We Finally Took Professional Pics!

Yes, we are bad parents. Our second child is almost 8 months old and it took us this long to get professional pictures taken! Nevermind the fact that we took Mackenzie every month for the first year to Picture People, Sears, and JcPenney! Sorry Mason, forgive us. We purchased every pose of Mason. Yes, that's guilt!!!! Here are a few poses from the sitting.

Baby Talk

Mason wouldn't stop talking this morning. It's interesting how the intonation of his "words" actually sound like he's having a conversation with me. Unfortunately, I couldn't decifer anything, so I will just have to assume he said, "I want some chicken feet, please!"

Dinner Time!

MMMMmmm...need I say more??

Mason's New Trick!

Mason started crawling a few weeks ago. Here he is trying to get, of course, the remote control. He is much better at crawling now. He likes to follow all of us around the house. Mackenzie is starting to learn that she needs to pick up anything she doesn't want Mason to drool all over, although EVERYTHING seems to be drooly no matter what we do!

Mackenzie's 4th Birthday Celebration!

Mackenzie turned 4 on September 4th! She had a week long celebration and then some! She enjoyed opening all of her birthday presents and eating lots and lots of birthday cake! There were quite a few pics we took of her birthday festivities, here are about 1/8 of them.




For her birthday party, Mackenzie invited some of her friends and her cousins over for pizza, cake, and swimming. Jordyn, Gracie, Joshua, Steven, Hayden and Mackenzie enjoyed floatin' and splashin' all afternoon.

We decided to take Mackenzie to Disneyland so she could celebrate her birthday with Mickey and Minnie Mouse and all the princesses. We had a great time! We spent 2 days in Disneyland and 1 day in California Adventure. We were able to ride on a lot of rides and even some of our favorite rides 2 or 3 times! Julie, Olivia, and Sierra met us Friday afternoon and we stayed in Fantasyland most of the time doing "Princess" things. Michael, Carrie, Brandon and Emily joined us a little later in the afternoon and we were all able to ride Dumbo together before the adults needed to go bed.

My Disneyland Birthday is held at The Plaza Inn. It is a restaurant at the end of Main Street. Mackenzie and other kids decorated Mickey bday cakes. They sang and danced with Mickey and Minnie. It was quite entertaining! We found Minnie Mouse again at Toontown where Mackenzie and Sierra got her autograph and took a cute pic!


We had a family photo-op on the Jungle cruise. Mackenzie was responsible for taking care of her classroom pet lion. Lucky lion, he was able to go on all the rides with us! The park wasn't very crowded the first 2 days we were there. We found ourselves wishing we had a babysitter so we could go on Pirates of the Caribbean and The Matterhorn. The lines were less than a 15 minute wait! Oh well, maybe next time we'll bring the grandparents.


On Saturday, we had breakfast with the Yee Family at Ariel's Grotto. When we arrived, Ariel was waiting for us and took a picture with Mackenzie. While eating, other princesses came out to visit with us. Snow White, Belle, Cinderella, and Mackenzie's favorite princess, Aurora(Sleeping Beauty) stopped by our table to chat and take pictures. Even Brandon got into it!


Carrie took Emily, Brandon, and Mackenzie on this Bug's Life version of the Teacups. I feel "morning sickness" coming on just looking at the picture!

Who's having MORE fun? Keith and Michael or Brandon and Mackenzie? We had such a fun time at Disneyland. We are so glad we waited until Mackenzie was 4 to go and although Mason won't remember, I am pretty sure Mackenzie will. Mackenzie and Mason can't wait to go back again...who knows when that will be, maybe when Mason turns 4 or maybe sooner.

Splash Time!

Mason loves water! Take a look!

Mackenzie starts Preschool...again.

Mackenzie woke up this morning very excited. She couldn't wait to start a new year of preschool. Last Friday, we met her teachers, Ms. Washington and Ms. Thomas. She took a tour of her new 4 yr. old classroom and was able to meet some of her new friends in her class. Bright and early this morning, she was ready to get dressed in her uniform. Her new Minnie Mouse backpack was stuffed full of so many supplies, she almost fell backwards. Regardless of the weight of her backpack and lunch box, Mackenzie was glad to go back to Centennial Academy for another year, her last year of preschool!