Twinner Sunday and NEW PROJECT!

I FINALLY got into another sewing project and I am proud to say that I sewed these CUTE TWINNER Dresses for Sunny & Ellie! Ever since my friend Britta moved, I haven't been able to find someone who wants to do projects with me, but my friend Emily is a great sewer and we were able to learn how to sew these CUTE dresses together! I borrowed my friend, Diana's sewing machine and it was a dream come true compared to my sewing machine. The tension is just not good on it and the stitch is so loose and we cannot figure out how to fix it!

Do you like the polka dots? I LOVE polka dots!!!

and the winner is....

R E G A N F A C K R E L L!

He won a trophy for KING OF DONUTS and OVERALL WINNER!
{Anyone want to challenge Regan in an eating or bike competition now?}

Tour de Donut run down

So Regan totally beat everyone at the Tour de Donut this year, again! This year, there were over 400 contendors, and he beat everyone out of the water! He at 28 donuts this year, so he beat his total of 25 last year! So basically, you ride 7 miles, go to the donut stop and eat as many as you can, ride 7 miles, donut stop, 7 miles then it is over! For every donut you eat, you get 3 minutes taken off of your total time! We had a lot of support-my whole family came to cheer Regan on, as well as Regan's sisters family! Regan is the King of the Donuts!

Summer Days!

Oh how I love these Summer Days! The kids LOVE to play outside with friends, love to go to the water park here in Herriman, and LOVE to be outside in the lovely summer weather!

Defending the title...

For those of you who want to see an event to go down in the history books, then come to the TOUR de DONUT on Saturday, July 11th at 9 am in American Fork. Regan will be defending his title of Donut King from last year! His trophy still proudly sits in his office! Last year, he ate 25 donuts and biked 21 miles and won the whole race. This is what Regan is best at...a bike race with a food race!
For more details, go to http://utahtourdedonut.com/default.aspx

Stadium of Fire!

The 4th of July was So awesome! We went to the Provo Parade, Regan went on a huge mountain bike ride, we had all you can eat pancakes and french toast at Magelbees and went to the Stadium of Fire! Glen Beck, Shedaisy and the Jonas Brothers were the performers and it was SWEET! The reason why it was so sweet is because we were literally in a SUITE! My dad was able to get our family into a suite in the BYU stadium so the kids were able to run around, it was air conditioned, we had a great dinner and saw everything SO well! I had a fun time with Riley, Angie and Chrissy dancing to the Jonas Brothers music! It was actually really good dancing music! The best part though was watching the fire works outside! WOW-even Ellie couldn't stop staring at them! What a great 4th of July!

Camping Trip

I'm not much of a camper, but we decided to go camping at Squaw Peak in Provo Canyon over the 4th of July weekend. Besides the aching back and feeling dirty, it was great! The kids absolutly LOVED buiding camp fires with Regan, finding bugs and twigs, cooking hot dogs and smores, and just having a good old time in the dirt! Ellie was the dirtiest because all she wanted to do was eat the dirt and rocks! We made it 2 days camping, then went to my parents cabin for the last night! AHH, the joy of a shower! We also went on a HUGE bike ride, 15 miles! We went from the mouth of the canyon, to the riverwoods to watch Ice Age 3, then to lunch, then to the Bean Animal Museum at BYU, then to the art Museum at BYU, then back! I was thinking to myself the whole time, A.)I am in really bad shape B.)It is really hot out here or C.) My bike stinks because I was having a really hard time on the trails! After we got back and loaded our bikes on the car, I tried to spin my bike tire, and it wouldn't even move! Turns out, the seat we installed on the back of my bike for Riley to sit in was clamping my brake so I was riding my bike all over Provo with the brakes on basically!!!!!!! All in all, it was a great camping trip!

Violin recital

My sisters Angie and Chrissy had their last violin recital with the teacher all of the girls in the McKell family had! At the very end of the concert, all 4 of us played the Concerto for 4 violins by Vivaldi and it was SO awesome! That piece was made for the McKell girls! Thanks to my mom and dad for sticking with all of us girls and our violins! It has truly blessed my life!

Twinner Sunday!

Ahhh-I just love a beautiful summer night with my two beautiful little twinner girls!

Operation: Mom & Dad's 30th Anniversary Party!

I pulled off the biggest surprise EVER! My mom and dad usually know about EVERYTHING Going on, so for me to pull of a surprise 30th anniversary party with not knowing at ALL is huge! This was in the works for quite a while, and so when the day finally came, I was a bit nervous because of the aniticipation! My sister and I set up the cultural hall in Draper with my mom's wedding dress, her bridesmaid dress, a tv showing a movie of all of the pictures of them throughout the years, food set up {there was a lot of food!} wedding pictures, newspaper articles, the guest book from 1979, flowers and a ton of my mom's wedding decorations! It was a lot of work, and I was getting really nervous towards the end hoping that people would actually show up! Well, I had nothing to scared of because all in all, we had 50 people at the party and it ended up being a HUGE success!!! Ashley and I cooked chicken salad croissants, pasta salad, spinich salad, veggie tray, bean dip and chips, chocolate cake, strawberry cake and banana cake!

Happy Birthday, to ME!

I had the BEST Birthday yesterday! I truly did everything I wanted to do and I was a queen for the day! Of course I don't have any pictures to prove this, but you will have to just trust me on this!
Schedule of Events for June 23rd:
*Came downstairs to find Regan making his famous crepes with fruit and whipping cream as well as a HUGE high school musical balloon that plays songs and a big birthday cake!
*Regan gave me some $$ to go shopping with so I could get what I wanted. Opened birthday cards from family as well!!
*Regan put all 3 kids in the car, had them watch a movie while he drove for 3 hours taking pictures of homes he insures while I went shopping BY MYSELF for 3 hours! Even if I wouldn't have bought Anything, it would have been a treat to just walk around hobby lobby and the mall BY MYSELF without having to push a stroller or deal with whinning kids!!!!
*Drove with the family to Provo, had a delicious salad and soup from Mimi's with my whole family, opened up great gifts from my family!
*Went to 7 Peaks Water Park in Provo for 5 hours and had a pure BLAST! I think I am getting more scared in my old age because my 13 year old sister went on the freefall slide and I would not do it! The Boomerang was enough for me!
*Dropped the kids off with my mom and went to my favorite place ever: Ottavios in Provo! They sang me Happy Birthday in Italian and had a delicious dinner!
*Came home and watched Confessions of a Shopaholic with Regan!

I have 1 more year to live up my 20's because next year is the big 3-0!
Thanks to everyone who made my birthday SO special! I absolutly LOVE Birthdays!!!!

Swine Flu Alert!

We were evacuated out of our own home last Thursday for 4 days because Regan has the SWINE FLU! The ironic thing about him getting it is that we were going to leave for Can Cun on a trip that he won for American Family Insurance yesterday, but they cancelled it 2 months ago because of the Swine Flu outbreak in Mexico! But no, he had to end up getting it on his own in the good old city of Herriman! So I left the kids in the car after institute on Thursday, packed all of the clothes up, and stayed in Draper with my family until last night.

He called in to the Dr. on Thursday and described his symptoms and the Dr. said most likely it was the Swine flu. He said it was SO boring to stay home for 4 days by himself. He watched a ton of movies! Honestly, if it were me, home alone for 4 days, I would have lived it up! I would have re-read the Twilight Series, caught up on my scrapbooking and watched some great chick-clicks, wrote in my journal, crosstiched....I just can't even think that much because it would have been a very productive time for me!

He went back to work today, but left because he doesn't want anyone to get exposed to it. I have spent the majority of my day disinfecting the house and cleaning EVERYTHING! If we are going to be here with him, I am going to make sure the house is clean, free of germs, and make sure that the kids do NOT get sick! That would be the worst thing ever because they are just so little!

So-beware of the Swine Flu lurking around the Fackrell Home!

Suzuki Institute

Highlights of Suzuki Institute 2009:
*Riley having a hilarious Master Class teacher named Terry Durbin from Kentucky! He made Riley laugh so much by making funny noises on his violin. Riley learned how to make a perfect bow grip because of this teacher!
*Riley had a violin Repertoire class with Ellie Albers-she is the one who taught me Suzuki Book 1 Teacher Training when I was just starting to be a teacher!
*Dalcrose Class-Music & Movement Class where Riley loved dancing to the beat of the music and drums!
*Riley made a great friend and had a ton of boys his same age in his classes!
*Riley LOVED eating school lunch!
*Sunny LOVED the daycare and the daycare teachers LOVED her! They didn't want her to go!
*Ellie was a pure angel the whole week! I couldn't ask for a better baby!
*Tons of students at institute always said HI to Riley and we didn't even know them! It just seems like Riley attracts a lot of people because of his curly hair! Everyone loved him!
*I got a lot of great ideas for my own studio!
*We got to see Jenny Oaks Baker and the Aaron Ashton Fiddle Band in concert!
*We had a wonderful time and hope that Riley can remember all of the things he learned this week at Suzuki Institute!

Recap of Sunny's 3rd Birthday

It has been so busy around here that I haven't had a chance to blog about Sunny's
3rd Birthday! We started the day out by going to the kids first day of Swimming lessons, which she wanted to go swimming on her bday anyway, so that worked out great!
*I took the kids for lunch to the park and had a teddy bear picnic.
*Then, we had Regan come home early and we took the kids on a big hike up to Yellow Fork which is pretty much our backyard here in Herriman. It was a gorgeous day and the kids LOVED looking under rocks for bugs and we saw A LOT of BUGS!
*We took Sunny to dinner at her choice which was McDonads, then set up a teepee in the backyard with blankets and watched Mary Poppins! A pretty good birthday if you ask me!

Sunday Dresses!

I have found my weakness in life...Little Girl dresses! I absolutly LOVE getting my gorgeous girls dressed up in their cute little dresses. And who's to say that Sunday is the only day that a girl can wear a dress?

Ballet/Dance Class

Sunny and he best friend Kayci have started going to dance class together and I can honestly say that there has never been 2 cuter ballerinas! They are so cute and they both love to dance! They go twice a week for alternating weeks throughout the summer and I have a feeling that this is something that Sunny will want to continue for a long time!