Happy Birthday Presley Continued....

I didn't have time to finish my post for Presley's birthday, so here is low- down on the events.

We spent the weekend in SLC. Presley decided that she wanted to go to Chuck E Cheese for her birthday. So all of Josh's family that was in town came and we had a crazy couple hours at Chuck E Cheese.

Presley shares a birthday with her cousin Brooklyn so we had a joint party.
This is some of the cousins that were there.
This is Brooklyn and Presley. Brookie is allergic to lots of stuff so her mommy made these adorable Vegan cupcakes that everyone loved. Presley's cake was not vegan but was delicious none the same ( and very adorable, if I do say so myself :)
Opening presents
Trying to win tickets with Daddy. I think the Dads got into it as much as the kids did. We won about 1000 tickets, enough to buy each kid a cheap toy that broke in the car on the drive home. Well worth it though, right?
Yummy....I think?

It was a great birthday and she is a beautiful little four year old and certainly my favorite 4 year old in the whole world. We are so glad she is in our family. By the way, Chuck E Cheese was actually really fun. I would recommend a weekday instead of a Saturday but still fun.

Happy Birthday Presley

Bear Lake!

This post is approximately 2 months late. But better late than never, I guess. This year my family had our first Mark and Stella Mackey family reunion in Bear Lake. It was a good time had by all. We camped for two nights had dutch oven, rode bikes, hit the lake, played cards, had a hot dog roast and every other great thing that comes with camping and family reunions. Josh is one that hates family reunions, I'm not sure how this feeling came about, but he actually had a really good time at this one. These are some pictures of our events. This is us playing in the sand. My kids were astonished that there was actually sand at the lake. They are used to the Flaming Gorge where the beaches consist of rocks, mud or sagebrush.

Teag is intrigued by the a couple of things 1) he can see his toes in the water or 2) the feeling of sand up in places that it probably shouldn't be.
Presley has OCD about toe jam in her toes. She checks her toes(and Teag's) for toe jam several times a day. The sand between her toes was killing her. She just couldn't take it.
Josh lookin' hot on his pontoon boat. He brought it to try fishing but my nieces and nephews ended up having possession of it most of the day. They all loved it.
Teag is trying to escape the play pen, but to no avail.
It was a great weekend. Gotta love Bear Lake and Raspberry shakes. Just wish it was a bit closer so we could enjoy it more often.

Presley Rides

Presley decided that she was big enough to ride her bike without training wheels a couple weeks ago. It took her about 3 minutes to get it down. She did awesome.

Ready, Set, Pull!

Family Picture Time.....Finally

I finally scheduled some family pictures and these are the results:

These pictures were all taken by Breanne Aullman with BTA Designs. She did a great job and I'm so happy that she was willing to drive to Rock Springs to do them.

"But their mothers will be sad"

Just a quick note about our tender-hearted daughters....Tonight Josh brought home some baby mice from the pet store.  They are called fuzzies cause they have hair but they are still very tiny.  He brought them home with the intention of feeding them to his Arowana (one of his fish that is about a foot long).  However, the girls caught sight of them before the feeding frenzy was able to begin and you can guess what happened.  The girls latched on to them right away, naming them Jaq and Gus-Gus, and not wanting to put them down.  I have to admit they were very cute little critters.  The girls wanted to know if they could keep them, and I, not wanting to lie, and also wanting them to face the realities of owning super large fish, told them what the plan was.  

They immediately were up in arms and tears started to well up in the corner's of Kenady's eyes.  That one I saw coming but I didn't expect Presley to have the same reaction.  She said, "We can't feed them to the fish, or else their mothers will be sad..."  She couldn't finish because she got choked up with tears and emotions.  Then the waterworks came from both of them.

So I asked them what we should do with them and they said we should take them back to their mothers.  (you can't keep them because they will die, we called the pet store to see if we could keep them as pets after we saw how much the girls loved them, but the answer was no.  They said we could try to feed them with a syringe full of milk every 2 hours (not happening), but they would still probably die after not too long.)  

So I thought Josh was going to say that he was taking them back but then feed them to the fish anyway, nope, we all loaded up in the car and took back the baby mice to their mothers.  

Sidenote:  in between the time that we decided to take them back and when we actually took them back, the girls got out their littlest pet shop stuff and played house with the baby mice.  They were sitting in the the pet shop's house and swinging in the pet shops swing, they made nice soft beds for them, oh yeah, it was quite a sight.  

Anyway,  sleep well baby mice, back with your mother. ( I don't think I would have had the heart to feed them to the Arowana either, they were pretty dang cute for rodents!)