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!