Starting Solids!

McKenna is now almost 6 months old!! I can't believe how fast she is growing! A couple of weeks ago we started feeding her solids. It has been a funny experience thus far. She is getting better and better with rice cereal, as you can see with the video below. A couple of days ago we decided to feed McKenna avocado, that is when we got these two great pictures. She had a hard time with the texture, it was so funny because she doesn't want to swallow it when it is in her mouth. It is like she doesn't know what to do with it. We are going to keep working on it.

Pete's Hole!

This year to celebrate the 24th of July Dave and I decided to go camping at Pete's Hole. We have come to this pretty little lake at least every other year since we got married. We thought it would be the perfect place for McKenna's first camping trip. Pretty impressive, don't you think, she went camping before she hit twelve weeks old! Actually, I think we may have been just a little crazy to have taken her so young, if we didn't have our tent trailer there is no way we could have done it. It was so nice to get outdoors and enjoy the cooler weather!

Gauge, McKenna, and I holding the fish that Dave is catching in the picture below!(Yes I am holding the fish pretty tight, it had already gotten away twice and Dave was determined to get this picture)

Dave catching a fish for our picture
Dave and McKenna cuddling on our bed


McKenna and I getting ready for our hike

After the first sleepless night we decided to try something different, so we bundled McKenna up and put her in her car seat, it worked great! She slept so well in it, which was a huge relief!

McKenna enjoying the Great Outdoors

McKenna and I playing

Dave and McKenna about to go on a walk

McKenna and I at our campsite

McKenna's Blessing

I have to confess that we actually blessed McKenna on July 5th, I am just really slow posting this! It was a perfect day, thank you so much to all you family and friends who came! Dave gave McKenna a beautiful blessing, and afterward we went to my parent's for an open house.

The only way that that day could have gone any better is if these pictures turned out better. Do you ever take a ton of pictures, and it is just a bad "picture day"? I have to say that I do like a couple of them, but we really took a lot of pictures, and for the most part they turned out really bad! I think we are going to have to dress McKenna back up in her dress and take some more pictures, that way we make sure we get some good ones.

McKenna and her DaddyMy Little Princess

A close-up of McKenna
(maybe a little too close?)

Our Family

McKenna and I

Ella, McKenna, and I