Poolside Vaca!

Just eating some popcorn at the pool!
With daddy
Nana and Papa
After
Before

At the spray park in Kelowna that he loved!
At a winery with "mum" and dad

Walking in Kelowna!
Swimming in Kelowna!
At the Canada day parade!
this was how we travelled at the zoo with Evangaline! They didnt do much riding!

We gave HM a mohawk one day!

Hayden at the old house having a popsicle
Okay, so once again, the computer savy girl that i am. My pictures uploaded in the wrong order so the most recent are at the top.

Well, at the end of the month we moved from south seattle to Ballard. The move went really well, my parents and brother came up to help, and they were a HUGE help! Then , they took HM home with them until we came on wed, so that was greatly appreciated. Thad and I unpacked and got in a date night. It was very nice. We then went up to Canada for 2 days and celebrated Canada Day!

On Friday Thad and I got to leave HM again and go to Kelowna for 2 nights for our 5 year anniversary. We also had a great time and relaxed by the pool and went to a winery for lunch and out for dinners! Then on Sunday my parents come up with Hayden for the week. So then we were there for the week together. We had so so weather but then it got nice the last day and half, so we did end up getting some, i say some sun. Hayden had such a good time swimming and hanging out with his Nana and Papa. We were on the third floor so we didnt have a yard, so that was a little different for Hayden. I think he wanted to be outside alot.He basically wakes up saying outside.

After our lovely vacation, we got to come home to our new house. We LOVE living in Ballard because of the location. We can walk to alot, restaurants, shops, grocery store, the water. It is great. We have had wonderful weather since we have been home also. Thad has stripped and repainted the front stairs, hoed flower beds, repainted the railing, and organized all his office "junk". And the last was probably the hardest for him believe it or not! We are also going to repaint the bathroom, so we have had a few projects for this house, but we really do love it. It has a very open floorplan, a great kitchen, and the rooms are really big. The bathroom is lacking along with the yard so.........were doing our best to improve those.

Anyway, i will get pics of the house up soon. Sorry for ignoring the blog for so long!

Sick Boy

So Wed morning, I get Hayden out of bed and notice he is a little warm, but my thermometer is packed so i just pretend he is fine. He has a fairly good morning and then when i get him from nap, he is on FIRE! He feels so warm, so i calmy dig through my boxes and find the thermometer (one the 2nd box). and he is 102.5, so he has never had fever this high before so i throw him in the bath and give him tylenol. That zapped it for awhile till bed. He was in his bed for one hour and then awake and hot, so needless to say, in mommy and daddys bed teh rest of the night. Thursday he went up to 103 and basically laid on the couch and watched tv all day. This is coming from a boy that does not sit still, doesnt really watch tv for more than 2 min, and he has to be on my lap for 2 min, and doesnt lay or sit on the couch unless mommy is beside him. So he was lying there all day sometimes with me and sometimes by himself. But he was quite pitiful. So on friday we went to the doc, and of course he had no fever since 4am that morning and his coughing and running nose had disappeared. Don't you love it when that happens?!
So we went to my parents for the weekend and Hayden's fever never returned but he barely ate all weekend. So today, let alone this morning, i think he has made up for all the eating he missed.
On the talking side, someone told me it was right at the 18 month mark that her son just took off, and Hayden has begun at least. I know i write about his speech all the time, but now for real, i ahve something to be proud about. He can say shoe, paci (pacifier) he repeatedly told me this in the car today as he dropped it, shower, he tries to say blake, mommy and daddy, and papa. And today on the swing i said uncle brayden and i swear he said brayden more clearly than i have every heard him say something! But he is really taking off, for real this time.
Also i saw "the proposal" this weekend! so good, i recomment it fully!

A Zoo of a Day....

So, yesterday, Tuesday, I decided to take Hayden and Evangeline to the Zoo. So we leave early to get there for opening time, and on the way Evangeline says " I am not feeling better" but she never felt sick......so I was hoping for the best, i gave her her juice and hoped we would get there in time. Not two minutes later i heard her coughing, and more smelled something, and looked back, and sure enough, she had lost her breakfast. So, after talking to her mom, and finding out this had happened a few times lately, we decided to press on with the zoo. She wore hayden's 6-9 month onesie , that fit) and hayden shorts that he was wearing that day, and hayden went in just a onesie! Im sure Thad would have been so embarressed because he would have thought everyone was thinking we were trailer trash....but he was awfully cute, i dont think anyone thought that.
So we had a great time at the zoo, and then it was time to leave, and we were all tired, struggling to make it to the car. Hayden fell asleep in the stroller on the way , and then Evangeline was doing a good job walking but got tired so here i am caring a 2.5 year old and trying to still push my cheapo stroller that definelty needs two hands.
so we get to the car......and of course, I cant find my keys. Im trying not to panick because I tried so hard when we got there to keep track of them while changing and trying to clean up Evangeline. But of course now there gone!!!!! So great great Tara ( and son Malachi) decide to wait with me for AAA. I am thinking the keys are in my trunk because the last thing I did was get the stroller. So after 45 min of Evangeline being really good, and Hayden sleeping for most of them, he comes and ...................NO KEYS!!!!!!!!! not in teh car, not in the trunk! Im floored. I kinda thought they wouldn't be there though,.....i had suspected that i just left them by the car when i left. so.............Im almost panicking, but then im like, well, at least ill check the lost and found, maybe someone turned them in?
Praise the Lord, despite a dorky and dumb guy/ boy at the desk they were my keys. But they got sent to another gate. So i trapse (sp?) with the two kids, Evangeline in teh stroller holding Hayden on her lap ( thank goodness) to the other entrance and get my keys. And im to mad to ask where they found them because they wouldn't send my keys to the entrance I was at. And we make it back to the car!!!!!!!! yah, on our way home! i never thought it would come. We tried to lave at 12:30 and ended up leaving at 2.....so not as bad as i was thinking though when i let my mind wander!
Despite taking wrong turn and sitting in traffic for 20 min we made it home and they both napped once we got home!!!!!!! And that was the greatest blessing of all! And when i later told thad, he made me a drink and dinner! What a great husband! and he bathed Hayden! yah
A quick little update on HM's talking, he now says outside very clearly, shoe, bath, dada, but not really mama.....and repeats what you say, but those are the best so far! and sorry no pics.
Also we are moving, the camera stuff is packed. At the end of the month were moving to Ballard, just north of the city. From the south where we are now! We are so happy to be moving there because there is a ton within walking distance,(shops, restaurants, water, beach, etcs) and its its own community/ old fishing village. But just quaint but really close to the city still. We'll be in a 2bed/1 ba house with yard!!!! Yard was the most important part since HM wakes up saying outside.......sometimes at 5am! so. Ill try to write more about that later. But we are very very excited!

Talking up a storm

So, Hayden is talking up a storm these days. This morning he was repeating me saying, "blowdryer, hairspray..." etc. he has been babbling alot more recently, but today was the first day i noticed that he tried directly to mimick what i was saying. Also, he has known for awhile what i am saying, but now, he shakes his head no when its naptime or bedtime, adn then screams all the way up the stairs adn in bed, and then wails for about 5-10 min and then gives up. I am just thankful he gives up. So i am seeing new challenges every day, he is really getting a strong will. That time out chair is getting used more and more everyday.
The weather here has been fairly hot so we have been outside in the pool alot. I am also watching my friends daughter Evangeline for a couple weeks, a couple days a week, so its been fun to see them play together, she's 2.5, but also not so fun to try to teach Hayden to share. She is very very very patient with him.
On Memorial day weekend we went to Whistler with my parents so here a few pics. We forgot the camera to take to TN, so i have to get pics from online, so,,,,,,,i can say it might happen, but i bet it wont.

going to jackson...

Last week we were back to Jackson, TN. Hayden and I went on sunday and thad came on fri morning, for Clayton's graduation (the youngest of the williams). We had such a great time there. I got to lay out by the pool and we took Hayden swimming. He loved it. We also got to see my sister there. It was a relaxing time for me , thanks to all the help with Hayden, so it was great.
Also, we found out that Thad does have this job for next year! Praise the Lord! We were a little nervous there for awhile but God was good! So we are so happy.
Hayden is trying to talk up a storm these days. He mumbles and jabbers alot, and i think were now saying "outside", for sure now "Dada" and maybe some others, but outside has been our big word so far. He understands everything i say though, i say time for bath and potty, and off he runs to the bathroom, etc. It just amazes me what he can do already.
Sorry i havent' posted in awhile, i don't really have that much more to say. pics to come!

Good as Gone

the battery, that is. So I hadn't heard anything else from the school, so I decided I would call them on Monday. The VP said that no one had come forward and that was that. I asked her if she had tried to threaten to discipline the whole class, and she said she wouldn't do that. I then said i thought that more needed to be done, this was stealing.... and she said that she didn't appreciate the way I was talking to her and that I was being very rude and that if I wanted to come in and make an app. for this, I then said i didn't appreciate not being called to let me know what was happening and then we hung up, ( or maybe i hung up.....). So i made an appointment for the next day at 11. So i go today at 11 and low and behold................. SHE IS NOT THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i could have blown a gasket..........i was livid. The secretary informs me she is sick. I asked why i wasn't called and the secr. says that she makes her own appointments........... and there was nothing she could do. I acknowledged that it wasn't her fault but that this was a huge waste of my time and i had to get childcare and drive 20 min, i wasted my whole morning. But really, this secr. knew i was coming and she could have called me because i gave her my number originally or she could have called the sub office and asked for it, OR she could have mentioned that the principal knew i was coming and i could meet with him. BUT anyways, I only made the app. yesterday and left her my number which i thought was almost cheeky because i had left it so many times, but still.........no call! so i stormed out ( nto really) and went to my car where i decided i would meet with the principal. SO i went back in and he arrived shortly and greeted me, ( knowing who i was and why i was there) so why didn't they give me the option to meet with him when i arrived???? they just let me leave?!!!!!!!!!!! so anyways, he was mister nice and is further pursuing the situation........ but i am still filing a complaint. They did not want to see me today and he knew i was coming and they just let me leave, knowing i was angry!
So i am happy that more action is being taken but the way they have treated me has been pathetic to say the least!!!!
SO, that has kinda been my life lately. I can't even think what else is going on. Hayden is trying to talk, he says a whole bunch of mumble jumble and i think the word "outside" is in there somewhere and also maybe " see ya later" maybe?
Thanks for reading ( or listening to me vent!)
oh ya, so thad and i had been sharing a cell phone battery for a week, and now one has finally come, we paid 8$ online instead of50 in the store, i would be outrageously mad if i had to pay 50, it wouldn't have been worth it to work that day at all!

Day from Hell

SO, yesterday I subbed ( or as they say here, guest taught) for a third grade class at a school i had not been before. I walked in and after 5 min i knew it was not going to be an easy day. I read the teachers plans and discovered that the class had had a sub the day before but i guess for some odd reason she decided she didn't want to see them again the next day? I wonder why?
Well once they walked in.......one girl was a problem from the start. the most mouthy, obnoxious, ignorant....shall i go on.....little girl. The principal came to talk to her twice in the first 30 min of class. One boy was also a problem but we worked together and had a great day. And there was another girl, lets say A, that would not stay in her seat the whole day.
To make a long story short, I should have sent 3 kids to the office 3 times, but I didn't. I yelled at them, (and i dont yell) they would not listen, candy did not work, games did not work, taking away recess did not work........i didnt know what else to do!?
So the day finally ends and I am leaving and I notice my phone won't turn on. And i am wondering why it is off anyways? One of the students stole my cell phone battery!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was livid! to say the least. And i am pretty sure i know who it is because she said to me, " you have a cool phone" and my phone is not cool, its old and basic. I admit, before lunch it was in my purse, but after lunch i left it on the desk............but really, a third grader stole it. I dont ' care where I left it, it doesn't give her rights to steal it. Stealing is stealing.
SO............i have called teh school twice and they said they are dealing with it but that the ass. principal was out yesterday so she has alot to catch up on and she is working on it! DO you think i am impressed by that answer?! It is 1230 and she still has not called me back, and i have called twice.......so! I am trying to be patient, and trying to have a christian attitude, but its not coming easy..............but i better get it back, so they better be disciplined properly!
so, after all that, I am not working any more this week!