Tuesday, April 21, 2009

crazy weekend!

From Apr.09

We've been so busy moving we haven't had any fun so we took this past weekend and had some fun. On Friday we took Hailey to the Southwick Zoo. It was a 2 hour drive, but worth the trip. One thing I noticed is how "scheduled" Hailey is ... She kept telling me how things were going to go. "Mommy, we will see the monkeys, ride the train, feed the Bambi's and then go home, ok?" And she kept drilling the schedule. Did I teach her this?! I am not sure if its a good trait or not for a 3 year old?!

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From Apr.09

On Sunday we celebrated Alyssa's 5th birthday. I still can't believe she is 5! It was held at BounceU. The kids had a blast! Hailey was scared at first and was crying, but after seeing everyone else have fun she loosened up and joined it.

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Happy Birthday Alyssa, we love you so much!

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Easter 2009


We spent Easter with my parents and had a fun filled day. My dad took pictures for families at our church, these are the ones took of us. I can't believe how big Hailey looks in these pictures!

Hailey has been wanting to know everyones names lately, people she meets, characters in books etc ... and she will let you know her name, "Hailey Chalifour". Not Hailey, but Hailey Chalifour. Her choice of names though is the funny part.
Her baby, Rubella ... yes, like measles, mumps and rubella. Where she got it, I don't know. Her imaginary friend, Genty or Jenty (guess I don't know how to spell it :-) Again, where did she come up with that one? And yes, she has an imaginary friend. Today she was playing Barbie, but not with Barbie's, she is the Barbie and she had a birthday party for Jenty. She gave Jenty a cake and everything. Later in the car I asked her where Jenty was and she said she was sleeping in the car beside her. SHHH ....

Thursday, April 09, 2009

catching up

So I have been slacking, but we are in the midst of moving, and just a crazy schedule in general so forgive me :-)

I don't want to forget to mention that Tim turned 30 on March 25th. We have been together since I was 15 and he was 17! Its hard to believe he turned 30. I had a party planned, but a friend of mine died suddenly and her funeral was scheduled the same day as his party so needless to say it was cancelled. My soon to be sister-in-law, the great cake maker had a beautiful cake planned so I asked her to go forward and make it and we gave it to him. As you can see below she did a great job and it was just as yummy as it looks!

From Mar.09

On Sunday we painted easter eggs in prep for this coming weekend, but Hailey couldn't get over the fact that she wanted to eat them. It was a quite funny! Actually, her appetite has picked up as of lately so I think she may be growing. Anyway, she didn't quite get into it the egg painting as I thought she would so I gave her incentive telling her that we needed to paint them and leave them for the easter bunny so that he would bring her a basket, she then proceeded to tell me that we could just take them to the mall, give them to bunny and get her basket now!

From Apr.09

Today I was diagnosed with strep, the 5th time in a year (thats another story!), so we had a low key evening at home. We decided to crafty and play with one of Hailey's favorite new things - glue! She started making pictures of people she knew and I just had to share.

Below are portraits of Auntie Laura and Uncle Matt ...

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And just so you know where she gets her great talent from, here are my portraits, of Tim, Hailey and I. I know you are jealous :-)

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After asking me to take pictures of the portraits she asked me to take some shots of her. I thought her faces were so funny I had to post them.

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