Our baby is 8!

Sorry again for the lack of posts, we have been busy and knew that I would have a lot of things to blog about so I figured I would just wait. Randy's parents have been around (in and out of Utah is more like it) and so we have been able to hang out with them a bit. Since it was Conference this weekend and we had been talking about taking McKenzie to it since we are moving and she turned 8 the day after, we asked our bishopric if we could get a few tickets. We were able to enough for Randy and McKenzie and then his parents and his sister to go see the Sunday afternoon session (cuz apparently no one else in our ward wanted tickets hee hee). Anways, Mac had fun and felt very grown up.When they got back, Randy's other sister Julie came to our home with her 3 kids and we had a little family birthday party. Mac loves cheesecake and so we got her one (I got a chocolate pie of course) and let her open her presents from her family. This is her giving her cousin, Sydney, a big hug for a present she gave her. These two girls love each other, can ya tell?Meet the newest member of our family little T. He's a leopard gecko from her uncle Ryan's collection of reptiles in his basement. He breeds snakes mostly. Mac has been wanting a pet that she can actually hold and we have found that holding a beta fish is not the healthiest thing to do that we decided to let her get this. His name comes from the white "T" that goes from between his eyes to the back of his head. Isn't it cute? We still aren't sure if it's a boy or a girl though, it will take some more time to figure that part out. Monday was her official birthday and I let the kids have a party on their even birthday's. She decided that she wanted to get manicures and pedicures, (she's apparently already a teenager). We found a hair academy near us that will do "up-dos" and nails for a very reasonable price. So we went right after school and took 4 of her friends to Bon Losee and got pampered. Here's Mac getting her nails done.

Here's the aftermath with their pretty nails, and curly hair and tiara's. Aren't they cute?
Here's their backsides, they had a lot of fun.

I got lazy this year and just ordered cupcakes. How cute is this, with the jewelry. Then after the party we left for Chuck E Cheese. McKenzie is the only one we haven't taken on their birthday to this horrid place. We did however go on a Monday @5 (before the FHE crowds) and so we didn't have to wait for games or rides or prizes. We had over 900 tickets in the end and Micah picked a little light saber that lights up, Morgan got a lunchbox with Chuck E. on it and McKenzie (being the girl that she is) picked a bunch of small little girlie things like lip gloss and a dolphin etc. I love this little girl. She has been such a great helper to me with the kids and around the house. She really is growing up fast. She is getting baptized on November 1 at 9 am and any of you that are around and would like to are invited to come.