Our Lil Preschooler

No way do we have a preschooler on our hands!!!!!!! Time, PLEASE slow down!

Mackenna started this new journey on Monday (Sept 9, 2013) and has been doing well in her new 'life' this week. Pati's daycare has been changed to Pati-Cakes Preschool and Daycare and with the name change, there are some face changes too. Mackenna, Rebecca and Jack are now the 'oldest' regularly attending children and are 3 of the 4 in the preschool curriculum. While we miss some of her lil friends that are no longer there, we're thrilled there aren't as many kids in the preschool so there can be a bit more focus on the kids!

With as bright as this little lady is, we are so excited to see what this year brings her and us in return!!!

We're so proud of you Mackenna and love you so so much!!!!!!!!!



GO UTES!

Our "family" away from home in Utah sent us a box full of Utes goodies this week and Mackenna hit the jackpot with not 1, but 2 cheerleader uniforms to cheer on ONE of our favorite college teams :)

Pretty sure she's the cutest mini cheerleader around! This just makes mama excited for MVC Jr Cheer Camp which is coming up in Oct...

Go Utes!



Girls of the Neighborhood

We've started to get our typical hot, muggy weather here in good old MN, so yesterday Mackenna and some of her lil neighborhood friends got out the pool and slip n' slide for some water fun!!!

Once Kenna figured out how fun the slip n' slide was, she wouldn't stop and was running full force :)

Popsicle time!

FUN!!!!!

Mackenna's lil neighbor friends :) it's been so fun meeting all of the people in our new neighborhood and even more fun to have so many kids Mackenna's age!



DIY FUN!

We had some DIY fun over the weekend by adding some pavers around our sidewalk and of course, Mackenna HAD to get in on the fun and help her daddy out. She did a pretty good job if you ask me :)



Movie in the Park (Charlotte's Web)

On Friday, Nate and I took Mackenna to a movie in the park at Starling Lake Park! Some of our daycare friends told us about this fun event, so we decided to mix up the routine and give it a shot!! It was so much fun and for her first movie outside of our home, it was a success! I think we'll have to finally take her to the theater and see how she does there!

When we got there, they had an arts and crafts table, so Mackenna jumped right in :)

Never seen her use scissors before, she did a great job!

While I'm obsessed with this picture of her and Rebecca, I'm laughing at how funny she looks with her tight grip around her and then her scissors in her other hand, hehehehe :)

They got some playground time in before the movie started!

Best friends! (She actually gave Rebecca a big hug when they were riding on this and said, "You're my best friend Becca!" - heartwarming!)

My 2 favorite family which make up a pretty adorable lil family if you ask me!



Mommy's Best Friend

I've mentioned it before in earlier posts, but Mackenna calls me her best friend all the time and it is just adorable and always melts my heart. She is the best thing in the entire world and this just shows my love and my relationship with this sweet girl!!!

Adventure in the Park

Lately, we've been taking longer walks around our new neighborhood and surrounding areas and have been finding some fun new parks. Over the weekend, we went to the 'red park' as Mackenna calls it and took Wrigley and Mackenna got a fun surprise!  She got to see Wrigley swim for the first time...since moving home from TX, we haven't taken Wrigley swimming very much, but she was thrilled to go back in the water and Mackenna thoroughly enjoyed it!!!!!

Thankfully we had her on the leash...the stream's current was rather strong and would have taken her away in a quick second!

A new game Kenna likes to play with Daddy on the monkey bars!