WEEKEND!

It was such an awesome weekend!

I would love to  tell you about it, but Hayden ripped our space bar and it takes forever to type!
We will need to get this fixed ASAP!

Sorry!

ps: Whoever reads this, Pray for Hayden, his teeth are bothering him big time! I have a feeling that this might be a long night!   

I Wish...

the the laundry, cleaning and packing would do themselves! If that makes any sense!

We are getting ready for a weekend away. We are to the Grand Forks for the weekend with my Friesen Family! I am so excited! We have been saving our money for the last 3 months or so, and I cannot wait to go shopping for myself! Finally I get to buy some clothes, and not just diapers, and formula! :)

I will NOT forget my camera, like I did last weekend!

I love going on these little trips, when you have a child, the packing and laundry and things you need to remember to bring can be so TIRING and STRESSFUL! But at the same time, it is so much fun! Go figure that out!

We are leaving early tomorrow morning because from our house it is a 4 hour and 48 mintue drive! JOY!

We are packing a picnic lunch and planning to find a park on the way and have a picnic, and give Hayden some time to stretch his legs. I hope he does good, he usually does do good on long car drives, but this will be the longest we go with him. Well, we went last year, but he was 2 months old, and he slept the whole way! This time I think will be a little different.

Some of my items that I will be looking for this weekend is:

Summer dresses

A bag/purse, I want one big enough to put Hayden's stuff in as well, I am getting kinda tired of carrying a diaper bag AND a purse around.

Jean Jacket, I have a dress that I think would look really nice with a jean jacket.

Shoes, and sandals!

and other things that are just nessescities!

Adrian is getting some dress shirts, and pants, and a sweater!! He isn't really into the whole shopping thing, he can't wait to sit around, watch hockey, soak in the hot tub! Oh, he is also getting a set of weights! He has been working out lately, like running, walking, and biking, now he just needs weights to build his muscles! I love his dedication!

Hayden doesn't really need anything, he has so much clothes and toys, it is INSANE!

But I think I will get him a new summer hat, his old one is a little to small, and maybe some new slippers. He has a couple of pairs of slippers, but they are to big, he doesn't have any for the size he is now, so we will get him a pair, then maybe if I find something cute!

And that is about it!

I should really get back to packing and laundry! BLAH!

But it NEEDS to be done!

I will keep you posted, pictures to come! :)

this is an old picture of Adrian, but this is ONE of his many excited faces! I couldn't resist! I love you Adrian! :)

Baby Fever! Uh Oh!

Today while Hayden was napping (which is a very RARE moment, he NEVER naps) I decided to look at some old pictures, lately I have been having BABY FEVER, which after Hayden's birth I thought I would never have! TRAUMATIZING!  But lately I have been thinking about newborns, and how sweet it would be to hold a newborn again, and have a baby in the house. Hayden hardly seems like a "baby" anymore. He is getting more independant, and is growing like a WEED! It is crazy, how I wish the I had the time back! I thought that the pictures would maybe take baby off my brain! But it didn't! Here are a couple of my favorites!

He would always sleep like this!

I would go into his room and just watch him, it was so peaceful! Now when I try to do that, he hears me and shoots up and wants to play! Crazy kid! :)

When he was teething, he loved to suck and chew on Adrian's nose! Kinda gross, but cute!

Daddy reading Hayden a book, this was the first time where he actually paid attention, and looked at the pictures!

So peaceful!

I miss his newborn cry!

Little Gentleman!

I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY miss the days where I could just cuddle him, or he would fall asleep in my arms, or he needed me all the time (of course he still needs me, but he is getting more independent!) Don't get me wrong I love the stage he is now, but I wish I had a baby in the house again.

When I graduated everyone around me, well not everyone but the majority was going to school to get thier "dream" career. I was never like that, sure I still went to school and got a Certificate for a career. But it was never something that I desired, my desire was to be a stay home mom and have a ton of kids running around in the house. My dream was to have supper ready for when my hubby came home. My dream was to have a clean, well decorated home. My dream was to change diapers. My dream was to do 10000 loads of laundry a day. My dream was to help my children with thier homework and go to Parent/teacher interviews. I know it is NOT for everyone, but honestly I can say now for the first time in my life this is what I have always wanted and I feel that I am finally at the place where God has wanted me to be! 

So, in conclusion, maybe the Baby fever will never go away. Maybe I will become the next Michelle Dugger! :) I HIGHLY doubt that, 19 kids is a little too much!

I will be thankful and blessed with whatever God blesses us!

GRAD WEEKEND!!

This past weekend, my dad gratuated with a BA in Christian studies from Steinbach Bible College! It was a VERY exciting FUN weekend!! I do not have any pictures because I am a dumb ass and forgot my camera at home, which is 2 hours away from my parents house! I am still kicking myself for that!

Seeing my dad up there graduating was kinda weird, not gunna lie! It is not very often that a Child witnesses a parent graduating!

We are very proud of him!!

Thanks Dad for being an example of what hard work is all about! Thanks for being a deep thinker and answering all the questions the best you can when it comes to the Bible! Thanks for being an example of what a Loving, Godly, husband looks like, and for being the example of what kinda man I wanted! And I think I found a pretty awesome man! :) Thank you for being an awesome grandpa to Hayden, he adores you! I can tell how much his eyes light up when he sees you! Thank you for being the man you are, don't EVER change!

I am thankful for the father that I have, even though we have had our shares of up's and down's, I would never ask for another father! Love you Dad!

Yard Ideas!

Adrian decided that instead of hiring someone he is going to be doing the Parging and building th deck himself! I am super proud of him! So far we have started the prepping for the parging, but we cannot do the actual parging until it gets warmer outside! In case you don't know, it is the the cement/stucco that covers up the bottom of the house. Adrian can probably explain it way better, I don't know how to explain it, here is a picture from google:

Make sense?

Anyways, like I mentioned before we are also building our deck! Honestly I am so excited for that! I cannot wait to have an outdoor living area! I found this picture on Pinterest, and the size of this deck is very simliar to what ours will be:





It will be in the back of our house, and there will be stairs going down both ways that way you get to our backyard and our front yard. From our driveway we will have a path leading to those stairs, becasue that will be our main entrance! Make sense? It is kinda hard to explain without pictures! For the trail to the deck we had a couple of ideas:

 This will be the trail going from our driveway to our main entrance. And the trail that will be leading from other steps will be going to the front yard. And this an idea for the other trail, since it won't be used as much as the stone one, we want one that looks kinda rustic and outdoorsy, and not so manicured.



It is made out of wood pallets! And Adrian sells wood pallets at work for only $5! You could also make a foot bridge out of wood pallets, which I would also like too do for our ditch!

 And here are a couple ideas for the railing on the deck:

Sorry the pictures are small, but if I make them bigger then they look stretched out!

For our front yard, we will be planting grass, and around the evergreens we will be puttin this red mulch down.



This is the look we will be going for, ignore the bricks, there is no bricks. The mulch will be flushed with the ground.

I do not know what too do around the evergreen trees, do we just plant grass around them, or should we do some tilling around them and make some sorta of natural edging around them. 



Maybe do something like this, or just grass?

The willow trees are really big and fully grown in, so I am not sure if a manicured edging like this would look good, or would a natural grass look, look better? We will need my dad's expertise for this! He is the KING of landscaping!

For the front of the house we wanna do a front flower/scrub garden. We are also putting stairs in the front as well, although we will not be using that as an entrance. Fire code saids you need stairs there, and it will look nice too. We cannot decide if we will use the cement stairs that came with the house, or if Adrian should build stairs and a nice landing, kinda like a mini deck. But, again that will not be decided until the parging is done. So, for the front we wanna make the flower bed kinda curvy, and not totally aganist the house , here are some of our ideas:







Not totally sure what we will be doing yet, but this might only come next year, because I think you need to wait for the grass to come in, not totally sure, that will be another question for my dad!

  It is alot of work, but honestly it is SO much fun (well, so far it is). I cannot wait to see the finished product, and I will also keep you posted!

Right now my currant project for our yard is this:



I would like to make this for the deck! Hopefully it turns out good!

I also would like Adrian to build this for the back of the shed:

It is made out of wood pallets, and looks pretty easy! Maybe I can even build it myself! HA!

And this would be a nice center piece for our outdoor table!

My uncle Bernie and Auntie Joanne blessed us with thier old patio furniture! Such a blessing, saves us money! Right now it has blue pillows but I found a tutorial on Pintrest on how to make covers for your patio cushions!



Some of my fabric ideas:

Will have too see what Adrian likes and take it from there!

Anyways, I think I am done showing our ideas, and getting our thoughts and ideas organized!

Should be a FUN and BUSY summer! I cannot wait!



Hayden's Little Red Wagon!

Hayden got a new wagon for his birthday from my mom and dad, he loves it! We go for 3-5 walks a day! He will stand by the window and bang on the window, and when the kids across the street are playing I HAVE to take him out or he will and bang on the window trying to get the kids attention. It is really cute! We have a little boy that LOVES the outdoors, and I love that he loves being outside! If it was up to him we would be outside all day!

When we go for a walk Hayden sits in the wagon and he will yap and yap the whole time. Lately, he has been hearing the dogs bark, and he starts doing his own barks which sounds like oopf, oopf! It is so cute!

These pictures are from this evening, Adrian and I worked outside for a little bit, before having a lovely evening hanging out with Ray and LaVissa! :) We are starting to prep our yard for landscaping! I am so excited but that is another topic! We were raking the yard from all the dead leaves and grass from the previous owner, and Adrian gave a stick to Hayden. All of sudden he leans over in his wagon and starts making raking motions with his stick! It was so cute! I am amazed how more and more he is starting to mimick us and tries to do the things that we are doing. He suprises me everyday with all the things he picks up! I love watching him learn and discover the world!



Temper tantrums, hitting, biting, cute smiles, and needles!

Hayden had his one year appointment on Tuesday, still cannot believe it has been a year, where has the time gone?!

The appointment went really good, he is growing good, and developing very good as well! I was happy to hear that, since lately there has been some people that have commented on how small he is for a one year old. But the doctor showed no concern, so therefore I am not concerned anymore, I need to learn to ignore what people say about his size. Everyone else is just having monster babies!

Hayden had three needles! Two were very small, and the third looked as big as his arm! I thought for sure that one he would have screamed! But he didn't cry at all, he just sat there, got poked, looked at the doctor all funny and then wanted her to pick him up (he was sitting on my lap). Everytime Hayden gets a needle, he never wants me to pick him up or keep holding him, he wants to be picked up by the doctor! Go figure eh? I still cannot figure it out!

After the needles, she gave him a sucker and we were on our way!

Ever since Hayden has turned one, it seems like his personality has completly changed! Before he turned one, he would listen pretty good, NOT bite, NOT hit, and he would HARDLY throw a temper tantrum!

Now he DOES BITE, HIT and we deal with temper tantrums and time outs on a daily basis! I don't know what the problem is. There are days where I go to bed feeling like a complete failure because he spent most of the day in my lap being held down because he is throwing a tantrum of the centry and I am scared he is going to hurt himself, or he is in his crib the majority of the afternoon because when I tell him to stop playing with the TV it sounds like someone is being murdered in our house with all his screaming. It has come to the point where we don't know what too do. Do we continue with the timeouts till he gets it, like how long do we need to do something before he learns, or realizing that it isn't working.

Yesterday was the first day where I started to have hope that maybe the time outs are starting to work and he is starting to get it. He threw a temper tantrum because I would not let him play in the fridge,  when I picked him up to move him to the living room to play with him, he clobbered me across the face and then took a chunk out of my arm with his TEETH, ( it is funny now that I think of it, but it wasn't at the time!) so I took him to his crib to have 1 mintue time out ( I have read somewhere you are supposed to give them timed time outs according to thier age). When I went back to get him to "talk to him", meaning I talk to him and he just looks around at Elmo on his wall!  But yesterday he looked at me, and I don't know if he saw the tears in my eyes, but he gave me a hug and looked at me like he was saying sorry and this will not last forever mom! I then knew that this might be working and NOT to give up! Everything will be okay in the end and soon enough he will understand!

This past week/month so far, has been the most challenging for me as a mother. I am so thankful for my husband that comes home and gives me time just to be by myself and he will take care of Hayden, if I didn't have that, I think I would have lost my mind already! I know this will not last forever, and soon he will be going to school and he will mature and not throw temper tantrums, and I know that one day I will miss these days!

On a more positive note, everytime the phone rings, Hayden saids HI! It is so cute!

As much as I hate the stage he is now, I love him and would NOT change it for anything!

Hayden`s First Easter!



Happy Easter!

Blessings from: The Pletts.

We had a very quiet Easter Sunday!
It started off with us going to church, Adrian and I lead worship so it was a pretty busy morning, but a good morning! We then came home, and Hayden had a 3 HOUR NAP!!! He never does that, I think maybe Children`s Church tired him out! Adrian and I just had a relaxing afternoon watching TV, talking and eating! We had these big plans to go outside, and maybe clean up our yard a bit,but yesterday was so cold!

After Hayden woke up we brought our his ``easter basket`` there wasn`t too much in it, what do you get a year old!

His easter basket consited of a book, chocolate, and a bear paw cookie! Bear Paws happen to be Hayden`s favorite!

Happy, Happy, Happy!

Hayden and daddy reading his new book!

Eating his first Easter Bunny! We didn`t let him eat the whole thing! :)

After he opened his Easter Basket, we just sat around and played!  It was a relaxing, quiet Easter!

What is on my mind today...

Happy Easter Monday everyone!!
Easter is a time to celebrate the most signaficant event that has ever happened in history, at least I think it is! It is hard to fathom that someone can be raised from the dead, everytime I think about that happening now a days, it totally freaks me out! I often wonder what the ladies thought when they went back to the tomb and no one was there, what was really going thru thier head? I sometimes wonder why they went back to the tomb if they knew that he was going to be raised from the dead? Did they forget this little tidit that Jesus told them? Or did they just lose faith and thought that Jesus was a whacko and that could never happend?  I could honestly say that if Jesus told me he was going to be raised from the dead on the third day, I would have not believed him. And if I was Jesus I would have came back and slaughtered the people that killed me.But, that is the beauty of Jesus, grace, grace, grace, mercy, mercy, mercy and LOVE! I think back of him on the cross, and screaming out to his father, and think why would he have just stayed on the cross and let people mock him!? I could not imagine going through that and I am so thankful that Jesus took my place, so that I will not have to go through that!

I also think of Mary his mother, watching him die on that cross. What was going thru her mind, what was she thinking of the people that killed him? I could not even imagine my son being totured and murdered and knowing that he has all the power to stop this, and wondering why he doesn't stop the madness? I see Mary as a women that had tons of faith in God.

Those were my thoughts and questions that were running through my head this Easter.

Amazing love, amazing grace!

Thank You Jesus for the gift of eternal life!

Luke 24:1-7

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were wondering about this, suddenly two men in clothes that gleamed like lightning stood beside them. In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee:"The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, be crucified and on the third day be raised again. "

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16

Remember that Jesus Loves EVERYONE, and died for EVERYONE! We should also love EVERYONE to, that is one of the many things that Jesus is all about!


The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing."
Zephaniah 3:17

Philippians 3:10-12 I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.

I hope that everyone had a blessed Easter with friends and family!

My wreath...

I always see these ideas on Pintrest to make your own wreaths, and I have wanted to try to make one for a long time! So, finally on Monday I sat down while Hayden was napping and made one! It took me longer then I thought it would, the longest part was wrapping the warn around the wreath, my wrists and fingers were so sore after! After 5 hours ( with alot of breaks because of Hayden lol) it was finally done, and here it is!

Hayden's Birthday Weekend!

As all of you know Hayden's birthday was on March 26, but we only had a little party with him on the 31st!! The theme was Sesame Street! It was alot of fun to plan it, although I can now say that I don't know if I will ever go that big again! It took us 2 months too plan! CRAZY!! Which makes me want to say that I am sorry to my future children! :) Who knows though, when the next child comes along I think I will probably do the same for thier 1st birthday too! Anways, it was alot of fun and Hayden had lots of fun to, he was exhausted after, that when we got home he went for nap, which NEVER happens!

I am glad that we decided to throw this party, I hope that one day he looks back at the pictures and feels loved by us and the people that were there!

The food table!

YUMMY!!

Cookie Monster and Elmo!

The Birthday boy's throne!

 Game and play area for all of Hayden's "older" friends!

Ernie's Rubber Ducky Punch!

First time trying this punch and it was good! Got it off Pintrest!

"C" is for cookie!

My second cookie monster cake I made! I made it for Hayden's smash cake!

He ate it so proper. I was proud of his manners.

So, I have alot more pictures, but for some reason the internet is taking FOREVER to load them! This whole blog post has taken me an hour too do! So maybe I will need to do a part 2 of his party!