me and my daddy's first fishing trip

me and my daddy took our first fishing trip together. even though i'm not old enough to have my own fishing pole yet, i had a lot of fun snuggling up with him and watching him catch his fishies! thanks daddy for a fun day!









we took uncle justin and lizzy and grandpa jim with us! lizzy was all decked out in her pink life jacket and had her matching pink fishing pole. even her fishing bait at the end of her line was pink! she had her grandpa and her daddy and her uncle jordy ready to go out and buy their own pink poles. she outfished them all! you go girly!

first of many....

the cold bug hit hadley and mommy real hard the week after we got home from arkansas. it was aweful! hadders hates the green suction bulb with a passion as a result. she became miss cuddle bugs and was miserable for about 5 days. we brought ellie, her humidifier elephant friend into the family...it busted out the humidity for a couple of days.....and that, with vapor baths and saline drops, got us headed back in the right direction!

razorback at heart for forever

we just wanted to say thank you so much to grandma and grandpa for letting me and mommy stay with you and for everything you did to make our arkansas trip soo memorable. i love all of you and i love arkansas. just like my mommy, i'll be a razorback fan and a walmart lover for forever! i hope we get to come back soon!

izzy turf tradition

on the last morning we were there, grandpa kirk took me and my mommy to his traditional izzy turf business meeting breakfast at mcdonalds. mommy told me that her and daddy actually talked to each other for one of the first times at that very same mcdonalds. who would've thought five years later they would have me?!? thanks grandpa! i had fun, though i was pretty sleepy towards the end:

just hadders in arkie

i had so much fun going to arkansas with my mommy. we had so much fun playing and visiting and meeting everyone there for the first time! here's a couple more of my mommy's favorite memories of me there:

more great grandmas and grandpas

i got to meet my great-grandma and grandpa while we were there, too! they live just down the road from where grandma teri and grandpa kirk live. i loved their house, and they loved me!

here fishie fishie

uncle ryan and grandpa kirk decided it would be fun to go see the big fish at the flw professional walmart fishing tournament weigh-in, and they decided to take me, mom, and grandma with them! we did have a lot of fun, though we didn't win the new fishing boat they had for the raffle :( uncle tyler wasn't able to go with us....him and a buddy were in a fishing tourney of their own that day. we were happy for them, though! they won their tournament and made lots of $$!

grandma teri loves her too

we were so excited to get to see grandma teri, too! she's loves her hadderbugs soo much!





we thought it'd be fun to visit grandma at school! she had a lot of girls that she works with that were excited to meet me, too. i wasn't use to all that noise, but i think i was a real big hit with all of her 2nd graders as well! we had fun playing, napping in her reading loft, watching the kids make indian teepees out of tortilla shells, and listening to their pow-wow music on their drums.











apparently hadders hadn't been as amused the whole day as i thought she had been! she found these to be quite fun.....and i figured i'd better post these pics, especially for those anti-headband and bow members of the family!!

the big surprise

after mom picked us up at the airport, she tried her best to find out what dad was up to without spilling the beans! of course, he was mowing lawns in fayetteville and so we just decided to head home and wait. it worked out great though! when he got home mom was in the garage holding hadley and when he walked up, she said "i'm babysitting!" he got a funny look on his face, apparently trying to figure out who in the world's baby she was holding, and that's when i ran out of the house and yelled "surprise" and the light bulb moment was apparent! although it was funny...like he had connected the dots but still couldnt figure out how we had gotten us there! a big grandpa-ish smile crossed his face and it only reconfirmed my feelings of how important this trip was for hadley to meet her grandpa kirk and her uncle ryan and uncle tyler.



her grandpa did say that he never imagined he could love being a grandpa as much as he does! i think she's got him hooked!







nobody's response to hadley was better than her uncle tyler's! the first time he got to see her......."she's bite size!" i think she stole uncle ryan's heart, too. they were soo sweet with her and she thinks they are the very best uncles in the whole world!