McK on the Elephant at the Zoo, don't let the smile fool you, she was pretty nervous!
It has been a pretty crazy week around here! We started with Bodie's birthday on the 12th. We had my family over for sunday dinner to celebrate. McKenzie had picked out a cake with balloons...which she was so excited to eat. In all the excitement, I forgot to buy birthday candles, so Bodie had sparklers on his cake....because that is what Hugh Hefner gets on his birthday cake. The same day, McKenzie insisted that we have birthday cake with Cole (Bodie's friend from work) and his girlfriend Lindsay. Cole and McKenzie have the same birthday, so she expects Cole to always eat birthday cake with her! The next day, Bodie had the day off work, so we ventured out to the zoo. It was a pretty cool day...which kept all the people away. There were maybe 20 cars in the parking lot - just perfect for Bodie. After the zoo, we drove up Emigration Canyon and just happened to end up at the outlet malls in Park City where we finally found McKenzie some princess light up tennis shoes that she has been wanting for the last month or so. It was a really fun day.
Mck and Dad on the Bronze Tigers
The next day, Bodie left to go to work only to find that our Geo had been stolen. That's right...it was no longer in the carport. When we called the cops, they said it was the 4th car in 24 hours to get stolen. Luckily, my parents have extra cars parked at their house and so generously let us use one. It sucked, but I had gotten used to the idea of my car being gone and to make myself feel better, I was planning to buy something else. Imagine my surprise when I pulled up in my driveway yesterday after work and my car was back in the carport. It was missing the stereo, air vents, and most important...the cup holders. I mean come on, who steals cup holders? Actually they just took out the whole middle section of the dash where the stereo was. The funny thing is that they found the car in the parking lot of our old apartment complex. Anyway, they also got away with McKenzie's bike, carseat, our DVD player with her favorite movie in it, tool kits that were in the trunk and the old 6 disc CD changer that they will be dissappointed to find out that it doesn't work since it got soaked with the sprinklers one night. When Bodie talked to the police officer that found the car, he said they thought they knew who it was, but didn't have him in custody yet. I hope they catch him and he goes to jail for a long time!
Saturday was my sister's birthday so a bunch of us got together and took her out to a place downtown called Keys on Main. It is a dueling piano bar. It was awesome...those guys can play any song. They were really good. I highly recommend that place. McKenzie felt pretty cool becuase she got to be babysat by Cole and Lindsay...who she conned into buying her another Charlie Brown Pumpkin movie which is the one that got stolen.
So, as you can tell, we had a busy and interesting week! We hope things will calm down a bit for a while now.
Her new favorite pass-time is "making mud". Thanks to Lily and Lucy for teaching her that trick!