Hailey's first date

I made an exception to our "no dating until you are 16 rule" because I REALLY like the guy who asked Hailey out on a date. He's a really nice guy and I fully trust him with my daughter. He's pretty darn cute too. Is it bad to say that about your 6 year old daughter's date? I bet you'll excuse me this time.

Conal and Hailey had a blast at the Daddy Daughter Dance at Hailey's school. I had to laugh because when they got home they were both all sweaty from dancing so much. Of course they were. Conal IS a Whetten after all. I should have figured that they'd dance the whole night. I'm glad they got to spend some great father/daughter time together. Hailey had a ball dancing with all of her friends.

Um, yeah, it was kinda dark and that was on a cell phone camera......but you get the idea.

I love this picture of Hailey and Mckenna (her only church friend that goes to her school). Too bad it was so dark and it was taken on a camera phone.

Hailey and I got to spend some great mother/daughter time together as well when we did her nails:

and hair.

I'm so glad they both had such a fun time.

St. Patrick's Day parade

A little bit of rain doesn't stop the Whettens from having a good time.

It wasn't even as bad as when we were waiting in line to get into Shedd Aquarium and we stuck that out. Maybe it is a Chicago thing. I can tell you that El Pasoans would have never stuck it out. First off they'd all be freezing to death (and it wasn't THAT cold) and secondly, people in El Paso are afraid of the rain. Many won't even drive in it. We aren't becoming Chicagoans are we??? I don't think so. You have to be ok with winter here to be a true Chicagoan..........and well.....need I say more? Oh well, it sure isn't going to stop me from enjoying all of the great things about the Chicago area.

We all had our favorites. Conal always loves the bag pipes:

the kids love all of the candy and free stuff (free kids meals to Chili's baby! Wahoo!) :

and that darn "fun bus" always gets our attention:

I don't know quite what to say about the belly dancers

but for some reason they cracked me up as did the hot pink model walking girls...........sorry, I don't get it:

We also got some great Halloween costume ideas for next year:

The "Star Wars" club guys were a crowd favorite. The little boy who yelled "Darth Vader!!!! I LOVE you!" Had all of the adults laughing.

Fun and games people. Fun and games.

From the Mouths of Babes: A blast from the past.

A couple of days ago I was getting rid of some clutter and I found a notebook that just had some random stuff in it. Glad I checked it before I threw it out because I found a couple of pages of quotes from Garrison and Hailey that Conal and I had written down in 2006. It would've been sad to have lost some of these.

****disclaimer**** Probably no one but me will think these are funny so feel free to skip the rest of the post.

Hailey: " Mommy, I really like your foot necklace" (my anklet) April 2006

Garrison had allergies so we gave him an allergy pill. He took it, swallowed it, waited for one second and then said "Well, so much for that. It didn't do anything!" April 2006

Hailey: "Mommy7, I'll let you go outside with me when I'm the mom and you are the kid." May 2006

Hailey said that we should name the baby (I was expecting Jackson at the time) "another GG". May 2006

August 2006 Garrison prayed that Hailey and Alexia would close their eyes during the prayer and that Alexia wouldn't go "WAH WAH" When we put her milk in the microwave.

August 2006 Garrison was dancing and saw his shadow and said "Hey! There is my little brother dancing too!"

August 2006 Haileys words to the "Hokey Pokey". "You put your right foot in, you take the WRONG foot out, you put the right foot in and you shake it all about. You do the OKEY DOKEY and turn yourself around. "

Hailey: "When I get to Heaven I will give Heavenly Father a big hug and then a kiss" October 2006.

Alexia was reading these over my shoulder and said "Hee Hee, Mom......... Garrison and Hailey are FUNNY!"