Happy Birthday MacKenzie!

Since I’m all sorts of behind on blogging I figured why not catch up in order! When Dahrran got into school we decided we weren't going to do big parties for EVERY birthday they had while in school. We set the rule at one big party in Kindergarten, and we would go from there on the rest of the years. Thankfully Dahrran hasn’t asked for anything but sleepovers since!

MacKenzie wanted to take everyone to Chucky Cheese for her birthday, which would’ve been an okay thing except the closest Chucky Cheese is an hour away. Which still isn’t bad except the fact that there are 7 girls in her class and my car only holds 6 passengers (besides myself). So we settled on bowling instead!

She wasn’t quite sure at first how to get started, but with a little help from daddy she was well on her way to being a great bowler!

This is a super blurry picture but it captures most of the moments when each of the girls would get it all the way down the lane!

   

Since the bowling alley we went to only had one set of bumpers there was a lot of laying around during turns!

I got the idea for MacKenzie’s cake from Family Fun Magazine! We improvised some and I’m glad I did! I’m not sure the kids would’ve eaten the coconut on the cupcakes!

  

I love that these girls are already friends. There are a total of 24 kids in MacKenzie’s grade, and only 7 girls! (one was sick unfortunately the day of the party) Hopefully they’ll grow even closer as the years go on!

Even Kaitlynn got to come to her “sisters party” and she loved every minute of it!

Spring Programs

Dahrran and MacKenzie had their spring programs on the same night this year and it was so nice to be able to head in for one night! For MacKenzie’s part of the program they just sang a few songs, sadly I didn’t get any video of her program! Dahrran’s program was called The Bear Went Over the Mountain.

Dahrran had the part of a fox! His friend Dawson was a raccoon!  Dahrran’s awesome teacher Mrs. Fowler!

MacKenzie with her great teacher Mrs. Wiemer!

There is at least one of them in any given picture that is upset over something!

And just a little video for you of Dahrran’s speaking parts!

An Igloo

MacKenzie’s teacher has this project every year where they have students bring in milk jugs (empty and rinsed of course!) to school so they can build an igloo. It’s such a great activity for the kids to get to learn about recycling. As the igloo starts to fall apart they take them to be recycled. The kids love having something they can play in, and they get to learn too.

This project is something great, and would take quite a while if you tried to do it alone, but it’s a great teacher resource! Total cost of project is hot glue sticks to put it all together! :) 

The Loving Dedicated Husband

So for some reason the last few nights, while I've been checking up on my fellow bloggers, and emails and such, DH has stayed "up" with me. Read: Fallen asleep on the couch, floor, where ever. I have to say this is a true dedicated husband. I've told him to go on up without me, I'll be there shortly. But then again if it was going to be shortly, why is he falling asleep you ask? Well because as you fellow bloggers know, I've come to find my favorites, and just a special few are on my blog roll, the rest are in my favorites!!!!! So this can either take a few minutes or an hour!?! Along with the emails to respond to!

It's the very LAST weekend of "normal" life, or shall I say life that's been "normal" for the past 5 years! Nothing much to do, staying up WAY too late even on Sunday's, and just hanging out. You see we're not going to get back to "normal" for a LOOONG time! Read: Probably more than 20 years! You see school here starts in just a matter of days, not weeks, days. My baby will be starting Kindergarten. I can't believe it, it just means that I'm getting older. See I was a senior when I had Dahrran, and I still don't believe that it's been 5 years, even though I had my reunion just a few months ago. So what will we do with our last weekend of "normalcy?" Probably nothing more than "normal" things! LOL! We attended another county fair this evening, and may attend the last days at our local pool. Only a couple more school supplies are needed, and then my, not so, little boy will be getting on the, very, big school bus, and will be on his way to bigger and better things!

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:Pay It Forward:

I was recently fortunate to be able to play the Pay It Forward game over at 3 Guys, A Girl, and a Prim Place. So I want to be able to share it with you!!!!!

This is how it works. The first 3 people to comment requesting to join in this "Pay It Forward" exchange, will be sent a surprise from me. WHOO HOOO!!!! Then you need to post it on your blog, and the first 3 people to comment, you will need to send them out a surprise and it just keeps going and going and going.

The gift can be something you've made, or bought. Please keep your gifts small (maybe something you can put into a regular or manila envelope)

You can play more than once, if you want to. I just need your email address for your mailing address.

SO LET'S PAY IT FORWARD!!!!!

Hope everyone else has a great weekend, I'll get in contact with the first 3 Bloggy gamers!