Art Work

I have been working with Macie a bit to draw better and not just scribble and today she did most of this buy herself. I only helped with the hands and feet a bit as that confused her. 

You know you're getting old when....

Today it was made official that Mark and I bought 2 acres of land in Glenwood AB. No we are not moving there, atleast anytime soon, but we would like to retire there. Mountains, room to play, a huge garden, our dream home. And when these two beautiful acres we had been watching on MLS dropped in price by almost $30,000 we had to jump on it. This seems like such a grown up decision and I can't decide if I like that or not, but I am atleast excited now when I think about our future and what it holds. 

What a beauty. 

At the end of the day

Today was not a good day with my little Macie. She has been sick the past couple of days and is finally getting better so she had all this pent up energy and with it being freezing cold outside we didn't get out a lot. She was going non stop all day and was not listening at all. I felt like all I did today was yell at her, discipline her and fight with her. I hate days like this I fell like the worst mom ever. However 2 mins at the end of the day made it all worth it. We got into bed after reading books and I wasn't gonna force prayer as we already had prayed  at FHE. When I asked her to lie down she said what about prayer. (Macie fights us every night with prayer and never sits still so this floored me.) I asked her if she wanted to say it. She jumped out of bed onto her knees and said the sweetest prayer ever.  "Heavenly Father, thank you for this day, grandma and papo and this day, amen." I almost cried it was so precious and helps me to remember why we pray and read our scriptures every night as a family even if it is a gong show. 

My two!!

This weekend we went up to airdrie for some business and so I got my best friend growing up to take some adorable pics of the kiddos. She is so good at pictures and is to kind to do them at an amazing price for me. I am over the moon with how they turned out and have been looking at them all day long and thinking about what to do with them around the house. I can't wait to get the CD with all the pics on them but for now I will post the ones she put on Facebook. 

HALLOWEEN

I was a little bit nervous for Halloween this year after last years nightmare. But this year went great the kids looked adorable and besides one little meltdown from Macie we had a blast. Macie did such a good job knocking on the doors and saying trick or treat. She especially loved going to the houses with decorations. And Wade won over the hearts of everybody, he was so studly. 

I have better pics of the kids on my good camera but our computer is broken so IPhone pics will have to do.

If you can't tell they went as a Butterfly and Clark Kent.