multi-tasking

This girl is OFFICIALLY a multi-tasking mama!! Look at her go... :)

o, christmas tree...

Pictures can NOT do it justice...it's the most beautiful tree I've EVER SEEN!! You'll just have to come over to experience the warm fuzzies you get when looking at it. Thanks to my mom who somehow turned my Target finds into this masterpiece!

way to go, hawks!!

Yesterday morning my daddy selflessly stayed home from church so he could attend the Seahawks Prayer Meeting on tv. It worked...they won. :)

GO HAWKS!!!

hailey's first parade...

Hailey went to her first parade yesterday in Seattle...it was an EARLY morning (for us) but so much fun! Todd's folks, Aaron, Lisa, Gabby and the three of us headed downtown to meet up with a bunch of Todd's cousins and his aunt Carey. GOOD TIMES!!

Hailey and GrandmaLisa & Abby
Grandpa & Hailey
Kelli & Gabby
Darrell & Jersey
Hailey & Daddy
Kaleb & Jeremy
The WSU band (sorry, Chris...the camera died before UW came through :)
Todd & Darrell with their girls...
We're hoping to make this a day after Thanksgiving tradition! :)

Whew....

Here's a bunch of pics from the last few days...I hate blogger and that it won't let me move the order of these pics, so you'll just have to deal with looking at them in the wrong order! :)

First off, here's a picture of Todd modeling Hailey's new jacket she got from her cousin Gabby. Here's Todd being a dork (again!!) opening his present.
Here's Gabby...just being her cute self... :)
Here's Hailey hanging out with Unkie Aaron...sorry I couldn't fix her scary looking eyes! My red eye fix didn't help at all...
Here's the disaster hotel room after the excanging of gifts!! (I may have forgotten to mention that we had our Christmas together since they won't be out this way again until after the 1st of the year... :)
No explaination necessary... :)
Again...just Hailey's cute self...
This is her excited face...she was laughing about something, but I can't remember what it was... :)
Here she is opening her very first ever Christmas gift! She did pretty good, actually...
And last, but not least, Gabby opening presents...
We had such a hectic few days, driving to Portland and back in less than 24 hours, but all in all a very fun Thanksgiving! I'd tell the whole story in "Jessica-style" (aka REAL TIME), but I'm pooped...it's off to bed for me! :)

kaden jay to the rescue!!

Today while Hailey and I were walking with Jenny, Kaden and Rylan Vollmer (as we do every Wednesday and Friday) Kaden SAVED THE DAY!! Jenny and I were truckin' along, trying to burn some calories in the SeaTac Mall (don't judge!) and Kaden started talking away...we didn't think anything of it at first, since he often talks to Hailey and Ry, but pretty soon it became apparent that he was trying to get his mom's attention. He kept repeating something that resembled "stinkie", which we immediately thought meant that someone needed changing, but it turned out he was saying "binkie"! We turned and looked behind us and saw that Hailey had pulled off her paci clip and thrown it on the ground quite a ways back! Silly girl...

Way to go, Kaden!! :)

**Thank you to the Vollmer blog for this picture that I STOLE!! :)**

so sweet...

I just love it when she sleeps...not only because then I can sleep, but also because she's so cute! I never realized she actually cared about this teddy bear I always tuck her in with, so now I know... :)