Happy Birthday Kaylee!

Happy Birthday my first-born!! I can't believe she's eleven! She has had a great 11 years, she's so honest, and good. Kaylee is giving and kind, and I am soooo glad she is mine! Lately she's become very, helpful too. Thanks Kaylee, for being such a great addition to our family! :)

silly girls: Kaylee, Constance, Brooke, Morgan, and Jackalyn. Oh the joy of sleepovers!

Kaylee had a fun sleepover birthday party, her first ever, and I think it was a great success!

Other news and events in the Hasek family: NO SCHOOL for the past 5 days! Yes, we have gotten the horribly cold spell, so we have been keeping warm together playing the Wii, and reading some books. We got Guitar Hero World Tour this weekend, and are having a blast trying to be rock stars!! It is really fun, I particularly enjoy the drums. We can't wait to get back to Hilary and Andy's to play with some other pros. I am discovering the joys of Facebook! It is so cool to catch up with old friends and keep better tabs on newer ones! I love it! Hope everyone will keep being happy and staying warm! From what I hear, there's only like 62 days left till Spring?! Yay!

I miss the snow!!

This is why I love it when it is snowy, and frozen out! Come on, you know it's fun!

Yes, Tank pulled the sled back up the hill. He didn't like it, but he did it.

We played on the pond at my Mom and Dad's house. It is only more fun when it's nice and smooth, it was quite rough from the recent freezing rain so we could walk on it safely, and sled onto it from the hill. Fun times.

Logan's big snowball.

Alli, Tank, and Kaylee

Tank pulled Alli a little bit with the rope, until he realized it was kind of like work, not just tug of war.

Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even the "Tank"....

(...because when he's surrounded by his girls, he is completely happy.)

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in the hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The Hasek grandkids in costumes, putting on the great scene....

...to be followed by great game playing, or so it may seem.I do believe the only "Haseks" without a game in their hands are, Laura and Jason, and believe me, they had them too! Christmas Eve was a fun night with many of the Hasek family. A highlight was definitely the Nativity put on by the grandkids, or cousins. They did a fabulous job, who says kids don't listen to what we are reading them?

...and then Christmas morning came at last!

Santa came through for Cassi, her one request was a pet... so here you have our latest addition, a baby Crested Gecko, I call him Little Guy, Cassi calls him Oscar. We hope he is a boy so Logan's Crested Gecko can reproduce! We may be crazy, but it sounds fun for now!

Santa really came through for Kaylee, who knows that Mom and Dad are pretty much dead set against video games, no the Wii is not really a video game. Lucky girl, he even got her the color she wanted!! She promises to keep reading hours each day, and remain the genius that she is.

Here is Alli with her Littlest Pet Shop mansion...or something. She loves it, as you can tell.

And look at Logan and all his loot. He loves the flashlight daddy picked out for him, and his favorite prestent? The Etch-a-Sketch. Go figure. He loves the Legos too, he is quite inventive with them.

And on to Grammy Judy's and Grandpa Kevin's house!!
The highlight was of course, Zackary!! Here he is with Alli, and below with Great Grandma and Grandpa Hohl.