Reminds me of the Good Old Days

What did we do today? We built a fort, that's what we did today!

It started out pretty simple with a couple couch cushions and some pillows thrown in, but that could only entertain for a second or two. That's when Carl made it into a work of art. Take a look:
Here is the Fort from the outside. That white fluffy thing was the scary bear that kept trying to eat us.


It came equipped with sleeping quarters and everything. Hayden called dibs.


Basically, it was the coolest fort ever. And somehow the scary bear found it's way inside.


It was fun to be kids again. I love playing with my little family and creating memories. Happy Sunday!

It's That POOP Again!

I never thought this day would come.

It all happened so fast and I didn't know what was going on because I have never had to deal with this before. Let me explain...

Hayden has had a rough couple of weeks with more teething and being sick, so she has been super grumpy and not eating well. Well, yesterday and today she has been feeling a lot better and starting to eat normal, so lunch was going pretty well, until she threw her spoon full of spaghetti and meat sauce at me. She even hit Ella with the food, as soon below (look closely at her shoulder)


But all throwing of food aside, she did pretty well and ate all her food, but she did manage to get a lot on herself as well. I then had the brilliant idea of putting her in the bath tub to clean her off and I thought it would be fun for her to just play in the tub for a bit while I sat in the bathroom with her and fiddled on the computer.
Not even two minutes into the fun, I hear the all too familiar sound of a little girl grunting with all her might and I turn around just in time to see POOP FLOATING AWAY FROM HAYDEN! It finally happened.

I experienced my first poop in the bath tub today.

So, I grab Hayden out of the tub and immediately start draining and throwing all her toys on the floor and in my haste to clean the tub, I left Hayden out to air dry. Big mistake. Big. HUGE! Once again, as I'm cleaning, I hear the all too familiar sound of grunting coming from my silly little girl and once again I turn around just in time to see Hayden POOPING IN THE HALLWAY!

Wait, it gets better.

I run and clean that poop up. In the meantime, Hayden is walking back and forth from the bathroom to the guest room and leaving a little trail of pee/bathwater everywhere she goes. I finally get the tub cleaned out and get it ready to finish her bath, so I go to get Hayden and guess what I found? Two more little turds in the guest room!

I don't know how she had that much poop, but she did. Sometimes I really wonder if Hayden does these things on purpose because she thinks it would be funny to see Mommy running around acting like a crazy person.

No, not my little angel, she would never do anything on purpose like poop in the tub and on the floor, or throw food at me, or slap me in the face....should I go on?

Anyway, I tried to look on the bright side and thought, hey, at least I saved a diaper, right?

I was basically exhausted after that, as seen below:

Don't I look good? No, don't answer that. I look like.....well....POOP! Not only had I just cleaned up a bunch of poop, but I have been doing this for the last two days:


Yes, that is me sneezing and it sucks. My allergies have been really bad and I want to rip my nose off my face.

All in all, it was a VERY funny experience today and one I'm sure every parent has been through and can laugh about.

Just so you know, the day went a lot smoother once I put her diaper back on.

The things we do for our kids.
Gotta love 'em!

When it's nice outside....

...get out of the house!

Hayden and I went on a fun adventure through the campus of BYU today. Why did we go on a fun adventure at BYU? To see Daddy, of course!

We started at the duck pond on the south side of campus and saw lots of ducks and turtles and Hayden liked pointing at them. Some of the turtles were even being naughty in public, but I won't put a picture of that.




Hayden even enjoyed chasing the ducks, but I think this particular duck liked it.

Then we made our trek up the long staircase and across campus.

In front of the library.

detoured to a water puddle.

In front of the ASB...almost there! And yes, Hayden is holding some flower petals that I didn't realize she had picked until it was too late. Oops.

And finally, we found Daddy!


What a fun little adventure. We walked back the same way and visited the ducks one last time before heading home. It's so nice to be able to get out of the house on a beautiful day and visit our favorite person. We love you, Daddy!

Everybody's Doing It

But I really wish I hadn't! Here is what Hayden SHOULD look like, apparently, and the bottom one is what our boy will look like. Hmmmmmm, I'm glad Hayden turned out the way she did.....

What do you think about my little new baby Sally Sue?
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Ahhhh, Hawaii....

What a wonderful time. Thank you so much, Mom and Dad McCain, for taking us on a fantastic trip. We loved being with you two and watching you play with Hayden. She finally got some one on one time! :) Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Since we had such a great time, that means I took a million pictures. I have decided to do mosaics out of each day and event that happened, so that way it is easy to read this beast of a post...hopefully.

This was our first plane experience with Hayden and boy, was it an experience. We probably should have started by going somewhere closer than half way across the ocean, but oh well, we made it and survived. Overall, Hayden did pretty well. She had her moments, but luckily we had very nice people around us to entertain her and a nice couple that even offered to hold her every once in a while when she was fussy. They saved our sanity! We love you, nice couple! The trip back was easy breezy, since it was a red eye, Hayden slept the whole time. Awesome.

Thanks to Mom and Dad McCain, we were hooked up in the nicest suite we have ever stayed in! We lived in luxury for a week and loved it.

The first day we were there we basically got the lay of the land. Carl and I went swimming while Hayden napped(at 9 in the morning, since we woke up at about 5:30 a.m everyday do to the time change). The pool was beautiful. We even got burned being out there for a short time that early. When Hayden woke up, Mom and Dad had a time share meeting to attend while Carl and I plus Hayden took off down to Kona to rent some snorkeling gear and walk around the beautiful town. Then it was back to the hotel for more swimming with the baby. Good times.

Next day: Off to the Hilton Lagoon for some fun in the sun and snorkeling. This place is amazing. We were swimming with fish, sea turtles and Manta rays! They had a dolphin lagoon too! Loved it! Hayden played with Gma and Gpa on the beach while we snorkeled. Beautiful!

The next day was a traveling day to see waterfalls and the Botanical Gardens over in Hilo, about 2 hours from our resort. First, a quick stop to try some malasadas, which our a famous, traditional treat in Hawaii. They are like donuts, and we all know how much I love donuts. Then off to the waterfalls. Wow, these waterfalls were breath taking. We saw Umauma Falls, Akaka Falls, Kahuna Falls, Onomea Falls and Rainbow Falls. It is said to be good luck to visit 3 waterfalls in one day, so I think we did alright. :) The Botanical Gardens had such amazing flowers and trees. It was so beautiful.

The next day, Gma decided that it would be mine and Carl's to do what we would like and she would watch Hayden. So we headed down the shoreline to Captain Cook Bay, a popular snorkeling beach that was supposed to be amazing, and AMAZING it was. Once we got there, people were asking us if we wanted to rent a kayak because all the good snorkeling was on the other side of the bay and the only way there was by kayak or hiking a few hours.
After thinking about it, we chose to kayak and I am so glad we did. The water was crystal clear and beautiful and when we got to the deep part it was super blue! About half way to the beach we heard some other kayakers yell out "whale!!" and sure enough we looked out to sea in time to see a whale breaking surface!!! A freaking whale, about 100 yards from us. It made its final dive and its tail came up and that was it, I knew it was the best day ever, and we hadn't even snorkeled yet. Needless to say, the snorkeling was absolutely beautiful. Crystal clear water with a million different fish. We took a break for a little bit and walked along the beach and guess what we saw? The whale was back!! We saw it again and it was marvelous. We decided we were done snorkeling, actually, the water was a little too cold for me, but I would have loved to do a little more, but anyway, we got back in the kayak and started back to the dock and about halfway there guess what we saw? About 7 spinner dolphins! They even jumped out of the water and did spins for us. They came as close as 10 feet from our kayak. So yes, pretty much the best day ever.

The next day was another traveling day to go up north. We saw a famous statue of Kamehameha, a King and Hawaiian hero, and drove to the end of the road that led to beautiful cliffs with waterfalls that fed into the ocean. We ate at a popular restaurant called Bamboo and made our way back down the shoreline to stop at a beach. Awesome. Gma and Gpa played in the sand while Carl, Hayden and I went swimming. It was lovely:) That evening, Gma, Hayden and I went to see some Hula girls do some hula dancing. It was really fun.

Our resort is surrounded by lava flats so on the road between the airport and our resort you see a lot of lava with graffiti, but it's a different kind of graffiti. People get white rocks to write their messages on the black lava. I think it is cool, so I took pictures.

Basically, it was an amazing trip and one I would do again in a heart beat. Again, thank you Mom and Dad for this experience. We love you and can't wait to see you again!