Girls Weekend

We decided we needed to start a Girls Weekend Tradition with my Mom and sisters.  Matt is swamped with school so McKay and I stayed at my Mom's for a week and everyone came over for the weekend.  Elise brought Joshua and McKay loved having a sidekick.  After they flew back home he kept asking us, "Where Josh?  'Kay need Josh!"  It was cute.  My Dad was a good sport and played with the boys and us girls went and played...  It was so nice to just be all together.  Here are a few of the hundreds of pictures from the weekend (when you have 6 girls together and they all have a camera, you end up with a lot of pictures!)

Aunt Ris and the Boys

We went to Color Me Mine and all made fun creations.  Katelyn's was the most grand- she made this big cupcake cookie jar.  They all turned out really cute!

Our next creation was Bleach Pen T-Shirts.  You take a bleach pen, draw a design on the t-shirt, let it dry, and then wash them.  It was super easy and lots of fun (as long as you don't ask Adrian...).  They turned out really cute- if you need an easy and inexpensive craft- I definately recommend these.

 It wouldn't be a Girls Weekend without matching pajama pants in our new shirts!  Don't we look good? :-)

Grandpa and his Grandsons 

 This was the view you got most of the weekend from McKay and Joshua- they wrestled and ran all weekend long.  McKay loves to wrestle and Joshua was a good sport to let him attack him.  There is almost a year between the two but Joshua is big for his age and McKay is small so they measure up about the same.  They had fun trying to play together.

 Mine and Katelyn's beautiful pedicured toes!

Making our shirts...

Happy Birthday Laura, Elise, and Adrian!

Watch out!  Did I mention McKay likes to wrestle?  You are sitting there comfortable as can be and you hear this "war cry" as he runs at you and attacks.  I got this by accident as he ran and attacked my Mom from behind.

I should send this into Yoplait for advertising.  These boys love their yogurt!!

It was a fun weekend and I am sad to see it end but it is nice to be back home and get back into a routine.  McKay is going through attention withdrawls so if anybody is in Windy Wyoming come on by!

Zoo Day

We are enjoying a week of "summer" vacation- compared to Wyoming, Utah feels like summer!  We've enjoyed playing outside, working in the yards, and just being with family.  Yesterday we took McKay to the zoo with his Wright cousins.  It was a really fun day!  The forcast said it was supposed to be hot so we were a little worried but it wasn't bad at all.  There was a light breeze, kind of overcast and even sprinkled on us a little- so it was perfect to spend the day outside.  McKay picked up every stick along the way and tried to swordfight everyone around, was extremelly impressed with any water feature or pond around, and was mildly interested in the animals...we decided we should start saving and plan a trip to Sea World- he'd jump right in the water I bet!  Here are some pictures of our Zoo adventure (and a few other random pictures).

Happy Mothers Day to me!

 McKay and Daddy out working in the yard.  McKay had fun helping Daddy and using REAL tools.

This summer Hogle Zoo is doing a special dinosaur exhibit.  All throughout the zoo are these life-size dinosaurs that move their heads, growl, and one even spits water at you.  McKay wasn't so sure of them at first but by the end of the day they were his favorite.

McKay and Daddy on the Merry-go-Round petting the Wolf.  He thought he was in a parade.  He would just smile and wave as they rode around and around.

The cousins and Grandpa with T-Rex

My little monkey

Kate, McKay, & Anna.  McKay didn't quite get the measure-up thing but he enjoyed making faces with his cousins.

CHEESE!

The Gang

 So proud of himself for doing the slide all by himself; he came out with a HUGE grin on his face saying "again!" and he did it several times more!

Itsy Bitsy Spider

We had a fun day and a nice relaxing week.  Matt has to get on with schoolwork now but McKay and I get to play a little longer before life gets back to normal again.  Yah for summer!

Birthday & Easter Festivities

We had a wonderful weekend with lots of family, food, and fun.  It was McKay's birthday so the grandparents and aunts came up to help us celebrate.  We had an Easter Egg Hunt, went swimming, played at the park, took naps, and just had fun together.  McKay was royally spoiled as 9 adults helped him find his 10 Easter Eggs!  He had a host of cameras shooting him and he lived it up!  He loved having new people to swordfight and play catch with (I loved having a break too!).  We are so blessed to have such great family.  Thanks for making the LONG and BORING trek to Wyoming to celebrate with us.  Now for the picture overload...

 It is a good thing he was the only kid on this Easter Egg hunt- at each egg he found he had to tell everyone the color, open the egg, and then tell everyone the color of the candy inside.  Only then would he consider moving on to find another egg.  It wasn't a speedy process!

The traditional Rowley Brown Bag Hunt came to Wyoming too.  We're glad the prairie dogs didn't get the bags first!

McKay wanted to show everyone HIS park and how to go down the "beanstalk" (slide) while calling "Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum".  He has quite the imagination.  His aunts having fun playing on the playground.

 Grandma even tried out the playground!

All the family- Thanks everyone for coming up!

McKay and Aunt Katelyn

Curious George!  He opened this present and got the biggest grin on his face- his very own Curious George!

McKay making silly faces for his faithful audience

For his birthday dessert I wanted to do something fun but McKay is such a picky eater I had to work with foods I knew he liked and would eat...so I came up with dirt- a little boy's classic:  Pudding, oreo cookie crumbs, and gummy worms.  He loved it!

Riding the new trike!

Happy Easter!

 McKay's wall of cards!  He is a very loved boy.  All week long he got at least one birthday card from cousins or great-grandparents.  He would get so excited to get "McKay's Mail".  Thanks everyone who sent fun cards!

The proud 2-year old!  McKay has mastered crawling out of his crib so we had to turn it into a bed.  He has done pretty good so far and is very proud of his "big boy bed".  He has been telling me all day, "Mommy, Kay a big boy."  Time goes by too fast!

We hope you all had a Happy Easter Weekend!  Now back to regular life again...

Picture Day

A few days ago I took McKay to get his 2-year pictures taken.  Now for those of you who know my son know that he isn't the most sociable in new situations (understatement of the year!) so I wasn't really expecting this to be a fun adventure.  I just wanted to get one semi-happy picture.  I packed every snack, candy, and bribery items I could think of and headed out.  We walked into the store and a kind grandpa said hi to him...meltdown.  I coaxed him with a fruit snack to cheer him back up and entered Sears Portraits.  He was nervous and clingy (like always) but after a few minutes he warmed right up and started cheesing it.  He was living up the attention and was just a little ham- it was so funny to watch.  The pictures turned out adorable and I had the hardest time picking the ones I wanted!  Now why can't he act like that at church for nursery?!  Here are a few of my favorites- they have the copyright thing on them so they aren't the best but oh well.

 

I couldn't get this one to rotate so just turn your head.  Ha-Ha.
We are looking forward to Birthday/Easter Celebrations this weekend with our family.  Yah for visitors!!  We are excited!