Halloween

Hello Sunshine!

Makenna loves the color yellow.  Ever since I can remember, she's been drawn to yellow and give her the choice between serveral colors, that's the one she's going to pick. I was flipping through the AVON catalog and ran across this polish called "Sunshine".  I just knew she would love it.  She did.  She was so giddy tonight when I painted her sweet feet.

Death, Burial, and Resurection of Jesus...Makenna style.

Makenna is a planner and is very detailed oriented.  Every day she asks where we'll be going the next day.  "Where we going tomorrow?"  She also likes to know who buys her things or who gives her things. 

On this particular day she was asking who gave her the shoes she had on.  What about the dress?  Who bought this car?  Who bought my seat?  Finally after 20 or so questions and out of exaserpation I said with a calm gentle voice, "Makenna, your daddy and I love you sooooo much and we buy a lot of different things, some for fun, some for the need."  Her reply?  "Yes and Jesus loves me too!"  I said, "that's right he loves you so much that he died for you to save you (I know, it's a little deep for a 3 year old but I knew she could handle it).  She said, "that's right.  The mean guys killed him".  Whoa!  THAT got my attention!  And so the rest of the conversation went as such:

"That's right Makenna, then what happened?"

"They put him in a treck" (I'm pretty sure she meant tomb)

"Uh uh...then what?"

"They locked him up!"

"That's right baby.  They rolled a big stone in front of the grave to keep someone from stealing him.  Do you know what happened after that?"

"He got out!"

"You're right!  He rose from the dead and that's why we can be saved and as Christians we celebrate his resurection." 

I was amazed and so impressed that my little girl knew the most precious story and representation of sacrificial and unconditional love.  I called my daddy when we got home...I knew he would proud.  Apparently he and Peyton had been talking about Jesus' death and daddy was answering Peyton's questions.  Quietly playing nearby was a little girl absorbing all this information.

What a witness she will be one day!

Coloring Easter Eggs

Peyton, Makenna and I had a fabulous time coloring eggs....even if Makenna wanted to color ALL the eggs yellow (her favorite color)!  They were not too thrilled that after we were all done making them pretty, I tore into them to devil them for Easter lunch!  That was pretty mean huh?

Digital Scrapbooking

I ventured into the world of digital scrap booking tonight!  My good friend Lesley (she's over here)and I have been playing around with some ideas at work this week regarding programs, software, digital crafts etc.  Brian bought me Adobe Photoshop for Christmas and I'm just now getting around to experimenting with the joys (and many frustrations and even a few tears) of this wonderful tool.  I have so many pictures and I feel that I've cheated Makenna out of many delightful paper albums.  They say that you take fewer pictures of the 2nd child...not really...you just tend to not do anything with the pictures you have stored on your computer...out of sight out of mind!  Anyway!  I sat down and created my very first digital page and it only took me about 3 hours!  ha ha... Actually, the creating of the page wasn't difficult...it was actually quite fun...it was learning the mechanics of the program and all the file saving that was time consuming...for the novice aka me!

I really am happy with the results.  Hopefully with time, I'll be able to create a whole years worth of pictures in the time it took me to do this one page tonight...we'll see!  I have high hopes!

Speaking of Makenna Phrases....

Last weekend I decided it was time to take down the winter decorations from my mantel. I was playing around with different prints and photographs, vases, plants, and candles....trying to find the right look. I would set something up and rearrange it, take a step back to take in the over all look and to the left of me in a little bitty voice came, "nope...not pretty yet!". That girl sure does speak her mind...:)

Makenna Phrases

We were at a fundraiser this morning at a local church when Makenna announced that she needed to go potty. So I took her, sat her on the potty, and after a few minutes, she says, "there's no pee pee in my body". I couldn't help but laugh at her and there was a woman brushing her hair at the sinks and she was laughing too. I think Makenna is getting into the -let's explore every public restroom we can - phase. I love hearing Makenna talk though...she comes up with really cute phrases. Like the other day at the ear doctor she noticed that all the toys were gone when we walked in the waiting room so in a very loud 3 year old voice, she exclaimed, "there's no toys, that not make me happy! dockor (doctor) make me mad!" She entertained the whole waiting room...and she wouldn't let it go either. She was really worked up over it. Fortunately, it take long to see Dr. Phillips. She had taken her baby doll so the Dr. could check her baby's ears too. Dr. Phillips was great looking into baby's ears and announcing that everything looked ok. Makenna was such a big girl climbing into the chair and setting up nice and tall she said, "see? that not so bad". It was so wonderful taking her to the doctor with her not climbing over me screaming and crying.

Updates

I'm at home with Kenna girl today...an ear infection has given her a 102 temp. Yuck. Went to the Dr. yesterday and got some meds. We are on the up and up for sure now. In the meantime, I'm using my sofa time to update the blog that is so desperately behind. I uploaded pictures from Christmas and Makenna's birthday. Feels good to get caught up and share our happenings. If only for the journaling of it all...if I ever...no...when I get to get caught up with my scrapbooking, it's going to be so wonderful having this as source to turn too. I really want to try out digital scrapbooking. My hubby got me a great some great digi software for Christmas but I have yet to try it out. Maybe I'll get around to that today too.

Makenna's birthday party

We had the family over for Makenna's 3rd birthday party. We celebrated with pizza, salad, and cake and ice cream.

She got pieces for her doll house, a tutu, a helmet for the bicycle that Uncle Sid bought her for Christmas, and a large play vanity for her bedroom. She also got some miscellaneous Mickey and Minnie Mouse items.

We had a great time watching her in the spotlight. :)

Makenna's 3rd Birthday

We were so fortunate that Papa Chuck was here to celebrate Makenna's birthday with us. We had a small celebration at home because as it turned out, Makenna got sick and was running a fever the day before so we wanted to take it easy on her. We had dinner, opened a few family gifts and then celebrated with cupcakes and ice cream. Happy Birthday sweet girl!

Christmas Eve 2010

The kids and I made gingerbread cutout cookies this year and we even decorated them. It was a lot of fun...I've never had much success with frosting cookies but this year I made my own frosting and that really made all the difference in the world. Confectioners sugar icing to so much easier to work with than any other I've tried. Since Makenna is really into Mickey and Minnie Mouse this year, we did mouse cutouts and stars. The kids had a great time cutting out the designs and frosting them. They were also very excited about getting Santa's plate ready for his upcoming visit.

Trick or Treat

We took the kids to the Pavilion last night for games, bounce houses and a train ride. They had an awesome balloon artist. He made Makenna a Minnie Mouse and a deer hat for Brian and a shotgun for Peyton to "hunt" with. He and his business buddy were very talented and fun to watch. We walked through the enchanted forest while character princesses gave out candy. Then we went to one of local church's trunk or treat. The kids got plenty of candy! That's for sure!

Sissy's Car Preference

Friday before we left for vacation, Brian decided to take my car to work. Since he was getting off sooner than me, he was going to go home and have the car loaded and ready for us to hop in and get started on our 16 hour drive to see family.

That Friday morning, Makenna (aka "sissy") went outside to load the car for work/school and she noticed right off the bat that mommy's car wasn't there. "Mommy's car?" with her little hands up in a questioning position. I told her that daddy had mommy's car and that we were going to take daddy's car. As soon as we get to the car door to unload our bags, Makenna shouts, "aw man! Not THAT car!". I thought surely I would pee in my pants. It was so funny!

Brian has a good car but it's not the prettiest thing and she's not used to riding in it as much as my car. She cried almost the whole way to school and even after she had settled down, I heard her start back up. I asked her what was wrong and she said, "daddy took our car!".

That little girl is smart and she is such a hoot! I love this age...she's disovering so much and the way she pieces her words together is just amazing. She grows every day... way to fast but amazing all the same.

Scooter Fun

Creative Juices at Work

Just kickin' back with a good book...

Snow Day

We've quite a bit of snow this year compared to other years and of course Peyton has loved every minute of it! He and his neighbor friend Jordan have had a blast playing in the snow mainly snowboarding. Brian and I spent this particular weekend working a puzzle only to find that we were missing the last piece. I wish I had taken a picture of us working on it. Our intentions were to frame the puzzle once in place and put it upstairs in the kids hallway....a great snow weekend project but without that missing piece.... We left it up for 4 more days hoping that it would show up and finally Peyton and I took it down so that we actually use our dining room table for dinner. After dinner Makenna comes walking over with something in her hand that she wanted to show me. Yep! You guessed it! It was the missing piece! Go figure right? AFTER we take the whole darn thing down that's when the sneaky 2 year old reveals the missing piece. And it was in the dinning room the whole time. Before she came over, I saw her messing with a rather large candlestick I have in the corner with a pillar candle on top. I guess she had the piece hidden under the pillar candle. One of these days we may work that ole puzzle again...but then again...maybe not. :)