December

I can't believe Hayden is already 8 months old!!!  She is the happiest, sweetest little girl!  She is sitting up and sooo close to crawling.  She gets up on her hands and knees and rocks back and forth.  She has mastered the art of the army crawl so that she can get to what she wants.  She is eating lots of solid foods....she loves applesauce and bananas!  She talks all day long and loves to sing.  She smiles and laughs at everyone...no one is a stranger to her.  All of the people at Target and the grocery store now know her by name.  Here is a recap of our month.......

We have been getting together with some of my friends for a playdate.  It is so much fun to have some adult conversation and watch all of the kids play together.  So far, the girls really outnumber the boys 4 to 1!  

Isaac, Mia, Hayden, Isabel, and Nora

Kate (with Nora), Ashley (with Mia), Me & H, Tasha (with Isabel and Isaac)

Grayson graduated (YAY!!!) from Texas State, so we drove down for the celebration.  We got to see Dad, my aunt and uncle, and my grandparents.  We also got to see my cousins Ryan and Nicki who just had TRIPETS!!  

4 Generations!!

We spent Christmas day over at my mom's house with Zack, Haley and the girls.  It was so much fun.  We love hanging out with them...there is never a dull moment!!

Annie and Hayden

Everyone opening presents--it was a mess!!  Little Kyler still had her cast on--it was a serious weapon!!

Haley and Kyler

Kamdyn showed Hayden how to open presents

The morning after Christmas we got up at 5:00am and drove down to the ranch to celebrate with Chris' family.  The whole family was there and we had so much fun!!

The wall of presents!!!!

Hayden and the presents

Opening presents with Daddy

Hayden got Grumpa a new head of hair!!!  It even came with a camo visor.  It was perfect!!  Look at how young he looks!!!

Can you tell she likes the doll? :)

Memaw and Hayden

Cousin Sara

Hayden ready for a round!  (ignore the scary girl with no make-up holding her)

Johnnie, Angie, Olivia and King came down a few days later and stayed through New Years.  We always have the best time with them!!  It is so relaxing and fun to talk, ride around, watch the boys hunt, and watch the girls play.

Angie and Olivia in all camo

Me and O......love that little girl!!!

Hayden in her new ride

O on a round

Johnnie hunting

This is how Jim babysits!!!! :)

Johnnie with double-trouble!!

The girls playing with all the toys

Olivia putting lipstick on Hayden!!

King wanted in on the action

He looks huge

Sorry, that was a lot of pictures.  2009 was an amazing year, and we can't wait for 2010!!!!

First trip to the ER

We have officially made our first trip to the ER with Hayden.  And if she is anything like her Mommy, it will be the first of many!!  Hayden woke up at 4:00am and was just barely crying in her crib.  I watched her on the monitor for a minute and I saw her throw up.  I went in there, cleaned it up, and she went back to sleep.  I thought she just had a little tummy ache.  She woke up again at 5:30 throwing up a lot more.  She couldn't breathe and wasn't very responsive.  She would just cough and cry and throw up.  It was the saddest thing I have ever seen!  And, it was really scary!!!  I called the on-call nurse and she said to take her to the ER to have her checked out and make sure she wasn't dehydrated.  

Of course, as soon as the Dr. walked in, Hayden started smiling and laughing.  I'm sure he was thinking, "why is this child here?" But, then they gave her an anti-nausea medicine and she threw up everywhere.  They did a chest x-ray and everything looked fine.  He said that it wasn't an allergic reaction, but it was probably just a really bad virus.  So, luckily we left with some Pedialyte and a sleepy baby.  

She is doing much better now.  She has slept most of the day, but she is happy and smiley and back to her perfect little self!! 

Dad, these are for you.........

We went over to Johnnie and Angie's house for the day, and the boys went to the Tech vs. TCU basketball game.  We took some pictures of the girls in front of their Christmas tree.  Angie's house looks so pretty with all of the decorations!!!!  Angie and I shopped, and the girls had so much fun playing together!!  These are just a few of the pictures, I will add more later....there are some really cute ones of the girls together. 

Another Ranch Trip

We flew down to the ranch with Johnnie, Angie, and Olivia last week....well, Hayden and I flew down.  Chris had to leave early and drive down to look at some properties for work.  The girls were great on both flights, and they got a lot of attention.  Angie and I had both of the girls in the bjorns walking through the airport.  Everyone thought that they were twins.  We just hung out at the ranch all weekend and had a great time.  I took my camera so that we could get some pictures of the girls together.  I took over 800!!  We got some really cute ones, even though most of them were of one girl looking and smiling, and the other one crying, or one trying to eat the other one.  We bought the outfit in the first few pictures especially for Jim.  I have been trying to convince him for years to get horses out at the ranch.  So her shirt says "I want a pony."  How could he say no to that???

My favorite!!!

More making out!

Adorable Olivia

Johnnie and O

Angie and O

Hayden loves to give kisses

The twins and the girls

Memaw and Hayden

Sara and Hayden

Hayden's baby blues

I love this pic of Olivia

Angie bought these Thanksgiving onesies for the girls.  They say "Thankful for Mommy."  They are so cute together!!

Halloween

Yes, I am just now posting Halloween pictures and it is the middle of November.  We had so much fun on Halloween.  We went to a pumpkin patch with Johnnie, Angela and Olivia.  The girls were so cute together.  Hayden was a bumble bee and Olivia was a lady bug.  We spent about an hour taking pictures of the girls and then went to Southlake for lunch and some shopping.  It was a great first halloween for the girls.......and the parents!!!

Me and Hayden passing out candy

The adorable Hayes family.......LOVE them!!!!!

Cutest little ladybug ever!!

Our little bumble bee

Hayden and Olivia love each other, and Hayden loves to give kisses.  So I will just let the next few pictures speak for themselves...........

When she gets a little older, we are going to have to talk to her about all of this making out!!

Hilton Head

We went to Hilton Head in October for my mom's 40th :) birthday.  She got us all a big house on the beach, and it was so much fun.  It was so fun to hang out with my mom, Zack, Haley and Grayson, and it was great to watch Kamdyn and Kyler play in the sand and the water.  Hayden was still too little to really enjoy the beach, but she liked the water and just being outside.  The weather was absolutely perfect, and we had the best time.  Thanks again Mom!!!  These are a few pictures Chris took with his phone.

Annie and her three grand-daughters

iPhone Pictures

I finally uploaded all of the pictures from my phone onto my computer.  Here are some of my favorites.......

After our run last week.  It was a little colder than normal that morning!!

Thats right!!! Her calves are too chubby to zip her boots up all the way :)

Sitting up.....such a big girl!