Dance Recital

Hailey had her first dance recital this weekend at the Majestic Theater in Downtown Dallas. She did such a good job and it was so fun to watch her. She had so much fun sitting with her class for the 3 hours of the recital. I was a little nervous that she wouldn't show up on stage...but she did and she was very brave and danced her little heart out. She is the youngest in her class by about 6 months and the others in the class are 4 & 5.

With her stage makeup on for dress rehearsal.

Dress rehearsal at dance class.

Listening to Ms Melva...hailey is not sitting in ballerina pose! :)

Hailey's class

Emmy & Pops at the end of the recital.

Gran & Da at the recital

a very proud mommy and daddy! :)

Easter Weekend

Some Easter weekend pictures...

Kameron...can't believe he'll be one soon! So cute!

Group pic of grandkids with grandparents...Hailey has candy in her mouth but it was the best we could do! :)

Hailey & Gran

looking for her pink eggs

Karson & Hailey going through their Easter goodies

hunting more eggs

we also painted the baby's room...of course hailey wanted to help. this is her usual attire around the house...a tiara and panties.

dying eggs after church

going to church

San Antonio & Sea World

We took Hailey to San Antonio and Sea World...we wanted to take her on her last trip with just us before her baby brother arrives! :) We stopped in Austin on the way down and back home to eat...of course! We also stopped in Waco to see the Baylor Bear.

Sea World was so fun...it was super windy that day so it felt pretty chilly...but that didn't stop Hailey from wanting to get wet in the little water park. She got to feed the dolphins, touch a baby alligator, watch several shows and see some sharks.

The first day in San Antonio, we went on a train ride and walked through the Japanese Tea Garden. Then we went to the Alamo and river walk. Her favorite thing to do was take pictures with our camera...she actually did get some good shots, but some people thought it was kind of strange when she would take pictures of them. :)

Playing in front of the Capitol

totally konked out as we left sea world

loving the water even though it is cold outside!

playing with daddy

feeding the dolphins

going to sea world

big hugs at a mission in san antonio

river walk

she loves to pick flowers - oops!

cannon at the alamo

alamo

riding the train

waterfall at tea garden

lots of fish at tea garden

Faces of Hailey

Today we took some pics of Hailey making her funny faces...and trying to get a good one of her smiling!

"super big" smile...as hailey would say

mad face

sad face

"good" smile...not too much, not too little :)

Elmo!!

Last weekend we took Hailey to see Elmo & friends at the Nokia theater...she had the best time going on a date with mommy & daddy! Watching Hailey's face and excitement is the best part for us!

loving the skittles!

January Pics

I haven't posted any pics in awhile so I thought I'd post a few pics from January. Hailey is keeping us laughing and her personality is really growing lately. Some of her favorite things to do are play games like hide-n-seek, baby (where she is the mommy & jeff or I play the baby), card games, and she still likes to play doctor. She is also really getting into playing dress up and pretend play and she creates all these stories in her mind and tells me and jeff what role we are to play...if we do it wrong, she is sure to let us know. It is a really fun stage and of course she is trying to grow her independence, which i know is good, but we're trying to teach her that she still has to listen to us since lately she has become really good at not hearing us - ha!

playing with her makeup...

sitting on the tractor with Karson at the stock show

dance class...of course the two girls she is standing next to are 2 years older than her so she look so small. she really loves her dance class and teacher - ms. melva.

playing dress up...this one daddy was helping her...ha!

more dress up

we took her to the nasher museum and she was really interested in this sculpture.