Graduation from Pre-K

Hailey and her teacher Mrs. U

Singing "It's a Grand Ol' Flag"

Hailey had graduation from Pre-k on Friday June 19th.

She sang songs and got a diploma. What a fun time!

Gymnastics

Hailey has been taking gymnastics for about a year now. She is getting really good at it. She has learned to do a cart wheel and is so proud of herself. She had her end of the year graduation ceremony on Thursday June 18th.

Hailey's 5th B-Day

Our spunky Hailey had her 5th birthday on Saturday June 6th. She had a house full of happy friends for her party. What a nut house! Nine squealing five year olds...wow! Hailey got so many sweet and thoughtful gifts from her friends and family. Her big gift was a new bike. She has already put lots of mileage on her new bike and has had a blast with all of her great gifts.

The Circus

The Ringling Brothers Circus was in Trenton, NJ just down the road from our house, so we ventured to the arena for the show. The kids had a great time. Dylan loved all of the lights and music and seemed to love every act more that the last. Hailey was super excited about the tigers and watched without blinking the entire act. Hailey even had her picture taken with one of the girls in the show. Mom loved the elephants the most...maybe since I have felt like one these days.

Much requested pregnancy pics...

I know that all of my far away friends and family have been asking for months to see pregnancy pictures of me...and I was really being honest when I told them that I was not showing at all. Just recently (around the end of my sixth month) I finally started to look a little pregnant. I was actually really tickled when the lady at Wal-Mart noticed that I was pregnant when she was checking me out at the register. It may have been also that I was buying some baby things...but I was still flattered that she noticed. These pictures were taken on May 30th and I am almost 33 weeks pregnant. The baby is doing great and I am just starting to waddle, so we are well on our way to having our baby on or about July 19th.

Dylan has a new trick!

Our big boy Dylan has just taught himself to get to a seated position all by himself and stay sitting up. We are so excited that he is doing new things and getting better all the time. I look around the room and he is sitting up by himself and grinning ear to ear!

Hailey's First Sailing Trip

We were elated when a friend from our branch invited Earl and Hailey to go out on his sailing boat on Friday. Hailey had not ever been on a boat before and since we now own one (it's in the shop right now) we thought that this would be a good start for Hailey to get used to the water. Hailey needs to get used to the water so that she can have fun when we go out on our faster boat later in the summer. Earl is looking for a really tiny life jacket for the new baby, but I say that if they don't make them then that is a really good reason not to take the new baby out on the boat until at least next year! Brother Roberson took Earl and Hailey out on Barnegat Bay near our house. They had a short little trip, but had tons of fun. Hailey was afraid at first, but settled in pretty quickly.