Happy Easter!!!!!

We had a great Easter this year! We colored Easter eggs last night and left some carrots for the Easter Bunny! Hayden got up bright and early race downstairs in search for his basket that the Easter Bunny left for him. Grandma also had some goodies for both her grandbabies. Poor Scott has to work weekends this month and was on 12 hour shifts this weekend so he didn't get home until 9:00 this morning and had to go right to bed. When he woke up later this afternoon, we grilled steaks and had an Easter Egg hunt in the backyard. It was a very fun day!

More Logan pics!

We have enjoyed Having Logan home so much! Maternity Leave is wonderful and Scott was able to stay home with us for 3 full weeks! My mom was such a HUGE help! She stayed for the first 2 weeks and did everything for us! She cooked, cleaned, took Hayden to school every day and picked him up, laundry, went to the store, and SO many other things! I don't know what we would have done without her!!! Having a two story house after a c-section is horrible! THANK YOU MOM!!!!!! :) Logan has had 2 check ups so far and is doing great! He's up to 8 lbs 3 ozs and 20 1/2 inches long. We have had many visitors and lots of flowers, cookies, and other goodies delivered to the house. Everyone has been so thoughtful!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!! :)

We had the Best St. Patrick's Day EVER with the birth of our son Logan Ray Bowers! He was delivered by c-section at East Cooper Medical Center in Mount Pleasant. Logan was born at 8:00AM on Tuesday March 17th! He weighed 7 lbs 15 ozs and was 20 inches long! Hayden is SOOOOOO very excited and is thrilled to finally be a big brother!

Happy Belated Birthday!!

So I had a lot going over the past 2 months! I wanted to mention and wish three VERY important people a VERY Happy Birthday! My Hubby's birthday was March 16th. Happy Birthday Scott!!!!!!!!!! Our Cousin Christy's birthday was April 2nd...HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISTY!!!! :)

Last but not least...my new precious baby boy was born on St. Patrick's Day!!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!!!!

Scott and I were able to have a date night by ourselves last weekend to celebrate with dinner and a movie. When I got home from work last night...Hayden and Scott had a surprise waiting for me on the kitchen table. They did good!!! :) Last night the three of us went to Outback for dinner. I was already full from Blooming Onion, salad, and bread before they even brought our dinner. It was so good and we had a great time spending time together! I love my boys so much and can't wait until 'lil Logan gets here in about a month! :)

Daddy's Home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today had to have been one of the happiest days in Hayden and my life!! Daddy came home this morning after being overseas for 4 very long months! What made this one especially hard was him missing all of the holidays. Hayden was so anxious this morning that we ended up leaving the house an hour and 15 minutes before Daddy's plane was supposed to be here! I drove around...slowly taking the longest route possible to the airport with hopes to kill some time. We finally arrived at 9:35AM and Daddy's flight was not scheduled to arrive until 10:16AM. We walked in and checked the board and it said his flight was delayed 35 minutes. GREAT! What am I going to do with a VERY EXCITED 4 year old for over an hour???? What else...EAT!!!! ;) Okay...a little preggo humor! Well, 35 minutes ended up turning into an hour delay. FINALLY...we saw daddy's plane land and taxi to the gate. Hayden was SOOOOOO excited to finally see his Daddy (as you clearly see in thse photos!) We have had a great day...I think Hayden has attached himself to Daddy's hip! ;) We are so proud of you Daddy and couldn't be happier to have you home safe and sound! We love you!

I do have to give a big THANK YOU to my dear mother! She basically gave up all of her free time to come to Charleston every weekend to help me and spend time with Hayden. Being pregnant, taking care of a 4 year old, house work, yard, preparing for the holidays, and working a full time job...I don't know what I would have done without her this whole time! Thank you so much mom! You are by far the BEST MOM EVER!

Christmas!

Christmas with Hayden was the best year yet! I only wish Scott would have been here to experience everything but not to worry...I video taped everything so that he could watch it when he gets home! Grandma spent the entire week with us and oh we had so much fun! She was also a HUGE help! I don't know what I would have done without her! Christmas Eve, her and Hayden made Christmas sugar cookies from scratch. I made the icing from scratch and Hayden and I were in charge of decorating the cookies. After we got done, we picked one out especially for Santa along with a cup of milk. Hayden was so excited I thought he would never fall asleep! Before we knew it, it was Christmas morning and Hayden was waking us up bright and early. It seemed like it took forever for Hayden to get all of his presents open but he was so excited and thankful for each gift Santa brought!

We were disappointed to have missed all of the celebrations that day at Grandma Shirley's in Camden. We will be there next year for sure! Hayden, Grandma, and I had a wonderful Christmas dinner and it was a very relaxing day and evening at home. We missed Daddy so much that day! We're already looking forward to next Christmas when Daddy can be here along with baby Logan! We hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and Happy New Year!

Congratulations Ed and Lesley!!!!

I am so happy to be able to congratulate our very dear friends Ed and Lesley on the new addition to their family! There are no two people more deserving of a child than they are! I was fortunate to be invited to their baby shower on Sunday and I enjoyed visiting with everyone. Abbey is just the sweetest little Angel...I could have held her all day long! Congratulations on receiving the best Christmas gift ever!

Holiday Fun!

I just realized I haven't posted anything in a while so I thought I would get caught up! We have been so busy Christmas shopping, decorating the house, and participating in lots of holiday fun! The first 2 pictures are of the Summerville Fire Department riding through our neighborhood with their lights on and sirens blasting! We thought the neighborhood was on fire at first...then to our surprise, we saw Santa riding on top of the fire truck waiving to all the kids and throwing candy out at us! Hayden said "mommy...we live in the coolest neighborhood"! Hayden and I have come home several times over the past week and found little goodies at our front door from a few of our very thoughtful neighbors. They have been so wonderful since Scott has been gone! It's nice to know they are here! We are baking Christmas cookies tomorrow and plan to surprise our neighbors and share our goodies with them!

The next pictures are just a couple that we took at the James Island County Park...Festival of Lights! We had a ball once again this year! Hayden roasted marshmellos...mommy helped him EAT the marshmellos! :) We saw Santa, looked at the big sand sculpture, looked at all of the giant Christmas cards, road the carousel and the train, and shared some hot chocolate! We had SOOOOO much fun! Just like with everything else we are doing this year...we really missed Daddy!!!! But we are so excited he will be home VERY SOON!!

The last picture is of Hayden goofing around with a Santa hat on I bought him! That was the night we decorated the house and put up the Christmas tree. We have also been attending some birthday parties and Hayden had a great Christmas party at school!

We have started decorating the nursery FINALLY! It's been painted along with a beautiful border around the whole room. I've found all of Hayden's clothes that we kept so those have all been washed and put in their place! I have the dresser full of things and the changing table is starting to get filled up! I've slowly been buying things here and there like the window treatment and hamper that match the theme of his room. Now I'm just waiting for Daddy to get home to hang the window treatment and put the crib together! As you can see, we have been VERY busy! I think that about covers it for now!

We hope everyone is enjoying their holiday!!!

Thanksgiving!

Hayden and I went to Columbia for Thanksgiving. It was a very tough holiday without Scott this year but we had plenty of family around to help celebrate! Hayden and I spent the night before at my mom's the night before...then it was up early to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. We drove to Camden around 11:30 to spend the afternoon at Grandma Shirley's house. The food was fantastic and the company was even better! The kids had a great time and Hayden DID NOT want to leave! He had a blast with all of his cousins. Thank you again Aunt Debbie for your help with Hayden!! ;) We didn't get down the road 5 minutes and Hayden was sound to sleep...all the way back to my mom's house. We had round 2 of Turkey dinner at mom's...it was so good...just like back home!

We're having another BOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, it's been confirmed...Hayden will be getting a little baby brother! I had my last ultrasound on Monday and since Scott is not here, my mom went with me. It was so much fun watching Baby Boy Bowers move all around. Everytime she went to take another measurement, he had shifted and they had to "find" everything again. :) He's a very healthy and active baby so far! The C-section has been scheduled for March 16th and for those of you who don't know...that's Scott's birthday! We are so very excited but it's hard not having Scott home to participate in all of the activities. We miss him so much and can't wait until January!!! We don't have a name picked out yet but we are working on that! :)

Happy Halloween!

Since Halloween fell on a Friday this year, we were able to go to Columbia and hang out at the Stone's home for lots of Trick or Treat fun! We ate some great food while waiting for it to get dark enough to take the kids out trick or treating. We had a bunch of kids come early so that kept us busy too! Once Jamie got there with the 4-wheeler and trailer (with hay!) we were off into the spooky neighborhood for some fun! The kids got so much candy all while Aunt Linda and Mimi stayed behind to hand out candy at Chris and Christy's house. Once we all got back...we ate more food and enjoyed some yummy hot chocolate! Everyone had a fantastic time! What a great night! Thank you Chris and Christy for having us over! Hayden is still talking about it!