Our Christmas...

We had a wonderful Christmas and Santa definately found our house! Makenna woke up very excited to see that Santa had come to visit. He didn't forget what he was to bring her either...she got her bubbles, glass slippers and princess dresses along with a few other things.




Here are Makenna's glass slippers.



Here is Makenna opening her treasure chest full of princess dresses and jewelry.


We also had a very white Christmas with all the snow we got at our house. Good thing Santa brought Makenna a sled! Here we are the day after Christmas trying out our new sled in all that snow. What a blast!

Santa's got it easy this year!

I took Makenna to see Santa yesterday. She was sooooo excited. While we were waiting in line she would say about every two minutes, "I want to sit on Santa's lap." We finally made it through the line and when Santa asked her what she wanted she said "bubbles". That should be easy enough! He asked her if she wanted anything else and of course she had to say "glass slippers and a princess dress." Hopefully she's been a good girl this year!

Update!!

Wow, life has been crazy lately and has left me no time for blogging. I have finally found an extra minute to tell everyone that I am still alive. I have just been really busy lately with work. I have basically been working full time all while taking care of Makenna at the same time. I was excited to finally have last Saturday off work, it was the first time in over a month to get the weekend off. Needless to say my house is a disaster and I havn't even started my Christmas shopping. Oh well, I am just thankful that I get to work from home so I can be with Makenna.

I am excited to have my brother Jeff come live with us for a little while. It will be just until he gets his house. He has had an offer on a home that is in foreclosure so it has just been a really long process. In the meantime he will be hangin' out with us! Makenna is exited to have uncle Jeff stay here!

I hope all is well with everyone!

Makenna's photo shoot!

We went and got Makenna's pictures taken for her 3rd birthday. I thought I would share them with everyone!

Happy Halloween!

We had a fun Halloween this year. The day before Halloween my Mom had a Halloween Party for Makenna and her cousins Matt and Maren. We had a spooky dinner, then the kids played a few fun Halloween games, decorated cookies, and then went trick-or-treating around the house to different rooms. They had so much fun.

Maren is dressed as Tinkerbell, Matt is Buzz Lightyear, and Makenna is a Witch.

If you know my Mom, then you know that she goes all out. Here is the Spooky dinner she made. We had Mummy dogs (Pigs in a blanket made to look like a mummy), witch fingers (string cheese with a dried mango as the fingernail), eyeballs (deviled eggs), and a dressed up brownie for dessert.

Makenna and Matt decorating their cookies.

Matt and Makenna, trick-or-treating around the house.

A few days before Halloween we decided to carve a few of our MANY pumpkins!

The finished product! I decided that we aren't very creative, oh well Makenna thought it was pretty fun.

Makenna was a witch for Halloween! She has insisted on being a witch for the past couple of months, so luckily I found this cute costume!

Makenna with all of her Halloween candy. I think we will have to help her eat all that!!

Picture Tag!

So I got tagged twice on the same day for the same thing. So I am going to do them both in the same post. The first one was Picture Tag- find the 4th picture in your 4th folder, then tag 4 people. The second one I got was 6-6-5 Tag- find the 6th picture in your 6th folder then tag 5 people. So if I tag you, just pick either Picture Tag or 6-6-5 Tag!

This picture was the 4th picture in my 4th folder. This is Makenna at 7 months old. Isn't she so cute!

This was the 6th picture in my 6th folder. This is me and Makenna this past summer at Island Park!

Now I Tag:

Brianne

Kate

Tibett

Michelle

Brooke

SWEETHEART TAG!

SWEETHEART TAG The rules are posted at the beginning.Each person answers questions about their sweethearts.At the end of the post, the person then tags 6 people and posts their names; then goes to their blog and leaves them a comment, letting them know they have been tagged.
What is your husbands name? Dallin Price
How long have you guys been married? 6 years
How long did you date? About 2 years
How old is he? 27 and not getting any younger!
Who is taller? Dallin by far, a whole foot taller.
Who can sing best? I don't think you want to hear either of us sing.
Who is smarter? Dallin for sure, he knows everything.
Who does laundry? Me! I don't know if Dallin has ever tried.
Who pays the bills? Me! It would stress Dallin out.
Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Dallin
Who mows the lawn? Dallin. I have never even tried.
Who cooks dinner? Me! But Dallin will help if I ask him too.
Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? Either one, depending on the situation.
Who kissed who first? It was Dallin's idea. (I think you can attest to that Kim!)
Who wears the pants? I honestly don't know, we decide on things together.
Now I TAG Kim, Becky, Lorraine, Erin, and Loni.

Happy Birthday Makenna!!

Our little princess, Makenna, turned three on Sunday! I can't believe how fast time goes by. It seems like just yesterday she was born and now she is turning three. She is such a sweet little girl who brightens our life each day. I can't believe how much she has learned in her short three years. I always say to her, "You're so cute" and she will say to me, "No, I'm not cute, I'm beautiful!" I can't imagine life without her!

She has been so excited to have her birthday party. We invited over our family and had a fun birthday celebration on Saturday night. I asked her what kind of birthday cake she wanted and she requested Hello Kitty! So, that's what I attempted to make and I think it turned out pretty cute. Makenna requested pizza for dinner, then we ate cake and ice cream, and then opened presents. (Makenna's favorite part of the night!) What a fun birthday!


Makenna and her Hello Kitty birthday cake!

Here's Makenna blowing out her candles.

Here is Makenna with her Grandma's and Grandpa's.

Opening presents

Makenna got a new baby doll that laughs and cries and moves it's head and arms. This is Makenna and her cousin Matt getting a good laugh every time the doll would shake its head! It was pretty funny.

Makenna was spoiled this year. Here she is with all her new birthday toys. She got a new table and chair set from Grandma and Grandpa Ballard, a cute cash register to play store with from Grandma and Grandpa Price, a Barbie and coloring book from Brandon, Aimee, Matt, and Maren, some fun books and puzzles from Great Grandma Davis, and her baby doll with accesories from Mom and Dad. Oh, and Alise and Dale gave her that cute outfit she is wearing when they were here last weekend!

Here is Makenna on her birthday eating her birthday breakfast. I told her I would make her anything she wanted and she chose scrambled eggs with cheese!

I saved a few presents for her to open on her actual birthday. She got some new clothes for herself and some new clothes for her baby doll!

Pumpkins Anyone?

So our garden turned out to be one big pumpkin patch this year. We ended up getting 27 pumpkins! It all started with what we thought were a bunch of zucchini plants that sprouted up from last year. Well it turned out that they weren't zucchini after all. Yep, they were all pumpkin plants. No zucchini for us this year. They started spreading like crazy that eventually I could barely even walk in the garden. I didn't expect this many, but once we started picking them there just seemed to be more and more. So if anyone needs any pumpkins, come on over!!

Makenna's first ballet class

Makenna has alway said "I want to take ballet some day." Well that day finally came. I signed Makenna up for a ballet class and yesterday was her first day. She absolutely loved it! It was hillarious to watch as she tried to follow along. Although I have to admit she is pretty good at twirling on her tippy-toes.
Here is Makenna as we are getting ready to leave for her first ballet class.

Here is Makenna warming up.

Most of the pictures I got were of the back of her, but I thought this one was cute!

Here is Makenna's famous twirl!

Girls Weekend Out!!

This last weekend Me, my mom, sister, cousin, aunt, and grandma all flew out to Denver to visit my other aunt that moved out there a couple of years ago. We had a blast! We basically just went shopping, stayed up late playing games every night, had lots of yummy food and just hung out! We sure had some gourmet meals which my uncle made for us. We also went to Cheesecake factory, Yummy! This was the first time I had ever left Makenna for more than one day, which was hard but it was fun to just relax.
This is all of us after our shopping spree. Notice all of our purchases on the table next to us!


Here we are again in front of Susan's gorgeous home before we left for the airport.

Fun at the Fair

On Tuesday night Makenna and I went to the Fair with our friends Kim and her daughter Libby. We had so much fun. We were able to see Veggie Tales on tour. The girls had a blast, especially dancing to all their songs. Then we went and saw all the animals which they were fascinated by. I think we all had a fun girls night out! (Thanks for inviting us Kim) :) This is Makenna and her friend Libby. The only way I could get a picture of them together was to have them pull a funny face.


Makenna and Libby at the Veggie Tales concert.

Makenna and Libby petting a goat.

I had to take about 8 of these pictures before I could get them to both look at the camera at the same time.

Kim and I were laughing our heads off at our silly daughters as they danced to the music at the Veggie Tales concert. It was so much fun!

Wheeler Farm

Last weekend we decided to take Makenna to Wheeler Farm. We packed a lunch and spent the afternoon checking out the animals and just hanging out. It was lots of fun.

Makenna loved feeding bread to the ducks, but she couldn't resist taking a bite herself once in awhile.

Makenna was fascinated with the turkeys.

Petting the pony's.

Mom and Makenna on the tracktor ride. Makenna insisted that it was a hay ride.

Here is Makenna's silly dance she started doing while we were eating lunch.

Silly Makenna

I don't think a day goes by when Makenna doesn't make me laugh. She has quite the imagination and definately expresses herself. I thought I would share the funny things she has been doing lately...



This is how Makenna likes to dress when she is "Going to space". Don't ask me how she comes up with these ideas.

Lately Makenna won't go to bed without sleeping in a "tent". So our new bedtime routine is making her a "tent" out of blankets for her to sleep under. And believe me, she won't let us forget it either!

Here are the sunflowers that Makenna planted with Daddy's help at he begining of summer. She was so excited when they finally blossomed! They are even taller than Daddy! These pictures were actually taken a couple of weeks ago and so they are now dying. This morning Makenna said to me "What happened to my sunflowers?" and I told her they were dying and she said, "I don't want them to go to heaven with Jesus, I want them to stay with me." I couldn't help laughing even though she was seriously on the verge of crying. Silly Makenna!

Happy Anniversary!

Our view of the temple



Makenna and Me in Maple Canyon



Makenna and Dad at Maple Canyon



Makenna in the tire swing!



Running down the hill at the Manti Temple



It has actually been a couple of weeks now, but Dallin and I just celebrated our 6th anniversary! I can't believe how time flies. We have had a wonderful six years together and I could not ask for a better husband and father for Makenna. I am so lucky to have him! On our anniversary Dallin took me to dinner at The Roof at temple square. We had the most awesome view of the temple at sunset.
The next day we decided to take a short road trip to Manti, just for fun. We drove up Maple Canyon there, then went and walked around the Manti temple. Makenna thought it was pretty fun to run down the big hill. We had lunch at The Malt Shop, Yummy! Then we found a fun park for Makenna to play. She loved the tire swing and didn't want to get out! What a fun day!