Mackenzie Turned 3!!!!!!

A week ago yesterday, Mackenzie turned 3. I can't believe how the time has flown. One minute she's an infant in diaper and the next she's playing dress up in princess dresses. We had a fairlly quiet evening on her actuall birthday with us and Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle Miles. She was able to open her presents from us and one from Grandma and Grandpa.

Mackenzie was also lucky enough to have a party with friends and family. We decided to host the pary at Selah Gym Kids as we did last year. It was as much of a hit this year as it was last year. We had a nice list of people who attended and also those who we wish could have been there. The kids had fun playing and going crazy while the rest of us (adults) looked on wishing that we had as much energy as the crazy lil kids.

After playing in the gym, it was off to cake and presents. This part of the party was themed after Mackenzie's favorite movie (for the moment). Kung Fu Panda! The kids had fun, which was what was important. Mackenzie got lots of great presents too! She's one lucky kid!

Tis The Season

The first thing that we did this year to get ready for Christmas was get our tree.

Next we added a little sparkle with a little help from Kenz, I mean Santa's reindeer.

Once the tree was trimmed, we took a little winter stroll to view some neighborhood lights. Wow.















After checking out the lights of the neighborhood, we decided that it was okay to decorate some cookies. So we headed over to Grandma's house to get a little messy and have a little fun.




The finished product may not have looked very pretty, but they were super yummy.



After the cookies where checked off our list, we could really get ready for Santa!











When we were done with presents at our house, we headed over to Grandma's for more.













When we were all done, we went back home to eat some eggs Benedict, visit with Grandpa Cecil while putting together Kenzie's new kitchen and sleep! Ahhhhh...... Christmas was good.

One More Thing to be Grateful for

I can't help but be grateful right now. I'm so excited to be starting a new chapter in my life. It's scary, but I know it will be wonderful! I'm starting my new job next week. I'll be in orientation on Monday and the first half of Tuesday. After orientation on Tuesday, I will officially be at my new job! I'm working for Pacific Crest Family Medicine. It's an office of three doctors and two PA's. As a bonus to the new job, I get to work with an old coworker who I love. Amy Treat was my first boss at Starbucks. In fact she hired me, so it wasn't a supprise that she wanted to work with me again. It's been fun getting to know and grow with Amy. In fact, she was pregnant at the same time I was with her daughter Eva. We were due only ten days apart so it was nice to go though the weirdness of being pregnant with someone else. But she has some exciting news of her own. She is having another little girl at the end of next month. She is scheduled to have a c-section on the 30th. We are so excited for their family! And I'm happy that everyone is well and happy. I can't wait to tell you all about the new mission.

Thanksgiving!!!!!

Giving thanks for yet another wonderful day(s) of eating and fun shared with family and friends. As always Justin had to work, so Kenzie and I did a little sleeping in, (if you call 6:30 sleeping in) and then we got ready for our day. We had to run into town to pick up the extremely important dinner rolls after botching homemade versions the night before. I'm not sure what exactly what went wrong, but I'm sure it was a combination of the lack of sleep I had that day and the hour in which I was baking. So after the roll rescue I returned to my mother's house to drop them off just in case Kenz and I where late to dinner #2. After this we returned to town, this time stopping off at Starbucks for a little pick me up and some holiday cheer from friends. Then we were off to the fire station to have dinner and desert #1. We brought yummy homemade pumpkin and a mixed berry & apple pies. We ate and ate and ate till it was time to go onto the next feast. #2 was much better than #1, partly because things are just better at Mom's house and also because I helped a lil more with this one. And again, we ate and ate and ate. It was so good! So good in fact, that we just happened to enjoy a second round of food Friday night!

It's Official! No More Meds for Justin!!

Since the second week of August Justin has been on antibiotics to fight the infection in his wrist and bones. first he started with I.V. drugs, then onto capsule from once he was released from the hospital. He was taking 3 very large capsules 3 times a day. That is, until today. He is now a free man. He had an x-ray or two, then took them directly back over to his doctor's office. At this point the dr. reviewed the films and determined that Justin was good to go. No more yucky green pills! Yay for being done with the pills and yay to only having 2 more PT sessions!

Happy halloween!

We usually go all out for Halloween, but this year we had so much on our plate that we decided to focus on Kenzie and her first real year of trick or treating. It was still a ton of fun. Kenzie couldn't wait to get dressed up in her costume and hit the pavement. It's all she has talked about since she got her costume in September. So at about 5:30pm we started to get her ready. And in no time at all, we where on our way. Beating doors and ringing bells.

But before we left, we got a lil visit from Aunt Dani, Uncle Jer and the boys. They where our lil group of supers! Too cute!

Even Dani and I got in on the fun!!!

Homecomming

Last weekend I got to help Chelsea get ready for another dance. I love it. It's so much fun to be girlie. I do her hair and then her makeup. Then we get to get her dressed.

Even Kenzie got in on all the fun!!!

Not too bad, if I do say so myself... She looked so pretty.

Hope you had tons of fun Chels!!!! I know I did.