At 17...

months that is..... Hailey can walk now :), she calls Tyler by name, well she says ty ty, dada is her favorite word and she loves when he walks in the door from work, she is obsessed with babies, plastic ones, and will hold a million in her hand all at once.......oh and she's learning to put on mascara?!
haha!

at least she knows to close her eyes :)

uh wrong side, try again....

she's good!!

luckily that mascara didnt have too much left

how'd she do...she seems to be happy with it!!

Fun in 80 degrees of sun!

Last week was beautiful!!!

We were livin outside! one day we got to hang out with Katie, Britney, Mikel and Janaca! Fun!!Tyler and Sam

Hailey having fun!

and as always....a mess :)

sorry not too many pictures....we hung out and talked and got to see cute little, well big :) baby Jackson!
Fun times, thanks ladies!

Jump on It

we've been to jump on it a couple times now and the kids love it!
the place is just full of a million trampolines, it's so much fun for them. The first time we went, Tyler was kinda scared, but every time after that he has totally loved every minute!

they have these balls and other things to throw around in there and Tyler always makes sure that both him and Hailey have a ball :)

Hailey making her way across the tramps

not too sure about all the jumping

but it didnt take her long to get over it

My mom and Kev came to town and we had to take Kevin there. David and him were completely soaked when we left, yeah it was gross :) but they had fun too! I didnt get many pictures of Kevin, I got more video, sorry :(

Hailey Bailey

Tyler jumping

and jumping/falling :)

Hailey doing her thing

and then taking a water break

awww....you're too cute Hailey!
told you about the ball thing :)

See... :)

Tyler having so much fun!

Daddy getting in on the action

check out those dimples!!!Flying high!
Love this picture!!and yes, the girl is FINALLY walking!!! 17 mths, woo-hoo!!
She still prefers to hold onto peoples fingers, but she can totally do it! I'll have to take more pics of her doing it. She's still a bit wobbly but she will totally get up and walk now!
Go Hales!!!!
shes got about 9 weeks to perfect it :)

Easter Weekend

was spent in the mountains at Snowbird
We were there for about 3 days and we had a blast.
David skiied and guess what....so did Tyler!
well with a lot of help from David, but hey...he did it! :)
we had to get the smallest skis they had...they were so cute! He did pretty good considering how long we took to get suited up and out there, but once out there he really liked the skiing part...he'll totally be pro by next winter :)

there they are going up the chairlift

and down they come....

David straps the harness around Tyler and basically all Tyler has to do is stand up....

but yeah sometimes, he didnt :)

looking good huh!?

His face is too funny...I got some video too...in one David tells him to clap for me to make sure he is still awake :)

man that was rough ;)

they totally passed out when we went to dinner

Daddy and the kids

Hailey and I

our cute lil fam
(tyler was still a bit tired from the day before)

us

we also played a lot of boardgames and hit up the pool (the outside pool). Hailey absolutely loved the pool! she is crazy about water and Tyler kept asking to go in even though he really wouldnt leave our side, but he definitely had fun!
Thanks guys! we had a great weekend to remember!!!

He LOVES me!

The kids got a kitchen and we were waiting for David to set it up for them......I was gone one night for enrichment and when I got back, the kitchen was set up and David showed me these pictures.....

David said he could not stop talking to me on the phone and telling me all about it....

how cute!
I'm glad I was his first call :)

Thanks Ty....I LOVE U 2!

Double Trouble

Tyler and Hailey love doing things together! Tyler loves showing Hailey new things and he loves that she follows him everywhere! Hailey can get in her own little trouble herself but when they are together....yup thats what we call double trouble! :)

here they are playing in the bathroom
-one of their favorite hangouts-

whether its playing in the water, throwing cars in the toilet or like in this case, playing with the toilet paper....the bathroom is usually a daily playtime routine for them

as you can see...I take the pictures and Daddy tells them to clean up :)

Tyler was sad his fun was over......

but Hailey....well as you can tell, see still thought it was funny and wasnt in the least bit done :)

Poop...yup thats right...

Poop!
oh dear, so I wanted to potty train Tyler like a month or so ago, he went in the potty once, but then he would kind of hide from me and he really wasnt too interested after that. So I decided to wait and just talk about it for a while and see if he would get more interested. So I bought some really cool boy underwear with motorcycles on them and he totally loves them! So I explained that if he wanted to wear them then he needed to be a big boy and go in the potty. Everytime I would change his diaper I would say, uh Tyler where are you supposed to go pee, and he would reply "in the potty!" okay, so he got it! now he had to do it. So to my story. The other night, Tyler had his underwear on and I would remind him like every 5 mins if needed to go to the bathroom then he needed to go in the potty because he had his big boy undies on, so this goes on for like an hour and nothing. David and I were playing a card game in the living room and Tyler was looking through the toy box for something and then all of a sudden i look over to him and he is just sitting there staring at me, I take a sniff and yup, he not only went pee, but of course he pooped...so I'm like Tyler did you go poo in your pants. He had never done it in his undies so I think he was a bit shocked at the feeling maybe, i dont know...David volunteers to do the honors, he wisks Tyler up, swings him into the bathroom, but I guess the underwear wasnt that tight cause the poo comes flying out...I yell and David steps right in it....he totally had no clue, he looks down is like are you kidding me...it was gross and very funny all at the same time. Oh dear, we're like what are the odds that you would step in it, lol
Tyler still in a stunned kind of state...David and I are just trying not to laugh and trying to explain to him what happened and why we have to use the potty if you have to go. Uhhh, classic moment, had to document. It stunk too bad for me to go grab my camera, i just had to go clean it asap, luckily it wasnt on the carpet, it was in the kitchen, poo and my dark carpet would not have been pretty :)
anyways, so we're working on it. Great introduction though dont ya think! :)

Sun, Sun and more Sun

= spending all of our time outside on our lovely driveway and dirt of a lawn :)
The kids do love it though.....

Hailey loves playing with the water and filling and emptying any bucket thats around

Tyler loves, loves, loves the dirt!

He grabs his tractor and cars...buries them, digs them out and then does it all over again

why he wanted to taste some dirt...i dont know....hes a boy :)

but then when I got back over to Hailey...apparently its also a girl thing
(at least this girls thing, ha ha!)

the kids have taken at least 2 baths a day and their clothes, well yeah, check out Hailey...Tyler is a little better at keeping himself clean, but this girl...she loves to get dirty and likes to stay that way, cleaning her up is definitely a chore :)

We loved the weather this week, hopefully the rain and snow wont stay too too long, so we can get back to gettin' dirty!!