DAY 6

How in love she is with her DADDY!


Waiting for dad to come home.


Ex static when he walks through the door.

DAY 5

How unbelievably brave she is.

From jumping off the back of the couch, to climbing the stairs all by herself and going down the slide at the McDonald's play centre. To doing summersaults all by herself. Nothing scares this little girl, which makes for a lot of fun adventures in the future.

DAY 4

How well she plays by herself. Her room looks like this pretty much every time I come in it when she is playing.

DAY 3

Mr. Octopus

Her obsession with this toy fascinates me and I love watching her fish through the water every bath to find it.

DAY 2

Her teeny tiny feet. She still wears all size 1 shoes. She can wear Size 2 shoes but they fall off endlessly.

Plus all these adorable pics I got of her today.

COMING HOME FOR LUNCH???

As of January 14th my hubby will be coming home for lunch everyday, and why might you ask. Because he got a new job, an office job, a better job. He will still be working for Devon, but instead of being a field operator he will be the new Asset Integrity Advisor. What is that might you ask, I don't know you will have to ask him, but I do know that it intells a monday to friday job. A company truck for full time use, better benefits and bonuses and all holidays off. Not to mention 5 weeks of holidays, off everyday by 4:30 oh and that is right home everyday for lunch, for a quick visit with mom and Macie. I don't even know how to properly describe how excited and proud I am for my hubby. This is such a huge step in his career and in our life and I can't wait to find out all it will intell and what our future holds. So next time you see my hubby give him a big congratulations cause he definitely deserves it.

15 WONDERFUL THINGS ABOUT MACIE

Seeing as it is 15 days till this little munchkins birthday I thought I would do a 15 day countdown to her birthday of 15 wonderful things that can't help but make you love this little cutie.

DAY 1
- her love of reading. I could watch her for hours as her tiny little hands flip through the pages of her favorite books.

Twas 25 Days Before Christmas

and all through Lloydminster the children were waiting for St. Nick was sure to be coming. They waited and waited and waited some more, while they waited they made lots of crafts to adore. He finally arrived on a sleigh with a guest, the Grinch who stole Christmas was 10 feet ahead to the west.  Then candies and cupcakes were decorated by all, but the best part was coming and that something was tall. It was Minnie and Mickey and the Mayor of our town, there to read about Rudolph and how he turned frowns upside down. But of course the best part was saved for last , when the fireworks filled the sky with a blast.

I thought I knew what stress was....

When you don't have the money in your account to pay a bill, or you put on 5 pounds, or the house is a total mess and company is coming over, my wedding day, final exams, giving birth, moving, when Mark had no job for almost a month when we were first married, Macie getting her first fever, thinking Molly was going to go blind when her eye looked like it popped out of her head. So many other things come to mind of times in my life when I have been stressed, but none pale in comparison to this past 6 days, and especially today. The direct quote from the Pharmacists today was this is such potent medicine we give it to cancer patients to take. My heart about sunk when I heard those words, but what else is a Doctor to do when your daughter has not held down any food for 6 days and has gone 24 hours without a wet diaper. Other prescribe this medicine or put an IV in her. I still can't decide which route we should have taken, especially when Mark and I have to hold her head, hands and body down to get the medicine and pedialyte down my stubborn girls throat. So hopefully soon after many many prayers, a priesthood blessing, this medicine and a couple total and complete meltdowns from her mother this whole big stressful mess will be done and over with. If not next time you see me I may have no hair and have other lost 10 lbs or gained 20.


Side Note: Ahh the joys of being a first time mother, I am sure many of you mothers of many are giggling in your head right now remembering the first time your first kid got really sick and it stressed you out, and now it is like ahh yes another kid is sick again whats new.

Another Side Note: I love my little munchkin but moments like this definitely have me wishing she was more closer to the 100th percentile in weight then the 5th percentile in weight.

LAST GETAWAY!!!

In two weeks I go back to work, yikes that went by way to fast. Life will slow down and speed up all at the same time. No doubt our life at home will be busier but the outings and traveling will definitely slow down. So we decided to have one last small vacation before that.

Thursday we traveled to Ponoka to see Mom and Dad Dudley. We chumbed  around Friday and waited for Brock and Chelsey and there kids to arrive, we had an awesome dinner, then sent the kids to bed so the adults could play some games and munch on more yummy food. Then we headed out nice and early Saturday for a day at the West Edmonton Mall Waterpark. It was definitely the highlight of the trip. It was a blast and the new waterslide there is to die for amazing fun. I felt like a kid again. A huge thanks to Mom and Dad for watching Macie for us in the kid pool so Mark and I could feel like kids again. Macie was adorable and of course loved every minute of it, and why wouldn't she, she loves swimming. The little munchkin lasted over 4 hours in the swimming pool and I kid you not besides the odd snack break was in the water the whole time having a blast, she especially loved going down the slide. When we were done swimming we headed to Red Robin's for dinner and Macie fell asleep as she hadn't napped all day and slept in my arms for a good 20 minutes at the restaurant, this has never happened before that is how much Grandma and Grandpa wore her out. Sunday we chumbed around some more and ate of course more food and played a lot of card games. Such a great weekend with family, it was nice to have the fun moments and the lazy moments.

loved Macie's face in this picture

probably played at this station for almost 2 hours in total

was obsessed with this keyboard all weekend, and was being so cute dancing to the music.

Paytin is obsessed with Molly and Lily.