4th of July Parade

Every year my company participates in our city's 4th of July parade and I am one of the lucky ones that gets to plan the float! (not really that much fun by the way.) This year the company is celebrating it's 50th year in business and the parade theme was American Classics so we created a 50's diner for our float with our personal theme being "Celebrating 50 years in 50's style". We dressed Makell up in a poodle skirt and she walked in the parade with us. It was pretty fun and she was adorable! Making the poodle skirt was quite fun too, and easy!

The float

Nick and Makell

Makell and me

Our cutie pie

Random Moments

While camping a little while ago, we had ice cream and Makell wanted the cone. Here she is holding it side ways and being goofy. I had to eat the ice cream out for her so she could eat the cone. I guess that was all she was in the mood for.

Eating chicken nuggets while naked and sick with Hand, Foot and Mouth. (Pray your kids never get this. It is NOT fun).

Makell loves to swim. Here she is in her water wings and swim suit waiting to go to the pool. She jumps in her self and pretty much won't let us touch her once she is in the water. She just kicks and floats around with us near by and only needs us to get her out of the pool so she can jump back in. She has no fear!

Just being cute in sunglasses she insisted on taking to the bath with her.

Temper Tantrum

It is very hard to take pictures of Makell right now because she learned that she can look at the pictures on the camera and she LOVES to look at pictures. Every time you get the camera out, she runs over and says "See, see, see" until you give it to her. If you want to take a picture you have to be very sneaky.

Makell also leaves to color but only with markers. She won't really touch crayons but she will color for a long time with markers. A few weeks ago I left her alone to color and when I came to get her, I found she had colored ALL over her arm. I thought it was funny and I wanted to take a picture so I got out the camera. It was right before bed time and she was extra tired so when she asked to see the pictures on the camera and I didn't agree to her request, she threw the biggest fit. In an effort to get the shot I wanted, I got a temper tantrum instead. Take a peek:

The pouty face (Notice the lovely marker on her arm)

Throwing herself on the floor

Trying to take the camera

Running away

Calming down a bit

Right before I gave in and let her "see"


All for a picture of the marker on her arm :)

Happy 4th!

Flag cake balls anyone?

Ice Cream

Makell had her first ice cream cone a few weeks ago and we discovered that she loves the ice cream but does not like the cake cones. She took several bites of the cone, then spit it out and said it was yucky. We did learn last weekend though that she prefers waffle cones to ice cream. :)

Makell has had ice cream before but this was her first cone for just her. She looks happy to be eating it!


She was watching Tangled and she wouldn't look at me for the picture. This was apparently the best she could do.

Infested!

We recently had an ant infestation that was yucky! Nick woke up one morning with an ant on his face and a bite on his lip so he checked out the window and this is what we found. Thankfully he had just sprayed so most of them were dead or dying but we were so grossed out! Our bed is right up against this window and there were TONS of these lovely ants. We shook out the curtains that are also right by the window and tons more dead ones fell out. Nick vacuumed them up, sprayed several more times and in a few days they stopped coming in. All in all, not a pleasant experience.

On the window sill

The pile of dead ants on the floor behind our bed

A close-up for your pleasure. Notice the wings...

New Skills

Makell can count to 15!! It's the cutest thing you've ever heard. Just wanted to share. :)