Thanksgiving Program

Hailey is front/left indian

I am quickly finding out that Hailey and Braxton's preschool's are completely different. Braxton's was more of a "hands off" experience where I would just drop him off everyday and that was pretty much it. Where as Hailey has programs and lots of parties for the parents to come to. Hailey had her Thanksgiving program followed by a "feast", which was made up of chicken nuggest, beans and green beans......Yummy! Hailey's class were indians. In the program they just sang different songs about being thankful and indians and pilgrims. The strangest part was when they announced the children would be singing the blessing on the food.....and after the song/prayer everyone started clapping....never experienced that before. (Hailey's preschool is run by the Methodist Church)

Hailey enjoying her "feast"

Hailey and Gabby showing me their indian princess costumes. On the back says "Princess Hailey"

Pumpkin Carving

Gabby, Hailey, Mike, Max and Parker.

With all that has been going on in our lives I completely forgot that I'd taken pictures of our pumpkin Carving. We usually do it early in the month, but this year we didn't do it until the week of Halloween. We let the kids design and carve their own this year....they love'd it!

Zach and Braxton proud of their combined design..

The girls not enjoying the gooey insides so much.

Zach and Braxton cleaning out their pumpkin

Too much CANDY!

Every year our kids get to go to a "trunk or treat" that is done by our ward, plus trick or treating. We always end up with a lot of candy. Now that we have 6 kids in the house we got three times as much this year! I think we are going to have the "great pumpkin" come and visit our house soon. So he can deliver all of the candy to needy children all over the world.... :) Kris and her little bee
Noah and Hailey

Braxton as Dracula

Braxton and Hailey on the way to the trunk or treat.

Kira and Hailey

It's hard being a "princess"

This is Hailey's first year of preschool.....and with preschool comes holiday parties. She was able to wear her costume to school that day and was so excited about it. Mike, the ever supportive husband, signed me up to help with the Halloween party. (I think as payback for making him go to "open house") anyway, when I showed up at her school she looked like she was having a great time. Then she saw me, and she immediately wanted me to hold her. When I finally convinced her to rejoin her class, she realized she'd left her princess wand at home. She was very upset and started yelling "I forgot my wand!" and begging me to go home and get it for her. I finally persuaded her to go on with the party without the wand. (threatening her with sitting on my lap) Soon the wand was forgotten and she had a great time. When we got home from school she and Gabby went through all of the goodies they'd recieved from the party and found a stamp. They both stamped themselves all over and Hailey got it all over her dress.....when I went to wash it, hoping I could get it out, I read the tag of instructions it said, "Do not wash, Do not dry clean, do not dry" Well that didn't leave me with many options, so we did away with Sleeping Beauty all together and she picked a belle dress from her "dress-up" clothes and she was Belle. Boy, I'd wish we'd done that earlier, it would have saved me money!

Hailey with her class
Hailey and Gabby being silly.
Party snack

Mickey mouse cheese, you can't beat that!

The unicorn and the princess....