OMG Deaken is ONE!!! Yes we named our son Deaken since the last post we made was well over a year ago time sure flies even if you are not ready for it too!…. LOL any way he is a total and complete monster !!! He eats anything and everything. On his first Birthday he ate his entire smash cake and I am sure if we would have given him the sheet cake he would have eaten that too! His Birthday was perfectly themed for him with monsters! He is such a turd he likes to do everything in his own time and on his terms he is so opposite of Kenadie it is Fun. He is a total snuggle bug and has SUPER curly hair little afro baby!  Oh goodness I will do my best to post more I have some very funny family stories that would be fun to share so I will get to that… (hopefully before another year passes LOL)

Here we go again.....

So I am going to work on keeping a blog again.. So everyone can follow along with our crazy life! So the 2012 upadate (skipped a WHOLE year LOL)

Family: Kellen and I are expecting our second and last child a baby Boy Febuary 7th. I will be having a C-Section in Pullman and the name is narrowed down but still undecided. We also bought a house in Ritzville that we are in the process of moving into which will be nice to have some extra space.

Kellen: is working as a support Manager at Wal Mart in Pullman and really enjoys working there. He is pursing the Walmart Corperate ladder and hopefully by July or so of this year he will be promoted to an Assistant Manager. He cannot be promoted to that position in the Pullman so he will have to go to a different store so we have lots of options to look into. After he is promoted he will then stay in that position for atleast 2 years and then he can apply to be a Co-Manager or a General Manager. Also he switched majors again to business (Not 100% on the exact degree) but it is all good because Wal Mart is paying for it! AWESOME.

Brooke: Brandy and I are running the bar in Ritzville called the "Pastime" it has been an great adventure and learning experience. So far it has done pretty well and we are excited to see where it goes and takes us in the future. I am also getting ready for the new baby to be here which is only 16 days away and moving, packing ect! So that has kept me busy busy busy.

Kenadie: Is now 2 and very much a two year old! She is talking very well, running around like a mad women and everything else. We took some Ballet lessons which she really enjoyed except for one of the other little girls would always hug her and pull on her which Kenadie did NOT like so we stopped that for now but will probably pick it back up again in the near future after we have moved and are settled in. She loves to SING any song (even ones she doesn't know) which is pretty entertaining. She is a big "help" or atleast in her mind she is. She loves to help me sweep, do laundry, wipe down everything.... and pretty much just make a mess lol

Baby Hays: is doing well too! everything is how is should be looking for this part of the pregnancy and we havn't had any real issues at all so overall it hasn't been to bad. We are just tying up a few loose ends and counting the days until he makes his grand entrance

Take Care!
Always,
 The Hays Family!

Our Christmas Agenda

Christmas is well under way for our family! We are spending time at Kellen’s parent’s house with his Mom, dad, sister and niece. Tuesday I am going to Spokane to a barista class that our coffee roaster we are going to use is putting on which should be a ton of fun. They have the Italian national champion barista coming in for the day and putting on a class( Yes they have barista championships….Yes most of the people are, well lets just say interesting LOL…they also have latte art competitions and “Cupping” competitions). Wednesday we are headed to Moses Lake to make some Tamales Yummy! And spend Christmas eve and Christmas morning with my daddio, Lisa and my sisters. Christmas afternoon we are headed to my mom’s house with my sisters to spend some time there and Suday the 26th Courtney is going to stop by and hang out too. So we should have lots of fun in the busy week ahead of us but it will be nice to spend time with the family and see everybody!




Kenadie is still doing really well, being a crazy but health baby! She is walking and running everywhere, spinning circles and doing her best to climb on anything that she can possibly reach. She has a small vocabulary that includes: Baby, mama, dada, papa, num num (Food, she also does sign language for this) puppy, buh bye and uh-oh. I think this is it. She also does sign language for: Done and More. She is a lot of fun and keeps us on our toes. It is great to see her learn and do more! Time is definitely flying by! We wish you all Happy Holidays and I will do my best to post pictures later!



~Brooke

Thanksgiving Feast!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year with great friends and family. We ended up going to Ritzville and rented the local golf course so we could celebrate with lots of people. In attendance we had Kellen’s Mom Elaine, Kellen’s dad Tooter, Kellen’s sister Hillary, Our niece Brooklynn, Tanner Hillary’s Boyfriend, Ricks mom Rita, Ricks dad John, all of us girls ( Brooke, Courtney, Brandy, Cassie) and of course Kellen and Kenadie. We had a couple more on our guest list that weren’t able to make it because of the down pour of snow that happen to “rain” on our parade. Making sure all of the food was hot from my mom’s house to the golf course was a bit of challenge but we made it. Besides the mashed potatoes trying to catch the house on fire the food was pretty good! Ok so it was probably my / my mom’s fault that we tried to catch the house on fire (for me again but that’s a story for another day) we put the food in aluminum pans so we could heat them/ keep them warm in the oven. Well the butter on top melted all over the inside of the stove and the potatoes decided to act like a volcano and erupt everywhere catching on fire in the oven. Needless to say the house was FILLED with smoke and the fire alarm kept going off, but nothing was burnt and everything tasted pretty good! We didn’t quite make it up for black Friday shopping like we hoped because we stayed up way to late playing games and having fun. However we managed to make it up to Spokane the next day before all the sales were over. We scored a couple of movies and knocked out a bit of Christmas shopping. Personally I think Black Friday has truly sucked the last couple of years!!!

~Brooke

Disney On Ice

Kenadie, Glama (My mom) and I went to Disney on ice! It was a blast! Kenadie really really liked it.We gave a her a baby "poof" hair style and some sparkles. We dressed he in a fleece outfit so she would stay wark without a coat. At the show she would watch all of the skaters go around the rink, watch all of the people walk up and down the stair and point to every kid in sight and say “baby”. She did pretty good with staying in her seat there were a couple of times during a slower paced act or where the music was very mellow that she would get a little bored and wormy. It also didn’t help that is slightly interfered with her regular nap time so she was on the verge of crabbiness, but we really did have a good time! After the show we went out to lunch at Black Angus and took her Great Grandma out for lunch as an early birthday gift. It of course was delicious! We did a bit of shopping at Hobby Lobby (one of my FAVORITE stores) Then we headed to Wal-Mart in airway to get the Thanksgiving shopping done and I am sure my mom and I looked like totally dorks sitting in each aisle debating if we were getting enough of everything to feed all our of Thanksgiving guests as a side note we did! We had plenty of leftovers (maybe because we tried to smoke everything?) After all was said and done we headed back to Ritzville Kenadie passed out in the back seat from the long day of Disney and shopping!


~Brooke

Kenadie's Birthday!

We had her party November 6^th which was the Saturday after her Birthday. Her birthday was Butterfly themed with LOTS of bright colors! It was very cute! Kenadie wore a cute pink birthday dress with a cupcake on it also very cute! She had tons of playing with some of the other kids that were there opening presents but I am pretty sure her favorite part was when everyone was singing her Happy Birthday. I think we may have a future ham on our hands… The only thing that sucked about her birthday was that she had her one year checkup the day before and of course she got lots of shots. So she was a little cranky Saturday but she took lots of naps and she seemed pretty good for her party! He appointment really good as well…. Well kind of she looked ok she is still tiny. She also has a small murmur that they will check next time she goes in. The most interesting part was when the doctor looked in her mouth she FREAKED out starting crying and holding her breath ( as she does quite often) anyway she was holding her breath so long she was on the verge of passing out! She hates her ears and mouth being looked at quite honestly she does better getting shots… weird I know but oh well to each their own I guess!

~Brooke

Rita and John (Ricks mom and Dad)

Let's play catch up...

So I haven't updated this in awhile ( Sorry about that) but life has been totally crazy so here is the latest and greatest. First of all we are offically moved to Pullman and it has been great so far, granted our apartment is smaller than our last one we have managed to get rid of stuff and pack the closets as tight as possible LOL ;-) Kellen's school is going really well and he hasn't had any problem with any of his classes (or the sometimes crazy teachers) so that has been a relief. Tooter (Kellen's dad) had a bladder infection about 1 1/2 months ago that wasn't healing up very fast. Well they ended up doing a catscan and it came back that he had a tumor in his kidney. He ended up having surgery Thursday October 21st in Colfax and it went very well! He is recovering very nicely his incisions look fabulous and he is suppose to be released from the hospital tommorow ( Tuesday October 26). The only bad part about the whole surgery was that he did end up spending his 60th Birthday in the hospital which was today.( Happy Birthday Toot-A-Loop) In more exciting family news Kenadie's first birthday is only 7 days away! We will be having a party for her on Novmember 6th at my mom's house in Ritzville. It will be alot of fun getting to see her go crazy with her cake and open gifts. I am also in the process of opening up a brand new coffee shop but I will give you more details on that later. Kenadie and I also started taking baby swimming lessons and it has been going great. We go every wednesday night from now until December then there is another session starting after that but I am not sure if we are going to do it yet or not. All I know is it is going to suck when it is snowing out and we have to walk out too our car all wet! Grrrrr. Kenadie is a great "Swimmer" she LOVES the water and splashes me and all the other babies that aren't all exactly as excited as she is to be wet. We play games like ring a round the rosie and wheels on the bus. I dunk her under the water and she doesn't mind it at all. The only problem is that you are suppose to blow in their face because it make the babies hold their breath well I blow in Kenadie's face and she holds her breath with her mouth open so after she comes up then she has a mouth full of water to spit out LOL. Her absolute favorite thing in the water is when she gets to "jump in" I sit her on the edge of the pool then grab her fingers count to three then pull her in she gets SO Excited! Also she is walking EVERYWHERE!!!!! and she is attempting to run and climb and get into everything. So last bit of exciting news before I go to bed is that Pullman's brand new Wal*Mart opens on Wednesday at 8:00am LOL

p.s. Sorry about all of the miss spelled words and bad grammer I am in a hurry and I am not going to proof read or use spell check Sorry ;-)

~Brooke