Catching Up...

Excuse me, Sir...

Okay - a story that I had to share. After Brandon told me about it, I said "That is going on the blog!"

On Saturday we shopped all day - 9 in the morning til 9 at night. We ate lunch at The Cheesecake Factory and Brandon took Dayton to the restroom when he was done. This is usually our ritual. Daddy always takes him to clean him up. Brandon says they got in there, washed their hands, and made the "magic" paper towel dispenser give them some paper. Then, Brandon put Dayton down next to him and told him to stand there while Daddy went potty. In the mean time, another guy walks into the restroom and begins using the urinal next to Brandon. Dayton, being Dayton, grabs hold of the guy's blue jeans and leans in to get a good view of what was going on. All this while Brandon was mid-stream peeing and a little helpless at the time. Brandon says, "Dayton, no sir. Get over here." Dayton laughs. Brandon finishes, and very embarrassed, apologizes to the guy who says he's got some kids of his own so it's not a big deal - hilarious!!!

Cleaning Machine...

This week has gone by so fast. We have decided to try to get our house on the market w/i the next month or so, so that leaves me in a fast furry to get this place looking like a wonderful place to live ;) I started on Monday w/ the living area (I'm leaving the hardest rooms for last). I was able to clean out the entire living room and get all (yes, all) of Dayton's toys hidden and stored away out of site. Thank goodness we have a great coffee table that doubles as a toy box - I totally recommend this for anyone looking to have kids in the near future. If we have guests coming over, I just open the lid and get to chunkin' stuff in there and viola - out of site and out of mind! Anyways, I packed up all of our dvd's, the lamp, all the magazine, blankets, pretty much everything besides furniture, the t.v. and Dayton's book basket. One room checked off my list.

Then, I did the dining room and the guest bathroom - two more "easy" rooms. They look great! I then tackled Dayton's room which was a little harder. We'd been storing misc. stuff in his extra closet for quite some time now so I had a lot of cleaning to do in there. Dayton just looked at me in disbelief - why are you destroying my room and packing up all of my toys? Brandon and I found my box of pictures from college - HILARIOUS! Oh my goodness, we sat and laughed for about an hour. We would start laughing and Dayton would laugh along with us. I told Brandon that this is probably the last time he'll ever get to see these pictures. Don't want him to see his Mommy at her best ;)(Standing on the kitchen in table in Cassie's REBEL shirt - omg) We had some FUN times in good ole' 424. I'm gonna get an album for all the pictures - you guys have got to see them!

Dayton's room was completed that night b/c we had to move everything out so he could actually get to his bed. Tuesday, I'm really not sure what I did, but I only managed to get the hall closet done. It's never looked that good!

Wednesday I got a little crazy and decided I would paint our master bath while Dayton was down for a nap - stupid, I know. How was I going to tape off, paint and clean up w/i a one hour long nap? I was running like a mad woman. I was kinda sad to see my Tiffany blue go, but Brandon said if we ever wanted to sell this house, that room HAD to be a neutral color. I managed to slap a coat on before the little monster woke up and Brandon helped me finish it off that night. I bought all new accessories and a new shower curtain and it looks pretty good. I was pleased w/ my one day transformation.

The hardest rooms are the ones I have left - our bedroom, the office and the kitchen - yikes! With dance starting this coming week, I'm gonna be crunched for time, but I'll just have to take it little by little. It will gone - that's what I keep telling myself!

Don't ask me what we're going to do if we actually sell this place - we don't know. We're going to be building out at El Prado (by the country club) sometime soon. We'll see... We're still working on finalizing plans and such. Please pray for us over the next couple of months - we're gonna need it. Lots of decisions to make and we want to do what's best for us as a family.

If you know of anyone looking for a great place to live, pass the word along. We'd like to get this place sold. It's a great place w/ a lot of great memories, we are just full to the brim and it's time to make new memories in a new place...

More Fun Pics...

Here is Dayton on top of our coffee table - eating lunch and playing with his tractor...




Here's Dayton at The Cheesecake Factory last week. We went there to eat and asked for a "kid's" cheese pizza and this is what they brought him - $10 bucks later...




Mr. Politician himself - waving at all the by-passers while Daddy takes his pic...






Luke and Will - They are getting so big - both crawling around - I have the hardest time getting a good smile out of both of them at the same time - but they are precious none-the-less!






Okay - I couldn't resist - a sneak peak at the next Tiger Woods - can't wait for Halloween!!!






Dayton after his bath the other day - check out the teeth on this kid!!!




Dayton and Lucy check out the water. They both love to look out the window at the bay. We stayed there Friday night. I caught my first trout since we've been going - only problem was it was only 12 1/2 inches - I will keep trying :) Brandon and Wayne went out on the boat and caught 5 trout. We baked/fried them and ate 'em up for lunch that day - yummy!




Dayton steals Papa's ham and cheese sandwich...






No big plans for this week - just get ready for my classes next week. Hope everyone has a great week!
JZ

Happy Birthday, Cerny!!!

Just wanted to take a second to wish Jenna a very Happy Birthday! We love you girl! *Hope you can read Date's sign, it was pink and turned out a little light!*



More pics coming soon - I've gotta run some errands this morning, but wanted Jenna to know we were thinking about her!

Another Blog???

Okay, yes, my life is that pathetic. Shutterfly is offering blogs now, so I'm in. I don't want to stop this one b/c I love going back on this one and reading about my pregnancy, Date's first months, etc. So, I've decided to keep up w/ this one w/ business as usual. I'll continue to post many pics on here along w/ our everyday life. The other blog is going to be driven by you - my avid blog readers!!! All you have to do is post a comment concerning a topic you'd like me to blog about - anything - what Dayton ate that day, what's the hardest part of being a mom, how is life w/ Brandon, anything you wanna know about the Zabodyns!!! We'll see how this goes - you guys may not care to know anything else. I feel that I would post more stories and such on here if I could think of something to talk about. So, travel on over to the new blog and get to posting topics. Can't wait to see how this goes!!!

www.daytonwayne.shutterfly.com

Our First Weekend at the Bay...

We went to the bay on Saturday morning and returned yesterday afternoon. We had a great time and were all exhausted when we got home. We caught no fish (keepers) and had no living room furniture yet (being delivered today), but we definently made the most of it. Here are some pics that I got. I'm looking forward to having my camera down there - great photo ops!!!!!!!!!

Dayton plays w/ his new Scooby-Doo fishing pole for the first time...



Inspecting what he "caught."



Our little fisherman:



Chillin' in the wagon



What a boy - digging in the bait bucket while the guys try to catch some live bait...



Kyle and Daddy show Date a shrimp



Grandpa and Dayton wave down the pier...



A nice picture that I managed to catch... So relaxing!



Had the camera on the wrong setting while I was trying to catch the sunset - turned out kinda cool...



Clint and Megan enjoying the view downstairs - watching the sunset. It was a little cloudy so hopefully I'll get a better sunset the next time I'm down...



Here's a nice sunset pic. If you look closely (I know the pic is small on here), look to the left of the bird - the clouds formed something that resembled somewhat of an eye - it was very interesting and a little freaky...



Here comes trouble - Brandon, PaPa and Date on the Mule. Dayton would've been perfectly happy just riding around in this thing all day!!!



Crazy hair in the wind



A frog that we found when we were going up the stairs. Of course, I had my camera in hand...



Random, I know. I just thought it was the cutest little pic!!!


Hope everyone has a great week. No big plans here. We may have a garage sale on Friday - yuck! I've got to keep purging this house if we ever want to sell this thing!!!!!!!! Have a good one! JZ

Some Quick Pics to Hold You Over for the Weekend!

Dayton eats a cookie:


His new Hula Hut shirt - a little big, but it'll work!


The back of his shirt - matches the mullet very well...


"Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes" - we've been working hard on this one...


I was eating a peach the other night, and Dayton comes up and steals it right out of my hands. He would not let me or Brandon have a single bite - whatta little hog! (*Notice the nice outfit he's got on - those are his pj's w/ his new Thomas the Train light-up tennis shoes. He wouldn't take them off that night...)


Another picture of the peach snatcher...


A good look at this great outfit ;)


Here is a shirt that "Aunt" Megan made for little Date. She took one of Uncle Clint's old bike riding shirts and literally cut it apart and put it back together in Dayton's size. It is adorable on him, and his dad is very proud to have him wear it. I wish I could sew!!!!

Halloween Costume...

It's official - we have Date's 2nd Halloween costume. We just spoke about this over the weekend, and I got a few catalogs in the mail yesterday w/ a variety of costumes. When I flipped the page and saw this one, I knew THIS WAS IT! If you know my kid and what he does on a daily basis (roams around the house w/ a golf club and wiffle balls all day), this is the most fitting of all costumes I've seen. He loves him some golf! It might need some sprucing up when it gets in, but we'll work w/ it. I just can't wait to see him in it - my little Tiger Woods!!!