HAPPY 7TH BIRTHDAY DAKOTA! :)

Happy 7th birthday to my silly boy Dakota! :)
I took the above photo at about 8:28 this morning. He was born at 8:22 a.m. He wanted to make a silly face. He is one silly boy. Lately he acts so goofy and silly especially at bedtime.

Dakota's birthday breakfast was sausage, homemade biscuits and homemade sausage gravy that I put together to make him a sausage gravy biscuit and scrambled eggs. Yummy! :) He loves biscuits and gravy! :)


Dakota loves being around our horses. This is Mary our newest horse. She is pregnant and due in July 2011. Dakota has already told us many times that next year for Christmas he wants horse stuff (a saddle especially or a horse cart). Mary is already broke to ride and drive a cart. She is 6 years old. Dakota enjoyed walking her around today. He is the one that posed for the picture (I didn't even have to tell him to... he know I love when he takes a cute photo). :)

Happy 7th birthday to my silly boy Dakota! :)

I can hardly believe my oldest son is already 7! He is such a fun, loving, silly, outdoorsy, great student, creative, comedian, thoughtful, great hunter, great at archery, cutie pie, great baseball player, and a wonderful son and brother! :) He's been very excited about his 7th birthday. We are going to PF Changs for his birthday dinner. He LOVES the lettuce wraps and he is very excited about the Calamari too (his other fav). His cake is going to be a giant chocolate chip cookie that I am going to decorate like a baseball. He loves all things baseball and has quite a baseball card collection now.

I love you Dakota! I thank God for giving me a sweet son like you!! :) Happy birthday sweetie! :)

Baby kicks :)

I have begun feeling baby kicks! I'm so excited to be at this stage in the pregnancy. :) The first little movements I felt were on Sunday, Dec. 26 in the evening. I was 14 wks. 3 days. I wasn't 100% sure if those little flutters were the baby but I continued to feel the same movements over the last 2 days. I had more little kicks just this morning. What a great feeling! :) Now I can't wait for the kids and David to be able to feel the baby but that will still be weeks away.

14 weeks on Christmas Eve :)

Santa visit 2010

We got together for our annual Santa visit and gift exchange at David's cousin's house. This party is always a lot of fun and especially special because Santa makes a special stop by the house. We never do the mall Santa photos because of this special visit. This year Wyatt wasn't into having his picture with Santa which is why he is crying in the family photo. There is also not a picture of him alone or with his brother and sister plus Santa. He wasn't feeling that well and still had a bit of a cough. I did get a few smiles from him later on after we opened gifts. Emma and Dakota were delighted to see Santa and his elf. Elfie even played a fun song on the harmonica that Dakota got from Santa. :)


I loved Emma's Christmas dress this year and she did too. She loved twirling around in her gorgeous dress. :) The dress also came with a matching one for her doll. :)

Happy cousins on Christmas Eve :)

Merry Christmas! I've got a few moments as my family is enjoying all of the fun gifts they have received for the holiday. I wanted to share a great photo I took last night of the 5 McGee cousins (Wyatt, Dakota, Hannah, Emma, and Hayden). I couldn't believe I actually got 1 photo of them all looking, lots of smile, and NO tears. Well the tears came shortly after when my mother-in-law and sister-in-law tried to get one of all 5 kids (Wyatt was the crying one). I'm glad I got this one. We don't have many photos of all 5 kids looking in the same direction. This is a keeper for sure. :)

Christmas Eve was a blast and so has our Christmas day. :) Wyatt is done playing so my time is up. I hope all of you have also had a blessed holiday season. :) Many many more holiday photos to share with all of you. :)

Finally into the 2nd trimester :)

I have finally reached the best part of a pregnancy for me... the 2nd trimester! The 1st trimester was full of LOTS of nausea but I'm already noticing a drop in that now that I'm 13 weeks pregnant. I still get some nausea if I stay up to late at night. All of my pregnancies have been that way. I am looking forward to feeling a bit more energized now. Wyatt has had a horrible cough that has been causing us some rough nights so I'm not feeling all that extra energy yet but I know it's right around the corner.

Over the next few months I want to start getting the nursery ready for our new baby. We are moving our nursery into a small room right off of our bedroom which is currently an office/storage room but we've got our work cut out for us. When we put our house on the market we packed up a bunch of stuff... toys, extra kitchen stuff, ect. Well when we got that all out of storage we put it into that room. Little by little I know I'll get through all the "stuff" and get rid of some of it to make room for that baby.

I already know I want to do an owl themed nursery. I LOVE owls!! They are just so cute! My husband doesn't quite understand why I love them so much but they are just so darling. Depending on the sex of the baby will affect the design of the nursery. My best friend Summer who is an incredible artist is going to help me design it and paint some cute things for the room. I'm going to make some things too. I have the cutest owl fabric I've been holding onto but it will only work if this baby is a girl. I still am leaning towards thinking this is a girl. I can't wait to get started on the nursery. Below is an inspiration owl pillow for the room (Target has the most adorable owl stuff)... (I like the cute owls that are like these the best).

Emma's 1st time deer hunting with her daddy :)

Don't you love her pink camo snow bibs. Girls can hunt and still be girlie. ;)

David and I love this one. :)



Today David surprised Emma and let her go out deer hunting with him (she didn't have a gun) for the first time. She's been wanting to go squirrel hunting but with all of the snow we've gotten and the business of the season deer hunting worked out the best today. She was very excited and got ready to go in about 2 minutes. :) The day is pretty chilly (it's the 2nd extra weekend for gun season)and the ground covered in snow. They stayed out a little over an hour and while they didn't see any deer they did see plenty of tracks plus they had fun. Emma was all smiles when they returned home! :)

Happy 5th Birthday Emma! :)

Happy 5th birthday to my sweet girl Emma! :) I can hardly believe she is 5 years old today (wow). We started off the morning with a breakfast of cinnamon rolls, bacon, and eggs (no eggs for Emma though). I love how she's wearing the hat in the picture. She is a girly girl. :)

The kids were all drinking there milk and laughing when they ended up with a milk mustache. I of course had to get some pictures of the mustaches. :)


We got snow here yesterday so they are counting down the minutes to when they get to go out and play in the snow. Emma got a new snowsuit from her Mimi and Papa McGee and she can't wait to wear it in the snow.

David is working today :( so I don't have to much on the schedule for Emma. Her brother Dakota was sweet and played Barbies with her this morning. I'm sure we'll play some games and do whatever else the little princess wants to on her special day. She wants to go out for chinese for dinner. Yum yum! :)

Happy 5th birthday baby girl! You are so sweet and affectionate! I love when you rub my shoulders (she gives a good shoulder rub) :) She loves ballet and dances around the house almost everyday. :) She loves to color pictures and does a great job. She is looking very forward to school in the fall of 2011 and enjoys doing lessons with mommy. She likes to watch Strawberry Shortcake, Madeline, Barbie, and Tinkerbell movies, she likes to play the baby game on the Wii, she likes to bake with mommy, hunt with daddy, and she loves the horses and pigs on the farm. Finally she LOVES to sing especially the alphabet. I love to here you sing songs about Jesus when you are upstairs and I'm downstairs. You sings with all your might and it makes me smile every time! :) Emma you are a blessing to us all and we love you sweet girl! :)


Our little ballerina in her recent holiday performance. She looked so cute and did such a good job. Ballet is for sure one of her favorite things to do. :)

I came across this picture of her. The kids were all being silly with the antlers from David's recent hunting trip to Montanta. She's a mule deer. :) She may be girly but she's not afraid to get dirty either (just like here mommy). :) Plus look at that big smile. :)

Emma's 5th birthday party :)

We had Emma's 5th birthday party yesterday and she chose a Barbie theme. The day ended up being a snowy one but Emma didn't mind at all. She had a ton of fun with her 3 friends (they were so cute running all over the house playing together). We had a brunch menu for her food and the food was so yummy! :) I made pumpkin stuffed croissant french toast, sausage links, egg-sausage egg bake, loaded baked potato chowder, and my neighbor brought over some fresh pineapple. I love brunch foods and I was very happy Emma wanted this type of food for her party. She loved it too. :)

Emma loved her Barbie doll cake. I made the cake and I'll admit I've been waiting for the day that I could FINALLY make her the doll cake. I've made 1 other one when my sister Katie was a little girl. The way a little girl's face lights up when they see there doll cake is just magical! :) I love it! I love how cute the cake turned out (the ruffle added just the right girly touch to the cake). :) The inside of the cake was purple. A girly cake for my girly girl. :)

She was blessed with many wonderful gifts and of course lots of Barbies. :) She played a game of pin the heart on the princess tiara and there was a pinata. All the kids grabbed a string and pulled away as the candy flew everywhere. Fun stuff! :) The big hit of the party was silly bandz. :) Little did I know that the kids loved the glow-in-the-dark bandz (thankfully I had enough for everyone). :)

I of course took lots of pictures and this is just a few of the ones I took at the party. The dress Emma wore is special because it was her cousin Mary Kate's dress. Emma loved wearing it and her brother said she looked like Samantha the American Girl doll (one of Emma's favorites). I think she look beautiful! :) Here brothers looked so cute in there pictures with her and I love the big smile on her face as she's hugging my belly bump. :) She just loves her daddy to pieces. They are going to go squirrel hunting this week and she is so excited for that day! She loves to spend time with him. :)