Christmas Parade

We went downtown Austin to the Chuy's Children Giving to Children Parade. We sat next to the State Capital where the parade started. It was a cold day, well for us anyway. I think it was in the 50's and windy. This was our first time at this parade and I think it might become an annual tradition for us.





The kids want one of these for Christmas!




Josh ran right up to Elmo and gave him a high five! We were surprised because he usually isn't that brave. Everyone around us thought it was the cutest thing.






Here is Dean's favorite. ;o) These dancers stopped in front of us for a long time. The leader cracked us up!




Star Wars! Another one of Dean's favorites, oh and Nathan and Matt also.







Hello Kitty, one of Hailey's favorites.




Josh loved the Coca Cola Bear Balloon.




Nathan loved putting the toys we brought into the truck driving by.




And no Christmas parade is complete without Santa and Elvis!

Sibling Love

Play Date

We had a play date at our house with our Bible Study class. Josh and Hailey were so excited about it! Josh was so funny handing out toys and trying to zip his friend's jacket. Hailey was proud showing off her room. Nathan and Matthew had school and were sad to miss out on all the fun. The kids spent most of the time playing in our playroom. I didn't get any pictures of the babies that came, but they were so cute. The kids also decorated a cookie. I was going to get out a craft, but they were enjoying the playroom so much, we just let them play. You may notice that Josh has started posing for pictures now. After the picture, he runs around and says, "see" and wants to see the picture.

Hailey's 5th Birthday

Princess Hailey is 5! She wanted to get her hair done like last year. I took her to Club Libby Lu and she got the Royal Princess treatment. She got her hair styled, nails painted and some eye shadow and lip gloss put on. Oh, and lots and lots of glitter! She filled a backpack with makeup and jewelry. She chose the wings and wand as her accessory. We had the whole store to ourselves, she was so excited!

We really celebrated Hailey's birthday all weekend. We do this for all of the kids. We went to her favorite restaurants and play places.

Hailey used all of her birthday money to buy a pink Game Boy with a pink Princess Peach case and some "girl" games.




She loves this Pretty Pretty Princess game. The winner of the game is the one with all of the jewelry on. The boys love playing it with her. They don't even mind the clip on earrings. :)


I took her hair down and it was so curly, I had to take a picture. It didn't capture it that well on camera, but I thought these pictures were cute.