Beautiful Macey

Macey reminds me of Snow White. Really. Her coloring is just so pretty. Her darker hair (I know it doesn't look that dark in the pictures) with her blue blue eyes and rosy little lips. How did this child come to be? I mean I am so pasty and blah, but Macey is just so intense in her features. I just had to post some pictures.

So Troy thinks the above picture looks like she is about to cry, and he'd rather go for this "looking out at the distant look" below:

I suppose she has really intense looks. Macey isn't so much an outgoing and bubbly personality, at least not to strangers or people she doesn't hang out with very often, but she is still a cutie and does smile and laugh. She is famous for her deep looks with those penetrating eyes, and she is notorious for her "look of death".

Here are some smiley pictures below:

Uncle Nathan Gets Married!

Congratulations to Uncle Nathan who finally tied the knot this past Saturday, June 27th, to his beautiful wife Megan!

They had a nice wedding and looked great! We wish them many wonderful years ahead!

(The cute brothers together!)

We Survived Arizona and The Grand Canyon!

Well, we survived our trip! Here we are in our family picture outfits looking partially happy, although when it was actual picture time, Jewelia was sulking and Macey was crying. Sorry about that in your pictures, Grandma Mary.

Here is a little log of our adventure:

PART I-THE TWELVE HOUR DRIVE

OK, so there is only so much 4 children can take driving straight for 12 hours. They all look so nice and pleasant there (well, except for Macey---she knew what was coming), but after about 7 hours it starts to get ugly. We left at 8 am and got to Arizona at 8 pm.

PART II-AT THE HOUSE

Much of the time in Arizona we just hung out at Grandma Mary and Grandpa Jim's house. I held the baby that never slept by herself, while Micah played chess with Uncle Mark.

Caleb loved his new baby friend, Cambria, and they played with Grandpa Jim.

The cousins all enjoyed playing with each other. It was really really loud at times....

Caleb had his own piano recital while Micah built awesome lego creations.



We took some time to go swimming and play in the pool. Macey didn't like the water at all. Troy learned how to do a belly flop. (Don't look at my whiteness!)

PART III-BOUNCE U

We went to Bounce U, which was a big bounce/slide type of place. The kids climbed, jumped, and slid.

Grandma Mary protected the little girls while Uncle Mark beat up Daddy.

Things were pretty good until Saturday when Troy got super sick. Well, Macey and Jewelia started out the trip not feeling very well, and Macey had a pretty bad fever the first couple of days, but everyone started to get sick into the 3rd day, except for lucky me and lucky Caleb.

When Monday came, I knew it was me that would have to do the long drive to the next adventure:

PART IV--TRIP TO THE GRAND CANYON

I made the long drive, and we made it to our campground. Troy wasn't feeling too great still, but he and Micah managed to build us our tent.

Then we began our hike up to see the Grand Canyon.

Macey and Jewelia were not too thrilled.....it was hot and they were tired.

Oooh....look at the Grand Canyon! We made it!

We slept overnight with a crazy 19 month old who crawled over us the whole time, but we got some sleep and didn't freeze to death.

Then in the morning we began our almost 9 hour trip to get back home. And we were running late, since we had to get the rental van back before 5:30, so let me tell you, I know how to go fast!! I think I averaged 90 mph most of the time home. I'm speedy!! Little sportscars, and my big bus. We were a team the whole way home!

But we made it!!! We had a good time, it was hard, it was fun, but thank goodness to be home!!! Hooray!!!

Trapped in Arizona

Hello everyone!! We are still out here......somewhere......right now we are trapped in Arizona. (Family Reunion) Everyone is sick. It is pretty ugly......well, I'm OK, and Micah and Caleb, but Troy, Jewelia, and Macey are all sick, and I'm starting to wonder how I'm going to make the 12 hour trip home by myself........and how is the Grand Canyon going to go???

It's Dance Recital Time!!! Hooray for Micah and Jewelia!!!

Tonight is Micah and Jewelia's Dance Recital! We got some video from yesterday's dress rehearsal:

Here is Micah in his tap duet:



Sooooo CUTE!!! (Oh, and don't mind the coordinator walking behind them while they are dancing---dang it!!)

And here is Jewelia in her debut performance "Mama I'm a Big Girl":



Way to go Jewelia! Hopefully you figured out she was the one with the loopy braids and not the little girl next to her on the left with the piggy tails. They looked alike!

And here is Micah in his ballet dance:



Oh, and Macey enjoyed it! She wants to dance too:



They are sooo excited to perform tonight in front of everyone!!! Thanks so much to all of you who support our cute dancers!

Our Stylin' Dancers

Look, we're still here! Our internet has been down for a week and we've been super busy, but we're still around! Yesterday we spent 3 long hours at the dance studio getting Micah and Jewelia's pictures taken. They have a dance recital next week, but look at how stylin' they will be!

Isn't Micah the most handsome tap dancer you have ever seen?

And Princess Ballet Dancer Jewelia is cute as ever!

And here is what I call Micah's "Stayin' Alive" outfit for his ballet dance. It is a navy blue velvet vest even though you can't see it very well in the picture.

They will be so awesome next week! Don't worry, I'll be sure to put up videos!