valentine's girl...

makenzie made her teacher a card last night for valentine's day. she was so excited to give it to her today. and i thought she looked really cute. so, i took some pictures :)

love my family...

this weekend we went up to the bay area for a couple days. it was a lot of fun. michael and i went up to napa for dinner at The French Laundry, the most amazing restaurant. Makenzie had a great time with her mimi and papa. She always loves playing with them. We headed home on Sunday and at the last minute michael decided to take the freeway over to san francisco instead. he had been wanting to try out an italian restaurant he's heard about there. we were a little early before the reservation so we walked around the ferry building. makenzie thought the bridge was pretty so we walked around outside for a few minutes. i remembered i had my camera in my purse so we took a couple of pictures. :)

school pictures...

i love that michael is a photographer and we have amazing pictures of makenzie. and obviously they are way better than a school picture. but there is something just about the keepsake of school pictures that you just have to have it. well, we missed school picture day because of jeff and jessica's wedding. but they had a retake day at the end of october. and then i completely forgot about it! i was so bummed when i realized it that afternoon when makenzie came home from school. not that she's not adorable, but she wasn't in the outfit i would have picked for school pictures and her hair wasn't in my favorite style and to top it off she had fallen off her scooter the day before and scraped her cheek! :) oh well, she's still a cutie.

my cute kindergartner...

january random...

i've been so annoyed with myself that i haven't blogged but i really have had nothing to blog about! life has just been going, time flying as always. makenzie was sick and out of school for a week then went back to school for 2 days and out the rest of the week with a fever. it was sad. but we are all healthy now and hoping to stay that way!

not much has been going on but i have taken a few random iphone pics in the last couple weeks, so here you go!

on new years eve we went to hang out with some friends. they have a little girl and makenzie had so much fun playing with her. she came out to talk to me and slipped on the laminate floor and went crashing into the corner of the glass coffee table. it was like slow motion watching it happen. i was just about to say "slow down, you are going to slip!" i was freaked, totally thought we were going to be at the emergency room getting stitches. but it turned out to be just a small cut and a huge bruise. it was crazy and took quite a while to heal. it actually got even worse looking than this!



so excited to go back to school after christmas break. sadly this is also the day that on the way home she told me her throat her. her tonsils were crazy swollen and full of white spots. found out it wasn't strep, just a virus, but she was out all week.





laying out in the warm january weather on the porch, with copper and penny. this was actually one of the days she said home from school and was supposed to be resting and taking it easy. :)



makenzie and aly in their robes before bed...







an apron that we made on her sewing machine. she also made one for her friend's birthday. she was so excited to give it to her. it was adorable.


she's into having her hair curled, it's so cute. one night i went in to check on her and saw that she had put curlers on bobby. so adorable. :)


one day that michael was out of town we decided to go to the beach. it was a beautiful day and makenzie had so much fun. we should do this more often. she could spend all day playing there.





we built a tunnel and then poured water through it. she thought that was awesome. :)



since her doll, aly, has dangly earrings makenzie has been wanting a pair like that. we found some the other day. this is me trying to get a picture of them and her giggling too much to get a good picture. she always holds her breath to take a picture and then gets all worn out if it takes a while. what a goof.







one day at the store makenzie saw a night mask and told me she needed one. i laughed and said i didn't think so. well, last night when i went to check on her before going to bed i found her like this. i guess she improvised a night mask with a dress up headband! :)



so, that's it for the random. i'll come up with some more fun things to blog about. :)

playing in the snow...

on new year's day we took makenzie up to big bear to play in the snow. we sledded, had a snow ball fight, tried to build a snowman, made snow angels, etc. it was alot of fun. makenzie had alot of fun until all of a sudden she started crying that she was so cold she couldn't handle it anymore. turns out she had a ton of snow down her boots and her ankles and feet were frozen! i felt so bad for her! i called a couple friends to see if they had sleds and a friend of mine said they use their boogie boards. it worked perfectly! looked a little lame but it worked. michael and i had a lot of fun sledding. our path was getting so good when makenzie said she was done. she was worn out walking back up the hill each time. :)

a tea party...

makenzie decided to have a party with her "friends" tonight. i thought it was so cute i took a couple of pictures. she's in such a happy mood and playing so sweetly. as i'm typing this she's talking to the party friends, it's so cute. :)

everyone was all dress up for the party - dresses and accessories :) and that is my dress makenzie is wearing haha. :)

happy new year!!!

makenzie's new years resolutions...

i asked makenzie what she hopes will happen, what she hopes to do or what she hopes to learn in 2010. and this is what she said...

... i will turn 6
... i will learn to draw better
... i will loose more teeth
... i will learn to ride a bike without training wheels
... i will go see jake, aly and luke
... i will go on a big trip, maybe china, but i won't be able to understand them
... daddy will get a motorcycle so that i can ride in the side car
... i will be taller

then i said, let me take a picture of you. she said, ok, let me lay on the counter first. what a goofy girl...