Correction

It is really quite sad when your husband, who let me remind you has a horrible record of remembering important dates/times of important events, has to correct you on the the time of your child's birth. In my previous post I wrote that Hayley was born at 9:55 a.m. and I was wrong, she was actually born at 8:55 a.m. Thank you honey...I stand corrected!

Wowza...REALLY

Has it honestly been almost a year since I last blogged? I actually don't know why I am acting surprised seeing how I hardly ever blogged on a weekly (or even a monthly basis at that) back when I was actually attempting to blog. I guess I just thought that much time hadn't passed or maybe I just had my head so far stuck up in the motherhood cloud that I didn't stop to notice that the world was actually continuing to go on without me...including the blogging world! My, my, my have I got A LOT of catching up to do. Now I am perplexed with the reality of what it is going to mean to "catch" up. Am I really ever going to have the time to catch everyone (all ONE of you who still follow my blog...HA) up on what has been going on in the life of the Young Family or should I just pick up where life is right now?!?! I mean let's be honest and realistic here, to catch up on the last year I would have to write about 12 posts consisting of 5-10 paragraphs for each post and the possibility of 10-15 pictures attached to each post. How crazy would I be to even attempt that while trying to take care of two kids and a husband...yes your right...too crazy, so that is why I am choosing to NOT to! Instead my friends, I am going to create a bullet list of what I consider to be major events that took place this last year and I am going to try my hardest to start blogging at least once a week about what is going on in our lives currently. My next post will come later this week and the topic will be Hayden's 3rd Birthday, yes you read that correctly, Hayden is 3! I digress, let the bullet list begin:



I apologize in advance for any major event that I may have left out. It is hard enough for me to remember what I did yesterday, let alone a year ago, so please try not to take offense.

• We found out on May 14th, 2009 that we were having a little girl. I must say I was a little shocked at first (a little in denial as well) but I quickly slapped myself upside the head, God gave me a gentle wake-up call and I quickly got over it and went on to being completely and utterly ecstatic about having a precious little girl! :) Not my will but yours Lord and I PRAISE you for that!

• June 26th, 2009, my brother married the love of his life, Justina, and now they are expecting their first child together due September 14th, 2010. Through this marriage I also gained a step nephew Drake who is an incredibly sweet, good natured and well behaved young man...what a blessing!

• On July 4th, 2009, Hayden got his new fire truck big boy bed and slept in it that night for the first time. He did GREAT! This was a very bittersweet moment for Chris and me as we were facing one of his "lasts"...the last time he was ever going to sleep in a crib. :(

• Throughout the summer we were in the process of potty training Hayden and again, he adapted so well to this transition. He did really well and by the time Hayley was due to be born he was pretty much officially potty trained. :)

• August 27th, 2009 I celebrated my 29th birthday....gulp! It is hard to swallow that I am one year (well actually now only 6 months) away from 30.

• On September 22nd, 2009 we welcomed our beautiful baby girl into the world. We named her Hayley Rose Young. She was born at 9:55 a.m. via c-section and weighed 7 lbs. 11 oz. and was 20 3/4 inches long. She had blonde hair and blue eyes and was and still is just absolutely the most gorgeous little girl that we have ever laid our eyes on. Thank you Lord for this little life! :)

• October 31st, 2009 Hayden celebrated his third Halloween Harvest and Hayley celebrated her first. Hayden was a firefighter (I know, don't be shocked) and Hayley just dressed up in a cute little orange and black kitty cat onesie.

• November 3rd, 2009, we celebrated Chris' 29th birthday, but unlike me, he got to celebrate it with his brand new baby girl!

• November (Thanksgiving Day - can't remember the actual day it was and I am too lazy to go look it up...again, my apologies) Hayden celebrated his third Thanksgiving and Hayley her first. Missy, Grant and Piper came in to town which was wonderful. This was the first Thanksgiving in a LONG time that everyone single family member was present at Thanksgiving dinner...talk about something to be thankful for!

• December 25th, 2009, Hayden's 3rd Christmas and Hayley's first Christmas. Unfortunately Missy, Grant and Piper could not be with us this year, but we expect to see them in December of 2010! :)

• January 1st, 2010 we all rang in the New Year (Hayden's 3rd New Years, Hayley's first) with great anticipation of what blessings the year ahead will hold!

• January 4th, 2010 Chris and I celebrated 7 wonderful years of marriage! We are truly so completely blessed to have each other and I can't wait to see what is in store for us in the many years to come!

• January 19th, 2010, my beautiful niece Piper celebrated her 1st birthday (I can't believe she is already a year)! Piper also was dedicated on January 10th!

• February 13th, 2009, one of my long time high school best friends Gina Williams got married to a wonderfully amazing man of God, Nathan Bain. I was honored to be a bridesmaid in their wedding and am so incredibly happy for the two of them!

• Found out at the beginning of February that I am going to be an aunt again! YEA! My brother and Justina are expecting their first child together due September 14th, 2010!

• Beginning of March found out that I am going to be an aunt times two...my sister and Grant are expecting their second child due October 4th! YEA! Babies, babies, babies!

I will leave off here for now because I plan to pick up at Hayden's 3rd birthday. Wow, I thought doing bullets was the quickest way to update without requiring a bunch of reading, but by the looks of it maybe I didn't quite accomplish that...so sorry for the long read!



Have a wonderful day! :)