tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67767721287854929162024-03-13T07:01:02.321-07:00A Teacher Named LifeMackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964076506275176567noreply@blogger.comBlogger115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6776772128785492916.post-6975567211399862732013-10-31T14:40:00.001-07:002013-10-31T14:40:49.263-07:00Eat, Drink, and be Scary!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Pierce through the future’s veil and show...<br />
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What fate now holds for you.<br />
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Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964076506275176567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6776772128785492916.post-13902218269084434412013-10-31T13:06:00.000-07:002013-10-31T13:06:04.826-07:00Hobby Lobby<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sometimes you go into Hobby Lobby to find parts for your Halloween costume and you end up just playing with velvet jewelry hands instead. Yes, we left empty handed. Yes, we went and got burgers. Best night ever.</div>
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My brothers are cooler than me. It's a fact. Chandler has the best taste in music and rocks an occasional mustache and Carter can yo-yo and do back flips on the trampoline. Seriously...I'm lucky if I can put my shoes on the right feet in the morning, and both my brothers are in a band/multiple bands. It's ok, because I get to reap the benefits of seeing said brothers in their bands on a Friday night. It was Carter's debut, too! So exciting. Did Chandler have a solo? yep. Did I cry? NO! yep. </div>
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Just a little Voodoo Doo Doo...I think I'm funny. Does that make me cool?</div>
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Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp,<br />
but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne</div>
Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964076506275176567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6776772128785492916.post-40642394882688300532013-10-03T13:12:00.000-07:002013-10-03T13:12:29.141-07:00O Autumn!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. </div>
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October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. </div>
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O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!”</div>
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– Rainbow Rowell</div>
Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964076506275176567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6776772128785492916.post-72469123927020024882013-10-02T13:53:00.000-07:002013-10-02T13:53:31.905-07:00Charity Never Faileth<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964076506275176567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6776772128785492916.post-50184165352480822582013-09-16T10:07:00.001-07:002013-09-16T10:07:49.091-07:00Y Hike...?<div style="text-align: center;">
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had made the goal to hike the "Y" for the first time before she left on her
mission. So that Saturday before she left, all of us kids headed down to Provo
and embarked on what would prove to be the most physical activity any of us had
participated in all year. "So that's what it feels like to get your heart rate
up." We mentally embraced the fact that no matter what, we were going
to...the...top..., and although we felt like it, we realized we would not, in
fact, die from this experience. We took our sweet time, laughed and crawled our
way up the mountain face. While mentally, physically, and spiritually taxing, we
made it to the top and nothing could describe the joy of our attainment. We had
reached our goal with no Madsen member left behind. We sat breathless atop the
white, painted rock surface and enjoyed the satisfaction of a beautiful view and
togetherness. It was a triumph, to say the least. It was the
perfect metaphorical activity to realize that with a little determination,
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Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964076506275176567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6776772128785492916.post-55848457908318567472013-09-10T15:19:00.000-07:002013-09-10T15:35:05.392-07:00God Be With You...<div style="text-align: center;">
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Wednesday, September 4th, Chandler and Carter stayed home from school and my mom and I managed to get off work. It was our last day together as a family, after all. We ran some last minute errands to help get things together for Kaylie. Chandler and I had spent the night before, working magic with her suitcases, fitting 18 months’ worth of cute sister missionary clothes and not-so-cute orthopedic shoes into her bags. It seemed so surreal that the day had finally come where Kaylie would be entering into the MTC. There had been a lot of anxiousness and anticipation leading up to this day, but it had come nonetheless, as most days do. After we had finished errands we headed to lunch. Where did she eat her final meal, you ask? Slab Pizza, the best pizza in the West! We stuffed ourselves silly followed by a trip to the flag store where purchases were made of at least 75,000 different German flag memorabilia. One, entering our home, might assume we were a bunch of German patriots. We then headed to the Provo temple where my dear Henry met us to take some family pics.</div>
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It took a few minutes, but we were guided to the flagpole round-a-bout. We hopped out of the car after which Kaylie was met by a young sister who eagerly grabbed her bags. We said our final and abrupt goodbyes and watched as she was all too soon, taken into the next 18 months of her life. </div>
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As for the rest of us left behind, we all just kind of stood there, watching her walk away. After a few minutes had passed, we got back in the car and were quickly ushered back to the real world. The car ride home was quiet and somber as the reality of her absence sunk in. And then I realized something, just how incredibly humbled I felt. I felt humbled by the sacrifices of those individuals (and families of) who have chosen to represent Jesus Christ as missionaries. I had never truly understood what it all meant until I watched my sister walk away, suitcases in tow, towards the next 18 months of her life.<br />
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In that small moment, I realized that the most important thing to me in the whole wide world is my family and those that I love. I'm pretty sure that the worst thing that could ever happen would be if we couldn't be together forever. I know that Kaylie is in the best place that she could ever be right now. I also know that while she's gone, I have a lot of work to do. I need to always be striving to live my best life and making the Lord, and the gospel that I love so much, a priority in my life. </div>
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I know God loves His children. I know that I love my family. </div>
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I know we can do it and be reunited again. </div>
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Do you like my blog revamp?<br />
I promise to stop slacking and blog again. <br />
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Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964076506275176567noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6776772128785492916.post-35331925545144073112013-01-22T19:32:00.000-08:002013-01-23T08:33:01.416-08:00It's Freezing<div style="text-align: center;">
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I'm kind of done with this weather. My body aches, my hands are cracked, and I haven't shaved my legs in who knows how long. It's too dang cold! I'm ready for some 85 degree, snow cone, walk out to my car without a jacket, kind of weather. Don't get me wrong, if it were Summer, I'd probably still find an excuse to drink hot chocolate, wear cozy socks, and, lets face it, not shave my legs. BUT at least I wouldn't be conveniently shivering away much needed, central heating system calories from all of those Christmas treats that have managed to survive this long. I'm mean seriously, somebody hide them! I'm practically a hibernating bear without the pleasure of long naps. OK! ok....I'll calm down. The first three months of the year are always the hardest. Soon it will be smooth sailing directly into a rightfully deserved swimsuit body. Sun on my shoulders. Long, lazy days. It's only a matter of time. For now...? </div>
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Well, it's the last day of November. Holy. Cow. And tomorrow is the last month of 2012. I seriously can't even believe it. Come tomorrow morning and I will no longer get dirty looks for playing Christmas music too early. I just have one thing to say about that:<br />
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With siblings as close as we are, we just can't get enough of each other. It was therefore decided that once a month, the boys would come to Kaylie's and my house in Provo and we'd have a fantastical dinner. This last month, Chandler made his famous Red Pepper Chicken. In a word: delicious. Memories were made, tears were shed, and inches were added to the waistline. A perfect success, if you ask me. I just thank my lucky stars for these friends that I'm lucky enough to call family....Alfie and all. Sure, we have our moments, but it's moments like these that I don't want to forget. <br />
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When your friend, Emily Hale, turns a quarter-of-a-century and wants to do glamour shots for her birthday, you channel Gloria Estefan, throw on your lace spandex, and you get to work! Were we up the majority of the night? yep. Did I eat an entire box of zebra cakes? Maybe. Do I wonder every day why every single one of these girls in these photographs are not famous? Every dang day. Here are a few gems. </div>
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Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964076506275176567noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6776772128785492916.post-76096717511739210782012-11-04T17:59:00.000-08:002012-11-04T17:59:36.627-08:00Amy, Kim and Kanye<div style="text-align: center;">
Halloween: a time for excessive junk food eating, Hocus Pocus viewings, and dressing up as pop culture icons. It's a dream, to be sure. This last one was even better than the year before. Loads of friends, lots of yummy treats, and a good two hours of ear bleeding karaoke. It doesn't get much better than that. Behold a few pics to honor this blessed month.</div>
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...summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. - Henry James</div>
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As it is last day in August, I felt it only appropriate to share my emotions regarding the matter: sad with a twist of Fall nostalgia stirrings. I can't believe how fast this year is wizzing by. Just when I think I have a good 8 months to finish all my <a href="http://ateachernamedlife.blogspot.com/2012/01/dream-little-dream.html" target="_blank">New Year's resolutions</a>, the colored leaves remind me that time is as fleeting as a good grip on a solid branch. But I'm not sorry. This has been a great year of successes after all. I managed to <a href="http://www.skydiveutah.com/" target="_blank">jump</a> out of a plane at 14,000 ft with my beautiful bestie, Elizabeth. Nothing short of magical. But this endless Summer is ending and my sweet sister is no longer on the other side of my paper thin bedroom wall. </div>
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Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964076506275176567noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6776772128785492916.post-59107628625101254772012-08-25T20:19:00.002-07:002012-08-25T20:19:51.720-07:00Evergreen. Ever Loved.<div style="text-align: center;">
Ever since my family and I moved from Spokane, Washington to Highland, Utah, I've had this little ache in my chest. Nothing serious. Just this little ache for the place that raised me -- my happy place. I hadn't been back in the two years that I've been away. That all changed when my mum, sister and I took a much overdue road trip to the beautiful Pacific Northwest. The three of us requested time off from our busy lives months in advance to dedicate a week-and-a-half to nothing but rubber on the road. 2,700 miles, 46 car hours, 5 cities, 4 Jack in the Box stops, and 1 sunburn later, you've got yourself a really good time. I don't know, there's something about breathing the same air in a 4x4 ft cabin space that really brings you together. The ties that bind...and gag. </div>
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Love you Spokane, Seattle, Portland, Lincoln City, and Priest Lake.</div>
Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964076506275176567noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6776772128785492916.post-27752538665803505022012-07-19T14:59:00.001-07:002012-07-19T14:59:09.287-07:00Stomp on a Stiletto and Stop and Smell the Synstylae<div style="text-align: center;">
Always a bridesmaid, never a...WAIT A MINUTE!...I caught the Bouquet! </div>
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First time ever. Lookout! Did I know the bride very well? Nope. Were all her friends a little upset that I caught the bouquet? Yep. Did I give a hoot? Nope. In my lifetime, have a clawed out many an eyeball in pursuit of achieving this goal? You betcha. Now that this goal is a reality, I could be getting married next week. Probably not. But at least it's a real possibility now. Pretty sure this has been my problem all along... </div>Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04964076506275176567noreply@blogger.com1