One set of the Ibarra Family

Aunt Brenda's Wedding!

2011-07-11T14:01:00.000-07:00

Tim's sister Brenda got married on July 2nd at our church in Conway. It was a nice, simple family and friends gathering. We are so excited for her and her new husband, Stephen. Below is the the family from both sides...there are a lot of us ha ha.

So we were all dressed in our wedding finest, and Hayden looked so cute!! I don't know why this is typing like this, please ignore.....

I love my little man SO MUCH!

He is so handsome and becoming such a big boy!

These two are just the cutest things. You would never think they are the kids of twin borthers ha ha.

Our awesome little family, picture perfect ha ha :)

Cheese Heads and Warm, Lazy Days

2011-04-06T11:29:00.000-07:00

In case you didn't know......The Packers won the super bowl!!!!!! O.k. so I am almost 3 months late with this information, sorry to spoil it for anyone who hasn't gotten to their dvrd recording yet, ha ha ha. Anyway, in our house this is a very BIG deal! For a man who was born in Wisconsin, and sometimes maybe forgets that he no longer lives there. I am happy because Tim is happy and easier to live with :) so wooo hooo Go pack Go! :) Of course, Tim decided to drag out SOME of his packer gear despite the fact that it is all packed away in boxes. He also thought Hayden needed in on the action. Hayden is one cute fan if I do say so myself, and now we will have to break out the razorback stuff.

I don't think he likes the hat.

We have been having some amazing weather lately, and some crazy freezing in April weather too. Hayden got this trycicle from his memaw for his birthday, but I asked Tim not to put it together until it got warmer outside. Well, we were at home one day and it was one of those amazing weather days, so I pulled out those fifty pieces and went to town on this thing, and I put it together all by myself.....and it hasn't even fallen apart yet! :) Hayden loves it and I do too. The adult bar is perfect height, and I have complete steering/speed control and it teaches him how to work the petals as I push. Then when he gets a little taller and can do it himself, I just remove the bar, it is awesome.

Hayden loves playing outside, especailly throwing rocks......we are working on that one.

After a hard day of play it is time for a little rest. Ha ha, this cracks me up. He is his daddy's son!

Memory Lane

2011-03-07T11:14:00.001-08:00

Now that Tim and I are considering starting this baby thing all over again, I am realizing there are a few things I would like to do or at least start before I have to do them between bouts of running to the bathroom to puke. (However since everyone says every pregnancy is different, I am really hoping not to get as sick next time around. I would even be happy if it ends at 20 weeks!! and doesn't come back. 7 months of constant puking was too much! I even threw up 3 times the day he was born! Anway just throwing that in for Luck.) I really want to finish some things, like his quilt, baby quilt, that is. The thing i really want to finish the most before the next baby is hayden's baby scrapbook. So, I have been organizing and getting ready to print all of his pics since birth that I want to use for the book, whoo, what a project it has been. Going through all his pics is reminding me of the time when he was just so little. So I decided I would take a little trip down memory lane.......where do these days go????

I am so glad he has come to actually really enjoy bathtime, cause for a while it was the most miserable thing for him, as you can see.
Sigh. oh goodness he was such an amazing baby!

He still pouts that lip! and we still can't help but to turn our face away from him and laugh!

Love his little smile! He has always been so happy.

This pic still cracks me up. If only I knew what was going through his mind at that time.

My heart aches for these sweet days gone by, and rejoices for the exciting stuff to come.

I can honestly say I have no regrets from Hayden's infancy. I spent hours just holding him, despite people saying not to, because it would "spoil" him. I knew the times when it would be fine, and when it would be better to let him be. I am so blessed to be able to stay home with him the first 6 months, and been able to keep him with me while I work babysitting. I for sure miss those days, but also am LOVING watching this toddler turn into an amazing little boy. With all that said, I look forward to hopefully, Lord willing, holding another little one for hours, just staring at them, knowing that they grow up SO FAST!

Handsome Men!!

2011-03-01T11:25:00.000-08:00

I am one lucky lady to have the two most handsome men in my life!!!

He is such a comedian!

Loves of my life!! They are so much alike!!!

One happy family!!

I love these guys so much!

Life Is Grand!!! And I don't want to take one single moment for granted.

Hayden is Two

2011-01-19T07:51:00.000-08:00

I had long since decided that I wanted to get Hayden a little red wagon for his second birthday. So I decided to make that the theme. We had some pics taken with him in it, but I haven't gotten them back yet, so for now, this is the best I can do. He really likes it, but it is really more for summer when he is a little older cause right now he likes to stand in it and while taking our pics Tim had to save him from a concrete nose dive that could have been REAL ugly.

I started by sending out these invites. They went out just a little over a week before the party, sad, I know. That is what happens when your child is born so close after the holidays. I had cut all the pieces back before Thanksgiving for that very reason, but assembly didn't happen as soon as I had hoped.

I made so simple centerpieces/favor holders. I did the same for his first birthday and it made things so much easier.

There isn't a lot of things that fit in these little tubes. Since it was wagon, I was thinking childhood fun, old fashioned. So, in the bottom is a piece of sidewalk chalk, then candy buttons, and a candy stick, i got those two items from cracker barrel. I thought the bubbles would fit in the tube, but it didn't so I tied it on, as well as some chocolate covered rice krispies cut into an H and 2, and a tag that says: thanks for coming to my birthday party love, Hayden.

I saw this cake once on the internet about a year ago and said that is for sure the one I want to do. So when time came to look at it again....I couldn't find it ANYWHERE! I gooogled, and googled, and googled some more. I have no clue where it was or where it went. So from memory it was. I did read the comments on it thank goodness. So I remebered it said for handle and wheels to use tiny cupcakes, glad I remebered cause that made all the difference. It looks a little rough, but I have no formal cake experience, so I was pretty happy with it. It also tasted really good, so, smiles all around.

We were very excited to have our "Special Guest" come and entertain us!! It just so happen that Tricky Ricky was coming to preach at our church that Sunday. We Love Bro. Ricky, he is like a part of our family. He is so funny, and nice, and has enough stories to talk for at least 3 weeks straight :) You laugh, you cry, your inspired, and heartbroken. He is really amazing. Hayden crawled right up next to him to sit.

He started out by giving everyone "Big Buck" Hope the kids don't spend it all in one place :)

Then performed a few tricks for us. See the empty container....

this one is empty too.......

then, he pulled out this monkey!!!! Amazing:) The adults were just as entertained as the kids. This thing is funny cause you take away its banana and it kicks and cries.

Then he drew some cars on a napkin and lit them on fire!! Put the top on the container and BAM!! They came to life! He gave them to Hayden for his birthday, along with the monkey.

Hayden got some awesome gifts. We have the most wonderful friends and family, I don't know how we got so blessed! Hayden was just as excited about the cards, ha ha. Just look at that expression :)

And we have decided to promote very early literacy.

I won't bore you with 15 pics of us opening gifts, ha ha. We sang happy birthday, he (with quite a bit of help) blew out the candles and we all had cake. Happy Birthday to my little boy, I can't believe how big you are getting. We love you so much. I hope you enjoyed this birthday, because next year mommy may not be feeling up to a big shindig, if you know what I mean ;) ;)

A baby no more

2010-12-20T06:40:00.000-08:00

I guess Hayden is really a toddler, since he is now in a toddler bed! His crib came with a toddler bar, so a few months ago we took the front off of the crib and put on the toddler bar. I was wanting to wait a little longer, but I have to wake him up most mornings, and lift his 25ish pound self up, and bending over the crib rail was killing my back. I figured there was no sense in continuing to hurt myself when he is perfectly capable of getting out of bed himself :)

He crawled right up in it with no problem.

And right back down to show me his pillow. I had never given him a pillow before so he was pretty excited about it.

I think he likes it!!

Then he decided his monkey would probably like it too.

And then exactly what I was afraid of he began his acrobatics and giving mommy a heart attack.

of course, he just thought it was hilarious.
All in all, I think he was pretty excited!

This is how I found him the next morning. I just know he is going to roll out sooner or later!

I thought pulling out a new blanket would be appropriate for his new bed, and since cold weather would be coming. So I gave him this teddy bear angel blanket, and he loves it. Tim and I bought a baby blanket in Mexico every year we went since we were dating. This is the one we bought on the 2004 Christmas trip when we were engaged.

Hayden loves to grab books or a toy and climb up in his bed.

We have had very little problem with him getting out of bed, thank goodness because I was prepared to be getting on to him most the night every night for getting out, but he does so good!

At first he just sat up and would call me till I came and got him, now he will play till I come, or I will crack his door and he will come out and get me. I know that eventually I will have a struggle getting him to stay in bed, but for now it is going great, and he hasn't fallen out yet!! My baby boy is just getting so big!! :)

Where a "Kid" can be a kid

2010-10-28T13:49:00.000-07:00

Since the day (okay, maybe the week) I told my father I was pregnant he couldn't wait to have Hayden's First birthday at Chuck E Cheese. This is the man who would take most of our tokens when I was a child and park it at a skeet ball machine for most of the time. However, to his great diassapointment I didn't think Hayden was quite ready at one for all that excitement. This spring my father starts sending Hayden subliminal messages, by telling him we are having his 2nd bday party at Chuck E Cheese, again to my dad's great dissapointment, I told him it isn't going to happen, but maybe for his 3rd birthday. So my dad decided to forget the birthday and we will just go anyway! So a few weeks ago we headed to Chuch E Cheese, Where A Kid Can Be A Kid. Of course we had to eat and get up some energy.

And, of course, the first thing Hayden headed for was BALLS!

There were so many things to do and he loved all the lights and sounds.

He spent a lot of time doing this. Staring up the chutes in the skee ball machine, where is paw paw was playing, looking for the balls....just waiting for them to come out.

So that he could do this...... That is right, straight for the mouth! uugggg!!

He was really excited when we got tickets and wanted to take them out of the machine.

He was so mad when daddy was playing with the balls and wouldn't let him haved them.

Then he found this ball, so Tim held him up on the machine and let him shoot at it, and he actually made it several times!!!! I think we may have a future star on our hands!! :) I was honestly shocked. I mean just look at that form.

And that arch

Swoosh!

Then there was this FUN and easy game. Not sure when Chuch E Cheese became more like a casino? ha ha, but I guess a lot of there games are like gambling, especially now with all the electronic stuff. My brother and I were like, where is the Bozo bucket toss, where you throw the ping pong balls in the buckets, ha! Anyway, Pull the big lever.

Then you push the big red button to see how many tickets you get. Daniel actually hit the 100 on this one. I got 60 0n the stacker game and Tim was so mad cause he tried to do that so many times he he! But he got that many or more on another game.

He had to have everyone help him push the button.

When it lands on something it makes a really loud noise and lights all crazy and Hayden just loved it!! He would get so excited!

Wasn't to crazy about the riding toys.

Then paw paw took him down to the stage to watch the anamitronic chuck e, and dog and bird and the purple thing? and the pizza guy, he wasn't too sure about them.

but he warmed up quick and was dancing to their music and waving and saying HI!

Somewhere around close to 500 tokens later it was time to claim Hayden's prizes. It isn't too bad when you got five adults getting tickets for you! So a little over 1700 tickets later we ended up with, of course, a ball!! A chuck e doll, stickers, frisbee, and metal lunch box

Little Man was completely tuckered out and slept most the way home. A FUN time was had by all!! :)

Woo Pig Sooie

2010-09-04T10:42:00.000-07:00

I am back for the moment..... Tim kicked the laptop off the couch so it is out of commision at the moment, but wonderful bro. Kevin should be able to revive it soon. :)

In the meantime, It's game day......So Get Your Game Face On!!!!!
Hayden is ready to call some HOGS!

I recently attended a baby shower for my very best child hood friend. We don't see each other much, so I was really excited to attend her baby shower, for TWINS!!!!

My good friend Robin will appreciate this if no one else does:) These tiny plastic babies were frozed in the ice cubes and the first baby to be "born" won the game. I had never seen this before and thought it was so funny.

It was a Noah theme and the cake was so cute.

Here is the two burp cloths I made with initial J and L for Jasper and Liam, and their names on the coordinating wipe case.

I added them to the diaper cake I made for her. I thought it turned out so cute. If you look really close you can see that I stamped their names on the diapers across the top.

And their diaper bag tag. Can't wait to met these two.

First Birthday Bash!

2010-04-09T13:04:00.000-07:00

Hayden's First Birthday landed on a weekday, so we had to work that day, but when we arrived, Joshua (and his mommy and daddy) had gotten Hayden a gift, so the boys tore into it. Elmo phone and puffs!

Just chillin on his actual birth day.

To celebrate, we went out to eat that night, at Cracker Barrel.

Hayden got a free birthday bowl of ice cream, of which he LOVED, mommy and daddy got some of it too ;)

Hayden all excited for his party day!!!! Even though he has no idea anything was happening :)

I decided to do Brown and Teal dots for the birthday theme. Here is the banner I made.

In all the confusion I forgot to take pics of the decorations/favors, so these were actually pics of people, but I had to zoom way in to show them. They all had a collage of Hayden at various months of age leading up to 1. The sticks had whoppers and teal colored rock candy and were given as favors. They were also used as my table decorations. The matte in front of this one was signed be everyone to frame a pic of Hayden at 1 year of age.

Ha! Please excuse Billy's hand full of half eaten pizza :)

This hung above the door where H was sitting. You may have noticed a similar one elsewhere ;);)

And The Cake....once again just want to mention, I did not take the cake decorating class, so I took the easy way out....Fondant.... I didn't have to use a single tip :) I was trying to make it stress free as possible. Thank you Cake Boss for all the great ideas :)

I even checkered the inside! I thiught it turned out good and tasted even better.

We have a very small house, which is fine, for now, so there was no way all these people would fit (comfortably) in there, and in January you can't really do anything outside, so we had the party at Pizza Inn, the party room is free, and they had the biggest one. Everyone showed up, I was shocked at all the RSVP's I got and then they actually came, i'm sure it won't ever happen agian, and the free pizza probably sealed the deal.

H got lots of GREAT gifts, our friends and family are WAY too generous, but we appreciate it. Since Christmas and H's birthday are so close together, I have stashed away some of the gifts to pull out throughout the year and make them last till next Christmas, it'll be like a new toy every two months or so :) I also have some never before seen suprises to bring on our vacation in July.

Ha! This was a see n say from the Cates, which I regifted to H for Valentine's Day! I know I know, but he didn't know the difference, I'm sure it won't be that easy from now on :)

Gotta love the Busy Ball Popper, which I'm saving for vacation.... I am bad, no, just thrifty :)

Love our monogramed pillow from Cousin Ashlyn :)

who also gave us this adorable piggy bank.

H had no idea what to think about the candle, so I enjoyed blowing it out :)

And he dug in, he had a practice run when he took his one year portraits, so he knew what to do.

yummy cake mom!!! and it's teal!

We took our pic at the end of the party....big mistake...... Birthday boy was tired and grouchy, so this is the best we could do. Mommy and Daddy love you so much Hayden, we can't believe you are one, and how fast the time has flown, you are a precious, wonderful baby, and we can't wait to watch you grow.

Our First Christmas with our Little Man

2010-04-06T12:55:00.000-07:00

Hayden's first Christmas was so special to us. Of course we enjoyed giving him gifts, and watching him open them, but just to have him and know we were celebrating the birth of Jesus, was just so exciting. Our family of three. It took Hyaden a little while to get the hang of opening gifts, but once he did there was no stoppping him.

He loves his piggy, he now sleeps with it.

He had such a fun time, and it was just a joy to see this little smile over and over.

He loved all his toys, but our main goal was.....Anything with Balls. That was Hayden's first word, which I might just post the video of the 3rd or so time he said it, but he loves balls. At first, daddy had gone and picked out all his gifts, so I got a little upset, so then we returned two and chose some gifts together, daddy picked this one becasue it speaks in English and Spanish, wich we would like for Hayden to learn. However I have dropped the ball a little, I usually only use Hola, adois, no mas, and that's about it, I will try to do better.

Mommy was ssssooooo excited to get her big cricut, the expression. I actually got it on Black Friday while we were in Mena, but Tim made me wait and open it for Christmas. After selling my smaller one, and making a $10 profit, that brought the price of this one to $180- woohoo now I call that a good deal! And it has been humming ever since, seems like there is always a baby or birthday gift to be made, Thanks Robin for all the ideas ;))

and we were excited to get our wii fit.

Tim's Only suprise was a sports coat. He has been wanting one for a long time, Kohls had one for sale, then my mom gave me $20 kohls cash, and I had a 15% off card- Gotta love Kohls!!! It was gonna be perfect, I had bought one and stored it at mom and dad's, had marc try it on and it was too small, so went back and got a bigger one, and stored it at mom and dad's, got from there wrapped it and placed it under the tree, this was gonna be great. I wasn't sure it would fit or was the one he wanted, so I wisely kept the recipt, but accidently left it on the couch with a small pile of other papers, that Tim always makes me go through, well just so happened he decided to go through it asking me aobut two or three other recipts and if I needed them, I would say no, and trash them. Then I see him holding a Kohls recipt and by the time I can YELL NO!!! It was too late and I burst into tears! And exclaim why did you do that, poor Tim as apolagetically as he could said he was sorry and he didn't know, which I knew, but still felt the need to blame him. It's your only suprise I said while still sobbing away. To wich he awnsered I still don't know what it looks like, basically is was a huge kill joy, but he liked it anyway. I asked him later what his first thought was when he read the recipt and he said it was... Alright, I wonder what it looks like. So at least that part was still a suprise. And yes, he loved it, it was the exact kind he wanted, but I am still wondering why I even bother.

and it fit perfectly....Thanks Marc :)!!

The next morning santa came and this is what he left Hayden. Ball pit, ride on toy, and Little People constuction set.

Tim sat him down at the end of the hallway so he would have enough time to run in and get his expression when he first saw the toys, he began to cry and was mad, then slowly made his way down the hall. He wasn't quite waling yet, so he would crawl then stop and sit. This is where he finally noticed Hey, there are some new toys in there!

And he made his way toward the goods.

Unfortunately in my search for the perfect stocking(and pherhaps a little procrastination) Hayden's stocking did not arrive until the day after Christmas, of course, so the next day I took some pics of him with it. He didn't really know what to do with it or what it was for.

and NO, I couldn't get him to look at the camera and he was pulling on it and was going to tear it, so I had to get onto him and then THIS is what I got

Pouty Lip.

And so concludes Hayden's First Christmas('s). Next up will be the ever anticipated First Birthday party post, and I have narrowed it down to a wopping 27 pics. :) Soon I will be all the way caught up to Easter.....maybe :)

Five years and counting

2010-03-12T11:40:00.000-08:00

Today my wonderful husband and I are celebrating our 5th anniversary. Time sure flies when you are having fun:) Tim and I met through some pretty unique circumstances and we continue to have unique lives. I won't bore you with our story, most know it anyway, but if you don't and want to, just let me know. Here we are so happy and engaged in May 2004. I mentioned it already, we are unique, how many people can say they got engaged at Toad Suck Square, well my guess is one............ me.

Our wedding photos were not taken with a digital cam so this was the best I could find. We were married on March 12, 2005, my spring break from school. We married at my home church in Mena, Arkansas. Our wedding was great, small, nice, fun. I had found the perfect dress and my parents pretty much let me have what I wanted, not that I am spoiled, i'm just the only girl ;) Here we are being pronounced as husband and wife!!

We left that evening for New Orleans, LA, where our cruise ship would be leaving for the Carribean. While dating we always joked about if we got married we should go on this fancy Carribean cruise, and when honeymoon decision time came we were like, let's just do it, so we did, and it was wonderful!! We ate so much, the resteraunts were awesome and we did freestyle cruising, which is what I totally reccomend, so we could eat wherever, whenever.

We had so much fun, just being together.

One year later, on our First Anniversary we took a trip to St. Louis. And yes, we ate our year old frozen cake, it really wasn't THAT bad.

It was my first time to ride up in the arch.

We ate at the fanciest restuarant we ever eaten at, even to this day! It was so nice, but we felt a little out of place, some of the wiaters were pretty snooty, but we got a new guy who was so nice, by now, if he is still there, he is probably stuck up too. Nonetheless, it was a nice treat for us.

We have had a lot of fun over our past five years, and I expect nothing less of our next 60 or so!!

Of course now we have added one more to the mix, and couldn't be happier!!!!! Happy Anniversary Babe, I love you so much and can't wait to grow old with you, even though you will get there before me, and see what the future holds for us. And sorry to anyone who is now totally bored after reading all my boring and mushy stuff :)

Christmas at Granny and Paw Paw's

2010-03-04T12:50:00.000-08:00

Hayden is the first gandchild for my dad, my mom has one, but she hasn't seen him in 3 years, so it would be a safe bet to say- He IS the FIRST grandchild, and boy does it show!! He is SPOILED x12. Bro Eddie mentioned one service that the reason we have spoiled kids is becasue we can't spank their grandparents, and all I can say is Amen!! Hayden got SO many gifts from them, but he also had to help them open thier gifts too. This is him explaining that he helped pick out this hat for paw paw, Hayden is one paw paw's boy.
He was so excited that paw paw got him a razorback sippy cup to match paw paw's new hat. See all those gifts beside Hayden, YES, they are ALL his, and I am covering up the rest!!

He also loved his pop up books!

And the Little People ride on Firetruck!!!!!

Which Paw Paw, of course, had to open IMMEDIATELY!

And it is oh, so much fun!!! It has lights and sounds, and music.......... And it stays at their house!! :) It is the first thing Hayden goes to as soon as we get there. He is just a bit too short for it, but soon he will be riding all over the place on it.

We were ssssooo excited to get our wii, mostly becasue I got us the wii fit :) However recently we hadn't played it much since our nephew(who is living with us for a few months) has it occupied, and I am NOT doing wii fit in front of other people.

I also was SUPER excited to get my own sewing machine, I have always been borrowing my mom's, so I guess she was tired of it, so when my darling husband approached her with the idea she jumped on it :)

And mom was also super excited to recieve her record/CD/whatever else it plays, player. Ha ha, note the new Elvis Cd next to her ;) And that concludes Christmas with my parents, stay tuned, there is more to come :)

Hayden's First Christmas- Part 1

2010-03-03T12:37:00.000-08:00

I am going to jump back a little becasue I want to share Hayden's first Christmas. I will have to do it in parts, so here is part one. Hayden helped us put up the tree and lights.

He also helped daddy put the star on top,

and put on his very first ornament.
Well, here it is, the previously announced $40 ornament. It is a little bear with a gift in a carriage, with a ribbon across the top saying "Baby's First Christmas" and a little heart at the top on the string that says 2009. There really wasn't one that we just "loved" so we agreed on this one, Tim thought the shoes were too girly, even the one with blue on them, this from the man who won't even let me buy Hayden a play kitchen.

I'm sure you can read the engraving, but if you can't, it says: Hayden Ibarra, 1-12-09, Love, mom and dad.

I found this ornament online and thought it would be so cute to have for our first Christmas as a family of 3. The bottom says: Our first Christmas as mommy and daddy. The website has them where we can get a new one each time we add a family member, which will not be this Christmas, ha!! :) I also bought one for last year that is a pregnant sowlady, and one for dad that was a rocking horse with a little bear on it and it said: Paw Paw's First Christmas.

I guess actually this was Hayden's first ornament, Tim bought it for me last year for Christmas while I was very pregnant. It doesn't have a year on it, so it can be our little secret :)

Our little Santa, I couldn't believe he was still wearing the hat!

Isn't he just the cutest!! Yes, that is his big wheel in the background, although he wont be gatting it for a year or two. It was over half off on black Friday, and I couldn't resist, it is a Radio Flyer big wheel for $20. I am assuming this was the only year we could just leave gifts lying around.

and the Christmas anticipation is growing........ The rest of Christmas will be coming soon!

Hayden is One!!!

2010-01-12T11:52:00.000-08:00

Well, My baby is a year old!!!! I can't believe how the time has flown. At least he survived his first year. I love my little man so much and look forward to many more years with him.

This our little family now. I'm not extremely fond of this pic, but Hayden would not sit still, so we took what we could.

Hayden LOVES his daddy, and his daddy loves him. I wanted a pic of them together for a frame I got Tim for Christmas, and forgot to get one with me, but he just would not stay still, so I doubt we would have got one.

I did not get to take the cake decorating classes with the other girls, so my skills are limited. I learned a lot when I was younger from my cousin who does cakes, and that is the only real knowledge of cakes I have, but I think it works for a 1st birthday. Next year when we do his Little Red Wagon cake, it will be a cupcake cake, so we will see how that goes, I am hoping to up my skills by then :)

Well, we found a way to get him to sit still. CAKE!!! He loved it, of course. He started out slow, but then started digging in.

How cute is he!!!

I think he was beginning to let us know he maybe just didn't feel so great.

Happy Birthday Sweet Baby- We Love You So Much!!!

Hayden's First Christmas

2009-11-16T08:35:00.001-08:00

I know what you are thinking, Hayden's First Christmas, what, what about his first Thanksgiving, well that will be in a few weekends, but for now I am working very hard to have a very special First Christmas. Such as scouring the internet for the perfect stocking, which I have yet to find, $45 for a silver engraved ornament from Things Remebered(our wallets are ssssooooo glad he doesn't have to have a silver engraved ornament every year from Things Remebererd!!) thinking about presents, and decorations. We now have one thing to cross of the list, Hayden's First Christmas Pictures, wich were done Saturday. It was a little hard to get "in the spirit" before even having turkey and dressing, but it didn't take long and I think they turned out great. Hayden didn't care one way or another. I am so ready for his First Christmas, and kinda sad that it is almost here, and then it will be over, then on to first Birthday!!!! :) I love this pic he looks so adorable.

First Family Christmas Photos.

Peek- A- Boo. I found this plastic ball ornament in one of those wrapped boxes and he was loving it.

I decided to go ahead and include this, it is our Christmas Card, so some of you will be getting the hard copy. Isn't it just Adorable.

Santa's Best Gift Ever!!!!!!

Merry Christmas!!!!!!!

Hayden's First Halloween

2009-11-11T07:45:00.000-08:00

I had to come back and add this one cause the face is cracking me up!! He really was not happy with this situation.

By the end of the night he and daddy both were worn out.

This is Hayden before he realized he hates pumpkins.

This is after. I have no idea why, but at the pumpkin patch he like flipped out and wanted nothing to do with the pumpkins.

and more screaming

I was finally able to get him to sit with me and look at a pumpkin.

I think he was having issues with not being held cause every time I put him down for a pic, I got this. His superman suit from pawpaw and granny.

The cutest little cow ever!!

Ready to do some Trick or Treating.

Hayden's first Trick or Treat.

Hayden helped me pass out the candy.

And enjoy a little himself, and no, I did not let him have the m&m's inside the bag. We had a very fun halloween.

Family Fall Pics

2009-11-11T07:38:00.000-08:00

We decided to take a few pics in front of the pretty trees for fall.

What's New

2009-10-20T11:46:00.000-07:00

There are a few new things going on aroung here. First, Hayden is pulling up and cruising on EVERYTHING. He can even stand for a few seconds on his own. He is scaring me to death and has fell a few times, but gets right up and keeps on moving. As you can see his pants are a little big. Most of his fall clothes are 9-12 mo. (his actual age) but he wears 6 mo.

This is what I have found after a few of his morning naps. Some how he has figured out how to remove his pj pants.

OUR First Trauma!!

2009-10-05T11:48:00.000-07:00

So now that I have wiped away all of OUR tears, Hayden had his first traumatic experience today (I'm sure it was more traumatic for me than him) He woke up early from his morning nap, and Joshua still had about 30 min. left for his nap. I had noticed that our employers had got some pumpkins and mums, and I just so happen to have overalls for Hayden to wear today, how cute of a pic would that be. So we went to the front porch to "look" at the pumpkins and flowers. Hayden liked them so much that I couldn't even get him to look at me, so I gave up and joined beside him to look at them. This is what I got.

THEN...... I am not even sure what happened, but Hayden was falling and I caught his legs while his face hit the pavement. He started Crying, as did I, and we ran inside to asess the situation. After a little panic, I tried to wipe it off, smeared it with A&D cream and went for the ice pack. After a few minutes Hayden was fine, and wanted to play some more. I called Melissa and she said it would probably fine, and I agreed. After keeping him awake as long as I could he finally took a nap, as I checked on him at least every two minutes. It now looks like road rash, but this was the soon after effect.

A goose egg, and some scratches. I believe he will be fine and he is playing like nothing happened, like scaring mommy to death!!!! And the best part, his 9 mo. check up is Wed. So hopefully they are....um....understanding. I seriously have never freaked out like that in my life. I was proud though that I took control of the situation, and stayed some what calm.

Big Boy

2009-09-30T11:37:00.000-07:00

Hayden is growing up so fast so I decided to do a little recap of some milestones that happen this summer. Since this, Hayden is crawling all over, pulling up, and doing some cruising, and we had to lower his bead. He really keeps me on my toes, but I am loving every minute of it!

For my #? birthday, haha just kidding, it was my 24th, I will say the # since I am younger than most the people I hang out with, and of course my husband, Love you guys :) I decided to see what all the hype was about the free birthday chocolate mess at Marketplace. WOW, it was amazing. Hayden was eyeing it the whole time, of course I didn't allow him to have any despite Tim's pleading that it would "make him happy" ha! of course it would.

Daddy also set up some candy bars and cards in Hayden's crib, and then sat him up in it. What a great gift, the baby, of course!! The candy bars weren't bad either ;) He bought me an adorable card "from Hayden" and even let him scribble in it, it was so cute, What a great first birthday as a mommy. I think he might have inherited him mommy's sweet teeth.

Hayden has been in his big boy car seat for a while now. He liked it at first, but he starting to get where he will cry when I strap him in, and he just wants to stand up in it, and when you take him out he just reaches for you like you can't get him out fast enough, but I love his seat. It is a Britax Decathalon and grandma and grandpa Bullock contributed to the cost for my birthday, that is right my birthday, but I am glad I sprung for a nice seat and I got a really good deal on it.

When we are at home, Hayden now eats his meals in his booster seat, he really does like it and I do too. We had to go with one that straps to the chair becasue we really don't have room for a high chair.

I like to consider myself as a mom who can make things work on a budget, and this may sound sad, but Hayden was getting bigger and there were some things that he needed, so I threw him a happy six month birthday, I had to have a reason to go out and buy all these things.

Hayden is now crawling everywhere, this was when he first started crawling.

And last, but not least......TEETH. I never expected Hayden's teeth to start coming in at 7 mo. and 1 day. This was when they first came through, now they stick right out and are no problem to see.

Sneak Peek

2009-09-08T18:12:00.000-07:00

NO, it is NOT an ultrasound pic. Ha!

For Hayden's first birthday I wanted to do a Red Wagon theme, I saw the set and was in love, but i don't think at 1 he will be quite ready for a real Radio Flyer that we, by we I mean Tim, I, and Grandma and Grandpa Bullock;) want to get to go along with the theme, so we are saving that for b-day #2. I saw a cake on the show Cake Boss and LOVED it, it is simple and so cute. So I decied to go with just a color theme and keep it simple. I got a few supplies today as I plan to do for the next 4 mo. That is Chocolate Brown and Teal. Love, Love, Love these two colors together. It will be quite a colorful b-day. Save the Date for either January 9 or 16, I have to talk to Erica first:) However you will probably need both Saturday's open :)

2009-09-04T11:54:00.000-07:00

Back in July we took Hayden on his first vacation, and it was a long one. We left on a Friday morning to meet Tim's sisters, Marc, Amber, and Ashlyn came for just the weekend for the 4th of July. We stayed until that next Saturday and were able to take Hayden to some of our fav SL spots and a few new ones. It was a lot of fun, but being gone for over a week with a baby was a lot of work, not to mention the six bags, pac n play, stroller, ect. We went to a new water park which was fun and I think Hayden enjoyed it, but the pics are still on the cam. Not to self: next time we go to a water park, bring someone to play with Hayden so Tim and I can do some things together. Since we switched back and forth being with Hayden in the kiddie section, we never did anything together. However, I have a feeling we might as well get used to that.

A pic with some cousins.

This was the first time Hayden met his aunt Brenda.

Tim and I LOVE the St. Louis Zoo, it is for sure one of our favorite places to go, and I was so excited to take Hayden there for his first zoo trip. He did so good and was such a good boy. We will be taking him back and hopefully can be zoo frequenters, not just SL zoo.

Their newest exhibit is getting to pet the sting rays, it took me a while to get up the courage to actually touch the things. The lady was like, "if it makes you feel any better their stingers have been removed" ha! no, that didn't make me feel any better. Of course, I did not let Hayden touch them, but he did like to look at them. Tim even fed one. You put this half of a nasty minnow between your fingers and it just comes right up and grabs it from your hand with it's mouth wich is on the bottom of it's body- No Way I was doing that!

We LOVE the penguin exhibit, it is the best one we have ever seen and it was nice to get out of the heat, because it is really cold in there. Hayden is a penguin lover too, just like his parents. We bought him a souvenir mommy and baby penguin stuffed animal, it is so cute

We were getting our traditional penguin entrance pic, when a small zoo train went by and blew it's horn, and practically scared Hayden to death, it is hard to see in this pic, but he is doing the pouty lip and I just knew he would burst into tears any second, but he didn't.

The baby giraffe was Adorable!

At the science center Hayden got his first build a bear, a dinosuar, and daddy got a cardinals shirt for it.

I wanted to go to the mall, and while we were there, Tim got a huge suprise, long story short, we got autographed books from Kurt and Brenda warner, who said that Hayden was so cute, and asked how old he was, of course, he slept through the whole thing. Tim was mad becasue he just knew they would let him get his pic (even though no one was allowed to) if Hayden would have smiled at them. They were very nice. For those who don't know Kurt warner was the quarterback for the SL Rams and now he is for some other team, and he is a christian. Info that I, at the time, didn't know, or care :)

We also toured the new Cardinals stadium. Hayden did so good the whole long tour, and believe me it was long, and boring, even the other tourist were saying what a good baby he was, he made for so long and then right before the best part, the field and dugout, he fell asleep, again making his daddy upset that he missed the best part, but he was tuckered, I still can't believe how good he did the whole trip. Me and an asleep Hayden in front of home plate. woopee. We also got our pics made in the dugout.
Hayden got to meet this very special man for the first time. This is Pastor Carnagey, he is very special to Tim and this will be a picture that I hope he can cherish forever. PC is not doing so good right now, and I ask that any one who reads this please pray for him, Tim actually calls him his grandpa.

We celebrated Hayden's first Fourth of July. He was getting sleepy and was a little fussy, and it was H-O-T hot, but when the fireworks started he just stared at them, a few of them scared him and he gave me a pouty lip, but for the most part, his eyes were glued. BTW- I got this onsie at Old Navy last year after the fourth of July for $2, It says Mommy's Little Sparkler, and I love it. I think it is 3-6, but I hope all my baby's can wear it on their first fourth of July's. That would be a great $2 investment!

A new visit to Tim and I was Grant's Farm. It was fun, they have a lot of animals. Hayden liked the llama.

This is what happened when he wanted more of his first soow cone.

Aunt Lisa gave him a taste of his first snow cone.

And YES, with out my condolance that is my 6 mo. old infant touching a snake. I have nothing else to say.

We fed the baby goats, I think they were more interested in eating our stroller. They were really cute. And so ends Hayden's first vacation. It was a huge success and I look forward to many more family vacations.

Hilarious

2009-08-27T08:01:00.000-07:00

A month or so ago I thought I would be nice and give Hayden a strawberry banana star puff thing, but apparently it was not a treat, and he did not like it. It was so funny to see his face I was laughing so hard, so pay no pay attention to me on the video.

FYI

2009-08-06T06:18:00.001-07:00

O.k. so it should be wondering not wandering if you are wandering, then the previous post will be of no help to you.

FYI

2009-08-06T06:11:00.000-07:00

O.K. so I am so behind in updating, but since I started babysitting, I am pretty much behind in everything else too, so there ya go. I just wanted to share this with anyone wandering, because I was one of the ones wondering. Since I am around baby's all day, I was looking forward to a nice Friday night date night about two weeks ago, no kid just me and the hubbs. I was soooooo hoping to try out the new T.G.I. Friday's in Conway, but for me, and all of those of you who are wondering, the awnser is ,Yes, they do serve alochol, I don't even know how to spell alochol, so don't correct me if I am wrong, because I don't need to know how to spell it. So in great dissapointment we headed to old faithful, Due Amiche.

The student has become the teacher.

2009-05-18T18:39:00.000-07:00

Robin, or should I say "Ms. Robin" was my teacher in one of my college classes, however, she also is one of the craftiest talents I know. So I stole one of her ideas and made a wipe case for my cousin. I was pretty excited that it turned out o.k. for my first try. Baby Julian's nursery is red, white, and blue airplanes. I also made him a matching burp cloth, but forgot to take a pic, it was not quite as good as the case, but acceptable. I will be making another one for my other cousin, Tim's sister, and our friend that lives in MO. I will let ya know how they turn out.

2009-05-15T18:38:00.000-07:00

This is a collaborative video of Hayden's adorable laugh. The very first part was recorded on my mother's day card. If you have children you know that as soon as you pull out the camera they stop doing whatever it is they are doing, so we were excited to get this, even though it is not his best. Enjoy, may it make you smile and your day brighter, it sure does mine:)

Blessed

2009-05-15T11:39:00.000-07:00

I forgot to mention, I got a photo keycahin with a pic of Hayden. I am so very blessed. I love you Hayden and I am so happy to be your mommy!!!

Mother's Day 2009

2009-05-15T11:03:00.000-07:00

This mother's day I celebrated my very first mother's day, it was very special to me, and daddy did a good job of making me feel loved.

Me and my little man.

I won the coursage for youngest mother, I also had the youngest baby, but since Audrey is only two hours older than Hayden, Bor. Eddie said that wasn't enough for me to win two coursages, I think that was fair. I really was very excited to win a coursage on my first mother's day, I had been anticipating the youngest baby one all week, so I was suprised when I won youngest mother.

Daddy and Hayden brought me brakfast in bed on Sunday morning along with my new digital picture frame full of pics of my wonderful boys and me.

I got two new cricut cartridges.

A card with a recording of Hayden's cutest little laugh.

Growing Boy

2009-05-15T10:52:00.000-07:00

O.K., so I know I am sooooo far behind, so instead of trying to play catch up, I am just going to start with the present. Hayden is getting bigger by the second- four months old now.
With the cutest little smile, he is usually happy all the time.

All Smiles

Except when he get upset, and gives you the sadest, most pathetic little pout on the planet, he has done this since he was born and it is so hard not to laugh at him. This will be getting him whatever he wants from us.

So Sad

Tried to update

2009-03-23T12:02:00.000-07:00

My computer is taking forever to upload pics even after the photo resize and of course now Hayden is screaming, will try again some time. Stinks to be out in the boonies where ATT high speed is unavailable to us, and it stinks to be poor and not be able to afford cable high speed internet.

Hayden's Newborn Portraits

2009-01-25T15:13:00.000-08:00

I decided it was time to put Tim's fancy camera to some real work, after all its intended purpose is to take portraits of Hayden. Well, easier said than done, keeping him awake was the easy part, I had just fed him and he seemed like he was still hungry, so fingers straight to mouth, then he peed everywhere, but I am sure all you mommas are saying duh Angela, what did you expect, and exactly that, the reason why we decided to take these pics at home instead of dealing with it at a studio. I think the pics are good, and we will try to do some more nice ones later on. I am a little leary of putting pics of my unclothed child on the internet, but they are so cute I have to share them with everyone.

He is so cute. (Bias mother opinion)

I've seen those cute pics of the parents holding the baby's, but he was a little bit big, we maybe will try one with Tim and my hands, if we decide to brave this again. Maybe one of him Sleeping would still be cute.

The thinker pose.

Our Bundle of Joy, a true gift from God.

Such a happy boy.

There's that face again.

Precious baby boy

2009-01-22T14:00:00.000-08:00

I am loving this whole sahm stuff, and Tim has morphed his photo trigger happy finger to me and poor Hayden is suffering from it. He is so cute, and just asking to be photographed.
This is Hayden on the blanket that his grandma Sandy made for him.

We took our stork pictures on Sunday and I worked so hard to keep Hayden awake when daddy got home from church, so his eyes would be open in the picture, and then found out we facing directly into the sun, so all of our eyes are almost shut and poor Hayden wasn't even thinking of opening his, maybe we can try again this weekend, if Mrs.Robin will let us keep the stork that long.

Hayden's first stroll, all the way to the mailbox, a few yards, maybe.

He seemed to enjoy it.

I love these little shoes! They look so cute of his little feet.

Mommy's Little Man.

I hope there aren't any flies in our house. I think this is an Ibarra trait, becasue all the Ibarra grandkids sit or sleep with their mouths wide open.

Maybe Hayden is getting a little tired of the constant flashes in his eyes. That is a little bit of a mean face, must get it from his daddy.

Our doctor's office gives everyone a blanket with the baby's name and birthdate on it, I think that is so sweet, and I love the blanket.

I wonder what he is thinking here?

Cousin Christopher finally got to meet baby Hayden. He was sweet and held him and kissed him and then said he was done. Jayson was pretty much not interested in the baby.

My boys doing what they do best! How sweet is that.

Why can't he be this sweet all the time?

O.K., last Saturday I swore I saw Hayden smile like a real, mommy is funny, not I have gas smile, but you are thinking he was 6 days old he can't be really smiling, so I blew it off. Later that night, Tim's mom came to visit and she and my mom both saw him smiling more than once, so that confirmed that I wasn't just the over excited mom, well he has been doing it ever since so now I have some proof, of course you can never catch the really good smiles, but I think these are enough to prove that he can do it. These were taken today, the kid is not even two weeks old yet.

I awoke today to this.......... normal sized feet!!!!! That may not be of any significance to any one else, but those of you who had seen them now how excited I am and how much better I am feeling now that I can walk. I don't think they have been this small in at least 3 months.

Hayden is Here!!!!!

2009-01-19T21:01:00.000-08:00

We are so excited that Hayden is here and he is home with us.

Mrs. Becky and Mrs Jennifer threw us a shower on Saturday before Hayden came. It was a very nice shower and we got lots of great gifts.

Here we are bright and early Monday morning January 12, 2009. We are sbout to go to the hospital to have our baby! This is when the nerves staeted setting in, I told Tim about half way there that we should just turn around and go back, but it was too late to turn back.

Our bundle of joy only hours away.

We made it to the hospital and got checked in and into our room really fast, we were both suprised how early we got things going. This picture was just me getting the IV, I had no idea of what was yet to come!

Dialation went really quick, we started at 3, and was at 10 around 2:30 and ready to push, somewhere in there was an epidural, and a second dose of epidural juice, since I could feel the contractions in my stomach. Then at 2:30 we bagan the delivery process, after an hour of pushing, the nurses decided that the epidural needed to be turned off COMPLETELY, that is right, no more pain meds, so after feeling contraction for another hour and a half, that is now two and a half hours of pushing, we find out mr. hayden is turned with his face up and pretty much stuck, so now we go in for a c-section. Then at 5:54 P.M. Hayden makes his arrival!!!!!

Daddy brings him into the nursery for everyone to see.

Daddy also tries his hand at calming Hayden, who was apparently screaming pretty loud.

After a few hours, mommy finally get to hold her new baby boy

Daddy had to get Hayden dressed to go home. I think he would agree it was not the easiest thing he has ever done.

Finally, he was ready to go.

First, we have to buckle him up.

and we get a ride to the front.

and daddy puts the car seat in.

Finally home and Hayden gets a tour of his room
He really likes his swing.
Dad couldn't resist but to show off his packer pride.

First bath.

and mommy couldn't resist but to play with his hair.

Here we are about to take Hayden on his first outing to the doctor.He is all buckled up and ready to go.

Oh Baby

2009-01-05T19:59:00.000-08:00

These will all be a little backwards when you look at all this.

There is nothing like going to the doctor for your 37 week appt. and when she checks you she says "Oh yeah, we need to induce" not that I didn't see it coming, but it is still sinking in. So Hayden will be coming a week from today! We will be inducing on Monday, January 12th. Nothing like that information to put a fire under the whole getting ready thing. So tonight we worked on Hayden's room. You will notice the changed theme, after months of arguing over Raggedy ann and andy for a boy, it is now been changed to just dots in blue and yellow.

These are his letters I painted dots on.
His toy and book chest. We did have some compromise and the dolls are staying, the mobile is staying too, and I still have some Raggedy ann and andy pictures to hang here above the toy chest.

His adorable red dot rug that matches the former theme a lot better, but it still works, it is a lot more red than burgandy like it looks in this picture.

His Room. With new bedding that we just got in last week. Who ever said we were procrastinators. Any way it all ties in pretty good together, and now we are ready for Hayden, literally next week!!!! :)

Fort Rock

2009-01-05T19:52:00.000-08:00

The week after Christmas we went to St. Paul to take pics and video for a new family camp. We are putting together a promotional video for them to send to churches. It is a really beautiful place.

Tim got to do all the fun stuff, rifle range, archery, and ride the horses, I, of course, passed on the horse riding, but we still had fun and Tim preached for the church Wednesday night and we made it back in time for a round of five in a bowl, some good food, and the new year countdown.

Keisha's Wedding

2009-01-05T19:38:00.000-08:00

Keisha and Charles got married on December 27th. The wedding turned out good, despite some bad weather. Everything looked great and Keisha was absolutely beautiful. Her dress was goergoues, of course I already knew that, the first time she tried it on we all started crying and knew it was "the one."

The whole wedding party looking good. Pay no attention to that huge 9 month pregnant bridesmaid.

Robin and I looking beautiful and cheesing it up.

We just couldn't let the rain mess up our hair, so for some reason there was some plastic sheething in the brides room, so we used it to cover us on our treck from the room to the wedding site, it wasn't a long way, but it sure felt long to us, the wind was blowing like crazy, and the bottoms of our dresses got a little wet. Definately a memorable moment.

Here I am waiting to practice my turn down the aisle. This is where the wedding was suppose to take place, but couldn't due to the incliment weather.

Should we really make daddy's "Practice" giving their daughters away? Isn't it brutal enough.

Christmas 2008

2009-01-05T19:14:00.000-08:00

We did the Monday before Christmas with my family, then came home and did our Christmas. We were in Mena on Christmas eve and day. My dad's birthday is the 24th so we went there and had dinner and a party .

Tim is into this whole superman thing, so I thought this would be a really cute ornament for Hayden next year. I got Tim the first six seasons of Smallville and made him open them individually.

I got a recipt for Christmas!? I have been wanting a sofa table and so Tim got me one, but it won't be in until February, bummer, my other gift is my video camer which hopefully will be in this week.

Christmas with my parents revolved a lot around Hayden this year.

I got mom and dad baskets that were full of grandma and granpa stuff.

Hayden's adorable razorback piggy bank- I guess it is time to start his college fund.

Tim got his traditional animated rudolph character, this is number four of the series.

He also got all four of the original superman movies.

This was Ashlyn's debut in the Christmas play at church, the nursery always sings Jesus loves me.

Yay!! The Ibarra's are back!!

2008-12-20T15:34:00.000-08:00

Here we see a beautiful Christmas picture of the Ibarra family....uploaded by non other than me... Robin Stain!! I have hijacked their computer and pictures and am updating their blog. Please leave a comment and and tell them you want blog worthy news on a weekly basis!!! :)

Baby Moon

2008-10-22T11:53:00.000-07:00

Tim had some rollover vacation days that had to be used up this month, so I thought what a perfect chance for our baby moon. You know that one last trip where you are past morning sickness, not quite so big and miserable, and don't have to find a babysitter. So we decided to take a small trip to Branson. We saw a few shows and did some shopping. We saw a magician, Kirby vanburch, Dixie Stampede, and Spirit of the dance. We stayed with my former preachers daughter's family, Janet and Nathan. They are so much fun and we had a blast hanging out with them.

Anyone who knows Tim knows he is quite the ham, no shy man in him. However, if you really want to get him stirred up just break out the karoke, he is always ready to perform. I am not sure what exactly he is doing in these pics, but it looks like a air quitar of sorts, or an irish jig, you make the call.

Tim and Janet doing mario racing on the wii. You have to actually run to get your guy to go, by the time it was all said and done, Ithought Tim might have a heart attack, or at least pass out, but it was great exercise.

Tim and Nathan wii boxing.
We enjoyed the fountain/fire show at the landing.

Us by the fountain.

We went and saw Dixie Stampede. This was the first time for both of us, I thought it was good.

Our last show we saw was spirit of the dance.

We ended our vacation on Sunday. We actually were back in town about 1:30 that morining, but we went to the 2008 Olympic All Stars tour at Alltel Arena. This was between church, so we were at both services for those wondering. The show was awesome. I remeber staying up late watching them in Bejing, so it was cool to see them right in front of us.

This is the male co-star from Hannah Montana, I forgot his name, but he was the opening act, and all the little girls were screaming and going crazy, it is funny to think that maybe I used to be like that. Somehow I missed A pic of Nastia Luken, but she was there too.

Shawn Johnson floor routine.
Shawn Johnson balance beam routine.
The Ham brothers.

Ashlyn's Shower

2008-10-22T11:40:00.001-07:00

We recently celebrated Ashlyn's upcoming arrival, Like any minute the phone could ring arrival, with a big shower. The shower went great, a great time was had by all.

Mrs. Mariciela's cake was very cute.
Tim had a weird fascination with Ashlyn's new toy squirrel. He for some reason thought it was just the greatest thing Ashlyn recieved. I am sure we will now have to find one for Hayden. Personally, I think the squirell is a little creepy.

The guys were to provide wipes and diapers, so "Tim" provided this lovely wipe case. Yes, I did all the work and he got the credit. Hayden has a matching one in blue and green. I am telling on Robins "Unnamed Male", it was Uncle Tim with the bedazzled wipe case.

We are ready to stroll.

2008-10-20T08:34:00.000-07:00

O.K., I am going to go stir crazy trying to get my husband to download the scanner software. However I have to say that he has been busy. He had to put together the stroller even though I put most of it together. Of course he was sleeping so I have no documentation of that, he came in at the very end and put the wheels on. My parents wanted to get us the combo, so I went ahead and ordered it since it is discontinued and didn't know how long it would be available, and it is not available in stores, online only. So here is daddy doing his duty of assembling Hayden's stroller.

Finished Product!!!! Here is his combo, the stroller and car seat, it is so cute, I can't wait to put him in it and take him for a stroll.

Inspiration

2008-09-22T13:22:00.001-07:00

Anyone living in Conway better watch out, cause inspiration must be in the water. I just read about Robin and Kibbie's 2 1/2+ jog, wow ladies good job, and then there is marc who is going above and beyond, with his 12 mile run coming up next month, which has inspired Tim to start a workout program, which he has been doing good with, of course I am sure it has nothing to do with a little twinly competition ;) but hey if it works I say it is all good. I am proud to announce I am starting my second week of walking, yes, just walking, but at a fairly good pace, with my mom. Stefanee joined us today and we went almost an hour at full pace, wich sounds easy, but not so much when you are not used to it and not to mention that Hayden is weighing in at a whopping pound these days. Everyone keep up the good work.

Snag

2008-09-19T11:20:00.000-07:00

I know I have passed my goal, that is why it is a goal, right? and not a definite. We got a new lap top and have not installed the printer/scanner software yet. I tried to install it and of course it did not work. So, I will make Tim install the software this weekend, and then get busy with the pictures of Hayden.

It's official.....at least for now

2008-09-14T19:41:00.000-07:00

We have decided on the name Hayden Carter Joseph Ibarra. I know it is a long name, but the Joseph is a family tribute name to my uncle who died of cancer several years ago. He and his wife picked Daniel and I up for church when we moved to Mena before I could drive, if not for him I can't say for sure I would have got back in church, being so young and not really knowing where to go to church in a new town, it was Bro. Floyd's church and I stayed there till I left for Conway. Joe was a godly man who was to be looked up to and I am honored to give Hayden his name. We won't really actually use it that much it will just be his legal name, and just to know that it is there. When he is in big trouble I will stick to Hayden Carter Ibarra. I do not plan to change the name, but you know how these things go, but I'm pretty sure it is here to stay.
I will try to get the ultrasound pics on this week, my goal is tomorrow or the next day.

Kibbie and Jeff

2008-09-12T09:45:00.000-07:00

Here we are at this highly anticipated blessed day. Jeff is getting married. It was a great wedding, with only minor mishaps, such as Bro. Eddie almost catching on fire, and the ring bearer who face planted at the end of a few steps off the stage. It really was a besutiful wedding and we were happy to be able to be there, and Tim was so proud to be a groomsmen. He and Jeff lived together for 8 years and they are practically brothers, and Jeff has spent a few Christmas's with us when he was unable to go home to Colorado. Kibbie is a great woman and we are excited to add her to the gang. Much Congratulations to them. Since this time, the happy couple has made it back from the honeymoon, and are getting settled in, we are so glad they made it back safely and now the real fun can begin.

I can't help but notice in this picture, how much Tim and I look alike. Hhhmmmm, wonder which one of us our baby will look like.
There is the groom and the Ibarra men and Bro. Kevin. Daniel was the best man, while Tim and Marc were groomsmen.
Here we are again. The photographers set up a backdrop in the nursery to take pictures, I thought that was a great idea. Here I am 4 and 3/4 months pregnant. I was so excited my graduation dress still fit.
Happy couple cutting the cake. They took almost all of their pictures before the wedding so there was not much of a wait, and things ran quickly and smoothly. The more I think about it that whole pics before thing really is a good idea, if you are both willing to do it. Their cake looked really nice and tasted good too, but those chocolate cupcakes were to die for. I could only eat half of one the were so rich, but delicious.

Creation Museum

2008-09-12T09:35:00.000-07:00

At the end of August we made our way to Kentucky for Jeff and Kibbie's wedding. Tim and Bro. Kevin just had to make a stop at the creation museum so went early to sqeeze it in. It was really good and at the end they even give a salvation message and give a chance to get saved. It was fun and Tim was like a kid in a candy store.

Us next to the big T-Rex.
It looks like this dinosaur is about to eat Tim's head.
They have a beautiful garden and outside area.
This is a Zonkey, I think. It is a donkey and zebra mix. The zorse was cuter, but he wouldn't let me get his picture.

We have base boards

2008-09-12T09:21:00.000-07:00

We are getting so close to having the house finished. Nothing like just in time to start on the baby's room, now that we know it's a boy. My dad is an experienced carpenter, he built an entire two story house, so experienced to say the least, so I thought Tim could learn a few things from him. In being a carpenter, he also has all the tools we have needed to complete this project and he has let us borrow them for free. Nice. So a few Saturdays ago He and Tim put up about 80% of our baseboards, I was so excited I almost cired, it has been a pain the last half year with this remodeling, and baseboards are pretty much the last touch.

Tim with a nail gun with I don't know how many psi's of air pressure behind it, is a scary thing, but dad insisted that he try.
Aren't they Beautiful!! Never thought I would be so excited about base boards. We finished the kitchen, baby's room and most of the living room.

Jayson is One

2008-09-12T09:07:00.000-07:00

Back in august Jayson turned one year old. I can't believe how fast these kids are growing up. I was also there when he was wheeled into the nursery just like with Christopher. I plan to do the same with baby Ashlyn who will be arriving before we know it. Melissa planned a great party and we even had a little pinata fun.

Some of the little ones didn't quite get the point, but it was fun to watch. All the mommies had to help out a little.
However, Christopher knew exactly what to do and went at it.

Melissa always makes the cutest cakes.

Big brother Chirstopher was more than willing to help Jayson open his presents.

While trying to watch Jayson open presents, Jayson decided he wanted in on some of the cake and ice cream action that the big people were eating. Uncle Tim seemed to be the only one who would share and Jayson kept on coming back for more. We were all telling Tim to stop so he would open his presents, but he didn't, I think he liked being the favorite uncle, even if just for a quick minute. I wonder if he will be so quick to share when it is our child wanting his dinner every night. :)

It's a Boy

2008-09-09T11:40:00.000-07:00

We found out yesterday, I am carrying a little man. Tim is so excited, and so am I. There is just something about daddy's little man. Through the whole ultrasound he was on the edge of his seat, actually he was standing, but you get the point. She spent a long time measuring everything and Tim said he was thinking just tell me what it is already, but we had to make sure all was o.k., and it is, Doc say everything is great and right where it needs to be. We really got a good show, I have to admit a few tears ran down my cheeck, a baby truly is one of God's miracles, but he was moving and was not shy about letting us know he is a boy. I will try to scan the ultrasound pics and see if I can get them on, I hope I can because we got some excellent pics and he is so cute. Now we just have to find a boy name, which we don't have, so no, I don't have a name yet. I also know I am behind on everything else, so I will try to catch up some things as well.

Crib Assembly 101

2008-08-05T11:54:00.000-07:00

Since the baby is due in January, we are trying to get a head start, because the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays are stressfull enough, not to mention basket season and Kiesha's wedding, without throwing in extra baby stress. So since we already bought the baby's furniture, we decided last night to put the crib together, even though we haven't put up baseboards yet, but they are painted and ready to go, but if you look closely, you can see my nice floor that is finished. Any way, the dresser/changer comes already assembled, yipee. I knew this would be quite interesting. This is the beggining of many more things that daddy will have to put togther.

I call this one, "You put that thing up to this thing?" However Tim does look "in the zone"

After getting one and a half sides done, I noticed a big warning sticker in chinese that would be on the outside, and we just couldn't have that, so we had to take both pieces apart, and start all over. Here we have two sides and a back, it's beggining to look good. That is the dresser in the background, I forgot to take a picture of it.

Daddy adding some finishing touches. I did help a lot, but there was no one there to take a picture of me helping, and tim would not let me go search for the tripod.

Here it is, our bueatiful new crib, it is so cute, I really love it. You can't really tell, but it is cherry and matches the floors pretty good.

Some finishing touches and we are good to go. I couldn't resist but to put the stuff in it, it looked so sad all alone with nothing on it. I just got to excited. We are doing Raggedy ann and andy, I found some old pictures and dolls I had from when I was a baby, and decided to give them life again. Then I found out they had a bedding set, and I was sold. They discontinued the bedding set the year Tim and I got married, and I was so upset. On ebay it is really expensive and used and all that. My mom found the entire bedding set at a garage sale, sadly,the lady had lost her baby and decided to do something different, so we got all of it for $25, and she had never used it, and was glad that someone was really excited about finding it and was going to use it, that was so meant to be, and it can be boy or girl so we can get things ready now.

Our Nightmare (Cont'd)

2008-07-29T11:04:00.000-07:00

I Don't know why these pictures are so bad, Tim is getting his really nice $2,000 camera for Christmas, and I can't wait, even though it is really for taking portraits of the baby, but still. Anyway, this is my buetiful new wood floor living room. It is a miracle that it is finally done, even though we are still not too close to finishing.

2008-07-29T10:49:00.000-07:00

Birthday Boy having fun in the sun.

Christopher celebrated his 3rd birthday back in June. I can't believe he is 3, I was there when they wheeled him into the nursery, wow, how the years fly by.

Melissa had a fun pool party for all the kids and babies, this was the baby pool.

Christopher on his new motor bike.

Texas

2008-06-18T09:38:00.000-07:00

The flowers in the arbatorium were really pretty
Tim and Alicia sword fought at the Renissance fair.
Our Texas trip went really well.

We are going to have a baby!!!!!!!

2008-06-18T09:29:00.000-07:00

So, to break the news to Tim I put some "daddy" bibs, a sippy cup, and blanket in his sock drawer, because he always changes his socks when he get home before he leaves out again. After talking him in to opening the drawer, he said I have already seen these bibs, I was there when we bought them. Frustrated I said, well, I just thought you should get used to your stuff being mixed in with the baby's, still not getting it, I showed him the test, he said I should take another one, just t o be sure, needless to say he finally believed me, and was so excited.
PROUD PARENTS TO BE!!
PROUD PAPA!!!!!!
We have already started painting the baby's room yellow, and we have the furniture.
Grandma (my mom) helped me with the room. She is just as excited as we are.
I found out that we are going to have a baby, I guess we weren't too far behind Amber. We are estatic, I already can't wait and I am only 8 weeks and 4 days.

Our Nightmare

2008-06-18T09:25:00.000-07:00

Tim cutting the tile
Marc laying our kitchen tile
Tim cutting more tile
Remodeling has turned into a bigger job than I expected, but we are actually finally getting somewhere. We have now finished two bedrooms with wood flooring.

Suprise (Sort of)

2008-06-18T09:21:00.000-07:00

This was the cake that Tim got me
Me and my girls
Amber even made Tim clean up some, that is a rarity.
Tim threw a "Suprise" Party for me, even though it was a total suprise.

I DID IT!!!!!!

2008-06-18T09:17:00.000-07:00

Myself with my wonderful husband who has supported me through even at times when I didn't want to do it anymore.
As have my parents.
I finally graduated on May 3 from the University of Central Arkansas.

Ms. Ibarra's Birthday Bash

2008-06-18T09:05:00.000-07:00

I was so busy during the party with everything that I didn't get any pics, duh Angela. Everything went really well, and she said that she had never had a real birthday party before, so it was pretty exciting.

In Memory of...

2008-05-05T08:08:00.000-07:00

Wow, this has been a crazy weekend, I will post graduation pics and Ms. Ibarra's Birthday pics later, but first I would like to take a minute to remeber some family we lost this Friday. It is kind of hard to explain how we are related, but I will try. Some of you may or may not know that here in Arkansas there were some tornados on Friday. 8 total fatalities, and three of them were ours. O.k., I have a half brother, we have the same mom, but different dads. Two of the deaths were his dad and step-mom. So please pray for him, I don't think it will really hit him until sometime this week that his dad is actually gone. Please pray for my mom, this was her first husband and she has know him since she was 15, and his having a little bit of a hard time. Mostly we are concerned for Malcom, my brother, even more confusing the dad's name is malcom too, my brother is malcom jr. Now, especially pray for Dawn, this is Malcom's other sister with the same dad. She lost her dad, step-mom, and her little girl Kadi, who was four years old. She also lived there at the house and now has no home, since the house is completely gone, even the foundation is not all together. We went to the site on Friday, and just seeing it makes you sick to your stomach, it was awful. So please just remember the Brumley family in you prayers.

Suprise!

2008-04-28T08:30:00.001-07:00

Raegen enjoyed playing with my balloons.
Since my degree is in Mass Communication with an emphasis on Television, the gang put together this little "T.V." so everyone could see what I will look like when I am on the real T.V. We do have some ingenious people around here, I heard it was Ms. Edna's idea,
Melissa and Amber did such a good job serving, thanks gals.

O.K., so now that I have shared some stuff about us in general, I want to get up to date. The church suprised me with a little graduation party last night. I love my church family, they are so great we do not know what we would do without them.

2008-04-28T08:27:00.000-07:00

We went to Green Bay in August 2005, and took the tour of Lambaeu field. What a difference four months can make, it was beutiful in August, too bad they don't have games then.

HIYAH

2008-04-28T08:24:00.001-07:00

Tim and Marc got their black belts in akido jujutsu, I do not know if that is spelled right.

Family Fun

2008-04-21T09:08:00.000-07:00

Last year, Pastor Carnagey celebrated 50 years in the ministry.
It was also the twins ten year high school reunion.
This is Tim, Marc, amber and myself at the San Antonio zoo. CONGRATULATIONS to Marc and Amber as they are expecting a baby in November, Hopefully we won't be far behind. :)

Angela's Family

2008-04-07T09:44:00.001-07:00

This is my family.

Tim's Family

2008-04-07T09:39:00.000-07:00

Tim with his dad who lives in St. Louis.
These are the 6 Ibarra kids.

2008-04-07T09:35:00.000-07:00

South Padre Island with Bro. Eddie.

Now for some random family picture

2008-04-07T09:34:00.000-07:00

These are from when we went to Virginia with Bro. Eddie.

2008-04-07T09:33:00.001-07:00

We visited Tim's cousin Dora.

Waukesha

2008-04-07T09:31:00.000-07:00

This is us in Tim's childhood home of Waukesha Wisconsin, the snow really was pretty, but I am glad that I don't have to deal with it that much

Mean Trick

2008-04-07T09:04:00.001-07:00

In loo of the recent april fools day I thought back to last years when Amber, Melissa, and I all secretly bought the guys a matching shirt and tie, and on Sunday morning told them it would look great with black pants, they had no idea they wold be dressed alike. It wasn't actually for april fools, but it was close, so I thought that made it seem less mean than doing it for no reason.

2008-04-07T08:53:00.000-07:00

While in Wisconsin, I saw my first real snow and went sledding for the first time ever with Tim's childhood friends family. I also just had to get a picture of me shoveling snow, ha that won't ever happen around our neck of the woods!!

2008-04-07T08:51:00.001-07:00

This was at the actual game.

2008-04-07T08:46:00.001-07:00

This is Tim getting his GB Packer tickets at Christmas.

Tim's Big Christmas

2008-03-19T13:45:00.000-07:00

Our latest adventure was the last week of December. Tim is from Wisconsin and loves the Green Bay Packers and Brett Favre. Being the wonderful wife that I am, for Christmas I suprised Tim with tickets to see the Green Bay Packers. I must be crazy, it was 20 degrees not including the wind chill and believe me the wind was chilly. I thought I was going to die, I had on so many layers, and my feet were still frozen. However, Tim had a blast and that is what is most important, at least I think it is?

Who we are

2008-03-19T09:29:00.000-07:00

Tim and I have been married for three years as of March 12, 2008. We are working on starting our family. Tim is a quality engineer at Molex Inc., while I am in my last semester at UCA. I will graduate May 3, 2008 Yipee. We live in Conway and go to Grace Baptist Church. Tim is a twin and his twin brother marc and his wife Amber, as well as their older brother Daniel and his wife melissa live here in Conway too. Which makes for really fun Friday and Saturday dinner and a movie nights. Daniel and melissa have two little boys Christopher and Jayson, whom I absolutely adore and will probably post many pictures of, also Tim has three sister and they all have sweet kids that I will also post pictures of. I have two brothers and a nephew, Rylan that you will see some too. Tim and I are involved in two nursing home ministries that Tim preaches at and in everything else we just take it as it comes. Wow, I guess that is our life in a nut shell.

Inspired to Blog

2008-03-19T09:27:00.000-07:00

I have been inspired to start blogging. Don't know why, I don't know that many people and I could just call the ones I do, but at least now they can see pictures of our beautiful faces.