Sorry :(

Sorry I haven't blogged in while. Hayden and I were in Muscle Shoals for a week and then when I got home there was a storm and it fried our ethernet card on our computer. We didn't know what was wrong for a while. So, I have no pictures to post this time, but can just write about what we've been up to.

Well, as I said earlier, we went to Muscle Shoals for a week. While we were there, we went to a birthday party at Spring Park and Hayden rode the train and carousel and roller coaster. He had lots of fun and is still talking about going back to the birthday party. We basically just hung out the rest of the time, but Hayden got a fever virus while we were there, so we were out of commission for a couple of days.

When we got back it was Mother's Day weekend and Dave's family came on Sunday. We had ribs, seven layer salad, flatbread, corn on the cob, and a fantastic Butterfinger cake. I definitely can't eat like that every day, but enjoy it for special occassions. We had a good time visiting with them and then just chilled for the rest of the night.

Last Thursday we headed over to the "Ham" to spend the night and go to a funeral on Friday. I got to have some girl time with some friends on Thursday night, which was awesome. That's the one thing I'm not really getting here b/c I have no friends in Georgia. One of my girlfriends is preggers, and that's fun to talk about and everything. So basically I have Hayden from morning to night and it gets old sometimes. I love him and he's sweet as sugar, but jeez...everybody needs a break. Hayden got to "ride truck" at Gramma and Pops' house and have his uncles and aunt there along with us, so he is majorly out of sorts today from all of the attention.

Yesterday was Hayden's big gymnastics finale thing. He had lots of fun b/c it was basically another class and Dave got to finally see him do everything we had been talking about for the past few months, so it was great! Dave took video of him and we got a few pictures, so hopefully we can get that on here soon. He got to stand up on the podium and get a medal. Minus a breakdown due to no nap, he did really well and it was a fun day.

I finally finished painting the red in the half bathroom (never again will I have a red room), and I painted one coat of silver on the trey in the dining room (which is going to look super cool). Maybe I can get those rooms situated and pics put on of them soon. I plan on painting our master bath this week hopefully. I'm ready to get that sort of thing finished, so I can just keep up with the day-to-day chores.

So, that's us for the past couple of weeks and now Hayden wants to do Play-doh, so I guess I'll go.

Playground

Hayden loves going to the playground at Burger King where we live. The city doesn't really have a good playground and there aren't too many kids for him to play with at our neighborhood playground right now, so we usually head to the BK to have a little recreational break. When Dave was off on Thursday, we went there for dinner and Hayden had a lot of fun as usual. Dave hasn't really been there with us to play, so he was very paranoid (like I was the first time) when he couldn't see Hayden. Now when I go, I just let Hayden run around and play on his own (b/c there's only one way in and one way out), and sit back and relax. It was pretty funny to realize how overprotective we are sometimes. So, here are a few pics from Thursday and 2 random pictures of Hayden. One is of him "driving" the dune buggy and the other is pretty funny of him as a bride at the movie theater when we went to see "Horton Hears a Who" a month ago.

"We're here, we're here. Hi Gym"...

This is what Hayden says every Wednesday night when we go to his Gymnastics class. He absolutely loves it and does really well at following the teacher's directions, which gives me hope that he will do well in preschool. (I italicized "teacher" b/c he doesn't like me to tell him what he's supposed to do at class.) He's been going since the beginning of March and has caught on better than I thought. I love that he's able to follow directions well and interact with other kids his age. I feel like it will be a really good summer thing for him to do and if we can afford it, maybe he can keep doing it this fall. Tonight, he wore his big boy underwear, did not have an accident, and pee-peed in the potty! I have a peeing genius!!!! Ha!! We're headed to Muscle Shoals on Friday and I hope he can keep it up when we get there. He just gets so excited at Grammy and Dee-da's house. These are a few pictures from tonight's class! The lady in the picture with him is Miss Lori, his teacher. And the huge slide is there at the gym as well. That's really his favorite part and is a great reward for them at the end of their class. He also walked on the balance beam by himself tonight and loves jumping on the trampoline.

Potty Training

Well, here we are in the midst of potty training. Can't say I love it. This is the 3rd day and it's going pretty well. He's only wet his underwear once today and is being good about telling us when he needs to go. What's our secret?...Bribery (1 piece of candy for pee-pee and 2 pieces for poo-poo) The drawback? We haven't left the house in 2 days! Yikes! Anyways, here's a pretty interesting picture of Hayden "fixing" Dave's head this morning.

Here's some of Hayden "hiding" in a box and popping out in a surprise.

And finally, here's one of the guest bedroom. We're ready and waiting for all of our friends to show up.

And here's Hayden's bedroom. We just put the lanterns up today and we were pretty excited at how they turned out. I think he's gonna love his room for a few more years at least!

In Between

For those of you who don't know, we recently moved from Alabama to Georgia. It was not a planned thing, and has been really hard on all of us.

Here's the story in a nutshell:
Right before Christmas, Dave's friend called him to see if he wanted to apply for a job at a station that was a big move up for Dave. We debated and finally decided that he should at least interview. In the mean time, our house had already been for sale for about 6 months with no real prospects of being bought. Dave interviewed at this new station after the new year and was told that it would be 6 to 8 weeks before he would know anything. In 3 weeks they called and said that they wanted him to start in 2 weeks. That very same weekend someone put in a good offer on our house. We closed in 2 weeks and just happened to have a saintly relative that let us use our house while we looked for something in Georgia!

We have now been in our new house for about 3 weeks and are still trying to get settled. I think that our junk is breeding b/c everytime I think I've got things pretty well put in their places, a new box materializes. So, anyway, here's some pics from when my wonderful parents were here helping us look for houses, and from our sad Easter egg hunt. (Before anyone says anything: Hayden and Dave both got the stomach virus that weekend, so I have no Easter outfit pics.)

Enjoy!

Welcome to the New Blog

Here's our new blog. Welcome! We will be posting more in the future with pictures!