2 weeks

Oliver's 2 week check up:  11 lbs!  And we thought Henry was big! 

Oliver's First pictures!

The Clarkes came today to see baby Oliver and Brittany took some pictures for me.  His jaundice is really bad, so we had to make them black and white.  :/

 

Bilirubin kept going up so we had to make several trips to the dr to have it checked.  He was poked 4 times before it finally started going down.  Poor little buddy.  :(

Oliver Grant Hayes

Oliver was born at 4:12am November 19th. He weighed 9.8 lbs and was almost 22 inches long. Big and completely perfect!!

It's "go time!"

39 weeks and 6 days! Heading to the hospital Sunday night. Contractions about 5 minutes apart. I am ready to get this baby OUT!!! Boy or girl?!? We can't wait to find out!

Magnolias!

The magnolia's are in bloom in our neighborhood and my kids LOVE them!!

Half Iron Man/Relay day!!

Big day today!  Some of the Sharps, Clarkes and Hayes' participated in a half iron man today in Columbus, GA!  Adam and Andrew did the whole thing (1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike, 13.1 milke run) and we had two relay teams.  Team 1: Sarena (swam and biked) and Travis (ran), and Team 2: Makenzie (swam), Trevor (biked) and me (I ran).  The racers went down to Columbus Friday afternoon and stayed the night.  This was an early morning pic, about 6am, heading to the start...

The racers!!!  Woo Hoo!!!

My relay team!

Andrew, about to swim.  He is third from the right in the back row...

 Andrew coming in off the bike...

 Andrew and I running.  I was so relieved when Andrew and Trevor came in from the bike around the same time so Andrew waited for me to start running.  (Andrew had the latest start time because of his age bracket so he was the last to enter the water...) I was pretty nervous about running the half by myself...so it definitely worked out in my favor!!  Thanks, babe, for running with me!  I seriously could not have done it with out you!

At the finish line!

Britt took these next two pictures of my kids and I thought they were adorable...

Our fam!  Glad it is over!! :)

I completed my half marathon in 2:27.  Made it under my goal of 2:30.  Andrew did his half iron in 6:24.  (That is his birthday, by the way....Crazy!!!)

Wetsuit!

Andrew got a wetsuit for his half iron man coming up this weekend.  He went and tried it out in our neighbor's pool.  He said he felt like he was floating!  Guess that's a good thing...  ?? 

The Zoo...again

We stayed up at mom and dad's and met the Moore's at the zoo, who were in Atlanta visiting Jen's family over Easter weekend.  We sure have enjoyed our zoo membership this year!!

Henry, Emma and Lily (Emma turned 2 in February)

Little Charlie.  Not a very good picture, but he sure is a sweet little guy.  Lily, of course, adored him and was all over him most of the time!

 Rides on the carousel!

 And the train!  Getting a good picture of these three was impossible!  Emma does NOT like the camera...and well, my two are hit or miss. 

So glad we got a chance to see them!  We sure love the Moore's!

Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday was busy for us!  Andrew was in a small choir at our church, so it was just me and the kids in the morning.  This was on our way to church...

 A picture of Andrew in the choir...

Our church took free professional pictures of families as an Easter gift. 

After lunch, we headed up to Grandma and Grandpa's for dinner!  A fun, busy day!  Happy Easter!!

Easter celebration at preschool!

Easter celebrations at school this year were not quite as expected.  Early this morning, it was misty and cold!  They moved the 2 year old egg hunt inside! 

 Henry's class!  (This is both the Tues/Thurs and M/W/F classes together)

The mist finally stopped so they got to go outside for the horse ride (I remember Lily doing this...)

And coloring with chalk.  Doesn't he look so grown up in this picture?!?!

Lily's class had a field trip later in the morning that we all went to at a local park for their egg hunt.  Of course, it was cold and misty again and I didn't even bring my camera.  Oops.  But her class had to only find the eggs with their name on it.  It was fun!! 

Strawberries!

Clarkes and Grandma and Grandpa came down today to go strawberry picking at Elliott Farms!  It was an awesome day for it and the strawberries were terrific!!

Lily and Kaylin

 A trip to Elliott Farms would not be complete without relaxing on the porch swings and eating fresh strawberry ice cream.  Yum!

Relaxing like a true boy...

Sweet Mika!

my rosy cheek  boy!

Later that day, we celebrated grandpa's bday a little early with strawberry shortcake!  Delicious!!



Spring Break 2012

For a couple of days during the kids' spring break, we headed down to Hilton Head Island with our friends' the Elsworths.  Dad's had to stay behind and work, so it was just moms and kids.  The first day we were there, it was a little chilly, but that didn't stop the kids from playing in the sand and getting wet! 

It was a little windy too...

Movie night!  We stayed at our friend Pam's condo from church.  It was perfect and close to everything!

Thankfully, the next day it was warm enough to get out and play at the beach.  The water was chilly, but we didn't mind.

Lily loved jumpin' the waves! 

She was either jumping waves or playing in the sand.  We built a pretty cool sand castle, which the boys crushed eventually!  Too tempting!

The boys had a blast with the squirt guns!

 Such a fun day at the beach!!

Later that day we brought dinner to Sea Pines, where there was an awesome park, the light house, a marina, lots of neat shops...

 We found a yummy ice cream shop!

And walked out to the pier...

The park had a neat tire swing and a tree house, where we ate dinner. 

Our trip was short, but it was great to get away and get some sand between our toes.  We LOVE the beach!!