Picture Website Finally Updated

YESSS!!! It took a week but I finally updated SmugMug with pictures from Hayden's birthday. Sorry it took so long.

So click over on the right for SmugMug and look in the January 09 folder.

And as an added bonus, take a sneak peak at my new baby..

Busy January

Judging by this picture, doesn't everything look peaceful at the Masters? I have actually named this picture "A Quiet Moment", because it was.... just a moment....

The first of the year always seems to catch me off guard!

Just when you feel you can heave a sigh of relief that the holidays are over, the tree is put away, the house is put back together - somewhat - and the kids are back in school....

You'd think after six years I would remember that my oldest son's birthday is two weeks after New Year's Day! Right now he is perfectly happy with what I manage to throw together at the last minute, but if I don't get my act together, he may figure it out.

Anyway, Hayden's birthday was Wednesday. I woke him up with the iPod playing "Oh, What A Night (December 1963)", one of his favorite songs. I wish I was a tech-y person, I would change the lyrics to "Late January back in 2003!" and make it sound right. He doesn't seem to mind. I brought cupcakes to school for his class. Later he told me that was his favorite part of the day. (Does he know how to work his mom or what?)

For dinner we had leftover spaghetti. Not too exciting right? Oh, you're wrong! Picky Hayden LOVES spaghetti, leftover or not. And cake! He was really excited to get his Eye Clops handheld microscope. A perfect gift for a Young Scientist (as he refers to himself daily). It's a cool little gadget! It's got a light and you simply point it at something you want to see up close and it displays on the screen. It can magnify up to 400x. I haven't had the guts to look at my living room carpet yet.... He loves it.

Yesterday we hosted his birthday party at Chuck E Cheese. Not very fond of Chuck E Cheese, although I must say, it was the first time we had ever been there at 10 AM, and it was not as crowded as it usually is. Like I said, last minute planning landed us there, but again, he didn't seem to mind. He had actually been asking, so now I've got that one out of the way - at least until Brandon asks.

We had 7 of his friends come and join us, plus his brother and sister. They ran around like crazy! I think they all had a pretty good time.

Since I have the family arriving in three hours to give a final happy birthday celebration for Hayden, I'm not sure if I will have time to post the pictures on Smugmug today, but I will try my best. Check back with me if I don't get them up right away. I'm trying so hard to keep up with it all!

Two birthday parties this weekend, and a wedding last night! We were invited to my friend Jamie's wedding. She went to school with Mike and I - and was our drum major in band. She looked beautiful and so happy! We visited with another friend, Jennifer. She is still as lovely as she was so long ago in high school. It was a fun date night for Mike and I - and even better because my sister came to babysit the kids for us. You can't beat a free babysitter, you know?