Just a little fun!

The LaBossiere family invited us to tag along to their company picnic. Loni & JP both work for the same company and it's a huge event. Maci had a blast, she got her face painted, went down the huge slides, got an balloon animal and got to eat tons of yummy food!

Loni & precious Brady!

After the picnic, we went to Big Bounce for Maci's little friends' birthday. She loves that place!

I swear she grows at least an inch a night... Where is my little baby??

She had fun racing on the little animals!

And loves the huge slides of course!

We had a great day, thanks Loni, JP & Brady for letting us tag along and thanks to Bryce for inviting us to your birthday. If I could have got all the kids gathered together for even a second, I would have taken a picture but... impossible!

Overnight guest!

Maci had her first friend over for a sleep over! She just can't get enough of Tristian so we invited him over to play and stay the night! They were so happy playing together!

Misty & I decided that they were still little enough to take a bath together! They were so cute, anytime one of them would get bubbles on their face, the other would wipe it off for them! Seriously they are the cutest things together!

Then they got ready for bed together. They both had to brush their own hair and teeth, because they are big kids now!
I love that they are such good friends and that they care for each other so much! Tristian protects Maci all the time from the "mean kids" and even offered to wrestle a kid who was being mean to her!

Little Cousins!

We stopped by Loni, JP & Brady's house this weekend to see our little Brady! He is so cute and Maci just loves him! She always wants to hold him and kiss on him for a few minutes, then she's ready to go play with other things or people! He is getting so big! He has such a cute personality and I'm so glad that they get to grow up close!
Brady kept trying to turn around to see and touch Maci! She thought it was so funny!

She was trying to get him to smile for her by playing like she was going to get him!

2nd year of preschool

Maci started her second year of preschool in August! She LOVES school and can't wait to go, especially since her friends Tristian and Isely are in her class! I had a ton of pictures of the kids at school, but noticed (after leaving the school of course) that they were all blurry.... so this is all I got pretty much!

The little boy in the picture above is my friend Misty's son Tristian. He and my daughter are inseperable at school! Even the teachers noticed how much they hang out! After the first day of school Maci told me "Mom, isn't Tristian so cute, I just love him"! Her teacher said that he is her defender all the time! They are so cute together! Maci also will only wear clothes that she thinks Tristian will like! I think they are in love!

Home Sweet Home

In late July we happened upon our dream home! My brother (the magazine junkie that he is) noticed a house in a real estate book that he thought I might like. I drove past it, called a realtor, saw the inside - FELL IN LOVE, made an offer and within 2 weeks we had closed on it and moved in! It all just fell into place so easy that it was almost scary! Although Maci had a hard time with the moving part for awhile - I think she's really starting to love the new digs too!

It's quite a hike to the front door, but I think it looks pretty so who cares if I'm about to die of a heart attack by the time I get to the top hehe!

This is the front balcony. It's so nice and relaxing up there - and we love the views too!

This is the messy kitchen... The funny thing is that I snuck into the house a million times before it actually became mine and I never once noticed that there were no cabinets on top. I brought my family & friends over to see it and none of them noticed either. We finally noticed as we were unpacking boxes and realized that the cups/plates/bowls had to go on the bottom. Thank God Maci has outgrown her love to drag everything out of the cabinets!

This is Maci's room. Ignore the ugly curtains, but we had just moved in so we left the originals up for the time being! Maci got a really "big girl bed" when we moved to the new house. It's so tall that she has to use a stool to get up on it, but she loves it so that's all that matters! She picked this room the first time we saw the house because it has green walls! It works out perfect because it's upstairs and just down the hall from mine!

As soon as we actually hang things on any of the other walls I will post more pictures. It's pretty bare right now though! I'm waiting for my interior decorators to show up (a.k.a. Misty, Christy, Nicole and Charlene)!!!

July

In July the Pruetz family came to visit us! We had such a great time with them and wish that they would come more often! Maci, Kaylee & Addy were so cute together and had a blast (except for Maci's occasional breakdowns)! We went to Silverton for a night, which is always a good time! We got to watch the parade and tried fighting old ladies for candy! We hung out at my house too and let off fireworks until we got caught by the fire department! It was fun while it lasted though!

Nathan won over all the kids (girls especially) in the camp and took them all on rides! They came back covered in mud!

Nicole took the girls for a ride which they loved until it got a little to steep, then it was back to camp for them!

We always have such a great time with you guys and can't wait to see you again! I wish that we lived closer so that we could see all of you more than twice a year... Maybe when all the girls are older, the traveling will be much easier!

Just a tad bit behind... April - June

I realize that I haven't updated this thing in AGES... but to my defense, I have been moving, taking care of two houses, two yards, blah, blah, blah! Anyway - so here are a few catch up posts... I think I left off in April so a few things have happened since then (:

We traveled to Phoenix in April to see our friends Nicole (Micole as Maci calls her), Nate, Kaylee & Addy. We had such a great time and the kids had a blast together! I would post pictures, but apparently they are on my work computer... so since I'm on a mission to do some updates - I'll post those later...

We also celebrated my mom's birthday in April by taking her to dinner in Durango (Again no photo's but...) Anyway after dinner we had to have a little treat from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory. The next day I was putting Maci in the back seat and I saw chocolate all over the floor so I told Maci "Look at all that chocolate - I think it was from your Uncle BB" so Maci says "Yeah - he's an asshole huh mom"! I almost died! I tried as hard as I could to be serious and tell her that wasn't nice, but I knew I couldn't hold in my laughter for long, so I ran into the house and told my parents what she said. When I got back out to the car I told her again how horrible it was to say those things so she tells me "ok mom, I will just say that he is naughty, not that he is a damn old asshole ok?"! I don't know how I held a straight face on that one! I blame Nana for that language (haha)!

I really can't think of much that happened in May - so we will skip right over that month... Ooops except Maci's Papa's birthday! Happy Birthday Papa (a.k.a. Dad)!

Same with June... a few birthdays, but again no pictures so...