Finally getting her bangs

After years of asking to have bangs, Kaylee finally got her wish.  An awesome young lady from church works at the hair salon at the mall and offered to be the one to give her the trim her hair so badly needed.  And since we were already getting her hair cut she attempted her plea for bangs one more time.  Well today was her lucky day. Our hair dresser Amber and I decided that longer swoopy bangs may work, and if not it wouldn't be to difficult to grow them out.  So she got her bangs, and the best hair cut ever, and spent the rest of the day wearing the biggest smile. Now the real test will be seeing if I can make her hair look nearly as good as Amber got it to look. 

Kaylee's "Tough man" cologne

My crazy girl, that would be Kaylee, came up with yet another laugh-out-loud invention.  This week she created her own cologne.  She took pieces of the big yellow bushes out in our front yard and ground them into the pavement until they were more of a powder and then mixed it in a spray bottle with water and a few other items growing outside.  She then waited for the little neighbor boy to get close enough for her to squirt some on him.  Once she had determined that her experiment was a success she came inside to give me the sales pitch she had created to go with her product.

Obviously this kid has seen way to many infomercial type commercials because it went a little something like this.  "Are you tired of being told to do chores? Wouldn't you rather go outside and play?  Well, that is why you need my new tough man cologne, for the man who wants to smell like he's been working hard, without having to do any work."  That's right, my child has singe handedly created a cologne that offers instant funk.  I am one proud momma.  Of course I did have to ask her to stop testing her inventions on the neighbor kids. 

getting crafty and creative

For spring break this year the girls and I decided to stay home and work on crafts.  They have always loved doing crafts, but I was still surprised that this kept their attention for the entire week.  I even put together some supplies so they had plenty of crafts to work on while watching General conference.

Most of the girls crafts involved painting different canvases for their bedrooms.  Jenna even got out the vinyl and cut out designs to paint over.

I think my all time favorite projects of Kaylee's was her 4th of July basket. It started off as a simple blue crate basket, but as she worked on it she kept coming up with new ideas for decorating the basket.  First she found some wooden stars and painted them with red and white stripes, them after watching me sand down one of my crafts she decided to distress her stars and her basket as well. 

 

And my favorite craft of Jenna's was a shelf box that we built and she painted.  After watching me use masking tape on one of my projects to create stripes she decided to use that technique and take it one step further.  I think i know what we will be doing on rainy days in the future (more and more and more crafts, yea!!)

For my crafts, I wanted to work on something for the 4th of July.  I started with several candle sticks and empty glass jars and made myself some candy jars.  I also found some fun wooden rings and stole Kaylee's idea for creating stripes on the wooden starts and made some fun little napkin holders.

And with the remaining candle sticks and some scraps of wood I made a table center piece that says; Home, refuge from the storm." of course we had lots of spare wood and I wasn't sure how I wanted this to look when it was done so I made one black and one antique white. But, that didn't help me at all, I love the way they both turned out and now I am even more indecisive than ever. 

One final project that I made and loved, but completed back in February was a fun Vinyl plaque for Valentines Day, but I loved how it turned out so much that I still have it out. 

Building a Temple

 This evening for our combined Young Men's/Young Women's activity the Mia Maid class planned a contest to see who could build the best temple with the supplies they were given.  Each group was given a different set of supplies for this activity.  One group had to build their temple with marshmallows and vanilla frosting.  Another group for a hot glue gun, cotton balls, and cardboard boxes, The third team got Popsicle sticks and boxes, and Jenna's team got toothpicks and play dough. 

 Just to show how Creative Jenna's team was (because lets face it, I am super bias and think this was by far the best temple constructed this evening), Jenna constructed a miniature Angel Moroni to go on the top of the temple.  They also created buses and trees to go around the temple, as well as a wall with an arched entryway. 

This kid, I can't believe she is old enough to be in Young Women's, but in the past couple of months she has transitioned into a pre-teen and no longer seems to young to be apart of this group of girls. 

Makeovers- courtesy of Kaylee

Ahh, another totally normal day at the Mackey's.  Once again Kaylee has offered to give us a make-over, and once again her creativity took over once she was given the opportunity.  Yesterday we were made into fairies with bright red noses, because all fairies have red noses (didn't you know that?).  Today we were given the facial hair that we pray never becomes a reality. She started off by giving herself a cute little mustache and goatee and then gave Jenna a simple curled mustache.  But when it was my turn she went crazy.  That means I got to sport a full on beard. Heck yea!!

Well ,this just goes to show that if we were to become a pack of hairy females, we would still be one hot family. 

Our Family- 2013

 

Our Hero and My Best Friend

Another year of hellos and goodbyes.