Her shirt says it all!!

Kindergarten graduation. Where did this year go?

Zachary and Gregor

Zachary and Ashley

Mrs. Whalen gave each of the kids this bag of treats. The note on the front explained what each piece of candy meant.

Zachary and Maddy

Zachary and Travis

Zachary's class sang the songs they had learned throughout the year. They signed each others autograph books and than filled up on sugar.

Field Day!!

Zachary's field day was originally canceled the week before because we had 6 inches of snow on the ground. Thankfully it cleared up enough mid week the next week that they were about to get out and have some fun.

Zachary's first field trip.

This was Zachary's first time riding on a school bus. He was so excited. We went down to Colorado Springs Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.

Right after we returned home from China last July Barbara another mom that adopted with us sent us this video. I loved it so much and have been meaning to share it with my family and friends.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46tF1CIwue4

Snow in May!!

I thought this was really sweet when Zack was showing Mackenzie the snow until he than stood up and dropped it on her head.

She was having so much fun.

Zachary was playing with David's IPad. Mackenzie went into the front room and got her computer and joined him on the stairs. I wish I could have gotten a few of the other pictures that were perfect. If Zack sat with his head in his hand she did the same. If he made noise on his computer she made her computer make noise. She just follows Zachary around all the time. My poor little princess. I was cleaning house on my birthday trying to get ready for people to come over that night. I was vacuuming and did not realize Mackenzie had crowled up on the couch and went to sleep.

Above pictures of Mackenzie at 9 months old at the orphanage. Below pictures of Mackenzie today.

A year ago today was our "Match Day" we received our first pictures of Long Mei Ke. David and I knew we wanted to name our new daughter Mackenzie in honor of my Grandma McKenzie Franek. We wanted her to know that from the beginning she was part of our family. The funny thing is they always talk about the Irish temper and let me tell you Mackenzie is living up to her Irish name.

Mother's Day!

Mother's Day 2006 was my first Mother's Day as a Mom. On that day David gave me a charm bracelet with two charms on it. One charm was a heart with our wedding date on it and the second charm was a little boy with Zachary's birthday on it. By this time David and I had received our documents from China saying that we we logged into China for our adoption. After I opened the charm bracelet David said to me that next years present would be the little girls charm with our daughters name and birthdate. Everyone who is reading this knows that did not happen. Yesterday my bracelet was complete. David had a little girls charm added to my bracelet with Mackenzie 06-14-2009 on one side and Gatch day 06-28-2010 on the other. It was a perfect Mother's Day.

She is loving the homemade cinnamon rolls!

The kids helped David make breakfast. They made homemade cinnamon rolls. Mackenzie enjoyed the butter and cimmamon mixture right out of the bowl. Than she loved the frosting that went on top. She pretty much had it ear to ear.

Easter Egg Hunt.

On Easter we went next door to our friends Laurie and Kris's House so that the kids could hunt for eggs with Karisa. Zachary loves spending time with Karisa.

Mackenzie decided that Zachary's basket had more eggs in it so she decided to take it instead of her own.

KK dumped her eggs out of her basket. Zachary knows his little sister all to well and decided it would be best to keep her from getting to close to Karisa's eggs. He knew she would think they need to be in her basket.

After the Easter egg hunt Zachary and Mackenzie went for an Easter drive.