Spring Happenings

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May Long Weekend

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The Elves and the Shoemaker

The show was finally here! After a crazy month with lots of practices, Mackensey's Musical Theater performance was a success. Unfortunately the play did not call for a lot of roles, so Mackensey played one of the elves that works on shoes while the shoemaker sleeps. I think that I will have "March, march, march - here comes the Elf brigade..." in my head for weeks to come. They performed the play for two nights.

Mackensey with a good friend - getting ready for the show

Our Star

Beginning stage scene

Double Digits Baby!

I can't believe that Mackensey is ten! Shane keeps telling her that she is seven. Mackensey's exact words, "Double Digits, Baby!" This was also her first girl/boy party ( She has been to many, but we have always had just girl parties). Shane asked me when did we discuss this and I told him that he better be ready, because she is just like me, and I would rather play with the boys when I was her age - well, and older!

Her party was a swim party so we went with a Hawaiian theme. My friend made the cake, and Mackensey wanted the umbrellas in the drinks! Because it was spring break, we did not have near the turn out on guests, but the kids still had a blast. We have followed the swim party with Shane grilling his MackDaddy burgers and a sleepover (Girls ONLY!!!).

Cowichan Aquatic Center (0ne half of it - much bigger). Wave pool, fountains, lazy river, olympic size pool, indoor slide, hot tub, sauna, etc.

Off the high dive

Shane laughed at this picture and called her a Diva!

The umbrella drinks - Cheers!

Hoping to not set off the smoke alarm

This was Shane's way of getting crowd control!

Ben

This is Ben. He was named after the Steelers quarterback. He has been so much fun and is quite the snuggle dog. Shane says that he is not the smartest dog; however, we don't care. The kids and I say that what he doesn't have in brains; he makes up for in looks!

Mackensey reading to Ben. She loves to read out loud to anyone who will listen.

Winter Fun - Maybe Not!

Well, they were predicting snow, and just under predicted a bit. We had 14 inches! Mackensey enjoyed the snow for a little while. It was wet and deep and hard to sled on. I talked her into a snow angel.

Conor said he officially hates snow after spending hours (literally) of digging out our driveway and cars. He was not able to sled due to his knee and wondered how he could use the knee to his advantage to get out of shoveling but no such luck.

Our power went off at 2:00 in the morning and did not come back on until 2:00 in the afternoon. Thank goodness for the fireplace or we would have been freezing! I boiled hot water on the stove to make hot chocolate. Mackensey said, "This is just like the pioneer days!" I told her that this is not even close. Both kids were quite annoyed that they had a snow day from school but no tv or computers. My poor children - I remember Scott and I out sledding for hours (or so it seemed). I remember sledding down into the woods banging into trees. Oh those were the days!!!!!

Beautiful Day at Cherry Point

We just love to go to Cherry Point every chance that we get. The winter can be very rainy and dark here, so we took advantage of a beautiful Saturday. The mountains are so beautiful.

Mackensey is such a Daddy's girl (which she should be). I just love both of these pictures!

I just added the picture below to show everyone Mackensey's hair. She wanted highlights, so she saved some of her Christmas money and had them done. They look very cute and not too old. However, I am in lots of trouble when she is a teenager if the hair coloring has started already.