Happy New Year!

Hey All!
Happy New Year! What a year 2009 is going to be!

What's new here, not a whole lot. I've been trying to get a lot done while I'm on vacation from work. Yesterday I washed a whole bunch of baby clothes! Working on getting them all put away and getting Hadlee's room organized. I just want to get a closet organizer in place so I have a place to put everything!

I've had a couple questions about how we came up with the name Hadlee. Well, we'd been looking through lots and lots and lots of books--and came across Hadley. It means "fields of Heather". Well--we wanted a name that we could associate with both of our families. As most of you know, my middle name is Lee, as is my mother's maiden name--so we changed the ley to lee. Makes her name a little more personal and has a little additional meaning for us. We are avidly working on a middle name, sure to be just as creative, you can bet on it! LOL I'll keep you posted, as we're hoping to make that decision in the next few days!

Lucy is doing well--with all of our discussions of middle names, Dave has decided that Lucy now needs one, too! SO, he has decided that since my childhood dog's name was Elvis, Lucy's middle name will be Priscilla. LOL! OK--so officially, our dog's full name is Lucy Priscilla Nygaard. She's behaving a lot better than she did when we first got her. Dont' get me wrong, she still jumps to greet all our visitors and guards our house by barking at every car/truck/person that goes by the front of the house. But, she has definatly calmed down a little bit--I think she's looking forward to having a new face to lick!

We met with a potential day care provider yesterday. She was really nice. She is a younger lady who cares for 2 kids in her home. She has 3 kids of her own, a 6 year old, 2 year old, and a 9 month old. She also cares for another baby--a 6 month old baby named Finley. She lives in Osgood, so it's conveniently located on my way to work. I think she seemed really nice, so we'll have some more decisions to make coming up soon! She also has a dog, a boxer--the calmest dog I've ever seen--nothing compared to Lucy! I think that's kind of nice actually--Hadlee is going to be around Lucy all the time, so it would be good for her to be around another dog all day.

I suppose, that's about it for now. I hope you all start your 2009's off wonderfully! I wish you all great happiness and health.

Update soon!
Amanda