St. George

We went to St. George last Saturday through Wednesday after Carl's Grandma Weight died last Friday. It was a crazy get everything ready and go type trip, but it turned out really fun, and very nice that we could be there to support Carl's Grandpa and Mom.

On Monday afternoon, Jovi started getting spots all over her body. We weren't sure if it was an allergic reaction, or what, so when we got home we took her to the doctor - turns out it was a virus that made her have spots and diarreah. No fun, but at least it wasn't anything worse.

This is at the Sand Dunes in Snow Canyon. We burried the kids, gotta love Fisher's face!

Fisher in the hole.

Jovi in the hole, and not very happy.

Chachi in the hole.

This was at the end of Jenny's Canyon.

This was on our hike to the temple quarry. The kids took off, they had a really fun time.

This is at the beginning of the temple quarry hike. (More like a walk)

4 generation picture.

Driving down to St. George. The kids did way better than I thought they would. We bought DVD players, and that helped a lot, you can see that's what Fisher is looking at. Naps also helped a lot. It was so awesome to be in the nice weather, I got to wear shorts, and flip flops. I was sad to come back to Cache Valley snow on the ground, but I have high hopes that it will be spring here soon!

I'm back!

Here's Jovi, Brigham, and Isaac at Brigham's birthday party last night. What cute little cousins! Jovi just started pulling herself up to everything this past week.

For Valentine's Day we had a candle lit dinner, the kids loved it, so we had to have the candles lit a few more times for dinner.

Pajama babies snuggling in mom and dad's bed.


Jovi's Christmas goodies.

Fisher and Chachi playing on Christmas morning.

Well, it's been a while, but we have internet again. I got a new camera for Christmas, so that was exciting. Ainsley is potty trained, so now we only have one in diapers! All three kids have grown up a lot, and Jovi crawls on her knees sometimes, but mostly just army style. This last week she started pulling herself up on things! I can't believe it, soon she's going to be walking. The pictures show how big they are all getting.

Cold showers, worked for us

Thanks everybody for your advise. Fisher has actually been potty trained since the beginning of August, but we don't have internet anymore, so I haven't posted anything. My neighbor told me about giving them cold showers when they go in their pants, so I figured it was worth a try. It only took 3 showers, and he's done great ever since. He is now afraid of cold showers, however, but I think he'll probably grow out of that. Our summer was busy, but we had lots of fun. We are enjoying the nice weather, and I'm hoping it doesn't turn cold any time soon. Fisher started pre-school, and he LOVES it. It's very nice that my next door neighbor has it at her house. Well, that's a short little update. Here's a pretty recent picture of the kids.

HELP!!

Okay all you moms out there, I need your help. Fisher is being potty trained, and he is doing super good with peeing in the toilet, however, he hasn't really had a successful poop for a while. He does not have a regular schedule on when he poops, because I think he holds it in until it's impossible to do so anymore. Anyways, this is all probably WAY too much info. but I'd really appreciate some tips or any advice to help him, cause I'm tired of cleaning up poopy messes. However, I do have to say, it's nice to only have 2 in diapers now, and I keep trying to convince Ainsley she wants to be potty trained too. I actually don't think it will be much longer for her either.

Fun, fun, and oh yes, more fun!

We've been pretty busy this past month, we've been able to do lots of fun things with our family. Carl went to scout camp for 4 days, we went to a Mackley reunion, had my sister and her family here from Missouri, and of course the 4th of July is always an adventure sleeping outside under the stars, and playing volleyball, seeing the parade and fireworks, eating pizza at midnight, etc. We've just been having too much fun for our own good.

We went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house, and then to The Spaghetti Factory to eat after - Carl stayed home to put up flags the next morning for scouts, so it was a little crazy doing everything solo - my family is so nice to always help me out with my three kids, especially when Carl isn't there.

Here's Ainsley and Jovi - what cute sisters!

Fisher's taking Chachi for a ride on his new "car"

Here are all of the grandkids on my side - including Madi and Flint that got to visit this last week from Missouri. It was pretty much crazy trying to get a cute picture of everyone, there was at least 2 crying children at all times, so this is as good as it gets, I guess.

We went to Lagoon the day after boating, it was really fun. Everyone was dying of the heat, so we went on all the water rides, and then it started to pour! Then we all froze - summer in Utah, gotta love it. I think playing in the rain was the funnest part for Fisher and Ainsley, they loved it, but got drenched! We went home after this.

Here was Jovi's blessing day. Thanks to everyone that could come, we are so blessed to have such a great family!

This is everyone on my side that came.

And if everything that we've been doing hasn't been enough, we are currently trying to potty train Fisher, again, and as you can see, he's tired of it already. Okay, actually we had gone to the beach to have a picnic with the Olsens, and he fell asleep on the way home, and when I brought him into the house, he found his blanket on the bathroom floor, and went back to sleep.

It's been a month already?

It's still hard to believe I have 3 kids!

The Olsens came to see Jovi, and we ate lunch at the park - it was so much fun, we hated to see them leave!

Day Out with Thomas! We went and rode on Thomas for Fisher's birthday - it was pretty great. He loved it. The train ride wasn't really worth the money, but it was fun - thanks everybody who came to be with Fisher - that made it even more special for him!

What cuties!

This was at the "imagination station" they had a bunch of train tables with trains. Fisher could have stayed here all day.

Here was his birthday cake I made. We ate it at the Dairy Keen in Heber after the train ride, I didn't have my camera there, or I would have got a picture of him blowing out the candles.

Here we are boarding the train!

This was Memorial Day weekend, we went to put flowers on my Grandparents graves in Richmond.

Last Saturday we went to Willard Bay - it was really fun, and turned out to be a nice day. Carl and Ainsley took a nap under the tree.

Fisher had a blast playing in the sand and water, and loved riding in the boat!

I don't know why, but I always love the pictures of kids falling asleep at the table, so I was so excited when Ainsley fell asleep while eating, and then she did it again yesterday! I guess that's what happens when you have church during lunch time and nap time.

Welcome to our family!!!

We are so excited to have a new little one in our family. Jovi Renae Mackley was born at 12:25 pm on Saturday, May 9, 2009. She weighed 8 lbs. 6 oz. and was 19 inches long. She is perfect! Here are some pictures. I'll post some more later.





Jovi and cousin Brigham

At the hospital.

After her bath - she's so pretty!

Here's the proud Daddy giving Jovi her first bath.

What a chunk!