Thanksgiving

We have a lot to be thankful for this year. First we are so thankful for little Ms. Mackenzie. It is hard to believe that she has been here for almost a year now. She is growing so fast, crawling teething and pulling up on things. We are thankful for our Hailey bug, she is so cute and says the funniest things. She makes us laugh every day. We are thankful for all our friends and our family. We are so excited about our nephew who will be arriving in March and our niece who will be here in April. It is so great to see our family growing and getting so big. 

We were at Mimi and Popi's house for Thanksgiving this year and had a wonderful time. We went on Saturday to Floyd VA to pick out a Christmas Tree for mimi and popi's house. Hailey had a great time running through the trees and eating the biggest lollipop she has ever seen.  Mackenzie enjoyed sleeping in the car and getting a lot of attention from all the family.  

We have our house all decorated and have been listening to Christmas music since Thanksgiving. Hailey had so much fun helping us hang the ornaments on the tree, I can't wait till the girls are older and we can decorate as a family and make new traditions. We love this time of year.  

Christmas Gift

I guess we can tell santa to only send boxes this year!  

Hailey at Work

Gammy was nice enough to take Hailey to work with her on Tuesday and half a day Wednesday while Mackenzie was at home with the flu. This gave me time to focus on Mackenzie and give her one on one time while she was sick.  

She said Hailey was a huge help and a great little worker. Here are a couple pictures she took. 

Crispy Treat

The girls and I were on a walk a few weeks ago looking at Halloween decorations. I started to tell Hailey about dressing up and going door to door and saying Trick or Treat to get candy. She told me that that was not nice to say and that other kids can say that but she wasn't going to say those words. Instead she was going to say crispy treat instead.  In the past she has not really enjoyed Halloween because she was shy and wouldn't go to the door. But this year we went with friends and she loved it. She would run to the door, say trick or treat (yes she actually said those words) and would then say please and race back down the yard to go to the next house. It was so cute. 


Mackenzie loved getting dressed up but she stayed back and watched all the other kids coming for candy while we took Hailey out. She was a really cut lady bug. She ended up getting the flu on Tuesday, she is taking medicine and seems to be doing better. Hopefully the flu is done in our house so we can start enjoying the fall weather before it gets too cold.

Picture day and the Park

Hailey had picture day at school on October 19th. We realized after the pictures were taken that she was due for a haircut. So now she is sporting a really cute bob haircut but since she has been sick we don't have any pictures to post yet. I am sure that we will have a ton from this weekend so stay tuned. 

We also took the girls to the park to have a play-date with some friends last week before she got sick. Here are some cute  pictures of the girls. 

Carving pumpkins and the fair

Hailey and Mackenzie spent the weekend at mimi and popi's a few weekends ago. While they were there they went to the Dixie classic fair and carved some pumpkins. Hailey couldn't wait to carve a pumpkin and thought she wanted to help take out all the stuff from inside the pumpkin. Well as soon as she saw what was inside the pumpkin she changed her mind. Instead she got a spoon and helped pat down the "guts of the pumpkin" in the trash bag. She liked helping popi draw on the pumpkin and telling him what shapes to carve for the faces. Mackenzie decided she wanted to help and grabbed the pumpkin and started jabbering to it and turning it around. It was a really cute thing to watch. We put the pumpkins on the "stage with Hailey and she had fun dressing up and singing on stage with her pumpkins. We also made s'mores in the fire place but Hailey doesn't like chocolate and wouldn't even try the marshmallow so I unfortunately had to eat them for her. 
The girls had fun at the fair, Mackenzie liked looking at all the lights and  seeing the animals. Hailey had a blast riding the kiddy rides and going to see all the livestock that was there. I guess they wore Mackenzie out since she fell asleep in her stroller right in the middle of all the chaos and noise around her. Hailey has the flu right now but she seems to get a little better everyday and we have managed to keep everyone else healthy so far. I am hoping that she will be all better by Saturday to enjoy a little trick or treating. Happy Halloween everyone!

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