Monday, March 24, 2008

Easter

After an interesting week of Amanda hurting her knee, getting sick and Hayden being a little cranky; Easter weekend was a nice reprieve.

On Saturday we went to an Easter Egg Hunt in Tumwater, where I sit on the Parks Board. It was crazy. A couple hundred kids and 9000 eggs that took about 3 minutes. They had bikes and other prizes to give away, I had never seen anything like that before and it was really neat to see all the kids Battle Royal a bit size Kit-Kat. We got some good pictures and Hayden seemed to enjoy all of the action. We had previously decided that we were not going to get an Easter basket this year since he was so young, but the hunt got us in the mood. We went to Target and bought one and filled it with stuff for us and a movie for him. :)

Sunday was pretty low key, we had steak and stuffing for a "brunch", and it was nice to just hang low for a day.

It will be a busy year for us from here on out, my Administration plan was accepted by the State of Washington and I can now start training. It will be about 50+ hours a week with the hopes that it will be completed sometime in November. 1500 work hours seems like so far away!!

Hope everyone had a great Easter, and that the bunny was good to all.

Love,

Jon, Amanda and Hayden

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Amanda fall down go boom

Sunday was a day we were looking forward to for over a week. Grandma Melissa came up to babysit Hayden while Amanda and I had a day to ourselves. We decided to go into the Cascade mountains and learn how to snowboard. The administrator at Riverside has taught about 10 people how, so he offered to teach us for free. I liked the sound of that. So we got up at 7 to leave by 7:30, (stupid daylight savings time) and got to the mountain by 9.

We both picked it up pretty quick, and by 12 we were already hitting the intermediate slopes. I have to say though, the intermediate slopes are like the hard ones in Wisconsin. We went down twice and decided to get some food. Amanda's legs were really tired and we were all hungry. I forgot how expensive those lodges can be, and $30 later for 2 slices of pizza, a Gatorade, water and a baked potato we headed out.

There were 4 separate hills at the resort, all connected by buses. We waited a bit for the bus and headed to Alpental. We should have known it was going to be a disaster right when we got off the lift. After doing great all day, Amanda fell right into the mesh fencing. After 5 minutes of getting ready we started down the slope. There was a path about 300 yards long and 20 yards wide in the beginning of the run, and Danny and I lead the way down. When we got to the part where it opened up the the rest of the mountain we sat down and waited for Amanda. Half an hour later she still had not come down so I sent Danny down to check on her while I waited in case she did come out.

10 minutes later Danny let me know that she hurt her knee and the ski patrol was going to be taking her down to the first aid office. We met them down there and the patrol put her in the Dopey bed. (Seriously, they had named all he beds after Snow White and the seven dwarfs.) Thankfully it is just a bad strain and she will be OK.

I can't wait to see what happens on our next outing. I will put up some pictures later on this week; even one with the ski patrol taking Amanda down the hill. If you want to check out where you can see it at: http://www.summitatsnoqualmie.com/

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Doctor Visit

We took Hayden to the doctor on Tuesday. Just like we thought, he gained a lot of weight. He is now 13 pounds 13 ounces and is 24 3/4 inches long. It really is amazing how big he has gotten already.

Of course they also gave him his 2 month shots. He was not a fan. When they stuck the needle in he was OK, he just raised his eyebrows. When they pushed the vaccination in though, was another story. I think they could hear him in the next building. That only lasted a minute though, so overall I think he did pretty good for his first set of shots.

That night we didn't get much sleep. He ran a fever for most of the night and was pretty whiny even into the next morning. Once he started feeling better he was back to his normal smiley self. Amanda says no more shots.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

We have a talker...

Mr. Hayden Ollmann is officially a social butterfly. He sure likes to hear his own voice; like his mother. He coos at his mobile at his swing, random old men at the doctors office, and anyone else that will pay attention to him. It is absolutely adorable. Yesterday we called Jon's parents so he could talk to them, he was rather excited. Today we went to Jon's work so everyone could see Hayden. Little did we know he wouldn't sleep because of all the new people and surroundings. I have a feeling that when he grows up he just might be a popular teenager.

Guess when Hayden will arrive!!