I absolutely love this video. No matter what my day at work is like, no matter how stressed I am over school, this video will always bring a smile to my face. I love my little giggle monster!!!!!

Talking to Grandpa

Makenzie loves talking to her Grandpa (AKA: Papa)

Great Day!

Today is a great day...besides it being my birthday I just found out that I got a 4.0 for my first semester of classes in working towards my masters! Yipppeeee! My husband is also the sweetest man alive He sent me roses and baloons for my birthday! I am so happy because I knew that we would not get to celebrate my b-day tonight because I have class and he is busy working all week getting ready for the play-offs...so it was such a sweet gesture to let me know he is thinking of me! Love ya'll and have a great day!

My Little Diva

I just wanted to share some pics that I took this afternoon of Makenzie. She is quite the little diva lately as you can tell!




And lately we are all about the babies! She carries at least one around all day...sometimes she has 2! She is starting to sleep with a small baby also.

My Little Angel and her baby

Playing in Boxes

Makenzie loves the Nativity that she has for Christmas...this morning we found out that she also loves the box that it came in!

Halloween Pictures!!!!! (finally)

Emily sharing her suckers with me. I like the flavor "Paper Wrapper"

Mommy and me at the square trunk or treating
I didn't win the costume contest...but mommy and daddy
still think I should have!
Everyone told them how cute I was, and I coyly smiled at everyone.


Mama Ri see my tongue? This is one of my coworkers we call her Mama Ri


All tuckered out after a full night of collecting candy!

Halloween

I know ya'll are just dying to see the halloween pics of Makenzie, and I do have more than 1 (for those of you that recieved the pic this morning)but I won't be able to load them until tonight when I get home from doing homework...oh the joys of being a mommy and going to school! Unfortunately right now my bragging rights have to go on the back-burner for schoolwork :( Stick by your computer anxiously waiting though because she is soooo cute you don't want to miss it!!!

My Silly Little Girl

Makenzie is so curious and learning how to take clothes and diapers off lately. Last night I put her in her diaper in her crib while I took a shower and when I went to check on her and I found her sitting there without her diaper on!
Yes she was sitting in her crib naked! She tore her diaper off and was ripping it apart...lovely huh?

Then this morning she went down for her morning nap. She played a little while trying to fight off sleep, but eventually she lost the battle and she fell fast asleep...but not before this...


She decided to take her arm out of her sleeve and put it through the neck of her sweatshirt!!!! Silly Girl!

Stupid Technology!

Ok I just spent the last hour trying to find PowerPoint on my home computer. Granted I have had the computer for almost 1 year, but I have never used or needed to use PowerPoint on here...until tonight! So I've been searching & all I could find is this stupid PowerPoint Viewer 2003. Now tell me why anyone would need to view a PowerPoint and never make one? Good Question for microsoft, I'll be calling them later! Moving on with the story...I finally figured out that our stupid computer did not come with PowerPoint only PowerPoint Viewer. Needless to say David & I dug through all of our papers that came with the computer and finally found a free 60 day trial for Microsoft works 2003. This realy didn't make sense to me since we have Microsoft Windows XP, but whatever, I was desperate, so I went ahead and downloaded it. So now we have PowerPoint for 60 whole days. We are obviously going to have to purchase the full version later so that I can do my homework. So my question is this...Did all yall's computers come without powerpoint? Or am I just the lucky one that happened to get a stripped down model? Just Curious

Pumpkin Pictures!!!!

Just me and mommy!




Ooohhhh! Look at all the pumpkins....








Daddy...can I have this one?

Procrastinating...sort of

I am doing my homework right now...sort of...I am taking a small break to type this :) It's been a great weekend and a productive one at that! David and I joined forces and cleaned and re-arranged the house on Saturday. It feels great living in a clean home! haha Saturday afternoon David's parents came out and we went to the Assiter Pumpkin Farm and Makenzie had a BLAST! She loved the pumpkins and absolutely loved the dogs that they had there! We have a pet lover! She kept saying "dog" and "ruff" everytime we let her down she ran to the dogs not the pumpkins! We also learned that she has expensive taste! The first pumpkin she wanted cost $100...ummm I don't think so missy! We got some great pics of Makenzie and some family pics of the 3 of us that I will post tomorrow.

Sunday we went to church and just kinda laid around for the most part, other than doing dishes and laundry, I didn't feel so good.

Today we were also off...yippeee! Today I cleaned out my armoire, did dishes, all laundry (including stinky training panties!), folded clothes, ironed, called and made an appointment to get our carpet cleaned, and am doing my homework for the next week!

Needless to say I am feeling very productive and accomplished! I did not do it alone though, David has been an awesome husband this weekend and has helped me so much! Gotta love him!

Makenzie Swinging

I thought that ya'll might like to see this. She loves her swing!

Hectic!

It's been an extremely hectic week here so I haven't been able to get on her and update. So it all started last Thursday when my mema fell and has gone down hill from there! Thankfully my mema is ok, she is in a nursing home for right now though trying to get better. Please keep her and my papa in your prayers. I was emotionally and physically drained after the weekend and when we got home from Clovis my inlaws came over and stayed until 10:45 so we didn't get to bed until late on Sun Ugh!

Then on Wednesday I started to feel bad so I decided to stay home on Thurs. and go to the dr. Well it turns out that I have bronchitis :(

As if feeling miserable wasn't enough, God thought that he would try my patience with my daughter last night at the

grocery store!

I went to the store in Lubbock so that I could get my prescription filled and get some groceries at the same time, multitasking it's what mom's do!

Makenzie started to get hungry so I went to the juice aisle and picked up a package of her organic juice that she likes, opened it and gave her 1. She proceeded to suck the little juice box dry! Then as I am getting her some dried bananas I look up and she is...EATING the juice box! One might mistake this for a hungry child, but remember my child eats everything...including books and her crib! I went over and grabbed her some more fruit leather bars for at home and I opened one and let her eat it. She was a happy camper...for the moment!

When we got to the checkout I was telling the checker that she had allready eaten one of the fruit leathers and he said ok and put one on the counter...

dun dun dun...that is when the fit began

She started writhing, and whining, and crying, and pushing away from me, all because she wanted another stupid fruit leather!

In the meantime the lady behind me has a baby boy and he is just as happy as can be and she is playing with him and staring at me...

you know that "how could you let your child act like that" stare.

It was so embarrasing.

I was praying for the checker to hurry up so we could leave.
Normally I would have just walked out of a place if she was acting like that...but we really needed groceries.

To end the story as soon as we got in the car she fell asleep...of course no one was around then!

I am so proud and excited I can't describe it!

Makenzie peed in the potty all by herself today!!!!

Then when I went home at lunch she was tooting while eating lunch so I asked her if she needed to go potty and she nodded her head yes, so we went to the potty and she just sat there for a few minutes and then she pooped!!!!

I didn't have any stickers to give her for a double whammy so I gave her a pudding cup instead

I thought that she would be happy with that seeing as how I never give her sweets!

We have been taking her to the potty every 30 minutes for the past 3 days. So it is finally sinking in that this is what she is supposed to do on the potty. We have been half-heartedly trying for about a month but not serious, she was still wearing her diapers. Now we are in training panties and vinyl covers all day long! No pull-ups here, just cloth and vinyl!

By the way I refrained from taking pictures... but I did call my David, my mom, my dad, and tell everyone at work!

Sleeping with Suggi

Here are some pictures that I took this last weekend of Makenzie and Suggi taking a nap together. I guess that mom thought that she needed to take a nap in order for Makenzie to sleep also. I snuck in there and caught the precious moment. Notice though how Makenzie likes to overtake the pillow...she allready loves her satin pillow cases!