Letters From Hale

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Bloggers Beware!

Mike is logging on to the Blogging world lately and posting comments on people's Blogs. Watch out for his devious, not-funny comments. Just because it says "Mike and Erin Hale", does NOT mean I (Erin) left the comment. He's very sneaky. I'm thinking about changing my password.

Erin

Monday, March 09, 2009

Disney On Ice

Since Abbie got to go to The Nutcracker with me in December, I thought I would take Landon on a date too. What's better than Disney on Ice for a three year old? And let me tell you, Disney is not doing too bad in these hard economic times....$16.00-$40.00 per ticket (x about 6,000 people), $10 for cotton candy, $6 for popcorn, $4.25 for a 16oz. soda, $24 for a light-up sword, etc. I was appalled at how much these things cost, but even more appalled at the amount of some of these items parents were buying for their kids. Most of the people I saw had to have dropped several hundred dollars on toys and treats. I'm glad that there are plenty of people who still have jobs and can afford these things for their children, but Landon had just as much fun with convenient store candy and a bottle of water that I snuck in. I love my little man!

Thursday, February 26, 2009

For Grandma Hale

Thanks for the V-Day package Grandma! We read our books everynight, the gum was gone pretty much the first day and the monkey is sufficiantly soaked with drool. You know just what makes us happy! We love you!!!

Abbie, Landon and Noah

Monday, February 09, 2009

Favorite pictures

Abbie and Landon love to take pictures with my camera. It's like the greatest thing ever if I let them.....which I don't very often. This is why:

Landon's photography skills

Abbie's photography skills. Now, let me say that the camera is obviously digital, so I can easily delete them, but when I'm having to delete 50 pictures of the floor or closeups of Abbie's face, it gets pretty time consuming. They are pretty funny though!

I think it's obvious why I love this picture

This is what happens when I leave Landon alone in a room with the baby

Who? Me? I would never do such a thing.......oh people, don't be fooled

Thursday, February 05, 2009

It's all going too fast....

So, when Noah was first born, I did the typical Mom thing and started wishing he would get big really fast....mostly so that he would sleep better at night. Well, now I'm regretting that because he is getting so big and I feel like I missed it. He will be three months old on Saturday. (I took these pictures the other day). Ok, I'm ready for it to start slowing down now.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Abbie turns 6!

At the risk of feeling like a horrible mother I will blog about my daughters birthday two weeks late. Since Abs had a party last year, I told her that this year we would not be having a party, but that she could do whatever she wanted to that day. My hopes in doing this, were to be spending less money. Leave it up to MY daughter to choose Mall of America. The wristbands for the rides there are $30 a piece, thus no money saved...in fact more money spent. Luckily Papa was in town. Thank you Brent for everything! We had a really fun night at the mall riding rides, having a birthday dinner at Tony Romas, and laughing our heads off. I was glad I finally got to go on the rides. I was pregnant the last two times we went there. Sandra was nice enough to stay with Noah while we all went on the rides. I know it was a HUGE sacrifice for her! Yeah right. We came home and sang happy birthday to Abs and let her open her presents. (We didn't leave the mall until 11:30 that night. My kids got to see the ball drop....it was awesome!) It was a great day. We love you Abbie!