Christmas 2011

WOW! I can't believe Christmas came and went and today is new years eve and I am just blogging about it... better late than never in my book =)

This year we celebrated Hailey's 2nd Christmas! It felt like it was her 1st christmas all over again... last year she was only 2 months old and really not able to get into it like she did this year.

Every year we spend Christmas eve at my aunt's house. We eat, drink, laugh, party the evening away... open presents and then eat, drink and party more =)

This year Hailey did all of those things with us. She absolutely LOVES her cousins and she gives them a run for their money just like they do with her.

Here is a peek at our Christmas eve...

Hailey and Uncle Spenser

Daddy wanted proof that Hailey held her arms out to be held by him LOL

Hailey will climb anything and stand on top!

Hailey's "pimp cup"

Hailey and Megan

Present time!

Spenser LOVES present time!

"Just layin' here opening presents!"

Foster opening his FAVORITE present.. from us!

Megan loves iTunes!

PRESENTS!

Stands on EVERYTHING!

CHRISTMAS JAMMIES!!!!

Climbing....

Standing...

Having a seat

We had an awesome time at Aunt Kim's... but we had to get home so Santa could come and leave some goodies for Hailey!

(excuse the TV stand we use as a toy box already!)

Santa brought Hailey a bunch of goodies and filled her stocking!

She loved her bean bag chair!

She kept getting out and face-planting back into it!

She is still obsessed with this little light up snowman ornament with her name on it =)

I am pretty sure she was getting ready to stand on her Magna-Doodle in this pic... Daddy failed to get a pic of her actually standing on it! LOL

There's that ornament again!

Gotta have a pic with mommy on Christmas morning!

More partying on the bean bag chair

Running out of steam...

Is this not my bean bag chair?

I need a nap!

After a little napping, we made our way to Grandma and Grandpa's house to celebrate with them and Hailey's other cousins... Austin and Kaitlyn... and their mommy and daddy too!

"SANTA!!!"

There was more "partying"!

Love the tongue in this pic!

PRESENTS!!!!  

 

A tractor for Austin!

Little People!!!! Look how excited she is! LOL Mommy looks excited!

Kaitlyn got a cool camo backpack!

Presents for everyone!

Here are a couple pics from the morning after!

 

Bedhead and Magnadoodle go hand and hand!

Hailey's FAVORITE ornament in action!

A tutu the morning after Christmas is mandatory, I think!

She LOVES her bean bag chair, thanks Santa!!!!!

So there you go... a PHOTO HEAVY recap of our Christmas... it was VERY merry!!!!

We love and appreciate all of our family... we had an amazing time celebrating this special time of year with all of them!

Next up... NEW YEARS! Bring it 2012!

Thanksgiving!!!

Ok, finally getting around to posting our Thanksgiving!

Every year we normally hit a couple of places to see both sides of the family. This year was SO nice because we had both sides of the family at ONE place =)

We went to my aunts house and Craig's parents, grandpa, sister and her kiddos came too! It was so nice getting to see everyone and not worry about rushing anywhere.

We had an awesome day and an amazing Thanksgiving dinner.

I slacked on the picture taking, but in my defense, it's hard to chase around a 1 year old and focus on anything but that! Working on it!

Here are a few pictures we got...

Grandma playing with Hailey

Megan

Hailey

Aunt Kim loving on Hailey

Hailey just "chillin"

Mommy and her girl

Megan, Kaitlyn, Austin and Foster

It was nice spending some time with the family. I am so thankful for everything we have. It's been a rough year, but I appreciate all that we have!!!!

A couple special dates....

WOW, I have been such a slacker on the blog… that’s nothing new these days. I love this blog and I love posting on it, I just haven’t had the time lately. By the time I get home and take care of all that needs to be done there and get my girl off to bed, I have just enough time to spend a little quality time with my man and since we are such light weights these days, we are in bed kind of early! I know, lame excuse, but it’s true! I will try harder!

So in the past few weeks not one but TWO very special occasions have taken place.

First, “Daddy” had a birthday! That’s right, Craig turned the big 3 – 4!

We planned on going to dinner that night, which was pretty brave on our part I guess you could say. We ended up booking Hailey’s 12 month check up on that day and we weren’t thinking about the fact that she would be getting shots and we would be home later than usual, etc… so we opted out of going to dinner. Craig’s parents and Grandpa came by to wish him a “Happy Birthday” and drop off a couple nice little presents for him. (Thankyouverymuch!) and visited a little with Hailey before she was out for the count. She’s always super tired after being at my aunt’s house all day (daycare) and throw a doctor’s appt and shots in on top of it… she was one sleepy girl. So we ended up staying in and making dinner and hanging out together. I felt bad because Craig definitely deserves more of a celebration for turning 34... but it was nice. To be honest, the day kind of snuck up on us… there was so much excitement for Hailey’s 1^st birthday that daddy’s 34^th kind of took a backseat… but he was ok with that!

The next special occasion, if you haven’t guessed it yet…

We celebrated our 5 year wedding anniversary! Yep, 5 years! I seriously can’t believe 5 years has gone by as fast as it has. Crazy. I feel so bad for not posting anything sooner. Big time slacker… GAH!

Our anniversary ended up landing on a Friday night… we were going to try to get away for a quick dinner, just the two of us, but on such short notice we weren’t able to get a sitter =( Bad planning on our part.

Sounds boring but we ended up staying home, getting pizza (again, poor planning on our part… I wasn’t going grocery shopping til the next day), having a little “happy hour” and watching a movie. Little Miss Hailey conked out early, so we had a nice quiet evening!

Well that’s all I’ve got for now… the holidays are upon us, so I have more to post and I will try for sooner than later =)

Hailey's very first (and 1st) Birthday PaRtY!

As you already know, Hailey had her 1st birthday on Wednesday, October 26th! We did a whole lot of celebrating the big day last weekend.

Hailey spent last Saturday with a bunch of close friends and family.

She loved every minute of the attention, presents, kids, the jump house (mommy took her in!).

Here's some pictures of our little celebration...

Cake table

GOODIES!

The birthday girl! She will NOT wear a headband, as you can see... it's sitting on the floor.

The fam =)

They ARE twins...

Kaitlyn and Rylee partying it up in the jumphouse!

My favorite pic of me and my girl, EVER!

Our friend made Hailey this cool wagon!

She loved it!

Mommy made her this cake for her birthday, thinking she would TEAR IT UP. This was the extent of the "tear up" =)

She was SO excited about her friends and presents!

Happy girl!!!!

Check out the back of Hailey's wagon, it's personalized! Thanks Steve!!!

Hailey had the best day =) Thanks so much to everyone who came and helped Hailey celebrate!

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Since we partied SO hard the weekend before Hailey's birthday, we decided to lay low and celebrate her "actual" birthday at home, just the 3 of us.

We had pizza, cupcakes, ice cream and we dance partied it up to a few of Hailey's favorite songs.

She tore up the few day old Sam's Club cupcake... guess that was better than the giant funfetti version mommy made her on Saturday!

Hailey turns 1!

Happy 1^st Birthday to the most beautiful baby girl in the world!

(I wrote this post on her actual birthday, but never got around to posting it!)

I seriously cannot believe that 1 year ago today (at this time) I was anxiously awaiting a call from the hospital to tell me that they had a bed ready for me and we were going to induce labor… since my baby didn’t feel like  coming out on her own!

So much anticipation that day! We finally got the call around 11am and made our way to the hospital, where labor and eventually delivery ensued! 

Since that day our lives have been filled with so much more love and joy than we could ever imagine. There have been plenty of ups… and downs… but nothing compares to the love we feel for Hailey and each other! I can’t believe we made such an amazing little person! I’m a teeny bit sad that the first year has gone as fast as it has, but I am very much looking forward to watching Hailey grow up into a beautiful little lady

Stats…

Haven’t been to the doctor in awhile (thank goodness) and her 12 month check up isn’t scheduled for another week, so we will have to update on height and weight another day!

• She’s wearing a size 4 shoe
• Size 4 diapers (been in those for AWHILE)
• Size 24 month clothes are fitting her nicely, the legs are a little long, but I am sure that won’t last long.
• Walking? Not quite, but she is pulling up on things and walking along whatever it is any chance she gets… she stands on her own on the middle of the room for 5-10 seconds… she lifts her arms in the air like “LOOK what I can do” and laughs.
• She mimics EVERYTHING. Time for mommy and daddy to watch their mouths!
• She loves the doggies! Daisy is very patient w/ her when she pulls on her face and hair… Roxy runs every time Hailey even looks in her direction.
• She’s just starting to show affection… on purpose. She will hold her arms out for mommy and pull me close to her and give me a hug! LOVE that!
• She’s blowing kisses
• She loves to play with my hair, sometimes without pulling it out of my head!
• The kid has 11 teeth! Yep, 11… this includes two molars! She is a teething machine and is doing really good. I rarely have to give her anything for the pain. I have been surprised to find new teeth in her mouth because I had no idea she was cutting any!
• She eats EVERYTHING… except her birthday cake… nice! HAHA She loves to eat.

There is so much, I could go on and on. Our little girl is definitely growing up, and fast!

(1st birthday party AND actual birthday posts and pics to come very soon!)

Hailey's first trip to the pumpkin patch

This year was Hailey's first trip to the pumpkin patch! Last year mommy and daddy went, but Hailey was still "baking" in mommy's belly.

She had so much fun checking out the animals... she LOVES animals!

We posed for a few pics!

HA HA! I love this one!

We had a great day at the pumpkin patch and the weather was overcast and cool, perfect! Fall is here!

We have an 11 month old!

Wow, 11 months... I am as much in shock at how fast this is going as I have been for the last year. I can't believe our girl is about to turn 1!

Hailey is defnitely more of a "kid" than a "baby". Part of me is a little sad to see the "baby" stage go, but watching Hailey grow and develope into her own little person makes up for it! She's such a little character!

In the last month she's finally perfected crawling! She still does her little "scoot" where she stands up in a downward dog position and swings her butt to the opposite side and repeats.... or she crawls on her hands and... well her right foot and she drags her left leg behind her. It's hard to explain, but she's super fast... and now we can add CRAWLNG to the list. 

She's up to 7 teeth! Yes, 7!!!! And, she's a biter... she loves to bite. She bites me and it HURTS! Last night she bit a hole in a brand new FULL water bottle, that was fun. LOL

She's wearing 18-24 month clothes, I would say she's definitely closer to 24 months... my little giant! She's been in size 4 diapers for MONTHS... we had to start using them awhile back because the 3's just weren't fitting right, she has some chubby little thighs.

Hailey has been 22lbs for the last couple of months. Her weight has been the same, but she's getting taller every day!

I am not sure how long she is, but we will find out soon. I only know her weight because the poor kid has been to the doctor at least once a month since her last check up. She had a cold, ear infection, eye infection and last but not least the stomach flu =( Talk about NO fun. Hopefully her immune system is getting stronger.

The kid can eat, she will NOT turn down food, she loves everything! I think the only thing I have seen her not like is cottage cheese. I like it, but I can't blame her, its kind of weird.

The next time you see an update like this, Hailey will be 1! I am beside myself. I can't believe I am about to have a 1 year old. Feels like she just arrived in all her 7lb 15oz glory =)