From my front yard! We have some awsome sunsets!!!

If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, then here is my 1,000 word blog!!!

Wow! I'm ready for Friday. Today Hayden & I rushed into Amarillo for a Dr. appointment. Hayden hasn't been feeling well lately so I called & got him in. He had been congested & we just thought it was due to him teething. But ends up he has a viral infection in his lungs. So we were sent home with a breathing treatment. YIPEEE!!! Never did that before & I must give credit where it's due...that would be to Hayden. He is actually pretty good about taking it. I just have to let him stick his finger in the part that sprays the mist once in awhile.
We are expecting a BIG winter storm to blow in starting at about midnight tonight. It is reported to start with about 2 inches of ice and then turning to white out conditions later. JOY JOY! I'm just very thankful that we won't be on the road during this time. I'm not missing that comute to work every day. Then starting this week, we have a new sitter for Hayden...Brittany. She is so good to him. Brittany keeps him here at the house so we don't even have to get him out. It's nice.
I'm excited to see what all lays ahead for us!!!
I'm sure there will be pictures & more postings on the breathing treatments & of the snow!!!

Updating

Wow! It's been forever since I last blogged!!! So now it's time for an update or a few updates.

Hayden is now 9 months. At his Dr. visit on 1/21 he weighted in with a healthy 22 lbs and he was growing like a weed at 29 in. The Dr. said he was very healthy! So now we start some real table food. I'm sure there will be postings in the near future for this.

We celebrated our 1st Halloween here at home & we were dressed as a lobster. I must say Hayden was the cutest lobster I had ever seen.

Our 1st Thanksgiving was in Canadian at Todd's grandparents. It was really fun for them to see him & play with him.

1st Christmas was celebrated at home. Santa brought lots of good things for Hayden. He got a bar with animals that talks & sings...he loves to play with his barn. Santa left him a catapillar that says all kinds of things from 123, abc, to all kinds of songs. I think Hayden just loves noice...that thing is always going off. Hayden also got a Chuck the truck. The truck is a little big for him and when Chuck talks it scares him a little. So Chuck is put up for now. We don't need the sound of a screaming baby to add to the mix.

Hayden and his front top & bottom teeth. I just love his smile with his new teeth. He is setting up so good & twists & turns to look around at all kinds of things. Recently Hayden has started to do the "inch worm" they call it. So we are constanting keeping one eye on him. Hayden will inch his way to the dog toys & think they are his. YUCK!!! Before long he will be crawling and hopefully learning the meaning of, "NO HAYDEN DON'T STICK THAT IN YOUR MOUTH!"

So that's the last few months in a nutshell. I'm going to try to do better at this blogging thing...just in case anyone out there is reading it!

Some of Our Recent 1st

So many 1st here lately...makes me wonder what other 1st have I already forgotten. Of course with your first child everything is new and exciting!

1st golf game:

1st swim!

Had to try out the new life jacket!

Loved the water!

1st trip out on the lake!




Loved the boat ride-hated the lake water!

1st discovered his feet

My entertainment in the morning to watch him play with his feet. I'm sure in a day or two he will be putting them in his mouth along with everything else.

1st taste of cereal

Hayden's 1st attemt to eat this stuff they call real food. I don't think cereal should count as real food. When I licked it off my finger one time it reminded me of paste we would eat in elementary school. YUCK!!! But Hayden goes to town on that stuff and is getting better about leaving it in his mouth. Of course your kid is always the cutest & the smartest right? So my little Hayden is so smart, he grabs the spoon and helps you make to to his mouth...sometimes his nose or sometimes just through his fingers. That makes feeding him so much fun!!! I'm sure I can't wait until he tastes something he doesn't like and spits it back out at me.

I'm loving listening to Hayden play with his voice. He has MMMMMMMAAAAA down really well. I just know any minute he will bust out with Mama or even Mommy!!! I just know it! One day I listened to him forever it seemed like. Then he had to leave for the sitter & I just cried because I knew at any minute he would say my name & I would miss it. But the sitter promised me she would not tell me any of Hayden's true 1st until I told her I witnessed it myself. So it will all be his 1st to me!!!

1st sunflower field


He didn't know what to think at 1st but then he had fun with the flowers.

We...I mean I...have witnessed even the 1st sleepless night. I tried every method known to man...put him in his swing, put him in his carrier, laid him on my chest, even drove around for 1 1/2 hours one night. That was so fun...as soon as I put the pickup in park...he woke up! So I gave up on that idea! Then finally Todd got up, laid him in his bed and wrapped him tight in his blanket...out like a light. Go figure!!!

Hayden had his 1st ear infection and stopped up nose. I think this has lead to our 1st sleepless night! I'm so thankful that Hayden will put anything in his mouth right now because it helps him take his medicine better. One day I'll be screaming, "Get that out of your mouth" but for now...it's ok!!!

1st Football Game

Real interested in that, can you tell?

1st Rodeo

We love our friend J. Mark who is a clown in more ways than one...

I'm loving every one of Hayden's 1st!!!

A Year of Change

It has been a year of change for our house hold!

It was September 23 when we discovered that we were finally pregnant! We have had so much heartbreak when it comes to starting our family. So deep down...I knew this was it. I still struggled with lots of doubt but deep down I knew this was really happening for us. So on April 16, 2009 we welcomed Hayden to our lives. Besides my wedding day, this was the happiest day of my life. My "Boys" are my life. I can't imagine not having Hayden now that he is here. He helps make our lives complete. Being a Mommy is my #1 job. Nothing comes before Hayden these days!!!

They say having a baby changes everything. That's the case in our house for sure. No more going to bed at 9 p.m. and sleeping all night. No more coming in from a long hard day to just sit on the couch and rest! It's an evening of meeting Hayden's needs and a night filled with ups & downs for a mid night feeding.

Little did I know that having Hayden would change everything...including my job. I always saw myself with Cal Farley's until I retired. That was the plan before Hayden. But that changed on August 5, I started a new job. I must say, that is the best move I have made in awhile. I made the change for Hayden...so I thought. But this new job has been an absolute blessing to me. The ladies that I work with are just as amazing as my friends from Cal Farley's. So this job change has benefited me so much more than just for Hayden. It gives me time to myself through the day. I get to come home for lunch to do housework so that when Hayden gets home, I can devote my time to him instead of the housework.

I can't push rewind with Hayden and relive what I've missed. So if I'm going to be a working Mom, this is the way to do it!!!

Everything happens for a reason!!!