A New Bed

So, for those of you who didn't know this, Scott built an amazingly beautiful cradle for Haddyn before she was born. Well, he just finished his second feat in the "bed making" business. Along with the help and instruction of our friend Travis, as well as Travis' dad, and the help of our friend Taylor he has finished the most beautiful (and heavy) log bed known to man : ) I'll start with the before varnish and 1,000th time sanding and end with the final photos.
We will have a brand new mattress and box spring set to put in this enormous bed as well--we are very excited about that. Mostly, we're excited to see if Scott will finally start waking up without a sore back! (I think he's faking it personally) : )
It's beautiful and from what I understand, it's heavy enough to cause all kinds of new back pain for Scott...it takes 3 people just to move the headboard. Guess my days of wanting the bedroom furniture moved "just for some change" are over!

Sleepy Girl

Does anyone out there know just how tiring a long day is for a 7 month old little girl??? Oh so tiring! Some nights Scott showers with Haddyn instead of a bath and well, Haddyn didn't quite make it through this one. She laid her head down on his shoulder while he was rinsing her back and was officially down for the count! I couldn't believe it!After I got her out of the shower and into the towel she just continued snoozing. In fact, she slept through the lotioning, diapering, earring cleaning and woke up just enough to eat before going to bed. How cute is that??? Most of you know how late we are often away from home, BUT it was only 9:30. Our little bundle of sweet joy has learned the special talent of fighting sleep for her naps, so she had fought all day long and I guess it finally got the best of her. As stubborn as she is, a girl's gotta have her beauty sleep!!

Haddyn's Room

I'm excited to say that Haddyn's room is now decorated and all of the projects I had planned before she was even born are finally complete!
Her name on the wall started as wooden letters and Scott and I painted them and then I glued some cute paper on them and inked the edges. It was time consuming, but look how cute it is now!!
My most proud accomplishment of all is her window valance. This started as 4 large pieces of material and I cut it into the pieces, pinned it together and then used a friends sewing machine (which I had to wind the bobbin and thread it myself) and sewed it all together and added the ribbon along the edge. You all have to understand that I JUST learned how to sew last summer when I was pregnant and feeling domesticatable. (New word!) Anyway, it is quite an accomplishment and I'll brag all I want cause I'm proud of myself. I was SO excited and hung it up and when Scott came home I made him go in a look and he had this to say, "cool". Imagine this in the most monotone voice possible. Pretty much.
Well, that's the story of Haddyn's room. It may not seem like much, but I'm pretty stoked about the whole thing. Who would have thought I could make things!! I'm going to include a pic of Haddyn playing with her new ball that she loves. Daddy thought he'd let her play with it while we were at the store and then put it back and well, we were introduced to fit throwing at the ripe age of 7 months....she won.

Mother's Day Debut

"The love of a true mother comes nearer to being like the love of God than any other kind of love." Joesph F. Smith

I love Mother's Day. I love that quote as well. I think it strikes a little sweet spot somewhere inside of me... and yes, those do exist : )

Okay, now that I've shared that I'll tell ya about my present. Scott (and Haddyn) got me a new vacuum! It's awesome. Our old vacuum, which we were VERY thankful for, came from my sister and her husband and they got it for their wedding... making it 12 years old. That's pretty good for a Hoover! The best part was that everyone in the complex knew when we were vacuuming because it was so loud. Okay, may be exaggerating a LITTLE with that, but at least everyone in our building. So, this beauty has a 10 year warranty and best of all---I no longer have to dust after I vacuum!! Love it!! It's a Riccar, as you can see in the photo, and it has zero % dust output and even some percentage of micro bacterial something or other. I don't know, but it's cool! It even leaves vacuum marks in the carpet--BONUS! I'm spoiled and I love my honey for making that happen...sorry girls, but I happen to have the BEST hubby (and daddy) ever!

True Moulton (and some)

It is official, I am the boring one. I have been told repeatedly that I need to let Scott post on the blog from now on. Hmm, if you guys think you wait a long time for ME to post, just wait and see when his next post comes along! : ) So really, I'm sorry I suck at this. However, I have had a few things I've been wanting to post, I have just been so busy with school and work and well, being a Mom, that it got put on hold. But...I'll add one today too.

This picture is actually from our trip to Cali, but it's so cute I had to post it. Haddyn is sitting up so much better now, but this is proof she is a Moulton! It was so funny...Scott was walking behind her and there it was, a sight that I am so familiar with from him! HA, HA!! So cute!

Also, I can't figure out how to load a video without it taking like over an hour to load...because it's been loading for 45 minutes now and it's still not done. So, I'll put some pics on of Haddyn's first experience feeding herself. Well, technically she had a Grandma day last week and she ate her FIRST graham cracker there, but this was the first one at home. It's so cute. She's growing up so fast!!!


I just can't quit. I'm going to add one more cute one of shower time---G Rated!! She loves her showers with her daddy!! (It's one of the only times she'll give him cuddles, but I get them all of the time)
If any of you have any ideas about the video thing, let the techno retards know K?? AND--No worries to Scott's new fan base...I'll have him back in no time a'tall. Stay tuned...