To McKenzie

McKenzie Anne

Who is 1 year old
weighs 18 lbs
has 2 teeth
and is 30" tall.

Lover of food,walking, sleeping through the night, drinking from a cup, being held, playing with her big brother, mom, dad and anyone else who will play with her.

Who gives hugs, kisses, five, lots of smiles and laughs to everyone.

Who fears getting more immunizations, and her brother sitting on her head.

Who would like to see her grandmas, grandpas and extended family more than once a year.

Know to her mom as priceless, princess, joy

Who needs to explore and always be on the move.

(Thanks again for the cute pictures Megan)

Family Pictures

My friend Megan is going out of town tomorrow but was nice enough to take our family pictures on Friday and already gave me the pictures back. She did an amazing job at an amazing price. They turned out great, I love them. Thanks Megan.

Princess for a day

Today was McKenzie's birthday so we gave her the royal treatment. She got to wear a crown and we all had to do everything she said (lucky for us she still can't talk so that went over with no complaints from anyone of us).

Then we took her to build a bear to make her very own bear. She loved it.

She got spoiled with lots of cute girl things.

We sang to her and had cake, then went to Coldstone for the ice cream. She is a member of the birthday club and was given a free kid creation.

Being a girl myself I can pretty much guarantee she had a perfect day it involved: shopping, presents, and chocolate. What more could a girl want?

An Amazing Friend

McKenzie is turning one this week and I have no party planned, and no invites handed out, all we were going to do was a little family celebration. Lucky for McKenzie her mom is friends with Melanie(one of the most amazing selfless people in Buffalo), and Melanie, being the wonderful person she is, planned a party for McKenzie and her friend Perry who is just a couple days older.

We started out by making gingerbread houses for the kids. Here are Parker and McKenzie enjoying their house:

Then we sang to the girls and everyone got a cupcake. Here is Kenzie getting a little impatient because Perry wanted to wear her birthday suit.
I love this look she is so confused about what is happening.
Still a little confused about what is going on, she decides to go for it. The 2 birthday girls.
Just a little frosting on the lips was all she wanted to do to celebrate turning one. We will see if on her real birthday she decides to get a little more messy.

Santa

Every year the mall by my house offers breakfast with Santa. Last year Parker's reaction to Santa was absolute fear. This is how the breakfast went last year:

Today I was so proud of Parker, although he wouldn't smile, look at the improvement:Kenzie didn't love or hate Santa, I am pretty sure she just came for the free food.

My favorite part of the day was when we were leaving Santa and Parker told me "Santa no give me Nemo, he give me candy cane." (For Christmas Parker wants Santa to give him Finding Nemo).

Our Thanksgiving

While living in Texas my brother and sister-in-law made a fried turkey for Thanksgiving, it tasted spectacular and Anthony has requested a fried turkey every year since. This year I gave in to the peer pressure and let Anthony live his dream.

Anthony was happier about this turkey then Parker will be Christmas morning. Here he is injecting Duffs sauce into the turkey.

Here is the finished product, it tasted great. We ate our Thanksgiving feast with a couple of our good friends. The food was wonderful, and so was the company.

We stuck to our tradition and went shopping on black Friday to get us in the Christmas spirit. The tree is up and the lights are up outside. We are ready for Christmas.

Walking, and Parkers wish

McKenzie has decided walking is much better than crawling, so it is official she can walk at 11 months of age.

Kenzie has discovered her mouth can double as an extra hand when she needs one. Now that she has found out this little secret, she can carry 3 toys at a time instead of just 2.Parker's new favorite thing is Wendy's Junior Frosty's.
On a side note, for Christmas Parker has decided he wants Santa. I already got his presents, so mom or Lisa I pass that gift on to one of you to give. I know that grandmas can do anything, so I think this will be an easy request for one of you to do. Good luck with that :)