These are just some fun pics from Matt (Chad's brother) and Holly's visit. I'm sure there will be more later. Just be prepared for lots of Matt and Holly. We have not seen them for a year, they just met Logan because they moved to hawaii like 2 wks before he was born.




I love this pic oof Ian, he looks like such a "pimp"

Just Bein Silly


Matt and Holly are so sexy, right?

Logan is holding on to Chad's ears like they are reins.

Hawkins pics

So Matt, Holly and Riley are in town from HAWAII (lucky) and we HAD to take new pictures of everyone. They brought hawaii shirts for everyone to wear and we just had fun with it. (like always the boys had most of the fun)


Logan is so handsome

Me, Chad and Logan (why am I sticking out my tush?)

Never a dull moment

Mommy and Logan

The Whole Hawkins Family


Nice boys...very nice

Grandma/Grandpa and the Grand babies

Original Hawkins clan

Matt, Holly and Riley

Nate and Shaun forever


The girls (and there's my tush again. What is going on here?)

The MEN

All the boys

Matt, Holly and Riley

The Pumpkin Patch

So on Tuesday, Chad, Logan and I went to Mother Nature's farm along with Jamie and Kaiden. The boys had a lot of fun. There were animals to pet, pumpkins to pick out, a decorating station (to make the pumpkin colorful, no knives to carve so it was very safe), a hay ride, bouncer and a maze. It was a lot of fun letting Logan walk around everywhere. He is so independent already.


Finding the PERFECT pumpkin








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Logan and Daddy went throught the maze together

The Girls (and little ones)

So my mom's birthday was last week and her request for her birthday was to get a picture blown up of me, my sisters and the boys. We chose the last one, but I thought I would just post most of them for fun. We don't really get together (all of us) that often so it's always fun when we do. Jill and Ian just moved down to Gilbert so hopefully we see them more often than when they lived in Casa Grande. Logan is now walking full force and he was not very cooperative with the picture taking process, he would rather go up the stairs or play with Gracie (Jill's dog) so that was a very fun experience. As you can see we could not all get the perfect pose of face all together in the same picture so they are kinda funny to look at. Thank you to Ian (Jill's husband), our camera man who was so patient.

Kaiden wants to get down, Logan has a weird "grin" and Jill is totally model material.

As you can see in this picture the boys are not thrilled about the picture taking. Jackie's favorite cause her hair is PERFECT.By the way, could I sit any more slouched?

Kaiden has the "fake" smile down pat.

WHAT????????????

I have given up soda. I can't believe I did it, but no more Dr. Pepper for me. I am determined to lose weight and if giving up soda will help I am all there. It hasn't been hard for me either so I feel great. I still love going to work out, I go at least three times a week and I work out from home on my off days. Yay me. Now if I could just see a smaller number on that scale.......

No longer BABY Logan

Here are some new facts about Logan:
*He totally has the walking thing down, but he just can't seem to give up the "arms in the air" walk. He looks just like a penguin everywhere he goes. I love that I don't have to carry him all the time and he loves the freedom to just get up and go.
*He has learned to say yes (and know what it means) He loves to take showers and when asked if he wants to take a shower he nods his head, says ya ya and starts heading for our room. He also know when he is ready for bed cause he does the same thing when asked if he wants to go night night (except goes to his room, not mine) He knows the difference between yes and no and it is so nice to know what he wants.
*He thinks burping is so much fun, he laughs hysterically everytime anyone burps.
*He can drink out of a straw (this is actually old news, but I don't think I blogged that)
*He can hold his own against Kaiden. Kaiden picks on him , but now Logan retaliates. It's funny.
*He LOVES eating whatever anyone has on their plate, even if he has JUST eaten. He is kind of a pig. He is still addicted to baby food and wont eat adult food out of his own bowl, he has to eat yours.
*He still loves his books ( which I love because they don;t make noise)
*He is still an awesome dancer...the head bob is his favorite. He has to dance in the car and he knows a good beat when he hears one.

The Longest Night Ever

So, last night was insane. Logan was great all day other than a little fever I attributed to teething. We put him down for bed around 9pm, he went to sleep just fine all by himself. Well, come 11 pm I hear Logan screaming at the top of his lungs out of nowhere. I went in his room to get him and normally he will calm down and go back to sleep, but nooooooo he is screaming bloody murder. So I took him out to the living room and he would not stop crying, we tried EVERYTHING, warm milk, teething tablets, gas relief stuff,tylenol,driving in the car, rubbing his tummy,sitting outside and OMG I was going crazy, he would not stop for the life of me. He was just sitting in our bed on his knees staring and screaming at me. Finally he fell asleep, or so we thought. He got up again screaming, we finally took him to urgent care and he (again) has an ear infection and the doc said his tummy sounds like he is having difficulty passing "crap" through his intestines. GREAT. So he prescribed an antibiotic for the ear infection and we just gave him motrin when we got home. So now it's 430 Am and he crashes. YAY, but wait, Chad and I have to be up for work in an hour. So today we will be zombies at work all day. Hopefully he can sleep tonight cause I am tuckered out. Thank you to Chad for helping and staying awake the entire time to help out.