Friday, May 30, 2008

Prayers, please

This is a link to my cousin Chloe's journal. She has just undergone her second brain surgery for a rare disorder called myoclonus.

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/chloewilliams

Please pray that the surgery was successful and that she recovers quickly.

Look at me....two posts in less than 24 hours. It seems now that I can update my blog from work, I just can't look at it.

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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Complete MAYhem!

I am so ready for JUNE!! I know that May is a crazy month for everyone. This week has been especially busy. I feel like I'm on fast-forward.

Here's some of what we've been up to:
I turned 30 last week on the 24th. Friday, my dear, sweet friends decorated my office with "30" signs and black balloons, and brought breakfast for me. It was YUMMY!!


Of course on Saturday, we had our traditional Hale Birthday Breakfast.


Matt and the boys "surprised" me with this FABULOUS jewelry cabinet:

LOVE IT!!! (sorry...still can't rotate)


After my birthday breakfast, we went to Matthew's last t-ball game where he hit another home run! Then it was off to Chuck E. Cheese for their "end of the season" party. We ran home and repacked the diaper bag and headed to Mom and Dad's. The boys played in the water all afternoon and we had a delicious steak dinner. It was a great birthday, and I'm even feeling o.k. about being 30!

Monday was a holiday for all of us and it was nice to just hang out at home. The boys played outside in the water and Matt cooked burgers.

Matthew graduated from kindergarten Tuesday night. It was a lllooonnnggg program, but very cute. This year has flown by, and he had a good year. We are so fortunate to be in a wonderful school district and were blessed with a GREAT teacher this year!



Here is Ryan's latest trick (excuse my voice...do I really sound like this?)



I didn't have any action shots of Colb this week, but, believe me, there is plenty of action when Colby is around! He is doing AWESOME in his undies! After the nightmare it was to potty train Matthew, this is a piece of cake!

One quick Colby story:

We were about five minutes from home this afternoon. As I'm making a left turn, Colby says, "Hey Mom, Ryan's seat isn't buckled." That very instant I hear a crash and turn to see Ryan's seat rolling over in the back seat. I'm trying not to panic as I pull over. He ended up upside down, but safely strapped in his car seat. He didn't even cry. Colby admitted to unbuckling the seat belt. He said he did it when when we got to school this morning, so apparently I drove almost all the way home like that.

He's such an angel......



WHEN HE'S ASLEEP!!



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Thursday, May 15, 2008

I'm still here....how about you?

This time of year is so crazy! The last few weeks have been quite busy in the Hale house. Some of the most notable happenings.....Matthew lost his first two teeth, Colby is POTTY TRAINED, and Ryan turned 8 months old and decided he can only be held by me.

I'm so ready for a break, but we have a few more weeks of this hecticness (is that a word?). T-ball is almost over and school will be out soon. Then, we'll be able to relax a little (maybe). Here are some pics of the boys doing their things over the past week or so.

Ryan enjoying a baseball game on t.v. He was perfectly happy until he saw me.



"My family is CRAZY"



Colby's spring musical at school. The little boy in the red is his "best buddy" Jacob.



He loves his "undies like Daddy's" (I know...too much information!). I'm having technical difficulties tonight and can't rotate this picture.


Toothless in Texas
(It's hard to tell in this picture, but he is missing two bottom teeth)


...and the best for last. Isn't this a great picture? Check out the tongue. Thanks, Niki, for capturing this shot of our little slugger.
Speaking of t-ball, Matthew hit his first home run in his game Tuesday. It was very exciting!

Instead of proof reading this, I'm just going to hit publish and hit the sack.

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