In Loving Memory of Thomas Hayek

Last Saturday (4/4), my grandpa Hayek passed away of a heart attack. I was fortunate enough (thank you John and Sally!!!) to fly up there Tuesday night to be there for the funeral and it was spectacular (well, if a funeral can be good). Here is an excerpt from the nice page the funeral home printed for us:
Thomas J. "Tom" Hayek was born on February 21, 1936 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Tom spent his school years in St. Paul and at the age of 17 joined the Marine Corp. While they were both stationed in San Diego, CA he met and married Peggy Darlene Dodd. Peggy and Tom had four children. In the early years of thier marriage, Tom served two tours in Vietnam, rising to the rank of Master Sergeant. He retired from the Marines after 20 years of service.
Tom and his family moved to Somers in 1973, and have lived here since. Tom enjoyed camping and fishing. He spent many hours woodworking and playing with his grandchildren. His family was the most imoportant aspect of his life. His wife, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren were what he lived for. Anyone who knew Tom had a brighter day after spending time with him. His sense of humor was infectious.
Here are a couple of pictures of him...and a couple from the funeral...

Cakes

So, my sister is in culinary school learning to be a pastry chef. She's mostly been doing cakes and here a a couple that she has done...
This one is from the tv show 'Dora the Explorer' it's Abby's favorite so she made this one as a practice cake. Pretty cute











This one is her first wedding cake and I think it's absolutely beautiful! She's really doing well, I'm very proud of her.

Growing Up!

Christina is really moving fast...Shawn has even taken to calling her 'Turbo'. She crawls everywhere and over the last 2-3 days she's been STANDING!!! With help from the furniture of course but it's so amazing. She's only 8 months old...I think she really wants to be like her big sister. Whenever Abby is playing with something even remotely interesting Christina is on her way to play with her. They are cute and Abby is a good big sister.
Here's a pick of Cissy standing...



















We have started to potty train Abby today. She isn't very keen on it but she loves wearing her "underpants" as she calls them. She has peed on the floor once, in front of the toilet once, and pooped while I was running her to the bathroom. :( But, she's a trooper and is at least trying her best. She'll get there :)

Way to Cute Not to Share

Wow, it's been a while since I've put up a post, but I think the wait was worth it for this one...
Abby came out of her room looking like this this afternoon. (If you can't tell, she's VERY white)












So I began to walk to her room to see what was going on....
The trail of evidence....








This is what I stumbled upon....!!!!!
Baby powder....EVERYWHERE!!!




















And what was it that she was doing anyway....? Why changing her babies diaper of course!!















And here is where she "hid the evidence"...


In the wipie container. LOL!!!!

Superbowl XLIII

Well, we lost. So sad...but we played one heck of a game. For those of you who live in a bubble and didn't watch it was the Arizona Cardinals (YEAH!!) against the Pittsburg Steelers. Quite a game. We agree that some pretty bogus calls were made by the referees but then some good ones were called for us. The ending score was AZ - 23 PA - 27. Thought we had it in the bag, but in the last minuet and a half the Steelers managed to pull out another touchdown.








This is Larry Fitzgerald and he pulled some amazing catches and got us a touchdown that seemed impossible. WAY TO GO CARDS!!!!

Zoo

On Sunday we took the girls on their first trip to the zoo. Abby loved it! We went at night because they had Christmas-y lights all over the place. We got to see a Zebra, and Elephant, Camel, some birds and pet the sting-rays. Abby was a little afraid of the rays at first but once she touched one she liked it.
We went with Sam and her friend Tyler (from MT) and I think they enjoyed it too. :)

Bath Time!

My best friend Annie got Abby new coloring tools for Christmas. I thought I'd share how she's doing. :)















I asked her if she could draw a tree and this is what she drew...
















To be fair, here are a couple of Christina having fun...