Funny Stuff

So everyone tells me that I should write down some of the stuff Mckenzie says because she is so funny sometimes, so here it is:

Yesterday when my friend needed us to watch her daughter, who is 3 (McKenzie is 5 by the way) McKenzie wanted me to drop her off so she could babysit all by herself. She told me she was practically like a teenager because she can babysit and surf board...which she has never done. I told her that we should try surf boarding sometime and she said she would...only if she could have goggles and floaties on!

Then we went up to my brother's house up in Ogden and right before we were leaving, my nephew..who makes fun of me because I make McKenzie eat healthy...told her to make sure I got her a bug juice on the way home. Of course she asks me for one and I tell her no because she needs to drink more water. She told me that I needed to make myself be nice and let her have a bug juice. Thank you Taylor!

She also told me that she wants me to call the school and tell them that she wants to be in all day kindergarten. She has suddenly gotten a very independent streak...which I think is not all bad.

Happy 5th Birthday McKenzie

My sweet daughter!

So last week, McKenzie turned 5. I can't believe it...she is already 5! She had a fun "friends" party at her gymnastics place. they did a bunch of obstacle courses. The highlight of course was jumping down the tumbling track into the foam pit. McKenzie also thought it was so cool when her coach said that she didn't have to follow normal gym rules because it was a birthday party...she could have free reign of the gym. She was in heaven. After an hour in the gym, she got to have cupcakes and presents which was her other favorite part!

The princess also got a cousins swimming party the day before her birthday. Thanks to Grandma Diane she got to have a swimming party at the country club with all her cousins. And the highlight....she got to have both Grandma's there. Grandma Topham came up with Eron and Emma. We met at my Mom's house for lunch, then went over to the club to swim for a couple hours. After that, we went back to Grandma Diane's house for snow cones and cookies. No pictures of that party though since I forgot my camera. I am relying on Grandma Topham to send me the ones that she took!

On her actual birthday, we took her to the Gateway to make a build-a-bear, then got dinner and went to Toy Story 3 in 3d. It was a fun movie...the first party was anyway. We made it through an hour of the movie when Bodie got called out and we had to leave so he could go to work. Boo! She was so good about it though and we promised we would take her to see all of it another day. All in all I think she had a fun 5th birthday.

Oh...I almost forgot. According to McKenzie I am the best mom ever. That's right....EVER, and I'll tell you why. Bodie and I got her a snow cone maker for her birthday. The girl loves snow cones more than any other treat, so I thought it would be fun to get her a snow cone maker. That cuts my trips for slushies way down which is a bonus for me! SO, when you're in the mood for a snow cone, head on down to my house!
Some things about the 5 year old McKenzie:

She love, love, loves gymnastics...she has only taken it for a couple months and is always tumbling around the house.

She loves to listen to Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Hannah Montanna, and Miley Cyrus. She is also always singing and dancing around the house.

She loves to be the center of attention...which is a complete 180 from my 2 year old McKenzie who was so shy, I wondered if she would ever get over it.

She is so sweet. She is constantly making sure that I am happy...except when she is being sassy!

She is smart and beautiful and I am so lucky she is my daughter!

McKenzie can't wait to start kindergarten. She loves to learn new things and I am totally confident that she will do great.

McKenzie....we love ya...more than you will ever know!

Swimming through the foam pit. (not sure what setting I had my camera on, but all the action shots came out blurry!)

Opening the snow cone maker

Enjoying a snow cone!

It's Summer!!!!

We are loving summer here! I know Mckenzie was just in preschool, but I am loving not having to get her up early! So far, our summer has consisted of a family Lagoon day with all the Dangerfield's and Taylor's girlfriend...Tori! The girls were so excited that she was going to be there and they were all fighting about who got to go on the rides with her. Thanks Tori for being so awesome with the girls! We have also had several cousins sleepovers. We have had Lily, Lucy, Luke, Grace, Emma, and Eron over (at different times!) When Bodie's mom came to pick up Emma and Eron, she invited McKenzie to go up to Logan with her for a few days to hang out with her cousins up there. Lucy earned a sleepover all by herself so she called us yesterday and said "guess what? It's tonight!" When I asked what tonight was she said it was the night for her sleepover at our house, but she could only stay for 5 nights! Leslie heard and corrected her in the background. Anyway, we have had so much fun! The girls are sitting here watching Phineas and Ferb saying how hilarious it is, but I don't hear any laughing! They got in a couple fights last night so they came to me and said, that they accidentally fought a little, but that tomorrow would be a better day and they would try harder to not fight! McKenzie is lucky to have all her cousins be her best friends. Even the Hawaii cousins that we don't get to see much! We will always be so glad that we decided to go out there and spend a few weeks with them.

Much love to all the cousins!

I have the best daughter ever.....

I am always thinking about how cool my daughter is so I thought that I would actually write it down and she will be able to read it someday and know that despite all of my grumpiness sometimes, I really do think she is the best. Yesterday we were walking to Nigh Time to get some donuts and she had her baby and her "baby bag" that she wanted to take with her. She told me that in her baby bag, she had a diet coke for me just in case I need one. I thought it was so cute that when she was packing her bag she would think of me.
Other things I love about McKenzie:

• I love to watch her sing and dance....she wants to be a rockstar when she grows up and she is well on her way!
• She loves babies, which includes all kids younger than her. So if she is ever treating your 3 year old like a baby it is because she loves to mother kids younger than her!
• She loves to write in her science journal like Sid the Science kid. She loves to learn new things.
• She still loves to hang out with me and her dad, which I hear will change when she is a teenager!
• Believe it or not, I even sometimes like it when she gets a little sassy and talks back. I try discipline and most times I do, but sometimes it just cracks me up!
• She is funny....one night I told her that she could watch one Phineas and Ferb on my bed before she went to sleep. She came out and said...Mom, I accidentally watched 2 shows instead of one. This morning, she told me that she woke up to dance! And yesterday as we were walking past the mortuary and saw the casket in the hearse (everyone was outside crying getting ready to go to the cemetery) and McKenzie said, loudly, "there's the dead body"
• She's my little buddy. I just love to hang out with her. She's the best!

I am so blessed to have been given such a great daughter! We love you kid!

Girl's Trip!

McKenzie and I got to go on a girls trip to Hawaii for 2 weeks this past month. We were going to go out to visit Amanda and help with the kids while David was supposed to be on a sub for 6 months. Turns out, he had to come home early, so we got to see him which was an added bonus...especially when he watched all the kids including McKenzie so that Amanda and I could go out shopping and to dinner. We had so much fun. The plane rides were worth it. (Of course that is the worst part but McKenzie did great...better than me!)

Some things we did in Hawaii:

Fun at the Dole Plantation...eating pineapple ice cream, riding the train, and feeding the fish.

Driving the Escalade around the block and pretending they were taking each other to school

BBQ chicken at the Hale Koa in Waikiki, then play at the beach until dark, grab a piece of cheesecake from cheescake factory and watching the fireworks at the beach....it was a great day!

We had lots of chances to swim in the ocean

At the Zoo

Shave ice from Matsumotos....where Dawson had the worst day of his life when Amanda ...trying to be sneaky...dumped some of his shave ice on the ground because it was too big. He ran to the other side of the van and saw what she did. He was not happy!

Became mermaids in the sand - with water wings just in case the mermaids can't swim very well!

Play at the beach and watched the waves at the North ShoreI know it's a bad picture, but this is whale watching at the Makapu'u light house. It was really cool. We saw a lot of whales...or a few very active ones!

Merry Christmas...LATE!!!!

Christmas Morning ready to go to Grandma's

Presents with the cousins

Hitting the pinata

Christmas morning with the pet pillow

I know this is super late, but I am finally getting Christmas pictures up. We had a great Christmas...Santa was very good to us. McKenzie got her purple hippo pet pillow that she asked for, and a cupcake maker that we all love (okay it is one of those toys that is fun for kids, but really annoying for parents). She also got some clothes...that she won't wear because she didn't pick them out and I guess I didn't do a good job. I did make two major mistakes though...I bought her pants, and they are a size 4, not 4T. Who knew there was such a big difference in size. They drown her. Oh well! My favorite present she got was a V-smile pocket thing. It is the kid video game system that you can take in the car. It is heaven!

We had so much fun at the Dangerfield family Christmas Eve party which, as always, consisted of ice skating with Grandpa, Mexican food at my parent's house with a pinata and gift exchanges with the cousins. It is always a fun time.

Because Christmas was on a Friday, it made it easy for us to go to Monroe to visit Bodie's parents. We left Christmas day after breakfast and presents and drove down for the weekend. We had a fun weekend playing with cousins and Grandma and Grandpa. McKenzie even got to stay a couple extra days with Grandma Topham. Thanks Grandma for keeping her. There are so many times that we are in the car and she demands that I take her to see Grandma Topham.

We had a great Christmas and feel very blessed to be part of such great families!

Catch Up!

Mcky at her preschool program

After the first dance recital...she loved it!

Mcky entertaining herself in the car!

Well, we are all moved in and have some catching up to do! We sold our house and temporarily moved in with my parents where we celebrated Halloween. McKenzie had a few different halloween parties to go to and dressed different for each one. At Grandma Diane's party she was a cheerleader, at her school party she was a bunny, and at the dance party, country club party, and trick-or-treating she came up with her own costume and was a "tap girl"...a girl wearing a leotard and tap shoes. Sorry...no pictures right now those are on my old camera that is now broken!

Mid-November my sister and her family came in town for Thanksgiving...Bodie, Mckenzie and I moved into Leslie and Nate's house so Amanda could spend more time at my parents. Mckenzie was in heaven...she now has 2 sisters (Lily and Lucy) and 1 brother (Luke), 2 Mom's and Dad's! We had a sistee Thanksgiving at Leslie's house. It was so fun...and memorable. I have not laughed that hard in a very long time! It was great.

December came and with that a preschool program, a dance recital, and fun time with our families. McKenzie did great at her dance recital. The best part for her was all the makeup she got to wear. Now everytime I have the radio on she pretends she is on stage and makes me turn off the light when the song is over so she can run off stage. Bodie brought her flowers for doing such a great job and my brother also stopped to get flowers for the 4 girls in the recital. McKenzie is lucky enough to dance with Lucy, Lily, and Grace. It is amazing how much those little girls loved their flowers.

We are all settled into the house now and McKenzie finally has her blue bedroom she has been wanting for a long time. It was not fun to paint, but turned out much better than I thought. We are loving it here and loving the fact that we are all living together again.