This is my norm

Here is her in the laundry basket…she was so tired. She is holding her LuLu the Lamb and loves that thing. Hayden is trying to start sitting up by herself, but it only lasts maybe 1 second 🙂 Just long enough to snap a fast picture.

Well we have been busy. Everyone is back to work, back to life….whew. We have been working on the house. Getting everything organized for the new year, starting a work out program, because I want to run a marathon (Juli, maybe we can do one together sometime) but in order to do that I have to build up my mileage for a year. So that is what I am working on. I am ready to kick these last 12 pounds of baby weight, plus some more. Bj is going to train with me but I don’t know if he will run the marathon or not.

Enjoy the new pics 🙂

Well Hayden surprised me this morning when I went to get her out of bed she was rolled over on her back!! I couldn’t believe it. She had a huge smile on her face as if to say, Look what I did all by myself!! She looked so proud 🙂 She’s just growing up right under our noses.

Ok..so the birthday dinner was so nice. We went to Perry’s Grill. I had filet mignon, my favorite 🙂 Then the surprise was that I got to pick out a new watch. I’ve been wanting one for a while. So we went over to the mall and I got one. I really like it, its different and kind of chunky. Anyway, so that was that. Fun birthday! My parents brought me lunch that day from Brooklyn Bagel Co……Yum! And then me and mom watched Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Pretty cute movie.

Then last night Bj’s parents took us to Houston to this restaurant called Fogo de Chao….its Brazilian. Oh wow, it was so good. They had this huge gourmet salad bar and then you sit down and they bring you all these different cuts of meat on a skewer and they cut you off whatever you want. There was a rack of lamb, pork loin, garlic beef, sirloin, and many many more. I have to recommend the lamb. So then you eat and eat until you are stuffed. They give you this little circle coaster-like thing and one side is red and one is green. You flip it to green when you want more meat and red when you need to stop. Oh we ate so much. It was awesome food, probably some of the best food I have ever eaten in my life. You all have to try it. There are only like two of them in the US.

Hayden and I went shopping together for the first time yesterday. I was a little worried about how she would do in her stroller for that long, but she did great, plus, it gave us priority privileges for the huge dressing rooms 🙂 We had a fun time and got a few good finds.

Well just wanted to update 🙂 Today Hayden is 3 months old! Wow, the time is flying by. I have some new pics that I’ll post when I get a chance.

Ta ta!!

It’s my birthday 🙂 Yippee!! I am 23 and was official at 8:51 this morning. See, I was nice to my mother…she went to the hospital at 2am and 6 hours later, I popped out…..not 22 hours later like some babies 😉

My mom is coming over today to hang out with me and we are going to watch Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants together. Hopefully it will be good. Then my hubby is taking me to dinner and then he has a surprise apparently afterward. I’m excited!! We haven’t been on a nice dinner date since Hayden was born. So this will be fun.

Well have a wonderful day on my birthday!!

Your Birth Month is December

You love life and exude an outgoing, cheerful vibe.Blessed with a great sense of humor, you can laugh at adversity. Your soul reflects: Celebration, success, and wealth Your gemstone: Blue Topaz Your flower: Narcissus Your colors: Indigo, green, and blue-green

Look what I got 🙂

A Toyota Sequoia!!

We had a great Christmas, and such a fun time with our Hayden! She stared at one bow for the whole time it seemed!! She is doing much better physically and we are continuing “rhino time” breathing treatments, and she has almost finished her medicines. Continue to pray for her full recovery and we appreciate all of your prayers so far.

We love you all and hope you all had a blessed Christmas and have a safe and wonderful New Year!

Whew, it has been crazy over in my neck of the woods. That’s why I haven’t posted much. Friday was our first Christmas program at church. It went really well and there was a nice audience too. Then Saturday BJ and I went separate ways and knocked out our Christmas shopping. Then Sunday was my parents 25th anniversary celebration (their anniversary was Monday) and so that was really nice. We had a reception for them at church and then lunch with family that afternoon. I was pooped from the weekend let me tell ya. Then Monday Hayden started sounding congested. I thought she might just be teething, but Tuesday she sounded a little worse and by Wednesday I was concerned, so I took her to the doctor yesterday and good thing I did. What we all thought, including the nurse, was just a “teething cold” turned out to be a respiratory virus called RSV. They were concerned about her, because for an adult RSV is no big deal but for an infant it is like asma. THey said is she had not come in she could have been in the ICU by this weekend. I was freaking out. She was having a rough time breathing and had developed a cough. Plus she had gotten two ear infections from it. What a bummer. So they gave her an antibiotic for the ears, a steroid to decrease the inflammation in her lungs and a breathing machine to do every 4 hours. Let me tell ya, a two month old baby does not like a mask held over her face for 15 minutes. Even if it does have a purple rhinocerous face on it.

So it has been a long couple of days, and poor thing is sick for her first Christmas. So we don’t know what our plans will be right now. As of now we are just going to stay home because she is contageous and plus she doens’t need to be out and about. Oh well. Just keep her in your prayers. The good thing is she has been all smiles through the whole ordeal. What a little content baby. Happy even when she can barely breathe.

Hayden talking to Daddy on the phone

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday and new year!! Here is a new pic of her from Sunday with her Christmas pancho on. What a cutie!!

Well we have finally been cured of sickness 🙂 First I got sick with a cold, then bj got some sort of stomach thing and was throwing up for like 5 days. Poor Hayden, I was so worried she would get something, then Saturday BJ and I both felt better and then Hayden started sounding sniffley. Poor thing, Sunday she just got worse sounding. I hated for her not to feel good, but she was such a trooper and just kept grinning at me. So the good thing was that she wasn’t running fever. The doctor put her on a decongestent. It crossed my mind that maybe she was teething, but I didn’t know for sure. Then last night she was just having a rough time. I feel like I suctioned her nose about 100 times. This morning, same thing, still happy but sounding horrid. So I lifted up her little lip to see if I saw any signs of teething and sure enough, there it was…her left front top tooth is poking through at me 🙂 Her first tooth!!! Oh my!! She is so young. But at least she was a trooper through it and now we know why she has sounded sick. Her first tooth for Christmas!!!

I hope you all have a wonderful week and a beautiful and glorious Christmas!!

This weekend we finally went and got our Christmas tree. We found the perfect one, and brought it back. Then we started decorating it. Oh how fun. I love Christmas. I am doing a Red and Gold theme this year and so it was fun to finally get it all decorated. I am still working on it a little, but it will be finished soon. I will post a pic when it is.

Also, great news…I had been thinking about getting a job that I could do mostly from home but I couldn’t really figure out what to do. Sunday my brother called me to ask me if I wanted to work for his company. Suddenly a position had become available and it is so flexible with my schedule and I can bring Hayden with me 🙂 The company is run by some of my family so it is perfect for what I was looking for. I only have to work 2 days a week and get paid a salary. The only bummer part is that I have to drive to Port Arthur at first…but they are looking for an office building for me between woodlands and conroe, so that will be really convenient.

Anyway, I’m excited! Plus I’ll get to see Sean more 🙂 I am going to check it all out tomorrow.

Have a great week everyone!

Well I am sick..have been since Tuesday. I woke up with a nasty sore throat and then that progressed into a head cold. Poor Hayden, hasn’t got to have much attention from Mommy lately since I try to stay away from her and not get her sick. She’s had lots of swing time 🙂 Good thing she loves it. She still has been sleeping through the night and that has been good for me.

Well I’m bummed because we still don’t have a Christmas tree or any sort of Christmas decorations up other than a wreath on the door. I bought some really fun ornaments and ribbon to make bows with. I am doing a red and gold theme this year…but it has yet to happen. I hate getting everything up late, because then you just have to take it all down like 2 days later. UGH!!! I wanted to have everything done last weekend, but that didn’t happnen. Oh well. Hopefully I will get well soon, and then I can get everything ready for Christmas. Good news is I almost finished all my shopping yesterday. I do most of it online, so that makes it alot easier. Now I just have a few little things to pick up that obviously are not online.

Well I am going to take a nap. Hayden is at Grammy’s and I am free to rest so I am going to.

–Ta ta