Our Anniversary

I can not believe it has been 7 years. We celebrated this year by spending the day as a family. We went to lunch together then headed out on a drive down Natchez trace which is where we stumbled upon a little half mile trail that took us to a beautiful overlook. Mackenzie and Madalyn both hiked all the way up. I did carry Mackenzie most of the way back down. It was such a fun day I can not wait to do it again in the spring when it warms up a bit.

Fall Fest 2007

Here we all are dressed up for Halloween! We won second place in the family costume contest. We also made our car trunk the Disney castle for the trunk or treating part ( we won third place trunk). We had so much fun dressing up for Fall Fest that we all also went trick or treating at the Y in our costumes and then again on Halloween night when we went out with the Douglas trick or treating in their neighborhood. We are going to come up with even better costumes for our whole family next year- we are open to suggestions we are partial to Disney themed ideas

Ghouls at Grassmere

This was the first of our many Halloween activities this year. The Zoo always has a trick or treating event and this year we took the girls. We went to all the stations and got candy and got our BINGO cards stamped so we could get the special prize at the end which was a Halloween flashlight-fun! There girls also went through the monster lab which is where they reached into buckets and touched creepy icky things like a alien intestines for example. Mackenzie was pretty excited when we got to the Krispy Kreme booth she enjoyed her doughnut hole a lot. Our friends the Douglas were there too and Madalyn and Gavin had a lot of fun running around together and getting their candy.

Cookout at the Dye's

We had a church cookout in Hendersonville at Ken and Jane Dye's house. We had a lot of fun! There were several families there with kids around the girls ages and we just Hung outand then had some dinner. Ken also took us out in groups on his boat. Madalyn has had boat rides with her Uncle Dale in Scottsboro and with Aunt Susan at the lake they go to. This however was Mackenzie first time and she absolutely loved it. She did not want me holding on to her and she loved the wind in her face she was like a little puppy on a car ride for the first time just constantly sticking there head out the open window.

Chocolate Cake

mmmmm.... We went to Nana and Mac's house for dinner for Mommy's birthday and Mackenzie absolutely loved the chocolate cake. She seems to have quite a sweet tooth. Her main word for any type of food is cookie.

Where Dreams come true

This is just one of the many pictures we have from our September trip to Disney World. We had so much fun and can not wait to go back we were there for 8 nights and 9 days and did so many fun things. Mackenzie was so cute when we would go and see the characters ( it did take her about a day to go up and see them) We had a Winnie the pooh dinner the first night and she would get excited to see them across the room, but once they were about 5 ft away her head would go down on the table until they were gone. The next morning we had breakfast with Mickey Mouse ( Mimi mou has Kenzie says) and that did it she was hooked she could not get enough of the characters. We did lots of Character meet and greets and character meals. Madalyn also had a lot of fun she was tall enough for some new rides this year- she rode Splash Mountain, Thunder Mountain railroad, Stitch's Great Escape, Kali River Rapids, Tower of Terror, Test Track and Soarin'. There was only one ride that she was tall enough for and chose not to ride. Soarin' was one of her favorites-it is a ride where you feel like you are hang gliding over the state of California. I could go on and on about all the fun adventures we had while on our vacation, but I think I will wrap up for now.

Madalyn's First Day

This is Madalyn ready to head off to her first day in the 4 year old class. It is hard to believe she is getting so big now. Just a year from now and she will be off to Kindergarten. She is in Miss Beth's class and is really having fun. There are some new rules she is learning and she is trying very hard not to get any punches in her ticket. Punches are given for not following the rules. She gets a new ticket every week and at the end of the week if there are no holes punched she gets to go to the treasure chest for a prize. That is one of her favorite things so far about being in the 4 year old class.