McGary Family: 2009

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Merry Christmas!

Fun Making Gingerbread Houses!

Livy and Bailey's dollhouse

Bailey Clayton and Alex

Livy

Alex's Birthday presents

Happy Birthday Alex!

Alex turned 9 on Dec. 27th

Alise and I made these cute hair flowers

Macy and Mom

Baby Macy

Monday, December 28, 2009

Well she has finally arrived. We are so excited for this new little addition to our family! Macy was born Dec.21st and weighed 7lbs 13 oz. and was 20 in long. The kids just adore her especially the girls! I have lots of help! It is so fun to have a new little baby and we love her so much!

Bailey, Macy and Mom

Livy loving her new baby sister

So precious!

Snuggle time with Dad

So hard to share!

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Fun Times!

We have had a pretty busy month. Alex was baptized on Feb 7th and we enjoyed having a lot of family here to attend. Kira and Alise came up to visit for the week and it was great fun! Bailey and Melonie went to a daddy daughter dance with Seth and Scot. They were so excited to get all dressed up in new dresses and have their hair done. Bailey insisted that she needed a crown to wear to the dance because all princesses wear crowns so we got a crown for each of the girls and they were so beautiful! They danced the night away leaving dad and grandpa exhausted!

Today we went to the boys basketball games and Clayton did great! He made 2 baskets in his game and the crowds cheered and it brought tears to my eyes! Seth said "you are such a mother!" but hey I was so happy for him because these are the first points he has made all year.
Last weekend we brought home a basketball hoop so he has been practicing all week and apparently it has paid off! Alex did well to, he just lacks the motivation to go after the ball and we aren't so sure he really likes the sport. We have been having a great time cheering the boys on at their games each weekend. I love this time we have together!

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Happy Birthday Livy!

Well January is a busy month for us for birthdays! Livy just turned 2 on the 27th and I can't believe my baby is growing up so fast! We had birthday party number 1 on her birthday, tuesday night with just our family. She got open gifts and eat chocolate cupcakes (what a mess!) it was great fun. We will be having birthday party number 2 with all the family after Alex's baptism on Feb 7th at Chucke Cheeses, should also be great fun! We are excited to get together with all the family again. We will also be celebrating Grandma Mcgary's, Tamlee's and Melonie's birthdays and of course Alex's Baptism.

We are keeping busy with the kids different activities they are involved in and are looking forward to watching their first basketball game this Saturday. Seth is especially busy with work lately and we are feeling very blessed that he is since so many other constuction companies are scrambling for work right now! And if that doesn't keep him busy enough he is also drawing house plans in his spare time. I'm so grateful for his many talents and his willingness to work so hard, it has been a great blessing to our family!

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Happy Birthday Seth!!!

Well Seth finally turned 30! I can't believe I'm married to such an old man! But I suppose it was expected. Last night we had a small little party with just Seth's parents and had a good time . The kids made him birthday cards (a yearly tradition) and wrote what they loved most about him inside. They are so cute and something he can keep forever and will be fun to look at again years later. For his birthday Seth got a new gun and has already been out duck hunting with it. It looks espeacially great with his new camoflauge hunting Jacket I got him for christmas (the gun is camo as well). Just wanted to share a few pics from his

party and no he's not about to throwup on the cake! The cake infact was quite delicious! Hope everyone has a great week!

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Goals

This Sunday in Sacrament meeting the talks were all about goal setting. So for FHE this week we sat down and made some goals that we would like to accomplish as a Family and individuals. It was fun to have everyone participate and offer their opinion as to how we can improve. Hers is a list of goals that we set for our family.....
1. Hold family home evening each sunday
2. Attend the temple each month
3. Say personal prayers each morning and night
4.Keep the sabbath day holy
5.Hold more meaningful and reverent family home evenings.
So hopefully by writing them down, posting them on the fridge and discussing them each week during FHE we will be able to successfully complete our goals this year and grow as a family and individuals.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

A Great Start To A New Year!

Well I suppose it's high time that I took over the blog. So I appologize in advance for not being nearly as entertaining as Seth, but he just doesn't have the time these days. Well we had a wonderful christmas and we really enjoyed spending time with all our family! We had lots of parties starting off with a birthday party for Alex, Cody and Damon at Woodwards swimming pool, several get togethers with both sides of our family and ending with the big McGary family christmas party. We really enjoy living close to family so that we are able to that and we missed all our family who couldn't make it because of bad weather.

This past month Alex turned eight so we will be planning his baptism soon. Livy also has a birthday this month and she will be turning 2! I just can't believe how fast they grow up! Clayton and Alex just started basketball this week and it will be fun and also entertaining to watch them play again this year. The poor kids have hardly touched a basketball in their lives and don't know what to do with it when they do have it. But I'm sure they will get the hang of it and do great! As far as Bailey goes her and Livy have been having a blast with their new kittens the

y got for christmas. They wrap them up in little old hand towels and carry them around, push them around in their strollers, hold them by their necks, throw them off the top bunk and during family prayer the other night Livy tried to fold her kitty's arms for prayer. The kittens are well loved and abused.

We look forward to a great new year. We are in the process of trying to sell our house right now and if everything goes as planned it will close the first week in Febuary. We shall see though the people we have it under contract with have been very difficult to work with and it wouldn't surprise me if they back out. I think they seriously fear commitment! But I have faith things will work out how they are suppose to. If our house does sell we are planning on building again. Seth started designing some house plans saturday night and they are looking really good! It gets me excited to get started!

Well I hope everybody has a happy new year and all is well with your families! Thanks to all who sent us christmas cards it's so fun to see your beautiful families grow and change!

McGary Family