Makenna's 5th Birthday!

On October 12th my baby girl turned 5! Wow, I can't believe how fast time is going and how big she is getting. She is a fun, smart, happy little girl and I can't imagine life without her. I am so blessed to have her in my life.

Makenna got a scooter and jewelry box with beads to make necklaces for her birthday from me and Dallin.

Makenna was so excited for her birthday this year. She wanted a ballerina birthday party. So I was busy making tutu's for all of her guests.

The birthday girl!

Her is Makenna's ballet birthday cake!

Blowing out her 5 candles

Opening presents at her party.

Makenna has been begging for about the last 6 months to go to Chucky Cheese's. We decided to surprise her and take her there for her birthday. We took her cousin Kailey with us. She was so excited when we got there. I think it was a great birthday surprise!

We had a little party at Grandma Ballard's house. She got a Fancy Nancy doll and book from her!

At Makenna's birthday party we had all the girls wearing their tutu's and they each got a turn to perform for all of us...

Honey, Honey, and more Honey...

Our bees worked hard for us this year! We ended up getting 4 gallons of honey! We weren't really expecting to get much. They say usually your first year you don't get anything. You have to leave the bottom two boxes full of honey for the bees to survive over the winter and the rest is ours! We actually got about 8 gallons of honey, but our deal was to split our honey with the guy helping to take care of our hive. It is super yummy!

Here are some of the peaches from our tree this year. They were so much bigger than in years past, I think the bees may have had something to do with that!

We were busy one Saturday bottling peaches. I am hoping we get more grapes this year so we can bottle more grape juice!

Preschool

It has been well over a month now but I thought I would post pictures of Makenna on her first day of preschool and a few of her preschool field trips. We are doing the neighborhood/joy school thing again this year. There are six kids in the group and we each take a turn having preschool at our house. We also go on a field trip about once a month. The kids have a lot of fun together!

This was our field trip to Kneaders.

They went on a tour of the Bakery and then got frost cookies afterwards!!

This was our field trip to Wheeler farm. Here they are feeding the ducks.

Makenna and her friend Haylee on the tractor.