Officially Announcing......

Today we got to see the tiny little heart beating away!!

Due date: October 1, 2010

We are going to be a family of 5!!!!

Hayden is really excited and wants to know and see how this baby is growing each day. It will be a fun 7 more months!!!

Random Pics

I haven't downloaded the pictures from our camera in a few weeks, so just thought I would share some of the fun we have been having since Christmas. Here are all four stinkers in the bath tub. I think they all had a fun time. Jake was a little overwhelmed, but he liked being in on the fun!

We got some fun treats in the mail from the Saisslin's for Valentine's Day. Yummy marshmallow suckers! Hayden enjoyed it for a little while, but our sweet tooth Lilly, chewed on it until it was all gone!!
She loved it!

Hayden has a great set of train tracks from Ryan. He asks me to put them together ALL the time, but it seems like every time I try, it ends up not fitting together into a circle and so I always tell him to wait until dad comes home. He finally got tired of me saying that and so went and put this together ALL BY HIMSELF!!! He definitely didn't get my genes! He must be a builder like his dad! I think Lilly is more like me. She tries for a few seconds and then gives up! Oh-well. We and he was pretty proud of his creation!

January Fun

We got to have Robin and Jake at our house yesterday. As usual, they made it more fun for us! Here is beautiful Snow White and Ariel. Hayden couldn't wait to have Robin over so that they could both dress up in the pretty costumes.

Jake got into the spirit of dress-ups too and wore the Buzz Lightyear hat for a while. I don't think he thought it was too bad!
Then, on to finger painting. Of course, Hayden chose the pink apron. They had fun mixing colors to see what new colors they could make.

I tried to get them to show me their hands after finger painting, but this was as close as I got.

Lilly took an early nap, so she had lunch later. She loved having Jake, as you can see. She is such a little mother. She just kept patting his head (hopefully he didn't have corndog hair, Amy).

Happy New Year!!

Just thought I would share some after Christmas fun that we have been having....just to keep the blog exciting :) Here is Super Hero Lilly!! Hayden got a book about a super hero boy that came with a mask, but Lilly thought it was pretty neat too. :)

Loving his paints. He has to paint at LEAST 2 times per day!!
Still loving baby dolls and pushing around in the stroller.

Also, didn't get a chance to take a picture of the actual making of Christmas cookies because our camera battery went dead, but here is Lilly in the cute little apron Randy/Pete (secret Santa) gave to us. I have an adult size apron/mitts that also go with the set. Thanks!! Both Lilly and Hayden loved wearing it this season. Lilly liked to pretend to feed the gingerbread man apron, and Hayden liked to try and tie it around his head so he WAS the gingerbread man!!

Close up of miss Lilly (aka cindy lou who) :)

Hayden got a sit-n-spin for his birthday from the White's and then Lilly got one from the Wagenblast's for Christmas. We just kept one, but it has been lots of fun!! Lilly is actually figuring out how to work it all by herself!! Not getting dizzy yet, but I'm sure will be soon!!
Hope everyone has a fun New Years Eve!!

Merry Christmas!

We had a fun Christmas this year at our house. Hayden and Lilly loved every moment of it!! It was fun just to get to watch their excitement in all the things we did. This year, we had Mark's family at our house. Here is Hayden helping grandpa put together the Christmas puzzle. He loved getting the little pieces together.

Christmas Eve bringing milk for Santa

Excited about Santa's cookies and reindeer carrots. I think they both wanted to try some!
This picture is out of sequence, but Hayden got a Handy Manny helicopter that he could put together. Notice the baseball hats.....Hayden noticed on the box that he wears a baseball hat, so step 1: put on hats before putting together the toy!!

Here is Santa's big present to Lilly and Hayden. How did it fit in his sleigh??
Loving it in the morning!! Can you tell??!!

Just staring at the stockings in AWE!!

Pretty excited about the bean bags too. These were our gift to the kids. I had made them, and hopefully they'll get good use out of them!

Lilly didn't mind hers either :)

Having fun in the tent.

I think Lilly was having fun! She had her hands full all day...she couldn't carry enough! She carried around this giant candy cane in her mouth most of the morning. Good thing it still had the wrapper on!

She also got a baby doll from Santa and stroller from grandma and grandpa and a knitted blanket from grandma great and LOVED them!! We were opening presents all morning, and Lilly was in her own corner, in her own little world just pretending with her baby all day long!!

"ho ho ho" is what she would say when she or anyone else wore this hat.

Playing with sword and studying the knights

Playing with her tea pot

Mark made a special display box for grandpa's flag and all of his military pins/purple heart for grandma. We did miss grandpa this year!

Knight Hayden ready to play

Feeding baby doll

Pretending to be baby doll!

We got a Wii from Colleen and Ryan!!!!!!!!!! Can you tell we were enjoying it??

Both kids had a fun weekend with grandma great too!

Uncle Ryan loves legos, and displays them at his office. Colleen got him a truck lego, so Hayden had a fun time "helping" him put that together.

This is just a funny picture if you zoom in on it.....What is grandma great teaching Hayden????? She was actually teaching him the "where is thumbkin" song, but Mark thought it would be funny to take a picture while they were on the "tall man" verse :)

It was a fun weekend! We are planning on going skiing (just Mark, Gary, and myself) tomorrow, so that will be a fun ending of the festivities. I think New Year's will be a little quieter. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Happy 3rd Birthday Hayden!!

Today is Hayden's 3rd b-day!!! I can't believe it! He is growing up to be such a big boy, talking all the time and always thinking! We celebrated on Friday with the family. We had a snow man theme. Here is the "king" ready and excited for his guests to arrive!

Decorating snow man pancakes
Playing pin the nose on Frosty. Hayden had to make sure Lilly was doing it right!

After the game was done....who got the closest??
Eating the birthday dinner

Birthday boy Hayden and Robin with Grandpa Gary

Snow man cake

Hayden the Fireman!! He LOVED this outfit that momo got him

We even got a perfect surprise visit from Santa and the firemen in their decorated fire truck! Hayden was wearing his fireman costume...perfect timing...not even planned!!! Can you believe it??

Lilly wasn't so sure about Santa....again...but at least he keeps giving her candy canes every time she sees him!

Lilly and her baby doll....she usually has one in her arms at all times!

We had a fun night, and I know Hayden did too! Merry Christmas...only 5 more days!!!!!