Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Kenzie fun!

Mackenzie is such a cheese ball!


The dress Mackenzie got from Gigi at Christmas! Yeah, she wouldn't be serious and her hair isn't ready for church yet.


Do we love our binkies!!!


Mackenzie while we were working in the yard....She loves her sidewalk chalk!



My friend Auburn came over to make a pound cake and Mackenzie wanted to help!!!






Do you think she had fun????

Our Yard

So we have been working on our backyard trying to clear EVERYTHING out. The previous owners just let everything grow and didn't take care of it...so it left us with a TON of work. We have gotten started, but we have SOOO much more. We are just tearing everything out so we can start from scratch cause everything is so gross.
So here is before...
This is the back of our house...


This is a little wider view of the back of our house.
And here is after...
The back of our house alllll clean! Now we just have to dig out all the roots and stumps left behind...we will get to that very soon.

This is in the back corner of our yard...The shed will be painted at some point...it actually is nice inside it just looks gross on the outside. And the cement patio thing beside it was covers in overgrowth...so that is clean and will at some point be an awesome fire pit area!

And this is also an after shot. Adam ripped out a fenced area. The place between the patio and the yard (right behind Kenzie's slide had a wooden fence just like you can still see in te picture. He ripped it out (with his bare hands may I add...) to make it look so much more open!
YAY!!!!
And lastly, this is our white trash area of our backyard. This is on the patio and it is what we have ripped out so far. Well actually 1/2 the other 1/2 is on the side of our house. Yeah, we need to get a dumpster soon!
Wish us luck, cause we have SOOOO much more to do.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Picture Overload!

Daddy and Kenzie watching animals on TV
Playing at Ethan's house
Posing for Mommy
CHEESE!!! with my cute piggy tails
SAY CHEESE!!!! They love smiling for the camera!
Reading her book
Smile
A trip to the zoo
And Gigi came too!

I will try to put up some cute videos tomorrow depending on how much time I have!!!

Enjoy the pictures everyone! (ESPECIALLY YOU MOM!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU :))

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Easter weekend

Mackenzie loves running around outside!
My new slide in the back yard.
Do you think she likes it?
WEEEE

The kids after the East Egg hunt...Jason found an egg and a truck in the bushes! So he got in the picture too.
Mackenzie finding eggs


Mackenzie and Ethan playing during conference.

We had a great time for celebrating Easter. We had a great time with a wonderful group of friends! After the Easter egg hunt we all had a big Easter dinner with ham, funeral potatoes, green bean casserole, rolls, salad, deviled eggs, and a yummy fruit tart for dessert!

Monday, March 29, 2010

Some Cold and Some BEAUTIFUL!

It was finally warm enough to go outside today, so we went to the park for about an hour. She had a blast and there were a million other kids there too.

Such a GREAT DAY!


Smile before you go down the slide!


Ethan was showing her where to go.


Th big kid slide was the BEST!


Patiently waiting her turn.


She was having too much fun to look at mommy!


On the big kid steps to get up to the big kid slide!


Her new swing in our backyard! She calls it a WEEEEE cause that is what you say when you are on it!


On the way to church!


This is now Mackenzie's face when we say smile or cheese!



Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Long Time No See

Lets start out with some pictures from NC...

My friend Hailey and I got together at the park and here are her two little ones with Mackenzie


This is what Mackenzie did (ran all over the place) while...


Poppy chased her like this making scary noises. It was so funny. If he stopped she would just keep saying more until he would do it again.


Poppy was her chillin out friend too.


We went to Outback to celebrate Daddy's birthday when he came to visit us in NC. Mackenzie helped him eat his ice cream.


She was happy to be eating cheese fries and bloomin onion.


Ok, time to get out now, I have finished eating!


Sorry I have been such a slacker in the blogging department. Since I have been back in Colorado I have been soooo busy whenever I would have the chance to blog.

The only time I really can blog i during Mackenzie's naps and late at night. During all of her naps I have been doing things around this crazy house. For example, as soon as she has gone to sleep everyday this past week, I have run downstairs thrown on my paint clothes and painted a pantry, closet, and another bedroom. That may not seem like much but each one needed two coats and there were lots of nooks and crannys to get to. I am just ready to at least have this house painted completely so that I don't feel icky when I walk into certain rooms.

But life has been good since we have been back in CO. Mackenzie and I really miss being in NC, and I really really miss having constant babysitters and human toys to entertain this girl.

My next big blogging project is to start taking some after pictures of these rooms so that I can post about our house that we have been working on for what already seems lie forever. But I know some of the rooms won't be completely done until July. My parents are awesome and are providing us with lots of furniture to put in our home. So my great hubby gets to drive a Uhaul across the country.

But since we have been back Mackenzie is continuing to learn so many words.
A few that I can think of off the top of my head are
- downstairs
-upstairs
-I love you
-help
-dance
-icky
-yuck

The funniest thing (ok not really funny, but you can't help laugh)...she is starting to pick her nose. Not like for real, but she puts her fingers up her nose and says yuck or icky just to see what we will do. We have tried to tell her it is icky, and to not do it, we have ignored her,but we just can't help laughing to ourselves, because when she does it...it is just too funny.
Also, the first thing she ever wants to do when she wakes up in the morning is dance. She also wants to dance whenever I walk into the kitchen. I have a cd player in the kitchen and she wants me to turn it on and make a fool of myself while she sits and laughs. She just rocks back and forth and will turn in circles if I am lucky, but she gets mad if I am not "dancing".
Also, Alison (Adam's sister) and her husband Ryan decided to take a road trip from Provo to Denver to come see us. It was a fast trip and it was cold, so we didn't do a ton, but it was great to see them. Thanks for coming you guys!
That is all for now because Mackenzie is waking up...
I will try to do better about blogging!