Christmas 2009!

Our holiday's are not over yet but wanted to give everyone a quick update.....Christmas and Santa was a HUGE hit this year! Haley loved every minute of it and continues to enjoy it everyday while we have several relatives in town! I know she's getting so spoiled and I'm not sure what she is going to think when she wakes up soon and doesn't have any presents to open :) Thanks to JoAnn we finally got our tree up about a week ago! Although she was still very sick from the cold that Haley so generously passed along to everyone she still came over and decorated our tree for us! She always does such a great job so Clayton and I have made her our personal tree decorator every year! While she was decorating the tree Sher Sher came over and helped Haley and I make/eat Christmas cookies. We had such a great time and look forward to making this a tradition. Here are a few pictures from Christmas Eve, which we started our day off at our usual tradition....Starbucks! Oh and Haley now recognizes the Starbucks sign and says "Starbucks"! Mimi is so proud :) We topped off Christmas Eve with dinner and TONS of gifts at Mama and Papa's house and then we were all off to Christmas Eve church service as one big huge family. After church we rushed Haley home so that she could play with her new toys for just a little bit and then she had to get into bed for Santa's big arrival!

Haley slept till about 7:15am Christmas morning and Clayton and I were anxiously waiting for her to wake up to see what Santa had left her. As you can see from the pictures below she loved all of her gifts and even said "I love it" when she opened up a few of her gifts! After we opened all our gifts Christmas morning we got ourselves together and headed up to Mimi's house to get things ready for the big Christmas dinner with Mimi, Grandpa, Mama, Papa, SherSher, RyRy, Miss, Whit, Mary and Bob all joined us. We had a wonderful time with everyone and Haley really enjoyed playing with everyone!

The day after Christmas Ma and John, Gary, Mandy, Macy and Makayla all came into town to celebrate Christmas again! Gary flew Mandy, Macy and Makayla to ATL and since Haley LOVES airplanes we had to take her to go watch them come in and even snapped a few pictures of her in the airplane! We spent the evening opening more gifts and enjoying every one's company. Everyone is still in town and I am continuing to snap more pictures so I'll try to post another update soon but the Holidays are going great and we are so blessed to be able to spend it with our family.

An Overdue Update

I know I know....I'm a slacker! What can I say? Things are crazy around here and even more nuts with a 2 year old! I still can't believe that Haley's 2 already but we are loving every moment with her. She's truly an amazing little girl and we are thankful for so many things but she is certainly at the top of our list!
So to catch you guys up on things Haley and I have made lots of Christmas goodies. These were our practice cookies so they got to be whatever color Haley wanted :) She loved every bit of making these cookies. She helped roll out the dough, used the cookie cutters, watching them bake (ever so patiently) and last but not least icing them and decorating them with sprinkles (don't forget the sprinkles)! She actually did a really good job decorating her cookies and any mess she made she was more than happy to lick it off herself :) To top off that rainy day we played with our numbers and sticker books which is one of Haley's favorite things to do these days.
Thanksgiving was absolutely wonderful and we were so Thankful to be with our family during the holiday. We also got to be with Macy and Makayla for their 1st Thanksgiving! Slidell is thankful for Haley always feeding him :) The day after Thanksgiving Mom, Melissa, Sheryl and I all got up really early to start our black Friday shopping at 3am. We mapped out exactly what we wanted and where we needed to go the night before so we were at each store right when they opened. We had such a great time and completely filled up my Yukon with so much stuff that we had to put some of it in Sheryl's car after she dropped off some of her gifts. It was crazy but so much fun! We can't wait to do it again next year. After 10 hours of shopping we met up with everyone for some lunch and then Haley got to do a little black Friday shopping herself :)
We went home and crashed that night but we topped off our weekend by taking everyone to the nights of lights at Lake Lanier Islands! Haley loved it and she especially enjoyed having Miss and Whit ride with her. She kept saying "look Miss" to Melissa. She didn't want her to miss a thing! At the end of the light show we stopped to roast marshmallow's, drink hot chocolate and Haley's favorite......the merry-go-round! She loved riding on her pink pony! We were even able to snap a few pictures of Haley, Macy and Makayla together.

We finally took Haley to get her picture taken with Santa!!! She was all excited about going to see him and could hardly wait in line but when we finally got up there and it was her turn to sit on his lap she wanted nothing to do with it. Figures huh? We did end up getting a pretty cute picture of her though, but you have to wait till after Christmas to see it since we are giving that to Mimi, Grandpa, Papa and MaMa as one of their gifts :)

They did it again! Last week Haley was sick yet again and she had a REALLY bad cold which we all ended up with (and some of us still have), pink eye and an ear infection! Poor girl, I know she was feeling really bad because we all just had the cold and I swear it was the worst cold i've ever had. Thankfully MaMa and Papa were able to watch her again during the week and Mimi took her to the Dr. for Clayton and I so we didn't have to miss work. What great family we have....and that's why you always want to live close to the Grandparents :) THANK YOU!!!

Last weekend we all headed to Charlotte for Makayla and Macy's dedication. They did so good during the whole thing and look how proud Makayla looks when her Dad introduced their family! As usual Haley loved visiting with her cousins and is really enjoying the girls now that they can sit up with her. Sally gave all of the girls their Christmas gifts this weekend while she was in town and Haley's favorite gift was the peanuts that came in the box.....we should have known. Aunt Mandy even made her a peanut necklace to wear.
My last update is from tonight when Manace came over to catch up since she's now a married lady and give Haley her Christmas present. As you can see by the pictures she was hamming it up for Manace! Look at all those teeth!
My next update will most likely be after Christmas so we want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!