One Year Older!

Hailey's birthday fell on a school day this year. This was the first experience I've had with having to send a child to school on their birthday. I felt really bad at first but realized that Hailey LOVES school so it was no big deal for her. She woke up to the traditional breakfast in bed
Hailey had a special treat in that Leslie had been spending the weekend with us and got to hang out with us on Monday, too.

Leslie and I went in to Hailey's class to do a birthday introduction and read the class a book. Then we stole Hailey during lunch and took her to Chili's.
When the kids got home from school, Grandma Sillito came over to bring Hailey's presents. Hailey decided to open all her presents then. She finally got the pillow pet she had been talking about for months!!!
That night she had her favorite dinner (hamburgers) and did her very favorite thing.... we went swimming.

Hailey was super lucky and got to have a family party with Raylee the Saturday before. She went on and on about how excited she was to share a cake with her cousin!
Birthdays are always fun... but especially when you get to share the fun with such a cute cousin. Hailey sure loves Raylee!