All About Our Lives (Mackenzie and Tanner's Lives)

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

A Little Boo Boo

We had a little boo boo on Monday!

Mackenzie and Daddy were out working on the sprinklers and Mackenzie was having a great time running through the water. Well one time she was running on the sidewalk and had a spill. So this is what happened! How sad!

The one thing she was happy about is that she got to put "stickers" on knees. She thought the bandaids were really fun for about 5 mins and then she wanted them off.

New Front Door

So I just love Craigslist!!!!

About a month ago we were looking at free stuff on Craigslist and came across a door that someone was just giving away. It was a solid front door that the lady had tried to paint a hideous shade of dookie brown!

Well, we took it and I painted it black. Well look now! Our door is so much better now when you enter our house!!!!

This was our front door...

And this is our new front door...

How much better is that!!!

Friday, July 16, 2010

Swimming with Ethan

We went to our friend Ethan's house and decided to go swimming in his little pool..

Oh what fun!

A Day at the Park

So Jessica, one of my great friends out here, invited me and Mackenzie to go to a museum (that is just an outside town that is set back in the 1800s or something). So we got there and found out it wasn't open. So insead we went to the lake that was beside the park and walked around the lake looking for wildlife. Jessica's two little girls love Mackenzie and we had a great time, but here are a few pictures...

Broken Arm

Well, I did something VERY VERY stupid. On Sunday morning I hadjust put Mackenzie down for a nap and was walking to the kitchen. I stepped on a toy (and the only toy that was left out in the living room) and the toy went flying out from under my foot. I fell to the floor really hard...yeah I don't even remember how I landed cause it happened so fast. Well my arm was hurting really bad after the fall, but I was going to just tough it out cause I figured it was just bruised really badly. Well, I was finally convinced to go to the ER cause it was getting worse. Well, yeah, I fractured the radial head in my right arm. (That is the bone that is on your thumb side that connects your hand to your elbow...and the head is the part that joins with the elbow. So anyways this is what I looked like after I left the hospital...

Tell me how you take care of a 2 year old with your dominant hand looking like this....

Well, I went to the Orthopedic Surgeon yesterday and the splint is now gone. So now my arm can breathe and can moe a little. He didn't want to put a real cast on me. But now I have an ac wrap and a sling. The doc wants me to be very careful with my arm, but just try to get movement back in my arm. It is painful and I can't grasp anything or use my arm to push or pull anything, but I guess it will heal. So that is where I am now.

Yay for stupidity!

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Silly

Ok so this picture cracked me up. We were ready for bed, and she saw my camera. She kept saying cheese, cheese, cheese, so I turned on my camera and this is what she did for me.

Eating like a big girl!

My "big girl" doesn't think she needs her high chair anymore. If I try to put her in she just kicks her feet so I can't get her down into the seat. So we got a booster seat so she could be a big girl. And here are some cute picks of her when she was ready to get out.

And these are two videos of her that I just thought were cute. And yes, she says please a lot when she wants things, we are just working on getting her to say thank you once she gets what she wants.

Playing in the bed!

We were over at our friend's house this past Saturday night for a BBQ and Mackenzie and Ethan always run off to his toddler room to play with all his toys. That is their "safe" room where we know we don't have to constantly watch them and they won't get in trouble. It got a little too quiet though, so I went to see what they were doing and this is what I found. They were cuddled up on his toddler bed.

Yes, she is laying on his head.

And they were playing with a computer.

And the other day she wanted to "help" make our bed, and that meant she wanted to be on the bed to help. So went to get the pillows and I turned around and she had climbed in our sheets!

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Dancing with Kenzie

So tonight after dinner Mackenzie wanted to dance, which isn't unusual. She says dance and then swings her arms as fast as she can until we turn on music. She just loves it....

Well this is her tonight....

Her jumping dance...bt she got distracted when she saw the camera. She always "smiles" when she sees it.

And in this one she got a little dizzy. Watch her head when she goes to pick up her "dinky" after she throws it the first time.

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!