Look Who's 1!

Today my baby girl turns one... I can't believe that it has already been a year since she joined our family. I don't really remember life with out her. Hailey brings so much joy to our lives... and now she is starting to be a little bit of trouble like her older brother. Not naming any names...William! She really is a piece of heaven and I don't know what I would do with out her.

The Tree Is Up

Since Nick has morning kindergarden his whole stop is kidergardeners. It was really cute to watch the heard of little reindeer come off the bus. They were all wearing their hats they made in Mrs.Udsteun's class. His first question off the bus was do we get to decorate the tree yet? Unfortunately he had to wait until daddy and Hailey were up from their nap, but then it was finally time. He wore it most of the time while decorating.

It's probably no surprise to anyone that we put a tree every year... But I thought I would blog about it more for the family memories than for our readers. Nicholas has been so excited about getting the decorations up this year. We usually put them up the day after Thanksgiving, which I've decided isn't really the best day to do it since I am one of those SHOPPERS... I love to hit the sales. This year I was able to get a few things for the house like a fireplace, and breakfast bar. Which by the way I am really excited about. We will have a warm cozy (electric) fireplace we can curl up in front of on those cold winter days. Which the past few days we have woke up to a thick layer of frost on everything you can see with the naked eye. BRRR!

I have set a new date for decorating the tree... December 1st. It's a good day to get things started for the holidays. We did manage to get some of the other decorating done in the house previously, but that was the BIG day for decorating. The kids all enjoyed themselves. We decorated two tress. A miniture version for the loft and the one in the livingroom, where santa will most likely visit. Although SANTA still can't come down the chimney... or crawl out of the fireplace. But we will definately leave some cookies for the good man. SANTA do you have any requests?

I only had to move a few, since I am some what of a perfectionist... I am working on that. No, I am not perfect by anymeans, but I have a hard time when things don't look quite right. Although it was perfect with out me moving anything since the kids decorated it! I didn't move any on the one in the loft though... It was all the kids.

They worked together and not too much bickering occured. Now we have only a few finishing touches which we will post about later.

Hailey tried her hardest to hang those ordaments, but they just wouldn't stay...

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THANKSGIVING... Another first for Hailey! It was a busy day... As I rushed to get cooking and table decorations finished by 2:00p.m. I started to panic! Are Holidays always this stressful? As it grew closer and closer to 2:00p.m. I could feel my adrenaline kick in... My saving Grace was my wonderful husband, who stepped in to help me with the last minute things that needed to be taken over to the neighbors. He didn't get much sleep as he worked the night before and eating at 2:00p.m. didn't allow him much time to sleep. Thanks Hun, for your help. We traveled far this year... Two doors down to our friends the Mackenroth's. It was a Great time, once I realized that the rest of the day would be relatively stress free.