Happy Happy Birthday Alex Dear!

I can’t believe my baby girl is 5 years old today. I pulled the past four years of birthday’s together to see how much she has changed. She’s had a fun day so far and because it’s her birthday, she get’s to be a little spoiled.



I don’t have today’s because she is at school and we are waiting until tonight when we all go to Leo’s Place and celebrate. Yes she chose Leo’s Place (a local kid friendly restaurant with a play area) to have her little family dinner.



Happy birthday Alex we love you and love watching you grow and change.

Hard At Work

The other day I changed the batters in Connors ball popper. It hadn’t been working for some time.
Well today Alex must have turned it off when she was done playing with it because when he went to play with it, it wasn’t working and this is what I found him doing when I walked into the kitchen.



He had pulled out two screw drivers from the junk drawer and was trying to fix it him self. I let him work on it for a little bit then I turned it on. I think he thought he really fixed it by him self

Oh Baby!

This past weekend I went down to Utah for two baby showers. I was helping host a baby shower for my good friend Andelyne and her new baby girl Soleil. She was born on Oct. 30th. It was great to see a bunch of old friends and catch up with everyone.
I was went to my sister-in-law’s baby shower who is having a girl in February and lets just say after this weekend I really miss all the girly stuff - maybe next time - which won’t be for a while. For now I’ll just have to enjoy everyone else’s baby girls.
It really was a fun weekend. One of the things that made it so enjoyable is that Ryan was good enough to stay home with Alex and Connor so it was just me and Hayden that traveled. It was great to have the three hour drive alone and Hayden did so well. I only had to stop once on the way home for about 20 min. to calm him down. I really got lucky with him; he is such a good baby.


Hayden and Soleil

A Quick Summary of Christmas

We got home last night from our 6 day Christmas vacation which was great.

We were able to see my Dad and grandparents on Tuesday and Christmas Eve with Ryan’s family was a lot of fun as usual. The kids really enjoyed themselves, Alex loves playing with her cousins. One bummer about living far away is that our kids don’t get to play with their cousins as much as we would like. But, I guess that makes the time they do have together that much better.

Christmas morning was great. The kids both got one big present and then a few little things. Connor’s big gift was a Lightning McQueen car that talks, dances, and drives around. Alex’s was a Dora and Pegasus horse that she loves. Ryan and I decided not to do anything for each other (since Christmas came early for us in the form of a TV and new van), but his sister talked him in to spending $20 on me because there was a huge scrap booking sale down in Utah, so I got a ton of stuff. Now I really need to do some scrap booking and I don’t have any excuses.

All in all it was a fun week. Ryan had a lot of fun playing and spending time with the kids. We are all happy to finally be home. Unfortunately Ryan came down with a sinus infection on Friday night. Hopefully he’ll feel better soon. Connor must have caught a little bug yesterday too. Right when we got home he threw up and now has a high fever and is really grumpy. Poor little guy. Even with these little sicknesses, Christmas was great and we feel blessed.

Christmas Vacation

We are all packed up and ready to leave. We are heading down to Utah for our week long
Christmas vacation.

First is a Christmas party today with my Dads family. Tomorrow night a Christmas Eve dinner with Ryan's family and of course Christmas morning brunch at my Moms. The rest of the week we will just visit friends and family. What a great time of the year.

For Sale

As most of you know we bought a new Minivan, not because our old one was bad or run down, but well because I can honestly say I’m a bit spoiled and wanted something a little newer.

Now I wouldn’t normally do this, but anything helps. We are trying to sell our old Minivan so if you know of anyone in the market for an inexpensive minivan that’s in great shape, let them know about ours.

I don’t have any picture but it’s technically “Iris” or grayish-purple, but Alex thinks and says it’s gray, you decide.

1997 Dodge Grand Caravan

Very LOW Miles: Only 74,200 miles

Remote starter with keyless entry

New Sony stereo with CD, USB, I-Pod and AUX

Great Condition and clean (only had two owners)

Brand new front brakes

3.3 Liter V6

Power windows and locks

Tinted sunscreen glass

Cruise control and A/C

$3,995.00 OBO

Hayden’s Blessing

Yesterday we blessed Hayden; Ryan did such a good job. Here are a few pictures of the two baby’s Cameron and Hayden. They are eight days apart. Hayden is on the right.