beach days and fireworks

We have had a fun-filled week of beach days and fireworks. On the 4th we went to the beach with family and friends, but the fireworks were cancelled due to rain so we went back to see them the next night. Hailey did great the entire evening and loved the fireworks. It was nice to actually have her sit in my lap and enjoy them since the girl never sits down :-)



As I have said before Hailey is quite the little socialite. While at the beach she walks up to another little girl and starts playing with her. The mom asked Hailey's age and we realized the girls are only 10 days apart. My mom then commented on how small the other little girl was (her and Hailey were almost the exact same size), come to find out the other little girl was a 31 weeker! You don't usually run into other preemies like that so it was fun to talk with her and thankfully both our girls didn't have any long term issues.

Hailey and her "Unca Matt"






The night of the fireworks the brakes froze on our car so Hailey and I had to ride home with Deb and Elijah. This picture was taken around 11:30p ... the kids were wiped and so were we!!!!



Yesterday, we celebrated Kaylee's 6th birthday at Dean & Cookie's camp. The kids had a blast and Hailey went in her float for the first time. She loves the water, but hates the confinement of her float. Once she got used to it she loved it. She also had her first boat ride and did wonderful. Actually, the only hassle was getting her to actually sit down! She wanted to walk around, but that wasn't going to happen :-)

Sadly, I have no pictures from yesterday because forgot the camera!

Next week, I work Monday then I am off and we are on vacation - yeah! We are taking Hailey to Storyland and traveling to North Conway, NH. Then Saturday my baby will be 2! We are planning a big monkey bash! Lots of pix to follow ...