It's been awhile

Dylan makes me laugh SO hard.  He loved doing his new scared face for pictures.  It is priceless. LOL :)

Life has been kind of crazy the past few weeks.  We have been SO busy.  Ben's wonderful grandma Hare passed away January 19th.  We had family come up from Washington and North Carolina.  It was sad to say goodbye, but it is good that she is with her wonderful husband again.  She will be missed so much!  I am so glad that we got pictures and video with Dylan.  I wish he could have known her longer. We got to hang out with some cousins and that was nice to see everyone again.  I sure love Ben's family.  They treat me so kind (better then my extended family). Dylan got to play with his 2nd cousin. I can't wait to come visit them in August.  I LOVE Washington.  I would like to move there someday.

The day of grandma Hares funeral I got some bad news that my mom has breast cancer.  It is such a scary thing.  I know she is a fighter and she will be able to fight through this.  All we can do now is pray and wait.  She goes in for surgery on the 18th of February.  After a month she will have radiation.  They are unsure if she will have to have chemo, but we will find out at a later date.  If you don't mind please keep her in your prayers. 

We have been updating our house!  That has been fun!  We bought the flooring which will be put in our hallway and kitchen. Ben put up the trim around the living room and kitchen entry.  It looks so nice. We will then my putting crown molding up around the entire upstairs.  I want to put in new cupboards eventually, but for now they will be okay.  We will be then putting a new granite counter top in the kitchen.  Then comes the bathroom.  First we are going to paint it a different color. Then a new counter top and sink.  Then comes the outside this summer we are going to paint.  We were going to side the house, but decided to wait.  Depending on if we will be moving in a year or so.  I am excited to see how it all turns out.




 

Dylan feeding himself. 

I can't wait for summer.  We have SO many fun things planned.  We are going to cut down a tree in our backyard so my garden will grow better.  I am excited to plant and can everything.  I wanted to do that last summer but where I was pregnant I didn't want to be outside at all.  In the front yard we will be pulling out some bushes and making a little rock garden in the front.  We have several family vacations planned for this summer too.  I can't wait to go visit everyone!  In April we will be going to my parents condo in Montana.  We love going there.  This year will be fun.  We will take Dylan swimming.  He LOVES being in the water.  It is so cute!  He is growing up so fast.

BEN CINDY and DYLAN HARE

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Family

I finally got part of my living room project finished. I am starting to get some energy.  I have been cutting vinyl out for so many people that I thought I would cut vinyl for my house.  It has been a fun little business that I have got into.  I can't wait to start updating the house.  Last year when we moved in we had plans to get everything done last summer.  Well 2 months after moving in I found out I was pregnant so we put a hold on the things I wanted to get done.  We are finally going to start with the floor.  I can't wait to get it put in.  I am debating if we want to do tile or just a wood floor. Eventually I want to lay new carpet in the living room.  We have wood floors in the upstairs bedrooms and have thought about carpeting those.  We will see.  We finally got Dylan's pictures back and will be going in again in a couple of weeks to get his 5 month pictures. 

These are just a very few of them.  I can't wait to see what next months pictures will look like.  This will be fun to get his pictures taken once a month to see how much he grows. 

4months

We went and got Dylan's 4 month pictures taken.  He is getting so big!  We decided we need to start going once a month. Now I know that my last blog I said I wasn't going to be on here very much and I made it 2 days.  LOL  These pictures still have the watermarks, but we didn't want to purchase the CD.  We ordered a bunch to give away though.  So all you family members don't worry you will be getting pictures in the mail. 

Goodbye 2010 ! Welcome 2011!

I am amazed at how fast this year has gone by.  It's true, the older you get the faster time goes.  This year has been fantastic.  We have had many adventures and saw miracles happen.  We have had a lot of laughs and tears. I am looking forward to seeing what this new year brings.  I have several goals that I would like to accomplish.  As a result to these new goals. I will not be on blogspot and Facebook as much.  My #1 priority is my family.  I only get on here when Dylan is napping, but I have other things I should be doing.  I will post pictures and little blurbs on here once in awhile for family that is out of state. I hope and pray everyone has a safe and fun New Years. May 2011 bring you wonderful health, happiness and all the blessings that you desire. 

Christmas

We had TONS of fun!  Dylan has been teething and not a happy boy at all these last few days.  I can't believe that he will be 4 months next week.  He is growing up too fast.  We took a video if opening Christmas presents at our house.  So I don't have any pictures of that.  :(  We went to grandma and grandpas house.  We had a really yummy breakfast. Dylan was not happy and wanted to go home.  I felt so bad for him.  We weren't able to go to Bens families house due to Dylan being so grumpy.  I can't wait until he gets all of his teeth in.  This is so awful! I hope everyone had an awesome Christmas!

Journaling

My blog has become my journal for Dylan.  How sad is that? I always wrote in a journal every night. Since Dylan was born I haven't been so diligent. I am getting so excited for Christmas this year.  I know Dylan isn't going to remember it, but pictures will be fun.  He is a spoiled little boy.  We have tons of gifts under the tree and most of them are his.  We got him a bumbo which he opened early.  A TON of clothes and a bunch of toys.  I don't know why we bother with all the toys.  He is entertained with other things besides toys.

 For Christmas Ben got us an early Christmas gift.  3D glasses for our TV. It is crazy that 2 pairs of glasses and a thing for the TV was $450 dollars. There isn't many movies out there in 3D yet either. Each 3D movie is 40 dollars.  Oh well, I LOVE it.  It is super fun. We don't really watch it much where we are busy playing with Dylan.

We went to Ben's Christmas work party.  It was a lot of fun.  They had the girls from Americas got Talent Christina and Ali Christensen. They were really good. They also had the Mozart Group.  They are from Poland and absolutely wonderful.  They are so funny.  I recommend doing a YouTube search for them.  We had front row, center seats.  We lucked out!  My mom babysat Dylan while we were there. It was hard for me to leave him. 

I am so thankful for this time of year. May we all remember what this Christmas season is all about.