We have been up to a lot of activites lately with Halloween :) here are a few pics from it :)and of course I can't wait to load the ones of our little black kitten after trick or treating tonight :D
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| Halloween Part 1 |
We went and visited Granny and Dadpa and Hailey had so much fun!! She always loves to go up there and visit them :) She got to feed the fish and play with all their toys. She loves to have Gran Gran read her books, she will just sit in her lap and flip pages with her.. it is so sweet :) This time she found a baby doll they had and was carrying it around everywhere! She would hug it and kiss it and pull it real close to her! She even wanted to read the book with her :)
I bought a craft for me and Hailey to do together! It is a wooden wall hanger with pumpkins. It had a place to put her name and everything. I thought this would be fun and special for her. So once she woke up from her nap, I took her outside and started the painting!! She looked like a natural with the paint brush in her hand :) She even helped me paint her name on it... which is why the letters are so straight and jagged ;) We had a lot of fun and now it is hanging up right outside her room!
Everyone have a great weekend!
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| Having Fun |
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| Fireworks |
I know that I have been terrible on keeping everyone up to date lately, and I do apologize for that. I have been super busy and the time that I usually do my blogs, at night, is now filled with trying to get HB's scrapbook done by the time that her bday gets here.... which is nearly impossible with how long I waited to start it. To give you a hint, about the time you saw me disappear from here ;) I have been doing pretty good with it and think that I will get most things in, but not done by her party :/ I have also been planning that, so needless to say I have been pretty busy, but can't wait to get back in the swing of things after her bday :)
We have all been doing great and HB is growing and changing everyday. She has learned a few new words and my favorite, can now shake her head no at you. While in the future I am sure this is going to prove to be quite the opposite, right now it is adorable and funny! She doesn't do it a whole lot, but if she is done eating...soon as you get the spoon near her mouth, there it is, the head shake! haha And the other time she does it that we probably shouldn't laugh but just can't help it is when she is escaping out of the living room and we say Hailey come back here... and the head shake no! :)
She has now also begun to stand up for the floor all by herself. She has all but perfected the walking, but has always used the furniture, walls, the dogs, or even your leg to get up ;) She has also dropped all of her bottles but the very first morning feeding and the bedtime bottle which we are going to keep around for just a little longer...and yes it is more for me than her! haha but she does need the milk, so THERE!
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| Memorial Day 2010 |
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| 11 months random |
What a special day I had on Sunday!!! It was my first Mother's Day! Dustin actually started me off early with an early gift and dinner on Sat. night. Before going to eat at Sonic (and yes I picked!!) he gave me a new external flash for my camera!! It is very cool and I was so excited for the addition to my camera! It makes the pictures look so much better :)
He wanted to do breakfast in bed for me, but as childern can do, Hailey reminded me what being a mom was all about with a 630 am wake up call! I brought her back to bed with me (i know, i know!) and we laid there another 30 minutes or so. I got up and fed her and spent some mommy and me time.. and then had the most wonderful breakfast prepared by my awesome hubby!!! We headed to church and had a great service. Got a book from the church on the 12 incredible women of the bible :) We then went to lunch at Hill Top Grill in Athens and met mom and dad there. We had a great lunch and exchanged gifts :) She loved the "generations" photo frame that I got her from Hailey and def. LOVED that I got her a day at the spa at the Ritz Carlton :) She gave me a Willow Tree figurine of a Mother holding her baby. It was very specail to get on my first one and I have started collecting these :) When we got home, I finally got to open up my present from Hailey. Dustin also got me a Willow Tree figurine of Mother and Daughter to remember my first one by. It was so sweet and had the most precious card with it. It was the perfect words from a "baby who cant say it yet" but you are already the best mom :) The card is always my favorite part! Dustin also got me a very thoughtful card that was written very well :) That night we went to Dustin's mom and got to hang out and have a nice dinner! She really enjoyed the plant I gave her and the recorded photo from Hailey that said " happy mothers day 2010 love happy hailey" (what she always calls her)! We finally got home and once hailey crashed I worked on her baby book for 2 hours to finish off the night! I hope that all the moms enjoyed their Mother's Day as much as I did and got all the love and appreciation that you deserved!
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| Mothers day 2010 |
On June 8, 2009, I found out what it was like to feel like more than just a woman. I became a mother. From the moment that I saw my beautiful baby girl, I teared up with the most fulfilling love and joy I have ever felt. It is true what they say, that you can love someone, but until you love your own child, you won't really know what love is. Being a mother is such a miracle and blessing all at the same time. Being able to watch her grow and the amazing things that God allows them to do at such an early age. Everyday that Hailey does something different, I just sit back and think... WoW! how cool is that. She has brought smiles and laughter into my life. I can be having the worst day, and no matter how small or how big my stress level may be, that small little girl can bring happiness to my world with one little flash of a smile. She makes you feel like you are the only person in the world when you are holding her. She has full trust in you as her parent, and that is something that I find both scary and proud of all at the same time. She is dependent on me to get the job done for her, no matter what that may be. 5 years ago, I never thought the topic of my discussion would be, when was the last time the baby pooped, or it's time for her to eat, or we can't go there cause HB has to nap, or even in a million years thought that I would sit in the back of a car (or drive for that matter) with all of my friends and "pump" while going down the road ;) My o my how things have changed! But there is nothing in this world I would trade one second of my time with her for. She is my world now and Dustin and I together fill so much more complete with our little blessing and what she means to us. Each and every day I thank God that he wanted to bless me with such a sweet, happy, and loving little girl. This Mother's Day is going to be so special for me because it is my first, and I will now get to know what it feels like to to celebrate being a mother and the love that you have for your child and the love that you get in return. This Mother's Day I want to say "Good Job" to all you mother's out there. I had respect for you before, but now it is much deeper and on the same playing field. Here is to every mother who sacrifices, reschedules, eats cold dinners, cooks with one arm, watches Yo Gabba gabba, traded in Aerosmith for "if your happy and you know it", passes up a day at the shopping mall for a day at the park, and has gray hairs from the stress of being a mom. You are truly a blessing to someone who loves you so much and could never live without you!
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY :)~ hope everyone has a great day
~~**Nicole~**~
Well I am a little late with my post but I am finally uploading Valentine's pictures! We had a very interesting day..well night. Since it was on Sunday, we went to church and then after lunch came home to chill out the rest of the day. We watched Couple Retreat and it was a cute and funny movie. Right after it ended I got up to start my part of the dinner. Dustin was going to cook us some yummy steaks and I was doing mashed potatoes with veggies. He has had a female bearded dragon that has been pregnant for a while and said he wanted to go and check on it. Well this is where the night turned into an interesting one. He came up to inform me that she was laying eggs! His first one, and she was laying eggs.... So he had to tend to that right away and make sure that the process went smoothly. So we decided to post pone our dinner and wait until Monday. She laid 20 eggs! and they are on their way to hatching :) We had a great dinner the following night and even got GG to watch HB while we had a romantic dinner :) Things were def. different this year!
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| Valentine's Day |
We had a very happy and cold New Year. We headed out to Pigeon Forge the Tuesday before New Years. Unfort we did not check into ALL of the road conditions. We had called ahead to the mountain and heard that it was not recommended for bigger passenger cars to travel through. Since we were pulling the camper, we decided to go around the mountain. We got within 2 or 3 miles of our exit and found out that I40 was completely shut down because of a rock slide that covered both sides of the road. At this point we were set in for a long road ahead. Needless to say we left right at 1 that afternoon and we didn't actually pull into the camp site until 9:30 that night. I do believe that is one of the longest trips that we have had to PF. Once we got there it was FREEZING!!! We of course hit the stores shopping that first morning. I didn't find as many good deals as I was hoping for. I did get a couple of dresses for HB for next Christmas. On New Years Eve we had a few flurries, but nothing like we thought we would get. It was 25 for the high that day and very breezy. It was going down to the teens at night. We decided to watch a movie that night to tick away the time. It was longer than expected, so we turned the channel to Dick Clark with about 20 seconds to go. Everyone stole a new year's kiss, finished the movie, and then got a late night start to bed. After being gone for almost a week, we were glad to be back home and in our own beds. Hope that everyone has had a good start to the New Year! :)
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| New Years 2010 |
I wanted to write and say thank you so much to everyone that helped to make Hailey's first Christmas a good one! She got so many fun and exciting toys... she can't decide which one she wants to play with now, and mommy can't decide where to keep all of them now :) Hope everyone got what they wanted from Santa... Have a Happy New Year! Thanks again
We had lots of food and fun with our family on Thanksgiving. We started it out with lunch at Dad's parents and man did we eat. The food just kept coming and by the time it was done, the whole table was full! It was all so delicious and needless to say, we were miserable! Hailey even joined in on the food and had pickle for the first time. Don't worry! She just chewed on the end of one which I am sure felt good to her teeth! She loved it and cried when we took it away.. haha. That night we relaxed and watch some movies. I usually go home and start the Christmas decorating. But this year we had Thanksgiving at my house and it wasn't until Sunday. Mom's side of the family came over and we had a good time with them as well... and again.. more food! It was a full house and great weather for the kids to play outside. Dustin showed off his 'petting zoo' to everyone and the kids loved it! We managed to get a good pic of all the great grand kids. That night we had Dustin's family over and celebrated his Grandmothers bday as well. By the time it was all over, we didn't want anything to do with food for a while.
We count our blessings everyday and have so many things to be thankful for. Thanks to everyone who made Thanksgiving that much more special :)
(more pics are to come, so check back for new ones tomorrow)
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| Thanksgiving 09 |
We had such a blast Trick or Treating with Hailey. She got in a good 2 hour nap before hand.. and then got a full belly, so she was a happy girl. We started out by having some friends and family over to see her in her costume. I made Apple Cider and Crisp and we took pics and hung out for a bit. We finally got ready to go out and start the festivities. We were so thankful that the Lord held off with the rain for us. I was really worried about that. We headed next door to the Gobles house and they all greeted us and loved Hailey's costume. Although she can't eat, of course they had to give her a couple of pieces of candy, and she even held her own goodie bag! We let her reach into the candy bowl and she picked purple nerds, (yummy.. haha) First thing she did was put them straight in her mouth. We all got a good laugh out of this and of course a good photo op. GG and G Daddy came with us, so mom got a bunch of good pictures for us. We only hit up about 4 houses, but Hailey seemed to have a lot of fun and gave everyone smiles. She got her picture made with her favorite boy Kohen (our next door neighbor) She loves Kohen and always smiles really big and a whole lot when she is around him :) After trick or treating we came back and she got to open her goodie bags from Sherry and GG and racked up on a bunch of things. If this is what Halloween is like for the kid, I hate to see what is going to happen at Christmas!! (these are only the pics that I took, once I get moms from trick or treating, I will post them in a different post)
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| Halloween Part two |
We carved some pumpkins getting ready for Halloween. I also got some pics of Hailey in her costume just in case I wasn't able to get some good ones on Halloween. I gave Hailey her Halloween gift and she loved opening it and looking at the card. I got the cutest picture of her holding her card and it looks like she is actually reading it. It is too funny. She got her first bigger dollie and the first thing she did was stick it in her mouth! I wonder if this is how she is showing me that she loves her new gift?!? I can't wait to put pictures up from tonight when we got out for her first Trick or Treat. Hopefully the rain will hold off for us. :)
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| Halloween Part One |
We ventured out to the corn maze yest. It was the perfect weather with over cast and a slight breeze. Hailey was a sleepy little girl and slep through most of the maze, but we got some really cute pics of her. I plan on doing some fall pics as well, but we took some of her in her 'first halloween' shirt. The maze was actually pretty hard. Especially when you forget to grab a map at the beg.! haha. Dustin took a pic of the sign before we entered and we tried to go off of that. We didn't exactly go the way that you are suppose to, but hey, we got out and I am here to talk about it. haha! After finishing we rewarded ourselves with a funnel cake..yummy.
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| Corn Dawgs Corn Maze |
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| Labor Day |
This was daddy's first Father's Day and he was a proud papa. We let him sleep late and mommy made him a big breakfast. He had a sausage biscuit and blueberry waffles! I was wide awake when he got up and we had some cuddle time together then got our picture taken in my pretty dress that said "daddys girl". I didn't want to look at the camera, I only wanted to look at daddy! We went to my great grandfathers, Charles the Great we call him, for lunch! Then for dinner we went over to daddy's parents for dinner. I got to sleep in the cradle that my great grandfather made for daddy to lay in when he was born. I slept like a baby in it :) It was a big day, but it helped me to sleep really hard last night!
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| Fathers day |
We decided to chill for V-day this year. We slept in, ate lunch, scapbooked, updated the site, and watched movies. We managed not to leave the house one time on Saturday! It was true relaxation...
Dustin decided to surprise me with all 6 seasons of Sex in the City and made me do a scavenger hunt to find them! That was very creative and fun. He showed me up again.. We had a great dinner that we cooked together and ate way too much with an appetizer, main meal, and a big dessert just like in the restaurant!
Our dogs enjoyed Valentine's as well with Frosty Paws dog ice cream. They licked their bowls dry.
Dozi even decided that the ice cream wasn't enough and she needed to lick the camera!
