Happy Birthday to the cutest little boy ever! I can't believe we have a 2 year old!  Two is a crazy age I've decided.  They are so fun and entertaining but also very challenging at times.  Even though it is a hard age I love seeing Hayden's personality and how his little brain manages to figure everything out. He is so smart!!! (which I'm sure every mother thinks about their kids)  He says the funniest things now and repeats pretty much EVERYTHING.  He is also very aware of his surroundings and what is going on around him.  When he sees someone crying he will either say "what happen?", "is cryin?" or "you k" (you ok).  He still loves daddy most (grrrr:)  Every morning when he wakes up we have to go check the bed to see if daddy is home and when he isn't Hayden looks at me and says "daddy workin?".  Ha ha what a cutie pie.  He loves babies (hopefully this will stick) and animals (especially dogs).  He loves to go to all of our friends house because they have "puppies".  He still LOVES his trucks.  Today I think we had about ten that just had to come to church with him.  He still keeps me very busy all day but he has added some extras to make sure I don't get too much down time when we're home.  He can now easily unlock the deadbolt (luckily he hasn't taken off while I'm taking a shower or anything. . . yet), he can reach the light switches (most annoying part about this is that he is just tall enough to go around and turn on all of the lights but not tall enough to turn them off), he has realized that he can get to pretty much anything he wants if he moves a chair to it, and he has come to the conclusion that instead of picking a couple toys it is best to drag his whole box of toys out and dump the container on the floor!  He has picked up some useful (and cute) things that I'm not to sad about.  If he spills something he will usually go and get a dish towel and try and wipe it up and he is pretty good at throwing things away. Sometimes too good:)  Pretty much. . . we love him to death!  He had a great birthday and got lots of fun stuff including clothes (which he for sure needed), movies, and toys and the bonus. . . he wasn't teething and didn't burn himself on the birthday candles this year!:)

He got bubbles for his birthday and he totally loved it!

My mom got him this and he loves it! He's not quite heavy enough to work it but he scoots
around on it and makes us push him

His play house we got him that i thought was going to be little.  It's like the size of his room! Hopefully we
find a house soon so he can play with it more.

He loves balloons!  The big one has cars characters on it and he was soooo excited!

our cute birthday boy! thanks to all our friend who came and celebrated with us!

cruise part 1

Soooo. . . apparently I don't know how to use blogger anymore because my pictures are all backwards here. If you wish to start at the first of our vacation please proceed to the bottom of the page and then scroll up:)  I decided i best do our vacation in pieces so that i don't lose motivation (or just give up when all 3 million pictures somehow get erased from my unsaved post:(

getting a look at our ship before embarking.  It was huge!

Our first night in the main dining room

at the show our first night

Pulling in to our first stop Labadee Haiti.  It's so pretty here and we got to spend the entire day on the beautiful beach.  I felt so terrible at first because we have so much more than these people but i couldn't believe how crooked some of them were! There were a few that tried to take us for all we were worth!  There was also a little path that had lots little shops with "handmade" stuff (but somehow every place had the exact same stuff)  but if you don't buy their stuff they pretty much hate your guts!

the beautiful beach

so glad my grandpa was able to come with us!

our amazingly huge ship!

What can i say??? Cruises are pretty much amazing. There's food around every corner, tons to do, and you get to go to a bunch of different places! We took about a million pictures so i tried to sift through the best ones.  We left Delta on Thanksgiving before Hayden woke up. I'm not sure i could have left if he was awake:( We missed him so much while we were gone but luckily we knew he was in the good hands of my sister and her husband!  Flights were a lot cheaper from Vegas so we decide it was worth the drive.  we stayed there Thursday night.  For thanksgiving dinner we ate at a little burger place.  No complaints here! My Philly was delicious! and HUGE!

Our first in Florida we stayed at the Hammock  Beach Resort. It was so nice and right off the beach! This is the view from our room.

One of the beach housed near our resort. They were sooo nice!

heading to the beach!

View of our resort from the beach

We went to Ron Jon's surf shop and got skim boards to use on the beach

I was pretty terrible and probably almost died but it was way fun and crazy to we swimming outside at the end of November!

first of many catch up posts

I seem to be a little behind on my blogging lately.  I guess we will start with "Thanksgiving".  We had to do Thanksgiving a couple weeks early this year since we wouldn't be home because of our cruise.  We had lots of good food and spent time at my dad's house. I didn't get many pictures. I've been pretty bad at having my camera out lately. 

Hayden and jack eating Popsicles after dinner

apparently i wasn't paying very much attention

random Halloween picture because i don't think i ever posted one and he looked so cute in his costume!