Happy birthday Makenzie

Today my sweet angel turned 5.  FIVE!  This birthday is hitting me hard.  5 seems so grown up to me!  I'm so blessed to be her mommy and she amazes me every day.  She is so sweet and thoughtful and kind, but also headstrong, independent and bossy!  I love everything about her and had so much fun celebrating her today!  I decorated the table for her and baracaded her in her room with balloons! She thinks that's the funniest thing ever!

She was so excited when she woke up and found her playdoh surprise egg!  She watches these on you tube all the time and I knew I had to make her one!

She said, "oh my gosh I've been waiting years for one of these".  (I didn't have any white for the eyes and mouth....) Daddy woke up super early and got her special birthday donuts.

We sang happy birthday and then she dug into her goodies!

We took her outside to find her last present!

Madi and her cruised the street for awhile and then we came inside to get ready for more festivities.  We met Amber and baby Reid for lunch and then met Krystal and her kids at build a bear!  The girls both made bears and Kenzie picked out pajamas and slippers for hers.

We left there and walked to a cookie store and got some birthday treats!  It was yummy.

It was such a fun day celebrating her!  She has her checkup in a few weeks and I'll do a full 5 year post on her.  Roughly she is about 40 inches tall and about 43 pounds of sweetness!!

I can't believe how much she has grown! I love seeing the person she is growing into and am so thankful for her!

Baby #3

Our family will be growing next year!  I found out on July 4th that I was pregnant!  We could not be any more excited!  I had been feeling "off" for a week or 2 before then!  Eating habits were different, I didn't want to go to the gym and I was exhausted!  I took a cheap dollar store test on the 3rd and convinced myself I saw a faint line!  EARLY the next morning I snuck out and got a digital test that popped up positive immediately!

I had some blood work done to check my hcg levels and it came back either a low or saying I was fewer weeks pregnant than I thought I was!  My heart sank a little and it was hard to keep myself positive!  I had them rechecked and they had quadrupled which was great!  I had my first OB appointment a week later and had a sonogram done!  The baby is measuring about 2 weeks earlier than my dates had me at but who knows!!!  As of today I am 6 weeks 5 days! 

We told the girls and they are so excited!!  They both want a little brother so bad and I'm having to convince them a baby sister will be amazing too!  They are being so sweet and like to give the baby kisses!  We are all so excited and can't wait to meet our new addition!!

Back to back post

2 post in a row......what what!!!  Yesterday I went to the gym and did my class and then stayed for team training!!  I got a really good workout in and felt good when I left!  Later we took the girls to Amber's house while we went to a doctors appointment!  I got some cute pictures while we were gone!

The girls just love baby Reid!  I made it home just in time to change and meet the girls for our monthly pedicures and dinner.  This time we were celebrating Amber's birthday!

Shonda brought a key lime pie that was indestructable.  We tried everything to cut through the crust!

It didn't end up looking pretty but it was very good!  We laughed all night and had the best time!  I am so blessed to have this group of friends to do life with!  

Weekly wrap up

Another week has gone by without a blog post!  I just can't get my s@*!* together!  Last Wednesday we took the girls to Chuckee Cheese to burn off some energy and went out for lunch!  

Scotty grilled out steaks for dinner and my parents surprised us and came over!

Thursday morning I went to the gym and then came home and took the girls to the pool!  We stayed a couple hours and came home to rest!  After naps we went to my parents house for dinner and to run a few errands!  I spent Friday getting the house ready for our friends to come visit!  Sarah, Keith, Kylie and Cody were driving in from Virginia for a few weeks!!!! Yay!!!!  They got in Saturday and we were all so excited to see them!

The girls went right back to playing like there had been no distance between them.  We took the girls swimming (Keith and Cody were visiting grandma) and Sarah and I laid out and got to tan and talk!  That night Kylie and Sarah had a slumber party at our house!  We stayed up late and had popcorn and watched a movie and all slept in my room!

Sunday we had a birthday party for Hudson to go to!  They had a water slide and Madison finally mastered climbing up it after being too chicken to try!

After dinner we took the girls on a walk!  We tried to wait until it wasn't so hot but even at 8:00 it was over 90 degrees! We went in a few houses that were almost done being built and met a few new neighbors!  The girls found big sunflowers, AKA weeds, that they just had to have so their daddy picked them one!

Monday Sarah came to the gym with me to workout!!  When we got home we packed a lunch and took the kids to the pool for the day!  That night was Kenzie's first night of cheer practice!!  Madison was in a mood and cried the first 30 minutes which was great!  

She finally calmed down and started doing cheers with the girls!  Kenzie did awesome and said she wanted to do cheerleading everyday!!

Tuesday the girls and I met Krystal and her kids to go bowling but they were so busy and didn't have any lanes open!  We went to lunch instead and then came home to do some workbooks!  Kenzie loves doing them and is so proud of herself when she finishes a page!

Kenzie and I went to cheer practice when Scotty got home and Madison stayed with him!  The cheer coach asked if I wanted to be cheer mom and I agreed so I will be busy doing that this season!  Kenzie did great and remembers a lot of the cheers from last year!  

Back to the gym

I have taken a loooonnnng break from the gym lately!  I blame exhaustion and laziness!  I just haven't been feeling it lately!  Monday I decided enough was enough and drug myself to class!  I felt a million times better afterwards and had so much more energy the rest of the day!  Plus when I workout I eat better too!  Afterwards I picked up the kids and we met Amber and Reid at the park to play!

We ran a few errands together and then went back to Ambers house to hang out and play!  Later on I caught Ms. Hollywood on the potty like this....

Tuesday I had a doctors appointment and then we did some shopping again with Amber and Reid!  Baby Reid just loves Madi and can't keep his little hands off of her!

He is younger than her but bigger, and rough!  His little hands yank and pull her everywhere and she doesn't know what to think!  They are so cute!

It's Wednesday morning now and I'm at the gym waiting on my class to start!  (Another perk of going to the gym is I have time to blog).  Scotty is off today and I think we are going to get some house projects done and run some errands and then maybe relax at the pool!  

Week and weekend wrap up

Another week has gone by since my last blog post!  Not much has been going on around here!  Well I lie, some pretty big things have been going on around here but I'm going to wait and do one big blog post about it soon!!!!  

Wednesday we went to the water park with daddy since he was off!  The girls had so much fun going down the slides with him and Madi got brave and even went down a slide by herself!  

We didn't stay very long!  It was miserably hot, my bathing suit strap broke and the girls were kind of whiny!  Madi fell asleep super early that night so we let Kenzie do some sparklers out back!

Thursday we went to the pool all day!  Krystal and her kids came over and we just relaxed and watched them play!

Madison actually jumped in off the side with the big kids!  I couldn't believe it!  She did it a few times and then of course when I got my camera out she stopped!  Friday we took the kids to see The Secret Life of Pets.  We met for pizza beforehand and then walked over to the movies!  It was a cute show!

We ran some errands afterwards and came home to do some painting in Kenzie's room!  Her room has been "under construction" for a few weeks now and I'm tired of seeing it like that!  

Saturday morning the girls and I ran some errands and then Bebe surprised us and came over to go swimming and spend the day!  We LOVE when she does that!  Bebe gave the girls a bath when we got home from swimming while I did some painting!  I love this picture she got of Madi!

We had birthday party to go to for our friend Bailey at Chuckee Cheese!

Sunday we did a bunch of errands and house work!  I finished painting Kenzie's room.

Scotty cleaned up a bunch while I was doing that and then surprised us and took us shopping to get the last few things we needed to finish up her room!  We grabbed some dinner and ice cream and ended our night with some light up balloon playing!