Our New Addition

We have a brand new (to us) addition to our family. 2.89 acres of land. We closed on March 18th - it was very romantic, the power went out so we signed the papers by candlelight. We are very excited to start building our "forever" house. Seriously, I want to either die in this house or have the girls move me to a nursing home from this house. We are working on getting bids and all that "fun" stuff so hopefully we'll be able to start building soon.

Easter

Here is a picture from Easter. I'm so far behind in posting! Let's see if I can remember...The girls had been at Mom and Ernie's house from after Peyton's Drama camp Friday and we picked them up Easter Sunday. They hunted eggs at my aunt Sherri's house - which is a fantastic place to spend time outdoors as they have an unbelievable view of the Arkansas River! They had to wait all day for their baskets but they had a great time.

Spring Break

The girls were out of school for Spring Break last week and we didn't do too much. Peyton had drama camp at the Walton Art's Center everyday from 1-3:30 and Mackenzie and I ran around while she was there. We could have gone on a very nice vacation with all the gas money we used driving to Fayetteville everyday (not to mention the fact that Mackenzie and I spent our time shopping).

Here is a video of Peyton doing a warm-up at camp...WARNING: It's very catchy!



Friday after camp the girls spent a couple of days with the grandparents and had a great time.

Wow - I think I actually just added a video.

So Much To Post...

So little time! I have lots to post from Spring Break and Easter (I'm even going to try to post a video), but no time to sit and do it.

Amanda

Thanks for investigating how to add a background without losing all the extras!

Art Auction

Peyton's school had an art auction fundraiser Friday night. The first grade classes did these collages of words. This is Mrs. Burrow's class masterpiece and an upclose of Peyton's contribution.

New Post Coming Soon!

I'll try to update tomorrow!

Girl Scout Cookies

 

They are in! If you ordered cookies, we'll be delivering soon. If you didn't order any and would like some, let us know and we can get some for you.

Willy Walton's Chocolate Factory

Mackenzie and Emily went to the University on Saturday for a great program presented by SIFE - Willy Walton's Chocolate Factory. They learned all about different aspects of business including economics, finance, accounting, marketing, management, and business ethics.

Mackenzie's group (below) created a business selling Big Red Chocolates - Razorback shaped chocloate available with strawberry, cherry or caramel filling. Their factory is located in Little Rock, Arkansas. They get their cocoa beans from Mexico, milk from Arkansas, sugar from Brazil, strawberries from Arkansas and their cherries from Canads. They plan to sell Big Red Chocolate at all Razorback athletic games They will utilize trucks for transportation and the will never tell a lie (ethics).

Mackenzie had a great time and learned a lot. I'd buy Big Red Chocolate - wouldn't you?!

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…