Adventures!!!

Wow! I cannot believe that it has been 6 months since I last updated... JEEZ! Time flies fast when you are busy!

Things have been well, for the most part. Ryan and I have been busy working. We have started playing softball with a group of our friends on Sunday nights. Our team is called "Couples Counseling" because our whole team is made up of couples... We aren't too bad, but we definitely aren't the winningest team in the league.

Our Christmas was nice this year. We spent a lot less money than we did last year, but we took that extra time to focus on what the meaning of Christmas is, and we really enjoyed ourselves. We bought Penny a big girl bike, and she is really becoming skilled at it. Mackenzie was little, so the presents weren't a big deal for her, but she still received lots of cute little clothes and toys from family :)

In February, Ryan and I celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary. It feels like it has just zoomed by! We didn't do anything special, but we did go to see Avatar and grab some tasty dinner at our place, PF Chang's!

Fast forward to May! Ryan bought me a Sony Cybershot digital camera for my birthday/mother's day! It is the most amazing camera EVER! I was so surprised!!!

Mackenzie is really growing fast! She is double her birth weight, and is a little chunker! She is crawling now (as of may 10) and she loves to try and keep up with her big sister. She is a chatterbox too! Ryan calls her "Bucket" because she is a bucket of need, according to him. She is more demanding of your attention compared to Penny, but she is a little lover too, and cuddling happens often!

Penny's vocabulary is her most astounding growth yet. She can make complete sentences for almost everything she is trying to communicate to you, and picks up new words all the time. Her most recent have been "princess" "I want it" "can i please...?" " "share... (whatever she has, or wants)" and her colors have been improving too. I can tell she has a little imagination in there, because she calls every city bus that we see "pink"... and then corrects herself to say, "psh! its a white bus!" I dont know where she gets her little sense of humor, but she is a crack up! Sometimes though, she is too smart for her own good. Like today for example. I woke up and caught her in the kitchen with a pudding cup in hand... She had to have figured out how to open the baby gate, or climbed over it, found a pudding cup, opened it, and gotten a spoon... I was a little irritated, but like a good mommy, I let her finish it. Apparently, she worked hard to get that dang pudding!

I have been making some changes to my eating habits and my exercise habits as well. So far, by eating better and working out at least 3 days a week, I have lots 18lbs and a pants size. I ran my first 5k in April. I plan to run another on June 6, and hopefully another soon after that. It was a huge accomplishment for me. I have never liked running or jogging, so to be able to run is a great feeling!