Oh What An Easter

Well this Easter weekend didn't started out not so great. Ben's grandpa passed away on Saturday afternoon, it was and is really hard for Ben. His grandpa was like a dad to their family after his dad died. We were all there when it happened and he went very peacefully. . What a weekend for it to happen on,,, it made the resurrection so more important. The focus at Easter time is always bunnies, baskets, and egg hunts, so it was a much needed refocus on the true meaning of why we celebrate Easter..

Sunday we were at my parents for Easter which also happened to be Jess's birthday and the day before he left for West Virginia.. Ben went home Sunday night and i decided to stay up with Hadley since Ben would be back up today. We've been hanging out with Kyli, grandpa, and grandma while we wait for Ben to come back up... here are a few pictures of our Easter.

leaving for Logan

Visiting with great grandpa and grandma

our family Easter Basket

going to church

me and Hadley on Easter day

Ben and Hadley

Hadley and her Easter Bunny.. she loves it

Hadley's Easter Dress....

Ben and Hadley with matching hair after there naps

Ben's going to kill me for putting this on here but oh well... me and my dad think it's funny

hadley's first Hair cut

Last night we were hanging out at Lisa's while Ben and Brent went to get Ben a fishing pole,, I've been saying for a very long time that Hadley needed a hair cut. Poor little girl has had a mullet since she was a month old but her daddy would not let me cut her hair. he loves her crazy hair, as do i ( well all but the mullet ) Lisa's neighbor Lindy came over to give Lisa her clippers so Lisa could shave Max's hair.. see Lindy does hair and i have asked her a thousand times to cut Hadley's hair but we never do it. i walked down to say hi to her and we were all admiring her little white trash hair when Lindy said she'd go get her scissors.... YEAH!!!!! we joked that if Ben came home she was to run as fast as she could but luckily he didn't get home till after. Lisa, Lindy, and I were sitting on the couch and Hadley was laying on the floor naked when Ben came up.. we were all looking at each other and laughing waiting to see if he'd realize but of course he didn't so Lisa had to clue him in by asking him what Lindy does for a living and then he got it.. he picked her and said that it looked good, lucky me, i wasn't sure how he was going to take it...

thanks again Lindy for cutting it for me...

so big

We FINALLY got our camera so i can get started on taking lots more pictures of little miss Hadley. It seems like she changes everyday and i love watching her grow... She loves to stand up and believe it or not she can do it on her own, for the most part, as long as she has a hand to hold or feels so sort of support she's fine. that's all she ever wants to do is stand. she's doing really good at eating and seems to like all the things we've given her baby food wise and grown up food... her daddy loves to let her taste some of the things hes eating. She's now starting to watch you eat and reaches for it so she can have some too... boring post i know i just have to write this stuff down so i can remember it..

*** i just have to say that Hadley really does get her hair done everyday, i was looking through pictures and in 98% of them she has crazy hair.. but what do you do when the second you put her down after doing her hair she rolls around like crazy person ??? ****

dinner time..

playin with her toys...

i just love her in this one

standing up so big

getting ready for bed.. so this is what she would look like if she had no hair.. Ben thought she looked like a mouse.. obviously she hated it.

Whats going on

nothing much has been going on at the Jensen house. Hadley turned 4 months yahoo!!! i can't believe she's that old, she's growing so fast and changing so much. She had cereal for the first time last week and i thought we'd get a big reaction when she tried it.. nope nothing (she gets that from her dad) but the second night she screamed the second it touched her lips. So i love dinner time needless to say. She loves her hands and ALWAYS has them in her mouth which her dad hates. She's the craziest sleeper, when we get up to get her she is never in the same place as she started and loves to have the blanket over her head. She loves to stand, if her little legs would hold her up all day she'd stand all day, and if she's not standing she has to loves to sit but she has to sit straight up or she gets mad. She gets so excited when she sees her dad and just screeches and has the biggest smile on her face, it's my favorite thing she does....

Our camera finally was released and we got it ordered and it will be here Thursday!!! YEAH I'm so excited it's the coolest thing even though Ben had to buy it in black instead of red like i wanted.. boys...

Moving all the time

So Hadley is moving all the time, she spins herself around and rolls from side to side. She's not a big fan of rolling over, she must be over it cause she first started doing it when she was a month and a half old (thanks Darla) so it must not fun for her anymore. but today she took it to a whole new level. She's a little impatient when i get ready in the mornings, she wants me to hold her so she can look in the mirror but since that doesn't really help me get ready faster i have started laying her on the counter next to me. i promise I'm not a bad mom i watch her and usually am standing in front of her so she can't go anywhere even though she never does. Well today i moved over to grab a brush and to my surprise my little miss decided to try and roll off the counter..... i caught her but it scared the crap out of me, she on the other hand thought it was quite funny and started to laugh. that is her other new thing- laughing. its to funny to hear her laugh... she's getting so big and i love watching her change every day,,, and today in honor of st. Patrick's day i wanted her to wear green, well i don't have a green bow but i do have a green clip so here is Hadley's first half pony tail...... and some just because my babies cute

her last time on the counterher first piggy...
all ready to go shopping
playing with her daddy

crazy smile and hair,,, so happy after her nap

all ready for church.

today we had the maintenance people come to change our filters and then i found out they were putting insulation in our attic so i wanted to to take Hadley out for a walk instead of staying inside with the smell. But oops i left the stroller in the car and Ben had the car and was on his way to Logan for court...But because of Ben's Aunt and uncle we had a lovely box in the garage with this inside......
to bad by the time i got it put together they were done and gone and Hadley needed a nap... i can't wait for it to get warm so we can start using it,,,, We LOVE it.. thanks Paul and Corrine

Lack of camera = Lack of blogging

well it's been about 2 weeks and we are still without a camera. I think Ben finally got i last night when Hadley was smiling and talking like crazy and we didn't have a camera to capture it. Although the video is now working again on the camera the pictures still go red. So Ben spent the better part of yesterday and last night finding us one. I really like the one he picked the only bad things is that it's new and hasn't come out yet and doesn't tell you a specific release date it just says March of 2009... so lets hope that it comes quickly.. but here's the last pictures and a new video i got before our power shot died...

Hadley at 3 months

and this is what my camera does when i take pictures

Hadley is making noises like crazy if she's awake she's making noises.. i can't believe she's almost 4 months old.. she's so much fun and we love her very much

Hadley's Blessing

This past weekend we headed up north to Bless Hadley... We decided to do it in m parents ward so Ben's grandpa could be there, it was awesome!!! Ben did a great job, he gave the sweetest blessing to our little peanut..(even with Hadley screaming) she's a lucky girl to have a daddy that loves her like Ben does. We are so blessed to have this sweet little girl in our family, she has made our lives so much better... Thank you to all the family that came...... and a very BIG thank you to my mom and Lisa for all there help with the food and set up. I'm taking pictures from Lisa's blog cause she was the official photographer since 3 days before my camera decided to die on me.. i will add more later after Lisa's sends them to me

Hadley Marie

My little Family

all the men and Hadley

sisters... miss you Casi

oh the faces... thanks again Jena and Derek for driving all the way up

Max with the food

time to eat...

The Miracle of Sleep

My little miss Hadley started out life such a great sleeper.. by 6 weeks old she was sleeping through the night and out of our room... well then something happen and my sweet baby turned into a monster.. She started not falling asleep till 3 or staying up till 4-5 or waking up at 5 after falling asleep at 2 and not going back to bed.. Every time we went anywhere she would be up crying,, (sorry Jena and Derek).... she was exhausted and her mom and dad were exhausted..

Well the last few weeks my good little girl is back. we've been going to bed every night at the same time and she has gone from waking up 3 times a night down to 1 and sleeping in till 8 or 9.. even though she is back in our room her mommy so very happy, since sleep is one of the big issues with my epilepsy..

i just want to say thanks to Ben,,, he is the best Husband any girl could ask for. he's right there every night willing to do anything and stay up however long i need him to even though he has to get up and go to work..

So cross your fingers that Hadley keeps on this schedule or we won't be going anywhere ever again.

not Much Going On

Well we haven't had much going on other then playing at home and going to Logan and St. George which Hadley is now grounded from doing... Sorry family she won't be coming to visit you any time soon. she's still not feeling well from all the traveling and now is a terrible sleeper. that makes her mommy and daddy very frustrated and makes her Mommy very exhausted..but we love her anyways. So here are a few pictures from the last few weeks..

first Hadley got her 2 months shots.. she did great and then invented the walk the pony game which she now loves

this as after her shots.. she was a little out of it

in her tunnel that she loves... the bird is her favorite

Hadley with her Great Grandpa.. oh how she loves him

chillin on the floor

daddy was trying to get her to smile... this is all we got

i love her big blue eyes....

Hadley has a love hate relationship with blankets. 9 times out of 10 she kicks all her blankets off but this day she loved it so much she covered her whole body and fell asleep

my daughter is not an accessories baby.. she hates bow and apparently leggins too... to bad she has to wear them anyways

her hair is getting so long.. so we tried a clip today and even got a little pig tail the other day...