Baby Dedication

So this past Saturday Landon was dedicated. We had a nice weekend with family coming back to the house after the ceremony. There was about 25 others that were dedicated during the same service. Afterwards a small group of family came back to the house for dinner. Landon did great during the ceremony and went to the nursery afterwards. This was the first time he stayed in the nursery the entire hour. The volunteer said he slept in a bouncy pretty much the entire time. He was overtired by the time we made it home so we quickly feed and changed him then off to bed he went with just a few minutes to see all those that came to celebrate his dedication to Christ. Unfortunaltey we didn't even get one picture of him or any of us for that matter. So this is the photo that was displayed on the jumbo screen at church.

PJ's

Two Little Cuties in their PJ's

Both Connor (12mths) and Landon (5mths) changed into their PJ's after celebrating Connor's first birthday. We all got a little chuckle when we realized they had on the same jammies.

Mothers Day 2010

Happy Mother's Day

Baby Blake not so much the baby anymore. He is able to keep up with the older kids now.

Hand in hand headed to feed the goats and pig

Uncle Travis taking Hayden on a wagon ride.

Grammy and Dede with Little Landon

Hayden and Daddy playing with Hayden's newest treasure for potty success..bubbles

Kayla and her Nanny having such pure fun

Dede and Hayden flyin down the slide

My third mothers day but the first with my two boys

Kayla and Hayden having a good time like usual

Fast asleep

Hayden enjoying all the attention he gets from his GRANDparents!

Hayden with his best buddies eating his favorite food.... ice cream

Mothers Day weekend turned out to be surprisingly enjoyable. It started off with a pedi, mani and hair cut on Friday night after work. I decided to get my hair cut short, my "mommy" haircut as Jeff calls it. I got my pedi/mani with a gift card Hayden gave me 2 years ago. I am so bad about using gift cards right away. On Sunday Hayden presented me with a card and two Easter eggs. Each egg contained a silver booty, one blue to wear in honor of Hayden and one cream to wear in honor of Landon. These little shoes are the perfect gift. I couldn't have picked out anything better had I picked them out myself. Oh I wait I did!

After some confusion and clarification we celebrated Mother's day at Huber's Orchard and Winery with the family. It was nice being with both my mom and Jeff's mom. We had a nice lunch and then went outside to play on the farm. Hayden and Kayla had a blast. They rode on the wagon being pulled by a big red tractor, went sliding down the bumpy slide, (this was so much fun that all of us used Hayden and Kayla as an excuse to go down) fed the pot bellied pig and goats and played with bubbles on the grass. It was so relaxing which is completely different than I would have envisioned Mother's day (of all days) at Huber's. Think we might have to make this an annual tradition.

Now our morning didn't start out relaxing at all. After about an hour of sleep the night before (Landon was exercising his lungs all night) we hurriedly got the kids ready and out the door for church. All week we had been talking to Hayden about how he and Landon would be going to school on Sunday and that we could ride the school bus beforehand. After pulling into the church parking lot Hayden was already saying he didn't want to ride the bus so we walked the parking lot and went to Landon's class room first. At a few days past 5 months this was his first time to the nursery, aka school. With Hayden we waited until he was a year and we are still paying the price. I vowed we wouldn't make the same mistake so Landon is going to be familiar with "school" much earlier. So after dropping Landon off we went to Hayden's class room and the water works started as we handed him off to his "teacher". We watched through the two way mirror and Hayden was crying with arms outstretched towards the door. The teacher tried to get him to touch the Bible which Hayden refused. We watched for several minutes as the other kids sat at the table cooperating with the teacher as Hayden continued to scream. We then headed to church, crawled over one lady to our seats and in less than 10 minutes our child id was displayed on the jumbo tron. We crawled back over said lady and went to retrieve our child who was red faced with slobber and snot cascading down his face. Mr. Brian said to just keep trying and eventually he will get used to coming to "school". We then took Hayden to check on Landon who was crying in a swing. The poor nursery workers had their hands full with screaming babies. They were everywhere. Bouncy's, exersaucers and all 6 swings were occupied and going full speed. One lady keep trying to put Landon's paci back in as she juggled two other babies but he just kept spitting it back out in between wails. We decided to just go ahead and get Landon and call it a morning. Operation church and school was a bust. We told Hayden that Landon was crying (as they returned him to us) because he was sad he had to leave school. Not sure if he bought it but all week we have been talking about going back to see Mr. Brian and riding the school bus this weekend. We'll see how this weekend goes.

Art Sparks

Thanks to Aunt Kellie we discovered a new place to frequent on our weekly outing. It seems Erin and I have gotten into a routine of taking our 4 boys out once a week. Kellie had given me a coupon for admission to Art Sparks in the Speed Art Museum. Having no expectations we were pleasantly surprised. After a lunch at McAllisters, we took off on what was supposed to be a 25 minute drive to downtown which turned into nearly an hour search. A GPS that was malfunctioning, having us drive in circles past the same McDonalds three times, an automated phone recording telling us to turn on a street that doesn't exist. We drove on the same streets numerous times but alas we found it. Having the place nearly to ourselves, minus three other kids, we were able to scope out the place at our leisure. From an 18th century kitchen to a sailboat to tee pees and an art studio there was something for everyone. Even Landon had fun as a fellow museum goer, Emily, age 2, held his hand and oohed and ahhed over him. Hayden and Aidan mopped floors, sailed the high seas, took a stab at playing Picasso and even hula hooped with colorful images reflected on a jumbo screen. I definitely think this is a place we will revisit.

Dancin in the Rain

Hayden loves, loves, LOVES, to play outside. What kid doesn't. I promised Hayden we could go outside to play once we finished eating dinner. Well in comes the rain clouds and out comes the rain. If you could see the disappointment on his face. I asked him what's wrong and his response was "oh no, it rainin outside... we not go out play now" I thought for a second and though why not go out and play. Yes it's raining but why let that stop us. So outside we went to dance in the rain but first we needed something. An umbrella? No. Rain boots? No. Rain coat? No. Shower caps? Yes! Yep your read that right. Shower caps! Or as Hayden calls it a cap hat. Jeff and I had just gone to Horseshoe casino for a birthday weekend and I was super bummed to see they didn't have shower caps in the room so I phoned housekeeping and they brought me two. So my shower cap that I have had for years from some long forgotten hotel that had a rip in it was tossed away and in it's place is two brand new cap hats. We donned out hats and took off our shoes and soaks and went dancing in the rain. Hayden (and I) had so much fun. We splashed in puddles, caught rain drops on our tongue and yes we danced. All the while my freshly washed, straightened, defrizzed hair stayed just as it was.