Weekend of June 25-27th

What a great weekend! I love good full on family weekends when hubby Hayden and I can all 3 just do fun things together and not have a care in the world! I sure do love being a mommy and a wife! We live on a pretty tight schedule and most ppl that know me know that when it is Hayden's bedtime... I ain't playing around. This weekend I decided (with a little help the influences around me chanting for me just to let her stay up and not to worry so much about it) to actually not live by a schedule for once. SO the weekend started Friday morning when Justin gt home from work and got us all pumped up to go swimming. We went to nana and paw paws swimming pool, just the 3 of us, and played. Hayden got to slide and eventually wanted to do it on her own... I know I know, we will no more let her climb the slide and go alone but I really wanted to get it on video and Justin needed to be at the bottom to catch her. Check it out on my facebook page! Saturday we headed over to Jen and Dave's for a cookout with some of the mommies on YCM and afterward we just hung around with them. Justin and Dave get along very well and that is a good thing b/c Jen and I are pretty good friends and Hayden and Connor are like best friends. ;) It is so fun to get them two together. You can just tell they enjoy each others company when they see the other walk in the room they just light up. They are more alike than any two kids I know and I think Jen and I are a lot alike as well. So those influeneces I was talking about, lol, convinced me to stay and hang out after 7:30 (H's bedtime) and Hayden did so good! She just played and played. A neighbor of theirs cam over as well and they have a 4yo daughter so Hayden had someone to play with since Connor had conked out a bit earlier. We decided to sleep without an alarm clock and once we woke up head out on the boat. We got up at 9am Sunday - packed a lunch AND dinner and off we went! Guess what? That meant I was knowingly going out and not coming back in for Hayden's nap! *gasp* Well, it worked out, she slept on the boat :). "See Lin, it is not so bad to let it go for something special" We met Jen Dave and Connor out at the sand bar and a couple other friends. We grilled our very yummy italian chicken right there on the boat and headed back around 7. Hayden was such a trooper and wasn't even whiny.... now tomorrow may be another story but she will get back on schedule and she will be fine! This weekend was so worth letting my hair down and taking in every bit of my wonderful family and my good friends! I love life!

Hello Summer time!! We are in the Carolinas and it is HOTT!!! We have already started enjoying it as much as we can stand it! We go to the pool at Nana and Paw Paw's and swim and Hayden loves it! She wears a life jacket type swimsuit and then has a mini innertube around her and she just jumps right in, kicks her little feet to the ladder, gets out and does it again and again! She is fearless! We like to walk at the park with another mommy and her little girl but it is getting so hot we may have to walk earlier. We were going at 11am and then 10am and now we may have to move it again, lol. We get our walk in and then we let the girls play and they love it too! Today Hayden was so sweaty that she was wet when we got back home. I had even tried walking to the park but there is no way I can do that now unless I went before the sun got up. ha! I have also gotten into a routine of going to the gym for Zumba class. It is a latin hip hop dance class and I love it. I wish I had a membership so I could go whenever and actually work out but this is keeping me active and burning calories. I'd say we like to stay pretty busy! I don't know any other way. I am still cleaning houses and that also keeps me going. Shay is now keeping Hayden in the afternoon while I work at the Insurance Company. I know she loves it. She quit work and is a house wife and watching her grandbaby. :) We all love it. It is very helpful for Justin and I too! We had to go to the beach a couple weeks ago for a wedding that Justin was in, Chad and Angela's, and it was a whole weekend -- We left Hayden here with Shay and we had a good time but I missed her so much! I got some time to lay out and get some sun and we did the wedding stuff then headed home. I drove and Justin got some sleep since he had to be at work that night and I got turned around so many times it wasn't even funny! I was ready to get home to Hayden!!

There is a lot to catch up on but I have not been sleeping well lately and I need to get some rest... it is almost 12am! ugh!