Motorcycle sidecar

Who knew? Who knew I would need the camera at Taco Bell? We pulled up to Taco Bell and William asked me if I wanted to take the camera in. I told him no, why would I need the camera in Taco Bell. But before we could even walk in the door a motorcycle with a sidecar pulled up. For a short while now, Harris has been in love with motorcycles. When he saw it, he had to go up and take a closer look. The guy driving it offered to take William and Harris for a ride. So, of course I had to run back to the car and get the camera. After Harris had his ride, Hailey got to take a ride, too. After the rides, we all went in and ate lunch. The kids had to sit one table over from the nice motorcycle man. Unfortunately, I don't remember his name, but we thanked him over and over again for being so kind. Thanks again, Motorcycle Man!

Anniversary # 59

Today, my grandparents celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary. What an awesome feat! In today's world, you just don't meet many people who have been married that long! I feel honored to be their granddaughter. I'm so proud of them. I hope to learn more from them. And most of all I hope to be just like them. One day I want to be able to tell my grand kids that we have been married for 59 years.

Thank you, Nana & Daddy Don for being such a wonderful inspiration to us. Thank you for letting us celebrate your anniversary with you!

Happy Anniversary to a wonderful couple. You are truly loved and admired!

Our family after dinner

Loose Teeth

More loose teeth? Are you kidding me? Hailey now has three more loose teeth! She just barely lost the top two! I think she is after all the tooth fairy's money!

Hailey's 1st day of Kindergarten

Wow! Where have the last 5.5 years gone? My baby girl started kindergarten today. And, yes, I cried. I am sappy and sentimental. All I have thought about today is when Hailey was a baby. Bringing her home from the hospital at 4 lb 7 oz. Staying up rocking her for hours on end as she was refluxing and colicky. Then singing and playing with her all day every day. Watching her become such a wonderful big brother to Harris. Watching her grow into the beautiful little girl she has become. She is an amazing little girl, with such a big heart. She is smart, sweet and gorgeous! She is truly our princess.
But today, she started kindergarten. She was ready, excited actually! She wanted me to just drop her off in the carpool line. No way! And miss my baby's first day? And miss all the wonderful photo opportunities? Again, I say, no way! So, I walked her in taking several pictures along the way. Of course, I took several more in the classroom. Then, when I realized that I could no longer hold back the tears, I gave her one last kiss and left. I did make it out the door before the first tear fell, but just barely!
I was very excited to pick her up from school and hear how her day went. She had a great day. It was only a half day for the first day, but she loved it. She loves her teacher. She can't wait to go back tomorrow. She amazes me!
I love you, Hailey, my kindergarten queen!
Hailey getting ready for bed & 1st day of kindergarten!
All ready for school!
1st day of school front yard pic.
Walking through Mary's Garden.
Hailey with her new teacher!
Putting her backpack away.
Me & my baby!
Sitting at her new desk!
Picking Hailey up from school.
Hailey & friends.
I'm so happy that she had such a great day!
We met Daddy for '1st day of school' lunch!
My girl & I!

Day before school starts

No!!!! Summer can't be over!!
I have been trying to soak up lots of Hailey time the last couple of days. Yesterday, I wanted to soak up Hailey time and some summer time! After the kids and I got part of the house cleaned up, we decided to go to the swim park for a couple of hours. We all had fun and got some sun. Hopefully we can still swim some on the weekends! I can't believe summer is basically over for Hailey!

Hula Hoop

Hailey has been begging us for a hula hoop for a long while now. We finally decided a week ago to get her one. When we got home, Hailey immediately started trying it. She couldn't do at first (can anyone hula hoop on their first try?). But after a couple of days, she was able to keep the hoop up. She was so proud of herself and asked us to video her. She hula hoops all the time now! This morning, after one week with the hoop, she asked me to come watch her. I couldn't believe the change! She is so much smoother and can keep it up longer. Now she is even learning to hula hoop in the opposite direction! So tonight, before bed, she asked that we video her again. Of course we said yes! We are very proud of all of her practice and becoming so good at the hoop! Yea, Hailey! And isn't this great exercise?

Meet the Teacher

Monday night we had meet the teacher at Hailey's school. We were very excited to see what teacher Hailey is going to have this year. We were even more excited to see that it was the teacher we wanted her to get! Yay! I was about to do cartwheels in the classroom when I found out that the little girl that I thought was a bad influence on Hailey last year, is not in her class this year! Yay, again! This may just be a good year after all!

Hailey & the mascot!

Lost Teeth!

Last night, William and I decided that Hailey's two front top teeth really needed to come out. They were so loose that when she pushed them back with her tongue, you could see holes between the teeth and gums. William was worried that she could get food caught in there and start hurting her. We told here that if she just pulled the teeth, or let William pull them, we would go to Purple Cow for dinner then to Cold Stone Creamery for ice cream cupcakes. It almost didn't work. She had herself so worked up and nervous.

The pep talk / Hailey trying to pull her own tooth.

I finally told her she had 15 minutes to get the first one out, or we didn't go. Ok, so the first one came out on minute 16, but close enough, right? She saw the blood (there was lots of blood!) and panicked some, but did lots of rinsing her mouth out. Then she was nervous to do the 2nd one. But she decided to be brave and it only took a couple of minutes for her to open her mouth and let Daddy pull it. Daddy said 'one, (and pulled it), two, thirteen, I dunno Hailey, maybe you should get a drink'. Hailey didn't even know the tooth was out. And it didn't even bleed! She was laughing and she was super proud of herself! We are proud of her too! Two teeth in one day!

Right after the teeth came out.

Hailey got to eat at Purple Cow!

And she got her ice cream cupcake!

Hailey is getting ready for the tooth fairy!

When Hailey was getting ready for bed and the tooth fairy, she said she wanted to leave the tooth fairy a note. She wants the tooth fairy to bring her a whistle. So we wrote a note and left it on the tooth pillow. She was so excited this morning to get $6 and a note from the tooth fairy. The tooth fairy told her that she doesn't carry whistles, so she gave Hailey an extra dollar to go shopping with Mommy and Daddy.

This Week

This week has been crazy! This is our last week of summer before school starts. I have been trying to get all the last minute things done, and its been beating me down! Who knew starting Kindergarten was so hard for Mommy?!

I went to Hailey's school on Tuesday feeling really good about my State Vaccination Exemption Form. But within minutes I was deflated. Since her school is private, they wouldn't take the form. So I did more research on how to avoid giving Hailey her MMR. My only hope was calling the dr and getting her to write a letter. She wouldn't do it. (Hailey had a reaction to the first MMR and we are extremely nervous about giving her the second dose! But the current dr. didn't see the reaction since we were with a different dr.)

On Wednesday, the kids had the last day of Summer PDO.

On Thursday, I took the kids to swim class. It's Hailey's last class for a while. With school starting next week, she doesn't get to finish out the session.


Afterwards, I took the kids to the dr. to verify the date of her last Polio shot. Come to find out, she hasn't had it! She had to get a shot! I have just recently learned that sometimes bribery with ice cream may or may not help in the shot receiving process. It worked like a champ for us! Hailey cried a little before the shot, but as soon as she got it, she started laughing! The nurse and I were shocked! Since I had been at the dr.'s office for over two hours, it was time for lunch. We went to McDonald for lunch and of course, ice cream!

Then I took the kids to Dee Dee's for some pool time. The kids needed the play time after being so good in a dr.'s office for 2 hours! When we got home I tried to make Hailey another dr.'s appt for Tuesday, to go ahead and get her MMR vaccine. They told me they would have to call me back later. Friday morning (8:30 am)I get a call saying Hailey couldn't have the MMR for 6 months after the Polio shot! She can't start kindergarten with out it! To say I was very upset would be an understatement! I started making tons of phone calls only to find out that the separation in shots is a dr.'s preference. So, the dr. will be writing a note for the school and the school nurse has already told me she would accept that. Yea, kindergarten here we come! I then dropped off Harris with Julie and took Hailey for some 'Hailey/Mommy time'. We got her hair cut and finger/toe nails done. I wanted her to feel like a big girl for school. She loved the time and she looks so cute! She loves her hair and keeps swinging it around. She FEELS big! (We are still convincing Daddy that its cute. He just sees short!)
Before hair cut...
The cut off hair...
One minute after the cut...
Pretty nails...
Afterwards, Jamie called and we went to lunch with her. Late in the evening, after William got home from work, we took the kids swimming at the swim park.
Hair dried naturally after swimming...
Hair fixed! Hailey loves it 'fluffy'!
Is she cute or what?!

Summer is just about over for us, and I'm so sad! It went too fast. I feel like we have been too busy and I haven't gotten to do all the things I wanted to with the kids.


Hailey looks like such a big girl now. I'm still in shock that she starts kindergarten next week. I am losing my baby girl. I will really miss her when she is in school 5 days a week! And yes, my eyes are tearing up just thinking about it!