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So here I am.. TRYING my hardest to get into the Christmas spirit!
I don't know if I am just not feeling it this year because there is no snow on the ground or because it has just barely become jacket weather.

I have been watching youtube channels on how people have been decorating their homes and making yummy Christmas goodies and now I some what wish that I had started out a bit earlier on making this Christmas a bit more decorative and fun considering it is Hadley's very first Christmas!

So here is what I have decided to do:
I will make Tyler, Hadley and I Christmas stockings and find great little goodies to stuff in them for our family!
And after this Christmas I will head over to Hobby Lobby and go apeshit buying Christmas decorations for next year! All of the decorations are much, much cheaper the day after Christmas... HOORAH!

But until then I will decorate my blog with a cute little Christmas layout!

Have I typed the word "Christmas" enough for you? :)

So here is a little update on what has been going on around the Hays house hold..
Hadley had gotten sick a couple of weeks ago.. Nothing too serious but she did have to be put on antibiotics for a sinus infection and the poor girl had a horrid fever! UGH! I cannot stand antibiotics. They gave her a horrible diaper rash and she was in such a bad mood for about a week. Thankfully, after the antibiotics had all been taken and a few days had passed, the rash disappeared, and I had my wonderful baby boo back! :)

Over the weekend we had Christmas at my Grandparents' house. Hadley had lots and lots of fun hanging out with her cousins and the rest of the family.

i was going to upload a video of her opening her 1st present but for some reason it wouldn't upload :(

but here she is playing pattycake!!:

I also had my 21st birthday! G and Papa babysat for us and we went out to the Buck Horn bar in Llano and got a hotel room right down the road for the night. Let's just say.. it was a long night.. I also was unable to get pictures because I couldn't figure out how to get this video camera to take pictures! UGH! and trust me you don't want to see the footage! :) haha

Yesterday  morning I woke up with a bit of mastitis.. it was sooo painful.. I had fever for a while but I did everything in my power to unclog the pipes and luckily it worked! No antibiotics for me! I still feel a slight pain but nothing compared to how it felt when I woke up. Daddy came home and gave me a wonderful back massage and I felt soo much better. Woke up this morning with no fever! Ahhhh lucked out on that one!

As for my last post about the formula feeding.. I had to stop because of the fact that Hadley got sick and I didn't want to put her through any stress while she was not feeling soo good in the first place. She seems to be all healed up now so I'm thinking about getting her on the bottle again. We shall see.

Well, I guess that is all! Leave me kind words people!

From Breast to Formula

LORD give me strength to be one with patience this morning..
I have been trying to transition Hadley from breast milk to formula... and let me tell you, today, it has been a challenge. Yesterday I dropped one bm feeding and replaced it with formula and she did fine! She drank 2 1/2 oz. and ate cereal. She then wanted to take a nap but the ONLY way she was doing it was if she had NeeNee (bm). soo I strapped her in her baby carrier and she whined a tiny bit and then fell asleep! (miracle). So this morning.. I had been up since about 4:30..off and on. I was EXHAUSTED, then I remembered!... AH yes! I can drink coffee and she can have her formula and by the time her bm feeding rolls around (lunch time) the coffee will have left my system... buutttttt NO. She was not having the formula this morning after she ate her cereal and I had drank 2.. count them.. 2! cups of coffee... NO BUENO. I drank about 2 bottles of water after that and kept trying to give Hadley the bottle.. but NOPE. UGH! sooo she kept screaming and I finally gave in and gave her the boob. Poor baby. I really do not want to push this on her too much and make her feel like I'm just being mean to her.. but I seriously and tired of breastfeeding. I know that there are those people out there that will give me hell for this.. and I used to care what others thought... but now I'm saying F**K IT! I can only breast feed for however long I feel that I can stand it.. and right now I feel like I am done!

So does anyone have tips on how I can make this transition a little bit easier on Hadley and myself?? I would greatly appreciate POSITIVE and informative feedback on this! please and thank you!

So on another note.. It's the 1st of December! YAAYY! Soo happy! I love December! Birthdays, Christmas, cold weather! ahhh couldn't ask for more!!

Hadley has now learned to hold her sippy cup up and drink from it on her own! sooo proud of my smart baby girl!

Where does the time go?!

7 months.

Hadley is now 7 MONTHS OLD! Oh mY GoOdNesS!  She has reached soo many great milestones:
waving byebye (she did this TODAY!)
crawling
standing up (with the..hardly any..  assistance of me and dada, or furniture)
saying dada, mama, baba (even though she rarely drinks for a bottle) ?
jumping ( MY GOSH THAT GIRL CAN JUMP!)
eating all different types of food!:
She absolutely LOVES peaches. They're her FAVE!


You know... when I first had Hadley people would tell me all of the time.."Enjoy her being that small.. they grow soooo fast." I always thought it was just one of those things that people just .. well.. said. haha
But, they were right! She has grown entirely too fast.. and I miss being able to just cuddle her up in my arms and watch her sleep soo soundly.

The love that I have for this little girl is far beyond what I what I ever could have imagined before I had her. This is truly the tightest bond that I have ever had with anyone and I really couldn't imagine my life without her.

I LOVE YOU HADLEY!!! xoxoxo

                                                                                                         



 
                                                                                                                     

SLUMP.

  So here is a couple of things that you (who ever is reading this..) have missed out on since I last blogged... Hadley is now saying "mama" :) and she is crawling!!! My baby girl is growing up sooooo fast! I cannot believe she is already 6 months old! That is crazy! I am sooo proud of her and love her more than I can even express!! ahhh soo anyway.. here are some pictures for your viewing delight!

waking up from her 30 min nap.

"how dare you take a picture of me!"

Ultra sound.. yawning..

summer 09

night before valentines day :)

      I'm sorry that it has been a while since I have blogged.. I was waiting for something interesting in my life to happen so that I could type about it.. but honestly.. I ended up with nothing. I will try my hardest not to be a negative nancy on this blog.. but... ahhhh screw it! Honesty is the best policy.. isn't it?!
    
     I have been in a HORRIBLE slump this past week.. mainly from being soo lonesome. There is nothing within a 20 mile radius from us besides more RVs.. and dirt... I have walked around trying to meet people.. but no one seems to interested in hanging out with a 20 year old stay at home mom.. and to be completely honest.. I'm not all that interested in hanging out with the people around here either! It's not that I am stuck up or anything.. I just can't seem to click with anyone.

    It would be great if I had some family that were close.. but I don't... so here I am... with Hadley. DON'T get me wrong.. I LOVE HADLEY! I absolutely adore her.. but I need that grown up talk. I need out of this RV.. I need something. I seriously almost broke down in tears yesterday... but I tried to keep myself busy with house chores and youtube. I know.. I'm pathetic...

    OKAY.. I'm done sulking now! Promise! I just had to get that off of my chest... Today should be a bit more exciting!! Why you ask? Welllllll.... we get to go grocery shopping! hahahah Most people would dread the thought... but I see it as an excuse to get out of the house and breath in some fresh air.. and remind myself that there is other stuff going on in the world besides staring at these same old walls!!

 

My Little Warrior (Fighting Sleep)!

     Tonight is just one of those nights.
Does anyone else's child fight going to sleep even though they are exhausted beyond belief? I used to be able to just stick her on the boob and nurse her til she fell asleep.. but lately it has been a fight to get her to go to dream land. The past couple of nights I have just been sticking her in her baby carrier and pacing the RV until she clonked out, but it is not happening tonight (mind you.. I am nursing her right now and not just ignoring her while I blog). And it's not just night time when we have a problem with this.. it is during the day as well! Hadley will lay down for a nap.. and only 10 minutes into it she is waking up and ready to play! NOT understanding this.. I rarely ever drink caffeine.. I feed her really good before naps.. and I make it a nice and relaxing atmosphere.. Tyler and I are guessing it's because she doesn't want to miss a thing that is going on around her (and there is absolutely nothing exciting going on.. just us hanging out in the RV most of the time). My second guess is that maybe it is because we just moved to a new area and she's not used to it? Hmm.. I'm not sure.. but I'm ready for her to get back on schedule and start taking her real naps and falling asleep better at bed time.

SHE FINALLY FELL ASLEEP :)
Ahhhhhhh me time :) I would say that it is mommy and daddy time.. but daddy is out cold from working soo hard and making money to support our little family. I am soo very proud of him. I knew that he wanted to spend more time unemployed and enjoy riding the new jetski that he remodeled and turned into a hot rod, but he knew that the responsible thing to do would be to go back to work.
            
             I honestly do not know one other man his age that has his responsibilities in order and is as mature as he is.. Ohh.. and he cooks for me :) I really did good finding the right person to make a family and spend the rest of my life with. I am so grateful to have him in my life.. and I really need to start expressing that to him more often. Sometimes I just get sooo caught up in my own world and being a mommy that I forget the other important thing, besides being a mommy, and that is showing my love for my husband. Hmm... maybe that will be something for me to do this week *Think of a cute & romantic way to show my appreciation for him :)

On another note.. Hadley ate her green beans today and she liked them! I was very impressed with how much she ate. ( I didn't over feed her though.. I've learned my lesson with that! ) Someone told me that I should just keep feeding her as long as she is reaching for the spoon or even just opening her mouth up for a bite... but this child will eat until she's spitting up like crazy! I felt really bad after that happened the first time and I'm not going down that road again! Next we will be trying peas! I really hope she likes them more than I do.. I CAN'T STAND THEM! Oh, and there is this website that I love to go to which I'm sure a lot of people have already been too.. but in case you haven't heard.. it's www.mamanatural.com and she was vlogging about all natural teething biscuits! Most definitely going to try those out in the near future.

       I have a question for you mommas out there! When is it necessary to take your baby to the Dr. when it comes to a diaper rash? Hadley has had a diaper rash for over a week now and I just can't seem to help it go away.. I've tried baby powder.. Butt cream.. changing her diaper as often as possible.. and washing her thoroughly.. I use all natural wipes and chemical free diapers!! I seriously do not know where to go from here... A couple months back Hadley had a yeast rash and the Ped. gave her some nystatine (sp?) and he said I could use it in the future if she were to sprout up with a yeast again.. so I started her on it again today and it still looks the same.. maybe I should give it a couple of days and see where that leaves us? Anyway, let me know what you guys think!! I love advise and am willing to give yall's suggestions a try!

Okay.. I better go off to dreamland while I have the opportunity! Night Night World!!

NEW HOME

      WHEW!... Things have been incredibly stressful and busy! I know that I said I would try and post a blog at least every other day... but things have been soo up in the air that I have hardly had any time to breathe! I know that Tyler will not like me posting stuff about our personal life.. but I love writing and sharing with my friends.. or "friend" haha... and like I have said before.. I believe it will be nice to look back on and read later on in the future..

     To start with Tyler and I had been running REALLY low on money so my grandparents had given us some work to do out on the ranch a few days ago.. so we loaded up the RV and went out the the country side to make some money! On the way there Tyler got a call from his mother saying that a job in Franklin was starting to finish up and they needed a few extra hands. They wanted Tyler!! It wasn't the BEST time to get a call for work.. but work is work.. so after we hurriedly finished up the work out on the ranch ( 1 day and a half ) we loaded up the RV again... and headed out towards Franklin.

    Mind you.. this was on a Friday.. and Tyler had to be at work on MONDAY!! UGH!! Soo we had to quickly load up everything and decide what we needed and didn't need. ( I'm sure there's still a lot of stuff that we need that we left behind and there's tons of crap that we brought that we definitely do not need!) 

   We got in our RV park around 10 pm Sunday night and set up camp. Hadley did sooo well on the drive there ( it was only 2 1/2 hrs away from home) but still! I was very proud of her :) Soo... there's noo cool people in this park.. hAAHA.. mainly just old farts... but they are all very friendly and are good helping hands! Tyler and I got a week free of parking because his parents had paid for a week to park their RV here a while back and only stayed for one day because they found a better spot. (Which wouldn't be too hard to do! haha) Soo the owner gave us a week of parking!!

    On another note.. Hadley has been growing up sooooo fast! She was pretty much crawling around on the bed while I type this post!! She loves squash and carrots, but she HATES green beans! It was the funniest thing ever watching her push the spoon of green beans away and watch her face turn purple from getting soo frustrated! hahahah I know.. I have a sick sense of humor! But it CRACKS ME UP! haha.. I just noticed that I have no pictures on here... so here it is for your viewing pleasure!! ::

Tyler captured this one ^^

Justin's 30th Birthday! hahaha

being a dork

wayyyy to busy watching YO GABBA GABBA to look at the camera

and again

our RV spot!

our BEAUTIFUL RV park...... hah....

Yay for girl days!

Well I have not been up to much today! Just been kicking it at home with some sex and the city and my baby girl! Woke up around 8 and got some Mexican soup going in the crock pot.. Ohh my gosh it smells delicious! I really can't wait to munch out on it. It's a really nice, easy recipe that is great to know when you're busy with a baby!

Tyler's been busy the past couple of days working on the jet ski.. Which doesn't bother me at all because it is going to be fun to finally get to ride it again when he finishes it! And it will be even faster! Haha. And it's just nice to see him all sweaty with grease marks all over his body while he works :) definitely hott!

Hadley still has snott central going on in her nose.. Poor baby girl! But she seems too not mind too much.. Still a happy little girl that is cuter than ever! Still doing everything I can to make it easier on her!

Made a trip over to my brother in-laws house with Tyler and Hadley and got to visit a bit. It's crazy thinking about how Hadley is going to be up and running around like her neice and nephew in only a couple short years! It really is crazy how fast children grow up..

Well off to dream land! Been a great day :)

Wow.. I literally just tried to post a blog twice and they got erased each time!!! Ughh, now I won't be in such a mood to type a lot.. But bare with me! Haha

Pretty much all I was babbling about was how Sasha is the one that has inspired me to start blogging all over again and she doesn't even know it! :P I used to read and write all of the time and I have no idea why I ever even stopped! I have to say that I have missed it. I think a blog will be something nice to look back on and read a few years from now, because I just love it when I find old diaries and pictures..

Writing isn't the only thing I have missed though!! I'm really, really, really missing the slab! It rained a little bit while we were gone but it hardly even put a dent in this dry ass weather! Tyler and I have decided that it will need to rain for 2 weeks straight for the weather and land to be anything like it was last year.. Which is really sad to say. I was looking forward to taking pictures of Hadley in the blue bonnets but I guess I will just have to save that for another time.

Anyway, so today has been a pretty busy day! Considering that we had been in Lubbock for over a week! We cleaned out the fridge, went grocery shopping, did laundry, and Tyler made me a delicious dinner: steak, asparagus with mushrooms and garlic, and bacon wrapped jalapeños stuffed with cream cheese! Mmmmm. Soooo freakin good!

Hadley seems to be doing better with her allergies now that we're back home.. But I went ahead and picked up a humidifier at the grocery store. We'll just have to wait and see if this does us any good! It sucks having to use saline spray and a nose sucker on her! I hate making her cry but it has to be done!

Okay, well I better go ice our chocolate cake that I made for dessert!! :D mmm soo excited! Will post pix later!!