Monday, July 14, 2008

Straight Talk from a Two-year old

So, McKinlee has been hilarious lately and I had decided to share some of these funny moments for all of you.

1. She has been calling her dad "Shrek" and me "Fiona" (it comes out 'iona'). Her dad does not think this is too funny.

2. On the way home from Salt Lake we stopped for pizza. She ate and everything seemed to have settled just fine. We get on the road and hear what we thought was McKinlee throwing up. We both jerked around to find her, to our relief, not covered in puke, but instead she must have had a little come up into her mouth. She simply looks at us and says "Yummmm...Pizza!".

3. She loves chocolate milk, but she calls it 'chocolate juicy'. She will ask for it nicely once, and then she brings out the demon voice and her eyes get all scary and serious as if she is staring into the depths of your soul and she yells "I want my chocolate juicy!"...needless to say, she gets it.

4. She has been watching way too much Diego....Her dad takes her to the store, and you must keep in mind that there are many many Mexicans that are at the grocery store, and all of a sudden she points and yells "Diego". Jared looks around and to his embarassment he sees a Mexican man...not the best way to be fellowshiping our neighbors.

5. She loves to cook for us in her pretend kitchen, and she loves rocks. Those two don't make the best combination...We get plates of rocks that she insists we taste.

6. So today she had Cindrella playing and she was running around the house playing with things, not really watching the movie. Well, all of a sudden she must have heard the prince say something becuase she ran out of the room yelling "I'm coming Prince, I'm coming Prince!" She is such a girl....

7. This isn't very funny, but too cute not to share. She is the only little girl I know that asks to go to bed. She will just look at you and say "Night Night" and that is the end of it..we lay her down and she is out.

8. Safety first in our house....When we get in the car, before we can even sit down and get adjusted, McKinlee is in the backseat yelling "Mommy seatbelt, Daddy seatbelt!" She will not stop until both of us are buckled up. Who needs those annoying beepers in cars to tell you to buckle up when you have a two year old!

9. Jared has been taking the fireman classes lately and because of this it has make McKinlee obssessed with fireman (a little early don't you think?!).. Well, on Saturday Jared was able to help put out his first fire. (it was a controlled burn for training purposes, but still, it was a fire!) McKinlee, Logan and I went to watch it and to see if we could make out who daddy was. McKinlee loved every second of it and she is still talking about it. We can't mention the word fire without her starting to talk about "Smoke in eyes" "Smoke in nose"...and this will go on FOREVER! We finally have had to quit mentioning it in front of her because she demands that you discuss the smoke with her.

10. We have been teaching McKinlee how to say prayers and she is now saying them all by herself with only a little coaching here and there. They are the cutest things EVER. She hasn't realized to close your eyes during the prayer, though, so many of the things that she says she is grateful for are random objects found around the room...such as..."Grateful for pen..gratful for horse, cow, sheep and barn, grateful for silky (her blanket)" She of course mentions all by herself that she is grateful for "mommy, daddy, baby 'ogan, church, grandma, grandpa, juju, nana, papa, sheba and koka". There is nothing better than watching your child learn how to talk to their Heavenly Father. This has to be my favorite thing she has done this year. I know her Heavenly Father hears every word she says and I am sure he even chuckles once in a while.

Those are all I will write right now, but I am sure there will be many more that follow. Many of you weren't around when McKinlee was just a tiny baby so I have made a small slide show to show you how cute she has always been!

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Logan being cute

So, I noticed from the last blog that I didn't have many pictures of Logan. Well, he looked super cute today in his jeans, so I took some pictures of him. He is getting this super curly hair that I absolutely love! I try to put gel in it to spike it, and the spikes just curl...it's awesome!! We love our little boy!



4th of July and Family

We had a great 4th of July! We were lucky enough to have my brother, Russ, and his family up. They just moved back to Idaho after being gone a very long 10 years! It is GREAT to have them back. We also had Grandma and Grandpa Mayes and Aunt JuJu here. Jared and I had a wedding to go to in Twin on Friday, so we were up at 4:30 in the morning getting ready. We then proceeded to wake the rest of the family up to go to the hot air balloons in Driggs. Like always, that was great fun. Mom was nice enough to stay home with Logan and Quinn (10 months) so the rest of us could enjoy. McKinlee loved the balloons as did the rest of my nephews, Espen, Jacob, and Zach. Jared and I left from the balloons straight to Twin. We went to the wedding and were back in Victor by 5:00. Long day, but still fun. Our next door neighbors rented one of those bouncy things for the kids of the neighborhood to play in, and McKinlee spent most of the evening in that. By the time it was dark enough to do fireworks, she was asking to go to bed. We then went fishing with everyone on Saturday and we brought home a HUGE haul of fish. McKinlee did her 'wiggle' dance whenever we caught a fish, and yes, it was the cutest thing EVER. Logan slept in the stroller for the whole time (like usual). On Sunday we actually went over to Jackson with Russ and his family....I know, not a very 'Sunday' type thing to do, but at least we were with family, right?! We ate, shopped and went down the Alpine Slide. Great, fun day! Monday Russ and his family left, but what is nice is that I know I will see them soon!! It's no longer just once a year we are able to get together. On Tuesday my little sister Sonia came up to visit. She is going to have a baby in September....it sucks she lives in Phoenix! It was great to be able to see her, but super sad to see her go!
As you can tell, it has been a very busy week, but lots of fun! Here are some fun pictures of the activities.