MACKENNA

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Mommy Guilt

As I opened up the blog to realize I haven't posted anything since October 17th - the mommy guilt set in BIG TIME!!!!!  Oh my goodness, where has the time gone? We've gone through Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas AND New Years!!!!  And well here we are in 2014!!!

So with that, HAPPY NEW YEAR to all! We certainly finished off our year strong and ready to take on another one. Mackenna has grown leaps and bounds these last few months. Most noticeably has not only been her incredible imagination, but also her desire to write and really focus on her letters. She can sit and write names for quite some time, not to mention draw her family over and over again which is pretty adorable!


Nate is on the far left with Mackenna right next to him. Then it's Wrigley (notice the large eyes which may look a tad scary, but it's cool to know she picks up on that stuff) and then Me. Not sure what I'm sitting or standing on, but she did mention our house is all around us. Made our hearts melt to see this!!!!

One of my personal resolutions this year is to be more in the moment so a couple things have changed in this short time we've been in 2014. The first one has been taking my Facebook and Twitter apps off of my phone. I found I was becoming so easily distracted and not being as 'in-the-moment' as I could and it was disheartening. I am happy to report so far so good and not shockingly, I'm not missing out on much of anything :) The second was to take care of me a bit more....but what I mean is so I can be a better mother and wife to my 2 favorite people. So with that, Mackenna and I joined Lifetime Fitness right by our house and we both LOVE to go. In fact, she loves going to the child care center (well we call it the Play Area) so much that she's got her first boyfriend - one of the workers named Zack. But leave it to Kenna, she has nicknamed him Zacky! Yep, no lie!!!!  It's adorable and she gets so excited to go see him - makes me never doubt for a second that I didn't make the right decision. She's getting a good solid hour of playtime in each day and staying healthy and so am I! Mission accomplished so far...

I'll make sure to get some of our holidays pics up on here in the coming days (if not today since I'm notorious for doing it all at once) and maybe make another resolution to get on here at least once a week to make sure I'm documenting some of the most amazing moments in our little Kenna's life!!!!

Til then...


Thursday, October 17, 2013

One for the Memory Books!

Last weekend was one for the books! Mackenna participated in her first JR MVC Camp at Winter Park and got to perform with the cheerleaders at halftime for the Vikings/Panthers Game on Sunday Oct. 13th @ noon!!!! It was definitely a proud mommy moment...she was such a big girl and was so excited to be a big girl with all the other big girls!

I'll let the pictures do the talking...

First night of practice - so intent to learn!

Heel...step...heel...step

The cutest lil 'X-Body' I've ever seen :)
Dress Rehearsal at Winter Park :)


My Heart!!!!

Watching the BIG girls :)

So cute...

On the field in the dome for practice!

Just a little excited...

Taking lot of opportunities to pose and take pictures!!!

Rehearsal in the morning at the Dome!

So fun to have her cousins, Emily and Abby there with her too...

She even got her face painted before the big performance!

LUV them!!!!

We had great seats and as you can see, the lil peanut was pretty excited to not only be dancing, but be at her first ever NFL game too!  She was loving all the Football Boys!

Eating her pretzel and cheese with mommy!

The only view I had during the actual halftime performance...

This pic does  most of the talking :) She was EXHASUTED!  Pretty sure that meant it was a GOOD DAY and an even better experience!

Playing in the Leaves...

Over the weekend, Mackenna and I headed to Grandma Sheryl's house while Daddy was coaching and her cousins, Zach and Tyler were there too which means PARTY TIME :)

They were eagerly wanting to help Grandma rake her leaves, so of course she said YES!!!!!!



The rake might be bigger than her, but she still loved it!

Playing was MUCH MORE FUN!




Can't stand the cuteness :)
Cousin Luv!



Jasmine Spotted @ the Airport!

This cute lil lady came to pick her mama up at the airport last week! She got her Halloween costume delivered while I was gone and was so excited to show it to me, she just had to wear it to the airport with Daddy. Well that, and she knew mommy got her Jasmine shoes in Chicago :)

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Bath Time = The Best Time!

Lately, Mackenna's favorite thing to do each night is take a bath and play in there as long as she can. It's adorable how invested she is in learning how to take care of herself - you should hear her recite the steps of getting ready for bed each night; ADORABLE!!!!!



Down on the Farm!

This week, Pati started their 'Down on the Farm' curriculum at preschool. We were sent this picture a little while ago :)

My favorite part is how excited Mackenna is to show me what she made each day! So proud of her!


Monday, September 30, 2013

3 Lil Kitty's!!

Pati sent us this picture today...how lucky we are to be in such good hands with our lil peanut!


3 cutest kitty's I've seen!  (note the hand on the hip pose!) such a little diva :)