A new play house for Makenna ??

I finally hired someone to clean my house. It's just too much for me to keep up with. It's nice to know that every two weeks the house will be clean, whether it needs it or not. I'm sure it will help with both mine and Makenna's asthma as well.

Being that their will be strangers in the house every few weeks, I had to buy a new dog crate for Terra. The pictures below shows who likes it the most.

Makenna checking out the new digs...
regardless of whos they are

Watching TV

Getting comfortable

Hey, this isn't 1/2 bad for a new place to nap

Happy 2008

It's hard to believe that 2007 has come and gone already. A lot of great things happened in 2007 but we are looking forward to 2008. Here are some 2007 highlights:

March:
Makenna was Adopted - YAY!
Aunt Ruthie came for the adoption and stayed a few weeks.

April:
Makenna was baptised
I started a new job

May:
My little pup, Tucker, was adopted by a new family

July:
Makenna and I joined a gym

August:
Makenna turned 2

September:
I turned 35 -- Oh my!

I hope everyone has a happy and healthy 2008.

Family Pictures

Eric, Candi, Kyra, Matthew, Makenna and I gave mom and dad pictures of all "the kids" for Christmas this year.

Christmas Morning

Christmas morning this year was an eventful one. We woke up early to several inches of unexpected fresh snow....a matter of fact, it snowed all day long. Makenna and I drove to mom and dad's where we met up with Eric, Candi and the kids for breakfast and to open gifts. Eric and Candi left mid-morning to head to her moms house for Christmas lunch and then home since the roads were so bad. Makenna and I stayed at mom and dad's for lunch then they took Makenna sledding up and down the street in front of the house with her new sled. Then we also headed home.

Our house Christmas Morning as we were
leaving for the day

Nana and Makenna

Makenna and Pop sharing Christmas
breakfast

Kyra and Matthew

Matthew

Kyra trying on her new hat and scarf

Kyra

Sledding with Pop

Makenna LOVED the sled. It was hard to get her off
without any tears

Makenna is in this picture somewhere ;-)

Holiday Fun

Makenna hanging out in front of our
Christmas Tree


Makenna sitting on a horse scuplture
on Mainstreet in Parker before
the annual Christmas parade

Ride'em Cowgirl!

So bundled up she could hardly move

The slide is fun ANYTIME of year

2007 Christmas Pictures

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Christmas Pixs
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I can't believe how big my "little" girl is getting. I compared this years Christmas pictures to last years and could hardly believe it. I'm really looking forward to Christmas this year. Makenna is talking up a storm and is really enjoying the trees she is seeing in the stores. We put up our tree today (yes...It's only November) and she had a great time learning how to "control" the lights and thought putting the ornaments on the tree was the greatest. She is still talking about it and it's been several hours since we finished. More to come over the next month.

Fall 2007

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Raking Leaves
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Makenna and I were out running errands on a Sunday morning early in November so we stopped by Mom and Dad's to say hi. They were raking leaves so we took the opportunity to "play".

Playing in the pile of leaves

With Nana in the leaves

Where is Makenna?

All Done!!

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Halloween
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Makenna in her 50's outfit. She looked so cute!

Posing so you can see the poodle on her skirt

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Pumpkin Carving
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So, I had this big pumpkin carving day set up at my house for Sunday October 21. There were about 10 people coming and I was going to make Apply Cider Stew. Well, We got over 8" of snow at my house that morning so only mom and dad came. It was still fun. Makenna had a great time carving pumpkins with Pop and playing with the pumpkin seeds was fun too.

Watching Pop clean the "goop" out of the pumpkins

Helping Nana Clean out the Pumpkins.
Nana, Pop and Makenna cleaned out the guts
and Mom did the carving

Not too sure about the goop inside.

This is so much Fun!

Finished Products

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Pumpkin Patch
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Nana, Pop, Makenna and I went to the pumpkin patch this year. It was beautiful outside. Couldn't have asked for a better day. Pop and Makenna made a scarecrow -- They picked out his clothes and "stuffed" him with straw. It was fun. We also picked out a pumpkin to carve. Makenna loved the horse drawn carriages and hay rides. The lines were too long to wait, but she like watching. Maybe next year we'll get to go for a ride.

Pop and Makenna making a
scarecrow

Makenna "helping" collect straw.
She's stuffing her own pockets with straw
since that's what we did to the scarecrow.

Playing on the hay bails

Makenna and Nana in search
for the perfect pumpkin

Still searching...
Makenna liked the white pumpkins
much better than the traditional ones.

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Estes Park Colorado
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Our friends Jenny and Anna went with us to Estes Park to see the leaves changing colors. It was windy and freezing cold. The girls were all bundled up and Jenny and I had on just sweatshirts -- FREEZING. Nonetheless, it was a fun trip.

Anna and Makenna resting when
we stopped at the visitors center

Makenna -- She LOVES wearing the hat
Nana and Pop brought back from Alaska

Makenna