Long Weekend

Hadley and her daddy
Heading to the funeral

dressed up so big

curly hair

We had a very long weekend,, It started before the weekend even started. Ben's grandma passed away Wednesday morning so we headed up there to spend the day with Ben's mom. We went back home that night and then went back up Friday for the Viewing. Saturday was the funeral and it was a sad but happy day. After the funeral we had a good lunch and then hung out with all of Ben's family at his mom's house. His Aunt and Cousin's from Seattle came down and it's always good to visit with them cause we don't see them very often.. Sunday we went to church with my family and then headed up to Richmond to watch the super bowl with Ben's friends, I'm not a big football person but i look forward to this party every year.. I love getting together and hanging out and eating way to much food... It nice to be home and have a little down time..

On a side note Hadley has decided she's done crawling and is now walking all over the place.. she's been working on it for about two weeks but really got the hang of it this weekend.. I guess she just needed an audience to show her skills to to make her realize walking is a good thing..

nothing to blog about..

nothing really has been going on at our house... Which i actually have loved...We haven't traveled anywhere in the last two weeks and that's a miracle... Hadley's been walking like crazy but will only do it when she wants to, she loves to push her baby in her shopping cart all day long.. We're back to the teething unhappy baby i know and not so much love but hopefully it'll be over soon.
Ben hurt his back on Friday and pretty much couldn't move Saturday and Sunday. he's doing better but looks like we'll be heading to his surgeon again sometime soon,, cross your fingers that we don't have to fuse his back this soon...pic's soon i promise.

Hadley Boo Bear

My little Hadley isn't so little anymore and it makes me sad. Every day she does something new and says something new. (thank you Barney). She loves books and loves music, that's what we do all day, sing and read. The girl eats everything and i mean everything. She eats her dinner and then wants whatever we have.. i can't believe she's this big..

some of the things about Hadley right now

• she loves all food except eggs
• she loves to be out side
• she loves music
• she always wants her dad
• she still won't walk unless she's pushing her shopping cart
• her favorite thing to do right now is take the lid from a water bottle and put it on and off

the words she can say:

• hi
• bye
• whats that
• dad
• open
• shut
• elephant (yep thank you Barney)
• all done
• yes
• cup
• yuck
• ouch
• hot
• sock

I know there's more but i can't think of them right now..now if i could get her to say mom and to walk on her own we'd be good...

How i love my Hadley

Merry New Years!!!

Another Year has come and gone,, SO CRAZY!!! It's been the best year, having Hadley in our lives has made everything better.. She's getting so big and i can't wait to see how she changes and what will come this year.. For New Years we were suppose to head down to St. George but due to some,,,, we'll say technical difficulties we ended up staying home New years eve and going to temple square and then out to dinner with all of Ben's family who were all down for New years.. New Years day we drove down to St. George to hang with Jena, Derek, and Kamdyn.. we had lots of fun and it was good to get out and go some where other then Logan,.. lots of food, lots of fun, and LOTS of Glee!!!!!

first time at Temple Square. She was done 5 minutes after we got there
We finally found Daddy and Hadley wouldn't let him go

my family

my favorite temple

the lights

She woke up just in time for Wendy's.. YEAH.

using the strap of the camera as a necklace, she's crazy

Ben and Jena got into a little "discussion" about mom's and dad's.. i was peeing my pants

getting HEATED!!! pretty sure some bad words came from Jena.. really.. peeing my pants

we used the curling iron to flip out Hadley's hair. she hated it.... to bad,, with all that hair we have to do something..

So the girl that takes Hadley's photo's is doing a contest for a free session and free 11X14 if we get the most votes.. all you have to do to help us win is go to her website

http://simplybephoto.com/wordpress/

and leave a comment with the the numbers of the photo's you like best (Hadley's numbers are 41 and 58) help me win!!!! I love that past year i was able to get hadley's pictures done 2 by her she does AWESEOME!!!!!

Santa Claus Came to Town..

I can't believe Christmas has come and gone. Christmas is so much better with kids, even though Hadley doesn't understand whats going on we got a few excited reactions when she saw a few of her presents.... Our Christmas break started out with a visit from Aunt Kyli YEAH!!!! Kyli came down Monday and hung out with us till we went home Christmas Eve. We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas morning at my parents and then Christmas day at Ben's mom's... We have the best families and are so lucky to be able to spend time with them... Saturday before heading home i got to go to lunch with friends from High School... So much fun and few of them i haven't seen in forever...I can't wait till next year and now on to New Years!!!! Hope everyone had as great of a Christmas as we did!!!!!!

Our Special Visitor

Going up to Logan

Me and Kyli

Christmas Eve stories and presents..

Gotta love Christmas Eve Jammie's

I'm SO SO SO Excited for Santa to come,,, Not really she was just playin with her dad

grandma's tree

The Jensen Family Stockings

Hadley's stocking

new movies

Grandma's new sign

ITS CHRISTMAS ITS CHRISTMAS DAD

KYLI SANTA CAME

RISE AND SHINE JESS

WAKE UP PAPA

BEST present ever,, thanks grandma and grandpa

OOOOHHHH Ribbon,,, we love Kyli

The Jensen Clan

opening presents round 2

Ben and Grandma Smith

always with the candy

lunch with my girls from High school.. So fun!! we need to do it more often (Sorry Holly you left before we took the pictures)

finally going home and loving my Christmas toys

Happy Christmas

Love the Jensen's

Oh how i love this

This is one of the best parts of my day.. I love seeing Ben with Hadley and i love that she loves to read so when you put those two things together there really isn't anything better...

My Favorite sound

i just have to remember this cause i love it.. today after getting Hadley up from her morning nap i walked into my room and waited for her to follow so i could get her dresses, she wasn't coming so i yelled to her to see if she was in her room or the hallway, then what do i hear....

DAD DAD DAD DAD

she was sitting at the top of the stairs yelling down to see if Ben was there.. I love it!!! I love that she loves her dad and gets so excited when she sees him and that she has to call her him whenever she can't see him to make sure he's around
now if she'd just learn to say mom all would be right with the world...

Thankful for..

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite Holidays,,, i LOVE the food and this year we had 2 thanksgiving dinners... well more like a late lunch and a late dinner.... We stayed in Preston with Ben's mom and had our first Thanksgiving feast with Ben's family and then headed to my parents for our late 2ND feast... i love being there with my family... Every year at my parents before we eat we always say what we are thankful for but i guess this year we got a little sidetracked till my sweetest most tender hearted little Max said that we should go around the table and say what we were thankful for.. How i love my nephew (and nieces) and I'm glad that i live close to them to see them...

i don't have any pictures from the Jensen dinner cause the Jensen's (boys)don't like to take pictures,,, i know i know what party poopers!!! but we love them anyways

on our way up,,, she loves her blanket
Hadley and her 2 favorite guys

the old married couple.. Lisa and Brent

cousins reading books
making rolls... yummy rolls
cute conli
my little family
the whole gang eating