I wanted to take a moment for Father's Day and let you know of the wonderful father that my children have. The H's are so lucky to have such a great man for a dad. He works so hard to take care of our family-3 jobs in the summer (the jail, marine patrol, and curbing). Plus he makes sure to take time with each of them each and every day. He takes Hayden 4-wheeling, dances with Hadley and cuddles with Hallie. Yesterday at church he had Hallie laughing so hard just kissing her. Our children can depend on him and trust that he will always be there for them. He makes them laugh, keeps them honest, and has earned their respect. Thanks Shawn for being the best father for my children that I could have ever asked for.

T-ball 08

It's T-ball season again.



Hayden is on team Red Sox this year and Shawn is the assistant coach again. Hayden loves his dad being his coach even though he gets yelled at more than the other kids.



It's amazing to me how much his coodination has improved since last year. He is growing way too fast.

Shayla Graduated

I am so old. Shayla, my oldest niece, graduated from Meridian High on 5/31/08. It is absolutely ridiculous. Heather, Mom, Grandma Verda, Brooke and her family and the kids and I all went down on Friday. Brooke & Chet drove in there car. Heather, Mom and Grandma were in Heather's car, and I drove mom's van with Hailey, Andrew, Carley, Hayden, Hadley and Hallie. I know that sounds bad but I had the DVD player and head phones for each of the kids. Meanwhile Heather had Mom and Grandma telling her how to drive and counting the seconds between her and other vehicles the whole trip.

The kids had a blast playing and swimming. The actual graduation was Saturday and then we went out to dinner with Shayla afterwards. Dad & Donita came up on Saturday for the graduation and dinner. It was a nice little trip but it was a real emotional experience. My oldest child is the same age as Shayla was when I graduated. That hurts!

My pictures are still on my camera so I will update those when I can.......

Zoo field trip

I was so lucky and got to go on a field trip with Hayden this year. We went to the Tauphus park zoo. We met at his classroom and were assigned our groups. I got Hayden, Jayden and Aidan (ha, ha Mrs. Crane). We got to ride a bus all the way to Idaho Falls- these are Hayden's words not mine. Jayden and Aidan told us ghost stories all the way there. Here is a picture of the boys on the bus.

Once at the zoo it was a free-for-all. We saw all the animals there and the boy's really seemed to have fun.

When we got to the zebra exhibit it was empty. A zebra decided to make itself know, it was hilarious because Hayden broke in to the zebra song that they learned in school, Jayden and Aidan quickly followed suit. I was not fast enough with my camera and only caught the very last part of it but here it is:

This final picture is at the exit of the park. We had a fun bus ride home and played, "I'm thinking of an animal that...." all the way home. For those of you that never played that game, we each took a turn describing an animal until someone else could guess what it was. These kids are so smart!! I had such a great time and am so thankful that I was able to share this experience with Hayden.

Kindergarten Program

Hayden's end of the year kindergarten program was on May 20th. They sang several songs and we realized just how animated Hayden can get when he is singing. He also does NOT experience stage fright. Here is a picture of him. I had a hard time with my camera getting a picture that was both clear and light enough to see. Hayden is wearing the gray vest with a white t-shirt under it. I can't believe that he is almost finished with kindergarten. What happened to this year? Here he is almost a 1st grader. How did we luck out with such great kids?

Here is a clip of Hayden dancing. Its kind of a long clip and its shaky because I am both laughing and holding a baby on my lap. He really starts getting in to it about 50 seconds in. You will hear Shawn and I giggling in the background. Remember Hayden singing "The Wiggles" songs when he was little? This is very reminiscent of those days.

Hadley's Birthday!!

Hadley turned 4 on May 19. We had a celebration at Jensen's Grove again. Hadley refers to this park as her "birthday park". We had pizza and cake and opened presents. A lot of family and friends came rom Pocatello and Idaho Falls and the kids had a lot of playing together.

Here we are singing Happy Birthday!

She loved her presents:

The kids had fun swinging with Grandpa after the party.

I can't believe our little girl is already 4 years old. She is such a bright light in our family. Her little personality is a blessing to everyone around her and we love her.