Sunday, November 30, 2008

santa express

From christmas train ride & parade

We spent Thanksgiving at the Meme and Papa's house with the Chalifour's. The whole family was able to attend and we had a fun, relaxing time. Believe it or not I never took my camera out so sorry no photos to share :-(

From christmas train ride & parade

On Friday we decided to start this season off right and took Hailey to North Conway to ride the "Santa Express". What a great way to start the Christmas season as it snowed on our ride up and they already had about 2 inches on the ground.

From christmas train ride & parade

From christmas train ride & parade

From christmas train ride & parade

From christmas train ride & parade

Hailey had a blast and when she first saw Santa she was jumping up and down in her seat asking for a Belle movie. No hi, or greetings, just got down to telling him what she wanted then she grabbed him and gave him a big hug! No fear here. You can tell this photo was not staged because neither are looking, but it was so funny how she just grabbed and hugged him.

From christmas train ride & parade

From christmas train ride & parade

From christmas train ride & parade
Yesterday, our little town had a christmas parade. Here are Hailey and her nana watching the parade.
From christmas train ride & parade

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

success

From Elijah's Birthday

From Elijah's Birthday


Saturday we celebrated Elijah's 3rd birthday. Elijah and Hailey would have only been 10 weeks apart if she had waited until her due date. His mom and I were pregnant together and these two have been friends for a long time. Happy Birthday Elijah, we love you!!!!

From Elijah's Birthday

We have success! At 3 years of age we finally got rid of binky and not how I had planned. I had decided that Christmas Eve we were going to stick her binky in her stocking and let santa take then to kids who needed them, and in return he would leave gifts. I had started telling her this story to start prepping her for our future plans. She is really excited about christmas so I thought this would be a smooth time for our transition and make her feel good about giving her binky away.

During this planning stage Hailey has somehow managed to lose all 3 of her remaining binky's. The last one was lost three nights ago right before bed. I searched, really searched since my plan was set up, but I couldn't find it so she went to bed understanding they were lost. No problem, the next night, no problem, nap, no problem. What was I thinking?! Why did I worry and not do this sooner? I have no idea, but they are gone and she is no worse for the wear.

I love this picture below ... On Sunday we went to Meme's for lunch and the girls played dress up with Meme. They were even treated to sparking grape juice and chocolate. Who could ask for more?

From Elijah's Birthday

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Halloween

Halloween was fun this year because Hailey LOVES dress up (in case any of you didn't already know that :-) Where we live they have a parade of costumes from the fire station to the school and give out candy before the kids go door to door. It was quite cold when we went out and by the end of the parade Hailey was already decomposing because of the cold, but God forbid she put a jacket on!
So daddy carried her to about 5 door and then we were done. Way to much stress with the cold to be enjoyable! Either way Hailey was thrilled with the candy she did get and tried to tell me she could eat it all that night!


On Friday we had to travel to Massachusetts because one of Tim's co-workers bought our Subaru. Close to where he lives is a restaurant called the Rainforest Cafe. We had been to one in MD before Hailey was born and couldn't wait to share the experience with her. The whole restaurant is decorated like a rainforest and they have animated gorillas, elephants etc ... Every 20 minutes a thunderstorm occurs as well. It was fun and of course just keeping her in her seat was a chore!

Lastly, on Friday night we had a harvest party/bonfire for the teens at our church. Hailey decided to be Belle for that party.