What's up with Hayden

Hayden is growing up so fast!! In the last few weeks he has started doing so many new things...eating finger foods, drinking from a sippy cup, doing his own version of crawling, sitting himself up, and just showing more and more of his personality!

Crazy Nights at Kids 4 Truth

Each week this summer, Kids 4 Truth is having different theme nights. Lauren plans days in advance what she will be wearing for each theme. It's so fun to see her get so excited about something....and we can't just take the simple route either. I tried to just get by by having her wear mismatched socks on Crazy Sock Night, but that wasn't CRAZY enough, so we had to put socks in her hair, around her waist and coming out of her pockets!!

Kids 4 Truth is the Sunday night children's program at our church. You should check out the website at www.kids4truth.com.

Our visitors

Imagine my surprise when I went to take the trash out and found a momma skunk and her 5 babies making their way across our backyard. The momma ran under our deck before we could get the camera, but we did get a few pictures of the babies. While the idea of skunks in my backyard freaks me out, I have to admit that the babies were pretty cute!

Puerto Rico

Bobby's many hours of work were rewarded when he won trip this year with Lanier. We were so fortunate to be able to travel to Puerto Rico where we spent 6 days and 5 nights just relaxing and having a great time. I enjoyed a massage at the spa, and Bobby enjoyed fishing for tarpon (although the 3:30 AM wake up time was a little extreme!). We also were able to spend a day in Old San Juan touring one of the forts and the shops along the streets there. The rest of our time was spent just relaxing on the beach, spending time with friends that were also there, and eating at some of the local Puerto Rican restaurants.

May Highlights

Where has the time gone?! I realized today that tomorrow is the last day of May and I haven't even posted once during the entire month!!! Here are just a few pictures from our month. It was kind of crazy...Hayden had his first trip to the ER (just a stomach bug), Lauren graduated from Kindergarten (pictures to be coming), Hayden has learned to sit up and has sprouted one tooth with the second not far behind! We've enjoyed the nice weather in between rain showers and have spent lots of time outside, and are looking forward to lots more fun this summer!!

Lauren's 1st Recital

I just had to post these pictures together! It seems like it was just yesterday that Lauren was sitting at the piano in our house in Indiana plunking keys one by one driving us crazy. This past September, Lauren began taking formal piano lessons from Marcia Buster at school. She did very well considering we didn't get much practice time in with a new baby in the house. She had her end of the year recital this past weekend where she and I performed a duet of "Alouette". She was so excited that she was up at 7 on Saturday morning. Bobby and I are so proud of her!

Thanks to my dad for these pictures. I had given him my camera and he had taken some pictures with it only to find out during intermission that I had forgotten to put the memory card back in!!

He loves his thumb!

Well, we've resigned ourselves to the fact that Hayden is going to be a thumb sucker! Oh how he loves that thumb! He wants it when he's tired, cranky or in the case of this picture, on the floor "watching" tv. He even tries to get it in his mouth between bites of his baby food!!! (That is quite a mess!) In this area, he is definitely like his daddy!