Happy Birthday Madison!

Yesterday was Madison's birthday! I can't believe she is six already! She started off the day great. She had her favorite breakfast of ebleskivers (sp?) then, as if she hadn't had enough sweets she took little donuts to church for her Sunday School class. We went to Panera Bread for lunch, a favorite for her. However, I should have known something was up when she didn't eat much. All she wanted to do in the afternoon was lay around and watch TV. For dinner she said she wanted sausage pizza, so that's what we had. She only ate one very small piece and then wanted to skip cake and ice cream and open presents. As soon as she was done, she wanted to have Daddy read her a story in bed. We sang Happy Birthday, but she was snuggled up on her Daddy's lap. Unfortunately, no fun birthday pictures or video's like Mackenzie's. It had to have been the worst birthday for her so far. I think we will have a redo this weekend when she is feeling better. Madison woke up around 4am saying her tummy hurt and was running a fever. It is not strep throat as I had feared, but we have medicine anyway since the holiday's are coming up. Not sure I like that idea, but hopefully it will make her better here soon. Usually two doses and she bounces right back. She is sad to be missing school today and tomorrow since it is Native American craft day and tomorrow is the Native American meal. Oh, well. I think Cinderella is doing a fine job of making her feel better right now.

Hope you are all feeling well and looking forward to a fun Turkey Day! If Madison is better we will be joining Greg's family at his Aunt Judy and Uncle Gary's house. It will be fun to see everyone again. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Mackenzie's birthday video's

Here are a few video's from Mackenzie's birthday. We just got the video camera and this is my first attempt at putting them online. We will see if it works!

This is from the gymnastics studio's open gym.

More open gym. Getting brave enought to go down the big slide.

Singing happy birthday.

Happy Birthday Mackenzie!

Today was Mackenzie's 3rd birthday. We had such a great day. Madison and I took her to McDonalds for breakfast then after we took Madison to Daisy Scouts and school she and I went to open gym. She is not the bravest, but she loves the place anyway. I will admit that she was much more willing to try things today then in the past. Must be the extra year she added today! Afterwards she went with me to pick up her Mickey and Minnie balloons and she Spongbob birthday cake. She really wanted the cake to be eaten on Ariel plates, but I told her that something had to go together, so she went with Minnie plates. She was very excited with her gifts. She got clothes from Mommy and Daddy, she LOVES clothes, Mickey and Minnie t-shirts and tattoos from Madison and an Ariel "barbie" and tattoos from Kennedy. For the past week we have been asking her what she wants for her birthday dinner. She has said "pepperpony" pizza each time. She cannot say pepperoni and we don't try to correct her since pepperpony is so much cuter! Anyway, late this afternoon I mentioned the pizza and she had a fit. She informed me that she HATES pepperpony pizza and that she wanted mac-n-cheese. Well if she had told me earlier I could have made our favorite homemade mac-n-cheese with ham, but she didn't, so we gave in and bought the box stuff. She was thrilled! I guess it's OK since Sunday is Madison's birthday and she wants sausage pizza. I am happy to not have to eat pizza twice in one weekend. Enjoy the pictures from her special day.

Playing at USGTC open gym!

Finally brave enough to go down with big slide, backwards!

Minnie and Minnie, I mean Mackenzie.

She loves her Minnie ears!

The Sponge Bob cake. I really tried to have her get the Princess or Mickey, but she was not having anything to do with them.

12 Years!

Yesterday, November 16, Greg and I celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary! I still can't believe we have been married for 12 years and I have to say it has been a great 12 years. It is hard to believe that in those years we have finished collage, moved to Barrington, started new jobs, moved to Fox River Grove, had Kennedy, got a dog, had Madison and Mackenzie, moved again and so much more. It has been a busy and sometimes crazy 12 years, but years I would never trade for anything.

My parents came down on Thursday and stayed with the girls while Greg and I got away for a long weekend. On Friday morning we went to Genevia and stayed at a wonderful hotel. The Harrington was awesome. (It was my dream master bedroom/bathroom.) We spent part of Friday doing the spa thing then went to see the new 007 movie and then to a nice dinner. Since it was "our" anniversary and not "my" anniversary, I had to give in to the movie. We were both disappointed with it though. Not the best Bond movie. Anyway, Saturday we spent some time at the Aurora outlet mall. Of course, most of what we bought was for the girls, but it was still fun. That night we went to a steakhouse for dinner and then to Zannie's Comedy Den in St. Charles. It was a fun and funny night. Sunday brought a wonderful brunch and then we headed home. It was certainly a great time away, but it sure was nice to walk in the door to the squeals from the girls. Mackenzie is a Mommy's girl and she would not let me put her down the rest of the day. So, thanks Mom and Dad for making this weekend away possible!

And Greg, if you are reading this, thanks for 12 wonderful years! I can't wait to see what the next 12 have in store for us. I love you, babe!

OK, now that the anniversary is over it's time to concentrate on the two birthday's coming up this week. Mackenzie can't wait to be 3 and keeps telling us she is three already. It seems like it was just yesterday that we were at Thanksgiving with our 3 DAY old Mackenzie. Where did those years go?

We are still here!

I can't believe how long it has been since I have lasted posted anything. Sorry! Life has been a little busy lately. Not a whole lot big happening, just our normal crazy life. We had my family in town a couple of weeks ago and celebrated Madison, Mackenzie and AC's birthday's. We won't get to see them until Christmas time, so we thought we would do the birthday thing a little early. They will be spoiled enough at Christmas so lets spread out the spoiling! I will post pictures of that when I get some from my sister (hint, hint). For now, here are the pictures from Halloween.

You want me to stick my hand in there? I don't think so!

Well, OK. Hey, this is fun!

Group shot. Kennedy, the hippy. Madison, the cowgirl. Mackenzie, Jo Jo the clown.