Baby Peyton

My Aunt Shari had her baby yesterday - 1/28/09 at 12:26pm. He is doing great - weighs 6lbs 10ounces. Shari did a great job and is doing well. Ashley was so excited for me to get home from the hospital with pictures, she didn't even let me in the door without the camera!

Cookie Time - Again

Even if everyone is having a bad day and the girls are fighting like crazy - if I start to make cookies it seems everything is right in the world. They both love to watch the mixer and try to be as involved as possible - it's Great!! Not so great on the waistline though!




Hailey looked in the mixer just as I was adding flour so her little eyelashes are all white - we got a good laugh out of that!

Stock Show Time!!

This year the weather for the stock show was amazing! Usually it is freezing - that's why we didn't even go last year. It's so much fun to act like we aren't the "city" people we are for a day - not that Castle Rock is a big city. We discovered this year that Hailey is an animal person. Ashley has always really liked animals - but mostly from a far. She does not like to be licked or sniffed which usually comes with any animal. Hailey on the other hand has no fear, which is not a great thing. We took them into the kid's place where they have all the goats, llamas, pigs, etc.. running around and you can feed. Ashley was freaked out because first thing all the goats coming charging for her because she has food. Hailey is very amused and wants out of my arms as quickly as possible. Most of these animals were way taller then her and she didn't care a bit. Her main goal was to try to run around and touch as many of the animals as possible! Who knows - maybe she will be our Veterinarian in the family?

We Love You Miss Hannigan!

Here is the conversation I heard last night while Larry was giving the girls a bath:

Ashley: Miss Flanigan tells all the kids to shut up
Larry: She does?? Why does she do that??
Ashley: Because she is a mean lady
Larry: She's mean? Does she do anything else? Why did she tell you to shut up?
Ashley: She is not my best friend
Larry: Did she tell you to shut up today?

A little background to why I thought this was funny. My favorite movie in the whole world is Annie! Larry does not like it because there is singing, and of course he has never even tried to watch it. This past weekend it was on sale so Larry bought it for me, and Ashley Loves it!! As we all know the lady running the orphanage is Miss Hannigan (or Flanigan as Ashley states). All Ashley was doing was talking about the movie and Larry thought she was talking about one of her teachers at school. By the time I got into the bathroom Larry was ready to call up the school and freak out! For some reason he didn't see the humor in it that I did - especially by the time I stopped laughing to really explain it!

I'm Sure There Is a Name For It

We discovered this past week that our little Hailey has an irrational fear. We took all the decorations off of the tree and Larry held it while I unscrewed it at the bottom. At this point Hailey started crying?? When Larry pulled the tree out of the stand it turned into full blown screaming and shaking?? Larry's thought was that Hailey thought the tree was eating her mommy - we kind of laughed and moved on.
Then I took down the little tree we have upstairs which is fake - same thing. When I pulled the tree up - again she started to shriek!
Hailey is afraid of Taking Down Christmas Trees??