Christmas Already?!

Sorry, I just can't help myself! I am just too dang excited about the holidays to only celebrate for the short time after Thanksgiving! I have already been listening to Christmas music and that gets me even more excited! This year will be so much fun with Hayden! We have already seen Santa too! Hayden is scared of Santa so he wouldn't sit on his lap to tell him what he wants. But he knows all about Santa and understands what goes on during the holiday season. I guess that is why I am so excited, to see the magic in Hayden's eyes on Christmas morning! I just love it!! We talk about Santa all the time and Hayden tells everyone that Santa is going to bring him a big boy bike and a big boy bed and presents. So, we will see if Hayden has been a good boy this year!!

HaYdEn NeWs...

I have the best news ever!!! Hayden is now potty trained! It was funny because it is like a light switch turned on or something. Just one morning he woke up completely dry and told me he had to go potty. It has only been about a week but he has had no accidents! He looks so cute in his little boxer briefs! Our little man is growing up so fast! Good Job Hayden! We are so proud of you!

I just love his cute little boxer brief bum!

Some more Hayden News... He has some current obsessions lately. One is with his sniffer and the other is cleaning.

The first one is cleaning. He loves to help clean. Sweep, dust, mop, vacuum. His favorite thing lately is to vacuum all by himself. So I just hook him up down in the bedrooms and he goes to town vacuuming away. What a good little cleaner I have!! Now for this he takes after his Mommy. Boy, I am teaching him well! Maybe?! Hopefully he doesn't develop OCD like his Mommy!

Second, He sniffs everything. If he can smell something out of the ordinary good or bad he sniffs everything around him, even me. I of course always smell good, so he says anyway! Sometimes he doesn't always know what he is smelling like the other day when we went to my Moms house and as soon as we got there he started to cry because he said it stinks. I asked him what it stunk like and he said poop. Now it didn't smell like poop but rather pizza maybe because my Mom just got home with dinner. Maybe it was some bad pizza, I'm not sure but I do know that it tasted good! Silly Hayden! He also smells his food before he will eat it. I don't know where he comes up with this stuff!

Hayden showing off his muscles!

Happy Halloween

Wow! Halloween was so much fun this year! And very very busy!! Hayden was way into the Halloween spirit this year mostly because I guess he kind of understood the concept more than last year. He was a little bit iffy on a few scary things but then after he realized that it was just for fun and pretend he was ok. He enjoyed trick or treating and wanted to keep moving on to the next house! He was a little go getter!

We had alot of fun during the Halloween Season Hayden had a costume party at his buddy Trevor's house. We had pumkin carving and pizza party at Grandma & Grandpa's house. On Halloween, we went trick or treating all day!!! Our first stop was Sundance and by the time we left there Hayden's pumpkin was full of candy! But we couldn't stop there as we had several more stops to make. From there we went to Grandpa's work, Aunt Jenna's work, Daddy's & Uncle Shaun's work. Busy busy!! Then lucky for us all of our family lives in the same neighborhood besides Nate's parents but we went and visited them early that day. We have lots of Grandmas and Grandpas and Aunts and Uncles that just can't wait to see our boys so how can we leave anyone out! We are very lucky to have all of our family so close to us!

Anyway, here are some pics below of the Halloween partying we did this past few weeks.

This is what the boys thought about pumpking carving.

Halloween/Fall Treat

My Mom found this cute idea in her blog adventures one day! We tried it out and they are super cute and super good if you like peanut butter. They taste like peanut butter fudge, only better and much cuter! They are a little time consuming but kind of fun to make especially with the kids.

All you need is one bag of peanut butter chips (like chocolate chips) and one container of vanilla frosting.

Melt the peanut butter chips in the microwave and then add the vanilla frosting to it. Set aside a very small amount to color green for the stems and color the rest orange. It kind of gets tuff to stir. Then you set in fridge for one hour.

To make pumpkins you roll the orange into balls. Take a knife to score like a real pumpkin and then you set it down and push the top down with your thumb. It opens up the scores that you just made to make it look like pumpkin. Then you use a tooth pick to make a little hole in the top to stick the stem in that you make out of the green.

I hope this makes sense. There really isn't any directions so these are my special instructions and I wanted to be clear as possible so it may be sound stupid. If you have any questions let me know.

Enjoy!

8 Things...

About Me... 8 TV shows I love to watch: The Young and the Restless(my FAV!!!), The Hills, The Kardashians, The Girls Next Door, The Real World, The new 90210, Dancing with the Stars, Gangland. 8 Things I did yesterday: slept in, went to work, went shopping, watched the tile prep work at my house, laundry, cleaned up, went to dinner with Mom & Hayden, went to bed LATE. 8 Things I am looking forward to: our little remodel project to be done, Hayden to be potty trained completely, CHRISTMAS!!!!, card swap night with my great friends, Halloween, going to work (that sounds sick but I actually really like work), Hayden's 3rd birthday, and at this very moment I am looking forward to going to bed! (I am very sleepy right now!) 8 things on my wish list: A baby sister for Hayden, a new car, MONEY! (I know money isn't everything but it would sure help things!) For none of us to ever get sick, Hayden to be potty trained, to be skinny, a fun girl vacation to NY, a romantic vacation to Fiji!!

Potty Training Update

I haven't given a potty training update since we started which was the beginning of the year sometime. That is because Hayden was doing really good for a little while then he gave up on it. It could have been partly our fault for not keeping up with it ourselves. We just kept forgetting. Well, I thought it is really time to crack down on this and get him potty trained. So we started a potty chart and he FINALLY filled his first one all up. We told Hayden that once he filled up his potty chart that we would take him to the toy store and he could pick out a toy. After a few months... he finished! So last week we took him to Toys R Us and after a long hard decision he picked out a crane type truck for his reward. He has been so funny though with going 2 in his pants. He knows he is supposed to go on the potty but I guess he doesn't want to go 2 on there so he gets really quiet and sort of hides out until he is done going. Then he will come back into the room we are in and have this guilty look on his face and sometimes even tattle on himself. That look is just so funny! I can tell immediately what he has done.

He has been doing really good for the past month so hopefully we can stick with the program and he will be using the potty all time (even #2!).

Good Job Hayden! We are proud of you!

He looked and looked for the perfect toy!

He was all about these remote control tractor things but luckily he didn't choose one of those! ($65 for one of those things. YIKES!)

Decisions Decisions! He could not choose between these two! He thought he could have both! Everything with him comes in two's! He's so silly!

The green one it is!! Hayden is headed home to play with his new truck!

Look at my crane Mommy!!

Hayden is already excited about filling up his next potty chart so he can go get the other crane that he wanted. That boy never forgets anything!

Family Photo 2008

We had our yearly Family picture taken. I found the best photographer ever! Her name is Heather and her business is called Bridge Photography. She takes beautiful pics!! You should check out her website- http://www.bridgephotography.com/

Here are a few from our session-