2+2

2 Part 1
Does not equal 4! Well we are no longer parents of two under two! In one week we celebrated our new addition turning 2 months old and our first addition turning 2 years old! About a week before Hayden's birthday we took him to a Ranger game just mommy and daddy... he had a lot of fun! Then on his actual birthday we went to Let's jump with some friends and then had a birthday party on Saturday with friends and family! It was a week of celebration!

intently concentrating on the game!
(you should have seen his face every time the guy came around shouting to the top of his lungs, "cold beeeaarr" hilarious)

Bouncing with two of his besties, kaley and j!


Kaley insisted on buying Hayden a cupcake...what else are you supposed to do on someones birthday??!!

Helping daddy and paw-paw put together his trampoline he got for his bday!

Having so much fun at his birthday party!



sneaking a gummi worm before we sing happy birthday.
dirt cake in the back of his dump truck...by far the easiest cake I've ever made!

ITS BEEN THE GREATEST TWO YEARS OF OUR LIVES!


2 part 2
"little miss" or "sister" or "sissy" is what we call you
you are sweet as pie
your smiles and coos do melt our hearts
mommy is not being a good PT mommy, you should be doing more tummy time but she likes to just hold you and cuddle you instead!
you do LOVE your baths
you are a chunk (12.5 lb chunk to be exact!) and
you do continue to steal our hearts more and more each day!

videos

These are mainly for family... they are a bit lengthy. Please disregard the annoyance of my voice in the first one, Justley still makes us work for smiles!



Hayden being a little fish at my parents pool! He absolutely LOVES the water!



Stay tuned for 2 month and 2 YEAR posts soon! Can't believe it!

Friends Forever

In organizing my videos I came upon this first one of Hayden and Jaelynn when they were 5 and 7 months old. Can't believe how much they change in a little over a year! The second one was taken just a few weeks ago.
We are so very blessed to have friends so close and to be able to watch each others kiddos and not have to pay for daycare. It has been so much fun watching these two grow and develop over the past two years and become the best of friends!





Keep scrolling down for another video of brother and sister taking their first bath together!

First bath together

Fourth of July = 1 month

One month has gone by and little Miss Justley has done a great job at stealing our hearts. She is so darn sweet and is already growing like a weed. At first I thought she was going to be kind of petite and not gain weight as fast as Hayden did because newborn clothes were big on her the first week (Hayden never even fit into nb clothes) and some 0-3 month are already getting snug! She has already given us a couple of smiles and is starting to sleep longer stretches at night. She is a typical girl as she loves attention! When she is kind of fussy and I know she is not tired or hungry all you have to do is look at her, talk to her, give her attention and she is one happy girl! (isn't that all girls!!))
We are so grateful for a sweet, little sister!

Last weekend we celebrated our Nation's birthday having some fun in the sun in our backyard, going to church and going to a 4th of July festival in Southlake. It was our first long outing with both kiddos. I must say the difficulty right now is not going out with two, its going out with a two year old!! We had a great time walking around, eating ice cream and watching fireworks!




Our attempt to get a picture of them together... He wasn't too keen about holding her so we gave him some fruit snacks (to get him still) and plopped her beside him.

Who's Who

Does the pink give it away?

Justley Ann Hillger
June 4th 2011
7 lbs 9 ozs
19.5 in

Keep scrolling down for her birth story!

Birthday Story

Better late than never, things have been kind of crazy around here with two kiddos and a mommy that can't lift or drive! But thank the Lord for great family and friends (and a great husband). If it weren't for them I don't know how I would have survived the first two weeks with two.
Little Miss Justley had to make things interesting for us this go around. I was scheduled to have her via c-section on June 14th secondary to fracturing my tailbone about a month prior. Dr said if I were to have her vaginal, I would risk injuring my tailbone even more. Since the date was set, it was in my head that that was the date and no way was it going to happen sooner!! haha
Well, ten days before this set date I decided it was ok to go to Sherman for a get together for one of my girlfriends birthdays. So against my mother's better judgment we headed up for the night with all intentions of coming straight home the next morning. My parents watched Hayden while we went to dinner with some friends. As soon as we got home and pretty much the second I laid my head on the pillow for the night I felt contractions. I laid there and timed them for about 30 mins before I woke Justin up, they were 10 mins apart but we were also an hour away from the hospital! Justin suggested I get up and walk around and see if they stop... nope. After saying "ok if I have one more then we will go" several times we finally got in the car and headed for Grapevine. They were getting closer together and stronger. We arrived at the hospital about 2am, and had to be monitored to make sure I was in true labor. We did this for over two hours because the contractions were still coming regularly but my cervix was not progressing. Finally Dr. Rost (not my actual dr, he was on a plane to Hawaii) decided he was going to go ahead and take her. And we had our precious baby girl before 7am Sat. morning!