Loving Life

The past few weeks have been super busy. Mostly because Geoff and I went out of town for a business trip and then I left 2 days later to go up to Idaho for 5 days to spend some time with my family because my brother got married, my sister graduated from high school and we had a baby shower for my sister in law. It was a fun, but very busy trip. I only took Camden with me, which was nice, but the girls were devastated that they didn't get to go. Anyways, here are a few random pics of some things that we have been up to. 

 Addie got in trouble one night and was sent to time out. She must have been exhausted because while there, she totally fell asleep. (It was bedtime though, so it was actually nice.)

 Here is the rest of the clan hanging out together and playing while Addie was in time out sleeping.

 The girls were posing on my bed  one day and asked me to take a picture of them. In the process, they fell over and I was able to capture it all! Saying Cheese!

 Oh no!! Falling over!

 Laughing hysterically at what just happened.

Helping each other up! They sure do know how to have fun together and love each other so much! However, they also fight their fair share as well!

Johnny Jump Up

This little guy LOVES the Johnny Jump Up. It is truly a life saver! It is the only way I get anything done!!! He is getting really good at bouncing in it and can control the thing to go wherever he wants it to go. It is pretty cute!

Fort Worth Stock Yards

Geoff's parents came into town last week. They were here right in time for Macie's birthday. We had a day for shopping and a day for sight seeing. It was a fun time. For the sight seeing we decided on the Fort Worth Stockyards and the US dollar mint. 

You couldn't take pictures at the mint, so all that we have is the stockyards, but the mint was so very interesting! It was so fun to see how the dollar bills are made! 

The Stockyards were fun. It was like being back in the good ole' Western days. The roads were all cobblestone and there were real cowboys and people on horses. Everyday at 11:30 and 4:00 they walk the longhorns through the street. Weird, but kind of fun to see. We got there a few minutes early so we had time to walk around a bit and pet some of the horses. Then at 11:30 on the dot, the cattle came down the street. It only took about 5 minutes and it was over. The girls really enjoyed it though.

 Petting the horses.

 The girls and their dad

 They got tired of walking around. So the stroller came in handy. Addie would have stayed in that thing all day and played. She loved it.

 Grandpa Barnum and the kids.

 Here come the cattle.

The one with the bell is the leader. I am not sure how many there were...maybe 15? The girls were impressed with how long the horns were on some of the cows.

Macie's Birthday!

On Saturday, Macie turned 6!!!!! CRAZY!!! She has been waiting for this day for a long time! For the past few months I have been hearing her say : "when is it going to be my birthday?", "Everyone in my class is already 6, I am the only one that is still 5!", "Is Tony 6, is Halle 6, is Trevor 6?", and so on.... She was so excited that her birthday week was finally here! She made sure to tell everyone she knew that it was her birthday on Saturday and even reminded us a few times that when she woke up on Saturday, that we needed to tell her happy birthday right when she woke up! She definitely had a vision of what she wanted and thought her birthday should be and what everyone should say or do and we heard all about it!

Here we are singing Happy Birthday (We sang it in Korean). She doesn't like cake and chose to go out for ice cream, so we improvised and put the candles in the breadsticks.

Blowing out the candles. They started to fall over, so grandpa is assisting in keeping them up and going.  Apparently candles don't do well in bread. That breadstick was full of wax and the bottom of the candles were completely gone.
She had a wonderful birthday and told me several times throughout the day that it was the "best birthday ever!" It was a very busy day. We started out the day with her soccer games. She had 2 right in a row. After the first one she was sooo ready to be done, but we told her she had to keep playing. After the soccer games, we went home and changed into swimming suits because the girls had a birthday swimming party to go to for a friend. After the swimming party, Macie was exhausted!! We ended up leaving a little early because she was so tired and just wanted to go home. We got home and set up a scavenger hunt for her to find her presents. (We did this because she got a new bike and it was hiding in our closet). When we told her what she was going to have to do to find her presents, she was sooooo excited! I am pretty sure that she loved the scavenger hunt even more then her bike! When she found her bike, she had zero reaction and was like.."a bike?" (made me want to take it back! HA!) She then opened the rest of her presents and loved them. She has not stopped playing with them for the past week. She has also been GREAT about sharing her new toys with Addie. After presents, we took her to the store to choose out one more from my mom and dad (they gave her money for a toy) and then came home and had her favorite dinner (chicken sauce with noodles), and then met my aunt Ann and Uncle Byron for ice cream. It was such a busy day and the kids were all asleep by 8:00 that night!

Here she is finding her first clue/gift. It is a frisbee!!

Her second clue sent her to the fridge. She spent a little bit of time here saying she couldn't find her gift. It was just sitting on a shelf. I guess she thought it would be in the door or something.

The next clue sent her to the "hut" in their room.

This one told her to go to the place where she plays school. She ran straight to the toy room and thought that it was so funny!

Then she was told to go the place where mom does the laundry. She looked and said "really mom?!"

It was FINALLY time to open all of the presents. She is sooo excited!

Here she is with her gift from Grandpa and Grandma Barnum. She got a lego set and she is studying it to see what it is.

Happy Birthday Macie! We sure love you and think that you are pretty special!

Puzzles

Sunday afternoon the girls decided to pull out some puzzles. They LOVE puzzles and so do I. If they are working on a puzzle together they will each hold their piece and just wait for the other to put their piece in so they can be the last one. It is something that they started out of the blue Geoff finds it annoying and always says to me "I wonder where they get this from....". I find it hilarious because when I was growing up and we would do those big 1000 piece puzzles, I would always take a piece and hide it away until the puzzle was almost done and then I would pull it out as everyone was looking on the floor or in the box for the last missing piece and I would slyly put it in its spot. I loved doing that every. single.time! 

This is the Hello Kitty puzzle that Macie got for christmas.And of coarse, once Addie saw what Macie was doing, she had to do her own as well. This was all her idea. She asked me take a picture of her and Hello Kitty holding hands.Addie with her little doggie puzzle. Goofy kids!