A Break For Old Friends

Just taking a little break from the kids to show off a little play date we had with some friends we don't get to see very often. We were all high school buddies and who would have guessed we would be sitting around surrounded by all these cute little balls of energy someday. It was awesome to see everyone and we can't wait to do it again!!!


This is Jaime and her two side kicks Joshua and Caleb. Bryden is going to coach Joshua to be a Wii Lego Indiana Jones Master. He can't wait for him to come back again.
This is Rachel and her little sidekick Aaron. He loves anything with wheels and was a little angle!!
This is Amy and her new little one Wren. She looks a lot like both of her parents and Hayden thought she was pretty cute!!!
Thanks for the play date girls and lets not let too much time go by!!!!!

TAG! Hayden IS IT!!!

OK I think that we may be back. We have replaced the camera and then the puppy has chewed my computer cord so here it goes using daddy's computer with limited access to all of my pictures.

In BLOG world when you get tagged, then it is your turn to tell about yourself. Hayden, Bryden and Makena have been tagged by their favorite California babe Tess. I have decided to start with Hayden since he he usually gets last bid to anything. So here it goes!!!

1. My name is Hayden Charles. Hayden is after a great lake that my parents have always loved. There may or may not be a golf course there with this name too (My dad loves it when our names just happen to be the same as golf courses). Charles is after my Fraternal Grandfather and Great Grand Father.

2. My mom likes to say that I am her child of irony. I was her hardest pregnancy but easiest delivery. I was her smallest baby but by % I am now the big boy in the house. I am soooo cute and adorable but can turn on a tantrum like there is no tomorrow.

3. I LOOOOOVE french fries!!!!!

4. I was what most consider a late talker. After my third birthday. Be careful what you wish for because now I never stop talking and my mom doesn't always like what sometimes comes out of my mouth. Like "Stop poopy butt".

5. I am the youngest of three. That makes me the baby and sometimes the third wheel. However, I can easily slide into the role of pesky little brother. I can tear apart my brothers Lego contraptions with no problem then skip into sissy's room to test out a little bit of her play makeup. This is all while standing in front of the T.V. so nobody can see it.

6. My mom loves it when I am sad and I crawl into her lap and say "I ma ma's baby?" I will always be ma mas baby.

7. I am also all boy. I like anything with wheels or wings and my favorite thing in the whole world is Thomas the Train or as I like to call his "Tommy Choo Choo". (See top picture)

8. I LOVE TO SLEEP!! Like my mother we need our beauty rest. I am always the first one to bed and the last one up in the morning. I am not easy to wake either. If you turn my bedroom light on when I am asleep I will simply give you a "NOOOO, I Ni Ni".

9. I love my sissy! If my mom wants me to do something and I do not want to, I can be a pill. If it is my sissy's idea, then I am usually on board. She really helps me out a lot

10. A FEW people have told me I look a little like my daddy. My grandma even says I act just like my daddy did when he was my age. Isn't it amazing how god works sometimes!!!

Still No Camera

Yesterday I searched and searched through all of the Sunday advertisements in hopes of finding the perfect camera at the perfect price. I think that I might have found a few to put into the running. So this weekend I WILL purchase some type of memory capturing device. I guess I can still blog without a camera but isn't the saying "a picture is worth a million words" or something like that.
Until next week friends and family!!!!

MORE Mouths to Feed!!!

Not too long ago I wrote of all the mouths we have to feed around here. Well, the mouths continue to multiply. This time we have added to the number of hungry critters in this house by 21. Yes! You read that correctly 21 (at last count). We were so excited last month with the arrival of our 4 baby White Molly fish and they have grown to look just like their mother. I was happy that I was able to breed, raise and keep these little guys alive. Upon going to feed them this morning I noticed that we have been blessed again. This time with a school of them. Curious about how this happened (since dad kicked the bucket and went for a toilet swim a few weeks ago) I did a little research on this particular fish. Apparently, a female can have babies every month for up to six months with only one fertilization. AAAAAAHHHHHHH!
The moral of the story: girls be thankful we don't breed like White Mollies!!!

P.S. I left my camera at a little league game and so far it has not been returned. I may be searching for a new camera. Any recommendations???

My Baby Is A Little Boy!!

It has been a crazy few weeks around this place but none of us have forgotten our little "Taters" who has turned three. Being the youngest of three he got the standard "I got Jipped" birthday party. In fact there was not really a birthday party at all, just a cake. None the less he was tickled to have a "Tommy choo-choo" cake and loved to dig into the frosting!



I am hoping this will not come up in therapy later in his life. My sister says it will so for now maybe we will start planning his 4th Birthday!!

3 Kids, 2 Dogs, 1 Cat and Counting

Although sometimes my kids can act like a bunch of animals I have now put a temporary ban on the number of mouths I feed in this house every day. We added a new puppy to the house back in Feb. and since then I have had many conversations with the kids about more pets. Makena would love a kitten, Bryden would love a turtle, and Hayden would take anything that would let him actually catch it.
We now have a ten year old cat that only emerges from the basement when the kids are in bed and two dogs, which includes a puppy that remains to be potty trained. It is going to be a race to see who can be potty trained first, Hayden or the puppy. I have my money on the puppy. This is why when Blaine and I returned from a night out together and Bryden shared his "new pet" with us it was with a heavy heart I had to talk him into letting it go. Luckily he caught it in the front yard so it was easy to convince him he needed to go back to his home.

Meet Froggie!!!



So with one possible catastrophe diverted I learned only fifteen minutes later that Grammy Monica had taken Bryden to the pet store earlier that night and bought him a couple of fish for the fish tank she got him for his Birthday.........
and three days later one of the fish started having babies. So far we have four and apparently they can have them every month for up to six months with only one fertilization!!!!!!

Meet Fishy, Fisher and T.J.

Luckily they do not eat a lot but I am hoping that the additions to the family will come to a stop for a little while.

Who Runs This Household

We are up and running! Cause of the malfunction-Capri Sun straw stuck in the CD Drive. No one seems to be owning up to this but my money is on the little guy.

All is still crazy in this house but we do have a new toy that has become a huge hit in the neighborhood. THE TETHER BALL!!! Makena is up with the sun and outside playing as soon as she can before school. I am hearing a lot of new gossip coming from the tether ball playing field. Words that bring back many of my old tether ball memories such as ropes, holds, lines and even some new ones like the jack hammer. It is all about being able to beat a fifth grader or a (Celery Stick)is what they call them. Second graders are pea pods and when a pea pod beats a celery stick it is all over the school. I just love that the kids are once again outside and enjoying the nice weather.

We do have one minor problem with the tether ball though. Hayden likes to be in the middle of everything. Below I am providing my evidence of his helpfulness.