Observation Day at Dance

I know I am a little slow getting this up, but a week before Thanksgiving was McKenzie's observation day at dance. I got some pictures, but most came up kind of blurry because my camera was on a different setting and I didn't know how to change it. The dance class is really cute and she gets to take it with her cousin Lucy, which she loves.

Fun Stuff

So, as I mentioned earlier, my birthday was the day before Halloween. Bodie and McKenzie (and my sister and friends which we'll get to later) worked so hard to make it special. They made me a cake and spelled mom with 30, yes 30, candles. They gave me new crocs with fleece lining on the inside which are so cozy, and they bought wii fit for me. I have been telling Bodie to just get me the crocs, and like every year, he does way more than I want him to and got the wii fit, which I love! I highly recommend it to all of you wii players. My favorite is the Yoga, which I am terrible at.

Now, to my sisters and friends.....exactly 15 days before my birthday I was at work complaining to my friend Kristin that I feel to young to have so much responsibility what with being the Primary President and our program coming up, selling the house, buying a business, moving to another state (even though it is just next door to Utah), etc. Oh yes, and lets not forget about my car getting stolen. Anyway, later that night, there was a knock at my door. When Bodie and Mck answered it, there was a note and some candybars reminding me that there were 15 days until I turned 30. That started the 15 days of gifts. I automatically assumed it was my friend Kristin and the girls at work, who are so sweet they would totally do something like that. Then, I started getting gifts in all sorts of places while I was out and about that I couldn't figure out who it was from. During this time, I was told there was a UFC fight night at my sister's house on the Sat. after my birthday. I decided the girls should get together for dinner before the fight and have one last GNO before Aly moved to Idaho. So I got our night all planned. Back to my birthday, I found out it was my sister Leslie and friend Melissa giving me the treats. Okay, back to the GNO. We got to my sisters house and walked in to find that she and Aly had planned a surprise party for me. My whole family was there along with my friends. It was so much fun, and thanks to my wonderful family and friends for all the love!

McKenzie is growing up so fast. She loves preschool and dance class and now as she puts it "is not shy to people anymore" which means that she tells everyone everything and sometimes gets it a little mixed up which is fun for us. The other day she told her nursery teachers that she was late for church because she was at the movie theater. Really she was late for church because she was up tossing and turning all night and didn't really fall asleep until 4 in the morning. She makes me laugh and I am so happy to have such a great kid.

Halloween Fun

I know Halloween was a couple weeks ago, but I am just now finally getting up pics of Mckenzie's Halloween. She partied all week that week. She got to wear her halloween costume to dance on the Wednesday before halloween and have a party with her dance class, where she gave treats to all the girls in dance class and they gave her treats....her halloween bag was about half full at this point. Thursday was the halloween party at school, where they did a little program (I am going to try to get the video up) and went trick-or-treating to all the parents watching. She came home with a full trick-or-treat bag and it wasn't even halloween yet! On top of that, it was my birthday and she had made me a birthday cake, so we got to eat birthday cake also. On Halloween they do trick-or-treating down main street in Tooele, so we went down to that and stopped at Bodie's work and Cole and Lindsay's house where she got lots of fun stuff. So, we had a pretty good Halloween and have our candy supply for the next year!

A Busy Week

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!

GNO

McKenzie and I had a little girls night out last night. It was so much fun. She worked very hard the last couple weeks to earn all of her stickers so I told her she could have whatever she wanted. I was a little nervous to offer anything she wanted, but I did and she decided that she wanted a puffy vest that she saw at Children's Place a while ago. So, we went to South Towne Mall and got dinner, rode the carousel, and shopped. We got the puffy vest and even found a shirt to go with it. She was very excited when we found some frog pajamas and couldn't wait to wear them home! I am a little nervous for her to grow up and be a teenager because last night she was already showing a great interest in the shopping and buying stuff. When I told her we were leaving the mall, she said that we couldn't leave yet because we only had 2 bags, and she wanted lots of bags. We went in a couple more stores and got mad when I didn't buy the "really cute shirt" I was looking at. We passed Claires on the way out of the mall, so we had to make a stop in there and look at all of the "beautiful things" in there. Then, she talked me into a cookie from Mrs. Field's when we were really leaving the mall. It was so much fun to hang out with her. I love having a daughter!

McKenzie's Tutu

So we were at dance the other day and this little girl had the cutest tutu on. We went to the mom to find out where she got it and it turns out that she made it. I thought it was so cute and McKenzie would love it, so we went to the store today to get stuff to make one. It turned out really cute, but of course McKenzie doesn't like to wear it. I did get her to wear it long enough to take this picture though!!!

First Day of Pre-school

Here is McKenzie as we are getting in the car for her first day of preschool. She goes to the busy bee pre-school which is taught and run by a good friend of mine. McKenzie doesn't usually have much separation anxiety, so I wasn't too worried, but of course being her mom, I was a little concerned about how she would do. Well, she loves it. She has been there for 3 weeks. She has great teachers and they do lots of fun activities. Because her birthday is in June and they won't be in school then, they celebrated her birthday last week. When they do that, the parents send a poster with pictures of the kid and a treat for all the kids and they do a spotlight on the birthday person. It just happened to work out that we were in Monroe visiting Bodie's family the day before her birthday celebration at school. Bodie's sister Tori is amazing when it comes to scrapbooking and especially making cards, so I had her help me cut out some stuff for the poster on her Mom's cricuit machine. The poster turned out so cute. Reine (McK's teacher) said that the only problem with it is that it was too cute...especially since her son's birthday was this week and she had to do the next poster. Oh well, we had fun!!!