Date night with Wade

A bike ride, some good talk and a special treat to end some one on one time with Wade. Love this crazy boy so much!!!

One little stitch

I don't really even know how to explain what happened to Macie, but just imagine an earring with a tiny little fake diamond that pushed its way into Macies ear over the past couple of days and then the ear closed up with the earring inside of it. So you have this earring that won't come out the back because of the diamond on it and the skin  is closed up in the front so you can't push it back through. So we had to make our way to the E.R. The Doctor tried pulling it out at first with some special tools but when that didn't work he had to freeze her little ear make a teeny tiny cut, pull out the earring and then give her one little stitch cause the ear bleeds really bad and won't stop unless you stitch it up. The Doctor was so proud of how brave Macie was and that she didn't wine or cry, she barely even flinched that he let her pick out a stuffed animal. Of course cause we had just had a frog as a pet for the past two days she picked the funny looking frog and we named him Spark Jr

SPARK!!!

On Tuesday we went out to a friends house that lived on an acreage and they had just cut the grass which means tons of frogs. Macie loved them and asked to take one home. It was the smallest one there, we got a mason jar for it and some grass and water. Macie named him Spark  (I was super impressed with her name) and we took him home with us. We played outside with him as much as possible but finally today we had to release him so he could go get food. Macie was so sad and really struggled but finally found the strength and let him go. So fun having her own pet for a couple of days. 

Last Day of Preschool!!!

It is crazy that this day has come. She has grown so much this year and I am loving the little girl she is turning into. Her teacher Mrs Stacey Reid was amazing and I couldn't have asked for a better person to help Macie along in her journey of life. This September will be 4 year old preschool and then Kindergarten. 

Best Buds!!!!

These two are becoming best buddies and it is beyond cute!!! Love when I walk in on them snuggling together. 

Two Face lives on!!

Every single time this kid gets hurt it is always on the left side of his face. The Dog bite, cutting open his forehead, a subconjunctival hemmorage to his eye from the end of a dinosaur tail, little cuts and scrapes have always been on this side and today he smoked his face on his bed and of course hit his left eye pretty hard.  We started calling him two face after awhile. 

ANOTHER CHANGE!!

A month ago Mark went up to a work camp called Jackfish for Devon. His boss talked to him while he was there and said they needed someone up here full time, would you consider taking it. It would be back to shift work 8 days on 6 days off, and while he is working he is away from the family. We talked about it and prayed about and it felt like the right decision to take it. He would have an awesome trainer to work under, would be able to finish more of his inspection courses, a little bit more pay, and the best part it would allow us to live wherever we wanted. He told his boss that he was interested and in less then a month the deal was made and he starts his new position at the end of May. The process went so fast we thought for sure it would be August at the earliest he would start the new job but nope they wanted him right away. I am so proud of Mark and how hard he has worked at his job and the opportunities he has been given because of it. We definitely won't be moving right away as we have lots of decisions to make and we need the housing market to go back up, but we are excited to eventually be closer to family, the mountains, the temple, and bigger cities.  There is even talk about building on our land in Glenwood, but we shall see. 

Becoming a big kid!!

Writing, learning her alphabet, learning to do hand stands (with the help of a wall) I love that she is learning all these new things, but she is becoming less and less of my baby everyday :( 

MOTHERS DAY!!!!

Love that these two cuties, made me a Mother!!

Somehow we did it!!!

So today was our big half marathon, I was getting really discouraged as the day before I started cramping and bloating. I told Mark I didn't think I was gonna be able to do it. My period was not suppose to come until the week after but last month it came 4 days early and this one came 3 days early. I was so annoyed. Mark was so good about it and understanding but I could tell he was sad we were not gonna do it together. After some serious pondering I decided to suck it up and do the race. My amazing friend Melanie Ellis watched the kids for us. We got there nice and early and meet some friends from church, at 9:00 we headed out. The sun was beautiful and shining bright. Mark was beyond amazing and motivated me when cramps started and held my hand during rough moments. By kilometre 16 we knew this was gonna happen that we were gonna finish. We had to walk at km 18 from tired legs and not the nicest path, then we hit km 20 and picked it up again and ran into the finish line with our amazing friends at the end to run in with us.