During the first weekend of May Hailey had her yearly Dance Recital. Her group was called the Brainiac Girls and the dance to ABC from the Jackson 5. It was very cute and Hailey had a lot of fun doing it. She loves dancing and was very determined not to take off from dance during the summer. She said she would be very sad if she couldn't go to dance each week. This picture was her costume, other than she wore ballet shoes instead of sandals.
Later in May Hailey and I took a run through the sprinklers. It was fun but a little bit chilly since it hadn't gotten too warm yet.
Then we took a trip to the zoo with 2 of my sisters-in-law and their kids. It is always fun to watch Hailey get excited by the animals. The zoo is one of her favorite places to go.
At the end of May came preschool graduation for Hailey. She was so excited. There were only 3 kids in her preschool so the teacher was able to have lots of fun things for them. They had caps and gowns, and sang some songs to us and each student made a book for their parents. It was cute and loads of fun.
Well we took the girls (my sister-in-law and her daughter and Hailey and I) to Disney Princess on Ice. We dressed them up like princesses and sat through a cute show of princesses and princes and all sorts of Disney characters skating around the ice. It was a lot better then I expected it to be and they even had fireworks at the end that the girls totally loved. It was fun and Hailey loved being dressed up as a princess.
Later came Easter and at preschool the students made Easter Bunny cakes. Hailey's was so proud of it that I have to show it off. Also she got her new Easter dress that she picked the material for me to make it from. Of course if you know anything about Hailey it just had to be pink. She had a lot of fun Easter with her Easter basket and hunting for eggs.
Then in April Rob had Graduation!!!! We were so excited to finally be done with his masters degree. He did a great job on his thesis and Hailey and I were so proud of him. Of course I made him walk at graduation, he got to wear the cool hood with his robe. Hailey loved watching Rob walk in and go across the stage and everything.
Well February is a great month for us because it is Hailey's birthday. I love doing fun things for here. This year was especially interesting. At the beginning of the year Hailey decided she really wanted to go to Chuck E Cheese for her birthday and invite some friends. Well we thought this might be fun so we said sure. Then she made her list of friends. There were 13 of them. We then informed her that she could either have all her friends and do a party at the house or just 6 or 8 friends at Chuck E Cheese. She chose the house and all her friends. I really thought she would go for Chuck E Cheese. I was wrong. So we ended up with a Scooby Doo theme and 14 children in the house. It was a lot of fun. Hailey and all her friends talked about for awhile after wards. We had dog tags, games, a piñata and cake and ice cream. The only sad part was I totally forgot to take pictures through most of it. It was definitely a very fun 5 year old party. The first picture is the cake I made for her.
So she totally got spoiled at her birthday party and then later when we gave her our presents. We realized that if she was going to have friend parties we didn't need to buy her as much stuff.
Not only is Hailey's birthday in February but also her cousin Bethany is just a few weeks later. She turned four this year and so we did a combined family party for them. I made two cakes for this so that could each have one. I thought I would show a picture of these because I was pretty proud of how they turned out.
Well it is a new year. Back in November Hailey and Bethany did a read-a-thon so that they could go to a Curious George party in January. They were very excited and got to do lots of fun things at it. Here are some pictures to see. They were really excited to meet George but didn't really like the man with the yellow hat.
Also in January Kristi and Ryan had a new addition in the family. They named her Kimberlee. Hailey now had two new cousins to love on. She thought it was great.
Well Christmas was a lot of fun this year. We decorated the tree and Rob helped Hailey put the star on the tree.
Chelise had her baby, which she and Josh named Jonas. He came early so he was in the hospital for a little while. Hailey was excited to have a new cousin.
Hailey went and saw Santa Claus at the mall. She asked him for a Barbie Island Princess doll for Christmas, and Santa delivered.
Then Christmas day came and boy was Hailey spoiled as always. But she had a lot of fun with everything.
Hey everyone, I am just finally getting this blog started. I think we have had it for a long time and I just never got around to it. I guess I just never knew where to start and so I am just going to start with some random things from the past 8 months. So back close to Halloween last year we took Hailey up to the Hogle Zoo for a trick or treat with Sandi and Tim and the kids. It was kind of crazy and there were way too many people, so we probably won't do it again. Anyway I thought I would show some pictures from it.
Hailey (Barbie Island Princess) and Bethany (Cinderella) with the tiger. Sammy as a bee.
This is Hailey with our 2 pumpkins we carved for Halloween. Hailey had a blast with Halloween this year. She made out like a bandit with how much candy she ended up with.
After Halloween came November and lots of fun leaves at Grandma Larsen's house to play in. Hailey had a blast raking the leaves and playing with cousins in the leaves.
Well I think that is all I will put in this entry. My next one will be Christmas pictures. Hope you enjoy these.
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