Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig mcelveenfamily.com. NS
Answer
mcelveenfamily.com. 4 NS ns-1257.awsdns-29.org.
mcelveenfamily.com. 4 NS ns-77.awsdns-09.com.
mcelveenfamily.com. 4 NS ns-533.awsdns-02.net.
mcelveenfamily.com. 4 NS ns-885.awsdns-46.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0