the deck

so thomas has been working on our deck every spare minute he has away from work and it is finally finished (basically). we are still deciding whether or not we want to paint it. he has spent no money on it so far and it is probably my favorite deck in the whole world cuz it looks so rustic :) these pictures don't even begin to show how truly amazing it is.

our little guy

alright i know it has been forever since we have posted any pics. im super sorry but sometimes life just doesn't give ya time to do what ya want to right? our not-so-little baby boy is now almost six weeks old. he is a wopping eleven pounds and who knows how tall. all i know is when he stretches out straight he fits into his nine month clothes! at church last week an elderly man asked if he was the same age as his three month old cousin sitting next to him, and she is no small baby either ha ha. needless to say, he is really working on my arm muscles, but i wont complain about buff arms :) i have quite a few pictures here but they are over a span of about three weeks. this one is just for you all to get a good look at him and how much he has changed already.
every time we go to grandma hebdon's house he sleeps on the banana chair tipped all the way back. it's the only place we have found in the family room that he will sleep forever (except for grandma's lap)

he has to be able to see things or he gets mad. his favorite thing is the lights and the ceiling fan.

before we turned the heat back on, our house was pretty cold. we had to keep auger bundled up pretty good and he would scream every time we changed his diaper lol. on the good side though, he sure slept good for those couple of days :)

he was not a fan of baths for a really long time as you can see and he would scream through most of it. if one of us was not holding his hand in the bath tub he would freak out and flex every muscle in his body so his arms and legs were sticking straight out. but lucky for us we have learned a few tricks and last night we made it through an entire bath with zero screaming :)

not a fan of changing his clothes either

here he is with daddy a few days ago. he is to the age now where he wants someone to be talking to him all the time.

jolyn and i took him on his first real walk last week. it was pretty cold so she pulled out her little baby bag that she got in england and a beanie for him. we wrapped him up real good and walked for almost an hour down to the post office and back. he absolutley loved it! he was awake the whole time and never got fussy at all and then was happy for like the next three hours it was amazing :)

he took a nap with uncle rick when he finally crashed that night

and finally, this is a picture from this morning. i was digging through all of thomas's baby stuff and found this little sweat suit :) now i just need a pic of thomas in it when he was a baby.

on other news, the harvesting is over. thomas and skyler worked on our deck yesterday and it is looking closer to being done. we are both teaching lessons on sunday. and next sunday is the blessing that yes you are all invited to. we will also be having dinner right after church.

A Little Late. . .but

I know it has been quite awhile since we have posted any news, it has been a pretty busy month for us. First off Auger is now one month and a couple days old. Sorry no pictures today but he is definitely getting bigger. We attended the farewell of one of my cousins this last weekend and many people commented how much Auger has grown. Even Uncle Darryl who had seen him just the previous Sunday. Dana and I too have commented on how much he is growing and looking older this week it was especially noticeable. Anyway. Harvest is just about over and we are looking forward to the holidays and the time we will have with our families. Oh, dont forget Auger's blessing on the first of November. You are all invited to come, church starts at 11:30.

two weeks old

well our little auger is two weeks old now. it flew by super fast but somehow it feels like we have had him with us for months now. he is a big sleeper as all new borns are and he makes all his crazy facial expressions mostly when he is asleep. these first three pictures were taken this morning. you can get a pretty good look at his giant eyes :)

he really likes to sprawl out and lay on his blanket when he is awake. however, as soon as he wants to sleep he insists on being wrapped up as tight as i can manage. i love his little tummy, its like a giant balloon that gets really hard and big after i feed him, the rest of him is still pretty skinny though.

this was his first bath two days after he got home from the hospital. as you can tell, it was a big hit :) he screamed through the whole thing but geez he sure slept good after that.

he has been sleeping almost six hours every night it has been awesome. we give him a bath every night to tire him out. his belly button is finally healed so last night thomas and i gave him his first real bath and he seemed to hate it a little less then his sponge baths.

several people have asked where we got his name, and honestly i had never heard of it either till i met thomas. auger is thomas' grandfather's middle name, which was his mother's maiden name. It is a little french and a little english. thomas introduced me to the name back when we were first married. we had talked about it being a middle name but then fell in love with it later on, and really liked the idea of naming our first son after an amazing man. his middle name, wayne, is both my dad and thomas' dad's middle names. crazy coincidence i know but it worked out well and once again we got to name him after some pretty awesome people. he has a lot to live up to now :)

as for thomas and i, we are loving being parents. he had to get up around 3 in the morning for almost all of last week and didnt get home till after dark tryin to get the harvesting done so naturally we are both pretty sleep deprived but that is what having a newborn is all about right :)
we are planning on blessing auger on november 1st. hope to see tons of you there.

hey everybody, we been taking pictures like crazy of our beautiful little boy so here are a few more for those of you who have not seen him yet. he already looks different then when we first met him. his skin is lightening up quite a bit and he seems a little more sturdy if that is possble. but holy cow he sure loves daddy. thomas can get him to calm down almost anytime and auger will stare at him forever. of course daddy loves him just as much and spends as much time cuddling with him as he can.
thomas set up something for him to look at yesterday afternoon. we think he liked it :)

i liked this pic cuz it shows how little his head is. he is so teeny even though he was a big newborn. then again, thomas has pretty big hands.

auger also like grandma allred quite a bit. she has the grandma's touch but is trying hard not to spoil him just yet. we have to get him into some good habits first lol.

thomas is cutting his beans this week, things are coming along quite nicely as far as i can tell. my mom will be here for a few more days to help me learn how to take care of my little guy. and i am doing much better then i was three days ago. i go in tomorrow to let the doctor take care of my incision, then i should be on the fast track to recovery:) more baby pics will be coming soon!

Well Hello all. I hope the majority of you who read this have all heard the news, but if not here are some pictures of the newest addition to the Hebdon Family. Dana and Auger are still in the hospital but I was given orders to come home and post some pictures for all to see. We have heard that we might be bringing our little guy home either tonight or tomorrow morning, but wont know for sure for a couple more hours probably.

house improvements

well the past few weeks have been a little slow for farm work so it has been nice to get a few things worked on at the house before the baby comes. the yard doesn't look any better because i cant handle being out in the heat long enough to work on anything, but fortunately i have a husband that will do it for me :) his latest project is our front deck. Previously no one could tell which was the front door and which was the back door since our driveway is on the side of the house. So a few weeks ago thomas ripped out our sad little platform of a deck and has been working on a much bigger one made from the extra scrap wood we found in the shed out back.

the platform you see just under the big front windows is the original deck.

the deck should be finished soon, we are just deciding what color to paint it now and then i will post pictures of the finished project :)

also thomas got me a piano! we managed to get it for free from a friend in royal. chase and anthony helped us move it into our front room since that is the only place it would fit so now i just need to re-teach myself how to play it.

baby update: nothing has changed lol. my stomach is bigger and i am more uncomfortable then i ever thought i could be but the doctor says everything is going good and we have not had any problems so im just waiting still. 3 more weeks to go! guesses on the name anyone? :) or suggestions maybe . . .

oh ya, one more tidbit of news. i was just called to be the beehive advisor in the young womens. its pretty crazy cuz i feel like i never left young womens since i have only been out about a year but im sure i will love it. my little sister ;) is in there so i am going to get to spend some awesome time with her for the next little while until she turns 14. currently thomas and i are ward missionaries and the nursery leaders as well so its going to be busy for while.