Happy 12th Birthday McKenzie

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Wednesday night McKenzie attended her first Young Womens activity.  Whoa!!  She is growing up so fast.  I wasn't quite ready for all the emotions that would come with my 'baby' turning 12 and going to Young Womens.  Her beehive class and leaders kidnapped her for a nacho bar and games.  She was totally caught off guard which was the best part and she had lots of fun.  She is going to really enjoy being a young women.

 On Thursday we celebrated McKenzie's 12th Birthday!!  She got up and went to school and that morning her beehive leader came and decorated her bedroom door with bees and a hive that says 'Welcome to our hive."  So cute! I arrived at school just before lunch to check her out and take her out for her birthday.  We met dad, Grandpa and Uncle Jason at the Sizzler where we got to enjoy a great lunch with good company, and then back to school she went.  Her class decorated her desk and made her a card. 
After I dropped her back off to school I came home and decorated the front window so she it would be the first thing she would see when she got home from school.  For her birthday dinner she chose to have blueberry pancakes, sausage, hashbrowns, cheesy eggs and orange juice.  We also had a birthday cake and presents from us.  We gave her makeup...wasn't ready for that either, and some music and a shopping spree for some new summer clothes. 

Saturday night we had a big family/friend party,  barbecued hot dogs and had chips and salads and more presents and more cake and ice cream.  My friend made an amazing cake for McKenzie.  She got lots of money that she wants to spend on a mountain bike and maybe clothes.  Great Grandma Frampton gave her some of her earrings-how special!!  Overall McKenzie had a great birthday.  She said it was her most favorite birthday ever....haha.  Considering she's only had 12 birthdays, that's pretty great!!

We love you McKenzie!!!  Happy 12th Birthday!!  We are so blessed for you to be a part of our family!!

Spelling Bee

(I apologize for the quality of the photo.  It was taken with my cell phone.)

I am so pround of Kaylie.  She got to participate in the 3rd grade spelling bee.  5 kids out of every 3rd grade class competed and got to go to the 3rd grade school spelling bee.  She brought home a list of about 2000 spelling words that she was given two weeks to study.  Man, it was a lot of words and she studied almost every night.  She made it to the 3rd round spelling her first two words successfully.  On the 3rd round she was given the word "seize" which she spelled "sees."  What's up with this stupid english language anyway for so many words to sound the same but can be spelled 3 or 4 different ways?  She was sad she didn't win mostly because she wanted a trophy that the winners got but boy am I proud of her for doing so well and being so smart!!

Science Fair

Kaylie and Rylie got to participate in the 3rd grade science fair this year.  It was hard for them to decide what they wanted to do for their projects.  They checked books out from the school library and we looked through them but nothing really caught their eye.  We got on the internet and looked around for a while to find something they would be interested in.  Rylie really wanted to do something with dry ice but everything that involved dry ice that she was interested in was way above our level.  (Complicated science projects really aren't my thing.)  We finally decided on "floating water" and "swimming raisins"  It was fun yet simple and something they really liked learning about. 

Our Kitchen Remodel

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So we've been in our house for just over 6 years.  I've hated the ugly linoleum since we moved in but Rich told me that he wouldn't replace something that was perfectly fine.  Well it was ok when we first moved in but my peeve with linoleum is that you get dirt in the grooves and it is next to impossible to get it out without some great dedication and I just wasn't willing to do that.  Over the years with having little kids the flooring got nicked up from stools being dragged across the floor, things getting dropped and gouging the floor.  I've told him for years that I wanted either tile or hardwood.  Well....he came home from work a couple of weeks ago and told me  he'd made a visit to Home Depot and priced tile.  He knew the tile I liked and said it would be almost $5 a square foot but he priced out pergo that was on sale and said it would be .85 cents a square foot.  Of course I would prefer anything over the linoleum that I had.  I figured I'd better take him up on his offer while it was still fresh on the table.  We loaded the kids in the van and off we went to home depot.  Needless to say our project cost us twice what we planned.  We figured that as long as we were doing the flooring we might as well paint the kitchen.  So wala...here are photos of our kitchen.  It was fun to involve the kids.  Wyatt had to drag out his little tool belt and tools to help his daddy until he realized dads tools were cooler.  I've yet to take a final picture though.  I'm still waiting for Rich to add the final touches but thought I'd get something up for you to see.

Rich's 25 Birthday-Yeah Right!!

Ok.  So I know I have been terrible at keeping up on our blog lately.  I've been putting so many extra hours at work lately that when I'm not working I want to be as far away from my computer as possible.  But...I hate to get so far behind that I can't remember what happened and the cute little things the kids do and say. Sooooo...January 25 was Rich's 35 birthday, and to explain the title...I took Rich to Texas Roadhouse for his birthday dinner.  We secretly told our waitress that we were there celebrating his birthday so when they came to sing to him she asked him how old he was.  He told her 25 and she actually believed him.  Uh huh....add 10 years.  Unfortunately I forgot my camera and the only picture I have of him that night is on my phone and it didn't turn out very good.  But we did celebrate with the kiddos as well and I do have pics of that.  

 Rylie writing on the window

 Wyatt taking a turn writing on the window

While I was at the grocery store I found these really cool markers that write on glass.  The window looked waay cool and I think it made Rich happy to come home and see the window.

We got him some gators-if you're an avid outdoorsman like Rich you'll know what these are.  Some good socks to wear when he goes hiking and a gift card to Sportsmans Warehouse.  The best part of his birthday was just spending time together as a family.  Happy 25th Birthday!!