Last weekend Ben and I took the opportunity to go on a date. The Utah Jazz were in town playing the Washington Wizards so we thought it would be fun to support our home team. It was probably the quietest game we have ever been to. (Nothing like the Delta Center) I think there were just as many Jazz fans as there were Wizard fans lol. We bought tickets off of a scalper and ended up getting a really good deal. Once we got inside we found some great upper level seats and enjoyed the game while eating our home made banana muffins instead of an $8 hot dog. (haha gotta love being on a budget!)

And of course what is a blog post without pictures of Hallie. This past Sunday was our Easter service at church because General Conference will be next week. My wonderful mother bought Hallie 4, yes 4, Easter dresses. They are all so beautiful she couldn’t choose. (Guess that’s what happens when you are the only Granddaughter in the family!) Hallie wore my favorite southern bell dress along with matching hat to church and got more compliments than she ever has-which is saying a lot! Once we got home I attempted to hurry and snap some pictures.

Not the best pictures but she just won’t hold still! 🙂

I know the last post was about enjoying the spring. Well along with spring comes the rain. The last couple days it has rained a lot so we have been busy inside. The following pictures are when we made an Easter Sugar Cookie House. As you can see from the pictures Hallie couldn’t stop eating it. Haha Gotta love her!

The finished product. Beautiful isn’t it! As you can see Hallie really enjoyed herself.

Good thing Hallie likes to clean up.

On a different day we went out to play in puddles. It’s funny how you don’t have to teach kids to stomp in puddles they just know. 🙂

This past weekend we had 70 degree weather in Virginia and so we took advantage of it. We went downtown to the tidal basin and rented a paddle boat then we walked around the World War 2 memorial. It was so nice to get some sun!

We love where we live!

I have photos of Hallie that I have been meaning to post (mostly for grandparents sake). All the pictures are pretty random but they are also very cute so I can’t not post them. I am falling more in love with Hallie everyday. She makes me smile and she is all I ever talk about. I can’t help it she is just so funny these days. I love this age that she is at. She has become our little parrot; she repeats everything we say. She is a gabber and talks constantly. We went to the doctor today for a normal checkup and I was excited to finally know her percentiles.

Weight: 22 lbs. 3 oz. 16%  She’s so tiny but yet she is so so strong. We defiantly need to put her in gymnastics soon.

Height: 31 1/2 inches. 37%  Our little shorty, but hey we weren’t expecting anything different.

Head: 46%  She’s got her dad’s big head which she needs to house all those brains. She’s so stinkin smart!

My little cinderella. She loves to help clean the house. On this particular day she insisted that she wear her pretty Christmas dress over her pj’s.

Hallie loves all fruit and can peel her own clementines. Very impressive!!

She constantly says diaper or potty and so we bought a little toilet seat for her to try out. So far she loves it (as you can tell in the picture) but she also never pees in it. She sits down, wipes, and then gets off, flushes and washes her hands. We are still working on the peeing part. 🙂

My mom made us these matching aprons when she was here visiting a while back. Hallie loves helping cook in the kitchen and she always wants us to wear our aprons.

My BF Tiffany came out to visit a couple weeks ago and boy did we love it. I am waiting to get a bunch of pictures from her camera before I blog all about it. Anyway, Hallie loved her and always had to be right by her. Here they are coping recipes.

Another thing Hallie loves to do is watch movies of herself. She is quite the narcissist. 🙂

Something I didn’t get a picture of is Hallie drinking her left over cereal milk right from the bowl. I think it is so cute to see her tip her bowl back and drink from it just like mommy and daddy do. She thinks she is a grown up!

Ahh I just love my Hallie Bug!!

Hallie can finally go to nursery!  She turned 18 months a few weeks ago but because of snow storms canceling church and all of us being sick it wasn’t until yesterday that she was actually able to go. We have been waiting for this day for what seems like forever and yesterday was the beginning of a beautiful thing…NURSERY!  She loved it and we loved it!!! The nursery leaders said: she was an angel, they found a new crayon dumper, and she liked to follow the rowdy boys. I kept peeking in to see what she was doing (she never saw me of course) and she always looked like she was having so much fun. I was so elated! She is such a playful little girl she belongs in nursery. YAY that she can finally go!

Before church I got Hallie all excited to go to by telling her that today she was going to go play with new friends and toys, plus sing songs and eat snacks… it was going to be GREAT. She was so excited she got dressed and did everything I asked. After I got her all dressed up I asked her to stand against the wall so I could take her picture. This is what I got.

BTW: If you look closely you can see one of the two pigtails I put in her hair. Another thing I’m so excited about!