Happy Birthday

to MCKENZIE!!!!!

My little doodle bop turns 8 years old today!

This little girl is growing up just way too fast! My little baby is not so little and not such a baby :)

She is totally adorable and full of attitude! An interesting combo some days. Her best friend is still Emily. They have been friends since they were three and went to preschool together.

McKenzie's plans for this birthday are a little different from past years. Usually her and Emily go to the purple slide McDonald's and then to the Children's Museum. Last year they went to Build A Bear instead and used their Gift Certificates from Christmas. This year....They are going to Jump Around Fun Zone and McDonald's. Jump Around has 4 or 5 inflatable jumpy houses and slides. I have a gift cert. for them that I will use.

Have a great last day of 2009! I will not write again in my blog until next year because I will be very busy the rest of this year! :)

Enjoy the rest of the year!

Homemade Snuggies

This is the homemade Suggie that Katherine made for Dexter. It is very hard to make a snuggie for a tall person, but I think Katherine did a pretty good job :) His arms will not get cold. At all. I was sitting down on the floor and looking up at him so the picture is more extreme than it probably would be. I still think that she did a fabulous job!

FAmily

Here is the most normal-est family picture of everybody today. I am excited that we were able to take a picture of all of us! It is very rare now with us all working different shifts and some of us (Mikey!) living so very far away! :) It took a bit of bribing, arm twisting, and duct tape to get them all to stand in some sort of order and smile at the camera, but we did it! :)
I love my crazy family!
Have a Merry Christmas! It is off to work tomorrow!

Happy Birthday Jesus!

We are having a very Merry Christmas! The girls were up at 6 AM!!! I made them wait in their room until 7am. Then they opened their stockings and then we all opened gifts. They were very excited with what they got. I have to say that the favorite was the Wii. Jay's dad got it for everybody. We have been playing that for most of the morning. We all had to make our Mii's. That was fun. You get to create your own character that plays the game. So far we have bowled, boxed, golfed and took the Wii Fit challenge.
The Wii Fit Challenge was fun. It gave you a test on speed, staminia, and balance. You played baseball, tennis, and bowling. Then it weighed the results and guessed your age on those results. I was 38! That made me happy :) I have never used the Wii before and I was younger than my children who have used it! Alyssa was 39, Jay was 40, McKenzie was 71 and Alexandra was 74!
We are having a fun day! Later today we will be going over to Lesley's for Dinner.
Enjoy your Christmas!

Christmas Jammies

These are the Christmas Jammies the girls got this year. They are not feetie jammies like they wanted (especially Alyssa!) but the stores sold out of their sizes really early! So I chose these ones instead. They were very excited to get them. I think they are pretty cute! :)

Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas Eve! Tomorrow is the big day! YIPEE! Christmas is here! The stockings are hung, the plate of cookies is ready for Santa, the reindeer have their carrots, Santa has a glass of milk and water along with two letters, most of the gifts are under the tree. We are just waiting for Santa to fill their stockings and leave his presents under the tree. I think I will go to bed now so that he has plenty of time to come :)
Have a Merry Christmas Eve and a Merry Christmas tomorrow!

It's a Cats' Life!

Merlin is such a cat! You can do almost anything to him and he doesn't really care. Alyssa bought this hat and scarf at the Rainforest Cafe in Downtown Disney. She tried them on Merlin. He liked them. :) He kept them on for a while before he started twitching his ears and trying to get the hat off. He left the scarf on for quite awhile! Crazy cat!