Happy Birthday Hailey!

Her Birthday Hair do ;)

Hailey's new bike!

Dinner at IHOP

Blowing out the candles!Hailey's new MP3 Player


My first baby turned 10 yesterday! She is now in the double digits, people. That is just crazy! She has been so excited for her birthday! She woke up that morning and all 4 kids came into my room and started singing for Hailey. It's tradition to sing Happy Birthday all day long...my mom did it to me and I'm doing it to my kids. I love to see them just smile as we sing Happy Birthday, yet again...lol. She wanted to make French Toast for the family (she loves to cook, all by herself, with no help). It was super yummy. Grandma Jeanie (my mom) then took her out birthday shopping...she made out like a bandit! Grandma's spoil kids wayyyy to much. Hailey was most excited about her new earrings. Joe loves playing with Hailey and all afternoon, the two of them played together, it was cute. He must have said "happy birthday, Hailey" a billion times to her yesterday. That evening we met Dan's dad for dinner at IHOP. We usually give the kids the choice of going out to dinner or to a movie or anything else they may be interested in doing with the family for their birthday and Hailey was super excited about IHOP and getting an adult meal. She ordered this huge omelet and it came with 3 pancakes! It was funny to see her eyes as that meal was placed before her. She ate about half of it and was very excited to save the rest for today. We then came home and sang to her and we told her the story of how she came into this world (the kids always like to hear their story). We sang and ate cake (sugar overload, by this time!). She and Abby stayed up and watched movies. She is so beautiful and every day turning into more of a young woman and though that scares me to death, it is also exciting to see. She is such a wonderful girl and I'm so blessed to have her!