Happy Birthday Mckenzie!!!

My baby girl is 4 years old! I just can't believe she is this big already! We had a fantastic week. She got great presents: Twin dolls with tons of accessories, a fairy bike (Pictures of our first bike rides tomorrow!), and got to go birthday bowling and arcade game playing! She is also really big on Wall-e right now, and it's hard to find Wall-e toys, so she got a Wall-e cake instead.

Outing with the Twins

Wall-e Cake!

Opening the loot!

New jammies from Great Grandma Perez

The Spread

Birthday Bowling ( She beat me the first time, and beat everyone the 2nd time, how sad is that?)

Birthday Balloons

Sulking before all the festivities

Time for an update!

Yes I know it's been a long while since I posted anything, but our lives are a little hectic these days. First of all, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all the mommies out there. So I have a job now, YAY, well sortof, I am substitute teaching for the school district in which I have applied for a full time teaching job, so hopefully this will get me noticed by the principals so they can hire me for the good job. But they pretty much always need subs so at least till the end of the school year and again next fall I can sub till I get hired on. I have only one small complaint from subbing thus far: BOYS ARE REALLY BAD! That is all. But I have been told that I suffer from a napoleonic complex so it's nothing I can't handle. Kenzie has been terrorizing her grandma's dog and her cousins. She is liking the attention and socializing that she has been getting. They got her a manicure yesturday and she totally loved it and she shows her nails to everyone who comes by. Here are some fabulous pictures for your entertainment.

Kenzie in her beautiful polka dot dress.
The lovely baked brie and blackberries I made one day.

Kenzie with her hair french braided.

My silly little girl, she comes up with this stuff all on her own.

Update

Here is a quick update for you: Job hunts going well, Paul has applied to several law enforcement places but now it's a waiting game while they do the hiring process. Whoever gets it done first will get him, so we will see what happens. I may be getting a long term substitute teaching job for the rest of the school year which will get my foot in the door in the school district and then hopefully give me a perk for an art teacher position at the middle school which will start in Fall. I'm hoping I get it or a theatre teaching job at the other middle school, so I can spend the summer finishing up my certification. Everyone keep your fingers crossed! Mckenzie is just fine, was sick for a few days but seems to be doing better. She loves it here and plays with grandma's puppy all the time.

Graduation 2

Well I had my second graduation ceremony yesturday morning, and Elder Anderson came to speak. (He was really good) The whole thing was a little weird though, more like Sacarament meeting than a graduation, and we weren't even allowed to throw our hats so it was a bit strange, but its all over so YAY! Then we all changed and hopped in the car to go drive to Jackson hole, which was also not all its cracked up to be but the drive was really pretty and fun. We had lots of fun with my dad and were really sad to see him go. Mckenzie stuck to him like glue, held his hand all the time and if she lost sight of him would yell "Where's my Grandpa?!" So we had a really fun couple of days.

Elder Anderson

President Clark

Me at my first graduation.

Mckenzie in the lobby.

The commencement. I'm on the opposite side sitting on the bleachers. It was like playing "Where's Waldo" in there, I finally spotted my dad about halfway through the thing but he never found me.

Graduation!

One down, one to go! My college graduation was tonight for the performing arts. It was fun. My day today was so bad though. I put curlers in my hair last night thinking it would turn out cute, it was a huge mistake and made me look like a poodle this morning. So I had to wash them out really good this morning. Little did I know my hair would look bad all day due to static and rain. Then I looked online and saw that my Math final didn't have a grade, so I called the testing center only to discover the dumb student workers gave me the wrong bubble sheet with my test, so I had to go down and fix that.(I thought I should have gotten extra tests points for their mistake, but of course that can't happen!) But the finals all went well and my dad is here hanging out with us so we just have the big commencement ceremony tommorow. More pictures to come once I get them from my dad.

I am on the last row, 2nd to the left, and was the shortest one on stage, highly embarassing!
Me in all my cap and gown glory.

Mckenzie's hair was a success with the curlers, we will just stick to using them on her hair.

Hey now, you're an Allstar!

Mckenzie has been playing on the computer all the time and she has learned, all on her own, how to open my play list and find the "Allstar" song from "Shrek" and listen to it over and over again while singing. I thought it was too cute so here it is in two videos for your enjoyment.

Graduation Stuff and Fairy Boxes

Today was Grad Fest at the University Bookstore where we had to go pick up my cap and gown, which was really weird, got all my information for graduation, picked up some great free BYU-I swag (T-shirt, waterbottle, keychain, bumber stickers, etc...because you know when you graduate you have to paste this stuff everywhere so the world can see it!) and when we got home there was a box in the mail from Kenzie's Aunt April in Texas. She got all kinds of clothes, fairy toys, and these super cute fairy overalls that she loves. They were a bit big but thats good cause they will fit along time! She was so excited!

Yes I know people are wanting pictures of me in my cap and gown, but I figure I better go through the whole graduation ceremony thing before I post pictures of me in it!