Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Painting at the Phoenix Zoo

A good friend of ours told us about a neat event at the Phoenix Zoo on Monday. The Wyland Foundation (A non-profit environmental group) Every Drop Counts tour was in town, and the environmental marine life artist, Wyland, was painting a mural at the zoo. The really neat part is that he invited kids to join him. The mural will stay at the Phoenix Zoo at a location to be decided later. I will be sure to update when I know where it will be. The really, really neat part is that Mackenzie got a chance to paint and below is her artwork...


Mackenzie's butterfly

Wyland, the artist, with Mauren and Mackenzie after they finished painting

Wyland with the whole group in front of the mural. Mackenzie is right up front.

Monday, October 1, 2007

Too Long

Goodness! It has been too long since our last post.

Ryan and I just celebrated our 7th Wedding Anniversary yesterday. On our anniversary, we enjoy talking about our actual wedding day and every year we say it feels like it was just last year. It's really fun remembering what a great day it was. The only thing that stunk was that it was 105 degrees out. Our wedding was at 10am, so the wedding itself was nice, but it started getting so hot that our poolside reception didn't last too long! That's okay, because we had an after party at my parents house and got to continue the celebration.

We are really in the swing of things, just in time for all the holidays to kick in and mess up our routine. Oh well, that just keeps us on our toes and having fun. Mackenzie had her first sleep over at Bama and Papa's house last night for THE FIRST TIME. She had a great time and said, "she was having too much fun to miss us!" That was so sad, yet so great to hear. Sydney really missed her sister while she was gone. She didn't really look for her, but she really seems out of sorts until her sissy came home. They are all napping right now, Daddy too. I look forward to spending time with the whole family as soon as everyone gets up. Here are some of our more recent pics. Enjoy.


Here is Sydney keeping busy while we were cleaning the garage.

Anyone notice a trend here?

Here is Mackenzie dressed and ready for her dance class.

Look, I'm floating without any help. I'm a Duck right now, next year I'll be a Seahorse!

Hi!


Here is Mackenzie looking way too old for 4 1/2!