Mackenzie is 6

Today was Mackenzie's 6th birthday. We had a great day. She opened her gifts when she got up and then we went to Chuck E Cheese's and had so much fun. We got her a special ice cream birthday treat (she had her birthday cupcakes at the Thanksgiving celebration). They she asked for steak for dinner so we had wonderful grilled steaks. It was a really great day. Grandma and grandpa DuBois were here for her birthday which made it even more special.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving from Macabelle.com! This year Barb's parents are visiting the Ragsdale household from North Carolina. I think Barbie is loves having her parents here just as much as Mackenzie and Izzie are loving having their grandparents here. Barb's parents arrived in town on Tuesday evening and will be staying with us through this coming Monday. Thus far it has been an enjoyable visit. Wednesday the girls got to play with their grandparents while Barbie and I were working and today Barbie and her Mom went to shopping while her Dad and I got to hang out with the girls. Tonight Barb and her Mom went to go see New Moon (the new twilight movie) while her Dad and I stayed home and watched GI Joe. Some new pictures have been added from yesterday and you can definitely expect to see some updates coming for the next few days and Mackenzie turns 6 on Sunday!

More Video

Today Mackenzie took some video of Izzie running around the house. I thought Mackenzie's commentary was cute. This morning I took Mackenzie to see Planet 51. It was pretty cute and the voice talents of Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel and Justin Long were pretty good as well. This afternoon after she got off of work, Barb went over to her friend Robyn's house where all of the girls get together to work on their Christmas cards. Even though I want to do some more work on the site I think I will call it a day and get prepared to watch the Bears game tonight. Oh, did I mention I hate fantasy football. I'm on track to lose in all 3 league's this week.

Izzie

Izzie has been quite a ham the past few days. She has been walking around in any pair of shoes that she can get her feet into as well as following Mackenzie around and trying to do everything her big sister does. She even got her first pony tail in today. She has been walking around showing everyone her pony, she is very proud of it. These times are too priceless.

New Updates

While I was diligently attending my class today I was also planning updates for Macabelle.com. Once my class ended I commenced making changes to the site. Some new formatting has been made to the pictures and a video page has been added. Hopefully within the next day or so I will have some new pages up as well.

Macabelle.com

I have finally got the site up and running. Hopefully I can keep up with it now.

Can anyone else believe how many people have their Christmas decorations up already?

Vacation

Last weekend we went up to the Dells with Jason's family. Jason, the girls, our brother-in-law, nephew, and I all went up together on Friday morning (the other kids had to go to school). We had a blast on Friday. Of course Izzie didn't sleep in the car on the way up but she ended up falling asleep on me in the lazy river. If I hadn't been in the raft so uncomfortably I would've stayed in there all day. She was so snuggly. After I couldn't take the discomfort anymore I ended up getting out and Izzie snuggled with Jason in the lazy river while I got to go down some slides with Mackenzie. Mackenzie was a little fish. She was swimming great and both of the girls were having such a great time. We ended up going to dinner and by the time we were done with dinner the rest of the family was there. We all went back to the pool for a bit (although Izzie didn't last much longer). On Saturday some of the guys went golfing and Mackenzie hung out with me in the room while Izzie took a marathon nap. Once Jason got back from golf we went back in the water. Izzie wasn't really into it that day though. We ended up splitting up from the rest of the family because the park we were at just wasn't working for her and a mean little boy splashed her in the face and made her cry. We ended up taking her down a slide and even though she cried, she was a little trooper. After dinner we stayed dry and the kids played in the indoor play area and the adults had a little ball fight. Other than our niece not feeling well we had a lot of fun. I was really proud of how well the girls did. Izzie slept pretty good in the pack and play and Mackenzie was a good sport all weekend. It's really fun to see her with her cousins. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures from the weekend.