Mackenzie holding mommy's birthday balloon and looking at our first snowfall of the year!
Here she is with blue christmas balls - she has been wanting some for weeks and she carried them around all day.

Mackenzie is a little bit ocd :)

Aubrey trying out the high chair - she is such a big girl.

All the little girls on Thanksgiving - Madison, Mackenzie, Karlee, and Jacie.

Well, once again a month has come and gone and my blog has been neglected. Here are some recent events from our neck of the woods.

~ Aubrey had her first bottle. Yes, she is 6 months old and has never had a bottle - hey it is just easier to nurse her. But, I really wanted to go shopping on black friday with my good friend Brenda sans kiddos - who wants to take kids into that madness?! So we attempted a bottle. She did okay, didn't eat too much, but she survived the day!

~ Aubrey also had her first try at real food. She mostly likes grabbing the spoon but so far does not like cereal at all. We may try moving on to a different type of food and see if that goes over a little better.

~ We went to a Christmas parade and it was cold! But we had a lot of fun and both of the girls loved looking at the lights.

And here are some of our halloween pics! Mackenzie was a fairy, but when you asked she said, "no I am not a fairy. This is my pretty halloween dress." lol. We had a lot of fun - went trick or treating at the Fayetteville square and then at the mall. Mackenzie got the hang of it really quickly!

Fall Fun

Oops, this one should be last - the final product
Picking a pumpkin

cool hay

daddy and his girls

mommy's turn

I LOVE this one

Mackenzie's "baby" pumpkins

sweet girls

Oregon and More

My mom informed me on the phone tonight that it has been about a month since I updated my blog last - sorry! We have been very busy. We took a trip to Oregon where we surprised my dad for his (early) 50th birthday present. We had such a great time. Mackenzie was not a huge fan of the ocean, although she got better by the end of the week. She LOVED the sea lions and the seagulls (also known as eagles or beagles). Both girls were such great little travelers - we had two flights, one layover, and a two hour drive each way. About halfway through our trip I realized that our camera battery charger was not anywhere to be found. It took me another week at home to find it, so I could finally upload pictures! Then this weekend we found out that our cats had fleas... so that has been fun (sarcasm alert). So anyway, here are a few of my favorite pics from the trip and the past few weeks. If you want to see all of them (which I know you are dying to do :) ) you have to get a facebook account and friend me! ha ha.

Mackenzie got a big girl bed this weekend! She was soooo excited about it. I have been putting it off for a long time now, but over the last week she has been climbing out of her crib almost every day. So I decided a big bed would be easier to deal with than a broken leg! She is doing great so far. She did fall out of it once last night, but we had pillows on the floor so it just scared her a little bit. This morning she just sat in there and yelled for Matt, so I don't think she realizes that she can just get out of it yet. I'm not planning on telling her anytime soon lol. I can't believe my baby is in a bed - it seems like just yesterday we were moving her from the cradle to her crib, and she looked so tiny.

Here are a few new pics of my girls! Mackenzie is just cracking us up these days. Here are just a few things that have come out of her mouth:
- (while holding up a spatula that she was using on play do) "look mama- a signal flare!" She got that one from her new Veggie Tales, Big River Rescue
- While we were walking at the park yesterday- "The woods are fraught with danger" She got that one from the Heffalump movie.
- "Aubrey, you are my best friend." awwwwwww.
- "Jesus is going to help find my baby because he loves me soooo much." A little background on that one, we took her little baby doll (that she has been sleeping with since she was 5 months old) to a parade and the clothesline fair. She disappeared somewhere in Prairie Grove and we have not been able to locate her. Apparently Jesus will be helping us :0) .
Anyway, she is super cute and I think brilliant. It is really fun hearing all the stuff she comes up with.
Aubrey is trying to cut a couple of teeth, and we are trying to figure out this whole napping business, so that has been challenging. But, when she is awake and not getting tired, she is so cute. She loves to just chatter away and she is getting really good at putting stuff in her mouth. She is also really close to rolling over.

We switched the girls around in the double stroller! Aubrey is just big enough to sit withough her carseat, although I had to put some blankets around her. She loves the new view! And Mackenzie gets to sit in the front, which she loves.

We had a yard sale on Saturday, and Mackenzie thought it would be fun to decorate Aubrey with price stickers :)

The top picture is Aubrey, the bottom one is Mackenzie at about the same age. Think they are going to look alike???!