School, a room and a fence...

Where has the time gone??? It is true that the older you get the faster it goes... So I am making sure that I am enjoying every minute no matter what that minute brings...

SCHOOL: Hayden's been in his new Pre-School year now for 3 weeks and he is loving it... This year they started having the kids bring backpacks 2 days a week.. Wednesdays for their Show and Tell items and their weekly projects (Hayden loves show and tell, he wants to do it everyday) and also on Fridays for their end of the week items... He loves his backpack he picked it out all by himself though it is just as big as him... He says he wears his backpack like Dora (Dora the Explorer)... He is growing up so quick... I just want to bottle him up so he'll quit growing up, though every age is fun with new experiences before I know it he'll be moved out with kids of his own... Here are the pics of his first day of school...


His Mario backpack he picked out






Everything laid out the night before for his big first day


A ROOM: So on Labor Day my day was just that a day of Labor... I got the great idea of painting Hayden's room to redecorate it without going to the expense of actually redecorating it... $10.00 later for a gallon of paint his room looks new and different with the exact same furniture and decorations... I first thought about painting his room blue. But then I was afraid of it making the room to dark so at a last minute decision relooking over paint swatches it dawned on me to do his favorite color... ORANGE... Thats right I painted his room orange now I just painted one wall so don't think my son is now living inside a pumpkin... It turned out really cute...


Before


Excited to help Mommy paint



He is such a great little helper... "Hayden look at Mommy"


All done... Hayden calls it his "Bronco room" (Denver Bronco fans)


AND A FENCE: So the house we are living in is actually my Grandpa's house... We've been looking after it now for a couple of years and love it here... I love to watch my son play where I played as a child and I hope to make alot more memories here in the years to come... As much as we do love this house it just wasn't very kid or dog friendly in the backyard... Meaning it wasn't enclosed... So my amazing Aunt helped us this weekend to change that... Saturday morning while the neighborhood slept we were up digging post holes, laying cement, streching chain link and 8 hours later...


The west side of our house (Before)


And After


The east side (Before)


And after


Hayden helping us tighten a bolt all by himself

Thank you again to Arlene we couldn't have done it without you... And to our neighbor John for his help too... We love our backyard... We even had our first family dinner out there last night it was so much fun... Great times to come now...