Warmer Weather=Outdoor Fun

We have been enjoying many more frequent sunny warm days lately.  We have finally gotten to 70 a few times and even close to 80 a couple of times.  We still have some cloudy, windy days here and there but when it is sunny we get outside as much as we can!  Yesterday Matt played golf with some friends here in town, so Hayden and I made a trip to the park.  Once we were done there we headed to Green's Nursery here in Mountain Home and bought some strawberry and tomato plants.  After we brought them home Hayden played in his pool while I was planting.  THe strawberry plants already have a few baby green strawberries on them, and the tomato plant has three green tomatoes, so hopefully we should start to have some good fruit in about two weeks!

Here Hayden is showing off the new strawberry plants:

Weekend Happenings

Today we took a family trip down to Hagerman, Id, about an hour away.  There is a resort there that has an indoor pool fed by a natural hot spring.  There was a kiddie pool, slide and diving boards.  Best feature- the warm water!  It was a fun way to spend an afternoon and I recommend it to anyone n the area, especially with kids. 

For some reason Hayden didn't like how loudly the diving board banged when people jumped off.  It really was not that loud:

Here he is playing catch with Matt:

Preparing to catch the ball:

Outside of the pool building was a deck area along the snake river.  There were a few small waterfalls along the way, so we stopped to enjoy the scenery and take some pictures.

Testing the water temperature- it was chilly!

Hayden wanted to show off his baby sister for the camera.

He found a hole in the deck to look through:

After the hot springs we stopped by near-by Malad Gorge State Park.  I had been there with my family this summer but Matt had yet to see it.  It was chilly and windy so we stopped just long enough to look and take a couple of pictures and then move on.  Hayden is not enthusiastic about pictures with us lately; here is one of Matt trying to convince him to smile and Hayden refusing emphatically:

Once home we had ice cream cones in the back yard.  It was almost too chilly for it, but something about an afternoon swimming makes me want ice cream:)

Earlier while at the park I took a quick video of Hayden and Matt doing Hayden's favorite activity- running!

Easter 2011

We had a really nice Easter this year.  The festivities started on Saturday morning with the egg coloring.  We colored two dozen eggs and then finished them off with stickers.  Hayden really enjoyed it but later discovered that do not taste nearly as good as he was expecting.

Not sure what was going on in this next picture but since Matt was behind the camera there's no telling:

Sunday morning we did Easter baskets as soon as Hayden woke up and we were able to drag Matt our of bed 30 minutes later.  I put together an Easter basket for Matt as well, just for fun, and hid them both in the drier for them to find.  I think Matt was anxious for Hayden to hurry up and find them so he could dig in!  He ate is entire caramel-filled milk chocolate bunny in one sitting.  With a glass of coke.  Needless to say he was not feeling very well a few minutes later.

Nothing like capturing some good-morning faces on camera!

Videos to come later...

Golf and More Golf!

Last week Matt bought Hayden his first "real" golf club from Golf Galaxy.  They wasted no time putting it to good use; that afternoon Matt took Hayden to the driving range to use it for the first time and Hayden spent almost all weekend in the back yard practicing his swing.  He even ended up with some pretty bad blisters on his thumb and index finger.  After a few days' break, though, he is back in action!  It will be interesting to if his enthusiasm continues.

Here is Hayden with his "coach" in the back yard.

Anniversary

March 11 of this year marked 5 years since Matt and I said "I do."  Our actual anniversary weekend turned out to be busy and since Matt's mom was coming for a visit at the end of March we decided to wait until she was here to celebrate.  We finally got to go out this past Friday.  We went to Cottonwood Grille in Boise and had a fabulous dinner.  I would highly recommend it to anyone who lives in the area.  We were lucky enough to have beautiful weather that day so we sat on the patio and saw the sunset while we were eating.  They were not really seating anyone out there after we arrived so we pretty much had it to ourselves.  A very nice time indeed!  A big thanks to Nancy for letting us get away while she was here.

We took only one picture that evening.  I was almost 26 weeks pregnant that day.   

Trucks!

Today Matt took Hayden to his first Monster Truck show.  Hayden has loved monster trucks since he was 9 months old and found one in a consignment shop.  It of course came home with us and has been a  favorite of his ever since, even though all of the stickers are peeling off and it recently lost a wheel.  I was so excited for him to see all the trucks that I was a little jealous that just Matt was taking him, but at the same time I was excited for them to get some Daddy-son time together.

They had pit passes to go early and see all of the trucks.  I figured Hayden would love that and Matt said it was a big hit.  Hayden had fun showing me all of the pictures when they got home and telling me all about them.  

He loved that this one looked like a dinosaur- another favorite thing of his these days:

The main thing that Hayden kept telling me about was the jumping.  The trucks jumped over cars, and then they jumped up high, and then they did a big jump, and then apparently after that they jumped some more.  At the dinner table tonight he actually stopped eating and looked at Matt and exclaimed "Oh, we forgot!" and then looked at me wide-eyed and said excitedly "The trucks jumped up high!"  Needless to say he was very impressed.

I think this next picture is hilarious.  Matt paid $15 for that bag of cotton candy and foam truck hat, (which Hayden took to bed with him tonight).  The purple ear plugs sticking out of his ears add a special touch and the face is just priceless. 

23 Weeks Pics

Matt just took some more belly pics of me this morning.  I will be 23 weeks tomorrow.  I had a check-up last week and everything checked out great.  Still feeling really well, although I am more tired than usual and having to slow my running down a little.  At this point it could really be called jogging, mixed with a little walking, but as long as I can get in some exercise I am happy.  

The baby is moving a lot these days and is now big enough that you can see some of her movements from the outside.  I was watching TV on the couch the other day and had the remote resting on my stomach.  All of a sudden out of nowhere the remote starting bouncing up and down.  It was pretty entertaining to watch. 

Supposedly she hit one pound this past week, which is amazing to me considering how much my tummy has already grown and how much more growing she will be doing!

We are having a hard time coming up with names that we really love, but have a few that we are considering.  Maybe we will take a poll at some point when we have it narrowed down, and we are definitely open to suggestions!