After a fun evening on Christmas Eve spent celebrating at my Aunt Winnie’s house we came home and Hailey went right to bed.  She was too tired to try to stay awake waiting for Santa.

Soon after Hailey went to sleep Santa stopped by to deliver some gifts.

Hailey actually slept in a bit on Christmas morning until about 7am.  Then she came in to tell me and Rich that is was morning.

She walked out to the living room and saw that Santa had brought her some presents.

Opening up her Strawberry Shortcake Berry Cafe.

I know this picture turned out blurry- but Hailey is showing off the gift that she made at preschool for me and Rich for Christmas.  She was so proud of it and I was excited because it’s the first homemade Christmas present I have from her that I didn’t help her make.

Hailey opening up her Achoo Baby- she asked for this doll every time someone asked her what she wanted for Christmas.

Brooke opening up some new clothes.

And of course Dottie got some presents too.

After we opened our presents from Santa we went over to Rich’s parents’ house for more gift giving.  I didn’t take any pictures while we were there.  Later my parents, brothers and sister-in-law came over to our house for dinner and more presents.  I’ll post those pictures in another post.

Here are some pictures of our Christmas Eve festivities:

On the eve of Christmas Eve, Hailey decorated some cookies for Santa.

On Christmas Eve we went out to dinner and then went to my Aunt Winnie’s house to celebrate Christmas. I was pretty sure that Hailey would fall asleep in the car on the way home from Aunt Winnie’s house, so before we headed out we had to take care of a few things at home.

Hailey put out some cookies for Santa.

And opened her Christmas Eve presents- a pair of pajamas and a book.

Then we were off to Aunt Winnie’s house.

Opening presents- Andy, Lyndsey, Aunt Winnie, Hailey, me, Kim.

Uncle Jim, Aunt Barb, Rich

Time for some yummy food- Ellie, Matt, Lyndsey, Andy

Hailey playing with her new Princess Tiana.

Time for the annual wrapping paper fight:

Family Picture

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!