Mackay Madness: September 2010

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Summer Wrap-up 2010: PART I

A few weeks ago, we had our only wakeboard competition for the year, at Last Chance! A bunch of our friends and neighbors came out to enjoy the day.

Here's Chance, Troy, Gavin Barber, and Jack Gubler...waiting for their turn to be in the competition!

Brandon and Randy! Rand totally surprised us with his mad wakeboard skills...he was awesome.

Here's MY BOY....skiing in his first tournament!!! So brave...so exciting...so awesome!!

Easton and his PLAYMATE!

Here's E's little buddy that he caught one night on the golf course after a rain storm. He kept it around for quite a few days, and took it swimming in the backyard!

What's a little boy without his FROG????

WE DID ALLLOOTTTT WITH CHEER.

Camps

E...thinks he's just one of the team! Brandon doesn't like that very much:)

Cheer pool parties...

Poppy and Dotty gave the kiddo's GOLF LESSONS for their birthdays:) By the end of the season, they were pretty good. Guess it makes sense to do that...considering our backyard is a golf course...may as well know how to play!!!

Amy was their teacher. She was sooooo patient. Can you imagine teaching all four of my kids at once? NO WAY JOSE'!!

Chance was a natural!

Look at the ground around Addie...she made a few divots!!! Ha, ha, ha...that's my girl.

They loved the ball machine.

We took our annual GIRLS TRIP to Last Chance for an over-nighter!

That was a blast as usual. We ate, laughed, talked like girls talk, skiied, soaked up the sun, and enjoyed a day off! The best part of the trip was at the end of the day, right before we had to pack up and go home, we all jumped off the boat and laid on our backs in the water and started yelling out our freedoms for that moment! It was soooo funny. Like Jen said "nooo babies wanting to breastfeed!" And someone said, "nooo husbands wanting sex." Ahhhhh nothing like a little break, to put us on our feet again and return us home to be better MOMMIES and WIVES!!!

Cherry Hill: MACKAY/CULLEY REUNION

We just love this place. And look forward to getting together with our family each year!

Time with Grandparents

The pirate ship: always a highlight with my boys. We have to go straight to the gift shop and buy the proper apparel each year!

Time with siblings.

sisters...soooo cute:)

The cousins...most of them...a few slackers are missing! NOTE FOR NEXT YEAR: CHERRY HILL IS NOT OPTIONAL!!! You know who you are!!! lol

Preston...my hilarious nephew...just a ray of "sunshine."

Just "good times!"

Here's Jen...trying to make us all think that she can tell the difference between different colors of M&M's....SHE FAILED MISERABLY!

My girls and I celebrated our birthdays up there too!

Brandon had to mix the burgers for our dinner. We all laughed and took photo's because there is nothing he hates worse than being MESSY! ha ha ha. They were great burgers though:)

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL:
This is out of order, but on the last day of school, the Morris's put together a huge party! The kids had water balloon and whip cream fights, they made a giant water slide, and we had a great BBQ. It was so fun!

This is the saddest picture....we had to leave the party early because little "E" put both of his tiny hands up on the fiery hot BBQ!!! The underneath of both hands were totally blistered. He's trying to be brave in this photo despite his scalded paws:(

AS YOU CAN SEE, WE HAD A GREAT SUMMER! STAY TUNED FOR PART II. YOU DIDN'T THINK THIS WAS OUR WHOLE SUMMER IN ONE POST DID YA????

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Fall project

Something about the fall, gives me the "crafting bug." I don't know what it is, but I just want to light the candles and stay in and make random things every chance I get....so weird!
Here's what was on the agenda for this past week...

HaLlOweEn PiLlOwcAsEs!!!

My kids think they are spectacular! Chance liked them the best, he chose his own material before he left for school, then when he got home I had it all completed and laid out on his bed...he just ran upstairs and smiled when he saw it! Sooo cute. Then he asked if I could make him some pants to match?? Ummm...not sure about that?
Anyway, they can use them all month to sleep on, then... we can wash them before the 31st and they can use them as TRICK OR TREAT bags!!! Hip, hip, hooray!
(I'd like to give a shout-out to my good friend "Jana" who gave me this cute idea! "Thanks Jana Lana")

From the mouths of "our babes":

*Our doorbell rang. Chance ran to get it. No one was there. He said, "oh darn,it must have been a knocker-ditcher." (Otherwise known as a doorbell ditcher.)

*Chance climbed in the back of the car this afternoon, and said "ewww mom, the back of your car smells gross...it smells like fries and poo all mixed together."

There was a little boy acting very naughty in Chances primary class...he turned and told the boy that he was an "ANGRY ELF." The teacher told me that it made her whole day and she nearly peed her pants laughing. (We were visiting at a different ward, which makes it even funnier because he didn't even know the boy.)

*Chance's kindergarten teacher's name is Mrs. Rasband, he came home and told Brandon that her name is Mrs. Wristband! Close enough

*As we were driving through the farmlands, Addie blurts out from the backseat, "it's cool how HAY grows, it just randomly pops up in perfect little blocks!" (She was DEAD serious)

*We came home from camping and Addie turns to me and says, "Mom, it feels so good to be home and walk on the grass and have a cup of milk!"

*We ate at a "Thai" restaurant tonight. Addie was so sick of peanuts on all of the food. She finally looked at me and said, "what the heck, do they have a peanut tree in that kitchen or what?"

*Chance asked me, "Mom, why Jesus make me so fast?" (Basically asking why he is such a fast runner)

*Chance was looking through the neighbors fence at their dog and he came running back across the street and said " oh sick, that dog just bless you'd all over my face!" Apparently, that means the dog sneezed on him!

*Chance calls "Walkie Talkies"... "Hickey Tickies"

*Hannah told me that we are going to give her "arthritis" because we are making her camp in a tent this year. (We sold our big fifth wheel last year.) Poor kids!

*We went thru the drive-up at Wendy's and they were out of Frosty's. As we pulled away, Chance murmurs to himself: "damn, damn, damn!" (I will take full responsibility for that one!) Needless to say, we had a little chat!

*Chance says that "chocolate milk" is his favorite taste!

*Chance was picking the seat of his pants today, and I said "what's wrong son, do you have a snuggy?" And he said, "no mom, I don't have a snuggly, my bums are just stuck together.

*Tonight at dinner, Addie told us that her favorite solid food is BUTTER and her favorite liquid food is SPRAY BUTTER!

*Chance told me today that his brain was making him scared to go to school. (He just kept holding his head in his hands)

*We had a "chick" die this weekend. Of course the kids made us do a burial. Apparently it freaked Chance out, and he wouldn't sleep in his bed because he just knew there were dead chicks in the sheets, and his feet could feel the feathers!

Easton "Such a Big Miracle, in such a Little Boy"

For those that don't know, our little boy nearly drowned in a bathtub accident when he was just 7 months old. I had run a bath for myself and left Easton (who could barely crawl) in his room on the floor. I ran out to the kitchen to clean up a glass my daughter had broken. When I returned to the bath... Easton had pulled himself into the bathroom and was floating face down in the water. He had his feet pajama's on which helped him slip over the side. He was under for about two - four minutes and it took four minutes of CPR from his daddy before he took his first breath. He was taken by ambulance to "Primary's" where he stayed in the ICU overnight. He had a full recovery. We are so, so lucky! He is ONE YEAR OLD now and we're so happy that our heavenly father decided that we could keep him!!! He brings so much SUNSHINE into our lives. "We love you Eastie". I put this on my blog for my own journal, but also for people to always be aware of your kids around water...they are capable of sooo much more than you may think!