Snow Day

We had a snow day today!! I'm not quite sure how much snow we got, but enough to go out and enjoy it at least. Mackenzie really enjoyed playing in the snow, but we don't really have "snow gear" for her, so she got cold after about 30 min of playing outside (we all did).

Butt-crack Baby!!

Lacey enjoyed the snow as much as the rest of us. Buck would throw snowballs and she would chase them. It was too funny to watch!

St Jude Trike-a-thon

Mackenzie participated again this year in the St Jude Children's Trike-a-thon. She raised over $100 for children with cancer! Thank-you so much to all of you who donated to such a great cause. They combined the trike-a-thon with the fall festival this year, so it was a very fun-packed night.

Our little fairy princess

"bowling"

Hula-toss

She really liked the pumpkin catapult

Our little school girl

Mackenzie had school pics today, and she wanted to show off how cute she was........

posing

Lacey girl

Yesterday, Lacey and Sam got attacked by our neighbors pitbull. Buck was taking our dogs out for a run, and the neighbor kids had their dog outside, without a leash. When the pitbull saw our dogs, he ran up and attacked Lacey, breaking her jaw and causing multiple puncture wounds to her body. Sam tried to help out by biting the pitbull on its butt while it was attacking Lacey, but it turned around and bit Sam's ear (which is why he's bandaged up). When Sam did that, it gave Buck a chance to get in and try to break things up. Anyways, when it was all said and done, Buck rushed the dogs to the vet and Lacey was in surgery about an hour later. She stayed overnight, but is home now with us. It's very obvious that she's in a bunch of pain, and will have a long healing process, but, she's alive and will come through this.

A little R&R

We had a wonderful vacation this year at Gulf Shores, AL. We spent 8 days there, and had a blast!!

Starnes Family

Playing in the sand

Flying a kite with daddy

Swimming in the ocean

Getting a little shade

Mommy and Mack

Wave jumping (her favorite)

Buck and Steve

Starnes and Davis clan

The kids had a blast running in the waves

Macky with Miss Gerri (Wade's mom)

Macky with her Papa C.

This is Buck's father, Ken, and his wife, Betty. They just happened to be in the Gulf Shores area the first weekend we were there, so Mackenzie got spoiled by all kinds of grandparents that week.

July 4th weekend

So I'm finally getting around to posting July 4th photos. Better late than never!

These are some picks from our house. We had some friends over to celebrate, and the kids had a blast!

My friend brought over a pinata for the kids, they loved it!

She only did the sparklers once, she was too scared after that.

Macky and her dad at the Freedom Fest at Ft. Hood on July 4th

This is while we were watching the fireworks

Oh Happy Day

So as you can tell, our "Oh Happy Day" has finally arrived.

This is us patiently awaiting their arrival. They had music blaring and everyone was is great spirits.

The firetrucks........thats how I knew which direction they were going to come from.

The crowd of people......there were just as many people to my left.

Everyone got really excited when the firetrucks turned on their flashing lights, we knew then that it was close (12:30)

The firetrucks spraying water on the buses as they rolled in.

Here come the buses

The soldiers in formation

After they called "Fall-out"

Here he comes....

A sweet reunion with Miss Macky......she didn't know what to think.

One happy girl!

One happy family!
They played Etta Jame's "At Last" during this time....what a perfect ending!

The buses as they drove away, left a formation of our soldiers.

















Our soldier's marching forward.....they just had to play that song.

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!