Lane Family Adventures

One more July Adventure

2011-08-02T22:10:00.000-06:00

**This one didn't add to the last post**
To round up the end of our July adventures, we had our Schuring Reunion at Flaming Gorge. We we able to go on a river run on the Green River while we were there. I wasn't too sure if Hailee would actually go since she has a fear of things and wont try them. She was having fun and had a outlook on what we were going to do. When we started to hike down to the river, she was getting nervous and didn't know if she wanted to go. We kept pointing out there were a lot of kids and nothing was going to happen to her. We got her in the boat and we took off. She stayed by me and held on tight, with a little time passing, she got more comfortable and started to move around the boat. The river was pretty calm and had few rapids, mild rapids. The rapids were ok, I didn't want anything that would scare Hailee and make her not want to go again. It was freezing cold water and the weather was pretty mild. When we finished, Hailee wanted to "river run" again and was pretty upset that we couldn't go again. We got back to the cabin where the rest of the family was and Hailee was able to make a bubble gum bracelet, she loves it. Hailee was so excited to sleep in the tent with all of her cousins. She is my little outdoors girl, she loves camping and the mountains. Good thing cause her parents do too!! We had a great time at the reunion and love spending time with the family that we don't see very often!!

Our July Adventures

2011-08-02T21:58:00.000-06:00

Our 4th of July was way fun!! We went to NSL for a BBQ at my uncles house and fireworks at the golf course. We went to the races at Copperton Park. Hailee was so excited to run the races. Jimmy ran a race and I ran a couple of races as well. Hailee was so excited to do the hula hoop race. After the races we headed to the Magna parade. Hailee loved all of the activites we did on the 4th.

Since the weather has been cooler this year, the snow took longer to melt in the mountains. By now we have spent many days there hiking and taking walks at the lake. We took a picnic up to the lake and it was rainy and cold so we didn't stay really long. There is a waterfall by the lake and usually isn't very big, but with the run off there was a lot of water coming down. We miss not being able to get to the mountains more this year.

We went to one of our friends daughters birthday party at a park/pond in Spanish Fork. While we were there Hailee wanted me to take a "photo shoot" of her. She wanted to pick out the places to get pics and the poses she wanted to do. Everywhere we go she wants to have her pics taken and like to model for the camera.

On the 21st, we went to Lagoon. Hailee was so excited. She loves to go. When we got there we found a table to dump our things so that we could take off on the rides. The first ride we took her on was the new Lagoon ride, Bombora. At first Hailee was yelling and laughing as we went up the hill, we started to go down the first hill and around the corners and she wasn't too sure if she liked it. At the end she wanted to go again and again. We met my brothers fam and my mom there. Hailee conquered her fears while at Lagoon-a-beach. She has not liked to get into pools of water or go on water slides. She did both!! She then kept talking about Bombora and wanted to go again. We went on a lot more rides this year since she was taller and could go on more. It was a good day to go, not really long lines and it wasn't really hot!! We actually stayed for pretty much the whole day and night!!

Park Day

2011-06-22T17:41:00.000-06:00

We had a "sick" day and took off to the park with some friends...

Posing in the tube...she kept posing in funny poses...

Both Hailee and Andrew accomplished this and learned how to turn around so they weren't going down the one side head first...

Hailee, Andrew and Addi... Picnic time...

Just relaxing...

Hailee thought she was so big to hang that high and then drop to the ground and not get hurt..

After a day at the park, what a better way to cool off then to jump with the sprinkler under it... Hailee loves to jump with the water...

Zoo

2011-06-19T09:21:00.000-06:00

Wood Connection Giveway!!

2011-06-14T21:19:00.002-06:00

http://thewoodco.blogspot.com/
Enter for a $50 gift card to The Wood Connection!!!!

Easter 2011

2011-04-24T22:22:00.001-06:00

Hailee in her Easter Dress, she was so excited to finally wear it to church.

Easter Egg hunt, I had to work, so Jimmy being the greatest dad took her to a hunt. He said that she was being really shy and didn't want to get in there and pick up the cool stuff that was there for her age group---Hailee does NOT like the Easter bunny. We went to the mall to see the Easter Bunny and she was so scared of him, she didn't want anything to do with him. I told her she needed to tell the bunny what to bring her and she asked for a spoon cause she lost hers...so random.

Hailee's Easter basket. She was so surprised when she saw her basket and all the things the bunny left for her. She didn't know what to do at first or what to look at first. She of course LOVED the candy that was left.

Easter Egg hunt with my family. Hailee loved the outfit that the bunny left for her, she is quite into clothes. This hunt was better, she got right out there and ran and ran to find all the hidden eggs and toys. She wasn't shy about this one!!

Dyeing eggs...all I can say is what a mess!!! I got the no spill dye thinking that it wouldn't be very messy, wrong....they still managed to make a mess of it and get all dyed with the eggs!! They had a great time, that is all that matters.

Trampoline

2011-04-24T21:58:00.004-06:00

We finally got Hailee her trampoline.

She has wanted one forever. We didn't really like the ones that they have out there and so we didn't buy her one to just get one. We were at Sam's Club and saw that they had a low to the ground, fairly good size around, and enclosed trampoline and decided that it would be a good one to get. It looked like it could handle the weather outside as well. So we surprised her with it and she was excited.

She even must have been dreaming about it, cause she woke up in the middle of the night and wanted to jump and told us that her friends came over to jump with her.

Hailee's First Set of Stitches

2011-04-24T21:50:00.003-06:00

So we were out with some friends at dinner, Hailee was leaning against her chair and it slid away from her and she hit her head on the chair. We thought that she was fine and tried to calm her down from crying when I looked at her and her head was bleeding.

We were lucky to have our dinner over, so we went to pay for dinner and take a look outside in the light. Hailee was more worried about the free sucker she gets when dinner was over than her head bleeding. We looked at it more and decided that she would need stitches. So of course we were down south away from home and so we went to the insta care, they were going to put stitches in and then decided they didn't want to do them there, so we had to go to another insta care. When we got there, they looked at her and said that they would have to do staples.

Hailee was so brave and didn't even cry when they were getting everything ready for the them to get put in. She was still nervous and scared. They got her head all numbed and then put the staples in pretty quick

Hailee was so proud to show everyone that she had staples in her head. She did so awesome!!

Great Grandma's Piano

2011-04-24T21:45:00.002-06:00

Hailee likes to visit great grandma and of course great grandpa.

She loves the piano that they have and always wants play it. It is a player piano, so it has music rolls you put into it and it plays the songs while the keys move. She loves the songs and loves everyone to sing them while it plays.

I love this picture of the two of them listenting to the song and playing the piano together.

Hailee's first haircut

2011-04-24T21:40:00.003-06:00

So I finally cut Hailee's hair, it wasn't easy to do either.

Her hair was so long and went into a point at the bottom, so we just made it straight across.

As the girl cutting it was getting ready to cut off the bottom, I almost told her to stop but didn't. Then I wanted to cry as she was cutting her hair, she didn't cut that much off either and it is still long and curly.

Hailee didn't want to get her hair cut, when I told her about it she cried. She was scared to get her hair cut since it would hurt to cut it, as she thought anyways. She did really well and we went out for icecream afterwards.

Planet Play Dance

2011-04-03T22:54:00.002-06:00

One of Hailee's favorite places to go is Planet Play, formly known as Incredible Pizza. They have little activites for the kids at the entrance and you can will prizes. Hailee decieded to join the dance stuff. If you participate in all the dances they do, you get a free $3.00 game card, to her that was so cool. She loves to dance and loved being out there dancing with everyone.

Enjoy her dancing....

Date Night

2011-04-03T22:20:00.004-06:00

We went on a great date night to a concert, and what a great concert it was. LeeAnn Womack, Reba and George Strait. Our seats were really high, and when I say high I mean top row at the Energy Solutions Arena. So, I knew that George was coming and didn't say anything to Jimmy cause we just saw him last year at Usana and didn't think that he would want to go. I thought that it would be fun to see Reba, but I haven't been listening to country as much and so I didn't really think more of it. Jimmy told me a few weeks ago that he heard they were coming and wanted to see how much the tickets were. Well since we waited till nearly the last minute, that it what was left and so we bought them and went.

LeeAnn started off and she did an amazing job and the one song that I love from here is "Dance", love that song!! Then Reba came out, she is so great!!

Loved everything that she sang. She sang the duet that her and Kelly Clarkson sing and LeeAnn came out to sing it with her, it was awesome.

Towards the end of her part, she started to talk about the things she had done with music, film and TV. She was talking about her show, Reba, and all of a sudden someone comes running on stage, screaming and dressed pretty crazy... it was Melissa Peterman.

They then did a little comedy act. It was funny, Melissa is one funny girl. For Reba's encore, on the screen was showing a movie of her in a taxi, then the next thing you know in comes a taxi with her in it and she has changed to a red dress. It was great!! Then George came out.

It was a blast, and now that I have seen him 3 times, I now know more of his songs. Jimmy loves or I should say LOVES George Strait. Even though we were high it was fun to spend the time together. After the concert it was a down pour outside. By the time we got to the car we were soaked!! Great way to end the night, running in the rain, soaked.

Flying Kites

2011-04-03T22:13:00.002-06:00

While getting a birthday present for Hailee's friend's party, she saw the kites. She didn't really know what it was but since it had Ariel on it she wanted it. With the weather lately, it still hasn't been nice outside. Then we had a couple of days that were warm outside and windy. Great weather to fly the kite!! Hailee rode her bike to the park and it was easy to get her kite up with the wind we had. I don't think that I have flown a kite for a really long time. It was fun to show her how to put it together and how to get it to fly and stay in the air.

January Events

2011-01-29T19:25:00.004-07:00

We went to the zoo...

*I had Martin Luther King off of work and planned a play date with the DeMelo's. We were going to go to the bounce house, but it was a nice day and was warm and Andrew had the grand idea of going to the zoo. What a great idea, it wasn't too hot to walk around and it wasn't too cold that we were freezing. The only down side was the carousel and train were closed, the giraffe's were closed and they took the bears out. The plus side to going when it's not summer, the kiosk with all the toys and drink containers were not out or open, so no fighting with Hailee about getting an over priced toy that she would most likely never play with again. It was a fun day!!*

Hailee became a sunbeam...

*First day of Sunbeams*

We played in all the snow....

*Being pulled behind the four wheeler** Hailee loved this and would scream "Wahoo" the whole time.

*Sitting in one of the many mountains of snow that we had from the big snow storm*

Hailee's bike

2011-01-29T18:44:00.004-07:00

Santa brought her a bike for Christmas and she was bugging us to ride it outside, so on a warmer and when the roads were dry we took her out. She did really well at riding it!!

Late Christmas Post

2011-01-11T11:26:00.000-07:00

Hailee does not like Santa at all. Santa made an appearance at our ward party and she wanted out of the room that he was in. She wouldn't even talk to him with me holding her. I told her that if she didn't tell Santa what she wanted for Christmas he wouldn't know what presents to bring her. So we tried again and took her to the mall. She was all excited to tell Santa what she wanted until she saw him, we were the only ones there so the Santa was really nice and talked to her and tried to make her feel comfortable. He read her a book and talked to her, during the whole time I was holding her she kept saying " Santa, Santa, I want a baby with food for Christmas" Once he finally acknowledged her, she was ready to go. He tried to get her to sit on her lap and she wouldn't let go of me, but she told him what she wanted.

West Family Christmas party. This year it was at my parents home. It is always fun to get together with all the cousins and see how everyone has been doing.

Jimmy's brother's family came to visit for a couple of weeks during Christmas. It was fun to see them. Hailee especially liked that Bryson was here and that she could see him all the time. They decorated sugar cookies together and both of them have a love for *SPRINKLES*. Now that they have gone back home, Hailee doesn't quite understand that Daddy can't go and get Bryson and Uncle Matt anytime we want. How we miss them!!

As usual, we spent Christmas Eve at my parents house and the kids opened up their Christmas jammies. They had a lot of fun!! Christmas morning Hailee was scared to come all the way down the stairs cause I told her that Santa had come, she thought that he was standing there waiting for her. She does not like Santa. She came down a few stairs and looked around the corner and she saw the presents, then said "It's only snowmen" meaning the paper had snowmen on them. We finally got her all the way down and she saw her bike in the corner and ran over and hugged it. She was so excited. Then she was ready to open the rest. She got a couple of games, a Baby Alive doll, Leap Frog scribble and write, barbie house and barbie doll. She got a lot of other presents from the rest of the family as well. She was sad when there were no more presents to open and started to cry. She thought they kept coming. Even though Christmas is over, she still asks at the store if she can ask Santa for a certain toy for him to bring her.

Dance Recital

2010-12-14T20:43:00.006-07:00

Hailee had her first dance recital. She did an awesome job!!

We were able to watch her in class a couple of weeks ago and she seemed really shy, so I wasn't sure what she would do at her recital. I didn't care either way, it is just a great experience for her to be in dance. When we got there she was a little nervous with me leaving her in the back with the other dancers while I went out to watch the others dance, but when it was her classes turn, she got out there and loved being on the stage.

They were going to put her in the back and then they needed one more up front and they grabbed her and was put in front. I was glad that they did!!

She was all excited to see everyone that came out to support her. She was so happy that her cousins were there.

After the recital was over, she took her cousins up on stage and was showing them how to do her dance so that they could dance with her on stage.

End part of October-lots of pics

2010-10-30T21:43:00.014-06:00

I had a day off from work, so Hailee and I went with Andrew, Addy and Angela to Cornbellys. It was a lot of fun!!

Hailee loved being there and there was so much to do there. She loved to jump on the big pillows, go on the big slides,

get her face painted

and go on a hay ride.

They had a little place that was all about princesses.

Hailee loved it in there and loved sitting on the carriage and the big horse.

She loves the princesses. It was a great day to go as well, the weather was great and it wasn't too cold. While we were there we saw one of Hailee's friends, who is quite a bit older, she was there with Magna Elementry.

Hailee absolutley LOVES Caitlyn. All the kids needed naps by the time we were done and none of them fell asleep on the way home. I was even exhausted!!

Halloween was fun this year with Hailee being older, she knew what to do. She loved running from house to house to get her treats.

She was into screaming trick-or-treat. We made it around my parents whole ward boundries, just about. The kids kept wanting to keep going and going. By the end it was cold and wet.

When we first went out it had just stopped raining and we made it about half way and it started to sprinkle and stayed that was for the rest of the way. Of course the kids don't mind that. Hailee ended up getting 3 buckets full of candy!!

October... so far

2010-10-17T19:30:00.005-06:00

My aunt and I did a little craft fair down in Ephraim. I have quite a few bows that I have tied and thought I would see how I did selling them. When we got there, there was a parade that Snow College was having on Main Street.

It was fun to take Hailee and let her get the candy. She also got a tie dyed beach ball and a Snow pom pom from the cheerleaders. And you can't go to Ephraim and eat at some of the local places like Fat Jacks!! It was good to get away for the day and hang out!!

We headed up to Park City for the day and had a BBQ at my SIL condo. We weren't too sure how Hailee would like the roller coaster track or the alpine slide.

*Riding up the coaster*

We decided togo on the coaster first. Hailee liked the ride up, but as we started to go down we were going really fast and she wasn't too sure, and then all of a sudden she yelled that it was so fun. She was screaming and laughing the rest of the way down. We then took her on the slide. She wanted to ride with my mom.

She really liked that as well. She wanted to keep going on them both. Jimmy also did the zip line.

He said it was really fun. While he was riding up to the top he saw a few moose. It was a fun weekend.

We went to the pumpkin patch to get pumpkins,

although we grew some in our garden, it was fun to take Hailee and let her see all the pumpkins and hang out with her cousins.

Chopsticks

2010-09-26T00:19:00.003-06:00

We went to Tepanyaki for my brother in laws birthday. They brought out the "cheating" chopsticks.

Hailee loved them and had to eat everything with them.

She was so funny to watch her eat with them, although she got the hang of it pretty quick!!

Clowing Around

2010-09-25T23:46:00.006-06:00

We went and watched "The Greatest Show on Earth" circus with Hailee's three cousins, my sister, brother and my sister in law.

We rode trax there so that we didn't have to fight parking. This was Hailee's first time on the train, she has been wanting to ride it and she loved being on the train.

We finally got inside, after the big mess with the new "Flash passes", and we walked past kids getting a clown makeover and Hailee was insistent that she be a clown. The line was long and so we told her that she needed to wait and I made a detour to get a snocone cup, I think that is my favorite part of going to the show,

and Hailee picked out an elephant cup. She was very interested in the elephants and loved to watch them at the preview show.

We got to our seats and the whole show Hailee kept asking when she would be able to be a clown with paint on her face. The snocone and white tiger stuffed animal wasn't enough. So as we left we went back to where the clown makeovers were at, there wasn't a line, which would of been great if there was a line, but after she was all clowned out, I am glad that we did it.

I think that turned out to be her favorite part of the whole circus experience. So presenting to you my little clown and her cousin......

Look how she's grown!!

2010-09-16T22:08:00.003-06:00

**First born**

**1 year old**

**2 years old**

**3 years old**

Hailee's first day of dance

2010-09-08T21:29:00.004-06:00

Hailee wants to go to school, but with her missing the deadline for the school year, she has to wait another year to technically go to school. So I compromised with her and told her she could go to dance school instead. I love that she is so ready and willing to learn more, so we do our own preschool at home, anyways, she was more than thrilled to be able to go to dance school, so we signed Hailee up for dance this year. I was so excited to get her into dance since she loves to sing and dance. I took her to get her tap and ballet shoes, she was so excited that she was full of so much energy she kept asking when we would get to the store. When we tried them on, she had to wear her tap shoes everywhere. On her first day of dance she was a little nervous, but when I picked her up she seemed to have opened up and had a blast. She continually talks about it and always shows me what she had learned on her first day. She now keeps asking if she can go to her dance school and can't wait till her next class.

Another one of Hailee's "cheese" pictures.

Hailee is three!

2010-09-08T18:30:00.004-06:00

Blowing out her 3 candles.

Hailee's "cheese" face for pictures

My baby is now 3, it is kinda sad that she is all grown up. She decided that she wanted a princess party.

We had her party up in Midway at the condo since we were already there. She decided that she wanted pizza for her birthday dinner. We went to a pizza place in Midway, which I thought was good, and then went back to the condo to have cake. The girls all went swimming after. Hailee got some really nice gifts and loved every single on of them.

I guess I could just name three things about her since she is three, but there is no way that I could just choose three. Here is a few things about my girl.

1. She is VERY independant

2. Speaking of independant, she goes potty all by herself and doesn't ever want help from anyone.

3. She can count to 20 or higher and even count to ten in spanish.

4. She is starting to recognize her letters.

5. She knows what she wants and wants it now.

6. She loves to sing.

7. She also loves to dance.

8. She gives the best hugs around.

9. She is very caring.

10. She loves Ariel.

11. Her favorite movies are: Little Mermaid, Bolt, Ice Age.

12. Her favorite character is: Dora, Dora, Dora

13. She loves to paint and tie bows with me, she loves the crafty stuff.

14. She loves to walk Ruger and go to the park.

15. She loves her scooter and loves to ride it everywhere.

16. She loves icecream.

17. Her favorite food is: Chicken and french fries, broccoli, any kind of fruit, and of course, mac and cheese.

18. She loves her dance class.

19. She gets excited over just about anything.

20. She loves to laugh and say the funniest things to make everyone laugh.

I could go on and on about her, she is such a wonderful little girl and I am so proud of her and her accomplishments that she has made.

Cascade Springs

2010-09-08T18:11:00.005-06:00

We took a trip to Midway to stay in my parents condo for Swiss days. One day we went to Cascade Springs, it was really neat to see.

*Grandpa and Hailee on the stairs in the springs*

I haven't ever been there before. It was a nice day and had some pretty waterfalls, which weren't real big, but were pretty.

Hailee is always wanting to be in the mountains.

Salt Lake County Fair

2010-09-08T17:58:00.005-06:00

The fair was here again. It is always fun to spend time there and let Hailee see the animals and hang out. We usually go to the demolition derby, and we did go again this year. Since we had just gone to Lagoon,

Hailee was all about the rides and the games. We told her she could choose one ride and one game to play. Hailee loved to feed the animals in the petting zoo,
although she would just throw it so they wouldn't bite her.

We had tried to get her to ride the horses last year and she was terrified, this year she didn't want to get off.

Jimmy even tried his bull riding skills!!

The derby was a blast and we had a great day at the fair!!

Lagoon 2010-Long post/pic overload

2010-08-10T21:10:00.007-06:00

As I have mentioned, Hai has had her fair share of things she is scared of, one being rides. I was a little nervous to take her to Lagoon, but we had free tickets so it wouldn't be a waste of anything to take her. I had been telling her for about a week what Lagoon was and that they have these rides that we can go on. I told her about the magic dragon, the whale, the boats, and the merry-go-round. When we got there and she was awe struck. She didn't know what to think of all the things that were going on. We found our way to the pavillion to drop off our stuff and then made our way to the kiddie rides. We took her on the ones that the adults could also go on just so we were there with her.

I took her on the Tiki boat, she didn't freak out, she got on the rided and it started and towards the end she loved it. We asked her what was the next ride she wanted to go on. Since we have had this talk of the magic dragon for a few days, she was determined that that is what she wanted to see next.

Jimmy took on the ride and absolutely loved the roller coaster. We of course rode the merry-go-round many times.

By this time the rest of my family had arrived and so Hai was able to ride some of the rides with her cousins and was running all around showing them the things that she had found and loved.

We had eaten lunch and found out that my niece that is the same age as Hai rode the Tidal Wave, so we thought that we would try her out on it. She is just barely under 36'' but they let her on. She did ok with it, but didn't want to ever ride it again. Another ride that she loved was the Ladybug Bop and the Dinosaur Drop.

She went on both of these with my mom. She still talks about those two rides and how she dropped.

They had this swing type ride that went in circles, the requirement was to be 36'' to ride, they wouldn't let Hai on those at all, funny, they wouldn't let her sit in a swing that totally restrains her and go in SLOW circles, but they will let her go up in the air and drop down, they would let her go on the boat that only has a bar to hold onto and nothing straping you into the seat, still don't get it?? Anyways, it made her sad and so we went on the other rides that she loved to go on.

Hailee loved the little fountains they had in the middle of the park, they are similar to the ones at the Gateway. She ran through those like there was no tomorrow and had the time of her life. People stopped to watch her and commented on her playing in the water and how she made it look like a blast!! We played a few games and came home with a few stuffed animals, one was a pink monkey that is just about the same size as her. She loves to carry that thing around. We rode a few rides, I am either just getting old or they sped up some of the rides, cause they seemed to really go fast. I rode on the Wicked, lets just say my voice wasn't of much use afterwards from the screaming I did. It's name really fits the ride!!! We had such a great time spending with family and making such great memories together!! Hai can't wait to go back!!

More Silver Lake/Camping

2010-08-10T21:01:00.004-06:00

We went to Silver Lake again, except this time we went with my family and had a picnic. Hailee loves it when she has her cousins to come along.

*All the grandkids at Silver Lake

My family also went camping at the Spruces. Hailee and I went up on a friday night and had dinner and my sister kept Hai over night. While we were there, there was a young moose that came to eat in our camp site. We were pretty close to it. My sister was taking pictures of the moose with us in front of it and I was holding Hai for a picture, and all of a sudden the moose sneezed and scared her. Since she got back from camping, she had a dream about the moose and starts to get nervous around bedtime cause she is scared of the "bad moose". Not sure what she dreamed about it, but she will not let us sleep unless one of us is in the room with her and if we leave, she is right awake and in our room. I am sure that this too will pass soon as she has overcome the other things she has be terrified of. We had a great time playing in the river as well. It's too bad that she can't dream of the fun times we have and not the scary ones!! - I will post pics of the camping later!!!

Raging Waters

2010-07-09T19:23:00.003-06:00

So this with the next few post are what we have been doing the last 2 weeks or so with lots of pics!!
*Raging Waters*

Anyways, we both had the day off today and decided to go to Raging Waters.

We had a blast!! At first Hailee didn't like it much and just like watching us take turns on the slides. Towards the afternoon, she began to love the splash pad and the tube rides in the lazy river. It was a perfect day to spend together.

*Jimmy going down a slide*

Cars

2010-07-09T18:52:00.002-06:00

Hailee has began to love cars thanks to her dad. Jimmy likes Corvettes more and I like the Camaros, Hailee is kinda bias, she likes whatever one we tell her to say, she usually picks the one I say. She will tell Jimmy, "We like the Camayo's dad". They watch car stuff together all the time. During the summer they have a car show at Artic Circle so we stopped by. Hailee loved it and thought everyother car was either a Corvette or Camaro. Here are the ones that she liked at the car show.

Our 4th of July- lots of pics

2010-07-09T18:06:00.007-06:00

We had a great and busy 4th this year. With everything being celebrated on the same day, we packed everything in that one day. We started off with the usual Copperton races,

Hailee actually ran the race this year and they gave all the little kids 50 cents. Not much, but to her it was the best thing ever.

I even ran a couple of races this year too. I took third place in the shoe scramble. Note: don't wear gray flip flops like everyone else.

*Great Grandma, Grandma Schuring, and the Schuring cousins*

*Hailee's favorite cotton candy*

*Four generations*

*My dad and Alyssa, sack race*

*Waiting for the fire truck*

After a filled morning, we went to catch the Magna parade.

We had the best spot, at the beginning and not alot of people by us, so the kids were able to get their share of candy without a ton of kids fighting for it. We later had a BBQ with my family and then headed up to North Salt Lake for the firework show. We took glow sticks for the kids to play with while waiting for the show to start.

*Glow stick tricks*

*Watching the fireworks*

Silver Lake

2010-07-09T17:58:00.003-06:00

One of our favorite things is to go to Silver Lake. Jimmy had taken Hailee on one of his days off and then we ended up going again the next day.

Hailee loved to show me everything that she saw from the day before.

I took that camera and Hailee wanted me to take her picture on just about every rock, which took a while cause the trail is lined with big rocks.

Family Reunion Yuba Lake

2010-07-09T09:08:00.003-06:00

It was time again for the Schuring family reunion. This year we went to Yuba Lake. It was fun to have the lake there to play in.

The only thing was it was HOT!! It was fun to see everyone that you really only see twice a year when our family gets together. I love that we have such a huge family, it makes getting together that much more fun. With all of the aunts, uncles, cousins, grandkids, and great grandkids, there is over 100 of us. We had a great time!!

Eating lunch at the lake.

Hailee wearing Grandpa Schuring's hat.

More Adventures

2010-06-18T22:58:00.004-06:00

Hailee got her new "big girl" bed last month. She was so excited to have her new bed. She loved going and picking out her new bedding for it, she picked out polka-dots for her sheets.

As I get ready on the weekends, Hailee loves to be in the bathroom with me and get herself ready too. She really wanted to have her hair straightened, I didn't want to and ruin her pretty hair. I caved and straightened out her curls.

She loved it and kept telling us that she looked so beautiful. Her hair is so long too. Jimmy is the Elder's Quorum president and we had a camp-out with some of the Elders and families in our ward. It was really fun to go to and hang out with some pretty awesome people in our ward and get to know others.

The kids did sparklers, I thought that Hailee would have nothing to do with them, since she is scared of just about everything these days, but she loved them and hanging out with some of her friends. We went to a new place in Draper called Incredible Pizza. It was so much fun. It is a great place to take kids and tire them out!! Hailee played games, climbed and slided, rode the merry-go-round, drove in a car ride, and even bowled at the mini bowling.

(not the best pic in the dark with my phone)

Hailee loved the store they have with all the toys you can pick for winning tickets. We of course had our fun too, we raced in the go carts. The best part, we all ate and played for pretty cheap.

Few New Pics

2010-06-03T22:04:00.002-06:00

We have been staying busy this last month with just daily life. We planted our garden and we are going to try something new, artichoke, we will see how that works out. Hailee is loving the warmer weather so that she can play outside. She has a couple of new friends that live on our street, but they are all older, 1st grade"ish". She loves to talk to them and everytime we go outside to do anything she has to look for them and tells me "I have to say hi to my friends". She likes to ride scooters with them and follow them everywhere, which they don't mind and actually come over and ask if she can come outside to play. Hailee is in love with the park, I don't know any two year old that isn't.

Hailee has been asking for sunglasses since the sun is always in her eyes in the car. We found some with her favorite charaters on them, Dora, Kai-Lan, Princesses, and she choose Kai-Lan. She tells people Ni-Hoa, that is how Kai-Lan says hi in chinese. She likes to role play, she has lately been telling me that she is Kai-Lan and I am Rintoo, or she is Dora and I am Boots.

One Friday Night we went with my neice, Alyssa, to her school carnival. We put Hailee on the swings that go around in a circle, thinking that she would stay on them since she likes to swing. Nope, she got in the swing and was fine and all of a sudden she freaked out and HAD to get out of there quick, then tells me that it is scary. She didn't like the blow up slides either. She has been so afraid of everything lately. I am not sure why either, hopefully it is a stage that she is going through. So at the carnival she played games and more games. She said that she liked them better and it wasn't scary. She did really well at the games, she won lots of little toys, which she loved. The funny thing was on a hard game that I didn't think that she could do since it was for older kids, she won the highest prize, a radio with headphones. She loved it. She also loved that she got a HUGE cotton candy, I love this pic of her face after she had eaten her cotton candy.

So that is what has been going on lately, not a lot, but always fun to spend time together!!

Finished Projects

2010-05-02T19:58:00.004-06:00

I love The Wood Connection!! I have had a few wood projects that I have completed. It has been so fun to paint with my mom and sister. We made the same St. Patricks decor, which was fun to see how different they turned out depending on our own touches. I had been working on some other wood projects that are also completed, guess I have to head back and get more!! I love doing all these projects in my spare time. Another spare time craft, that takes most of it, is my bows. I love making them and keep having the encouragement to start to sell them. I may just do that!! I have to get everything together before I attempt it though, I will post some that are finished when I get them done. I just made some for my friends softball team to match their jersey's.

Temple pics- we did this with the YW with "I'm going there someday". It was fun for them!!

Wreath that I made.

I love this one, it was really easy to make and fun to do!!

This is for Hailee's room, it was so simple and easy to do that will really look cute in her room.

Just Hailee

2010-05-02T19:48:00.003-06:00

Hailee has quite the personality. She loves to help with the house chores, loves to play with her baby, sing, and use her imagination to make us laugh.

One of Hailee's nicknames is binker, since she has always loved her binkies. When asking her oneday what her name was she would say binker and if you asked her if her name was Hailee she would say no and mention a nickname. Funny girl!! She really loves Dora, Ariel, Diego, and most of the shows on Nick Jr. Her favorite is Ariel though. She loves to play with her dolls and LOVES barbies. Jimmy saw her up in her room oneday and she was in her babies cradle listening to the mobile, which plays music.

She didn't want to get out. She is always doing something silly. She loves to dance and loves to have her "dancing skirts"on. Oh how we love her!!

Easter Pics

2010-05-02T19:32:00.006-06:00

A little late, but Hailee had a great time with Easter!! She really didn't know what to expect when we told her that the Easter bunny was coming to leave her a present.

When she woke up in the morning I told her that the bunny came and to go down stairs to see.

She was quite surprised to see her basket and that it was full on fun things.

We had a fun egg hunt at my parents, the girls always love being together.

Hailee had to wear the crown, don't know why, but she loved having it on her head.

These are the eggs that she dyed with her cousins. She wanted them in all the colors.

My sister got a caterpillar that you can climb through, the girls love to be in there and put their faces through the holes.

Easter Egg Hunt

2010-03-28T18:53:00.000-06:00

Yesterday we went to an Easter Egg Hunt at This is the Place park. They had it separated into age groups which was a great idea. There were a ton of people, so I didn't know how Hailee would do or if she would just freeze since there were a bunch of kids. We got to the spot that was the 0-3 year old and she was so excited to see all the eggs that we on the ground and wanted to go get them all. They said go and I told her to go get the eggs and she took off and started to collect them. I don't think that the parents should have been able to go, a lot of parents were just grabbing eggs and carrying them to their kids. It was over just as fast as it began. With all the kids that were there, Hailee made it out with 6 or 7 eggs which was fine. They all had candy and toys in them. They then were giving out free popcorn, cotton candy, and ice cream. We were standing in line for the treats and there was a little boy behind us that was crying, the lady asked where they could go if their kids didn't get any eggs, so I explained to Hailee why he was crying and that he didn't get any eggs, so her and my nieces gave the little boy some of their eggs. Such a great teaching experience for Hailee, I had her give him an egg and she was so willing to give another egg to share. I was such a proud parent to see her willingness to share to make someone happy. The whole park was free, so we walked around and looked at the park. Hailee told me that she wanted to see the animals and " it would make me so happy" if she could see them. We had such a great time and even though it was really crowded, it was still fun!!

Long Over Due

2010-02-21T19:14:00.004-07:00

Nothing much really happens during the winter, except our hibernation. So there really isn't anything to update. We just stay pretty busy during the week and have some fun on the weekends. President's Day I went with my mom to The Wood Connection, love that place!! I got a couple of projects, these are half done, I just need to finish them, just need to get a few more things to get them done. I will have to update the pics when I have them completed!!

I have a St. Patrick's things to paint that I haven't started. I think that most of my free time during the winter is spent making new decor for my home, which isn't a bad way to spend some time.

It was fun to watch Hailee paint her own wood projects, she made sure that she painted every inch on the block.

Rollerskating

2010-01-13T19:49:00.001-07:00

I took Hailee with me to the youth activity. We went rollerskating. Hailee wasn't too sure what exactly that was. We got her skates on and she wanted to do it herself till she stood and saw that she couldn't do it without my help.

We went around the rink one time and that was good enough for me. It was a little hard by myself holding her up and keeping myself from not falling. She really loved it and wanted to go again, so we skated on the carpet, which was a little easier. After a few laps on the carpet we bought some treats. Hailee took her skates off, they were 3 sizes too big, and ran around looking at everything else. After we put on our shoes to get ready to leave, she was worn out and wanted to lay on the seat while we waited for everyone else to get their shoes.

It was a fun experience for her. I would love to take her again, with help holding her up.

Hailee's first movie

2010-01-10T11:11:00.000-07:00

I thought about taking Hailee to the movies, but didn't know how she would do. I told her that I was going to take her to see The Princess and the Frog. She was very excited and told everyone that she was going to see it. We started off our morning at Boondocks. Hailee went there to play with her friends in the kiddie kove. It was nice, her and Tristan had the whole play place to themseleves. Afterward we went to my parents house and got ready to go to the movie. Hailee was so excited when we got to the theater. We grab some lunch to take in with us to the movie, and her grandpa bought her candy to eat during the movie. She said that she liked the movie and ate a whole box of candy with the few exceptions of sharing with her aunt or grandparents. It was a fun day!!

Our Christmas

2009-12-28T18:20:00.000-07:00

We had a great Christmas. Hailee was so excited when she walked down the stairs and to find that Santa left her presents. She was really excited to see the jump-o-lene. She got some play food that is made of wood and has velcro that holds the pieces together so that she can cut them in half, she loved to show everyone how she could cut the food. My parents gave her a Dora talking backpack, that she was so excited to open and play with. She didn't want anyone to play with it. She was having a hard time sharing her new toys, she loved everything that she got. We got Ruger a gift that had a few stuffed toys and some dog treats. She ripped into the package to get everything out. It was a fun Christmas!

Family Pics

2009-12-16T17:44:00.002-07:00

Last Saturday was a fun filled day for us!! We went to our friends house in Eagle Mountain and had Lori cut my hair. She then was way nice and took some family pics of us at an old train station in Lehi. It wasn't too bad of weather unless you were in the wind. Hailee did so good and Lori got way cute pics of her. Hailee loved it and had fun going around to the different spots (her photo blog http://www.photobylori.blogspot.com/). Lori did an awesome job and we were so happy with the results. After that we went and grabbed lunch at one of Jimmy's favorite places to eat, One Man Band (it is similar to Training Table, but Jimmy says it better). We then headed to Cabela's to walk around. It was way busy there!! Hailee loves to go to Cabela's to see the big fish tank and the animals. We had a great time spending so much time together!!

Snow and more snow

2009-12-09T20:42:00.003-07:00

We got a lot of snow this last storm. We had so much that our porch that you have to step down a step onto the grass was level with the step.

Hailee thought that she would just walk out into the snow and fell right in. Hailee wasn't too sure of what to do in the snow and wasn't too sure after that.
We tried to make a snowman, but it was too powderey and wouldn't stick together. I had her jump of the porch into the snow and she really liked to do that.

I tried to get her to make a snow angel, but she couldn't quite get what I was telling her to do, but she did like the snow and playing in it.

Popcorn Balls

2009-12-08T10:04:00.000-07:00

We were invited to share in a fun FHE with the DeMelo's. We made popcorn balls and let the kids decorate them with candy. We made them so that they could hang them on the Christmas tree. I think that they ate more of the sprinkles and candy then they got on the popcorn balls. It was a fun evening.

Cookies and Christmas Dress

2009-12-06T20:51:00.006-07:00

We had some pictures done with Hailee and her cousins on Sat in their Christmas dresses. Hailee was so excited to wear her new dress. I haven't let her wear it since it was for Christmas. If asked what she wants to wear, she always wants to wear a dress. Jimmy put her in her dress for church today and when we got home I couldn't resist not taking a picture of her in her dress by the tree.

Since Hailee is older and she likes to cook, I thought that we could make a small batch of sugar cookies. I had a mix that only needs an egg and butter, so we mixed it together.

She loved to roll it out and cut the cookies out with the cutters. It wasn't the best mix to try and cut out cookies, they turned out really flat and not very good.

So we will make cookies again, from scrtach with the reciepe I love. Hailee had fun playing!!

Christmas Party

2009-12-05T22:18:00.000-07:00

We got together with my family for the West Christmas party. Hailee loved being with her cousins and had a great time. I of course forgot my camera, so my phone was the only other option. We took Hailee's present for her to open with the other kids. She got a princess tote that had a blow dryer (that actually works with batteries, it only blows out a little air), curling iron, a flat iron, brush, pretend lipstick and perfume, and a brush. She absolutely loves it!! We got home and she had to fix my hair to look pretty. She even had to use the blow dryer and curl Jimmy's hair.

Nothing much...

2009-11-19T20:55:00.002-07:00

Just a couple of recent pics of Hailee. Not a whole lot of things have been going on that is really exciting. Hailee had her 2 year old pics done, I was a little late, but it was just what I expected. She didn't want anything to do with the process. She would just cry and wouldn't sit by herself. I wish the photographer would have spent some more time with her. She was getting comfortable and then photographer decided to stop and say "That's all we will probably get out of her". I wasn't the happiest that she wouldn't really try. I had to tell her what to do and props to use. Never will go there again. I thought that this shirt was very cute, and I of course had to get a couple of pics with her in it. So other than that, I have been working on some more bows and have come up with a couple more craft ideas that I want to make, eventually. We are getting excited for Thanksgiving and the holidays. I am especially excited for Black Friday. I am crazy, but I love being out there and shopping with all the crazy people!!

Ducks and Cousin

2009-11-10T21:50:00.001-07:00

Jimmy's brother and his wife came to visit for a few days. They had their new baby blessed and we were able to see Aniston. What a cute little baby she is. I came home from work on Monday and Hailee's cousin Bryson was there visiting with Jimmy's brother. I thought that the ducks had all left the canal since there isn't any water left, but as I drove past they were there. We went on a little walk and fed the ducks. They had fun feeding the ducks and they must have been pretty hungary cause they came right up to them. We went back home and had the rest of Jimmy's family come over and we had a little party and celebrated Nov. birthdays with pizza and yummy cake! Hailee had a good time with Bryson and loved having him around to hang out with.

Happy Halloween

2009-11-01T11:27:00.000-07:00

We had a great Halloween. Friday night we went to my brother's house to their trunk or treat. Hailee was a little hesitant at first, but when she figured out that when you say "Trick or Treat" someone give you a treat for your bucket, it didn't take long to get the hang of it. On Sat. we went to my mom's house and had mummy dogs and caramel apples. We then went trick or treating in my mom's neighborhood, Hailee was unsure if she wanted to go to the door, but just like before, she caught on. Her first sucker she wanted it opened to eat it, I had to hide it from her cause she kept stopping and pulling it out and wanted to eat it. I think that Hailee's most favorite part was seeing her cousins. She loves to be with them and follow the older ones around.

Fall Leaves

2009-10-26T18:25:00.004-06:00

My attempts to get some kind of fall leaf pictures. Since Hailee does not like to be smiling or be in pictures, this is all I got.

We went to Idaho for the weekend and in my in-laws yard they had these bushes. Since the weather is suppose to change and snow, I don't think I will make it to the mountains to see the leaves there, I got what I could before they are all gone. I love these bushes they are so bright!! I love fall and the colors, just hate when it starts to snow. Hailee went and saw the cows and chickens and doesn't like to be close to either. She now has a fear of more things that never bothered her before.

Pumpkin Patch

2009-10-10T16:13:00.000-06:00

The last few weeks...

2009-10-06T22:36:00.006-06:00

This is what has been going on...

Hailee likes to try and dress herself without any help until she gets mad cause she can't get something on. She will then ask for help. She like to put on her shoes the most, cause they are easier than pants.

Grandma and Grandpa Lane came for a visit during conference weekend. Hailee loves to see them and loves to hang out with Grandpa Lane. She was wearing his hat around the house.

I just got some more ribbon, cause I am a nut when it comes to ribbon. Anyways, I got this 3 inch piece of ribbon that is neon. I first tied it on Ruger and told Jimmy he wouldn't loose her for their nightly walks, he then put it on his head and was telling Hailee that he was a ninja. Hailee copied and now she is Hailee Ninja. We were cracking up watching her play ninja.

Hailee likes to take pictures. I have tried to show her the right way to take them, but she always turns the camera around and then says "cheese" and takes random pictures of herself. I tell her to turn the camera around and she turns her whole body around in circles, funny.

Just a random pic from of Hailee...

Her new dress, she loves to wear dresses.

Mopping

2009-09-24T19:18:00.003-06:00

As I was cleaning, Hailee decided that she wanted in the fun, she usually likes to help.

She grabbed her baby and took over the mopping..

Later she decided that packing a baby around while trying to clean was too much so...

she decides to sit, hold the baby and mop. Never to let me help cause it's "Hailee's turn". At least part of the floor will be clean!!

Binkies

2009-09-24T19:17:00.002-06:00

What you do when you stay home with daddy...

2009-09-24T19:15:00.002-06:00

Play in the corn...

Go out in the nice weather and play with the computer...

Help daddy wash the car!!!

What an exciting day!!!

Our 3 Day Adventure

2009-09-20T13:37:00.005-06:00

We were going to be in California now, but with some unexpected things, we had to change our plans. We went to visit Jimmy's parents in Idaho for a couple of days. We left early on Thurs and made the trip to Idaho. Hailee hasn't been there since before she was crawling. We got there and she thought it was cool to run around, she really didn't know where we were till she saw her grandpa. She was so excited to see her grandparents. We went for a walk and saw that cows, she loved to watch them and didn't want to leave them.

Hailee just doesn't like to get her pictures taken for some reason and I was trying to get a cute picture of her standing in front of the corn for a fall picture, she wasn't too happy.

Walking back to Jimmy's parents house.

I went with Jimmy's mom to a Craft store and Hailee came along. I fell in love with this store, it is called Craft Warehouse. Way cute ideas and things to buy and the best part was is was all pretty much at a discounted price. We got some glass blocks and some dye for the glass and bought some vinyl, they turned out not too bad!

I also am on the enrichment board and our super Saturday is coming in a few weeks and I needed to make examples of some of the things were are going to do. I was in deep thought and was looking at the paint and trying to see what would look best and rummaging through the ideas running in my head and then Hailee interrupts me.....

Look Mommy I put on makeup, she had grabbed a paint brush and opened a paint bottle and was applying it to her face, this is after I took it away from her and she wanted to keep putting on pretty makeup. I usually watch her better, too much into thought. So the next day Hailee was eating breakfast and noticed that Grandma had makeup on and she asked her, " Your makeup" and she replied "Yea, I have makeup on" and Hailee's response was " Naughty Grandma" I don't remember telling Hailee that she was naughty for having makeup on, I let her pretend all the time. Funny girl. So I was telling my MIL about what I was making for enrichment and she wanted to make some too, so I got one of the examples done and the other painted and just have to finish it.

The Cruella DeVille Dance

2009-09-09T18:26:00.003-06:00

Hailee LOVES 101 Dalmations, her favorite part is the Cruella DeVille song, she likes to copy the charaters on the movie when they are singing the song. At the end of the DVD Selena Gomez sings a remake of the song, Hailee has came up with her dance to the song and watches it over and over. Her dance is so funny.

Silver Lake

2009-09-07T16:57:00.006-06:00

One of our favorite activities is to go to Silver Lake. This weekend we spent most of our time there.

We went with my brother and his kids yesterday and then went again today to have another picnic. Hailee loves it there and likes to see the ducks

and see the moose when they are out. Today we decided to hike up to the other lakes that are up behind Silver Lake. It was really pretty once you got about half way up,

you could see all of Silver Lake and everything around it. The leaves look like they are starting to change too, I am way excited for them to change!!

Hailee and Grandpa on our hike.

Hailee and her cousins.

2009-09-05T20:03:00.000-06:00

2009-09-05T19:35:00.002-06:00

Hailee loves to put on makeup. I have given her the containers that are empty and some brushes. She loves it and when I am getting ready she has to be right there with me and put makeup on and have her hair done.

Hailee has had her fair share of spills lately. Being independent, she wanted to walk down the stairs by herself and help me with the laundry. She does really well with going down the stairs by herself, but this time she stumbled down the stairs and hit her head and scrapped her nose. Then a few days later she was ran over by my sisters dog and landed on her head on the cement, this one was the worst she ever hit her head. She has a nice big bruise and black eye. Every time she gets hurt she wants an ice pack, it makes it feel better so she says.

Hailee modeling her new outfit from her grandma, she loves skirts and dresses and loves to dress up. She is going to be our little hair dresser. She loves to comb my hair and anyone else that she can and make it look pretty. It's funny to hear the things she says while she is combing my hair or her babies hair, she tells them to "Hold still" or to "Hang on, almost done" or "Hold on" wonder where she picked those up from?? It really makes you think about what you say to your kids when they start to repeat what you say to them. It is really funny to watch her.

Party #2

2009-09-05T18:48:00.001-06:00

Hailee will be 2 tomorrow. We celebrated her birthday today for party #2 with my family and a few friends. When we went to get Hailee a cake at Sam's, she saw the Dora cakes and yelled "Dora", when we showed her a couple other cakes, she kept pointing to the Dora and that is what she wanted, so we had a Dora party this time around. Hailee was a little possessive of her gifts too. The other kids love to see what she opened and wanted to play with the toys, but Hailee insisted on them being hers.

Hailee's 2nd birthday

2009-08-28T21:55:00.004-06:00

We celebrated Hailee's 2nd birthday today with Jimmy's side of the family since his parents were going to be here. She was so excited that she finally got to have her party.
She has been talking about parties for the last month. She tells everyone that she is going to have a party with fireworks. Not sure where she got the fireworks from, but she is determined that her party will have fireworks.

Hailee was so excited when I came home from work and she saw that I had a balloon with me. She loves balloons. Then when I was putting her cake together and she saw her Barbie she freaked out and told me "hold it for minute" I let her hold it while I was finishing the cake and it was a struggle to get it back from her. She loves Barbies. I had to explain to her that it was going on her cake and after we had her party and ate the cake she could have her Barbie.

Hailee's cake.

The finished product, the Barbie was hard to keep standing and it did fall over on the cake and had icing all over it.

We started to sing to her and she really didn't know what to do, she sat there and wouldn't look at anyone.

It took a little bit to get her to blow the candles out, but then she figured out what she was suppose to do and I missed the pic and had to re-light the candles and have her blow them out again.

Hailee knew what to do this time with her presents. She was really excited to open them and see what was in the present. She was thrilled that she got money from her grandparents.

We gave her the Leap Frog alphabet fridge magnets, I didn't know that she knew the alphabet song so well till she was singing it with the toy. Smart girl!!

Cousin Chris and Uncle Tim, Hailee opening the present from them and Aunt Laura and cousins Emily and Hunter. She also recieved a My Little Pony dress up pony with a Pony DVD from Aunt Sarah and cousin Isaiah. Thanks to everyone that gave Hailee presents. It was a great time!!

Bullet Bikes and Tutus

2009-08-17T21:56:00.007-06:00

Hailee's uncle has tried to take her for a ride on the bike a few times, but she wouldn't get close to the bike. She was not going to get on it, so one day Jimmy hurried and handed her off to my brother in law and off they went. When they came around the corner, she was holding on to him so tight and wanted off immediately. Hailee kept talking about the bike and after a few days she wanted to go again, so off she went. On Sunday, my family came over for dinner and Hailee told her cousins "ride motorcycle" and had to show them.

Hailee went again and so did Alli, but Abby did not want to ride and freaked out just like Hailee once did. She kept saying "it fun". With her dad watching sports cars with her, having her say her favorite car is a Corvette, and her riding on motorcycles, I hope that she will still like girl things too and not just fast cars and motorcycles.

** Hailee waiting for Daddy to come back with the bike**

On Sat I was at my mom's, she had a lot of shear ribbon that was going to be used to make tutu skirts for a fam reunion a year ago. The girls were bored, so we pulled out the stuff and made cute tutu skirts for the 4 of them. Hailee loves to have it on with nothing else but a diaper and then dances around the house. They were easy to make and look way cute!!

So, I guess it won't be all about fast cars and motorcycles. She is still a girly girl at heart with a love of cars like her dad!!

Family Reunion Camping

2009-08-12T20:04:00.001-06:00

This last weekend we went to my family reunion. It was just me and Hailee since Jimmy had prior plans that weekend. We drove up with my brother and his daughter and my other niece. My parents came as well as my sister and another brother. We all went without our spouses for various reasons. As we were driving there, it had become dark and as we were heading up the canyon we had to dodge a lot of deer and other critters of the forest, including a baby brown bear!! Yes a bear. My brother started to slow down and we were trying to figure out what was in front of us, as we got closer we saw the bear running across the road. It was cold camping. I am not a good camper when it is cold pretty much the whole time we were there. Hailee had fun with the other cousins, and played the games and did the activites that were planned, at each place they got to choose something to put in their bags. They had a sand pit with money in it, bracelets, bubbles,and go-gurts were just a few items they got. Hailee loved the bubbles and HAD to blow them herself. As she was walking she kept spilling them, but I was alright with that. It was a lot better than I was expecting with Hailee. I wasn't too sure how she would do putting to bed since she falls asleep on her own in a crib. No crib camping. She was really tired and fell asleep with my mom holding her, so it was nice not to have to fight her. It was a good way to spend the weekend, catching up with family and camping!!

Day at the Beach

2009-08-01T14:53:00.002-06:00

I never knew they had a beach at Daybreak, only that they had a lake. I didn't think to much of the lake either. My perspective of this lake has changed. The beach areas are so nice, they have sand and docks the kids like to jump off of. There is grass areas as well. It was nice that it was close and didn't have to drive forever. We took a picnic and played in the water. Hailee had a blast with her cousins and even jumped off the dock into the water about a million times. I really wasn't planning on getting in the water much above my knees, but when Hailee would only jump off the dock to me, I had to get in a little farther. The water wasn't really cold either, needless to say I was very impressed and can't wait to take Hailee back to the beach!!

First getting into the water. She was so excited to swim.

Hailee and Abby on the dock waiting to jump in.

Hailee and Abby playing.

Gateway

2009-08-01T14:35:00.000-06:00

Last night we went to the Gateway for dinner and then took Hailee to the fountains. I wasn't sure if she would like to have the water splashing all over her, but when she saw them shoot up and saw the other kids playing, she went for it. She thought it was so funny that they shot up and water landed on her head. She had such a good time playing in the water. She did really good when I told her it was time to go, she said bye to the water and see you later. We will have to go back!!

The Garden/Hailee's updates

2009-07-28T20:55:00.003-06:00

Our garden has exploded!!! It is so nice to be able to go outside and get fresh veggies to eat, although not all of it is ready to be picked and eaten. The zucchini is growing like crazy. I wasn't to sure how the garden would turn out since this is the first time we have planted one. I try hard to keep things alive, but sometimes I kill things, mainly flowers. Now I have to have my mom help me with canning the tomatoes and making sauce. Hailee loves to look at all the veggies growing and helping me weed, I know that won't last long!!! I think I am most excited for the corn!!

Hailee walking through the corn, don't mind her messy shirt, she just had some icecream.

Hailee playing by the garden.
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Hailee has started to watch some of the Disney movies. She hasn't ever been into watching T.V. much. She usually watches Baby Einstein. I wanted to see what she would do with watching something else, now she loves 101 Dalmations and Fox and the Hound. She was watching Dalmations and had her dog sitting with her, I checked on her and she had fallen asleep with her dog.

She always wants to do everything herself from dressing herself to getting her food and her new thing is to comb mommy' s hair and make it pretty. She is growing too fast and sometimes acts older than an almost 2 year old. She counts to ten with some help with the higher numbers. She counts to 6 and then skips to 9 and 10, but for being 2 she does pretty good. Alot of times at night you can hear her singing Twinkle Little Star, so cute!!

2009-07-18T14:00:00.005-06:00

I finally bought Hailee a swimming pool so that she doesn't have to swim in the dogs water dish anymore. We went shopping and I showed her the pools, she picked out the pool that she wanted. Bright orange is what she wanted.

She loves it. I wanted one with a slide, but she seems to find ways to stay entertained with or without a slide. She loves to jump up and land in the water on her bum to make big splashes. She take what ever toys she can out to the pool as well.

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I love that Hailee's hair is getting longer so that I can do more things with her hair.

Although when I do her hair cute and up with bows, she always wants to pull it out within a few minutes.

She has so much hair and curls that if I don't pull it up it is in her face and flying everywhere. So we continue the attempt to pull her hair up and hope that one day she will leave it alone.

George Strait

2009-07-18T13:46:00.003-06:00

George Strait is one of Jimmy's favorite singers and he has been to a few of his concerts. We went to one in Boise a few years ago. When he found out that he was coming to Usana he said that it would be fun to go, but didn't think that we would go, so I bought Jimmy George Strait tickets for Father's Day and surprised him. Last night was the concert. It was way fun to spend some time together without chasing Hailee. I bought the grass seating, and unfortunatley the stage was a little ways away, but we had a great time. I didn't bring my camera so the phone was all I had and I could zoom way close, but here are a couple of pics...

Julianna Hough was the first singer... she did pretty good.

Next was Blake Shelton.. he was way funny as he sang. He said that he wanted to sing a song that everyone could sing along with and so he starts to play his guitar and sings the song from the commerical "Free credit report.com" It was great!!

Then was the good ol' George Strait. He even sang some songs that I know, only because of Jimmy. I like some country music, but was never really into George Strait. His concerts, the ones that I have been to, are really good.

Butterfield Canyon

2009-07-12T19:47:00.003-06:00

Today we went for a drive up Butterfield Canyon. We have been wanting to go to the mountains and haven't been able to go, we decided that we should go today and chose this canyon since it was a little closer than the Cottonwoods and Ruger can't go up the other canyons. We usually like to try and be in the mountains as much as possible in the summer. Hailee loved playing in the water and Ruger loved running around. After Hailee was good and dirty, we headed home.

Our attempt at a family picture with the timer on the camera.

You want to play "Shadow"

2009-07-12T19:17:00.002-06:00

I am sure that most have heard of the game shadow, if not it is where everyone copies what you say or do. The last couple of days I have had my own shadow. Hailee will repeat most everything you say or copy what you are doing. For instance, Jimmy was telling Ruger to lay, sit, to settle, or other commands that he uses for her, Hailee copied every command after Jimmy would say it. Another was we were at Lowe's, I was looking at some tile and kinda kicked the box at the bottom to point to Jimmy the one I was looking at and stated to Jimmy "Look, I like this one", so Hailee proceeds to kick the same box and say "Look, like this one". There have been many more instances of this so called "shadow", we usually will just laugh cause it is so funny that she loves to copy everything, especially if she can get people to laugh at her. She loves to be silly and have people laugh. She also started this thing where if she wants something you have she will say "my turn" and take it away, it doesn't work the other way around though.

Our 4th of July

2009-07-05T16:39:00.006-06:00

Our 4th started on the 3rd. We went to my uncles house and had a BBQ and then watched the fireworks at the golf course.

Hailee wanted to get a toy that lit up, she picked the sword.

The fireworks were really cool,

Hailee didn't like the ones that were loud. On the 4th we went to see Jimmy's brother receive an award from his neighborhood for the service that he did in the Navy. They retired an old flag and then flew a new flag. (didn't get pics of this) We then headed over to Copperton Park for the celebration there.

We watched the races, rode on the old fire truck,

and hung out with family.

Later that day we went to some friends house for a BBQ. Hailee played with Tristan and Kylie. The boys played a few rounds ping pong and then we watched fireworks. It was a very busy weekend, but it was fun spending time with everyone!!

New Pool

2009-07-01T21:18:00.004-06:00

Hailee ran outside while I was getting her jammies and she decided that tonight the dog dish would be her new swimming pool. She told me "I swimmin". Hmmm, I wonder what will be next for the dog water dish!! Who knew that a dog water dish could be so fun for a almost 2 year old!!

Planting Flowers

2009-06-30T20:22:00.005-06:00

I planted some more flowers out in the front yard and some left and was going to put them in the back yard. I set them outside so that I could get things ready to plant them. Hailee was playing outside and I heard water splashing, Hailee likes to play in the dog's water dish, I know it is kinda gross, but she knows that she isn't suppose to be in it and will try to play in it if she thinks that she won't get caught. I looked out the window and saw this....

Hailee making sure the flowers were watered.

All the dirt that was on the bottom of the flower is now in the dog dish.

And Hailee continuing to put things in the water dish.

Including her head!!! She loves to get her hair wet in whatever water she can find, she will even go as far at getting water from her cup with her hand and putting it all on her hair.

After I told her not to play in the water again, and finished taking some pics, she told me that she wanted to go "ni-night" on the grass.

Hailee's latest adventures

2009-06-24T18:12:00.003-06:00

Hailee has had her first ever ear infection, but after she got some medicine in her she was back to her old self running around and wanting to play. On our way home one day from the meeting Jimmy at the school, we stopped to play at a different park than the one by our house. This park was full of slides, no swings. Hailee will not do anything else but swing if there are swings. She was afraid at first to go down the tube slide, but the got enough courage to finally go down. After that she was hooked.

We bought a jogging stroller since I have been wanting to run outside, but with the crazy schedules it's hard to run on the treadmill and keep Hailee busy or she wants to walk and not ride in the other strollers. So me and my mom decided that we should walk together on the days that Jimmy has school, since she has a nice big park with a track behind her house. So we went to visit my mom and it ended up that Hailee wanted to swing. We got her off the swings and she wanted to help with the water. She of course ended up completely soaked, good thing it was warm outside.

Playing in the water.

Taking a drink from the hose.

Such a big helper, of course she had to do it herself without anyone helping her.

Party

2009-06-14T20:43:00.005-06:00

Today we celebrated my Grandma's 80th birthday. We had a BBQ at the park with my family. If you know how the Utah weather has been the last few days with rain, today was no exception. It wasn't raining when we first got there, the kids played and we started to eat. The wind was getting worse and it started to rain. We were at the Bluffdale park and they must of had some events going on there cause they hadn't taken the tents down yet. We started to move the food and everyone to the tent and before we had everything done, it was hailing with lightening and thunder. We hung out under the tent all in jackets and blankets. Today surely wasn't a summer day!! It was great to see family and catch up with everyone.

Hailee climbing up the stairs to the slide.

Hailee sliding

Hailee and her cousin Abbi, they love to see each other and love getting into trouble together.

Abbi on the slide.

Random Pics

2009-06-13T22:34:00.002-06:00

**While driving in the car, I gave Hailee my old glasses to play with. Hailee started to yell at me "Look Mom" and laugh. I told her she looked so cool and then she proceeded to tell me "Look Mom, Cool Mom" while laughing and thinking it was so fun to have her glasses on like Mom.

** Hailee riding in the car again, she looks so grownup in this picture!!

**We had a mission reunion at the Joseph Memorial Building with Jimmy's mission pres. and others that served in the same mission. We were in the banquet room at the very top on the other side from the restaurants. Hailee loved looking out the windows and being able to see everything. She pointed out different things she saw out the window. We walked over to the side the Temple is on and she looked out the window and said "Look Mom, Temple" She loved it. We had to keep going back over there to keep looking at it. It was fun to see all the old companions and friends from his mission.

Hailee's Prayer

2009-06-13T22:21:00.004-06:00

Anytime anyone is saying a prayer, whether it be family prayer, dinner prayer, or a pray in church, Hailee starts to talk loudly in her gibberish only making out a few words as she trys to keep up with all the words that are being said, like bless Mom, Dad, Hailee, and other words that she catches onto while we are praying. When she feels the prayer should be done she says "Amen".

Counting/Eyes/Ears

2009-05-29T22:02:00.003-06:00

I love that Hailee can show you where just about any body part is. When she was a little younger, she would point to my eyebrow and ask what it was, this was her favorite part to point out on people. Her new ones are cheek, chin, and teeth. One day I was we were walking and she was holding mine and Jimmy's hand, we started to count to three and then would swing her. I continued to help her count to 3. I would say one and she would say 2 and 3. The other day I she was going down the slide and I said one and she said 2, 3, 4 and 5. I was surprised. I didn't know that she knew that high!! I finally caught her on video, she usually runs when I get it out.

Our Weekend

2009-05-26T18:34:00.003-06:00

We were going to go to Idaho over the long weekend. It was going to be extra long since I only worked a half day on Thurs and didn't work on Fri. I decided to cut out early, it was my last day at that job. I got a call from the VA hospital and they said that they didn't know for sure if I could start on Tues. So we didn't go to Idaho since I may not be working for 2 weeks. They only start new employees at the beginning of the pay periods. So, we worked outside in the yard and inside on the basement. We got out garden in

and part of a planter we wanted in the backyard.

We cleared the weeds and made it look all nice. We planted in tomatoes, corn, beans, onions, potatoes, green peppers, and we are even trying our luck at watermelon. All I have to say is that I am sore and a little sunburned. Jimmy and his brother are just about done with a room in the basement.

We have to just sheetrock it, the bathroom we have to have some piping done, so we aren't able to finish with that quite yet. The laundry room and other bedroom will follow shortly. Our weekend wasn't complete till we had at least one BBQ, and the UFC fight!! Oh and I did start my new job at the VA hospital, I went back to my previous job, cardiac ultrasound.

Update!!

2009-05-18T19:01:00.006-06:00

Not a whole lot to report, but Jimmy's brother came home from Iraq. We all went to the airport to welcome him home.

Jimmy was able to help with the security at the new temple, the Oquirrh Mountain Temple.

Our stake was given the opportunity to help with different jobs to help the open house run smoothly. I was suppose to go and be in the hospitality, but they didn't need us at this time, there are more days to help out though. I took Hailee to the Mayday Celebration at Wheeler Farm. Ang was so nice to come with me since Jimmy had other obligations. Hailee really liked the animals there.

Later I went shopping with my mom and then we went with some friends. It has been a while since we all got together to go out and for Hailee to see her friends.

She could see them in nursery but she does NOT like it. She freaks out if we even mention the word nursery, even if I stay with her. She cries hysterically and runs to the door. She liked it at one point, but that didn't last too long. So I continue to try to go to class, but usually end up walking the halls with Hailee.

2009-05-04T11:20:00.002-06:00

Hailee had to take her baby to bed with her last night, so I went in to cover her up after she fallen asleep and moved her baby to the corner side. This morning when I went in her room she was sleeping by her baby. She must have grabbed it during the night and moved it by her.

18 Month Checkup

2009-04-28T22:05:00.002-06:00

Hailee went for her 18 month checkup today, she is almost 20 months old. The doctor told me that I didn't need to get her in for this appointment till April, so I am not a bad mommy for not taking her sooner. She is still in the 25% for her height and weight. She is up from 20lbs to just shy of 23lbs by an ounce. She has grown to be 32 1/2 inches. Her head has moved to the 80% from 75%. She is one smart girl. The doctor has said that by her next appointment she should be able to say 20 words and follow commands. She says more than 20 words, she repeats just about everything you say, she may not say it perfect, but I can tell what she says and most know what she is saying. She follows commands pretty well. You ask her or tell her to do something and she says "k". Her new thing is to tell us " no way". I can't believe that she is as old as she is, but she is fun and entertaining at times. Gotta love my sweet baby!!

Hailee's Balloon

2009-04-26T20:33:00.002-06:00

Zoo/Baby Einstein

2009-04-24T18:46:00.005-06:00

Hailee hasn't really been into watching TV much till now. She loves the Baby Einstein DVD's, the ones that have all the animals. Just about every minute she tells us she wants the animals, meaning the Baby Noah, when she use to watch it she would repeat what they were saying, now she can say all the animals before they say it. She also is into E-I-O, meaning Old McDonald. She loves to watch the part when the song comes on and watch the farm animals.
*Hailee laying on the floor watching Einstein, she has to have a pillow and sometimes a blanket*

She is talking so well and can say a lot of words, and we have to watch what we say cause she repeats everything, or at leasts tries to. She likes to copy the puppet animals on the DVD's too and imitates them. It is entertaining to watch her watch them. So since she loves animals, I thought we could go to the zoo today, what a great day to go. It wasn't cold or hot, just right and there weren't a ton of people there. It was nice. She would look at the animals and say what they were, but as soon as they moved closer to us or just move, Hailee would grab me and say byebye. She loved the elephants and giraffes. She liked the gorillas, until it came to the window. She started to walk backwards away from them till she walked into me and then stood there.
*Hailee on the train*

We went for a train ride and she wasn't too sure about it until it moved and she didn't want to get off.

Fun Day

2009-04-18T22:07:00.003-06:00

We went to lunch at the mall and decided to look at a few shops. We went in at the food court. Hailee saw the carousel, stopped in between the doors, and started to say " no no no". I went to pick her up and started to walk through the door and Hailee freaked out. She didn't not want anything to do with the carousel or be near it. We went and got our food and sat down. Hailee kept looking down toward the carousel and the turn her head and take a look again. I didn't know that she was so scared of it. We went to the stores we wanted to look in and my niece wanted to go on the horses. I took Hailee on the carousel and she did fine with me holding her, as soon as I tried to put her on a horse she freaked out. So we ended up sitting on the seat and went round and round. She liked to sit there. She would tell me "sit" and then a little whispered "wee" came out.

*Hailee on the carousel*

After the shopping and carousel adventure, we went to my cousin's bridal shower. Hailee played with some cousins and we chatted with family.

*Hailee jumping on the trampoline at my aunts house for my cousins shower*

Easter 2009

2009-04-14T18:26:00.001-06:00

Easter was a lot of fun this year. We had an Easter egg hunt at my mom's and had dinner. The girls dyed eggs. Hailee's egg didn't work too well. Hailee was more interested in the swings than finding all the toys and eggs. Easter morning the Easter bunny had left Hailee's basket on the table. When she came down she saw it and wanted to see everything inside. The first thing she wanted was the candy. She found a piece that she could open and ate it. She likes to hold Barbies like dolls and loves to carry them around, so the Easter bunny left her her first Barbie. We made a yummy breakfast with eggs, hashbrowns, toast and yummy warm cinnamon rolls.

E- I- O

2009-04-09T22:02:00.002-06:00

Hailee's new favorite song to sing. She has been watching Baby Einstein Noah and she likes to watch the animals. I just got the Farm one and she was watching and the Old McDonald song came on and she had to watch the animal and listen to the song over and over. She could care less about the rest of the movie. She loves animals!!

Little Reader

2009-03-31T20:57:00.000-06:00

Hailee likes to get into our night stands and pull out the things that we have in there. She especially likes Jimmy's, his has more fun things to play with. Jimmy was telling me that after his shower, Hailee was playing in the drawers and he went to comb his hair and Hailee was really quiet. He went to find her and she was sitting in her room reading a book and if you look close you will see it isn't a picture book, it was Jimmy's Verizon phone manual. I guess she thought she was funny. She has this little fake laugh she does when she thinks she is funny or does something funny. Later before I came home from work, she was sitting on her ball bouncing her baby. She loves babies and loves to rock them or bounce them. She is so cute with babies.

Star Struck

2009-03-26T21:56:00.003-06:00

Jimmy loves to watch UFC. One of the docotrs that I work with is a cage fighter and trains at a gym in Layton. He was telling us at work that Matt Hughes was going to be in town and was going to be training at the same gym. I was telling Jimmy about it and that he was going to be signing autographs and is going to be the ref at the fight on Friday night. Jimmy wanted to go see Matt Hughes. They took free pics and printed them out. We have a few on our camera as well. Jimmy took the pics that were printed out and had Matt Hughes and Jeremy Horn sign them.

*Me, Matt, Jimmy, Hailee, Jeremy

He was really excited. My older brother came to and had his pic done. Hailee was running around and kept going up to the table where Matt was at and he loved playing with her. He was trying to give her things and she would run off and then run back up to him. The people in line probably weren't too happy cause they had to wait for him to finish with Hailee. Jimmy was very happy that he went.

*Hailee and Abbi.

The girls were playing in the wheel chair waiting for the guys to go back through the line to get the pics signed.

Little Model

2009-03-20T19:52:00.004-06:00

I bought a pillowcase dress from http://www.peekaboobowtique.com/ and I posted her in it on my blog. I received an email from the girls that make all the cute stuff they sell on their website, and wanted to put the picture of Hailee on their site. I told it was fine and sent them the picture. So you can check Hailee out in her first "model pic" on their site under picture gallery. Ok, so it wasn't a model gig, anyone can send a pic for them to post of kids in the things they sell, they just asked if they could use her pic. Check them out way cute stuff!!!

Hailee+Water=Trouble

2009-03-20T18:59:00.003-06:00

Hailee has a fascination with water. No matter where she is or where the water is she's right there. Of course Ruger's water is outside, nice clean fresh water was put in there for her and Hailee decides that it is for her.

Having fun and needing a bath, we let her play. After she came inside a couple of times to let us know that she was playing with water outside,

I decided she had enough mud on her it was time for a bath. She didn't like the idea that I wouldn't let her back out to play and had a little tantrum.

She decided to put her own face against the wall, I didn't put her in timeout.

She hasn't even been in timeout before nor have I ever said anything about it. It was so funny, she had her tantrum with her face against the wall. Of course we don't have the backyard completed, so there is still a little dirt out there. She was good after her bath and a snack.

Outside

2009-03-14T16:22:00.003-06:00

What little kid doesn't like being outside. Hailee loves it.

She doesn't care what it is like outside, she is always telling me "outside". Today was a very nice sunny day and I had opened the back door to let the cool air come inside.

Hailee took the opportunity to be out there with Ruger. All day long she has been in and out tracking in mud and water.

I am glad that we have grass back there now and a fence so she can just play outside in the back yard.

8 Years

2009-03-09T18:29:00.005-06:00

Today Jimmy and I have been married for eight years. If you really think about it, eight years seems like a long time, but it hasn't seemed like it has been 8 years. Life together is at times a challenge, but in the long run it always is fun.

We have done many great things together from vacations to just hanging out together. We like to do a lot of the same things and I think that is why we have so much fun together. I didn't think that I would ever fish, but one year I remember going fishing almost every weekend. Getting up early and heading to the lake to fish. There are some pretty funny stories about our fishing trips. Jimmy likes to stay active. In the summer, we like to go hiking and up to Silver Lake to walk around. There are some crazy things that Jimmy has done that I thought to myself "he is going to kill himself", but in the end he is alive and now it's funny. I think that is the best part, even though we don't think something is funny at first, we always end up laughing about it. We have gone on some road trips when it was just the two of us.

We have been to Portland, OR many times, I love it there. I have been able to see the great person that he is and the love of the gospel in his life. I have had the opprotunity while we were dating and when we were married to see him work as a missionary. He loves the work. I also was able to witness a couple that he taught on his mission go through the temple, what a great blessing to be able to share in the joy. Now as life continues on, I can only think of the new adventures we will have together.

We have been blessed with a great daughter and can't wait to take her in the great adventures we take. I have the greatest husband ever!!

I have a new kitty

2009-03-07T20:07:00.005-07:00

My new little kitty-

When my neice was about the same age as Hailee, she was a kitty for Halloween. My mom was getting rid of the clothes that she hasn't worn for a long time. She is now 6, so I have really cute clothes that she use to wear. I have a habit of not checking all the clothes that have been handed down and then Hailee has grown too much and doesn't fit in them.

I was pulling out some of these clothes and Hailee loved the kitty on the front of it. She told me "on", so I put it on her. She wore this pretty much the whole day. including the hat up, cleaning and shopping. She was the highlight at the stores and everyone thought it was too cute!!

Silly Hailee

2009-03-07T20:01:00.004-07:00

Hailee was being silly and was making all sorts of faces. Here are just a few:

Valentines

2009-02-14T20:01:00.004-07:00

We had a good Valentines. We went to lunch with the DeMelo's to Tucano's . It was very yummy. We ended up taking Hailee with us to keep Andrew company. At the end of our meal we got chocolate dipped strawberries and a long stem rose.
Hailee and Andrew exchanged valentines with each other. I got Jimmy some caramels and strawberries both dipped in chocolate from V's Chocolates, they have a little kiosk at Fashion Place Mall. They are the best place to get chocolates from. Jimmy gave me flowers, fruit flowers. It was a bouquet of different fruits made into flowers. It is really yummy too, and Hailee loves all of it.

Hailee being silly!! She loves to make the rocking chairs rock.

What's been up

2009-02-09T20:33:00.004-07:00

So I haven't posted in a long time, but here is the run down of what has been going on. Hailee had her 15 month doc appointment, all went well with the exception of her height and weight. The doctor isn't too sure about how tiny she is. I think that she is fine. I wasn't the tallest person growing up anyways. She is in the clothes size she is suppose to be in. We recently went to Kangaroo Zoo with Ang and Andrew, which was way fun.
Hailee didn't like to play until I took her on the side and then she was hooked. We have seen a couple of movies, Jimmy and I went with my family to dinner and then to see Mall Cop, without the kids. It was fun to be with my family. Hailee had her pics done.

I just thought one day I wanted to have them done. They turned out pretty good. I don't have a scanner, so I made them look as good as I could so everyone could see them. I was a little nervous about having them done. I wasn't sure what she would do, she did really well and then decided that she just didn't want to play anymore.

She loved the little stool they had and it was a must for her to sit on. She just wanted to stool to take with her. I went with Ang to see "He's just not into you" I think thats the title. I liked it, I would probably rent it and watch it again. Other than that, we have been staying busy with work, callings and just hanging out as a family. Life is good!!

Hailee just hanging out before bed. She like to cover herself with the blanket and lay down and pretend she is sleeping. I did it once and she copied me and now does it all the time. She is a silly girl.