Happy 75th Birthday Grandma Hayward!!!

My grandma celebrated her 75th birthday this March! We all went to Brick Oven to celebrate. It was a good time!!! LOTS of laughs and lots of food. What could be better? (It didn't hurt that we went to one of my favorite restaurants. I LOVE THEIR SALAD BAR!)

Here's Grandma with a few of her daughters. Aww, they are so cute.



I love this kooky bunch.

Ice Skating

Even tho I didn't get any real good pictures of this. I still want to document it. We went ice skating with Scotts family. The girls were so excited. The boys were too even though they had no idea what ice skating really was. It was cute to get them little skates and to see that they actually COULD walk in them. I was impressed. The first time around the rink Scott took Chase and I took Ty. Boy was THAT a work out. He had gummy worms legs and I had to bend over the whole time trying to keep him up. I was surprised we made it around. And of course, he wanted to go more. So we did. After going around a few times I was ready to fall over. Its hard trying to hold up a four year old who is mostly complaining and won't do anything to help out the matter. Finally we were able to get one of those ice skating walkers. He did better with that. And by the time we left both of the boys were loving it! We will have to do it again. I always tell myself we are going to do it in the summer when there arent SO many people there....but then always forget.

Just wanted to add...

Some of my favorite pictures of her in her baptism dress. We had been waiting for nice weather to take her pictures...but we weren't getting any. Finally one day there was SUN!! So we hurried and got her hair all fancied up (Thanks JAMIE!!) and went and found a place behind Crisps (grocery store) to take her pictures. The sun was almost going down so it was a little shadowy...but I think they turned out cute!!

Here is a slide show of all the pics if you are bored...
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Brinleys Baptism

WHAT A DAY!!! (in so so many ways!)

The day started out good. We all woke up and started to get ready for Brinleys big day!! When we were about finished Scotts mom and dad showed up with his grandma! Grandma had to go to the bathroom. After awhile Scotts dad suggested that Scotts mom go help Grandma. She was taking awhile. Next thing I hear is Susan asking Brinley, "Where is your dad? I think Grandma is having a stroke." Grandma made it up the stairs. I gave her a big hug and told her to go get better. When I was done hugging her and looked back at her face I could see tears in her eyes. THAT DID IT!! I could not stop bawling from then on out!!

This was about 10 minutes before we left to go to the Baptism. Scotts mom was supposed to give a talk on Baptism and his dad, a prayer. I told Scott to call the Bishop and ask him to give a talk. He said I couldn't do that 10 minutes before he was supposed to be there! I said, "Yes we can! That's his job!" Am I right?

So we got to the baptism! Brinley was so excited. I don't think she even noticed that anything was going on. Which I am very glad about. To her...grandma had a stroke? Ok, whatever THAT is!!

We had so much family at her baptism! It was great! I really REALLY appreciate everyones efforts to get there!! THANK YOU! You made this day so very special for her. Everyone mentioned how she was just beaming!!

The bishop did a great talk! (Especially for spur of the moment!) Brinleys BFF, Heidi also did a great talk on the Holy Ghost!! Brinley is so cute about Heidi. She loves loves loves her and Heidi is so cute just to love her back!!! Heidi is my cousin that just recently got married...so a little bit of an age difference there...

After her baptism we came back to have lunch! Not everyone could come back with us but we still had a house full!!! Wowzers! I didn't get as many pictures as I wanted too. I kept forgetting about taking pictures. But, I did get a few.

I'm so proud of my Brinley Boo!!! She is such a cute girl to have in our family! She keeps us on our toes!!

Grandma is doing great! It was what they call a "mini stroke" She was even able to come back later and have lunch with us. Which I loved!! Im glad I got to have her all to myself and get to talk to her. Instead of all the hussle and bussle there is when EVERYONE is there.

Brinley Turns EIGHT!!

Where are these years going? In my head, Brinley should still be three. Thats where I remember her the most and thats where I think she should stay!!! But I guess she has other plans.

We have been busy looking forward to her baptism so her birthday kind of snuck up on me. So at nine pm the night before Jentry and I took a trip to walmart to find her something for her birthday. She wanted a table and chair set and I found a cute one there. I knew it might be a little bit small for her (the ages were 3-8) but we decided to get it anyway. I was right. It was a little too small for her...but she doesnt care...she loves it. She also got an ipod shuffle that I didnt think she would really like all that much (hence why I went out at 9 pm to get her something else) But to my surprise she LOVES that too.

We did our traditional wake up at 5:30 am before Dad goes to work. She then snuggled in bed with me before it was time to go to school. I love that girl. She can be my biggest challenge and my biggest self esteem booster. Shes always telling me how much she loves me. I love her more then she will ever know.

That night we went out to dinner with my parents and sister and brother at none other then Sizzler! I think that is becoming a tradition too. She loved her birthday! Happy Birthday My Sweet Boo!