Family

I just wanted to tell my family how much I love them and that I am so happy that I can be with them forever!

Happy 6th Birthday Hayden

We all had such a good time at Haydens birthday party. We ended us going to the Covey Art Center for Dinosaur day. Sixteen kids ended up comming including all of the cousins and friends. I am glad that I had some siblings there to help me with the roudy bunch. Thanks guys. I have great family support from mine and Steves family. Hayden had a blast. He woke up at seven this morning jumping on the bed saying "Its my birthday, its my birthday!" He is so cute. I got up and made him some pancakes for breakfast because that is his favorite thing to eat. He was thrilled. One more year gone and I can't believe that my baby is six. I love you Hayden!

Hayden

Hayden is going to turn 6 in two days. I am so excited for this. He is such a cute little boy and such a blessing to have in my life. I wish I had some baby pictures of him on here but I will post a few of him in the last couple of years. I will also tell you a little bit about his short little life and mine with him. I found out I was pregnant with Hayden while I was in Yellowstone National Park. I didn't take a pregnancy test but had a feeling that I was expecting. I always had the feeling that he was a boy and was very happy when I got the confirmation. Steve and I went back and forth between the names Garrett and Hayden but of course Hayden won out. My pregnancy with him was a very easy one. I tried to keep myself healthy and limited myself to gaining 23 pounds, a lot better than with he first pregnancy. His birth was also very easy. When I say easy I mean as easy a birth could be expected to be. It lasted four and a half hours from the first contraction to the time he came out. Of course I had an epidural but It didn't start working until I was about to push him out so I always think that I pretty much had natural labor except I didn't have to feel the pushing pains which I am very grateful for. He looked exactly like his dad and his grandpa Groneman because like all babies he looked like an old man. He was a great baby. Very mild and easy to deal with. He slept a lot better than his sister had and he had to learn to self sooth because his sister was a very demanding toddler. I was very happy to have a mild baby considering Carly was a very demanding little thing. Hayden was a very quiet little toddler also. I would forget that he was downstairs playing because he was so quiet and would run down in fear that something had happened to him just to find him quietly looking at a book or playing with toys. He loves school and loves life and we love him. Happy birthday Hayden!

Paintings

For those of you who did'nt get to see the painting that my mom painted for me for Christmas here it is. I love it she has turned into such a good artist I am very proud of her. I wish that I had some of her artistic abilities.

Well I think that we are all finally getting over the terrible colds that we have all had. We have all missed days off work and school and now we are finally recovering. Poor Hayden had it the worst I think. He was running a fever of 104 for a couple of days but he is much better now. I am happy to have made it through another holiday at school. I love being at the school with my kids and being able to help out in their classes when they get to do all of their fun parties. It means a lot to me and I know it means ever more to them. Here are some pictures of their CHRISTmas parties at school.

Well we got rid of our dog. I had to do it she was driving me crazy. None of us had the time or patience to spend the time with her that she deserved so I knew she needed to go somewhere that they could give her a lot of attention. She was a sweet dog but just really wild. I ended up taking her to the humaine society in November. I thought it would be easy but I cried the whole time. My step dad went with me to take her and he just looked at me in shock because I cried so much. He was like why are you getting rid of her if you cared about her so much. The sad thing is I didnt really have a good answer for him. I think I just felt like I failed her and you do get attatched to something after you take care of it for a year. I learned my lesson and I will never get another dog and cats are out of the question because I hate them. I guess my poor kids won't have any pets but o well.

Hayden is also doing great. He is so cute but he is also a little stinker right now. He loves to argue with me and I am scared what he is going to be like as a teenager considering how he is now. I love him to pieces and am so proud of him. He is doing great in school. He is was ahead of the other kids in his class and is already ready pretty well. He has always enjoyed learning and it just seems to come naturally to him. He love to hang out with his friends and play the Wii. Santa brought him Lego Star wars for christmas and he would play it all day if I let him. I had to limit his time to one hour every day so that he would actually do something else with his life. I am so proud of both of my kids and I am so grateful for them in my life. I can't immagine my life any other way.

Ok well I am not the best blogger, as you can tell by how much I update mine but I thought I would for the few people who actually read it. We are all doing considerably well. Carly has a cold right now but we are doing fine. I am still working at the school, which I love and it is going really well. Hopefully I will be able to work there next year also. Its kind of scary right now with all the cuts they are making on education I won't know until the beginning of next year. Its nice to finally work at a place where I don't always have to hear the rude comments about being LDS and where everyone just leads a different lifestyle than I do. Carly is doing really well in school. She is a great reader and we were also able to sign her up for voice lessons and ballroom dancing lessons. We are getting the voice lessons for really cheap from a lady in our ward and the ballroom dance is an after school program so it is also a great price. She loves them both and I am glad that I can provide her with these opportunities. I want her to experience things that I wasnt able to experience when I was a kid.