Fall Pictures

It's finally starting to feel like fall around here since it's cooling off. I decided to take Hayden out to the garden bench and take a few pictures. On the way we got to see a 3 foot snake skin hanging on the railroad tie wall. It's always fun to get a little reminder of the large black creature that is lurking in my garden and living in the wall! No pictures of that though....out of sight out of mind.
Hayden makes this face a lot and I finally got a good picture of it. She lengthens her neck and breathes in hard while she makes the face. It cracks me up.

She has some great fall clothes, I am kind of excited that the weather is getting cooler.

She does have a mini bouquet of flowers in her hand...that she's crushing!

Yes, she still has that crazy big toe.

Snack Time

Hayden has started to sit in her chair for snack time. Today's afternoon snack was low sodium ritz and whole milk.

Hunting?!

Daddy has been sewing a new tree "nest" for his tree lounge deer stand. He and Hayden just had to test it out before the weekend. So, we dressed Hayden in her camos that Gram and Pap got her and headed out to the "woods" (our front yard!). We had to put her pink boots on for a little "flare".

"Look how high we are mommy!". Not really, mommy is just on the dirty ground taking this picture!

My Little Chair

This is what Jeremy and I got Hayden for her birthday and it's finally arrived! We think she likes it.

She has found out that her chair is a great stepping stool in order to get onto the couch!

Another present from Gram and Pap came today! Sorry Sep....this is the thing I was trying to describe to you so that you could get it for her! You can cross that off the list. Back to the present drawing board for you...

Last night Hayden did this all on her own! What a crazy girl.

Good Morning Elmo!

Just passing through!

I think she's saying, "I saw Pappy doing this yesterday...How does this thing work?!"

More presents from Gram and Pap!! The UPS man came with two big packages for the Birthday girl today. The polar bear that she has in her hands really "growls" and Hayden growls back!
Grand and Pap also got her another 2 in 1 learning station. This one has a door though and it's inside and outside!

Here she is opening and closing the window.

She's also learned how to open and close the door.
She's even brave enough to crawl through! These new toys are awesome.

Thanks Gram and Pap!

Birthday Cake

Here's some video of Hayden "diggin into" her butterfly birthday cake on Saturday. She wasn't as messy with it as we thought she would be.

Hanging Out with the Grandparents

Hayden, Gram, and Pap had a great time playing with all of the new birthday toys yesterday.

Gram and Pop flew in from Pittsburgh on Friday night....just for the little princess' party! They were such a help throughout the weekend-we couldn't have done it as smoothly without them! Thank you so much, Gram and Pop, for everything that you did this weekend. We love you both

Just laying around.
Here they are reading one of the new books that Hayden got for her birthday.
This is the 2 in 1 learning center that Pappy got Hayden. She really love it. Pappy drove in from Florida on Thursday night after work. He was also a big help this weekend. Thanks so much for everything you did Pappy! We love you.

Here's Pappy trying to figure out how the light "knows" to turn on automatically.

More Party Pictures!

Here are some of the pictures that Pop Ross took yesterday at the party.

Here's the food table all set up nice and pretty. I'm so glad that someone thought to take a picture of it since I totally forgot.

Grandma Ross got all of the balloons for the party. There were balloons everywhere! They looked awesome.

Pre-party picture.
Here are some of Jeremy's family enjoying their cake and ice cream on the back porch. The house was packed!
Danielle and Grace enjoying their cake.
The three amigos. Charece (8 months), Hayden, and Hannah (1 year) having fun on the floor. Hayden is trying to put her hair barrette back in.

Party Time!

The morning was filled with cleaning, preparing food, landscaping, buying treat bag supplies and so much more! My mom and step dad came over around 7:30 this morning and we were busy little bees right up until the party started. We had so much fun getting ready for the big celebration though! Here we are stopping for a quick picture.

One of the cookie bouquets.

The fondant flower cake. It was strawberry cake with an almond flavored fondant icing. The butterfly and bee were a last minute touch. This was Hayden's mini butterfly cake. The body is a twinkie! The wings are made out of strawberry cake.
Here's the other cake. It was funfetti cake with the almond flavored fondant. People really seemed to enjoy the cake which was good. I was afraid that nobody would like the butterfly fondant cake.
The birthday girlie enjoying her little cake.

Icing face
She got so many toys and clothes! We may have to put an addition on the house in order to make room for all of Hayden's stuff!! Pappy Howat got her the 2 in 1 learning kitchen to the right. It's crazy what toy makers think of!
Uncle Johnny sent a special birthday package that arrived just in time for the big day. ELMO!! Now Hayden has her very own Elmo to love.
Here are Hayden's new gardening boots that Gram and Pap got her. She's ready to get busy in the garden now. Another thing they got her was a camo outfit....that does not mean she is ready to go hunting in the woods though. It was for fashion purposes ONLY!
What a long day for such a little girl. Early bed for this sleepy head!

Happy Birthday Hayden Chenayi!

It was a year ago that this beautiful gift from God came into the world and our hearts. We have been so thankful for every single moment this past year. Hayden is such an amazing blessing and we couldn't imagine our lives any other way. Thank you God for the most precious child!

We had a busy day today! First we went to the pediatrician for the 1 year check up. And Hayden got 3 shots!! She also got a teddy bear from the doctor (pictured below). Then we went out to eat with Granpa Howat. Next we went to Toys R Us with grandpa. We picked out a great present for her! Then grandpa and grandma Ross came over to give her a few gifts. Next it was off to Bible study and finally time for the beauty sleep in order to rest up for the big party tomorrow!!

Falling....

Helping Daddy....again

Flower Power

Today was flower cookie day....as you can see. These are for Hayden's party on Saturday. They weren't too hard to make, just time consuming. We are going to create little cookie bouquets with these flowers. EVERYONE will be taking some cookies home when they leave the party.

Cutie Pie

Hayden has become quite the climber! She has found out how to go from one couch to the other without even putting her feet on the ground. We'll have to get some video of it for you. Here she is stopping for a quick picture before she shoot back over to the other couch!

This is one of the jumpers that Grandma bought her when we went fall shopping a few weeks ago.

Froggie Fun

Here's the little princes having some fun on our bed after a nice warm bath with mommy. Hayden has had a little cold since Saturday...so she is getting some extra special treatment.