I've got ALOT to talk about!!

So I apologize for the "lack" of posting lately. We have been so super busy that I haven't had the chance to sit down and download my pics and then try and put something together on here. It's baseball season so not only are we busy all week long, our weekends have been jammed packed also with lots of fun things! Life is going great! The boys are continuing to grow like weeds (I seriously would like some weed killer sometimes to make them stop!!) and I'm amazed everyday by how much they interact more and more and I can see the love and bond growing stronger. It melts my heart to see them laugh at each other and play together. Hayden is so good most of the time and Austin is even starting to get mad at him when he takes things from him. Hayden will grab a toy from him and Austin will look at me and scream, like "mom, help me." Hayden is becoming such a big boy and finally he's starting to talk. Today he stepped on my foot and turned and said in his most sweetest voice, "sorry" and it was the first time I've heard him genuinely say it and it was so sweet. It's so nice to finally feel like he's getting somewhere with talking. He's a late bloomer in that area for sure! Austin is growing bigger and bigger and I cannot believe that today he is 9 months old. It seems as though I just gave birth to him yesterday. So bittersweet. He loves to eat and has even started to get some tastes of "grown up" food and boy does he love it! Anytime he sees you eating in front of him he yells at you to give him a bite. It's so funny. He's still not crawling which is so weird for me cause Hayden was almost walking at this point but that's ok, I'm totally fine with having one less mobile child running around right now. He's really trying though so I know it won't be long. He gets really frustrated when he gets in position and then tries to move and plop onto his belly he goes. His main way of moving is by bouncing on his bottom across the floor. He can go clear across the living room doing it. Austin is my huge mama's boy. Well I could go on forever but instead I'll do captions to my million pictures I've posted to update a bit:

So Ryan's college baseball team (Lane Community College) had a 10 year reunion last weekend and we had an absolute blast! I was a little nervous going into it because I knew no one but I had a ton of fun with the other wives and Ryan was like a kid in a candy store around his old baseball buddies. It was super cute to watch and made me even want to tear up a bit thinking about my own boys doing this down the road. So here are a few pics I took.

Oh to reminisce...

This is Hayden and Austin's first tub together experience. Needless to say it didn't last long. Austin is like a fish outta water in the tub and goes crazy bouncing around and Hayden just isn't quite careful enough yet with him. It was cute to see them in there together though!

Hayden loves to love on Austin (for now anyways)

Just a random pic of my little man. He loves to jump!

OSU Baseball season is here! One of our favorite times of the year!

I can't believe my baby is 9 months now! He's so cute and I fall more in love with him everyday! How could you not with those big beautiful blue eyes??? Oh and his cute little chubbers!

First try at a sippy cup, not too sure just yet but he thinks they are fun to chew on! :)

Still just has those 2 teeth...Hayden only had those 2 at his 1st birthday so Austin is looking to be the same. Love how they stick out in pictures now.

"Who me?

These next few are from a fun morning recently where the boys played together and I got to take a few pics of them loving on each other as well...my favorite times!

Look at those eyes!

My 2 sweet boys

Brotherly Love...These ones melt my heart!

And this one...love to see them interacting and having fun!







One of our new favorite things is to take wagon walks when we get the chance. The boys both love being able to ride together and it's fun and different than the usual stroller. Can't wait to get some more nice days in to do it more often. (This particular time it was freezing!)

Ready for a ride!






Ellie and Austin are catching up! They love each other and I love to see them play now more as well. Ellie is more into Hayden and messing up his things :) than Austin but soon Austin will be able to follow the big kids in the big kid room...

Sweet baby hugs!





Now that Uncle Drew is living back at home, Hayden gets to take advantage and hang out with him when he goes to Grandma and Grandpa's house to play periodically during the week. He loves playing sports with him. We try and get him over there when it's nice to play outside because their backyard is a lot of fun for him with lots of sticks to pick up, tree house to climb, lots of room to run and the basketball court. Every little boys dream...

Uncle Drew explaining something to Hayden

Of course there's always baseball!




So baseball has (of course) became one of Hayden's favorite things these days. He's constantly talking about it and every time we go to leave the house he says, "go watch baseball" and he pretends everything is a bat and ball and hits things around the house constantly. He got to go to practice once and we've been to a few of Ryan's games now too and Hayden loves it. He loves to be in the dug out and around the "big kids." When the games are over and it's time to leave he's not so much a happy boy though. Ryan laughs because he tells him he loves that he is loving baseball but he needs to not throw fits when it's time to leave the field. On this particular day Ryan had to go down and mow the field so we walked down and Hayden hit balls off the tee and practiced running bases while daddy mowed.

Taking a capri sun break.

Daddy taught him the trick to picking up the balls after you hit by using your hat to carry them back to the bucket. This was so cute to watch!

Austin got his first glimpse of a Beaver baseball game at the Civil War games up at PGE park for the weekend. He did perfect both Saturday and Sunday. The first night he slept most of the game which you can see in the pic. Game started shortly before his bedtime so he was ready to snooze soon after. He slept almost entire game. Then on Sunday he fell asleep before it started and slept most of the game again and then was up for a bit and then back asleep at the end. He was so good and had so much fun watching all the fans!

Such a trooper beaver fan!

We are getting ready to redo our front yard so every chance we get we've been busy tearing out the old stuff. We took one day and really got at it and Hayden was the best little helper. He stuck with it all day long, raking, shoveling, and throwing stuff in the yard bin. It was kind of fun to have the whole fam out there. (Austin in the pack and play being our foreman)

Such a hard worker!

Easter egg dying was a lot of fun this year as Hayden was actually into doing it. He was a perfect little boy taking his time and being ever so patient for each egg to sit in the dye. He would check them with the spoon and say "not ready" and drop them back in. It was so cute!

He was so careful at placing them in the drying box.

This picture makes me laugh because Hayden accidentally dropped one into the dye and it splashed out of the cup and we laughed...so then it was a game everytime he put an egg in he dropped it so it splashed out. It was fun!






Easter day Hayden examining all that the Easter bunny had brought him.

Bad choice on the confetti stuff...he had more fun throwing that everywhere than checking out his stuff!

Hayden was so into egg hunting this year! What fun it was to watch him seek them out. Everytime he'd see one he'd either say, "there's another one" or "there's another egg" and it was so funny to watch him get so excited about it! Poor kid had to egg hunt by himself being the only kiddo there and able but he had tons of fun. Excited with each and every egg he found!

It was so funny because everytime we put Austin up to see an egg, Hayden would run right up to it and snatch it! Austin didn't really care about them anyways!

Back to working on the yard, Hayden and Ryan are busy spreading the dirt for the new yard. Hayden again being such a big helper!

On a very exciting note...my brother finally has went to court and is getting to see his son and gets to bring him home this weekend! We are so excited to see our nephew after 6 months and can't wait for all the fun with the kiddos together! Sunday we are hitting the zoo and then lots more fun stuff while he is here for a few days! I'll be sure to post pics of our fun!!