A quick update

Last weekend, Kate and McKinley went to Jumping Jelly Beans to celebrate their friend Karson's birthday. The kids (and adults) had a great time. Most of my pictures were to blurry from all the movement, but I thought I would share these 2 of Kate and McKinley.

Most of the time, I am not that amused by my very early riser, but this morning I couldn't help but laugh and had to grab my camera for a quick picture!

This is what woke Andy & I up this morning!

McKinley amazes me everyday. One day this week, we were riding home in the car and he started spelling color words. He said "Hey mom did you know that b-l-a-c-k spells black!" He has an incredible teacher this year and Andy and I can see him learning and taking everything in like a sponge. We have also been practicing writing on his new easel that Santa brought him. McKinley is a little hard for him to write, so we have been working on just "MAC" and the other day he wrote "mommy". There is nothing sweeter than seeing that written in the sloppy innocent toddler handwriting. One of McKinley's favorite things to do lately is to draw "scary monsters" for us. Here is one of his masterpieces!

**Baby Marley Ann Update**

I am now 35 weeks....yeah! As of the last doctors visit, here is the plan. Marley Ann is measuring and growing just perfect so at 38 weeks, if all is still well, they are going to try and "jump-start" my labor and try to get me to go into labor on my own. If I don't go on my own that week, they will induce me at 39 weeks. I am hoping for a baby the week of Feb.16th instead of the following week because Feb 27th is McKinley's birthday and I would really like atleast a week between their birthdays!

Our Little Angel

We went back today to Baby Dimensions to get some pictures of our little Marley Ann at 33 weeks. Here is my favorite picture from our session.....she looks so precious! I especially like those chubby cheeks! This is not the best picture, the technician had a hard time getting her to move. She had her arm in front of her face almost the entire time.
This is a shot looking down, she has her thumb in her mouth.

McKinley's Day

We have been doing somethings around the house in anticipation of Marley Ann's arrival. We are trying to make this a smooth and easy transition for McKinley and he seems to be doing ok so far....however she is not here yet. Anyway, Andy and I thought we would do something fun with McKinley today, just the 3 of us! We asked him what he wanted to do and he picked glow in the dark golfing. Here are some pictures of our morning.

We did not plan on bowling, but after we got done putt-putting, we decided to bowl a game. This was pretty funny. We told McKinley not to go past the line. Of course he did not listen, so he fell a couple of times on the slick floor. He really had a good time and by the end of the game was pretty good at rolling the bowling ball.

We finished up the day with lunch and ice cream....what a perfect day!

Happy 2009!

Happy New Year!

OK, so the older we get, the more "G" rated our New Years Eve Parties get. Last year we watched movies until midnight. This year I thought we should "rock" things up a bit, so we broke out the "Guitar Hero". Here we are rocking out!

(look at Andy's serious face......he is really feeling the rift!)

Scott acted like he didn't like it, but secretly deep down he's a true rocker!

The kids played us a tune to ring in the new year!

Our neighbors always have great fireworks.....McKinley LOVED them....the girls, not so much!