Rice Cereal

So for the first time today I fed Hayden Rice Cereal!  I'm not so sure he knew what to think about it.  We will have to keep trying.  Hopefully he decides he likes it.

Trying to get out of his Bumbo chair, he is not a big fan

Surprise

I'M PREGNANT!!!!! WHAT??!?!  

Totally Kidding, I think I would not be excited about that.  The reason for the beginning of this post was because I keep finding out everyone is pregnant.  No joke.  But for real this time, at work on tuesday at staff meeting, my boss was telling us about CASH.  He was saying that we need to give CASH to patients.  CASH stands for Compliment, Ask Questions, Smile, Hello.  So we are sitting in our meeting and has a few people give CASH to other assistants, well after they finished; he pulled out a wad of $100 bills.  He said alright now take one and pass them around, well everyone was freaking out and then we sent them back to him.  And he flips through the rest and says alright take another and pass them around again!!!! WHAT are you SERIOUS?????  So afterward everyone was screaming and freaking out he says alright now look outside and so we all look through the blinds outside and there were 2 LIMOS parked in the parking lot.  NO WAY!!!!  So for the rest of our 2 hour lunch break he said the Limos were going to take us to the Mall to go shopping.  The only stipulations were that you could NOT spend it on anyone but yourself.  So Amazing.  So I have a shoe fettish and I haven't been able to buy many pairs of shoes lately so that is what I got.  I got 3 pair from FOREVER YOUNG, a pair of TOMS, and a pair of BUCKLE Jeans.  So far I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE the TOMS, they are seriously the most comfy shoes in the world.  Thank you so much Dr. Graf your the BEST !!!

This is maybe half of us...

Sorry the quality of the pictures isn't very well.  they were all taken with my phone, the one day I left my camera home. :D 

Rolling

So friday May 20 Hayden rolled over from his back to his tummy a couple of times!! We couldn't believe it so excited he has been so close for a little while but couldn't get that little leg over.  He doesn't roll around or even all the time but he is getting better at it when he wants something he will roll over.  This morning as Hayden was bathing he started to roll over and he tried it 3 times before he realized that his face was going to go half way under the water each time.  Maybe the bath isn't the greatest place to roll over.   Also Yesterday Sunday the 22 was my brother Alex's Farewell talk, he did an amazing job and is going to make one heck of a missionary.  He is going to Farmington, New Mexico and will mainly be on the Indian Reservations.  He leaves June 8th and I am so proud of him.  It still doesn't seem like he is old enough to go but he is quite the young man.  I love you al.

He is such a cute little stinker!  I am so proud of you Buddy :D  He is getting a lot faster at rolling over. 

Play Day

So tonight my cute little nephews came over to play while mommy and daddy went out.  It was so fun having them here.  They are so sweet.  Lincoln is super smart and talks very well.  Tonight he said to me; meme your my 2nd best friend, kelsey is my first best friend.  And then he says as he hides his face, fire trucks make me nervous!  How the heck does he know that word; nervous?  Way to go nicole and craig for raising such a smart little boy. 

Cute little boys. 

My two boys.

He loves to stand up.  He thinks he is so big. Also tonight my little squirt rolled over from back to tummy a couple of times.  Tyler had laid him on the floor on his back and I was playing with Lincoln and Emmett and Ty looked over and was all "oh my gosh, he just rolled over I didn't set him on his tummy" so what do I do since I missed it, I rolled him back over to his back to see if he would do it again and sure enough a minute later he rolled right back over and we still didn't get it on camera.  I am such a proud mama.  I love you little man.

Cayman Islands Part II

So I know I have had a picture overload lately but I guess that's what happens when you go on vacation for 2 weeks.  So many fun pictures to share.  We got to take family pictures while we were in Grand Cayman and they turned out so darling.  We also were able to go swim with the stingray in stingray city, at a sandbar in the middle of the ocean.  We went to the turtle farm and were able to hold some turtles, Hayden wasn't sure what we were making him touch. We went to HELL, and it is what you would picture Hell to look like, it's black volcanic rock super UGLY and extremely HOT.  We have now been to HELL and back! Glad we made it :D The Botanic Gardens were gorgeous,  that is where we saw the BLUE Iguanas.  We got to hold some starfish that we found in the ocean out at RUM POINT.  I am ready to go back!!!  We had so much fun and Hayden did so awesome he slept almost every flight the entire time and was super good in Grand Cayman especially being in the sun almost all day every day.  He didn't even get burned at all we used 100 SPF WOW who knew that stuff existed and it definitely works.  Here are some pictures of our adventure!

This is the MATING pool.  Each turtle weighs aprox 500-600 lbs

HELL so Ugly

Papa was the stroller pusher, we went when Tyler and Craig had gone home.  It was gravel the entire way through the park so we needed a STRONG man to do the job!

When these plants die they start to look like the bottom half of it and while alive they start out fully like the top half.  As they die they fold down super weird.

The plants were so cool.

Entry Way to the Botanic Gardens

The Green Iguana they are wild and they are EVERYWHERE

This Iguana was in the window seal of one of our condo's.  Lincoln named him Fweke

Blue Iguana

 There is a definite difference between the blue and green this one doesn't have as big of spiny thing on it's back and the color of course and this one has black feet the other one doesn't.  Also the Green Iguana's wont let you get very close whereas the blue one's didn't startle as easy. 

These little buggars where seriously seen by the Hundreds.  You never walked along the sidewalk without seeing at least one every couple steps.  They came in every size this is about the biggest and the smallest we saw was probably the length of a house key.

We found these starfish while snorkeling.  Brought them back to where everyone was and held them and took pictures!

Stingray City!  Hayden Loved the stingray :D  Not really sure he knew what we made him touch. 

All of our baggage seriously who are those people?  You would think we moved. 

Just Pooped.  The End Our last flight home.

Mother's Day

A little late, but Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful mothers.  Being a first time mother here I don't know how some of you do it with more than one child.  It is fun, exciting, sad, frustrating, etc.  but even with the hard days it is still so worth it.  I wouldn't trade anything in this world for my little Hayden.  Being a mommy has been such a fun blessing.  I can't believe Heavenly Father trusts me with his little one, but boy am I so grateful he does.  I love being a mommy!  I am so thankful for my mommy as well, she has been such an example to me and I just love her so much.  My sister nicole has also been such an example  she is such a great mommy of two little boys.  Sometimes I don't know how  she does  it and is still alive.  She is so patient and loving I hope someday that I will be able to be a great mommy like my mom and sister. 

Mother's Day with my sweet little Love Bug.

This is what happens when you don't strap him in...oops

Look mom I can touch my toes!

This is how much he loves his baba, I stuck it on the ground in front of him so I could pick him up and before I knew it he had grabbed it and started putting it in his mouth.  He would do ANYTHING for  a baba!

Silly Little Boy

Hayden is a silly little boy, he isn't a huge fan of binky's which can sometimes be a pain but for the most part we don't really need them.  This is what he does when we put a binky in his mouth.

This lovely sound is what we get to wake up to every morning, He kicks his little legs up in the air and pounds them down on his bed, thump thump thump is what we wake up to.  He does it constantly even when he is just laying on the floor as you can see.  Don't you think it would hurt your heals? 

Easter 2011

So Hayden is one LUCKY little boy.  He had the amazing opportunity of spending his FIRST easter in GRAND CAYMAN!!  We arrived in Grand Cayman 1 day before easter, and we took cute little easter baskets with us, along with candy.  It was fun the easter bunny hid the eggs and baskets around the condo that we were staying in so that my nephew link could go find them all!! So much fun what an amazing easter.  So this was mine and Tyler's third easter being married.  Our first easter we spent in our first little apartment, our second was in California with Tyler's mom, and this one was in Grand Cayman, man are we lucky or what!! The Easter Bunny brought me sunglasses, tyler an underwater camera, and Hayden got a swim floaty, an outfit and some water toys.  What a great easter spent in the beautiful sunshine, with family in the caribbean.  I couldn't have asked for anything more. 

Good Morning Sunshine, Easter Morning

Our cute portable and disposable easter baskets

Easter Morning! 

Also a little about the first few days of our trip.  We left for Grand Cayman on Friday April 22 around 6:30 A.M.  Our flight left SLC at 9:30, and we landed in Atlanta Georgia, where we spent the night.  We left the next morning for Grand Cayman.  We arrived in Grand Cayman around noon on Saturday April 23.  We were staying in a condo, so that afternoon we went to Hard Rock for lunch and then we hit the grocery store.  Oh my goodness I never knew food could be so expensive for so little.  We came home and went swimming, let it begin!  Sunday, my parents brother al, and sister kelsey went to church, while craig and nicole and tyler and I and all the kiddos stayed home.  We walked along the beach and sat with our feet in the pool. We cooked pasta for dinner and it was delicious.  Monday we went to the beach, and then we went swimming in the pool.  We went to a little restaurant called Coconut Joe's for dinner, I think the food was just as good as the vacations itself. (well almost)

Sorry this blog is a little bit of a picture overload, but we have tons of pictures that I want to share!

At the airport in Atlanta waiting for our Bus to take us to our Hotel. 8 Adults, 3 children, 2 strollers, 2 car seats, 14 pieces of luggage and 3 baby items, can you say WOW.  You should have seen us lugging it all through the airports. 

Our Flight from Atlanta to Grand Cayman, Haydens First time Flying

He did great

First time touching sand, he did so good I can't believe how OK he was with his feet in the sand.

This is what we got to see every night before bed.  Look at the beautiful sunset, truely paradise. 

The Sunday after we got to Cayman, Look at the beautiful weather.

Just Chillaxin in the ocean!

The babes hanging in the ocean.