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.

My garden

Chris and I have been working hard putting in a vegetable garden since we have a lot of room for it here. The hard part is there is a short frost free time frame here so a lot of people have green houses. So the good husband Chris is, he helped me build one and I am very proud of it. I sure hope it all grows now. If it does we will have all the veg. we could ever want!

The other project we did was this dresser I found at a garage sale for $3. It looked pretty ugly but it is amazing what some sanding, paint, and knobs can do. Now it matches perfectly with his room!

Hayden is just recovering from pneumonia the poor little guy. I took him to the doctor after he had a fever for the third day because I could tell he really wasn't feeling well but I never would have guessed he had pneumonia. The good news is the antibiotics worked wonderful and he is almost back to himself. We still have to go back to make sure it's cleared up but I think he is ok.

He is busy getting into everything and his favorite activity is pulling everything of the shelves , he just likes to watch it drop. He stands up a cruises around furniture as much as he can but he can't balance we enough to walk yet.


He is very good at feeding himself and loves to do it. I think it is great, I can get a lot done while he eats now!

Another home another adventure

So we have moved yet again that puts us up to 8 moves since we were married 3 years ago. Although I am very good at it now I am SOOOO over it especially with a baby now. The good thing it has taught me is that although I like some of the place we move and others not so much, I do have my family where ever we go and we can be happy where ever we are. I now it's cheesy but so true.
The good news is this is the view out our front door, it's kind of cloud in this picture but the mountains are beautiful, cold yes, but beautiful!


I just wanted to post some pictures of the fun we have at home and what Hayden is up to. He has mastered crawling and is onto pulling up on furniture. He laughs a lot more and I love that, we have so much fun together.
This is him with his cousins can't you just see the fun they are going to have together. Don't worry Jentch I won't let Hayden beat up Paiton!




Got to love the pale skin in our family

I panicked when I went check on him cause he was matching in with the blanket and I wasn't used to him moving in his sleep.

He seems to like small places and getting stuck

I gave him an Oreo and I think he enjoyed it, there was none left over

he is starting to like watching videos, nice for me!

Look at my little basketball player palm that orange, I was impressed!