Mackenzie's First Quest Presentation

May 2010 - Mackenzie had to do a project in her Quest class (a class for kids with high creativity and vocabulary) on bats. She was assigned the 'big brown bat - eptificus fuscus' and had to do a huge poster and then present her information. Dave and I both were there for the presentation along with Madison. She did Bat Bingo and did a great job speaking to the class. Madison was a little hard to contain, but other than that things went great. Way to go Kenz!

Field Trip to Inner Space Caverns

May 4, 2010 I got to go with Mackenzie on her class field trip to Innerspace Caverns. There were so many parents that wanted to go they had a lottery to see who could attend. This year Mackenzie is in Ms. Peters class and we have an unusually high number of involved parents. Every activity I go to the classroom has almost as many parents there as kids. We had a great time going through the cave and afterwards sifting for rocks. I drove separately and zoomed home afterwards to get Madison from a friend's house after pre-school. Jharna, Avery, and Mackenzie Meredith, Mackenzie, and Bella

Disney on Ice

April 23, 2010 - Disney on Ice came to Cedar Park. And since they were so nice to come to our town, we decided to bless them with our presence (ha ha) - especially since Madison loves Ariel right now. Four is such a cute age. AND, while we were there, Mackenzie lost her 2nd front tooth! Dave had to save it in a water bottle so we wouldn't lose it before the tooth fairy came.

Easter Time

April 4, 2010 - Easter Sunday. What can I say except the Easter Bunny delivered? Here's also a pic from our Bella Vista Easter party taken earlier.

Visit to the Natural Gardener

April 2, 2010 - The girls came with me to the Natural Gardener, a huge nursery of plants and gardening supplies. They also have animals, a swing, and some bluebonnets growing about. So we enjoyed the day and had fun taking pics with my phone (my camera died on our cruise). Mackenzie took this one. And Madison took this one.

Spring Break Cruisin and a Trip to Grandma's

March 13-20th, 2010 - We drove the girls up to Grandma Linda's for a week of fun time while Dave and I flew to Ft Lauderdale to board the Celebrity Solstice for a week. Amazingly refined decor and restaurants. No Carnival crowd here. Glass blowing demo off the back of the sun deck, the aqua spa, and we stayed in the Aqua Class rooms. This meant we got to eat at Blue, the special Aqua class restaurant. It was a great experience but a bit too euro for our tastes after a while. We stopped in Puerto Rico, Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Gorda BVI, and Haiti at Royal Carribean/Celebrity's private island pit-stop. The huge earthquake hit Haiti just a few months before and we wanted to go and try to help the economy. We bought some things from a canoeing salesguy during our waverunner excursion but weren't able to see much else of the island. They kept us pretty isolated (on purpose, I think - Haiti is a very poor country and even more so since the devastating earthquake). This is the last picture we took the whole trip since I put our camera in my pocket and then got hit by a huge wave at the Baths at Virgin Gorda. We met Jim and Sarah Mather there who we ended up hanging out with the rest of the cruise. Really nice couple who live in Daytona Beach now. Wish I had a picture of them, sigh...

Chocolate Pizza Mondays

Madison started her first ballet/tap class this year (09-10) at the MA Dance Studio on 1431. We go on Monday mornings at 10:45. Afterwards we always go to Double Dave's pizza buffet for the pizza and salad and (most importantly) 'chocolate pizza' afterwards. It is this amazing confection of chocolate-chip cookie dough baked over a thin pizza crust. It is sooooo good, it's gotta be really bad for you. But I figure if a 4 year old with her perfectly unclogged liver can't enjoy it, then who can? Sometimes you just have to embrace life. :) One Monday, her classmates came along. Aren't they so cute? Madison, Addy Fort, Grace, and Avery Bates