Stupid computers a necessary evil

Throughout our married lives Chris and I have had really bad luck with our computers. You name it and it has probably happened to us from being stolen, breaking, crashing, and just plain dieing. The latest is our touch screen computers touch screen stopped working. In trying to fix it we had to reset it to factory settings and we lost the software to link Chris's phone to our computer which is how we get the Internet, hence the no new blogs. After finally getting hp to warranty it and getting it back with it is now broken again and I really don't want to deal with. It works fine as a regular computer but who wants a touch screen that doesn't work!

That being said here are a few fun pictures over the last few months. Hayden is almost 18 months and I am tyring desperately to keep up with him. He is fun and growing up so much every day but I have no idea where he gets all his energy. If he is awake it is rare that he is not running around. He is overall a very happy boy unless he needs a nap of course! Chris is working hard on his masters and is almost half way through. We will both be happy when that is over and we can take a break from school until I go back and who knows when that will happen.

We have to heat our little place with a wood burning stove, here is Chris working hard for his family.

Halloween was fun and Hayden actually kept his hat on for me. With Halloween came the discovery of suckers.

I added this just for Augie so he could see who Hayden chose f0r his team, and no I didn't put it on him

This was a trip to see my sister Jentry and I love that we fit all three car seats and that they all crashed at the same time from all the excitement.

Back to School

Well the summer is over and Chris has his students back and they are living up to high school student reputations. Just kidding I think he is enjoying teaching again. He also has to drive down to Weber State three nights a week which gives Hayden and I plenty of bonding time! It's hard now but will be worth it when he's done.

In the mean time Hayden has gotten pretty good at walking now and no longer likes to be held. He's not really saying words yet except for ma ma and da da, but he has mastered the point and yell. I am having fun with my camera and my cute little boy.

This is at our local rec. center, it's a really fun pool especially now that Hayden is really starting to enjoy going there.

The Walking Begins

Hayden had been very cautious about his walking and so even though he could take his first steps well over a month ago he has finally decided to start walking. In less than a week he can walk on his own, bend down to pick things up and stand up in the middle of the floor. I'm not used to it yet since it happened so fast but its fun to watch him learn.

His new favorite activity now is taking his lion to the park where he can push it as far as he wants. He gets really into it and pushes it around for over an hour!

As a family we went to our first demolition Derby and I have to say we had a lot of fun, even Hayden liked watching the cars crash. I can't believe people are crazy enough to get into cars and crash them till they can't move anymore. My favorite part is that there is not alcohol or smoking allowed which kept the crowd mellow and fun!

This was our friends car, He almost won out of almost 50 cars

We went to Cherry Hills with Chris's family which turned out to be a pretty cool water park

This is Chris's oldest brother Scott with his two kids

Small town life

There are hard things about living in a really small exspensive town such as not having any stores and not being able to afford a house but there are no apartments! There are also really great things like Christmas music playing on loud speaks through the whole town all of the holiday season, awesome fire work shows that you can see from your front porch four nights in a row for the 4th of July. They also have these random events like everyone slpit into teams and we played volleyball all night. Today they had a car show and and auction (people spending rediculous amounts of money on donated items for charity) with all the fair type booths. The best part is that you know almost everyone so it is just a big party!










We finally bought some furniture, we went to IKEA which was an intense but fun experience. Going into that store with money can be a dangerous thing.
As you can see I can't even get Hayden to leave things on the shelves long enought to take a picture.

Chris decided he couldn't live without this mirror but neither of us realized quite how big it was until we got it home. After a good laugh we decided we really like it.

My New Camera

My wonderful husband got me a nice new camera for my birthday. I hope this will motivate me to take more cute pictures of Hayden and then I can blog more often. Any way here are my first tries I hope to get better, luckily I have a very cute subject.

Hayden turned 1 last month I can't believe how fast it went but it sure has been fun, He was such a sweet baby and now I am getting to see his wild side, hopefully we will continue to have fun !

These are just pictures of Hayden doing the crazy things that kids do.

The Hogle ZOO

On Saturday we took Hayden to the zoo and it was so much fun. Hayden actually enjoyed it more than he thought would. He loved the animals as long as they were moving, so the monkeys were his favorite because they were loud and all over the place.






As you can see it was very sunny and hot but with enough sunscreen neither Hayden or I got burned! YAY (not an easy thing for us)

We took Chris's sister with us for her birthday, Happy Birthday Sarah thanks for the help.

He was all smiles the whole time and would not take a nap the whole time we were there.