Oh for the love of accessories!!

Aunt Lili and Presley got this adorable outfit for you, Mackenzie! See how cute you are?!?! This started Mommy's new obsession with bows for your hair! You are so beautiful and I love you so much!!

Mississippi Family

Mackenzie's maternal grandmother, great-grandmother, great-aunt, and great-great-aunt (??) came through town on their way back from a family reunion in Ohio (so sorry we missed it! Maybe next time Aunt Gloria!!) and we had a blast!

Nonna (my mother) was delighted, of course, to see her sweet Mackenzie again. It has been almost a month since she saw her last! Everyone else, Mimi, Aunt Cathy, and Aunt Debbie were excited to meet Mackenzie for the first time. As you can tell from the following pictures, she is very loved!!

Aunt Debbie and Mackenzie

Aunt Cathy and Mackenzie

Nonna and Mackenzie :)

Nonna and Mackenzie napping

Mommy and Mackenzie at Red's for YUMMY food!

Four Generations!! Nonna, Mommy, Mackenzie, and Mimi

All of the fam...so glad you all could come! We love you so much!

All the girls! Aunt Debbie, Mimi, Red (Tracye),
Nonna (Cherie), Mackenzie, me, and Aunt Cathy

Sleeping Good

Mackenzie - you are sleeping so good at night! I didn't think that you would be sleeping through the night until you were 6 or 7 months old and I'm so proud! Now, I'm not going to be silly about this - I do realize that at any point and time you could decide to change your sleep pattern, but I'll take it as long as you'll allow it!

I remember the first time you slept through the night - it was Thursday, July 17th. We went to sleep at about 10:00 p.m. and you didn't wake up until 5:30 the next morning. As awesome as that was, I think I was more scared that something was wrong. After all...before this you were waking up every 2 to 3 hours. And you've been sleeping well ever since!

Here are some pictures of you napping a couple of weeks ago (I'm already behind on our new blog!) at 7 1/2 weeks. I had to actually wake you up to change you and feed you...

Sleeping so peacefully...

In your big girl swing which you hated when you were only 3 or 4 weeks!

You're trying to wake up...

Oh!! We all know what this face means!

Now you're mad because I'm taking pics...

There's that face again...

Still got the face...

It really is pretty cute...

My new favorite pic!

Mackenzie - I hope you always know how much I love you! Love, Mommy

August so far...

Well, it's been very busy around here lately! Mackenzie is getting bigger and bigger and she'll be 8 weeks old on Thursday - I can hardly believe it! Time is flying by so fast...

Our little chunky monkey has had a cold since Thursday night and has not been feeling well. It's so scary for Matt and I because we just got out of the habit of constantly making sure she's breathing and now that she's congested, we're right back to it! We took her to the doctor and they told us that all we could really do for her is to put saline drops in her nose and suction it out before she eats. We feel terrible for her but it doesn't seem to bother her as much as it bothers us. Plus she makes some really cute piglet noises sometimes... :) Here's the little girl sleeping it off after eating a big dinner!!

Look at that BUDDHA BELLY!!!

She loves to cuddle! :)

Very relaxed during naptime...

Matt, Mackenzie and I went to my step-mother's for a delicious meal (yummy!!!) and family pics! We got some pictures of me and my brothers and sisters (all five of us!) with the babies, but I have to get those from Tracye so I'll post them soon. Here's the rest of the pictures from the day:

Daddy and Mackenzie who is still not feeling 100%

Ethan and Jami

Family pic

Mommy and Mackenzie

Daddy and his favorite little girl!

Ashlea and Aikman!

What a rolly polly!

Pretty girl

Saturday night after the good food and pictures, we headed back home and got ready for Uncle Brandon and Aunt Mary to come over. Mary had honeymoon pictures to share and they surprised us by bringing their babies, Brandy and Boozer (Cocker Spaniel puppies), over to play!

Napping together - how CUTE!!

What a sweet family picture!!!

With their favorite niece!

Brandy and Boozer

Aunt Mel and Uncle Matt :)

Brandy wanted to give Mackenzie a kiss...and she did later!! :)

Sweet babies! It made Matt and I want one...but not for a looong time! We have enough work on our hands with Mackenzie!

Aunt Mary and Mackenzie

One of my new favorite pictures!

On Sunday, we went to church for the very first time with Nan and Pops at the Lakewood Methodist Church. Matt and I were very nervous to see how Mackenzie did with the loud music, people, and let's be honest...not being fussy for a solid hour. She did even better than we imagined because we even got to have lunch after church with Nan, Pops, and Aunt Erin at Dixie Cafe. I will say that we cheated a little by taking a break in between at Aunt Erin's to eat and change diapers, but even so, she did great!!

Pops and Nana B with Mackenzie at church

Mommy was so proud of her little girl!!

After church and lunch we went home to hang out with Weepaw, Red, Uncle Trey, Aunt JJ, and Ethan for a little while:

Weepaw and Red loving on Mackenzie

She loves her Red

And Ethan was all smiles - as usual!! :)

Such a sweet boy!

Mackenzie telling me that she'd had enough of the paparrazi for one weekend...