Hayden is Here!!!!!

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

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

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

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

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.