for the past week or so Josh and I had noticed that about every time we would open the door a bird would fly away. We assumed the bird was there because if you look closely on the right hand side if you're facing the wreath there is a little fake bird. Well the other day Josh happened to find a little birds nest in it, so we decided to take a picture so I could share it.

Here's the eggs.

Belly pics!

2008-05-06T11:48:00.001-07:00

I should have taken a before picture for comparison. I've already gained 10 lbs..ugh!

12 weeks

14 weeks. Taken yesterday

Easter pictures a little late!

2008-05-01T13:01:00.000-07:00

Here's some pictures of Hayden on Easter. We spent the day at my parents and Hayden played outside ALL day!

Four things about me!

2008-05-01T09:28:00.000-07:00

Four places I go over and over again:

1. Kroger
2. Target
3. My parent's house
4. Starbucks

Four movies I've watched more than 4 times each:

1. The Notebook
2. Beaches
3. The lady and the Tramp
4. 10 ways to lose a guy

Four places I've lived:

1. South Carolina
2. Georgia
3.
4.

Four TV shows I watch:

1. Grey's Anatomy
2. Desperate Housewives
3. The Hills
4. Brothers and Sisters

Four places I've been:

1. Hawaii
2. Maine
3. Cozumel
4. Jamaica

Four people who email me regularly:

1. my mom
2. my grandmother
3.
4.

Four of my favorite foods:

1. chicken fingers
2. salads
3. chips
4. strawberries

Four places I'd like to visit:

1. Alaska
2. London
3. Hawaii-again!
4. California

Four things I'm looking forward to in 2008:

1. Hopefully going to the beach with my family
2. Seeing our baby!
3. Going to Tennessee at Christmas time.
4. Baby(hopefully girl) shopping!

Our new house!

2008-05-01T06:49:00.001-07:00

This is the outside of our house we moved into a few weeks ago! It's been so nice being back into our house. Hayden can play outside, now that we have our own yard. We can grill again! (and we've been taking full advantage of that!) It's been great! Hopefully, there will be no more apartments in our future!

How many people in the United States share your name?

2008-04-19T11:09:00.000-07:00

HowManyOfMe.com

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1st Ultrasound Picture!

2008-04-18T12:32:00.004-07:00

Here's the very 1st picture of our little one!

Exciting News!

2008-04-18T11:24:00.000-07:00

In November, Hayden will have a baby brother or sister! We are very excited to be adding to our family and excited Hayden will have a play mate! I've been dying to post this since I found out almost 10 weeks ago, but we were trying to keep it a secret as long as possible so that we could make sure everything looked okay. We have had 2 doctors appointments, 1 being an ultrasound and the baby looks great and is measuring right on schedule! We have an ultrasound picture. I will add later!

Biggest Loser!

2008-04-16T07:17:00.001-07:00

I love this show and particularly loved this season! I've always thought the girls didn't have much of a chance, because it's just natural that guys lose weight quicker and easier than girls so I was so excited when it came to the end and there were 2 girls in the Finale!! I also liked Roger(glad he got picked over Mark..I like Mark, but he is such a baby! All those episodes with him crying and going on annoyed me!) , but in the end I've got to go for the girls. But anyways, last night in the Season Finale Ali went home with the 250,000 grand prize and had lost a total of 112 pounds. That's just awesome!! I felt kind of bad for Kelly, but I was rooting more for Ali for the fact that she had gone home from the ranch and then made her way back and then she beat them all!!!

In case you're not a Biggest Loser fan like me go to the website The Biggest Loser to see Ali's and the other contestants transformations!! Very inspiring!

Happy Easter!

2008-03-23T12:11:00.000-07:00

I know I haven't posted in a while. It's be a long couple of weeks. We have a lot going on and I haven't been feeling well. We're moving next weekend so we're trying to get every think packed up I haven't had a chance to post. Also, I just got my camera back so hopefully within the next couple weeks once we get all settled in our new house I will have some time to take pictures and get them posted on here. I hope everyone is having a wonderful Easter! This was the first year the Easter Bunny came and visited Hayden and he's had fun with all the stuff he got, especially with the grass in the Easter basket. Go figure! (That's all we really needed to get him.) Now I've got to vacuum it up since it is all over our den! Anyways, we aren't really having our Easter dinner until the weekend of April 6th since my parents were away on their anniversary this weekend and we are moving next weekend, that is the soonest all of my family canl get together. We did get to meet my parents at The Olive Garden today and that was nice! Well, I hope everyone has had a great day and hopefully I will do a better job of posting over the next couple of weeks.

Trouble!

2008-02-19T17:21:00.000-08:00

Today, Hayden has officially figured out how to open the door knobs to the door in our house. He woke me up this morning by climbing in the bed with me and poking my eyes and pulling my nose "off" :) I then got up and realized he had already been downstairs as I found a pack of gum and several wrappers all over the floor. Then this afternoon Josh put him in his bedroom for nap time. He went up and checked on him a few minutes later and Hayden had opened the door to his bathroom and was in the bathtub taking his 2nd bath today fully dressed. He had also pulled all the toilet paper off a brand new roll, which was laying all over the floor. I wish I had gotten pictures, but forgot about it until after Josh had put him in some dry clothes! But it was too funny!

Some recent pictures of Hayden!

2008-02-18T17:22:00.001-08:00

I haven't posted any pictures of Hayden lately. I've been kind of slack about it since my camera isn't working too great right now. All my pictures are coming out blurry, so Josh is taking it to be fixed this weekend so hopefully within a week or so I will have a lot more pictures up :)

Riding his bigwheels

Cool Dude! After his new hair cut:)

Grocery Savings!

2008-02-06T16:19:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I went to Kroger and spent $142.95 and saved 58.80. I haven't spent that much money in awhile, but we were completely out of groceries. However, I think my savings were pretty good and I got a lot! This will probably last us 2 1/2 weeks...so not too bad!

Concert!

2008-01-29T08:01:00.000-08:00

I have not posted in awhile, because life has been kind of boring but we did something fun last night so I thought I would blog about it! Josh and I went and saw Matchbox Twenty last night. If anyone has the chance to go see them in concert and likes their music they should definitely go. It is worth every penny you would pay. Alanis Morisette opened up for them and she was really good too. Josh wasn't really looking forward to the concert, but I think he really enjoyed it!! I wish we had been able to get some pictures, because if I have any celebrity crush it would be Rob Thomas, but I didn't want to lug my big camera around. We tried to take some with our phones, but they didn't turn out great because of all the lights, so I'm kind of sad about that, but I was just happy I was there :)

Also,we stopped at The Cheesecake Factory before we got there. I had never had their cheesecake. I know that's crazy, so I made Josh take me. Their cheesecake is wonderful! Josh got snickers and I got some chocolate peanut butter cookie dough. Anyways....Both were great!!

Family pictures 2007

2008-01-15T18:32:00.000-08:00

These are the family pictures we had taken. We had them taken in November and are just not getting them back. I think they turned out really well!

Grocery Savings Today

2008-01-14T16:45:00.000-08:00

Mine and Josh's goal this year is to get all of our business debt paid off so one way we are going to cut money in other places is by saving money on groceries by matching coupons with grocery deals. I am also learning how to save money with CVS, but I'm not doing well enough yet to tell you how how I'm doing. Well today I went to Kroger and Publix.
At Publix I bought $76.37 worth of groceries and paid $40.36. So, I saved a total of $36.01.
Then at Kroger I bought $73.79 worth of groceries and paid 52.89. I saved a total of $20.90. So all together I bought $150.16 worth of groceries and only paid $93.25. I saved $56.91. Not to bad! I hope in the weeks to come, I can save even more!

Today I feel...

2008-01-13T17:59:00.000-08:00

Blessed! I am so grateful for my family! Today I was reminded how great I truly have it and how important family is!!

1/04/08 Picture

2008-01-04T07:22:00.001-08:00

I wanted to get a picture of this, because I think this is the cleanest Hayden's play area has ever been! Josh cleaned it last night, which doesn't happen very often so I guess I should have gotten a picture of Josh cleaning it:) But anyways, I don't think this will last very long, but at least I will have a picture as a reminder of how it can look and that Josh really can clean up when he wants to.

New Years Resolutions

2008-01-03T06:51:00.001-08:00

1.) To figure out what I want to do as a career and start working towards achieving my goals!

2.) To not let little nit picky things Josh does irritate me and just focus on the things he does that make me love him so much! :)

3.) Take more pictures!

4.) Start working again on Hayden's scrapbook. (I got lazy when I started working)

5.) Find a new house! (I can't wait for this one!!-Hopefully at the end of March)

6.) Now that I won't be working so much get everything in our house organized and keep everything clean(and don't let Josh or Hayden touch anything-j/k but sometimes I do wish I could this :) )

7.) Work on letting things ago. Instead of writing people out of my life when they don't act the way I think they should, I am going to try and accept that people aren't always perfect and forgive! (This is going to be a hard one for me!)

8.) Keep this blog updated!

9.) Start paying some debt down :(

Happy New Year!

2008-01-01T04:58:00.000-08:00

I can not believe it's 2008! 2007 flew by. I'm excited for a new year, but hope that it is not as eventful as 2007. I think I'm ready for some relaxation and routine. We celebrated Josh's birthday and then celebrated the new year with a very sleepy 19 month old! I'm excited to see what 2008 has in store for us! I hope everyone had a wonderful and safe New Years Eve. Make your New Year's Resolutions. I still don't know what mine are so I will try and get back with those later!

Me, Hayden (not excited at all that his daddy woke him up), Josh and Dylan (our nephew)
ringing in the new year :)

Josh's Birthday cake that a girl at my work made him! I love it!

Happy Birthday Josh!

2007-12-31T04:56:00.000-08:00

Today Josh turns 23! I first met him when he was 20 and I can't believe it's been that long ago! Last night we went to Houston's for his birthday and he gets to sleep in today(if you don't have any kids sleeping in is a big deal) , because Hayden's aunt and uncle kept him last night.Then tonight we are watching the Clemson game with Chris and Meggie and having cake! Happy Birthday Josh! I love you:)

Smokey Mountain Christmas:)

2007-12-27T10:55:00.000-08:00

Here are the pictures I promised from our Christmas in Tennessee. We had a great time and really enjoyed watching Hayden this year. Last year he didn't understand what was going on, but this year was completely different!

Trying to take a family picture in the mountains, but Hayden had other plans. Notice I'm the only one looking at the camera! Haha:)

Josh with his driver he got for Christmas. He also got golf clubs from my family!
Josh's snake boots for work! I think they're ugly, but he likes them.
Hayden playing with his new toy. He loves this!
Hayden was excited he got his very own phone!