Makenna's 7th birthday

Makenna turned 7 on Sept. 12th.  After she got ready for school we let her open her presents since Scott wouldn't be there at night.  She was so excited when she opened her eyes and saw this...

 She also got a LeapPad2 from grandma Sheffield/us.  She has the best reactions...

After school she had a playdate with her good friend, Mallory.  Then we went out to dinner at Dions with Aunt Stacy.  Then headed on over to Menchies where she got to pick whatever she wanted.  This is what she ended up with... 

We have a tradition on their birthdays that I take them to the store and they can pick anything they want within a certain amount.  Makenna chose a Barbie.

Makenna is such a special little spirit.  This is Makenna lately:

Way into art and drawing.  Her teacher always talks about what an amazing artist she is.  She definitely has some talent there.

She is really smart.  She amazes me sometimes by the things she knows and how fast she catches on to things.

Such a good, sweet friend.

She loves eating healthy and her favorite food is salad.

She loves barbies and barbie movies.

She is very spiritual and often throws out very deep questions.  She knows her scripture stories very well.

She is very good at memorizing things.

She loves doing mom school with me after she's done with her homework after school.

She is loved very much by her friends and cousins.

She is very helpful around the house.

She is a very good big sister to Jace and Cami

She had a hard little experience recently at school that broke my heart.  This little girl in her class started treating her really mean.  Makenna would come home very upset sometimes.  The girl would push her and call her names, and exclude her from her friends.  It was heartbreaking.  Every day Makenna would tell me the nice things she would do to this girl, and the nice things she would say, and I would tell her to just keep doing what she's doing.  Well just recently Makenna came home from school and told me that the girl apologized to her for being mean and now they are friends.  This is just one good example of what a kind-hearted girl Makenna is.  She would never do a mean thing to anyone, even someone treating her so unkind. We love our Kenna girl.