It's my party...

To celebrate Mere's 6th Birthday, she and friends partied it up at Jump'n Apes in Cleburne!

What a great place for a party!  So much to do!

 Mere and her friends, Benjamin and Allen!

Jamie and the Birthday Girl!

 Buddies: Cheyanne, Allen, Colt and Cason!

 Caroline...that smile says fun!

 Cheyanne taking advantage of all the great inflatables!

 Andrew..."Cheese!"

Luke enjoying the yummy cupcakes!

 I think I fooled a few into thinking that there was really ice cream in there!

Mere got a lot of great presents....

Even Callier had a good time!

His best friend Ella was there! (They were born the same day...shhh! don't tell him she's older!)

Mom...this doesn't taste like cake!

But look at all the pretty lights!

And Rylie makes 7!

Meet our newest four-legged, furry friend, Riley!

We adopted him from Fuzzy Friends Rescue in Waco on Friday!  Not only will he be a wonderful family dog and playmate to Meredith, Callier, Hank and Abbey (the other four-legged friends), but he will be trained to become a therapy dog to use in the library with me!

 Playing tug-o-war with Abbey.

Three way tug-o-war!
For right now, he's getting used to his new forever home...and his new friends!

I think he'd agree if I said, "Life around the Mackey house is not at all 'ruff!'"

Happy Birthday to Mere!

Hard to believe 6 years have passed since Meredith entered this world and blessed our little family!

Look how tiny!  My how time flies!

We celebrated tonight with some of Mere's favorite people...our family...at Pizza House in West!

Meredith and Gus

Meredith and Benjamin

The toy crane seemed to be the activity of choice...some just couldn't pry themselves away...

Dub

Andrew and Dub

All in all, there were a lot of happy party goers...

Happy Birthday Mere Bear!  Mommy, Daddy and Callier LOVE you!  Cant wait to see what this year will bring!

Halloween tricks and treats

Well trick-or-treating is not all fun and games...there's a lot of work involved!  Work that makes you extremely tired before all of the fun even begins!

Good thing I got a little rest...it's even harder to be a cute lion...

and brother to a sparkly cheerleader!

 Luckily we all got some treats!  The best of all was hanging out with my cousins (Gus and Dub) and having a laugh or two!

Can't wait until next year when mom and dad take me out again and I can trick-or-treat with the best of them!

 

Pumpkin Fun...

This weekend has been chock full of pumpkin fun!  It all started on Friday when Pre-K through 2nd grade headed to First United Methodist Church in Hillsboro to visit their Pumpkin Patch!  The weather was quite chilly, but the students had a blast...wish I could say the same for the teachers!

Here's the Pre-K and Kinder group listening to a few stories...

and Mere posing with a scarecrow...

Nae Nae even brought Callier by for a visit!  He didn't get to stay too long since it was chilly, but we managed to get a few pics!

Pumpkins were good for propping up!

Sunday night we made time to do a little pumpkin carving!  I'd forgotten how much fun this little activity can be (do you hint the sarcasm in my voice?!)  We did accomplish to turn out a pretty good looking pumpkin if I do say so myself!

My audience...

Can't wait to see what tricks and treats tomorrow will bring!

Ft. Worth Fun...

It was way too pretty to stay inside and do nothing today!  So, we packed up the family and a friend (who's family, too!) and headed to Ft. Worth for the day!

First on our agenda, Trinity Park to ride the train and hit the playground!

They insisted we sit up front!

Meredith and her friend and cousin, Gus.

What does that sign say???

They got SO excited about everything!  It was too funny!

He couldn't figure out what all the fuss was about!

Deep in concentration!

 After the park, we headed over to the Log Cabin Village...really a neat place to visit!

Daddy and Call!

"Mere, are you sure your daddy knows what he's talking about???"

Bobbing for apples.

Pumping water.