Jason, Megan, McKenzie, Landon, and Matthew

Thursday, January 27, 2011

The "Big Girl" Room

Well it has finally happened. Last night McKenzie asked if she could sleep in her "Big Girl" room. It has been finished a long time, since like last March. However, she was not into her new room then and wanted to still sleep in her crib in the nursery. We did not push the issue. We do not need the nursery for anything now so she continued to stay in there...until last night! She wanted to sleep in her big bed. I did talk her out of it last night because I really want to have a monitor for her room before she sleeps in there at night. Now that she is changing rooms, she is not close to our room and I am just afraid I would not hear her if she needed me in the middle of the night. So, last night I said No! However, today at nap time McKenzie asked again, if she could sleep in her big girl room. This time, I said Yes! I will hear her at nap time if she needs anything. I put her to bed and checked on her 10 minutes later to find this...

...Sound asleep! She loves her big girl room! So when she wakes up, we are off to the store to buy a monitor so she can continue sleeping in her new room. She is so grown up. Even though she gets lost in her big bed! I can't believe that she is out of her crib and in her big girl room! Just the thought of it makes me so sad but happy at the same time!

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Father's Night

Tonight, was Father's Night at McKenzie's school. Since all the Dads work, they never make it to the parties or to the classroom. So, tonight Jason got to go to McKenzie's school and see what really happens when she goes there. They had a great time! They played play-doh, colored, played in the sand and McKenzie even made Jason a tie! It is so cute and Jason said all the Dads were wearing their ties at the party! I think Father's Night is a great idea and Jason really enjoyed his time at McKenzie's school.

All ready to go!

Jason's tie, key chain, and book mark that MG made him.

The back of his book mark was so sweet I had to take a picture of it!

Big Baby Turns One

Last night McKenzie's doll, the one she calls Big Baby because it is her biggest doll, turned one! McKenzie set up an entire party with all her babies and stuff animals around her table. She then served them all tea and even baked Big baby a cake in her oven. It was the most precious thing to watch. She sang the birthday song to Big Baby and then pretended to blow out her candles! What a girl we have on our hands! She did this all on her own!

One angle of the guests at the birthday party.

Another view of the guests!

Up close

The birthday cake and cookies!

Sunday, January 23, 2011

The Doll House

McKenzie has gotten into dolls big time lately. She rocks them, cooks in her kitchen and feeds them, pushes them all over the house and says she is going to Wal-Mart with them, and even bathes them. She is such a great little mom! Well for Christmas she got this doll house. She loves her doll house. The doll house came with a family of a Mom, Dad, and twin babies- one boy and one girl. McKenzie was playing in her doll house yesterday with Jason and she became really upset. She discovered that her babies did not have beds to sleep in. (This doll house is one that you furnish the rooms one set at a time, it did not all come together.) So we took her yesterday to Toy R Us and bought her the nursery set so that her babies would have beds. She was so excited! However, the cribs that it came with have plastic blankets built in to the beds. They are not the kind of blankets that come out and you can actually cover the babies up. McKenzie was not satisfied with that. She wanted her babies covered up so that they would not be cold. Here was her solution all on her own!

She went to her drawer and got a blanket out and just covered up the entire dool house starting with the cribs on the top! Too funny!

Up close- the cribs are covered up and the babies are warm!

Random Cute Pictures

McKenzie watching Mickey in our bed!

Driving to Wal-Mart

Before church today...she wanted to wear her hat from Uncle Jeffrey!

Monday, January 10, 2011

More SN*OW

Well last night we got another round of snow! With all this snow this year, I feel like I still live in NY! We got about 4-5 inches of snow last night and then it sleeted on top of that. Now, there is snow under a sheet of ice. However, our driveway has been turned into a sled shoot. It is a glare of ice and we have just enough slope to make the sled fly! Mom is here with us. She came last night banking on school being closed for a few days. They had a ball sledding. When McKenzie was taking her nap today, Mom went back out and hit the slope again, by herself! She went sledding so fast, she crossed the street and the curb had to stop her. It was hilarious to watch!

Mom and McKenzie getting ready to sled!

All the way across the street!

The backyard

My Monkey Cake

Jason and I have friends who have a little boy. He turned one on December 31st and his birthday party was January 9th. I was asked to make his birthday cake. Joshua had a monkey themed party. So, here is my monkey cake! It was so fun to make!

Friday, December 31, 2010

My Fashion Helper

Yesterday, when I was in the shower, McKenzie went into my closet and picked out my outfit to wear! It was hilarious! MG even hung up my hangers on the doorknob just like I hang hers up. She told me that picked out a pink shirt, a white shirt, and a sweatshirt if I got cold. She knows me! I am always cold! So, she picked out a pink long sleeve shirt for me, a white long sleeve shirt for me and Jason's hooded sweatshirt! It was priceless!

So long...Farewell...

...Until we meet again...yesterday Uncle Jeff flew back to Norway. He will be there until sometime around June. Jared flew back with him! They are going to have a blast together! Blake is on the end. He is from Arkansas. He is a missionary in Africa where Jeffrey was. They are great friends and have remained friends since Jeff moved on to Norway. Blake had to fly to Atlanta on his way back to Africa so he just stayed a few nights here and hung out with Jeff. Jeff, Jared, and Blake all spent the night with us on Wednesday night. Then Thursday morning they all left for the airport. Jeff and Jared headed to Norway and Blake flew to London. He will be there through the weekend and then head back to Africa. It was so great getting to see Blake again!

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Four Christmases

Wow! What a very busy few weeks it has been for us! On December 14th Jeffrey flew in from Norway. He stayed with us for the first week he was home. Then on Saturday the 18th Bom and Pop flew in from New York for Christmas and stayed with us until Tuesday. Tuesday morning I took Bom and Pop to Madison and Jeff to meet Granny and Granddaddy. Tuesday night was our Christmas Eve. McKenzie was really excited this year and has really begun to understand everything! We took our time and just opened our presents and had a nice breakfast. We went out for lunch to celebrate our Christmas and then took poor MG to the doctor. She had a sinus infection. It would not be a holiday if that poor child was not sick.

Thursday morning early, we got up and went to Granny and Granddaddy's house for their Christmas. It was a great time as always. Granny is such a great cook and made the traditional meal with both turkey and ham and all the fixings. We go to see Jason's cousins that we only get to see a few times a year. It was really fun to catch up with them. After dinner we did gifts and then we were on our way again.

Our next stop was Madison to Mom and Dad's house. It was so fun! Aunt Kim and Uncle Mark and the cousins, Nick and Alex flew in from Utah and of course Bom and Pop were there too. It was so fun because we have not seen all of them since last Christmas. McKenzie and Tate picked right up. They are so precious with each other. One minute they are best friends and the next they are fighting it out. We have not seen UB and Aunt Amber or Tate since the weekend before Halloween. Which was way too long to go with out seeing them. However, we really noticed a difference in Aunt Amber's tummy! Baby Woolie is growing and growing! We are so excited to meet this new addition to our family. McKenzie is convinced it is a girl and she wants it to be purple. (She calls her babies by their outfits rather than naming them...and purple is her favorite color!) It seemed like a whirlwind and in no time at all it was time for us to move again.

Christmas Day morning, we got up very early and drove to Jason's parents house in Young Harris. The weather was awful. It was snowing and the roads were all icy. I was so scared. We have to go right over the top of this huge mountain to get there. I did not think we would ever make. it. It was a very stressful drive. We do not have a good snow plow system down here at all, like New York has. We did make it safely, thank God! And the snow...continued to fall! It snowed all Christmas Day night and the next day. We spent Sunday inside and just hung out. We had played in the snow a lot on Christmas Day. However, it is hard when you don't have the right "get up" to wear. McKenzie was only out for about 10 minutes. We do not have snow boots or pants and the poor thing was freezing but wanting to keep playing. She loved the snow and after it was all done, 9 inches had fallen! That is the most I have seen since I moved to GA in 1992! It was very exciting! We managed to make it out on Monday and head for home. We had a 3 hour drive that ended up taking about 4 hours. The roads were still very bad until we got about half way home. Our snow at our house was just about all melted when we got home. We were all exhausted from our travels and family time. However, it was a great Christmas!

Our Christmas: