Summer Fun

Our trip to Charlotte, NC this weekend was so much fun! The main reason we went up there was to attend Gary and Mandy's baby shower for the twin girls!!! They are almost here...less than a month away :) I think Mandy is hoping it's sooner rather than later! Poor girl...she looks fabulous but of course is feeling very uncomfortable as the end gets near. Our weekend started Thursday night when we started our road trip to Charlotte. Haley had the privilege of having Sher Sher (aka Sheryl) and Grandpa Jimmy entertain her the whole road trip. Sher Sher also made the trip back from Charlotte with us so she got in a lot of special time with Haley! Of course Haley was eating it up! Friday morning we all headed to breakfast by boat. Naturally Haley fell asleep on the way there but was in a great mood and ready to eat when she woke up. After breakfast we saw Greg Biffel's new house on the lake and Haley got to go for a swim in Lake Norman with Miss (Melissa), Gary and Mandy! After the lake we headed to the pool where Haley got some snuggle time in with Mandy and the girls :) It was so cute! Mandy's a natural! Next it was time for Haley's picnic at the pool...she was LOVING the little tike's table! It was just her size!
Saturday night was the night of the Shower which was held at Mandy's Aunt and Uncle's lake house! It was absolutely beautiful and the weather couldn't have been better! Dad and Haley got to throw rocks into the lake and i was able to snap some cute pictures of them! Haley was also able to catch up with her cousin Connor who attended the shower as well! We haven't seen Conner in a year so it was great to finally catch up with him and see how much he has grown. Sorry, my battery had died on my camera so I wasn't able to snap any pictures.
After a fun filled weekend we hit the road nice and early Sunday morning so that we could get home and rest up before starting the week. I did take a few video's on Sunday though :) Our Sunday night entertainment! (Note - all the videos are taking a while to play but they are worth the wait :) of course i'm biased!) Haley is full of energy in this video and recalling her weekend!

To catch up the past few weeks Haley has spent many days at the pool, riding in her wagon, playing catch with her balloons and many days with Ma Ma and Papa Haley loves to feed all of her babies as well as Ma Ma, Kylah and anyone else that walks in the room :)

Miss Independant!

Our precious Haley is growing up by the second! We try not to miss a minute with her and take as many pictures as possible, without being obsessive of course but she is growing up so quickly. The other day she went into the pantry and pulled out her bag of gold fish. Then she carried them into the living room where she proceeded to pull her bean bag out into the middle of the living room floor and plopped herself right down and started eating her gold fish….it was the cutest thing and she knew it! Of course I snapped some pictures! What I did fail to get a picture of was when she found a cheez-it in her bag and she dumped the whole bag over looking for more :( It was all over the carpet! It just gave me a heads up on what to expect in about a year when she realizes that there are toys hidden in the cereal boxes! I have also uploaded a video of Haley's new saying..."bye bye, see you!" It's so cute and she is quite the southern girl :)

We had a great 4th of July weekend where we enjoyed most of our time outside! We went to the pool, lake, firework shows at the lake, walks around the neighborhood while several neighbors were making their own firework shows, chasing bubbles, coloring with chalk on the sidewalk, and almost every night the past couple of weeks have been spent eating our ice cream cones on the patio and of course Kylah gets her fair share :)














A HUGE thank you to Grandma and Papa who came to the rescue last week and watched Haley about 5 days in a row due to pink eye!!! Last Saturday Grandma and Papa were watching Haley while Clayton and I headed to the lake and noticed she was getting some gunk in her eye. It continued through Sunday so Monday morning Grandma took Haley to the Dr. and confirmed that it was pink eye. After being on the medicine for 24 hrs she could have gone back to school however on the Wednesday when she should have been heading back to school she ended up with a fever! It was the never ending story but thankfully Haley has such great grandparents they were able to reschedule their plans for the week and watch her while she was sick so Clayton and I did not have to take off work! By the weekend she was feeling much better other than a nasty cough. Since Haley was at the Dr. already they did a weight check in and at 20 months she is still at 18lbs 6 oz which is exactly what she has weighed since her 15 month check up. She seems to be eating much better but just not putting the weight on but at least she is maintaining her weight and not losing.
Clayton and I were also able to go out for a nice dinner last week to celebrate our 4 yr anniversary while Mimi and Aunt Linda watched Haley all night for us. Yes, we actually let her stay out all night so that we didn't have to be home to early that night since she would get us up at the crack of dawn. Mimi and Aunt Linda said she did great and had a fabulous time chasing all the dogs and playing with all of her toys!