Halli's first encounter with an egg.

Halli and daddy had an egg eating contest the other night. I think she had two, who knows how many daddy had. :) She wasn't too sure if she liked it as first as you will see in the picture (note the egg in the nose), but then decided that it wasn't too bad. I like the last pic, sweet daddy cleaning her up. :) Ok, so I just looked at it, for some reason it posted the pics multiple times, disregard those. Sorry! And they are out of order. Ugh.

We had Christmas at our house this year! It was great, our first official hosting of an event. Loved it! Thanks to everyone who came and enjoyed each others fellowship.

Well, Baby Halli is one year old...I can't believe it. I can't even put into words how much I love this little girl. My cup overflows. Believe it or not, on the mornings she sleeps in (7:30 or so), I find myself saying "I wish Halli would wake up so we can play!" We celebrated with a cake, which she enjoyed. I found green icing 2 days later up her nose. I think she finally caught on to the present thing...she was totally in to the paper! And, I think her favorite present were the spoons from Aunt Erin. We never leave the house without a spoon these days.

She also had her first picture with Santa this year. She did really great. She didn't snuggle up to him, but she didn't scream bloody murder either. Hal was home for two weeks and it was FABULOUS. We had such a good time just laying around the house, staying in jammies and watching movies. We bought a new couch! Whoohoo! And just enjoyed spending time together, which was much overdo since the hunting season began.

I hope everyone had a very blessed Christmas season! Love to all!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We just got back from visiting in IL for almost two weeks. Halli got to play with her cousins, who she LOVED! We visited Grandpa Gahm and Betty and we stayed with Hal's grandparents. We had a great time and really enjoyed seeing everyone.

Pumpkin Patch

Sorry I haven't blogged in forever. I just can't get back into it. For one reason, it takes FOREVER to upload any pictures. I mean, forever. However, if you aren't on facebook, you really should be. It is much easier to put pics up...so I've done a better job there.

We went to the pumpkin patch today. Poor Halli is always so sweet and happy and today she just wasn't herself. Teeth, I'm thinking. She wasn't feeling the patch...but she did attach herself to one small baby pumpkin. Tonight we also had a Halloween party at the neighbors which she would have usually loved but pooped out pretty early. So she is pumped full of Motrin at the moment, and sleeping. :)

Here are a few patch pics. Loved it. It was a close patch by our house at the Methodist Church.

And one sweet girl picture from a few days ago. Check out the two little chicklet teeth.

Birthday Party

We went to a friends birthday party this evening... Miss Zailey Mae, she is two today. It was a dog theme so we had chili dogs (Hal ate FOUR) and cookies shaped like dog bones. Super cute.

The weather was perfect, overcast so it wasn't blazing hot out like usual. The kids swam and Miss Halli got to swim with her daddy for the first time tonight. She LOVES the pool and splashing around. Don't mind that her swimsuit is a tad small, I promise she just had it on a few weeks ago and now her fat rolls on her arms are rolling over. But I guess they'd do that anyways. We had a blast.

Happy Birthday Miss Zailey!



Sandy and Zailey

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My sweet girl giving me kisses...





Dad, where is MY hotdog?




And I love this picture...her teeny tiny head is poking out of the big floatie..

Halli's ride 'em cowboy...

Some sprinkler fun

We tried to figure out how to work our sprinklers tonight. This way we incur several fines as we water while we are gone a month in CO for not obeying the water restrictions. SHH, don't tell anyone.

We first thought that our aerobic system only used water from the septic tank, nice. We have since learned that there is fresh water when you turn them on the timer. So, Halli played in the sprinklers for the first time tonight. She loved it, as did I when I was a kid.

Here are a few pics from the evening. She is sporting her super cute pink swim trunks from great grandma.

A few Pictures of Halli in her "August" dress from great grandma

My Grandma makes Halli a dress every month or so. This is her "August" dress. I think it is my favorite so far...Oh so adorable. She wore it to "Sunday School" this morning. She seems to like the child care at church. She went in, sat right now and picked us some "new" toys and was like, "Alright people, let's play." Never looked back. Here are a few shots on our back patio.

The house is coming along-slowly. I should have known, it took me at least a month to pack everything up, so I should figure that amount of time for everything to find its perfect place. I am only able to get in any good amount of time "organizing" when Halli is asleep, which isn't much. So I start projects here and there and have to come back to them later. But we are LOVING our new home. Hal got his caribou hung today, so he feels unpacked and settled.

It is the perfect house for us. The floor plan is amazing and all of our furniture/stuff fits beautifully. Plus, my mom comes by all the time! I sooo love that and so does baby Halli. We are enjoying visiting with the deer every night as well.

We leave a week from tomorrow for Colorado for the month of Sept so I'm try to get organized enough to pack for an entire month. Plus I am cooking for camp the first week so I'm trying to get a menu planned and a few meals cooked and frozen in case of "Halli Emergency" one night. It will be a busy week but we are excited about going, especially getting out of the heat!

Signing off for now...
Hal, Staci and Baby Halli Grace