Ahhh! I can't believe I haven't blogged about all this stuff yet! We've had a lot going on and nothing at the same time! Last Tuesday Hayden bumped his head and I was looking at it and he had this HUGE bump I look and it and I freaked out because it had legs! I scooped him up and brought him to McDonalds to see Jason. Jason was like yup its a monster woodtick, super stuck in his head. Okay off to Urgent Care we go. So he had it removed at Urgent Care with both the nurse and Doctor saying Gross! (how can a dr say gross, really??) He got a little shot of something good and out it came with a hunk of skin. So he got a huge bandage wrapped around his head(See picture below) due to his head bleeding. He was like whatever the whole time. The woodtick was flesh colored and the size of a lima bean, it was nasty! I learned that ticks don't lay eggs on humans or other hosts they will only lay eggs on the ground. Good!

I was lucky enough to see Sarah, Casey and Breckin a bunch before they had to leave for Arizona. Breckin is so cute and loved me! He would coo and smile at me. I forgot how sweet they are at that age just learning to interact, oh he melted my heart. Hayden liked him too. Telling me he had beautiful eyes and little tiny baby ears.

Jason, Hayden, and I went to Port Wing, Herbster, Bayfield, and Washburn on Saturday. We had a fun little family outing. (We had plans on Saturday and they got sick, we hope they are feeling better!) We hiked at Twin Falls Park, played at an awesome little park in Herbster and went to the beach there. We headed to Bayfield for lunch, ice cream and a walk about the town. Hayden saw a pirate ship on the water, he thought that was pretty cool. Then it was off to our dairy in Washburn for milk and ice cream. We had a very fun day!

Sunday Hayden and I went with my mom and dad to the Greek Festival in Duluth. We had very yummy food. Hayden loved the meat he had(lamb or pork, I can't remember) and ate some other dishes we tried. We also walked on the Lakewalk that night with them, Jason too! Take a look at the pictures there were beautiful clouds and colors on Sunday night.

All right I am going to brag about my son, so beware! Hayden is learning to spell! He knows religiously how to spell his name and write it without help. I am so proud of him, granted he does have an easy name to write and its only Hayden I haven't even started with Smith yet. He catches on so easy! I have been spelling words for him when he asks questions. Like what a new remote did. I told him to push the ON and he did and i asked him what that word means and he said ON(He isn't dumb I suppose I should give him a little credit!) the same with OFF. Good Job Hayden!

Pictures!

This album is called the Colorless Collection, but I added 2 colored pictures! But Enjoy!

There are a lot of things i fudge a little on with Hayden but there is one thing that i am very strict about, car seats. He will always be in a booster seat and in the back seat until he is 8 and 12. I think this article proves why:

3 year old uninjured

I know if you live locally you probably heard about this, but i find this amazing. A 3 year old was uninjured from a car accident that left the other 2 people dead and 5 other people hurt. Put your kids in car seats, always.

Ahhh, I don't even know where to start!

We have had an amazing week! It started off with gorgeous weather at Cragun's. One of our favorite places in the whole world. We have been so lucky this summer with nice weather(knock on wood) and that just continued at Craguns. We joined my mom, dad, brother and sister up there Monday afternoon and had a quick picnic and then hit the outdoor pool. Hayden LOVED the kiddie pool. He even pushed his Nana in there! There was so many people it was crazy but thats okay. Hayden and I swam in the deep end and jumped in and went under water. He is becoming a very strong swimmer. Very confident too. He likes his lifejacket on but is swimming without it too. I don't even know how long we swam but it was a very long time, we spend almost all of tuesday in the water too! Tuesday and Wednesday were spent by the pool or beach. We did all the Cragun things too! Wild Animal Show(Hay liked the camel, he didn't really know what a camel was until then), Trolley rides w/Kurt, Movies on the Beach(My favorite new thing) and of course campfires. Papa sneaked us over to Madden's Resort and had ice cream too. I threw Hayden's away, it was a down right tragedy, but he told me he was done. He got over it! Sadly we had to leave at 1 on Wednesday because Hayden went to His Cabin with Smith and Papa.

Thursday brought a day with no Hayden and lots of cleaning and grocery shopping, we had NO food! We had dinner with Micheal and Laura before they headed home to Texas.

Friday, Happy 4th of July! We went to the parade with Sarah, Breckin and Tanya. Hayden got the most candy! Whole handfuls. He loved it, but it was hot. Hayden has been a hoot lately. Sarah's favorite thing he said to me at the parade was "Mom, settle down, settle down, I am right HERE" Silly boy. Got to love 3 1/2. We headed to the Smith cabin for the Jen's 21st birthday and 4th celebration. We had lots of fun, I took tons of pictures of Baby Lauren and watched the Fireworks.

Saturday we went to Gordon with My mom, Dad, and Brandon in Jason's new truck to watch the fireworks. They were pretty fantastic. My mom and dad secretly were jealous of Jason's truck the whole time too! (Firework Album!)



Sunday we shipped Hayden off with my Mom and Dad and Jason and I went to a party for Breckin. We had fun but it was HOT. It was 96 in town today and 86 in Lake Nebagamon.

We have nothing on the block for the week! Except i am having people over on Friday so i will probably clean and get ready for that. I hope everyone had a fun and safe weekend, we had a blast.

Check out all the new pictures too!

Jason had a fabulous idea last night. We drove to Billings Park and spent a couple hours walking around the park and playing of course. I took way to many pictures(as usual) and just thought I'd post them before i leave, again, this time for Brainerd. We have been gone for the last 2 weeks. But we are having fun and going to spend the month of July relaxing and going to the beach(we haven't done that yet!) I played around with my camera settings last night. My favorite setting for last night was the Sunset setting. The lake and the sun just led to amazing pictures! Who couldn't take a good picture of that??