yo pops!

dear padre,

today is the official day to celebrate you, which is cool, yet sorta lame in the sense that you don't need one day. because you are rad, and i love you. so i think i can celebrate you whenever i very well please to. but officially, today, you have celebrated 21 dias de los padres. maybe 22 if you count when i was just a wee fetus, but who knows. anyway, i would like to take this time out to be perfectly honest 'cuz there's a lot shi...just kidding, i wont rap an eminem song for you. however fitting it is, with the title "hailie's song"...okay getting off the freeway there. 

dad, you are such an amazing person and i feel like in the past i haven't shown that to you often, or even told you. but i really think you are. you are the greatest father anyone could ask for. you have a way of teaching us kids about life that is different from anyone else. supporting us to grow and foster our passions, yet staying close enough to us in case we fall and need help, which we usually do. i feel incredibly blessed to have you as a father. all of my fondest memories of growing up have been either at the las trampas swimming pool, or on vacation somewhere as a family. yosemite, bollibaka, hawaii, mendocino, tennesse, oklahoma, tahoe, san diego...any kid would be lucky enough to call you dad. 

you have instilled a sense of creativity, travel, independence, maturity, and humor in your kids, especially me (i like to hope) and i thank you for that. 

so "daddy-boy", 

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY, I LOVE YOU!!!

love, hay bay

one of my most favorite pictures ever:

and of course, a happy father's day shout out to my wonderful step father, TAP!

like i've said before, 

i have amazing step parents. 

Tap, you have been there as a dad for us for quite a while now...and i'm so glad you've stuck around with us crazies! i know we can be trying at times, a little chaotic and weird, but you know your life is more full because of it...and ours because of you :) 

happy father's day!

love, hailstorm

and well, no holiday would be complete on see.hay.fly without a batch of hysterical father's day cards.

[all available at someecards.net]

 haha, so true!

and this one made me seriously laugh out loud because yes, i have been there :)

happy father's day to all of the dad's out there :)

xo, hay

word to yo motha

 i kind of went picnik crazy with the above banner. but i can't help it, i love when they get new designs.

anywho.

mothers day shout out.

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dear mama,

happy mother's day. you are the best, really.

i think it may be because i've been out of the house for almost ten months now...but whatever the reason, i am coming to appreciate you (and dad, and tap, and kate) a lot more. you have always been there for me no matter what. have always given me, and alex and tucker, all of your love, support, and understanding. even at times when we didn't deserve it. can anyone say 'junior year of high school'?!

you aren't just my mom, but also my friend. 

we get stoked about meeting justin timberlake, shop together, craft, gossip about celebrity baby names, watch HGTV, cry, and laugh so hard until we cry and or pee in our pants together.

just kidding about the last one...maybe.

you were there for me when i fell and skid across the asphalt, busting my chin open in second grade.

you were also there when alex dropped the magnum flashlight on my head, busting my forehead open in fourth grade...and while i had my head glued back together.

you were there when i cried over boys in highschool.

there when i was failing a class.

and most recently, you were there when i needed to be driven to the airport so i could fly halfway across the world to a place i didn't know, with people i'd never met.

you were always there, and you still always are.

you have showed me so much in this world and we have seen so much together. i'm so grateful for everything you have done and continue to do, despite any set backs life has given you, and ultimately, us.

i dream of one day being the mother you are, to my own littles.

 (i'd like to call this collage: the many haircolors of hayley...)

i love you mama.

i love that you were able to come visit and we went to amsterdam together.

i love our mother daughter bond, and really love that i don't have to share it with anyone else.

selfish? nope.

just an only daughter thing.

i love that you and i share a love for all things worldly, and i can't wait to do more traveling together.

let's do uruguay next!

i'm so lucky to call you my mom.

xoxo

love, hayley elizabeth.

this is from one of my favorite john mayer songs.

i made it pretty for all of the mamas out there.

if you want, feel free to take one for yourself.

it's original size from picnik is 2000x2000, but you can do it however you'd like.

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not only do i have the best mom ever, i'm lucky enough to have an amazing step mom as well.

there are a lot of people who can't say that,

lots of patchwork families that don't mesh well. but i really lucked out in the step parent department, and i know how lucky i am.

so also,

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, KATE!!!

you've been so great and loved alex, tucker, and myself as your own, and are a wonderful mom to jackson!

love, hayles

...pretty sure i spelled bolibaka wrong...SORRY DAD!

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happy mama's day to all of the beautiful mama's out there.

you guys freaking rock!

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if anyone needs an ecard for a mom in their life, here are some wonderful ideas:

perfect for step-mama's

 perfect for those who play favorites

 perfect for meghan and megan, 

mom's who love trashy tv as much as i do.

 perfect for mom's who are tired of paying for shit.

inappropriate, yet perfect for my mother who wouldn't want me to share the story on the interweb while it's so fresh...so i wont. 

'cuz i'm nice like that. and it's mother's day. but one day, MOM, i will tell the story of how my child ended up with the nickname snatch as a fetus...

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word to your mother.

xoxoxo, hay.