Happy Birthday Kevin

Today is Kevin's 8th birthday!

Kevin was due on May 13th, which was Mother's Day in 2001. I was confident that my second child would be early like my first so when I was pregnant with Kevin (baby two), my goal was to make it past April 28th, the date of Uncle Kevin's wedding.

On May 2nd, I took the last 2 hours of my work day and cleaned my entire office area then went to church. During church, baby, like every other church service got very wiggly but this time it hurt. It was very appropriate that once the preacher started preaching, I went into labor as I think it was the preaching that made baby move the most.

We arrived at the hospital at 9:00 p.m. where grandma & grandpa, grammy, Kyle and our friend Debbie sat with us until baby was born at 3:50 a.m. But when baby was born, he was a boy and we did not have a boy name ready as we just could not agree on a first name. The middle name (my father's name) had already been determined but not a fist name. It was 3:00 p.m. before baby was named Kevin Daniel. It was Chris' baba and I who picked the name. Don't get me wrong as Chris liked the name but we already had 1 Kevin in the family who we saw often and he thought it would be too confusing, well 8 years later there are 3 Kevins and it's not that bad.

Below is Kevin's hospital picture. He was 7 lbs, 6 oz and 21 inches long.

Kevin looking out over the beach from Santa Monica pier on vacation last month.

Happy Birthday Kevin. We love you Boo!

Kevin Dancing at California Adventure

I will get more of the Disney pictures up along with the baseball pictures but here is Kevin on our third day goofing around. He was in a great mood.

Kyle at Player Evaluations

So I am a little behind on the blogging so this one is actually from early February where Kyle went to his baseball player evaluations. All the coaches were there to make their notes for the upcoming draft.

Kyle did a great job with his fielding and hitting.

Flat Stanley

A couple of weeks ago, one of my nephews in Alaska had a school project where he needed pictures of Flat Stanley at different places. My brother scanned in Flat Stanley and we printed him out and took him with us for a couple of days. It was fun.

This is our all time favorite server at Red Robin near our house. The boys think he rocks. He is great to the kids.

Playing at the Park

So it's been a while since I blogged and I really need to catch up but here is a picture of the boys goofing around at the park today. We walked down and the boys played catch then went over to the playground. It was COLD and Kevin still did not wear a coat. He is just like his daddy, just does not get cold that easily.

Loving Brothers

Chris and I are both sitting at our computers and the boys are on the couch watching TV. I notice that they are a little quiet and look over and this is what I see. The boys are side by side on the couch sharing a blanket sleeping. Don't they look so cute?

I love it when they are sleeping.

Kyle's Award

Yesterday Kyle received an award below from his school. Each quarter teachers nominate 10 students from each grade level for Character Traits Recognition and this quarter the traits were generosity, honesty, trustworthiness, patience. The school has a dessert where parents can attend and watch the child receive the award, Baba went with us. At the dessert reception they passed out programs and this was what was in it for Kyle.

Kyle – Awarded by Mr. Kitzman
“Kyle sets very high standards for himself and he always demonstrates the type of dedication and character that will help him reach his ambitious goals. Honesty and trustworthiness are just two of his many attributes.”

Way to go Kyle!!

Christmas 2008

I'm a little behind on the blogging so I thought I would play catch up. Christmas Day started out with breakfast at Baba's with the entire "H" clan except for those that don't live here. There were 35 of us from 85 year old to 3 months old. Chris' grandmother cooks breakfast with the help of his dad, Mark, for all us along with each family bringing a small something. Bacon, eggs, sausage links, hash browns, biscuits and sausage gravy, casseroles and rolls. It is great and we love to get together with the family.

We then went over to my sister's house to have Christmas dinner. It snowed and snowed Christmas day so the older kids went outside and played in the snow and the adults played cards while dinner was cooking. We ate dinner and opened presents and had a great time.

We finished our day by going to the movies (our family tradition) and my sister, brother-in-law and their girls joined us this year. All in all, we had a great day.

My youngest nephew playing inside while the older kids played in the snow.
The kids outside in the snow.

And laying down in the snow. They had a blast.