My meet up with MMB Melly

I am still writing about my trip to OK, and IL and i am almost done with the adventures of our trip. We did take a 3 week vacation so there is alot to blog about. This little section is about our meet up with MMB Melly as the title states. So MMB stands for May Miracle Bees, which is a message board i got involved with when i was pregnant with Hailey. Little miss Melanie and Hailey both had the same due date, although Melanie was born a year before Hailey. ANyways, we have met up with Sarah and Melanie once before and while were in OK we decided to hook up again. Here is a picture of the visit before on bottom and our visit this time on top. They have both grown up so much.

Here are the two of them again, giving hugs as we get ready to leave.

And again hugs, yes we are proud parents and took many pictures.

The two girls standing together.

We had such a nice visit. Sarah and Melanie were nice enough to meet up with us in Stillwater and we took the girls to a park and then to Chick-fil-A. The girls had such a fun time and Sarah and i got to catch up too. Melanie and Sarah gave Hailey this really cute bucket with her name on it and flowers with foam stickers and a color books, crayons, stickers, a pinwheel, a candy necklace, and much more. Hailey LOVED it and it was so thoughtful of them. Also, while i am talking about Sarah, she has her own business making really cute sippy cups and straw cups. She makes an insert and it goes in the cup and it has the child's name on it. Hailey has three of them and i LOVE them. They are so cute. She also makes tons of other item that are super cute and unique. Go to http://mellyroodesigns.blogspot.com/ to see her products. Okay, so there is a quick post. Can you believe it is so short? I took so cute pics of Hailey this week, so we will see how long it takes me to get them onto the computer.

Birthday Parties

So i thought i would post some pictures of two of Hailey's three parties. She had on in Stillwater, OK on her birthday, one in Lawton, OK, and then one in Peoria, AZ. I only have pictures of the ones in OK. SO here goes:

Starting off with a group pic of the Stillwater b-day with , Aunt Tippie (as Hailey calls her), KayKay, MaeMae, ALly, Mommy, Baby, and Hailey. Hailey spent alot of time with KayKay, MaeMae, ALly, and Baby and their parents. SHe had so much fun with them and always asks to see pictures of Ally on my computer now.


Aunt Tippie thought it would fun to make a banana chocolate cake as Hailey LOVES bananas and chocolate. So here is Hailey helping to mash the bananas for the cake. she LOVED it.

Hailey with Bananas still mashing and having fun.

Perhaps, the best part of helping make your birthday cake is getting to lick the beaters. =)

She LOVED this and made a HUGE mess.

Ally and Hailey watching Tippie ice the cake.

KayKay, and MaeMae showing off their finished product of decorating the top of the cake with of course CANDY!

The mini cake that Hailey picked. we made two and then let Hailey pick which one to eat. of course the m and m's one won!

The other cute cake, that Hailey didn't pick, but it still looked cute.

All the cakes together, they look like mickey mouse.

Hailey getting ready for everyone to sing to her. She got so shy. It was so cute.

Aunt Tiffy and Mommy with the birthday girl.

Mommy and the birthday girl. I can't believe she is TWO!!

Eating her cake, first bite of sweet chocolate, mmmmm.

Eating the m and m's off the top.

eating more m and m's

Eating cake with a fork

Opening presents with the girls... this is the TAILS book that Tiffy got her, that is really cute.

Leapfrog games AUnt Tippie got her, which by the way she LOVES

When she opened the TAILS book.

Ally and Hailey opening gifts. Hailey had so much fun with Ally, she LOVES her.

ALthough Hailey and Ally got along so well, Hailey and the baby maddy (BABY as hailey calls her), well lets just say it was more of a love hate relationship. Hailey walked around always saying No, Baby, No when Maddy threw food on the floor, tried to get into newspaper, touched a toy Hailey was playing with, threw any toys. But Haiely really did love her, giving her hugs and kisses and she still asks about baby. =) But isn't maddy so cute, look at those eyes.

SO this was the end of the night. All of the girls were very tired, but it was a fun birthday party. Also, the older girls, Brandi (mom of 4 girls), Tiffany, and I stayed up and watched the finale of Grey's Anatomy.

So that concluded Birthday number one. If you are still with me, here are the pics of birthday #2 in Lawton. These pictures are backwards becuase i posted the in the wrong way. SO here is the end of the party, right before Lola, left. My mom did a Dora B-day party for her, which she LOVED!!!

Eating cake, YUMMY!!

And more cake

This is my friend Christina's daughter Lola, who is so cute.

Here is Hailey opening her gifts. Jayden is helping her, he is our next door neighbor in Lawton, and Hailey loves playing with him and his sister alyssa.

Lola and Hailey again, waiting to open gifts.

Hailey LOVED the Dora outfit my mom got her so much, that she had to wear it. So we put it over her dress. she eventually decided to take off the shirts, but she wore the jeans for the rest of the time.

GOdmother and Mommy putting the Dora pants on Hailey.

Hailey trying to put the shirt on.

When she got the Dora shirt.

Playing with some of the gifts she opened.

So this concludes the birthday extraganza that took place in May. I still have more pictures from our vacations in May. I will post as much as i can. I also took some cute pictures of her the other day that i will try to post. Also, our friend from OK came to visit us tonight and we got a picture of him and Hailey. He has been one of my best friends. Well, with that, i am going to go to bed. It is late. Hopefully i will post some more pics this weekend. If you made it this far, congrats.

Our Time in Chicago

So i thought i would post some pictures. I am going to post pictures from Chicago tonight. Then later this week i will post pictures from Hailey's birthday parties (yes she had more than one). So, here are the Chicago pictures. We were only there for a two days, but one day where we didn't have travel. So the only pictures i have are from the park that is right by where Tiff and Brandon live. We had a ton of fun as you will see. Keep in mind the pictures are backward the order i wanted them, and i am too tired to go back through and put a new order. So here they are. Also, the adorable puple outfi she is wearing was made by a girl in my PT class (Kristen) mom. So knitted the jacket and a cute design on the shirt.

Hailey and I playing in the field on the way back from the park.

I was trying to show her how to blow, this is when she finally got it and was able to blow.

After sweet success of blowing the flower.

THis was me trying to teach Hailey how to blow.

Hailey and I in the car, she was driving me.

Hailey driving the car by herself

Hailey hanging on the bar before going down the slide. She is attempting to do the tuck, like she does at gymnastics class.

Hailey going down he HUGE slide with Hailey, as you can tell she LOVED it. She went down it by herself later.

So this is a picture of a not so bright idea i had. I thought the zipline looked like fun. SO i thought it would be a good idea for me to go with Hailey on it and i would just hold on for dear life with one hand. Well, as soon as i started to lift my feet up i realized there is no way i would hold up my weight and Hailey's with one arm, hence my face. =)

Tiffany and Hailey on the teeter totter, i am on the other end.

Hailey and i on the tetter totter.

On the tetter totter again.

Hailey and I running to the park, like i said these are all in backwards order.

Here we come, she was so excied.

Look how cute she is running, notice her arms in the correct posistion. She is getting so big, =(

Here we are when we first started toward the park and saw it. We are running in unison. =)

SO these next few pictures need some explaining. and yes they are backwards. SO Hailey spent a TON of time in the car, seeing how we drove to Chicago from stillwater. THis was before the park, but we were going somewhere. Since this is the last photo, just notice that she is sleeping.

Prior to falling asleep, she is chewing fruit loops that are in the cup, i couldn't get her actually putting it into her mouth, but this is right after, becuase she is literally chewing and sleeping a the same time.

Her she is getting ready to put it in her mouth.

SO as you can tell, she was exhusted and hungry from our trip. We actually did more than just the park in Chicago. We carried stuff up from the truck we rode in to unload into Tiff and Brandon's apartment, althought, they just had to move it to a different apartment in teh same complex, becuase that apartment wasn't ready when i was there. Hailey even helped with carrying stuff up the stairs, it was so cute. We went shopping in downtown Naperville which was fun too. I bought some cool cooking items. WE went to the mall too. So we had a lot of fun in Chicago. Brandon was such a good hoster ( i guess instead of hostess). He put up with getting a TON of finger prints all over her apartment. I bet he is still finding some suprises Hailey left him. So something to leave you with. Brandon and Hailey... Brandon is stretching out his back and Hailey watching him and trying to get his attention. Hopefully no one is confused (this is Uncle Brandon #2), Kim's brandon is called Uncle Buckey. So, aren't they cute!

SOrry this was so long, but i hope you all enjoy the pictures. Hopefully, birthday picures will be posted tomorrow.