My Pretty Little Princess...Turned 8!

MacKenzie in her Christmas Dress - November 2006

Saturday, December 16, 1998 @ 6:19 am my precious baby girl was born at Evans Army Hospital- Fort Carson, Colorado. Fast forward to 2006...no longer a little girl. She is growing up so fast...sometimes I think she may even be a teenager! Thank goodness she is not :)

12/15/06 - Friday

The school Christmas program was at 1:15. What a wonderful program. All of the songs but one, were original and written by her music teacher through his 25+ years of teaching! Truly wonderful! After said program was over, we checked Mac out of school. We came home and Wayne finished cleaning out the truck we were going to trade in for a new truck. We are on our way to get a new truck...so... We leave home and drop Girlfriend off at Nana's work. Papa picks her up on his way home from work. Papa and Girlfriend go to Aunt Jeni's to set up her Christmas tree since Uncle Boyfriend is on a 5 day shift. I get a phone call while at the dealership that Girlfriend wants to spend the night w/ Aunt Jeni. That is fine...since it looks like we will be awhile. But Wayne and I are really surprised that she doesn't want to be home on the morning of her birthday to open her presents!

12/16/06 - Saturday

We FINALLY get to see Girlfriend at about 10 am. Literally, the first words out of her mouth when she walked in the door were, "Where's my presents?" Wow, what a greeting! So she rips open her gifts...and that's it! Nothing much to say! We are going to catch a movie in Redmond and go to Papa's Pizza (indoor playground) afterward. Papa and Nana and Aunt Jeni decide to go to Bend to do some Christmas shopping. So we end up having to pick a later movie than originally planned. We all decide to meet in Redmond to see the 5 pm showing of "Happy Feet." So the 3 of us come home and hang out. Mac's dad calls and says his package should be here. So I go down to the mailbox...and it is there. Mac talks to him and opens her gifts. What a lucky little girl! She got some really cute stuff from him and his girlfriend. Her parents also sent gifts as well...SPOILED! Her paternal grandparents called and said they would have her package here sometime this week. We leave for the movie and pick up my Grandma Joyce and Sabre (my cousin's daughter) in Metolius on the way to Redmond. We meet and see the movie...cute, but some adult content masked. Papa, Nana, and Jeni already ate...so the 5 of us go to Papa's and eat and play...then home we go! Long day!

12/17/06 - Sunday

We go to 8:30 Mass in Warm Springs. Come home and pick up. Then we have Girlfriend's b-day party at the Fessler's at 1 pm. We meet over there and luckily not all 23 of us were there! PHEW! Have cake and ice cream and open gifts...What a lucky little girl! We are now getting ready to write thank you cards...hopefully BEFORE we have to write Christmas thank you's!