Hayesapalooza: May 2011

In March I got to go on a 4 day trip to Puerto Rico with my friends Rachel Soper and Cindy Sandoval. Rachel turned 30 in February so since she sent her husband and his friends(including Brandon) on a ski trip for his 30th he returned the favor by sending her on a trip. We had an amazing time. We basically did Nothing while we were there. My kind of vacation. We did go site seeing and shopping but mainly we were there to sit on the beach. The beach was right outside our hotel after all. We toured El Morro and walked through downtown Puerto Rico, which I must say is beautiful. The Cathedral was breath taking. We happened to be there on Ash Wednesday and when the Priest sang his voice rang out through the streets. Gorgeous! While we were downtown we stopped at a pizzeria/bakery/bar and had the biggest pizza I have ever seen. Our waiter was something else. Only a story that my girlfriends and our husbands will ever know. =) Every.Single.Night we were there we ate Gellato and I'll tell you that when I got home my scale did not thank me for that. This trip is a memory that I will cherish forever. I had such a great time and I'm sad Rachel doesn't turn 30 every year.
Oh and I have you know this was the first time I had left Karter for more than a few hours. I didn't even cry until we were at the Denver airport on our way home. Brandon told me that they went to Gymboree and Karter loved parachute time and that he told the story that entire night. I was sad I had missed that.

The Ocean right outside our hotel

The Beach

This picture does not show how incredibly sunburned I got on our first day there. I was so burned I had purple polka dots on my legs

Our hotel

Hotel Courtyard

El Morro

Rachel and Cindy in the lookout at the fort

The Cathedral

Downtown

A toast to Kyle on our last night in PR

My disgusting swollen sunburned cankles

It's been a long time since my last blog post and I'm sure I have lost my one follower but I did have a good excuse for not updating. Since we live "in the country" (that's what most internet providers think) we had a pretty sorry internet connection using the only internet provider that would even try to give us service. Well after waiting 4 almost 5 long years for COX to get to us they finally did. So we cancelled our "high speed internet" with @link and waited for COX. So now we have real high speed internet and I'm able to sit here and give updates to I'm sure no one but myself.

In the first part of February we had a good sized snow storm hit OK. I'm sure I'm the only one to say this but I hope this trend continues. For the last 2 years we can actually say it snowed here. I loved every minute of it. The first day it hit it was too cold and windy to go out. In fact it was dangerous to be out there for any amount of time. So we waited until the sun came out and for the wind to stop. B got to stay home from work for 3 days due to the conditions. 3 days off work plus the 2 day weekend, we were spoiled. Karter loved watching the snow fall from the front door but as soon as we were out in it he loved it even more. He did have to "warm" up to the idea of it but he quickly did. He didn't want to walk around in the pretty fluffy snow because it was so deep so we let him walk around in the street where it was much more compacted. We enjoyed sledding, painting the snow, making snowballs, making snowmen, shoveling the driveway and watching the kids across the street ski and snowboard off their driveway.

For Valentines Day Karter and Daddy made me flowers. Brandon cut out all 4 flowers and traced Karter's hand print on each one. He used some of my old scrapbooking stickers and decorated them up. Karter colored on a few of them. Then they put on each flower We Love You. B made stems and attached the flowers to them. He pulled out a vase I had put away and had them sitting on the bar along side a VS gift card. It was a great surprise.
Karter and I went to a cupcake shop in town called Cupcakes to Go Go. Everyone had been talking about how wonderful the cupcakes were. So we bought 3 different cupcakes for all of us to share for our special day. Karter had a chocolate chocolate cupcake, B had a peanut butter cup cupcake and I had a red velvet cupcake. I honestly wasn't impressed but it was a nice treat since we don't have cupcakes a lot.
For Brandon gift I made him some chocolate covered strawberries and bought him a pair of tennis shoes. Two of his favorite things. He didn't NEED the shoes at all but they were on sale and he somehow convinced me that he needed a new pair of all black shox's.