Monday, March 31, 2008

My Dancing McKinley!!!!

I was organizing videos on our computer and found this one of McKinley and had to share it! LOL She is sooo freakin' funny. Enjoy!


Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Easter Bunny and Guns?!

Well I hope all of you had as great of an Easter weekend as we did! After getting to sleep in (which at our house is a rare occasion for mom) McKinley woke Marc and I up telling us "Mom, that big Easter bunny left us CANDY and eggs!". After getting up and doing the regular morning activities (baths, breakfast, hair, etc...) we went over to Marc's mom's house. After visiting there for a bit, and the girls getting some very cute porcelain tea sets (with Disney Princesses on them), we packed up and headed out to Goshen to go shooting. Marc has purchased a few guns and we took them out shooting on the west side of West Mountain. The girls have fun shooting the guns and hunting for caterpillars while we're up there! After our shooting fun we went to my parents house for a BBQ (first one of the season, WAHOO) and Easter Egg Hunt! The girls got to color Easter Eggs, hunt for eggs in the backyard, and play outside in the FRESH AIR! Here are some pictures from our fun filled day, enjoy!
Shaylie and McKinley in my parents backyard. Easter surprises! Hunting for caterpillars! (After finding them the girls keep them in the empty shotgun shells, LOL.)











Shaylie shooting Marc's new .223 rifle, and McKinley shooting the .22.














Coloring Easter eggs!













Hunting for the Easter eggs!

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Awards, Hair Cuts, Tea Parties, and Jiu Jitsu!!!

It's been a while since my last post on here so I decided I should do a "catch up" post and let you know what's been going on since Valentine's Day.
To start it off, Shaylie received an award at school for basically doing her VERY best work in all areas. Shaylie is on the highest reading level in her 1st grade class (the level she's on for take home books would normally be for 4th grade), she gets 100% consistently on her math and spelling, and is an all around great student! She was thrilled that her daddy was able to make it to this award assembly to see her.

Both girls were in need of getting their hair trimmed up so I took them to Great Clips here in Springville and had my friend Bailie cut their hair. Ok, Shaylie got her hair cut and McKinley got a trim (as many of you know we can't actually cut much off of McKinley's hair). Shaylie and I decided to go short with her hair so instead of her hair being down below her shoulder blades it is now a little above her shoulders, and she looks ADORABLE! For McKinley it was the same thing as usual, a trim, just to even out the left and right sides, and she still looks as CUTE as ever! (Maybe someday McKinley's hair will grow and she'll get an actual hair cut instead of a trim.)

Just look at those curls!!!!












Shaylie's cute short hair!!!!

One morning after dropping Shaylie off at school I was busy cleaning and realized I hadn't seen or heard McKinley so I went into the playroom and found that she was busy having a teaparty with her dolls! Let me just say it was too cute! She had set the table and had "everyone" in their own chairs.












And last but not least, the girls had evaluations in Jiu Jitsu last week! Both of them did AWESOME! Shaylie recieved 2 stripes towards her "high yellow" belt in the youth division, and McKinley earned her "green strip belt" in the Samurai Kids division!












Working the heavy bags! (I was able to get both girls at the same time!)











Hopefully you enjoyed this round of pictures! I'll try to be better about posting more often. Have a wonderful Easter weekend!