Weekends of Fun!!!

Well the Buck family has had two great weekends in a row. Not that we really have bad weekends. Which I guess last time I talked about a weekend it was when I was sick a day and a half and cut my finger really bad. Any weekend is better than that.
Last weekend (Sept 20th) was our annual family reunion. I'm not sure of what year it is but I know they have done it since I was born (surely) and I'm 27 now. (They need to figure out the year) This year we had it at someone's house so it was soo much better. We usually have it at a city park and we are always having to leave by a certain time. This year we could stay as long as we wanted. Which in our case it was 3:00pm because Hayden was 2 hours past naptime. Needless to say there was some good barbque, lots of sides, and tons of deserts, games, fellowship, reuniting, and volleyball. Also there was a John Deere tractor (what Hayden called it) ride for Hayden. Here are some pics of our great time!

This past weekend Joey's parents came into town. Ms. Suzie usually comes once a month but Mr. Joe was ready to see Hayden again. Thursday night our project was to make almost 5o flags for our leadership conference that we do every year. We volunteered to do the flags to take off some responsibilities from others. It was a tough job (mainly just took a while) but I'm glad we were able to do it. Friday afternoon Joey and I headed for Granbury to have a "date day." So we went and stayed at Pomegranate House and Cottages. This is the website. http://www.pomhouse.com/ If you go to that website and find the Garden Cottage; that is the one we stayed in.



Joey and I decided to go to a place on the square where you can paint pottery. It takes longer than you think. We decided to do a "birthday" plate. We wanted a special plate that when it was your birthday or something worth celebrating...you got the "Let's Celebrate" plate. After that we went back, watched a movie, and fell asleep while the tv was on and called it a night. Goes to show just how tired we were. The pics below are the process of us making the plate.




Thank you Mr. Joe and Ms. Suzie for coming this weekend and allowing Joey and I to get away for the night to just be together. We truly needed it. It was great to get back home to Hayden though! What a joy!!! Love you all!

Can we keep the great weekend streak going?.....I think we can....Hayden and I are headed to Longview! A post will be coming soon for that!

coming soon

Hi Everyone!
I wanted you to all know that videos should be coming in soon. We think the camera man is in the final stages of repairing our video camera. I've learned that that is something you do not want to be without when you have a toddler going through new things.
Recently he started putting a couple of words together, saying yes and nodding his head yes, and this week he has started saying oh. <--- used in a sentence. Hayden came running in my room wondering where daddy was...."daddy, daddy?" "He is at church right now." "oh"
It is sooo funny. I think most toddlers would just walk away from the conversation but Hayden says...."oh." This is why I'm hoping the video camera will be ready soon.
Katy

Not my weekend!

So this weekend hasn't been that great. 1st) Friday started off great. I got off early from work (due to no show appointments) and headed straight for Just Between Friends consignment sale. If you haven't been to one!!! You should try it sometime. As soon as I left from the place my tummy wasn't feeling right. I thought it was because it was 1:30pm and I hadn't eaten lunch. So I started munching on some animal crackers that I had in Hayden's bag. That wasn't helping. So we finally get home and I lay Hayden down for a nap and I immediately got sick. So yesterday from about 2:30pm til 9pm, me and our toilet had some bonding time. After I got sick at 9pm I just cried and had Joey pray for me...I slept a little rough but needless to say no more toilet time. I finally started feeling better after naptime today! 2nd) My brother in law and sister in law are coming tomorrow and I couldn't be more excited. We haven't seen them in a year and we are in need of a great visit. So being the planner and "organizer" that I am I decided to get as much done this evening so that in the morning I will just throw our meal together in the crockpot. Low and behold on the last carrot I was cutting...it rolled away and I got the knife to the finger. It was very bad and Joey had to finish cutting the carrots (with a newly cleaned knife) but only after he got me taken care of! Not to gross anyone out but I hadn't seen it bleed like this since I cut my thumb in high school and had to get stitches. We got it to stop bleeding and Joey wrapped it up while I still kept a cold compress on it. A couple of things I took away from this event were...I didn't get any blood anywhere else...I grabbed the dishtowel very fast. I was very impressed and of course Joey was too. I also learned that this just isn't my weekend.
We are now winding down our Saturday lazy day! I'm starting to see some "personal" sunlight. My tummy is feeling great and I was able to eat some dinner. (still not a lot but I was full) The other is my finger is wrapped up and I'm able to use my hand. Thoughts that ran through my head were when I was younger I had stitches in my leg and so my mom covered my leg with saran wrap so that I could slippin' slidin' outside with my friends.
Love you all! Hope ya'll are enjoying your Saturday! Ours was pretty wet but we needed it!!!

Katy

Ha Ha Ha!

Even though Hayden's nose has been a little stuffy and his little cough is back...he seems to be sleeping well at night. This morning at 5am while we were all sound asleep (or so I thought) I hear Hayden's door shut. I thought ooooh noooo. So of course its dark in the hallway and I didn't want to scare him as I came out of our room at the same time...so I just reached out and found him and picked him up. I noticed that he also had found his sippy cup (which stays at the end of his bed at night). So somethings that I noticed were that his closet door was shut (I have been leaving the light and cracking the door for just a little light for him) and I also noticed a couple of books were now on the floor and looked like they had been moved around a little. So I informed it was still night night time and laid him back down in bed. I turned off his closet light to make it real dark so he understood night night time. So for the next hour I laid in bed just thinking...he is going to come out again..I just know it. After a few coughs....Hayden was back asleep. I just kind of laugh at it cause.... this little guy sleeps so wonderfully at night and sometimes sleeps til 9am...what made him seem wide awake at 5am. Was it the closet light on that made him think it was day time? Joey asked me this morning....Was Hayden sleepwalking last night? I said nope...just awake. What a silly boy we have.
Love you all!

Imagine this!

Ok friends and family....I want you to imagine this with me because I didn't take a picture. On Monday night after we had dinner and ran an errand we went to a nearby middle school to do some exercising at the track. Joey watched Hayden while I ran and this is what I want you to imagine. Each time I got to the 50 yard line (on each side of the track) I had my own cheerleaders. Hayden and Joey were running side to side as I passed by and would stand there clapping and yelling go Mommy!! After a couple of time Hayden knew what he was doing. Just to see both of them clapping there while I was running was soo sweet!!! I know you can imagine that through your heads right now. What a fun sight!!!
Katy