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!

Well we are home from a great weekend in Brainerd. We stayed Friday night at the "WaterFall Hotel" (Holiday Inn Express-Waterpark). Hayden was lucky enough to get some waterparking in. He knew once we hit Aitkin where he wanted to go, all of the sudden we were driving around Aitkin and he said "I want to go to the Waterfall Hotel." I don't know if he associated Aitkin with Brainerd or what, but we hadn't told him we were going there. Smart Kid! He swam like a little fish and went up and down the water slides a couple dozen times. We stayed in a Kid Suite and Hayden got his own bunk bed. He loved it! He kept telling us he was going to sleep in his own bed. We went to 2 drive through Christmas light displays. One was at the "This Old Farm" where Paul Bunyan Land moved to 5 years ago. It was beautiful. However Hayden fell asleep and didn't see anything! Then we went to the Brainerd Arboretum. It was a mile of lights to drive through ranging from Teddy bears to Santa Golfing to Nativity and bells. It was amazing. It was so good we went on Saturday night too! Hayden got to see this time. I tried to get pictures but they didn't come out so great! If they do this next year we will be going again.
Saturday we moved on to Cragun's. We ice skated, played in the snow, and made a fire in the fireplace. We love Cragun's! We swam Sunday morning and built a snow sculpture, a Christmas Tree with beads and a snowflake topper! We won 1st place, out of 1 team, us! We still would of won! Hayden didn't really participate but when we weren't by the tree he kept asking "Where is our Christmas tree?" We rode on the Horse pulled Trolley too! We had lots of fun!
I am going to post "Our Year in Pictures" either on the side bar or a separate post so be watching for it! Happy New Year's to everyone. I know we were blessed with another great year i hope you were too!

Brainerd!

Finally i am home for a few days! We had a great week. First Vegas and then Brainerd. We are actually going back to Brainerd on Sunday! Hayden is a little ham as always! He kind of was a little stinker in Brainerd. He liked to try to escape out of the room. He as in love with the ping pong table in the pool area, so kept trying to run down there, he is fast too! We went to Nissawa and went to their Turtle Races. It was fun! Hayden was terrified of the turtles. He clung on to us like a baby koala bear. We swam a lot, which Hayden loved. He is a fish i swear. He would go under and pop up with a huge smile on his face.
I got his hair cut today! It was horrible for me! He was great! He walked around like a proud little peacock afterwards. He just sat and watched her cut his hair and whispered things to me. I just had his bangs trimmed, because when we were swimming his hair was in his eyes and he couldn't see, i felt bad!

Hayden Swimming!

I am posting another video of Hayden! I hope it works! I haven't done it yet by myself so hopefully you'll be seeing it! We had LOTS of fun in Brainerd. Hayden decided he can swim! He was swimming all by himself. He is a fish he was just going and going. He was swimming underwater too! We went to the waterpark too! He was going down the medium slides alone! But this was a problem too! He seems to have NO fear of the water and just will go and jump in with or without us! He also was being a small stinker. But he only had an hour nap combined both days, so he was TIRED! But at the waterpark he got out of the hot tub and RAN away from me and it looked like he wanted to jump in the splash pool for the big slides. I was so mad and scared! He sat in timeout for a LONG time! He knew he was in trouble and never said boo to me about being in time out.
I'll post more pictures later and more about the trip! Have a great weekend!

Craguns!

Hello to everyone! We are off to Craguns's for the next few days! We have teacher in service days and the support staff have nothing! Yeah! Nothing worst to be then sitting through 2 days of meetings! But we are going with My mom, dad, Brandon, James, Michelle, Katie-kate, and Joe! Hayden is very exciting about this! Last night he kept saying off every one's name! Then on Sunday Jason is off to Chicago for work for a week! Yikes! But he was able to get the same days off miraculously!

This was taken the last time we were at Cragun's

Oh super funny last night! I was giving Hayden a bath and I patted his little butt and he said "Stop I am doing my homework!" I was like what? I asked him who says that and he told me that Laura and Budda say it! The things they pick up!

Have a great weekend!

My skater boy

Auntie Em took this picture! I love it!!! We had lots of fun today! We did lots. This is Hayden at the ice skating rink. I didn't get skates on him but he did go on the ice with his boots. I had him all bundled up for the first time in everything! He did good. Brandon went on some Kitty Kats that you can rent, boy did someone get jealous. He told Papa "My Turn" about a thousand times and looked over where they were sitting. Broke our heart! Papa did let him sit on them! I have pictures that i will upload soon! We went swimming too! and to town. We squeezed a little Elmo in too so Mom could take a little rest! It was sad that our fav restaurant in town was closed. Its called the Barn. If you are ever in Brainerd go there! They have all homemade pies, great soup, and Maid Rite sandwiches. Yum yum! Even Jason liked them. Well were are off tomorrow to Christmas with the Sandmon's tomorrow. Wish us a good trip home, its just the two of us! Happy New Year too!

Here we are in Brainerd. We are staying at Craguns. We love it here, even in the winter! We brought our little Water Baby swimming right away. He loves the water. He is a natural born swimmer. He slept pretty good too! He kicked Emily out of bed with us in the middle of the night. That's okay by me! Emily, Brandon and I went ice skating last night, and had a lot fun being goofy. I want to get Hayden out on the ice sometime this winter, i was two the first time i skated! Well it's snowing here! Hopefully not too much, but i would really really like to push it over to Superior. We need snow at home! Have a great day and fabulous weekend.