The Haymonds

My Valentine!

Mike — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:44:41 +0000

Who would have thought that 11 years could go by so quickly? Just 11 short years ago I was a young kid of 21. I’d only been home from my mission for about 6 months and I had myself a brand new Valentine. I’d met her through a blind date and even though she lived half way to Reno (it seemed like it at the time) I was willing to make the long drive cause she was hot and she had a beautiful smile. I wasn’t too sure what her family thought of me, but they hadn’t tried to run me off yet so I figured I’d just keep hanging around until they did. Fortunately for me that never happened and now here we are 11 years, 7 or 8 moves (depending on how you count them), 3 jobs and 4 kids later. During that time we’ve had our ups and downs, but one thing has never changed… my Valentine is still hot and she still has a beautiful smile. Not to mention the fact that she’s a great mom, a great wife and my best friend. One thing that has changed over the years is that we’ve sort of gotten into the habit of being pretty low-key when it comes to celebrating holidays (and birthdays), but I hope she knows that even though I don’t always make a big deal about it, I would be utterly lost without her. She’s the yin to my yang and she provides balance to my universe. Many things have changed in the last 11 years but no matter what other changes might come our way in the future, I will always need her and love her with all my heart.

Thanks for being my eternal Valentine Em.

Happy Valentines Day!

The Search Continues…

Mike — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:54:47 +0000

Well, I’ve been jobless for about a month now (technically longer if you count the 3 weeks of paid leave they gave me) and I have to say, its driving me nuts. I suppose it would be fun to be jobless as long as you were independently wealthy so you could do something with your free time, but when your whole existence revolves around looking for a new job, it gets old quick. It has been nice spending more time with my kids, but I think my wife is ready for me to go back to work (as am I). So until then, I’ll just keep looking and I suppose maybe I’ll follow the twins example and just DANCE!!!

Halloween

Mike — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:43:00 +0000

So this year’s Halloween activities weren’t exactly what we had planned, but we still ended up with more candy than we know what to do with. This year the kids dressed up as Sharpay from High School Musical (Hailey), Dorothy (Mallory), Little Bo Peep (Annie) and Jack was a Sheep. We had a couple days worth of Halloweening including a party at Grandma’s house and a pretty crazy round of trunk-or-treating at the park.

5-Second Rule…

Mike — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:27:45 +0000

Well, nobody else was going to eat em.

So Grown Up…

Mike — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:25:08 +0000

Cuttin’ Wood

Mike — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:20:37 +0000

So I’m sort of going back in time here a bit as I try to catch up on a few recent events. About a month ago I took the girls up to Bear Lake for the weekend for our annual wood cutting event. Every year we cut down several trees to use as firewood through the winter and this year the girls got to help a bit. It always makes for a fun weekend (even if a tiring one) and this year was no different. And as an added bonus Hailey and Mallory got to play with Nana and Papa’s new puppy Dixie.

The Hunt…

Mike — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:08:06 +0000

This years deer hunt got started a little crazy due to scheduling issues, but we all had a great time and both Stephen and I got our deer. Stephen shot his at about 290 yards about 10 minutes after we left the trucks Saturday morning and I got mine at around 240 yards late Sunday afternoon. The bonus to this was that we didn’t have to worry about hunting on Monday, the downside was that I ended up cleaning and hauling it in the pitch black Saturday night. There was no moon out either so when I say pitch black, you can take it literally. In the downtime though we found time to shoot some clay pigeons and to ride Tony’s horse around camp. All in all it was a successful hunt though and as usual, we had lots of fun.

Mallory’s Mouth…

Mike — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:58:46 +0000

So my first post back from my apparent blogging hiatus will be to show the nice gap in Mallory’s mouth. Recently, she started having a lot of mouth pain and we came to find out that it was because her bottom front teeth were coming in behind her baby teeth. It gave her a bit of a “shark” look for a few weeks, but we finally had to visit the dentist so that he could remove the baby teeth (they didn’t seem to want to come out on their own). Mallory did a great job at the dentist and in her own words she “…didn’t even cry!!”. Here’s the proof.

Happy B-Day Babies!!

Mike — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 07:57:10 +0000

Once again I’m a couple days late, but I wanted to post a quick shout-out to the twins. It’s been a crazy couple years, but we made it to 2 years old. I know there have been more than a few days when Emily didn’t think she’d survive this long, but she does a great job maintaining sanity. I’m not sure I’d have handled it as well if I was the one home all day. But now is when the real fun begins. Two little people running around with opinions, desires, growing vocabularies and lots of personality. In the past 2 years they’ve learned to love being “ouside”, eating “sodie” (cereal), watching Pixar movies, playing with toys and getting into lots and lots of trouble. I never ceased to be amazed at the crazy ways they find to get into stuff and cause problems. However, for all the hard work and challenge they bring to our lives, we couldn’t imagine life without them. So in honor of the birthday kids, here’s a bunch of pictures that range from the day we brought em home from the hospital to last week. We love you Annie and Jack!

Slippin’ N Slidin’

Mike — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:18:42 +0000