life with the MacDonalds

Hmmm....where to start! Gwynn & Payton have been really busy and fun! This past week was busy, Gwynn & Payton had many activities and functions. We had an art presentation at Gwynn's school, the children's museum, a zoo day, dance, and swim. I also watched Beau for a day. This past weekend we accomplished many household chores and caught up on some much needed rest. We also had a nice little visit with Aunt Rachel and a play date with Grandma. This coming week is going to be super busy once again. I absolutly love both kiddos they are an absolute blast, very busy but awesome!

Gwynn is very into dressing herself...she wore this outfit on our little date on Friday night to ice cream. Everyone made her feel very special and asked her all kinds of questions about her princess dress. I think Payton is laughing at her in this picture...are you wearing that out?? Gwynn loves her dance class of hip hop, tap, and ballet. I think she loves tap best because she can be loud! She also has only two other little ladies in her class. They are both some of the sweetest little girls I have meet. They all hug and kiss after class and say they love one another...so sweet!

Payton after bath time telling me all about the cars on his sheets, my favorite time is bath and after when he runs around naked trying to avoid diapers and pj's!

Bath fun!

Gwynn being my little monkey at the Zoo, we love all the new exhibits!

Payton and Gwynn climbing all over the lion statues.

Payton loves the sea lions! He would have stayed here all day!

Gwynn at the Zoo with another one of her outfits..it took me an hour just to get these pants on her..she always says their not fancy enough or they are too fancy! She would wear a dress everyday if I let her.

This week we will be doing some more house hold chores. I think Gwynn finally talked us both into painting her room purple. It's a very mellow purple. She has been asking for the past two months!!! Wow this kid never forgets anything...we kept hoping she would give it up but instead it has gotten more intense! She definately knows what she wants and can't rest until it is accomplished..I sometimes get frustrated...but she strangly resembles someone else I know. We will see how it goes....purple is her favorite color!

Charlie, Tiffany, Gwynn & Payton MacDonald

Best 4 years of my life!

Charlie and I had our four year anniversary today! We had a nice calm night of fun! Charlie got some of my favorite Sushi and beautiful Lilly's for me on his way home. We then made some very good crepes as a team...peanut butter & chocolate and cream cheese and strawberries! Gwynn & Payton helped mix and create. They were a big hit!

I truly feel so blessed to be married the the best person I have ever meet! I love our beautiful life. We had our family celebration tonight because we are a team and all have a very important role in our family marriage. Next Thursday we are going to have our own little date with a blazers game and happy hour. It should be fun! Every year just gets better and better and the happy memories continue to pile up! I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with my amazing husband & super kiddos!

We also continue to be super busy with school, dance, swim and play dates. Gwynn went to the Zoo this week with her school. Payton is doing really great in swim he is doing very good at all the drills and loves to go under the water. Tomorrow we have dance and then we are adopting two extra kiddos (Carter & Jackson) for the rest of the day! It should be fun!

Payton excited for swim to start!

Gwynn, Payton and Evie outside the children's museum after our fun play date last week!
Payton's first nap in his big boy bed! Three hours!!!
Payton a good little hiker, in Forest Park!
Charlie's & Gwynn having some breakfast!
Long lost pictures of Charlie's birthday and Gwynn's Christmas production at school!
Gwynn & her buddy Cami!

Can you find Gwynn?? She was a hen who flew into the rafters.

The great fun we had this week!!!

This past week was a crazy great week. We started swim again with Payton. He loves the swimming part as long as he can be crazy and do lots of under water swimming. He doesn't love the structure/instruction of being told what to do in the water. He just wants to GO! GO! GO!!!!

Gwynn also started dance again on Fridays and is doing a mixed class of hip hop, tap and ballet. She loves it and was such a good little dancer. She is very into it this time around. She has been asking for a while to do dance again I wanted to make sure she was really interested this time. She defiantly seems to be at a perfect age for taking instructions.

This week we also tryed out little gym with Beau in Lake Oswego. Payton really liked it for the first ten minutes...... but just wanted to run around the rest of the time. Gwynn and Payton both also had a dentist appointment at our amazing dentist office where they both got spoiled rotten and had very good appointments. They both are doing great Gwynn absolutely loves the dentist. The assistant said she is one of the only three year old who sit there the entire time and lets you clean her teeth. Payton on the other hand hated the dentist and was held down for his appointment screaming and kicking!!!

Payton also moved into his big boy bed. I found a great deal at Pottery barn kids. It is just what I wanted for the little man and he seems to love it too! He took an amazing three hour nap today and went down for bed with out a problem! Charlie also made Payton an amazing train table for all his wooden trains. I am pretty excited about both!

We also had a date night while Grandma came over to play. It was really nice to have a little night out. Then we both had a little happy hour with our friends... my girl night was Thursday and Charlie's guys night was on Friday.

I plan on posting some long lost pictures of Gwynn's Christmas production as well as Charlie's birthday fun! I will also post some new pictures of our cutie bugs!