haircut...

so julie blogged about cutting aly's hair last week and i thought it was so funny because just the day before i had told michael that i thought it seemed silly to pay someone to cut makenzie's hair in a straight line. she was able to do a good job on aly's so i decided to do the same...

makenzie was born with alot of hair. unlike most babies her hair didn't fall out. it just got longer and thicker. she wore clips in it at 8 weeks old, in pig tails and ponies by a year, but why is it that her hair looks the same as it did when she was 2 ?!?!?! not that i want her to have crazy thick hair like mine, but a little more volume would be good. :)

8 weeks old...


13 months old...



2 years old...


and here's the haircut this week

before...


after...why does it look like i cut off like six inches!!


and today...

i'm on top of things...

ya, i thought makenzie's preschool started on the 9th of september. i got a letter in the mail today reminding me about school starting on the 4th!!! oops....had no idea :)

and look at my little cutie in her new hat! she wears michaels hat like this style and looks adorable and we've been wanting to find her one and we found one today! sooo cute! i knew she had a small face and head and figured she wouldn't fit in the 4t size, so i tried on the 2t-3t size...nope, too big. tried on the 12-24 mo size...nope, too big. ya, the 6-12 month size is the one that fit her head. um... is that normal??? i guess i'm glad she doesn't have a big old head on a little body. :)

fun at the water park...

We are here at the water park with alyssa and maddie.Last week of summer!!

sleeping...

so makenzie has been spoiling me the last couple of weeks. she's been sleeping until 9:00am! but, that means she's not really up for napping in the afternoon. i still put her down and she is very quiet. sometimes she seems to nap but sometimes she wakes up so chipper and ready to play i'm not convinced she did. i do love this sleeping in thing she's doing but i am certainly not ready to give up the napping yet. :) we still have another year before kindergarten, she has to nap until then. and it kind of throws me off for the day. i find myself still in morning routine at like noon. but, i am not complaining in any way because she has had a routine of 6:30am before and that one is NOT fun.

here's a picture of her sleeping. i should take more of these, they are so cute. this was a year ago...

blogging from my iPhone...

Michael got the new iPhone the other day and I got his old one. I've never had a cool phone before :) I had a hand-me-down blackberry but never paid for the service plan so it was just a phone to me. So this is kind of fun to have. We are sitting here at the park and makenzie is playing in the sand while copper and penny cry everytime a person or dog walks by. It's a beautiful summer evening, actually a cool 73 degrees (my phone told me that)

new york in the fall...

i just booked our plane tickets and apartment for new york for 2 1/2 weeks in october! so excited! michael is off for a while after a crazy busy season of weddings and we thought it would be fun to spend time there as a family. he has some work in new york while we are there, but we will have lots of time to hang out in the city. i can't wait to be in real fall weather!

michael took this picture when we were there last december...

gymnastics...

ok, i love watching gymnastics. i always have. i think it is so fun to watch and i am amazed at how good these girls are. my dad won a trip to the 1992 olympics. at first i begged him to take me with him. my mom hates to fly and isn't really a world traveler. i thought i had the ticket, but then my mom decided she would go, that it would be a fun trip for them. (eyes rolling) that would have been a great year to see the girls gymnastics. my vote was for kim zmeskal that year, but shannen miller ended up being the best american. i was so mad when svetlana khorkina won the all around after the two of them performed the same vault. shannen was WAY better and totally deserved to win. (by the way this is all on memory, no googling here) i taped all the gymnastics and watched that vault over and over, i was so bummed. then i was a fan of dominique moceano, but she kind of let us down in the next olympics. but that was the year of keri strug, the one that talked like minnie mouse, the infamous vault on one foot to win gold for the girls. i even went to see the girls one night perform on their little tour after the olympics. unfortunately i dont have alot of memories of the 2004 olympics. that was when makenzie was just 4 months old and we were getting ready to move out to california.

ok, now i'm getting really annoyed with this years results. so happy for nastia winning the gold, but i was annoyed from the beginning with the scoring. so sad that there is no perfect 10 to go by anymore. i think shawn got robbed on floor last night and i think alicia got totally robbed on the vault. anyone who lands on their knees on the second vault should not medal! have you seen bela karoli talk after the events, i'm in total aggreement with him. ok, then tonight! nastia and chinese girl tie on the bars and then in some dumb tie breaker rule nastia takes silver. so lame!! the dumb judges, ugh.



and lastly, what is with the hair clips these girls use. this russian girl tonight had seriously 15 that i could see. does that help them flip faster like a swim cap helps the swimmers? i don't get it. seriously, i dont really think their hair is going to move! at least the US girls use their hair color clips so you dont see them so much. but 15 white clips one after another is a little much! i'm certainly not letting makenzie do that to her hair in the 2020 olympics. :)

i tried to find a picture of her tonight but none of them showed the clips, here she is the other night...


i'm sure i spelled all of their names wrong, i just don't feel like looking them all up...