5 months!

Okay, I admit I have become totally complacent in posting updates so several will be posted right now. Starting with a 5 month update...

I'm totally that mom that dresses up her child and makes her pose for the camera. But seriously...how could you not with this little face?
I can sit and I can stand (with the coffee table). Oh and I'm on the move too crawling ALL OVER the place! I'm also a whopping 12.5 pounds. I'm just so active I work off all my calories I take in.

We've gone You Tube!

That's right we now have a You Tube channel. You can actually check out some videos directly from this page (right hand side) to which you can then link into our You Tube channel, but you should be able to get in from the link below as well. Enjoy!

YOU TUBE

Here's a little preview of Keira's scrunchy face/exersaucer fun video...

Summer Bowling Fun!

Scott's favorite time of the year is the summer when we participate in a bowling league with our good friends, Dave and Penny. We basically had to get shirts (which we're the only team that has matching shirts) because we are awesome! Our team name is Spare Force One...hence the arm angle showing a spare. We know strikes are better, but Strike Force One just didn't sound as fun.

This is our second summer doing the league and we absolutely love it. We usually bowl on Sunday nights (and my mom comes to watch Keira which is awesome), but that may be changing next year. We will not be bowling under our league on Sunday's anymore because the President/Secretary of it suck! They do not know how to manage a business properly and completely lost a team that always paid on time and were consistent in showing up.

Long story short...we had to post bowl for the 14th of August because Penny and Dave were out of town and we figure if we're paying anyway we might as well bowl instead of using our averages. So, the week we missed just happened to be against the president's team. This past weekend (the 21st) was the last official week for team results. So, we were supposed to bowl 5 days prior to the 21st for it to count, but due to a miscommunication with the league we didn't realize this was our last week to do this. We had called in several times to the bowling alley confirming when we were coming in, leaving messages for the league secretary, etc, and we were never informed that if we didn't bowl 5 days prior to the 21st that our points wouldn't count. Of course I bowled a 168 in our post bowl session (my average is only 113) but of course that doesn't count now. We were so pissed and the league wouldn't do anything about it to try and make it right. They were arguing with us back and forth. The President is a moron and it's convenient that they won't even try to work with us and we went against his team (and would likely have beat them).

So, with that said, we are in the market for a new league next year because we love it so much this won't stop us. But they've lost a team now and with this economy not many people are running out to join a bowling league to pay out money every week. So, their loss!

We did improve over last year though which is awesome! This year I almost started out with my average at the end of last season. Penny really improved too. Scott went from a 133 average to around a 155 average. Crazy! And of course our anchor, Dave, had something around 180 at the end of last season and was around 206 or so this season.

We LOVE bowling!!!

What's been going on?

Always trying to grab the camera

So, Keira is now 5 months old and I promise I'm going to get some super cute updated photos up here with Spongebob. She is quite the active little lady as evidenced by how little she is. She is quite long, however she is still hovering around the 12 pound mark. At her 4 month doctor's visit she was at 11 lbs 7 oz. Seriously though...you can't get this girl to sit still for more than a minute. She's all over the place. Since she's so active she is burning so many calories 'cause girlfriend can EAT! She probably works up an appetite.

However, this has been very distressing on me because she is still in her 0 - 3 month clothing and she has some ridiculously cute 3 - 6 month clothes she can't fit in yet. It's totally throwing things off because then she has some super cute winter clothes that will likely be too big for her. Let's be honest here, we have a very short winter window here in AZ so baggy or not she will be wearing those clothes. Luckily our summer window is quite long (unfortunately) so I am going to start putting her in those clothes to make sure she gets use out of everything. Of course the fashion diva that she is will be posing for several photos in the near future with her fabulous wardrobe.

With that said, here are some photos with what's been going on...

We love our new walker!All tuckered out with her pink friend after a long day in TucsonQuite the tech junkie already...watching some Sesame Street on the iPad!Roxy is such a good big sister and always has to be near her baby to keep an eye on her (plus she needs to make sure any spit up is cleaned up promptly)The fashion diva showing off her new outfit for her cousin's baptism. Notice how baggy it is...yeah, got the 3 to 6 month size because she should have been able to fit in it by now. Just another day in the McFarland household...baby's on her mat, dad's playing/napping nearby, and of course the dogs are in on the action tooThis water bottle is so tasty!

Connor's Baptism!

Matt, Kelly, Connor, Nancy, Dillan, Craig

So, our nephew was baptized a couple weeks ago and it was a fun time down in Tucson. Of course it's always fun when the whole family can get together (Scott's parents, his sister's fam, and his grandparents) plus we got to see Kelly's husband, Matt's family too. Below are some highlights from the day. Of course Keira looks adorable, per usual, but little Connor was equally as adorable in his little white jumper.

Connor and his Godparents (Hunter and Nora) - love that pouty face!

Holding hands prior to the ceremonyGetting baptized!

Check out my ears!

Yes, I'm one of those parents. I just had to get her ears pierced. My belief on this is that the younger they are the less they'll mess with them. I have to tell you, she has yet to mess with her ears and she got them pierced on August 1st. So we've been able to clean them and turn them and haven't had any issues. I can't wait to put her new earrings in that my mom bought her, but we have to wait until mid-September (6 weeks) to do that. She just looks so cute with her new earrings.

Scott was distraught that I was ruining his baby girl, but alas she is adorable and loves her new earrings (I like to think she told me so).

At the doctor's office ready for our ear piercing appointment!! So EXCITED! :o)So excited with her little earrings (you likely need to make the picture larger to see them)!

This is how I eat!

Keira likes to get super comfy, and of course very messy, when she eats. She gets the most messy when her daddy feeds her.

She's a helper during dinner!First time for Avocado!