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MARDI GRAS!!!!

My hubby scored some wonderful tickets from Devon again to go to lloydminsters annual Mardi Grad festival last night. We had two extra tickets as well and so we invited are new friends the Franklins to come with us. We were clueless as to how to dress up and definitely were the odd people out not being dressed up all crazy. We had a blast. There was live music, great dancing and delicious jambalaya and cornbread served at 11:00. If we go against next year we are definitely going to be more prepared with our costumes them just bead necklaces.

THE LITTLE FAN

Tonight we headed to another Lakeland basketball game. Macie is so cute when we go and loves clapping her hands and making loud noises. She watches so intensely. The best though tonight when the music came on she started dancing like crazy and had all the fans cheering for her. It was so stinking cute.

Starfish Squad

For a few weeks now I have been able to take Macie to Swimming Lessons. Our group is called the starfish. Ages range from 6-14 months. Macie loves the water, and has been enjoying spending 1/2 hour at the pool every Saturday. We sing songs and play in the water, and try to get more comfortable getting our heads wet and floating on our backs and stomachs. As a dad this has been a real joy. We have a lot of fun. I think her favorite is watching the other babies and hearing us all sing, even though we are so out of tune. My favorite part, aside from the 5-10 min in the hot tub, is being there with Macie.  We sing  "tiny Tim the turtle" "the Grand ole Duke of York" "Hokey Pokey" "5 Green & Speckled Frogs" "Alice the Camel" and we play "what time is it Mr Shark" "fish in the net"

I may have missed some.  I know Macie will not remember doing any of this, but for me I am glad to spend some time with her, and play with her, and dunk her.
Today she got her very first report card. As you can see, she is a great student.

One week

Only 7 days left before valentines day. I have never been big about this day and find it to be a waste of money, now that we have a kid though I am excited more and more for all these use to be pointless holidays. I am still not big on the whole spending money and supporting money hungry corporations. However there is definitely nothing wrong with making fun crafts and filling them with fun surprises throughout the week.

Mark of course made the best valentines box, that crafty man. Makes me so jealous.

excited to fill those little boxes with surprises.

Macie mostly ate grapes and crackers and watched mom make her valentines box

1ST PAID PHOTO SHOOT!

I am cheep when it comes to getting professional pictures of Macie, but seeing as she hadn't had any done since my Sister did them when she was a newborn I figured it was time to fork out a little dough and get some done. They turned out super cute and I am so glad I did. We just went to the Wal-Mart Photo centre to get them done as this summer we are going to hopefully get family pictures done.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAPA!!!

Today we did a family trip to edmonton just for the day to meet up with grandma and grandpa Dudley and take Grandpa out for a birthday lunch. We went to Moxies and it did not disappoint everything was delicious. We then headed to Walmart to get a birthday present for macie and then to this place called let's play so Macie could burn off some energy and play with grandma and grandpa before we had to head home. It was a great day and such a fun time with my parents.

5 AM Wake Up Call

This morning as my phone started going off at 5:00, I was like what the heck is going on, then it hit me. Today I start my morning workout routine. First off to say that I am not a morning person is an understatement, but these past 4 months since going back to work, my hubby back teaching at night and a child that wears me ought during the day I have not had consistent work outs. When adding being done nursing and going on birth control pills to the mix the scale keeps crawling up a little every couple of weeks, I have less energy then when I use to work out consistently everyday and my clothes don't feel as comfortable. So back to the grind it is. I hope I have the strength to be consistent as I know it will truly make for better days and just feeling all around better and healthier.

A couple things to note about working out that early in the morning
- running when you feel like a zombie is not as fun and it takes a good 20 minutes into my run before I feel alive.
- there are a lot more people at the gym then you would think
- my favorite music to workout to sounds like jackhammers in the morning and I definitely skip the white strips and leave on Ingrid michaelson.
- I'm not a huge fan of working out on an empty stomach and will have to train myself to get use to it.
- the one good thing is that it is 7:24 right now and I have already worked out, showered, cleaned my bedroom and bathroom and written a blog post. Oh and got to say morning prayers with my hubby and give him a hug and kiss before he left for his first day at his new job.

She's gonna have Rice in her Diap

Quote from Mark as he was piling rice onto our daughters lap.
She did find it much more exciting then being out of the rice box.

FOR DADDY!!!

Forgive Molly she is not done being shaved.