randomness

Here are a few missed posts over the few weeks.
The girls wanted to wear their blankets as dresses. They thought that they were sooo funny. Here they are posing for the camera. For some reason Macie thought that this was picture worthy. She and Addie were holding barbie's hands and she said "mom, take a picture, this is so cute!"I tried putting Addie's hair in a ponytail. It is quite sad. There is not a lot there and she actually looks kind of bald in this picture. Maybe oneday her hair will be ready for this, but not anytime soon. Good thing her hair is super cute the way it is!!

Idaho Visit

The last 2 weeks the girls and I were in Idaho visiting my family. Besides Macie getting pretty sick while we were there, It was a lot of fun and it was really good to see everyone. I think that my favorite part was watching my girls interact with everyone. It is always nice to be around family and feel so loved. Here are a few pictures of our adventures. Macie and Addie holding hands while jumpingMy mom and the girlsMaice loving the trampolineAddie testing it outMy dad with all of the older grandkids. Dad, you were great with playing with the kids!!! They couldn't get enough of you!

All of the grandkids singing a song during family nightEveryone decorating cookies for family nightA trip to the Pocatello zoo. Pretty sure this only took us half an hour to walk through the whole zoo. Exciting no?! At the end they did have goats to pet!!! So... here is Addie with my dad petting the goats.Here is Macie petting the goat.This is all of the grandkids playing candyland before church. Macie is sad because she seriously was not feeling well.My dad was making banana bread muffins and the flour containers were empty. So.... he asked Macie if she would like to help refill them. Here she is....a big floury mess. She had a great time though and it was totally worth the mess.

Thanks mom and dad for such a great trip and such a fun time!!! We love you!!

Song singing

My dad and Macie were just singing this song and this is what Macie added at the end:
"I love mother, she loves me, we are a happy family (then Macie adds: "mommy is mean to me")
I am going to pretend that she was just trying to rhyme. :)

Happy Mother's day!!!!!

Happy Birthday Macie

I am pretty sure that I say this every year, but I can't believe that I have a four year old!!!! Where has the time gone?!!
Here are a few things that we love about our Macie:
-She LOVES to laugh!!
-She is a GREAT sister to little Addie!!
-She loves to play, play. play
-She is a pretty good listener and she knows the rules and keeps them!
Here is what Macie has said about turning and being 4:
(A little background: we played outside a lot yesterday and she fell down a lot and got a TON of scrapes and bumps)
-"Dad, I don't want to be 4 anymore because I have gotten all beat up today"
-"Mom, I don't like to be 4, I want to be 5"
me: "You can't be 5 yet, you have to be 4 first"
Her: "Well then I don't want to be any number"
-Today while in the parking lot at church she found a bead and picked it up calling it her treasure...We thought nothing of it.....until we got home from church and I was making her lunch and she comes dancing into the kitchen and sings to me "bead up my nose, bead up nose" I say what are you saying? she says: "I have a bead up my nose". Sure enough, there was the bead about half way up her nostril. Exciting no?! So, I go and grab the tweezers and Geoff grabs a flashlight and we proceed to try and dig this thing out, it wasn't working!!! So, my genius husband says "go and find the baby nose sucker and we will just suck it out." (I never would have thought of this) We get a nose sucker and he sticks it in there about 5 times and it totally worked!!! AMAZING!!!!
Needless to say, if my first 2 days of being 4 were as bad as her first 2 days have been, I wouldn't want to be 4 either!

Happy Birthday Macie!!!! We sure love you!!!Checking out the "Hannah Batana" cake

The CUTE Birthday Girl!!

Blowing out the candles

The whole crew for the birthday party. (Trevor, Tony, Halle, Macie, Cole)

Checking out her new bike! One happy little girl!!

*one little note for memory sake...Macie's real birthday is on the 5th of May. We celebrated it on the 1st because Geoff is going to be gone the whole month of May doing externships and the girls and I are flying to my parents for some of that time, so we just celebrated her birthday a few days early!*