Finger Painting

I forgot to post the picture of my proud display on the fridge... haileys first finger painting! :D

16 Months Old

Hailey has now turned 16 months old! WOW!! She has hit such a fun age and is just a joy to be around... except of course the few days that those dreaded molars were coming in :( She has such a personality and is just a ham! She is constantly making us laugh at the things that she does :) She now LOVES our Camaro since she has had a ride in it, and ask Daddy everytime they are outside together. So it is now a Friday treat for them to go on a ride in the neighborhood together! She also LOVES for her Daddy to get in her tent with her! The tent is pretty spacious.. .but it is def. a funny sight to see! lol Last Sunday we got to go and meet our newest addtion to the family for the Bagwell side, Gracie! She was such an adorable little baby. She sleeps so well! Hailey hasn't been around to many babies, especially teeny tiny ones like her... so she wasn't quite sure? haha. She ignored her at first and just played with toys, but once we finally showed her to Gracie, she was giving her kisses! It was very sweet :) She had a lot of fun at Hunter and Gracie's house!

Baby Gracie

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Fall is def. one of my favorite times of the year, because the house starts getting decorated!! Went we and got some pumpkins for the front porch and HB loved picking them out. She even pointed to one of the small ones and said "this" (of course!) and carried it around the whole time. She even wanted it to be part of our display outside :) I can't wait for pumpkin carving and Halloween costumes!! It is going to be so much fun :)

pumpkin pickin

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Since she is getting to be such a big girl, I decided to take some cute little pictures of her and have sort of a mini photo session! She wasn't quite up for it, but we did have some fun. She looked so cute in her little tutu and flowered hat! I even put some cowgirl boots on in the end, and she was adorable if I do say so myself :) I am having so much fun being a mom and feel truly blessed with the beautiful and loving child that God has given us!! (I also threw in some cute bath pictures! everyone loves those ;) )

16 mo mini session

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As for me and Dustin, we have been keeping busy as well. His work is going very good! And I am starting to get a little busier with my photography! I am def. having fun with it and it doesn't seem like work when you are persuing your passion :) I am very excited that I will be doing Santa picutres this year!!! So if you would like your kids to see Santa or know someone that would, please tell them to give me a call or visit my website for details and pricing :)
http://www.nicolefloydphotography.com/santas-coming.html

I hope everyone is doing well :)
Have a great week and hope to update you soon :)

Side Walk Chalk

Last week when it was so nice outside and not so hot, we started hanging out there a little more after dinner. Hailey got some side walk chalk for her birthday, and I finally decided to bust it out ;) haha. She had so much fun doing it, and started drwaing right away!! She was a MESS!!!!!! I can not stress this enough! She literally had it from HEAD to TOE!! But it was absolutely adorable, and she was making me laugh. We def. had to have a bath after this one! Dad had some fun and drew a body around her and she actually did really well laying there! It was a great family fun night!

Side Walk Chalk

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We are still alive!!

So I promised in my last blog that I WAS going to be better at blogging... well as you can see, I didn't hold up to that promise :/ So here I am to update you on what's been going on (since August!!) We have been looking forward to the month of September for a long time, because it meant football (which I am VERY disappointed!!!) and Pigeon Forge.. our two FAVORITE things... and FALL!! We Made our way to Pigeon Forge the middle of September and were hoping for cooler fall air..well it was still HOT! But we did have a great time. I got some really cute pic of our precious girl, and we shopped, ate great food, and Hailey even visited her first amusement park, which she LOVED!!! She pitched the biggest fit when it was time to leave, I had to divert her attention to getting to ride in the BIG truck! :)We found a HUGE pumpkin at Dollywood (they always have the best decorations!) and stopped to take pictures. Hailey was amazed by it and just kept looking up! I got some really cute ones with her lifting her hands towards the sky :) Unfortunately Dustin came down with food poisoning... well what we thought was that, but actually turned out to be more of a stomach virus. He got that Saturday and didnt't get out of the bed (except to drive home) until Tuesday morning when he HAD to go back to work. (sorry for the red eyes in pics... didnt have time to edit)

Pigeon Forge

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The next weekend was my next BIG thing I looked forward to every September... the Consignment Sale at the horse park!! I had presale passes and literally could not wait. I got Hailey some great clothes and shoes, and nothing above 5 bucks!! I always love it there and actually looking fwd to the 50% off days tomorrow where I could potentially find things for $1! I got a few pics of her in the new boots that I got her... as you can tell in the pics, I think she likes them!! I love the one where she is doing the "cat walk" HAHA! She loves her shoes... just like her momma!! ;)



I am so glad that the weather has been so beautiful lately and Hailey is loving playing out in it! We were outside for probably 2 hours today and she still didn't get enough and sucked up to daddy for another hour after dinner ;) haha Halloween is just around the corner and Hailey is going to be a BLACK CAT! how fun :D

Hope everyone is doing well, have a great weekend!!

Church Night Out

Our church so graciously through a thank you party for the volunteers at the church at a local water park. Haiely had so much fun playing and DID NOT want to get out... and was still WIDE OPEN at 8 when we finally made her get out!! There was a lot of cloud cover and it was freezing when you were wet out not all the way in the water. She was shivering and had blue lips and still just a going at it! haha. Dustin took pics for us, so sorry, but some are blurry ;)

Water Park

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Beach Trip.. lost pics :)

haha! JK ;) here are the pictures that have been stuck on my old camera! Dustin wouldn't let me use my new one too much on the beach, so these are the ones that were of us on the beach :) (only a month late!)

Beach trip 2

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For those of you still hanging on!!

I will have to admit that I have been pretty slack about keeping updates on the blog this summer... I took full advantage of the relaxation!!... well actually of keeping busy!! We have had such a great summer and did all kinds of fun things... one being Hailey's first birthday.. and I STILL cant believe it!! She had her first beach trip too and as you saw from the last post, had a mostly great time!! Since then we have kept pretty busy just doig things locally :)
One of the major projects we decided to take on was building HB a playroom... now it sounds like a whole lot, and sort of was, except that we had a great builder.. my dad!! For those of you that remember, when you walk into the front door, normally you would see a sitting room and could walk through to the living room. Well now there is a wall there and it looks like a hall way!! And on the other side is a fun playroom for HB that she is LOVING and so am I! For numerous reasons, but my favortie is that I can shut the door on the mess and leave it for another day ;)
Here is HB supervising the construction..
and here is one of her and how EXCITED she was to go in (FINALLY!)

(more pictures to come when finished decorating) The room seems like it has filled up already and one of her favorite toys is a kitchen set that we got from our friends at church.. look she even bakes us cupcakes ;)

She is def. a summer baby and loves being outside... ALL THE TIME!!!!! She will walk to the door.. and almost understandable talk say "outside" .. or sometimes just "this"! haha. We usually go outside every night for 30 minutes or so before bath, books, and bed. And sometimes it is a fight and the tears break out because we have to go back inside :( The other day it was raining here, so I decided to take the opporunity to get some cute pics (no, not me!) and put her in her rain boots and umbrella (yes I bought the umbrella just for the pics! ;) (hush!) They turned out very cute, but as you will see, she didn't really want to take pictures, she wanted to play in the rain! The sun had already came out by the time her BF got there, but they played together and got some cute pics anyways :)

She is doing ALL KINDS of new things. It just amazes us how quickly she can catch on to things and how quickly she learns to say new words! Some of the new things that she says and does now are: she can say, moo for cow, her version of quack quack for duck (and the word duck) ;) bock bock for chicken, i can spell how she makes the pig! lol, tickle tickle, shoes, hi (along with hey), fish, dog (and dozi) and she can do: kick the soccer ball (:D), run, blow bubbles in the water, blow kisses bye bye, make a smackin noise when she gives a kiss, push the button on her four wheeler, climb onto and off of the sofa! haha, and points at everything!! There is so much more that she is doing, but these are the main ones :) (ps. the last pictures are her having her first blow pop today!! she LOVED it :) ) Enjoy!

14 months

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I know this was a heck of an update, and a novel for your evening... but I do hope to start blogging regularly and even getting back to my menu mondays (which yes i did miss yest!) I hope everyone is doing well and had a great summer! Let that Fall air blow in the decorations, shopping and UGA football baby!!