Weekend with the Fam

We had an awesome weekend together as a family! Hailey is really enjoying her time with Kyle when he is home. Unfortunately she is also very aware when he is going out of town or has been gone awhile. She now will ask him to stay home and play with her. I think she will just start missing him more and more. But, that’s why we have weekends like we did this last one.

Friday I found Hailey like this in her room. She never falls asleep in random places. So when
I saw this, I had to get the camera

Later she did some posing for me in front of the Christmas tree. Ha now when I have my camera out, she runs and stands in front of the tree. Sunday she did it in the middle of eating her lunch!

Man she is growing up fast

Hailey loves the sunsets. She talks about how she likes the colors in the sky.

Hailey made this lovely “cake” for me on my night stand the other night. Tasty huh?

Saturday morning Kyle, Hailey and I ran some errands. We went to a total of seven different places and finished most of our Christmas shopping. It felt so good to get all that done! Hailey was a really good girl. It was so fun being out with the family. We had a lot of fun!

One of the things we wanted to get was a star for out Christmas tree. The one we had been using was made by Kyle using a Santa ornament in the shape of a star and a coat hanger. So yeah it was time for a new one. We looked at Menards… nothing good. So we hoped Target (our last stop) would have something. They didn’t have a horrible selection but we settled for one that we thought wasn’t too bad.

We got a kind of retro looking start with color lights. It matches our lights on the tree so it’s not bad! (I’m just noticing it’s not straight. We’ll fix that. )

We also got new stockings for everyone except Flurrie. We have been using these very basic red felt ones I bought for Kyle’s and my first Christmas. I used green glitter puff paint and write our names on them. I found another one just like it for Hailey later on. They weren’t bad stockings but we thought it’d be fun if we all picked out new ones.

I had a dumb moment though. We had Hailey choose her stocking between the blue one or a Toy Story one. She chose the blue and we were good to go. Well I get home, take all the tags off our stockings, and hang them up.

Notice a problem with Hailey’s?

Yeah this isn’t her first Christmas and she’s not a baby. But I love the stocking so much that I will figure out something to cover that up!

By the end of the weekend Kyle and I had wrapped most of the presents and put them under the tree. We can’t wait for people to open their gifts! There’s some good stuff under there. I added some more yesterday and I have a couple more things to add as well.

A couple weeks ago I had printed out some Christmas pictures for Hailey to color. One day she came up to me and gave me the Christmas tree. I thought she did a great job! There aren’t any ornaments on it but it’s just perfect the way it is. Now it sits up on the shelf and is one of our new favorite decorations.

Lastly, I was able to crochet some Holly. Sadly, this is the only Christmas crocheting I have done. I had plans for other stuff but it didn’t happen. But hey there is always next year!

I hung this on the the end of the yarn I hung on our wall for our Christmas cards. (I use clothes pins to hang the cards on the yarn) It’s little but makes it look a little more Christmassy. I just can’t believe this is the only Christmas thing I crocheted!

I am just loving our weekends with Kyle. We have been really good about staying together as a family and spending as much time as we can together. Kyle’s long Florida trip was really hard on us so it was great making up that time apart.

We are so excited for Christmas!