Grandpa Mac comes for a visit.

Grandpa Mac came to visit the first of Oct. This is the first time he has met JD. They hit it off... :)

Im not sure about this smile on JD.. looks a little Damien like!! LOL :)

Sweet moments.. Love these.
thanks for coming and visiting us Mac.

family reunion

I know.. these posts are out of order.. but it is late and I dont want to correct them.. :)~

cousins

family reunion

We got the chalet at Eagle crest.. holy cow.. we will always get this when we stay.. hot tub on the deck!! we were in heaven.. wish we could have stayed longer.

Family reunion.. 2010

these would be a few of my fav. pics of this last sept. We had a family reunion in eastern oregon.

ok.. this one is just funny..

much better Kia!!

Circus

The circus came to town this last sept. And we ended up getting free tickets to go see it. (long story) anyway. the girls were very excited to go. They loved almost all of it.. 2.5 hours is a long time for any kid to sit still in a small seat.

Jax fell asleep for a bit but then woke up and enjoyed the show.

The house

It all started with this one thing. Our light after 7 years in the house stopped working. or stopped working correctly. So we replaced it.

It looked great and I was very happy.. but then it was really bright in my kitchen.. and well, it let me see how badly everything needed to be cleaned and well somethings just needed to be replaced..

More to come.. !!

Eva's first day of Kindergarten

She was dressed and ready to go.. She could not wait to get to school.

The entire family walked her to school. Jax and Todd are behind me. :)

Her teacher is Mrs. McDonald.. She seemed very nice and very well organized.. lets face it.. that is a bonus for me!! LOL

Eva's first day of Kindergarten

It was amazing to stand back and watch her. She new Maddie from preschool and she was very excited to see that she was sitting by her in class. She politely got up and got some pencils to share with maddie. Very sweet.

Kia's first day of preschool

This year Kiara is going all by herself to preschool. It is a great in home preschool that is only a block away. She loves the teachers there and so do I. She was very excited to get her new clothes on and get going.

Her and skirts... that is all she wanted this year.

Have a great year of school sweetie!

Todd's first run.

Todd finished the Oregon Wine Country Half Marathon today. I got to see him run in two spots of the race in Lafayette. Did take pic's but my card went bad on me.. so I cant get them off the card now :( and then when I got to the finish line in Carlton.. I was not prepared for 20 minutes of trying to find a parking spot! Jax and I ended up missing him come in. I wanted to cry! But he finished in great time 1 hour and 49 minutes. Way to go babe! I am so very proud of you. (I think he has caught the running bug)

Thought the finish line looked pretty cool with the barrels of wine.

Then he got to go around and do wine tasting for free.. We hit a few of them then decided food might be better right now at 10 am in the morning. Pizza here we come!

A big day for Kiara

Before...

During....

5 seconds after.... :(

3 minutes later!! A happy little girl.