F.H.E. Swimming

Tonight we decided to go swimming for F.H.E. We took Macie swimming for the first time this past Thursday with Annika and Cole and she loved watching all the people, so we thought it would be fun to take her again. She was so adorable kicking in the water and watching everybody play, and come down the slide. She lasted for almost a whole entire hour, but then was starting to get tired. She looked especially cute in her little bathing suite tonight. Thank you Lara for the adorable gift.

SUNDAY!!

How to explain the feelings I felt on this most special day for my daughter. Everything started out so perfect. She woke up nice and early so that I could feed her twice before her blessing have lots of time to get her and myself ready and even arrived at the church 15 minutes early, plenty of time to rock her to sleep before her blessing. She had a different thought in her mind though. She wanted to be awake for the whole thing. I was so nervous as she was getting fussy moments before Mark was to come and take her out of my arms and give her a name and a blessing. Bro Onofrychuk announced it Mark came and took her from my arms, all the other men invited made there way up to the front and Macie started crying. My heart sunk knowing she was going to cry threw the whole thing. I was wrong though the moment Mark started talking there was total and complete silence and she remand silent the whole entire blessing. Tevin my Nephew that held the mike said that Macie just sat there and smiled at Mark the whole entire time he gave her a blessing, how adorable is that. Mark did an amazing job with the blessing and I don't know if there was a dry eye in the chapel. The moment Mark started blessing her he teared up which of course stared the water works from me, but when he said that we have long awaited your arrival I couldn't stop balling.

Macie this was such a special day for you and your Mom and Dad. I hope you know how much your mom and dad love you. Your Dad did an amazing job giving you a blessing and was preparing months before so that he could have the spirit with him and know what your Heavenly Father wanted you to be blessed with. Thank you for coming into our life and picking us to be your parents I hope we do well by you and give you all the love that you need. We love you so much and are so grateful for the wonderful precious Daughter of God that you are.


my sister took some wonderful pictures which I will post when I get them but I did take a couple with my crappy camera of Macie looking darling in her dress.

SATURDAY!!

About two months ago we started planning for Macie's blessing and thought it would be a good idea to also throw my Dad a 60th birthday party as he was in arizona when he had his birthday. We also thought since Mark's birthday was going to be that Saturday we should probably celebrate his as well seeing as he was turning the big 30! So we started planning away, we got my mom to pick up dad's awesome birthday present from us kids in the states as it was way cheaper. Then we booked the servus sports center seeing as at the time there was going to be close to 50 people coming up for Macie's blessing. I ordered a cake and we thought we would do pizza and games at our house afterwards. So all the plans were in place and set until mother nature decided to run a muck. Not only did most of Mark's family not be able to make it up thanks to this horrible weather that graced us this weekend all of my family arrived late. With it starting to look like nothing was going to work out I gave up all hope for what this wonderful weekend was suppose to be. We got to the sports center and all the local family showed up and even with it being few numbers we had an absolute blast. So worth every penny spent on renting out the gym even if it was just for the locals. Then when we got home with the pizza and cake my mom and dad (the guest of honor) and the Halls had finally arrived. So we partied the night away eating tons of pizza, delicious cake, Dad opening his awesome present from us kids, and visiting with everybody. We also bought an air hockey table the other day so there was many games being played there. It was a blast and I am sad so many others missed it but so happy that everything still worked out and we had so much fun, celebrating two amazing men in my life birthdays.

NIECE AND NEPHEW!

This Weekend I had the opportunity to spend Wednesday to Sunday with my two wonderful niece and nephew Annika and Cole (Mark's sister Corrine's two oldest) I have always thought these two were great but have never spent some real one on one time with them. This weekend though we got a good 3 days with them before everybody else arrived. It was so wonderful getting to know them better. I especially got to spend some time with Annika as she helped a lot with Macie and supper. They are such great kids, listen good, always wanting to have fun and the best part they liked my cooking, most kids don't as it is more grown up people food so I was quit excited every time they devoured my food and told me how good it was. It truly was a treat getting to know these two wonderful kids better and we are so lucky to have them in our life.