Big News From The Macs!!

We have been anxiously waiting to tell you all our big news, but had to finalize everything & tell those who are closest to our hearts first.

After months of thinking about it and talking it over, we have decided to relocate our family to Sugar Land, Texas, in February 2010.

Our dream to provide a better life for our children is what prompted this move. I have always wanted to have a house for my kids to grow up in…complete with a back yard! The reality is that we can’t afford to have that here. Dylan is 7 now, and I don’t want him to remember his childhood in an apartment. I can’t even explain to you how happy I am that I can finally do this for them!

I have an amazing career opportunity there, and I am excited to get back to work after all my time off! The schools out there are amazing, which was a very important factor for me. And last but certainly not least, we have amazing family there. My Dad & Stepmom are helping us with this move and getting settled out there, and they have been so supportive and amazing. It will be wonderful to be close to them, and to be able to see them more than once a year! I’m sure they will be ecstatic that they get to see their Grandkids as much as they want!

We have so many wonderful friends here, and we will miss you all so much! So please, call us, and let’s spend as much time together as we can, before we leave! There’s only 7 months left! And please always remember “Mi casa es su casa.” Come visit us!!

We are excited and anxious about this move, and we hope you all can share in that with us! There is so much about LA that we will miss, but we realize that we have to make small sacrifices in life to do the right thing for our family. We realize how lucky we are to have such special friends that make it so hard to say goodbye!


Love, The Mac Family!

"May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand."

~Irish Blessing

A Day with the Mac's!

Today was Cody's day off. We spent the day cleaning and doing laundry, and then we went to Nani Sonia's for dinner. Cody told her our BIG news, and we sat around the table and talked for a while. Then we went for a nice walk around her beautiful neighborhood to walk off our pasta.




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Happy Birthday Madison!

I forgot to post these pictures!
They should have been posted on the 18th.

Happy Birthday Maddie!







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The Rainbow Connection...

I have been wanting to do this for so long!!!

The Hollywood Forever Cemetery shoes movies on the side of the mausoleum every Saturday night. They e-mail me every week, and every week I think, "We should go!!" , and then we never do. Until tonight! One of our favorite couples Andrea & Todd asked us if we wanted to go, and I just couldn't pass it up!

It's really fun. You and about a thousand other people pack into this cemetery & set up a picnic on the grass. Blankets, candles, food, pillows, even booze!! They even have a DJ that spins before and after the movie.

This week they were showing The Muppet Movie!! Andrea made an amazing picnic, complete with wine. A good time was definitely had by all!













Will definitely do this again soon!!

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Random Cuteness

I figured you would all love to see our little Maddie in one of her cute little summer outfits!

So here is some random cuteness for you!!




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Maddie & Betty

Today we spent some time with our good friends, Dawn & George, and of course their precious little girl Betty. Betty is about a month younger than Madison. We went out for pizza, and the boys all played video games. They won tons of tickets to trade for those cheap little toys, like the infamous sticky hand! Then we came to our place, where the girls had their first "playdate". By playdate of course I mean they stared at each other, and tried to figure it all out. When one would cry, the other would look like "what's wrong with her?! Overall, I think they liked each other!




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The Grass Isn't Always Greener....

Tonight was girls night out! I was pretty excited for this night. It's a rare occasion that I get to go out to a club with the girls.

I spent all afternoon picking out my clothes, putting on makeup & doing my hair. We even had a bottle of wine at home to get us started. Cody drove us there (& picked us up)...I despise any sort of drunk driving.

Here is a picture of Jennifer & I, when we first got there.




We did a little drinking, and we did a little dancing, and I wore my Louboutins, which was a happy moment in itself for me. I smile even as I type.
L-o-u-b-o-u-t-i-n. Sorry, I digress...
The night just wasn't what I expected it to be. Instead of revolving around dancing & drinking & being with friends, it revolved around men. Which isn't really a situation I like to be in, considering I am married, and not into meeting men in clubs.

In the end I learned, as much as I love my friends, we just can't all have the same lives. They can intersect in many places, but not at the club. Not for this girl. I realized that I would have much rather spent that time sitting on the couch with my honey & watching a movie.

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Grandma Rhonda

Maddie & I woke up extra early this morning, to go pick up Grandma Rhonda from the airport. We were so excited to see her!! She lives in Las Vegas, so she isn't here a lot, and has missed both Dylan and Maddie a lot. We went to breakfast together, then hung out at home & played with the kids. We love having her here!!










She offered to babysit for us, so we could have dinner with our friends, Andrea & Todd. We don't get the chance very often to do things without the kids, so I threw on some heels & we took her up on her offer before she had a chance to change her mind!!

We had a great time...we haven't seen Andrea & Todd in a while, and after that night, I think we'll change that. It was too much fun not to do regularly!

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Griffith Observatory

I try to hard to make sure we do fun things that Dylan will remember when he gets older. I don't want him to remember sitting at home every day, even if it is 105 degrees. So today we went to the Griffith Observatory. Fun, Free, and AIR CONDITIONED!! It was a lot of fun. They recently remodeled, and the displays are great. Especially the downstairs area, where they have a display of each planet, a scale that will tell you how much you weigh on each planet (a big no thanks for me). They also have a seismograph, and if you jump, you can see it register on the graph paper. Very cool, my LA parents!!
















And of course I couldn't not show you the nice layer of smog over LA. Do what you can, people! Imagine what this will look like when our kids are our age!!




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A Day with Grandma Sonia

Today we spend the day with our dearest Sonia. We all wanted to do something different, so we headed out to Santa Monica. We walked around, window shopped and people watched. Then we went to Il Fornaio and had yummy italian food.





After our delicious dinner, we decided to walk down the Santa Monica Pier. It was a gorgeous night, with the most perfect weather. I loved the breeze, the pretty lights and the smell of cotton candy mixed with saltwater.





It was a beautiful night!








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Jumperoo!

Maddie has received a lot of wonderful gifts from our wonderful friends and family. One of these gifts was her Fisher Price Rainforest Jumperoo. I have been patiently waiting for her to grow so that she could use this. Well, the wait has ended! She can officially reach the floor! The Jumperoo has provided countless hours of entertainment for her, and everyone else in the house. She LOVES it!! She bounces and laughs, and when she sees us laughing, she bounces even more!!

Clearly this is a great form of exercise for her. This is after all the fun...





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4th of July!

I know everyone is probably so sick of hearing about us going to Disneyland. Let me add, we have passes, and Dylan loves it, and I think it makes for great memories for the family. And you just never know, we may not live in Southern California forever, so we have to get our fill.

That being said...guess where we spent our 4th of July? Yep. Disneyland. I went out there on Friday, with the kids, while Cody worked, and he met us there at the motel after work. We had 3 days filled with fun & sun! The fireworks were amazing. I bet the other 20,000 people that were there thought so, too.

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