Today (08-08) is our 8th wedding anniversary. I know I know… all those eights (including the 8 year old sweetiepie Hayley), we need to go play the lottery with eights. Normally we like to buy a joint gift for the family. Imagine my surprise when there was a card from my adorable husband Jeff with a website address inside!
Inside the sweet card was a link to a powerpoint presentation that had photos of my (our) gift … a mini-dachshund puppy! She won’t be ready to come home until next week so Jeff made a cute little presentation with photos of her and funny quips (have I mentioned how much I love my silly sweet husband?). She is eight weeks old to boot – another eight!
She is so cute and tiny – she won’t get much bigger than 10 or 11 pounds full grown! She is red and smooth haired. We are going to visit her this week and then bring her home next week.
We haven’t picked out a name yet – Jeff wants to call her Petunia but that doesn’t really sit too well with me. Hayley wants Ivory after Ivory Latta or Matilda because she adores that movie. I like Betsy or Mia. Hayley and I like Annie as well also she likes Belle after one of the princesses. We’ll keep thinking until we can find something we all agree on.
UPDATE: Hayley has decide the puppy will be named Annabelle. We’ll decide when we meet her if she is an Annabelle, Annie or a Belle! She of course made me go to a pet store today and get a pink collar with rhinestones 🙂
Great eight, Hayley is eight! Photos from family celebration and her big party at Pump It Up where Ramses showed up as a surprise!
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This year we combined not only dyeing the eggs with Mason and Ethan next door but the hunt too. We had eggs spread out across both yards. Don’t you love having great neighbors just next door? Then there was the neighborhood hunt too!
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My brother-in-law Jay and I established a new family holiday tradition with gingerbread.
Hayley and I got a gingerbread kit and on Christmas Eve, we put it all together. It was fun but mostly because we did it together. We nibbled some on it that night and Christmas day but we realized most of us don’t like gingerbread that much.
After some jokes, Jay and I got the bright idea to take one of the remote control cars and smash it up. I don’t think anyone thought we meant it but we did. Hayley loves playing with Jay and their remote control cars, especially one named ‘Purple’.
So Purple’s battery was charged and the gingerbread house was brought outside
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I’m posting this list mostly to keep track of what she wants but I figure it will be of some help to the rest of the family too! If you do end up getting her something from this list, let me know so I can mark it off.
Hayley’s Xmas list (a work in progress)
Polly Pockets anything – more the merrier
Groovy Girls – more the merrier
Playdough – playdough kitchen stuff especially
Spongebob version of the game of Life
One of those big exercise theraband balls
She still likes her Leapster but needs new games outside of the k-1 level ones she has. 2nd grade ones, especially math, spiderman, etc.
We went nuts for Halloween. Strobe light, fog machine, tons of sensor things (you walk by and they scream), bloody doors, spider webs everywhere, ghost in the trees, luminaries in the yard. I missed a lot of cool things to get photos of – mostly the glowing light/sensor stuff but oh well!
Hayley and her friends did a lot of it and I didn’t even care that stuff looked so nutty, it was charming! People loved it – some people were even taking photos with their cell phones of their kids and the Mummy. Little kids couldn’t handle all the noise and fog
It was so fun. I stayed out on the porch working some of the toys to freak people out. It is our tradition to give out glow stick bracelets and necklaces with the candy, so I did those too.
Hayley pretty much went nuts. She had a friend sleepover and three other neighborhood kids ask to Trick-Treat with her. I was so happy for her to have people want to go with her and then everyone come over to her house. We got pizzas for us, her friend and her mom and out next door neighbors came over too.
Next year, I’m just going to plan on throwing an after-party for everyone!
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