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.

This week at Hailey’s preschool there is fun theme for each day of the week.  Today was crazy hair day. Hailey didn’t want to smile for a picture because she was in a hurry to get to preschool to show her friends her hair.  But I thought it turned out cute, so I had to share the picture anyways:

It seems like we have been so busy lately!  It’s always busy at this time of year but now that I am working too it’s so hard to find time to keep my blog updated.  I’m going to work really hard on posting more often though because I always enjoy going back and looking at old posts.

Work has been going great.  I am really enjoying my job.  My boss has let me adjust my schedule to work 4 days each week, which is great!  Hailey really loves going to preschool too.  I’ve been able to spend some time with her in her classroom now that she has adjusted to being there.  It’s great to be able to see her throughout the day while I’m working.  When we get home at the end of the day we have to pretend that we are at preschool.  Hailey pretends that she is one of her teachers- Miss “L” and Rich and I have to call her Miss L.  She is so cute and loves teaching us.

Hailey has a new friend at preschool, which I am so excited about!  Last weekend Hailey’s friend invited her to go to Chuck-E-Cheese for the morning.  So we met her there and Hailey had a blast!  Hopefully next weekend her friend is going to come over here for a play date.

Hailey is also loving her new ballet and tap class.  We go once a week and Hailey absolutely loves it!  I took a picture of her a couple of weeks ago while she was waiting for class to start.  Please excuse the bad quality, I took it with my cell.

Hailey in her ballet outfit.

We’ve been busy getting ready for Christmas- but today we took a little break from all the preparations and took Hailey to see her first movie.  Since she loves all the Disney princesses we knew she would just love seeing The Princess and the Frog.

Me and Hailey waiting for the movie to start.

Hailey did really good during the movie!!  She sat through most of it, danced during some of the music, laughed at the funny parts and had a great time.  She did get a little restless during a slow part, but overall she did great!!

We are all doing great- just really busy!!  I’m going to work on being better about updating!

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!