Last weekend we had lots of fun making a gingerbread house.  Hailey did a lot of the decorating and had a blast!

Hailey working on decorating the roof.

Decorating some windows.

The finished gingerbread house from the front.  I did a lovely job decorating the front, don’t ya think?

And from the back- mostly Hailey’s decorating.

I realize that this post is about a week late but I just can’t seem to find the time to keep my blog updated anymore.  So- here are some pictures from Thanksgiving weekend.

We had a great Thanksgiving at my Mom and Dad’s house.  One of my brothers, Mike was there as well as my Aunt Winnie.  My Mom told me a few weeks before Thanksgiving that it was my turn to have Thanksgiving at our house, so I was very thankful when she said she would have it at her house!

Rich working on the gravy (he makes the best gravy and is always in charge of making the gravy) and my dad working on carving the yummy turkey.

My mom always makes delicious warm cider that we drink from cute little cups.  Hailey enjoys her little cup (with milk instead of cider).

After a fantastic dinner everyone did some relaxing.  Hailey and Aunt Winnie watched a Veggie Tales movie together.

We spent Friday and Saturday doing lots of shopping and I got a good amount of my shopping done.  It was a successful shopping weekend!

Hailey had been begging for weeks to wear her dress from Christmas 2008.  So I finally let her wear it to church on Sunday.

After church we decorated our Christmas tree.

Hailey and Brooke decorating.

Brooke and Hailey setting up the nativity.

I took a bunch of pictures of Hailey next to the finished Christmas tree, but she wasn’t being very cooperative and this is the best of the bunch!

I am finally getting around to having a few minutes to blog about all of the fun we had last weekend for Halloween.

On Thursday Hailey and I went with our MOPS group to a local nursing home to go trick or treating.  We had a great time and Hailey found some other princesses- a couple of Snow Whites and a Sleeping Beauty that she a great time with.

On Friday we went to a Halloween party at the library.  We had story time with singing and dancing and stories (of course).

Then the kids made a craft.

And went trick or treating around the library.

Later that night we carved Hailey’s pumpkin- she loved cleaning it out.

And she loved playing with the seeds.

Here is Hailey’s pumpkin- with the silly face she picked for it to have.

On Saturday we went to Trunk or Treating at the church we have been going to.  It was raining so it had to be moved inside.  There were games set up- Hailey is playing the ring toss game here.  And there was lots of candy being passed out too.

Then it was time for the actual Trick or Treating.  We started at Gramma and Pa’s house.

Hailey was good about saying “trick or treat” to get her candy.  And then instead of saying thank you after she got her candy she’d say “trick or treat” again.  She really loved trick or treating this year!

I swear- it was only for a minute, and look at what happened:

*sniff*