House For Sale!

We have our house up for sale and we are all very excited! Except maybe for Peyton who left this sign up in the playroom when they showed our house today...who can blame her? It's the only home she's ever known.

Happy Valentine's Day - A Day Late

Why a day late? Peyton's out of school this week and spent the night with a friend so she wasn't here yesterday morning. Mackenzie had school pictures and NO Valentine celebrating at school(this makes me so sad)...so we took a picture this morning.

Bella

We had dinner with our friends - Chris, Ronna & Bella Friday night and I had to post this picture because Bella is so cute!

Peyton's Valentine Party

Peyton had her Valentine's Day party at school today because her school is on a break next week. She had a great time!

"Peyton, please go pick your room up."

I haven't been posting too much on this one - not because I'm so super busy posting on my new blog with my completely random thoughts on things (because it only takes a moment to post new things, hint hint to my non-blogging readers), it's because not too much has been going on.

So,I thought I should find something to post here, even if it happened almost a year ago...Short story long, we all have been taking turns being sick and when I had my turn a couple of weeks ago, I got a lot of pictures organized into different files. One of Peyton's files is titled "Getting Out of Cleaning" and it contains the photos below. Peyton went through a phase (and when I say phase, I mean it happened three times over the course of about a month) in late Spring last year where she would fall asleep cleaning her room...where ever she happened to be cleaning...

...under her bed after I said "Peyton clean out under your bed."


...on the closet floor after I said "Peyton, pick up your closet."


...on her bed (halfway) after I said "Peyton, please go put away your clothes."



Each of these naps lasted 30+ minutes...I guess she really didn't want to pick-up!

Snow Day!

I'm glad we have a snow day today!

UPDATE - The girls played outside for almost 6 hours nonstop yesterday and it may be the same today. They only came in to switch out wet clothes for dry. It must be a super wet snow because their coats were soaked through and Peyton's hair looked like she just took a shower. I haven't gotten any pictures yet but the girls both took some...I'll try to post a picture off Mackenzie's camera later.

More Rise & Shine

Rise & Shine

Peyton's class had their Rise & Shine program at school two weeks ago (ouch, I'm late on this post). They sang a cute song and said their New Year's Resolutions - Peyton's being that she is going to learn how to play the violin.

I thought their shirts were so cute - class of 2019. Wow!

Mackenzie’s Check Up

Jason and I (Peyton didn't want to miss school) took Mackenzie to Little Rock last week for a check-up at ACH. She's gained 2 pounds, her lungs sounded clear. There were a few small changes in her Pulmonary Function Test but Dr. Warren said it was nothing he was concerned about. She is home sick today but I think it's with this stuff Jason, Peyton and I have been passing around for two months. I called Dr.Warren's nurse to make sure nothing had grown on her culture and there was nothing alarming. They did prescribe an antibiotic and extra treatments for a little while.

Please cross your fingers that we will get to see Dr. Warren in Lowell pretty soon. They are trying to get it set up where we can have her check-ups there (except for her annual which will still have to be done in Little Rock). The delay is that they have to have the Lowell CF Care Center set up EXACTLY like in Little Rock, including training on infection control. I'm just happy that when it does happen, we'll still get to see Dr. Warren because he'll be coming to NWA once a month to see his patients in this area.

While we were at her appointment I took a picture of Mackenzie and Dr. Warren. Mackenzie said I wanted it for my blog but I really just wanted to make sure I had a picture of the two of them because he is such a big part of her life – and of the quality of life she's able to have. His knowledge of cystic fibrosis and the care and communication he has with Mackenzie is everything we want and need.

Happy Birthday Cadence!

The girls and I went to celebrate Cadey's 1^st birthday (which is tomorrow) yesterday. We got her board books by Sandra Boynton…Moo, Baa, La La La was one of our very favorites. (Lindsay - I took the bottom picture off your blog :), Tara - start a blog!).

It Worked…

and it's great! Have I always been able to do this and not known? Mitzi, Lindsay, Andrea…is this how you do it? Not sure how to do pictures though…

Playing with the new computer

While playing with the new computer and Microsoft 2007 I came across a place where I can possibly publish from Word to the blog and I wanted to try it out! If this works, it will be fantastic.

Tomorrow! Tomorrow!

Actually more like Two days ago! Two days ago! Wednesday night the girls and I went with some friends for dinner and two shows - one at Shogun, a cooking show and one at the WAC, Annie. We had a great time at both (even if we did get the "white guy" at Shogun, I guess he still whirled and twirled the food :)) Peyton's ballet class is performing to "It's the Hard Knock Life" at their recital and she was disappointed her costume wasn't ready so she could wear it. She also thought a red dress with a white bow woud work, but we didn't have one of those either. A few pictures of the girls below - Elise, Mackenzie, Peyton, and Anna. We had a great time and really enjoyed the show!

Christmas with Dad

We went to Fort Smith yesterday to have Christmas with Dad.

Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas!

Eddie

We always give Eddie Christmas gifts in gift bags with treats at the bottom so he'll "open" them. I caught him trying to sneak a peak in the bags under the tree.

Party Day!

Yesterday was the last day of school before Christmas break so the girls partied at school.

Two Little Elves

I love the Office Max thing with the dancing elves! I laugh every time someone sends a link of their family dancing around so...We "elfed" the girls!

Silver Dollar City

We went to Silver Dollar City on Saturday. It wasn't quite as warm as I believe they were predicting all week but we still had a great time. The girls rode one of the rides 14 or 15 times. I snapped this picture when we were at the giant tree waiting for the big lighting ceremony. It was dark so I can't believe the picture turned out. We also tried to get some shots of the girls on the little roller coaster but all we got were some good shots of the fog. When the girls got off the ride we were looking at the shots they sell and you could see the girls sitting on the ride with Jason and myself in the background looking at our camera...Jason thought we should have bought it to have a family picture.

Christmas Tree

We finally got the tree up last week (not the Saturday after Thanksgiving like I normally like to get all the holiday decorations up). We (I) went with green and brown (maybe more green and gold) decorations so I was able to leave a ton of ornaments up in the attic. This is also our cheap tree from Wal-Mart that we got last year since I was tired of the 9ft tree we'd had (it was too wide!).

We went to look at a house and I was distracted by their tree - she had black and white pictures framed on red and white scrapbook paper and I loved it so I wanted to copy it. I don't have nearly as many pictures but more ornaments and I used the green and brown paper and sepia toned photos.