Six Year Anniversary

On Saturday Chris and I celebrated our six year wedding anniversary. I still can't believe it. We had a wonderful day that started off with me getting flowers and a wonderful card. I surprised Chris later that afternoon with a reflexology massage from a new place that just opened up by our house. WE both loved the massage and it was a wonderul surprise for Chris. After that we went to dinner at Texas Road House-which was excellent-we had never been there before. The rolls alone are worth going for. Then we went to see Kung FU Panda at the dollar theatre. I know it was a weird choice but there really wasn't anything playing elsewhere that we wanted to see. It was a great day, but really everyday with Chris is. He is for me the most handsome, adoring, caring, loving, talented man that I know. Which makes me pretty lucky since I am married to him.

Summer Days...

I have not written in so long. We haven't really been up to anything that exciting and blogworthy but we have been keeping busy this summer. McKenna took swim lessons for about a month with a wonderful lady that withstood her crying and screaming. I will say that now McKenna is a lot more comfortable with water and she seems to understand the basic concepts of swimming. She has yet to put all of those concepts together but I am working with her now in our pool and she is becoming more confident every day. McKenna has also discovered that she loves climbing on everything and anything that she can and I think her favorite place is the toddler zone at our nearby McDonald's. She has like 5 teeth coming in so she is Miss Cranky right now and also she has become so picky, so if anyone has good advice on how to go about feeding a picky 15 month old let me know:) Chris has been keeping busy at work and we enjoyed watching the Olympics these last few weeks. We are more determined than ever to have McKenna be a volleyball star:) I have just finished reading Breaking Dawn for a second time and loved it even more than the first. I have also noticed that I have a lot of projects that I started and have left unfinished so I need to get a move on. Excited for the upcoming holidays and for the weather to change. McKenna loves her Halloween costume and can't wait to go trick or treating! I guess that is about it, a pretty normal life, but a happy one too.

Chris Turned 30!!

Chris turned 30 last Thursday and he had to work, so we planned on celebrating his birthday on Friday. We went to lunch at Joe's and then Jacob and Jessie babysat while Chris and I went to see a movie. What Chris did not know was that there would be a surprise waiting for him when we got home. I planned a semi-small surprise party for him and he had no idea. There were about 30 people there and that was just family, and a few close friends. Thanks to everyone for coming:) We had a great time with everyone and enjoyed many a chimi from Nando's(Chris and I are still eating the leftovers). I feel so lucky to be married to such a wonderful person and I loved throwing this party for him. Even though he is 30 I am the one with the gray hairs-go figure.

Pig Tails

Jeni suggested that I try putting McKenna's hair into pigtails. I still had to use a clip on the front to keep her super long bangs out of her eyes. Not perfectly even but perfectly adorable.

Family Vacations

We just got back from San Diego yesterday and we had so much fun. I was hesitant to leave the perfect 75 degree weather and I should have just stayed there. We practically melted in Yuma where we stopped for lunch, but we somehow made it home in one piece. Now I have a mountain of laundry and a huge pile of dog hair in every corner (thanks Badger). I am happy to be home and I think McKenna was happy to be in her own bed last night too. We took McKenna to the beach while we were there and she loved it. We would ask her where the water was and she would practically run to small waves and let the sand cover her feet. She wasn't too fond of the dry sand but she got accustomed to it after a while. Get this she even fell asleep in Chris' arms. This is a big deal because if you know McKenna she is not big on cuddling or being held for very long. She slept for an hour and Chris and I loved every minute of it. It was so great to be there with all of my side of the family for our reunion. McKenna got to hang out with her second cousin Avery and they played pretty well, mainly taking McKenna's cup away from the other one. This cycle repeated many times. We all went to Sea World and the highlight of the day was McKenna getting to see Telly and Grover from Sesame Street. We got in line for pictures and Chris and I both thought that she would be scared to death. But it was the complete opposite. She loved them. She was giving them hugs and posing for some very cute pictures. She cried when she could no longer hug on them and we distracted her by taking her to the play area. It was so darling. Chris and I also got to go to Houston a couple of weeks ago to see my cousin get married. It was an unofficial family reunion on my dad's side of the family. We had so much fun and McKenna loved being the center of attention. During the rehearsal dinner in the cultural hall she just walked around waving, clapping, and dancing-she was in Heaven. She is getting so big... I just signed her up for the parent tot swim class and it starts on Monday. Hopefully it is not a complete waist of time. Breaking Dawn comes out in a month I am so excited:)

The Host

I just finished reading Stephanie Meyer's new novel The Host and it was so wonderful. If you have not read it yet I highly recommend it. I was a little bit leary at first because I was mad at her for putting this out before Breaking Dawn, but I liked it just as much as the Twilight series. For a science fiction novel it was very well written and kept my interest. The characters were interesting and I loved the ending. So if you are need of a great book to read I would get this one.

Happy Birthday McKenna

We celebrated McKenna's first birthday last week! I cannot believe that she is officially a toddler. She is walking all over the place, I think she may even start running soon, which scares me to death. She had such a great birthday party and she was completley spoiled by everyone. She has more toys than she knows what to do with. She also had her cousin Rylan and her second cousin Avery there too, so she had a lot of fun with them. At first she didn't know what to do with the cake she sort of licked frosting off of her fingers. It didn't take long however to figure out that cake is yummy and she devoured her whole piece. The next couple of days were spent going to my cousin's highschool graduation and spending time with family that came in from out of town. She had to have her shots today so hopefully she won't get to cranky. She has been so personable lately. She waves at everyone, loves to clap, and she is learning how to play peek a boo and blow kisses. She says dada, yum, all done, mama(on rare occasion) and her favorite word to say is du-short for duck which she happens to be obsessed with. Happy Birthday to my little girl!!!!