all cheese

When I called her name to take a picture, this is what she did.

Carrot, anyone?

...from my daughter's eyelash? YUM.

Balls & Table

Joy,
Per your request...here all the balls.
T & H have a game where T puts toys under the couch -- and then they both look under it...then I guess one of them grabs it...? Anyway, they played the game with the balls.
Here she is sitting at her new table that she got for her bday!! :)

The actual birthday

We waited to give Haylee her gifts from us until her actual bday - the 20th. We got her a wagon and about 100 soft balls...the balls you'd see in a ball pit at McDonalds. She loved both...here are some pics.

Post-party fun.

These are still pictures from last weekend...the big birthday weekend.

After Haylee's party, we went to Rock Fish for dinner with my parents and some friends. Here's a picture of Nana & Haylee. Haylee LOVES her some lemons...

We headed to the park the next day.

Meet Kristin. She is one of my best friends (since like age 2!). She is a frequent blog-reader and a regular commenter on the blog! :) She flew in for the party from ALABAMA! Boy did we enjoy her visit...(she just called me the other day and is coming again in October...YIPEE! But this time on her school district's dime!)

This is a picture of ALL of Haylee's gifts from her party. The two large boxes are a table/chair set and a toy chest that match her bedroom furniture....we later put them together (and by "we" I mean Tommy). So here's a picture of her in the toy chest...she didn't like sitting in it. I don't have a picture of the table/chair set yet. But don't worry, mom, I'll get one soon! ;)

That's all for tonight...I'm off to bed.

More birthday party

Boots

My mother-in-law sent me this picture of Haylee from our last visit to their house. Pretty cute.

I promise there will be more birthday pics coming soon....it's been a busy week. :)

The big ONE!

My apologies to Pawpaw and Bebe for taking so long to get these up. This is the first chance I've had to sit at the computer. We've had a FULL weekend!

Anyway...we had Haylee's first birthday yesterday. I can NOT believe she is ONE!! Where has the year gone? Everything turned out great, we had a blast, and are WIPED!

Our friend Mark made a gate! :)
Here's the food!
The front porch...

My good friend Renee made Haylee's cake...is she talented or what???

And then she made Haylee her own cake -- hay! :)
And the after-math...
Here is Haylee with her good friend Harrison. Aren't they cute!!??

Big thanks to everyone who came and sent gifts!!! Haylee loved them all!!!

More pics to come....

friends

Because we couldn't make it to Harrison's first birthday party, we had our own "party" for him. And by party I mean going over his house, watching him open his gift from us, and kindly playing with all of his new toys he got for his birthday. :)

After our fun time at Harrison's house, Haylee was wiped out. Here is what she looked like when I went in to wake her from her nap.

Then Josh, Kristi, & Stephanie Brooks came over for dinner...here's a picture of Josh & Tommy with their girls...too cute! :)

Big girl

We turned Haylee's car seat around to face the front. She LOVES it. :)

Ray Look-alike Meter

I decided to do the look-alike meter again....

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Family tree template - Yad Vashem research

Disaster Zone

This morning Haylee wanted a book that was deep in her basket of stuffed animals. So she slowly pulled out about half of the animals, got the book, and sat to "read" it.

Here is a shot of the entire disaster zone after about an hour and a half of hard core playing.

It's so hard

to get a good picture of Haylee right now. Whew! She is all over the place and just wants to grab my camera. So this picture is the best I got the other day when we were playing. I was sitting in the chair TRYING to snap a picture of her teeth....she was grabbing at my camera and laughing. Not the best picture by any means, but the grin on her face is pretty cute!

And here are a couple of her walking with her toy...she even gave me a quick grin (VERY quick!)...she looked to the side, smiled, and then looked back forward and kept going!

PS - Today is our friend Harrison's FIRST birthday!! His birthday party is tomorrow and I have drill team camp :(