McRae Family

Love these kids!!!

2010-02-12T16:27:00.000-08:00

Happy birthday love!!!

2010-01-20T20:03:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to say Happy Birthday to my wounderful husband and the best daddy anyone could ask for!!! Joshua thanks for always taking care of us. I love you more than ever. Hope u had a wonderful day. Of course I can't figure out how to post a picture off my phone and can't figure out my camera right now so hopefully soon.

Our first stitches in the Mcrae family

2009-11-03T21:28:00.000-08:00

We had to take Xander to Urgent Care. So glad Josh had not gone to his meeting yet. I don't do well when My babies get hurt. Josh and I were in the other room when we hear a cry so I go in to check and Xander was on the ground by our bookcases crying I just picked him up and really didn't look at his head I was just loving on him. Josh comes in and He saw that he was bleeding when we got it stopped enough to look at we could see good size cut on his head which was pretty deep above his eyebrow. So off we went. He really was a trooper we had to hold him down to get the stitches. Hadli was with us and she was trying to singing to him to keep him happy. She loves her brother. He cried but stooped when it was all over. When we got home it was like nothing happened he was just a little happy boy like always. I am just grateful that is all that happened. He is one and already have stitches. I will post pictures tomorrow.

Xander is 1

2009-09-11T23:18:00.000-07:00

I can't believe my baby is one already. He was realy never a baby. He has been walking since 9 months and hasn't stopped. He is now running. I love it such a happy baby from the start. He has 6 teeth and is getting his bottom back two now. He is 34in and 27 1/2 lbs. He can say mama daddy hadi hi and says please in sign laungue. ( I think I spelled that right.) he is just a fun loving boy. I am so grateful for this litttle man. Really I look at him and can't believe he is ours. He has blessed our family more than words. Xander I have loved u since you were in my belly you had a hard time getting out but you made it. Right than I knew you were a determined little guy. Your sister loves you. So does your mommy and daddy. Hope u had a great day. Happy brithday Xander!

Happy 3rd Birthday!

2009-07-24T22:48:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to wish my little girl a Very Happy Birthday today. I can't believe it has been 3 years. She is one full of life girl. She loves everyone. Loves to be on the go. She has a ton of personality Good and Bad. She is a girly girly and a tom boy. Which I love. She loves her baby brother so much. She is a good helper in the kitchen. Loves to cook. She really has always been such a sweet little girl. As a baby. She would never fuss took good naps and still does. Always been a fish. She enjoys going to church you can't tell her it is sunday to early in the day because she wants to go now. (we have church at 2 ). Will make songs up with her dad and than dance to them also. Remembers everything. Its crazy. I could go on and on About little miss Hadli Jane. We are sure glad you chose our family to come to. We love you so much. Hope you had a great birthday.

Xander

2009-07-08T22:46:00.000-07:00

This past week he has grown up so fast. He now says moma and dada, Waves hi and says hi. Will pretty much walk everywere. Gives high five and loves to play pek a bo. How ever you spell it. Today he figured out how to climb up on things. It is kinda sad. He is my baby.

What we have been up to.

2009-07-01T16:47:00.000-07:00

Here is some pictures from June. We had a fun month.
Had a picnic in Fount Hills. Sad to say but Hadli's first official picnic. They both love being outside.
She had Swim leasons which she loved going and does so well now. She enjoyed her teacher and still talks about her. I didn't get any good pictures. I need to get some from my sister.
We were able to go to a D-backs game. We took both of the kids. They did great. Hadli had some pom poms and cheered the whole game. Xander just hung out.

Happy fathers day!

2009-06-21T23:27:00.000-07:00

Just want to wish Josh and Happy Fathers Day! He is a great daddy. The kids love him so much. He makes up a song for anything and everything. Hadli will remember everyone he makes up. He loves to play with them and teach them. I am so blessed to have such a great husband that will help with the kids from day one. He will keep them whenever I ask or he just tells me to go take a break. So I think my kids have the best daddy ever. Happy fathers daddy babe!

Quick trip.

2009-06-13T09:05:00.000-07:00

Well Yesterday Xander had his doc apt. He is 25 lbs and 32 in long. He is off the charts. I love it like that.

Jaree and I and are kids made a fast trip to Pima yesterday. She had a reception to go to and She needed someone to talk to on the trip. So that is where I came am in. It was a fun fast trip. I got to see a lot of people. Still not everyone I would love to see. But saw the grandparents. Hadli loves to see them. My brother and his family. And also one of my good friends that I haven't seen forever. Jenna and pretty much her whole family for a little. So even though it was a fast trip it was wroth it. But now back to work. And The kids did great.

9 months

2009-06-11T21:21:00.000-07:00

Well today my little guy turned 9 months old. I can't even believe it. He is such a big boy. He all of the sudden has turned into a daddy's boy and I really don't know if I like it. He goes everywhere and is just so happy. He will stand up all the time and just hang out for a little and start clapping. He has 5 teeth now. And I see at least one more coming. He is just one happy little boy. That no one knows how young he is. We go for a check up tomorrow so I can't wait to see how big. I am just so thankful for my little man. Who is so loving and has brought so much joy to our family.

She is getting so big!

2009-05-23T22:02:00.000-07:00

So our Hadli is one of the funniest kids ever. Really has the most personality out I have seen in a 2 year old well almost 3. This little one has carried a purse around with her everywhere she goes. I mean everywhere! Before she was 2 she had so many of them. She would find all of my old ones so they were as big as she was and she would load those babies up. We took them into every store and everyones house we went to. Finally I just had her carry her own stuff :). That is one thing she would not share at all. Cyndi even gave her a kids purse for her birthday last year that is how much she loves them. On to the next love. Which is pretties we like to call them. (chap stick, lip gloss, or lipstick). Yes she loves them can't get enough of them either. So at least I know when I can't find mine she has a back up with her at all times. When you ask for a kiss and she just put her pretties on she turns her head and says NO I have pretties on and gives us the cheek. :) She is to funny with her pretties she knows how to take off her shirt without getting them messed up to. Now for the last one. Is Shoes. She loves them. We sleep with them on. Yes they have to be on. I don't even try to fight with her on that one. Whatever. So when it is bed time we have to have those shoes on and our purse goes with us. I now I am bad mom to let her just take all this stuff to bed with her. But I don't care. In the morning if she can't find her shoes she is yelling at me to come and get her out. So I can find them for her. If she has them both she gets out on her own. And if anyone comes over (girls) and they take their shoes off she goes straight for them. She has been walking in heels for a very long time. She is better than I am. I decided not to buy anymore shoes because we will get into if I pick out a pair she doesn't thinks goes with he outfit. Now if she gets in trouble I tell her I will take her shoes away and she can't wear them. I did that today man did we have a meltdown. Than she came to me a minute later and said mom I am done crying can I have my shoes back now. That is just a little about my sweet sweet little big girl that I love so much. She is getting way to smart for me. She remembers everything little thing. She is such a good big sister. Its her baby Xander. They share a room and I love it they will now play in their beds When I lay them down for a nap and bedtime. Because he has figured how to stand up so he can see her. So they talk and laugh forever.

He goes everywhere

2009-05-06T01:15:00.000-07:00

So I can't sleep. I thought I would post about my little man. He is just so funny. He loves his walker. He is to tall for already but. He doesn't care. He really just stands up in it all day. I will go in the other room for a second and he will be gone. I have to go looking for him. His new place to go is the playroom. The funny thing is my house doesn't have big hallways so he barely fits through in that thing. But he likes to play in there. Even if Hadli isn't in there.
This past weekend he decided that army crawling was way faster than just crawling. Even though he gets up on all four still. So he really goes all over. He loves his daddy's TV. He thinks it so funny to touch everything. I tell him no and he laughs at me. How do you really get mad at such a sweet face. He just thinks I am playing with him. Man how I love him. He really is a mamma's boy. Even though I act like I don't like it sometimes but to me honest I love it. So tonight he decided that he was going to crawl a little he did it four time in a row. If that makes any sense.
Needless to say I LOVE that little man.

Two chubby babies

2009-04-30T14:28:00.000-07:00

Xander and Maci are just the cutest chubby babies out there. My sister's little girl is 4 months old and Xander is 7 months old. You just got to love the the chubby monkey's. Maci's Cheeks are the best with those eyes. Xander decided that he wanted to start sucking on his fingers after we hung out with them that night. It is funny to watch baby's when they are about the same size. They watch what the other ones does.

Xander

2009-04-22T23:10:00.000-07:00

Well this boy has never been very small. It makes me sad that he wants to grow up so fast. He is now 7 months old. At 6 months he was holding his bottle and getting and rolling all over the place. Than this month he is now sitting up all on his own and this week he is up on his knees rocking back and forth. And he does a little push up move when he gets mad. It is so funny. Now I am just waiting for him to follow me where ever I go. It is just sad he wants to be so big. He now has four teeth. Two on top and two on the bottom. He is my big little man. Oh how I love him.

Easter

2009-04-22T22:51:00.000-07:00

I know its late but oh well. We took the kids to the mall to see the Easter bunny. Hadli was so excited to see him and get her picture. But by the time we where up she did not want anything to do with him. I got Xander all ready to go and she would not let go of my leg. I finally got her to sit and the end of the bench. Xander thought the bunny was pretty cool.

So Saturday we went over to my brothers house. For a cook out and egg hunt. It was nice to have everyone there. Clint and Jenn and their kids even came down. So it was a lot of fun. We have 11 grandkids age 6 and under. So it is a crazy party when we get together. Some how we talked my mom into watching the kids all but Maci while we went to the movies. I was very impressed she had 10 of them. That was the first night that all of us siblings and our spouses went to the movies or anywhere without the kids. So it was kind of nice. Big thanks to mom. On Sunday we where with Josh's family and they all came to our house. It was fun to not as crazy just one cousin on that side. I didn't get every good pictures of my kids on Easter Sunday. Hadli just wasn't down for pictures. So I am going to dress them back up to pretend that was on Easter.

Taxes

2009-04-15T23:35:00.000-07:00

Well really we took all of our stuff to the tax guy 3 months ago. But calling them every week and than every other day it still didn't get done till today. Yes a little stressful for me. So we go them at 5 had to find a place open to drop them off. We had to go out by the zoo to drop them off. By the way we normally them done way before now. So this is all new to us. We get closer and there is just a line of cars coming from both directions. I just started to laugh. It really wasn't that bad. They are all mailed off now. And I am glad we had to drive out there because I got Chuck Box out if it all. The best onion rings in the world. It is hard trying to talk Josh into driving over there. So all in all a good night. But for next year for sure they will be done way before due date.

A few pics

2009-04-06T22:43:00.000-07:00

This is just of my little guy. That is growing up so fast. He is getting his top two front teeth in. So now that makes four. He just wanted to be held all day. But that is ok. Hadli is just a bigger girl not a little girl anymore. She went to pima for 2 nights this weekend. I almost cried letting her go. It is weird to just have one home its just not the same. But she had fun playing with her cousins we sure do miss them.

Update.

2009-03-31T10:51:00.000-07:00

Well I pretty much stick at the blog thing. But we are still here. I haven't even posted my little man. That we are so lucky to have. So I don't have much time now but here is a little. My little guy turn 6 months and i can't even believe it. He is really not little but we will take it. He is now 23 lbs and 28 in long so he is our big little guy. But love every inch of him. Hadli is growing up so fast she will talk your ear off. I love it. She can put to and to together and it just crazy. She loves to be with all of her cousins. And to be on the go like me :). I can't believe she will be 3 years old this July. Its just nuts.

My little girl!

2008-04-22T22:34:00.000-07:00

So I have been off for the past four days and it has been really nice to be home with my little miss Hadli. She is now 20 months old. She acts so much older than she is and I don't know what to think. I want her to stay my little girl. But she doesn't want to. So for a while she has been acting like the trouble two's and I was going crazy.
But these past days has been so good this is when your forget about all of the lovely fits they do. And just freaking out. But she has been so good that we can go out and do whatever. The funny thing with her is she wakes up about 7:30 every morning and is ready for a nap by 11:00. If she goes down by than she really will sleep for 3 1/2 to 4 hours no joke. So that is alot of time to get stuff done. Needless to say I hate to fold cloths so they will just sit clean in my laundry room forever. But I was so tried of that. All 4 days she slept for 4 hours. So my house is The cleanest it has been for a very long time. I went through all of our closets and cleaned them all out folded all of the clothing.
The only thing crazy she did these past days is try to grow up to fast. She is asking to go potty on the toilet. She will take her diaper off and try to sit on it. And yes I know some would be grateful for this and yes I am too. But I don't want to stop every 5 mins when we are out to go to the bathroom. So today she was in the bathroom for a while so I got up to go check on her. When I got closer I could hear her saying mommy mommy. I opened the door and she has fallen in the toilet with her shorts on and was just hanging out. I had to take a picture before I got her out. (just with my phone). I was laughing so hard. She really wants to do this so I told myself that when my diapers run out that is all. Than I will plan on staying home for at least 2 days straight so we can make her a big girl. She isn't even 2 years old. She talks way to much and is just not my little girl anymore.
But every night she will just sit by me or lay by me on the couch. She will give loves like crazy and that is I don't even care if it is past her bed time.
All I can say is that I just LOVE this little girl of mine. I am very blessed to have her. She does the funniest faces lately too. She blows me kisses all of the time too. I just have the best little girl in the whole world.

Trip to Pima

2008-04-01T12:03:00.000-07:00

So this past weekend My sister and her girls, Hadli and I went to Pima on Friday. We haven't been home for a long time. So we decided to go. My cousin Marci and her girls were going to be there. We haven't seen the for a while. On Friday we went up to my other cousins house Heidi. She has 3 little boys soon to be 4 and than Marci's girls were there (4) so needless to say everyone had a buddy to play with. They all had so much fun together it was good to see everyone. My mom came down on Saturday. So she has a storage room up there. That we need to clean out. So That is what our Saturday was. The girls came with us. We were a little worried that they would get tried fast. But they did really well. We to a break and had to eat at El Charo. Miss all of that good food down there. But we had a good time clean. We stopped and looked at pictures. And laughed a lot. I found Hadli's big girl bedroom set. It was my great grandmas. It is still awesome. So can't wait to put her in it. The girls got to see the cows and the horses grandpa had them down at the house so that was fun for them. Hadli has a thing for cows right now. She loves them. On Sunday we went to church with grandma and grandpa. It was fun to go. Than of course grandma made all of the good Sunday dinner. She made a lot of good food. Thanks for that and the beds. We had a good time.

Easter

2008-04-01T11:53:00.000-07:00

Well I am just trying to catch up. I am not very good at posting. Well for Easter we had a pretty quite one but it was fun. We went to church and go all dressed up. Than we went out to my mother in-laws for a little egg hunt and dinner. Hadli would not put her cell phone down when she was looking for the eggs. She was so funny about that. So they have rock band at there house. That is so fun to play we will play for hours. And yes Hadli has to be involved with us all. No she has her own microphone it is so fun to watch her. She will dance and sign all at the same time and on beat.

Fun in the snow!

2008-03-18T12:31:00.000-07:00

Well we went up to Payson a couple of weekends ago to play in the snow and see one of Josh's high school buddies. We had a good time getting away even if it was just for the day. The weather was so nice. Hadli was kinda mad at us. We woke her up so we could get out and play. She likes her naps. So at first she was not to sure with it all but she did good. At the end she got to throwing some snow balls around with us. So it was a good time.

We are open!!!!

2008-03-11T15:27:00.000-07:00

Well we are finally open. It has been four weeks. So it is nice not stressing over. When is it going to be done. That is a plus. So now we just have to get it busy busy. But I have been impressed so far. We have stayed pretty steady. So I can not complain about that at all. So it is pretty fun to hear how everyone is so excited to have something out here.

I have to give Josh and His dad a ton of props on building the salon. They truly did an amazing job!!! His dad really can do anything you ask her is awesome at building anything. If he doesn't know how he will figure it out. Josh also did a great job. He had never really done anything this big before. They did everything in the salon expect the ac and staining the floors (we got to good of a deal to do that). So I am very proud of him!!!

Ice Cream

2008-01-29T21:39:00.001-08:00

My sister and I went to Wal-Mart the other day and the girls where good so we stopped and got them ice cream cones. Of course us too. This was Hadli's first one her eyes got so big and she had to hold it with both hands the whole time. Very supp rising she did not get it everywhere.

So a little of everything.

2008-01-28T21:19:00.001-08:00

I guess better late than never right to post some pictures. Chirstmas sunday. It is always fun to have a Christmas dress. She didn't want to take her picture.

Hadli helping her dad build out the salon. She thought she was pretty big.

Christmas

2007-12-08T22:29:00.000-08:00

So I have decided that I was going to make Quite books for some of my gifts and also one for miss Hadli Jane. I remember growing up and having one too. That my mom made. So my friend has one, I looked at it and thought that shouldn't be that hard to make. I get all of the stuff and I start figuring it out. I have four of them I am making. Now that I am doing have started making them it comes to me that I am crazy for trying to do all of these at once. They look easy and are really not that bad. It is just all of the little things you have to cut out and than all of the other stuff you have to put on them or sew all of this together. So needless to say I have a job in front of me. I have got a lot done so far. I just have to finish them up. But they are looking pretty good so far. Man my mom made so much stuff for us and a lot of our cloths. I try but it is way easier to go and buy it. Also fun to make it. So this is what I will be doing darning nap time.

Just so tired

2007-12-08T22:22:00.000-08:00

Well the other night. I was feeding Hadli dinner. She was totally eating than she was just looking down at the ground. So i went to get something 2 seconds later she was out cold. Felt so bad for the little girl she must of played to hard that day.

2007-11-09T14:55:00.000-08:00

Well it has been a long time since i have posted anything these pictures are way past time but they are way to cute to not put up she had so much fun just walking all around picking up the pumpkins. She didn't like to sit on the hay in was poking her i think.

Well on Halloween She was a wicth. I loved it. She got the idea of trick or treating. She would go up to them and they would try to put it in her basket but she had to hold it and than put it in. The smile never left her face. It was to cute. I just love her to pieces.

She is growing up!

2007-10-12T23:04:00.000-07:00

Well lets see on Wednesday, I was at work all day and josh texts me saying that our little girls has grown up today. First she took off her poop diaper and started running. Glad i wasn't here for that. Than she can open all of the doors in the house we are no longer safe from her getting into everything. She got in to the pantry and pull out a can dropped it on her big toe. Poor girl she cried for 30 mins. She does not cry more than five mins over anything. She would not walk at all the rest of the night. It was so sad to watch her even try to walk she couldn't put any weight on it. So sad to say. She really is a big girl now.

2007-10-09T21:51:00.000-07:00

Well to night my brother and his family came over for dinner. So that my sister in law and i could work on her fun blog. It is all of her stuff that she is so good at making. All of you need to check her site out. http://decorcreateur.blogspot.com The husbands were watching the crazy kids. We were laugh because we could hear the kids laughing and playing. So that was our fun little night.

2007-09-27T16:20:00.000-07:00

Hey girls this is just a fun night to get out. So bring all of your friends.

Her new smile

2007-09-26T12:47:00.000-07:00

So this is my sweet little Hadli. Everytime she sees the camera she has to say cheese now. So when ever I try to take her picture because she looks so cute. I get the beautiful smile now. But what can i say it sure does make me laugh.

My two Crazies

2007-09-15T15:32:00.000-07:00

So we were up in Show Low for labor day weekend. We stayed at the cabin on the golf course and josh just wanted to golf so bad. So instead hadli and him just went for a walk. She flows him everywhere and of course it was in the morning so she looks so cute :) Those to make me laugh all of the time.