• About
  • My Favorites
  • Resources
    • Affiliates & Ads
    • Blogging Tools
    • Code
    • E-Courses
    • Homeschool
    • Photography & Presets
    • Podcasts
    • SEO
    • Videography
    • WooCommerce
    • WordPress Plugins
  • Mini Posts
    • Currently Loving
    • Patterns I’m Eyeing
    • Quick Tip
    • Random Nine
    • Sunday Reflections
    • What I’m Listening to
  • Motherhood
    • Biblical Name Meanings
    • Baby
    • Infertility
    • Letters to my Child
  • Projects
    • DIY
    • Goals
    • Knitting
    • Monthly Projects
    • Painting
    • Sewing
    • What I’m Pinning
    • What I’m Reading
    • Woodwork
    • Other
  • Free Downloads
  • Small Shop Love
  • Other
    • Book Reviews
    • Blogging Tips
    • Sunday Sermon
    • Artists I Love
    • Brands
    • One Thousand Gifts
    • Bucket List
  • Subscribe
  • Contact

Explore the Blog

  • WordPress Tutorials
  • Projects
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Motherhood
  • Bucket List
  • DIY
  • Recipes
  • Mini Posts

Ruler of the Night

The Biblical Meaning for the Name Willow

My Word for 2025: Strong

McKenzie Sue Makes Logo
  • Read the Blog
  • About Me
  • My Favorite Products
  • Brand
    • Portfolio
    • Shop
    • Blog
    • Archives
    • My Favorites
    • Testimonials
    • FAQs
  • Elsewhere
    • About
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Facebook
    • 1,000 Gifts
    • Subscribe
    • Contact
  • Girl Boss
    • WordPress Tutorials
    • Blogging Tips
    • WordPress Plugins
    • For My Clients
    • Moodboards
    • Design
    • Resources
  • Lifestyle
    • Family
    • Holidays
    • Home
    • Recipes
    • Videos
    • One Thousand Gifts
    • Mini Posts
  • Travel
    • USA
    • Europe
    • Asia
    • Bucket List
    • Adventure List
    • Sight-seeing List
    • Random List
  • Make
    • Photography
    • Monthly Projects
    • Sewing
    • Knitting
    • Painting
    • DIY
    • Other
Drawer Image of McKenzie Sue Rucker
  • Disclosure & Privacy
  • Contract
  • Accomplished106
  • Adventure/Exciting19
  • Animals/Nature45
  • Travel/Sight-seeing144
  • Creative/Random/For Fun84
  • Entertainment/Attractions29
  • Contribution/Life Enhancement33

Accomplished

Be a Movie Extra View the Post Apr 2024
Watch a Caterpillar become a Butterfly View the Post Jun 2023
Give Birth Naturally View the Post Apr 2023
Grow a Garden View the Post Jun 2020
Go Berry Picking View the Post Jul 2019
Visit the “Up” house replica View the Post Jun 2019
Have a Child View the Post Feb 2019
Visit Savannah, Georgia View the Post May 2018
Visit Charleston View the Post May 2018
Parasailing View the Post Mar 2018
Make Soap View the Post Jan 2018
Visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter View the Post Nov 2016
View All

Adventure/Exciting

Bungee Jumping
Parasailing View the Post Mar 2018
Do an African Safari
Swing on the World’s Largest Rope Swing
Climb to the base of Everest
Go Deep Sea Fishing
Paddleboarding View the Post July 2017
Visit every continent
Go Sky Diving
Cage Dive with Sharks
Learn to Surf
Walk a Suspension Bridge
View All

Animals/Nature

Watch a Caterpillar become a Butterfly View the Post Jun 2023
Cranberry Harvesting
Visit a Swamp
Stay in a Cabin Technology free for a Week
Raise Bees
Shear a Sheep
Watch Turtles hatch on a Beach
Feed a Giraffe
Visit Jellyfish Lake in Palau
Visit Zion National Park
Visit Bryce Canyon National Park
See Niagra Falls
View All

Contribution/Life Enhancement

Give Birth Naturally View the Post Apr 2023
Grow a Garden View the Post Jun 2020
Have a Child View the Post Feb 2019
Learn to play the violin
Learn to play the ukulele
Document a year with a 365 Photo Project
Run a Triathlon
Learn to Drive a Stick Shift
Take a Nutrition Class
Send a care package to a soldier
Plant a tree
Learn CPR
View All

Creative/Random/For Fun

Be a Movie Extra View the Post Apr 2024
Step on Four Corner Monument
Grow a Garden View the Post Jun 2020
Go Berry Picking View the Post Jul 2019
Visit the “Up” house replica View the Post Jun 2019
Cranberry Harvesting
Make Soap View the Post Jan 2018
Ride the Hogwart’s Express
Try Archery
Go through a hedge maze
Walk with Snowshoes
Go Snow Mobiling
View All

Entertainment/Attractions

Visit the World Trade Center
Visit an International Disneyland
Visit the Walt Disney Family Museum
Visit the Pixar Animation Studio
Try fencing
Do a wakeboard trick
Go to the Kentucky Derby
Visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter View the Post Nov 2016
Visit Sandfest
See an Olympic Game Live
See a Cirque du Soleil Show View the Post Jul 2014
See a Ballet
View All

Travel/Sight-seeing

See Red Rock Crossing
Visit Great Sand Dunes National Park
Hike Garden of the Gods
Step on Four Corner Monument
Visit Cliff Palace
Visit and pick up the Húsafell Stone in Iceland
Visit Savannah, Georgia View the Post May 2018
Visit Charleston View the Post May 2018
Ride the Hogwart’s Express
Visit Switzerland
Visit the World Trade Center
Visit French Polynesian Islands
View All
Photo Credits

Stay updated with latest posts and projects, exclusive business tips, and shop updates!

 Weekly Blog Update
 Exclusive Blogger Tips
 Shop New Arrivals & Discounts

Thanks for subscribing!

  • Brand
    • Portfolio
    • Shop
    • Blog
    • Archives
    • My Favorites
    • Testimonials
    • FAQs
  • Elsewhere
    • About
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Facebook
    • 1,000 Gifts
    • Subscribe
    • Contact
  • Girl Boss
    • WordPress Tutorials
    • Blogging Tips
    • WordPress Plugins
    • For My Clients
    • Moodboards
    • Design
    • Resources
  • Lifestyle
    • Family
    • Holidays
    • Home
    • Recipes
    • Videos
    • One Thousand Gifts
    • Mini Posts
  • Travel
    • USA
    • Europe
    • Asia
    • Bucket List
    • Adventure List
    • Sight-seeing List
    • Random List
  • Make
    • Photography
    • Monthly Projects
    • Sewing
    • Knitting
    • Painting
    • DIY
    • Other
We got our @itschompshop!! ALL the ideas are comin We got our @itschompshop!! ALL the ideas are coming to our minds (let’s face it, I bought it for me just as much as I did for my kids). I am always excited to support a creative company that sparks more creativity. ✨⚡️ Can’t wait to share more of our family’s creations and use up all our cardboard in a fun way! #chompshop
I’ve been waiting a very long time for this mome I’ve been waiting a very long time for this moment…when a note written by a child has the words “I love you mom” on them. For me I’ve always wanted to be a mother so this moment has been a long time coming - let me soak it in. ✨

2017 me (crying about my miscarriage after 2 lonely years of trying) had hope this day would come but didn’t know how much longer she could wait.

Now, I get to teach this girl every day and watch her become such an incredible generous kid. She makes the sweetest homemade envelopes (and then card holder) and then mini cards that she spells all by herself so proudly. My mama heart literally bursts ❤️

Oct. 15th is a tough day for many moms missing babies they don’t get to hold so I don’t mean to post this frivolously or make light of such a dark time many experience. If you are in that space, I hope you find hope in this and how God’s timing always heals in His own way. ✨

Had to add a few videos of all the little moments in the past month where I couldn’t help but smile that I am right where I was hoping I’d be years ago. The timing couldn’t be any more sweeter ❤️🤍
Was 105 today but imma pretend it’s fall ☠️🎃😅
✨ Light has been a recurring topic in my life fo ✨ Light has been a recurring topic in my life for over ten years now and in the past few years, I began digging ferociously for every verse I could find about light. I marked and tagged them, spreadsheet them, and wanted to compile them somehow to show how much Light is important to God and the connections we find in it. I feel like Ammon who bursts out in poetic praise in Alma 26 (which includes a beautiful verse about light!) so I did my best and created “Psalm of Light”. It holds over 230 of these verses about light!! ✨

The beauty of this is not the words I have compiled, but doing your own deep dive into the hundreds of scriptures on light because obviously God has a LOT to say on this one topic.

You may feel a light and fire flicker on within you like I did years ago. Soon I will have a graphic for “verse” with their connected scriptures so the phrases that stand out to you can become your study guide.

What phrase or section stands out to you? ✨
As a kid I thought it was pretty cool to share a b As a kid I thought it was pretty cool to share a birthday with my Dad’s Father’s Day every few years. And it still is! Happy Father’s Day to the Dad who worked hard in the summer and played hard in the winter. A Dad who took us on adventures and never let his busy work-life stop him from spending time with his family. A Dad whose testimony of Christ is engrained in him and who faithfully took his family to church every week. A Dad who made snowmen, gave lap tractor and lawn mower rides, airplane throws into the air, swimming late nights in the pool, and would never say no to a Disneyland trip. Seeing him be a grandpa to my kids is even more magical than my magical childhood. Grateful for @ryan__sabrina and my father-in-law Bruce who are two of the greatest out there! 👏🏼👍🏼
I fell in love with this poem two years ago, desig I fell in love with this poem two years ago, designed it to hang on my wall, and sort of forgot about it. A third tag-a-long came around and I’m gonna be honest, the past few months have awakened an anger I never knew I possessed. Mothering is HARD. I’m yelling a lot more. The weight of it all is excruciatingly exhausting. But when I hear their giggle or them do something cute, the weight instantly melts away. My husband giggles when he sees the instant countenance change happen 😅. And they are seeing a lot of me asking for their forgiveness again and again. As hard and monotonous and invisible as mothering is, I would NEVER take any of it away. 

Sometimes I take it all a bit too seriously because I know how important it is, and yet I think we aren’t meant to take it as seriously as we sometimes do. I think the burden of raising children can be a yoke that becomes light when we focus on the Light within us. I totally feel that some days and will hold onto that for those rough days. 

Creating this video reminded me of the inner light I possess (through the amazing Truths of loving Heavenly Parents and an atoning Savior and a plan of redemption that brings my family everlasting happiness) and how sweetly short this season of raising children is. These shadows are the biggest honor I will hold.

Forever grateful for the mothers who shaped me and continue to shape me: my own mom, aunts, grandmas, coaches, teachers, church leaders, sisters, mother- and sisters-in-law, friends, cousins, neighbors. Happy Mother’s Day to all women everywhere! ✨
And all of a sudden my baby Juniper is a ONE year And all of a sudden my baby Juniper is a ONE year old! Her personality has exploded and she likes to do playful things to make us laugh (like slap us in the face haha). She really enjoys playing with toys and following her siblings around, while also frequently traveling off on her own to explore the backyard. She loves thrilling, exciting things and she fits our crew just perfectly. 

We love our JuJuBee! (as James and Daddy have started calling her ☺️) #juniperfaygrew
  • Archives
  • Terms
  • Disclosure
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contract
© McKenzie Sue Makes 2025. All Rights Reserved.

Input your search keywords and press Enter

Disclosure

Sponsored posts or gifted items will always be noted as so.

McKenzie Sue Makes contains paid advertising banners and some posts contain contextual affiliate links. this means that we may receive a small commission if you purchase a product i’ve linked to.

All opinions are 100% my own, and all products recommended are things I truly like or use.

Stay updated with latest posts and projects, exclusive business tips, and shop updates!

 Weekly Blog Update
 Exclusive Blogger Tips
 Shop New Arrivals & Discounts

Thanks for subscribing!