This is one of my favorite pictures of our sleeping little Logan.
After Macey saw me taking pictures of the kid she insisted on laying next to him and having her blanket on her and her sleeping buddy Cosmo. What a cheesey little smile.Not to long after Christmas I was tired of having our kitchen half painted, and so one Saturday morning while Alan was playing basketball I thought I'd get started painting. I figured Alan would be home "soon" to watch Macey and that she couldn't get into too much trouble while I was busy. Oh I was wrong.
While I was painting she decided to pull out all our games and scatter them around the room. This included games with tiny pieces such as Ticket to ride and Risk.
When Alan got home we opened the door to our bedroom where Macey had also been playing. We found that she had taken her pjs off, put on one of my T-shirts, pulled our clothes basket up to our dresser, pulled out one of the drawers, climbed in it so she could reach my jewelry and was playing with my necklaces and bracelets. I think she had one of the best Saturdays of her life, doing whatever she wanted to do!
Around Christmas we taught Macey "What does Santa Clause say", and she'd say "Ho Ho Ho". Well she got a little mixed up and started calling everything with a beard, or a hat a Ho Ho. She's still doing it. The other day a guy came over to work on our Furnace that keeps breaking (that's another story!), and he had a red beard. When he walked in Macey started saying, a Ho Ho, a scary Ho Ho.
Here are a few pictures of little Logan Kearns
He was born Sunday January 17th at 12:00 pm exact!
We had the priviledge this year of having Alan's parents, brother Aaron, and sister Angela come for Christmas. We are so grateful they did and had so much fun with them.
Macey enjoyed all the attention, and loved to have even more people she could climb on and drag around.
It was fun to watch how excited Macey was about her gifts!
Alan and Ange by the tree...awh how cute!
Here's Aaron and Al...this is the first we've seen of Aaron since he's been back from his mission. It was great to see him.
Grandpa and Macey having a little bit to eat!
Jim and Julene just looked so cozy sitting by the fireplace drinking their hot coco I had to take a picture. Excuse the yellow blob on the wall, we didn't get around to painting that room before Christmas. What do you think of the color!
Well we made the switch from crib to toddler bed. It was a hard decision, but when we had two nights in a row where she woke up and fell out of her crib while climbing out, we decided it had to be done.
She now loves her big girl bed and sleeps pretty well in it.
At the beginning of December we went with some friends up to their cabin. There wasn't much snow, but it was tons of fun.
It was a little rainy but very worth it. Macey was worn out by the end.
Alan and I had tons of fun playing the role of "Lucy Legs" and "Elvis" in a murder mystery game put on by some friends. Alan won best dressed, and I was the only one who guessed correctly who the murderer was!
I made tons of fresh apple cider with our friends apple press and some free apples! YUM!
Due to popular request here is a picture of our little Unicorn! We had to bribe/distract her with candy in order to get her costume on at first. Once she figured out that you get candy by going from house to house she totally forgot about the costume!
We went trick or treating with some friends of ours.
I asked Macey if she loved the pumpkin, and the next thing I know she's kissing it!
Macey even slept through the night. That's better then Alan and I can say.
Macey is a lot like her dad in that she's very aware of smell. Most times when we change her diaper she plugs her nose and says ewww.
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Macey loved Grandma and Grandpa from the very beginning. As soon as they got to our house she jumped in Grandma's lap and wanted her to read a book.
We stopped by a local orchard and thought we'd check out how we looked as fruit.
Some people in our ward had a bunch of raspberry bushes, peach, and apricot trees that they said we could come pick fruit from.
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I think both Grandpa and Macey ate about as much as we picked!
My parents had us all over for a barbecue. It was fun to see Macey run back and forth from one set of Grandparents to the next. She was loving it! You can see which side of the family Mace gets her height from!
By the end I think we did a thorough job of wearing ourselves out. We can't wait till Jim and Julene come back and visit again!
Macey got a flag at a parade we went to. She enjoyed waving it around.
We did fireworks on the beach as well as made smores. This is a picture of Anna loving her sparkler!
As well as Alan!
A shot of the family
We also played lots of games. The Whitings love games!
Macey loved my brother Jeff and was constantly wanting to go to him. Here they are at the parade.
Well we did! Just down the road from us is a community garden. We decided to try our hand at it, but have been struggling a bit. Our plants just don't seem to be growing at the same rate as everyone else s around us. I think we need to water more. We're going to try that! Even though it's just down the road it's hard to get there everyday and water. Plus Macey likes to pull the plants she sees, as well as touch all the mud that happens as a result of watering. Some of the things we planted are, tomatoes, squash, carrots, peas, watermelon, and peppers.
Alan's co-worker's wife (Laura) works for a photographer here in Yakima. Last month he was teaching a class to people who come from all over the world to learn from him, and they asked if we'd like to be models for it. It didn't feel as awkward as I thought it would be to have 40 people standing around watching us, posing us, and telling us what to do.
In this picture Macey was supposed to be looking at Alan, but she was too distracted by all the on lookers. There were 2 or 3 people behind Alan trying to get her to smile, but still look like she's looking at him. This was the best they got.
Amy thanks for letting me borrow your clothes!
I think this was Macey's first watermelon, and she absolutely loved it. She kept eating the rhine.
We were going to take Macey out on the wave runners, but right after this picture I let go of her and she face planted it in the sand. 
The only person who could console her was Grandma. For real.
After some of us took a nap, we played an exciting game of croquet.
Slowly she starts collecting things and bringing them back to the stairs.
Here's her collection around 9:00 before we headed out to do somethings.
Later this afternoon she decided to head back to her new hang out spot and create more of a collection.
Some of the things you may not be able to tell she collected are a dryer sheet, Alan's sock, a fruit snack wrapper, a framed picture, her coat, a toy car, remote controls, and of course her car and stroller. Who knew how much fun the stairs could be?
