Macy's 1 year pictures

Here are some pictures that Cindy Carroll took of Macy for her first birthday. We are so lucky to have such a great photographer so close to our family! Thanks Cindy!

She's walking!

I absolutely love the stage that Macy is in right now. She is almost a year old and she is learning so much. She has recently started walking- she tries to walk everywhere. She hasn't tried walking over the step into the kitchen though, so she will walk till she gets to it then start crawling. Yesterday she was in the living room and I was in my bedroom doing my hair and she walked across the house 2 or 3 times. She's so big! She has started to dance, to anything! She loves music and will rock back and forth and clap her hands ::right now she is watching winnie the pooh while dancing to the music :):: So cute! She is done with baby food- she doesn't want it. Sometimes I can get her to eat it if she's really hungry, but other than that she wants nothing to do with it. We got her ears pierced on the January 1st and she did amazingly well! She winced a little when they did it and made a little sound, but they gave her a sucker and she was totally fine.

It's a little sad to see my baby getting bigger- now I understand how all the moms before me felt when they said that- but it's so fun to see her learn new things almost every day.
We love our little Macy Girl!

Macy's 1st Christmas

Macy had a very great first Christmas. Santa brought her a horse on wheels and a stocking full of fun goodies. We spent the week before Christmas at my parents house and then the morning of the 25th we headed back to Holbrook for the Annual Christmas Party held at Brian and Janes house. My Dad worked Christmas so we had our family Christmas on the 23rd and 24th.
This following is stolen from my Mom's blog :)

This year we had all the kids at our house for Christmas, well the 23rd and 24th mostly, Alli and Kyle were here the 19th to the am of 25th. Bobby started back to work on the 25 :/ sad. Someone has to make that electricity we use for cookin' all that food, and lightin' all those trees and lights! It was fun having the little girls for their first Christmas. My favorite part is having the family all together. Watching the little kids & the big kids play. The young men and women from our ward came and caroled for us, and brought yummy goodies that were a perfect addition to our Christmas eve.

Halloween

This past week I spent at my parents house. I am selling bows for the first time at a Holiday Fair here in Holbrook and I needed to get ribbon and start my inventory AND it was Stormy's bridal shower on Halloween!! I'm so excited for Stormy and Spenser!! The shower went really well and I think everyone had a lot of fun.
Here is Macy in her Halloween outfit, I'm probably biased but I think she makes the cutest little Halloween baby! :) (Her shirt says I'm so cute its SCARY!) :) We (my mom, me, and Jolene) came up with her outfit the day before... matching bow, bracelet, shirt, paci holder, and socks!

Here is us at the Bridal Shower. I love these girls! I love that we can get together again after two years and it's like we were hanging out yesterday. Being together really brought back all the fun memories and reminded me how much fun we all had together.



That night Chris and Kati and crew came over and we went to the neighborhood Trunk or Treat and stayed up till about 1 talking and laughing. I love them! The little boys were pirates and Macy and Brelee made the cutest little bugs- Macy is a labybug and Miss Brelee is a Bee. She won a costume contest for their HOA from costumes ages 0-3. Good Job Brelee!! (I mean Kati! lol)




I think Macy had a fun first Halloween. Between the bridal shower and costumes we were kept busy!

The Pumpkin Patch

The other weekend, can't remember when lol, when went to the pumpkin patch in Snowflake with Lisa and Loren. It was really fun, and really cheap! For some reason I thought you spent more when you went to a patch but not the case at all! It was fun getting to pick the pumpkin and having so many to chose from.

Lisa and Loren

Kyle, Macy, and Me!

Odds and Ends.

Sunday I made chocolate chip cookies and Macy got a hold of one. I tried to take it away and she kept moving her hand, apparently she didn't like that idea, but I don't really like it when someone tries to take my cookies either!
I was going through Macy's clothes today. Taking out the 3-6 month clothes and putting in only 6-9 and some of the smaller 12 month clothes in the dresser. We played dress-up :)

After a long morning I decided we need to get out of the house. We went to the park across the street for Macy's FIRST time in a swing. She loved it.
Macy has jumped on the bandwagon. Her new favorite thing to do is dump the dog food and play in the water, sometimes dumping that too.


A few weeks ago we joined Kyle in the Band Festival. (Notice the empty stands :) Here is Macy waiting for Dad. It was kinda chilly, but really really sunny.
They tried to get Macy to join the band but I don't think they've convinced her quite yet.
From all the sun and pure excitement, Macy was pretty tired at the end of the band performances.

Windmills!

Monday Kyle had the day off of school and we were trying to think of something to do- that didn't cost any money. I had heard at church the day before that they were having an open house at the Wind Farm to check them out and have lunch. We decided we didn't have anything else to do, so we went! It was actually pretty cool! They had donuts and juice for breakfast (FREE!) and they handed out these goody bags with a lot of information about the turbins and such. The bag was actually pretty cool, they are all about going green so it wasn't plastic bags, it was a heavy duty fabric bag. They also had a balloon clown there making windmills... I think they just made a flower and left out one petal, but we'll call it a windmill! :)

Kyle and Macy with our Windmills

They had buses there from the Holbrook School District that took us to the site where the windmills actually are and we got to go inside them! They made Kyle and I wear hardhats, but I guess Macy wasn't important enough to wear one... We couldn't take pictures of the inside, why? I don't know, there wasn't much to them at all. Just a generator looking thing and wires. Did I mention that we stood in line for an hour to go inside of them? Here is a cool picture of the windmills
After the tour they had really good pork bbq sandwiches, super super good! and.. Free!! Perfect way to spend a no-school-Monday.

Macy was wiped out. On the way home she crashed- clinging to her windmill balloon.