Milo & Pony

Milo the Barn Cat

Pony the Pony
BFF :)
couldn't forget the sweet cows too... and if you can't tell by the look on their faces, they were highly dissapointed that we forgot the sugar cubes...

Spring Break Part #1

We spent most of our Spring Break '09 outside, playing in the yard, playing with friends, just enjoying the awesome spring weather!!! Macie is going to Bonham Wednesday to spend the rest of Spring Break with Nana & G-Daddy.

Disney World

Gymnaskicks Promotion!

Macie was promoted today!

She will now be in the 4/5 year old gymnastics class at Excite!

Daddy & I surprised her with a Barbie horse to honor all of her hard work and the big promotion! Way to go sweet girl!

Guess Where We Have Been?

Happy Birthday Chloe!

Happy 4th birthday to Princess Chloe!

We had a great time at her princess party today. All the little girls looked so cute!

Kyle, Chloe & Macie check out the babies

Princess Macie having her fingernails painted

Macie & Jane eating princess cake!

American Idol

Ok, so we usually watch American Idol at our house. We will sometimes even call in and vote on our favorites. Macie is always quick to comment on the singers.... how they performed (she's a REALLY good singer) or what they are wearing (her shoes are wierd). So a couple of weeks ago (when the new season started) Macie made the comment every morning on the way to school - "look Mom, there's American Idol". I had NO idea what she was talking about. It was always in the same place, at an intersection surrounded by fast food, gas stations, and grocery stores. I would always look and never could figure out what she was talking about. She would point "it's right there". Finally I fiugred out what she was pointing at.

Culver's is a resturant near that intersection. Now I get it.

And yesterday in the car, she made another "Idol" discovery.

By the way, I am really glad that Danny got through last night (I voted for him) and not Tatiana (I mean, seriously...).

sticker obsession

So Macie loves stickers. She loves to use them all at one time... sharing them with whomever is around and occasionally "decorating" her room with them. A few days ago she decorated her face. Cute, right? I wish I wasn't so OCD and could share in her joy. As a child, I RARELY ever used my stickers. I liked to leave them stuck to the paper so I could go back and admire my collection whenever I wanted. I would order the stickers from the book club each month... I would save stickers I got for Valentines or Halloween or whatever. So it has been a little difficult for me to watch her "waste" her stickers like that. But maybe it isn't such a waste... She truly enjoys her stickers. And I guess, at the time, I did too, even though I never stuck them to anything. Maybe Macie is right. Maybe I need to "chill out".

Yes, she really did say that to me.

For the record... Do you know what I ended up doing with all of my stickers I saved throughout my childhood? I gave them away. As a reward. For the kids I worked with in the schools - after every speech therapy session. I even took the time to cut around the stickers that were all on one sheet of paper. You know, for those kids who don't want to "waste" their stickers. :)
Of course Lexie could not be left out...

Enough Said.

Thanks Beth and Jack for the cookie bouquet... they were delicious and I did my best not to eat them all at once to help drown my sorrows....

Swing Set Update

He is almost finished! I think it looks great. I still can't believe he just Googled "swing set blueprints" and did this all on his own... Macie is super excited!
And Macie insisted that I take a picture of the "butterfly" on her slide and put it on the computer. So here ya go. Enjoy :)

Weekend in Review

We went to Emory for the weekend. Lots of good food and fun as always... Rod, Heather and Jace came on Saturday and the kids had a great time playing....

Macie taking a ride on "Midnight"

Best Friends

Macie and Jace preparing for their cart race

PawPaw and his crew working in the yard...

First signs of SPRING!!

Macie loves this puzzle - She can put it together by herself!

Swing Set

Steve is building Macie a swing set! We already had one in the backyard, it came with the house... but it was several years old and in need of some repair. So what started as repair work turned into building a whole new swing set! He is doing such a great job, I am so proud... and very impressed with his work!

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things...

Favorite Color: Pink

Favorite Food: Mac N Cheese

Favorite Toy: Baby Kate

Favorite Cartoon: Diego

Favorite Animal: Giraffe

Favorite Book: Pinkalicious

Favorite Ice Cream: Chocolate

Favorite Princess: Cinderella

Favorite Game: Hi Ho Cherry-0

Favorite Stuffed Animals to Sleep With: Porter, Rowdy and Milo

Cowboys Christmas Party Slide Show

Wow Wii

We have a Wii!!! (Thanks MC!) It is super fun and we have been playing it A LOT! I wish I had some pics of everybody playing rockband... so funny! The Day's came over last night (after spending over 2 hours at the new Texas Roadhouse in Flower Mound... not fun, but the kids did REALLY well considering....) and we played a game called Raving Rabbids TV Party. Very fun game! Macie, Taylor and Collin stayed up later than they should have watching Ryan, Tiff, Steve and I try to figure out the games (and make fools of ourselves of course!)

Happy New Year!

So we started the new year with the end of the Cowboys football season... which was definately a bummer. We had high hopes for this year :( But we are trying to move on... This year we will get to relax with no arena football (the AFL has suspended the 2009 season). So what do we do with no Desperados to prepare for? Watch the College Bowl games, of course! Macie had to show some Sooner love when we went to visit her Nana and G-Daddy today.

New Year's Eve

We spent New Year's Eve at the Zellers! The kids had so much fun having a little slumber party, complete with sleeping bags, movies and snacks while we waited for midnight!

Christmas Fun!

Macie & Jace opening presents at Great Grandma's house

Mimi reading The Night Before Christmas to Rod, Jace, Macie & me. She has read this book to us every Christmas eve since she bought it in 1983... Presents on Christmas morning!

Tiffany Day Photography

Check Tiffany's blog, for some super cute pictures of sweet Macie!
For more information about her photography, see her website.

Dallas Cowboys Children's Christmas Party

This was the best year yet! Macie loved every minute of it!! More pics to come!

Happy Birthday Kinley!

Happy 4th Birthday to Kinley! We love this sweet girl... and Cody, Corey & Jaxson too... they are moving to California this week. We are going to miss them soooooo much!!

Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving!! We had fun with our family, ate lots of YUMMY food (thanks MOM!!) and the Cowboys won!! The cousins had sooo much fun playing together... I didn't get a lot of pictures, and most of the ones I got were not very good... here are a couple of random ones!

Macie & Uncle Bill cheering on the Cowboys!

Macie & Courtney's Slumber Party!!

Helping PawPaw decorate the tree...

this girl is sooo excited about Christmas!!

cutie pie

BYE WEEKEND!!

One of my favorite weekends of the year is our Bye Weekend... Steve finally gets a weekend off after months of non-stop football. We always try to do as much as we can during our Bye... and this weekend was no exception. We had 4 birthday parties - Happy Birthday to Reece, Jackson, Paige & Lydia!!! Saturday night we went to Jarod & Amy's house - all Steve's siblings were there with their spouses & kiddos... We had soooo much fun!!! It was a great weekend... although not totally football free - we are spending the final hours watching Giants at Eagles ;)

Macie, Lauren & Reece
Macie, Marcus & Gabby

Macie & Lydia