Madi Bug!

I can't believe my little Madi bug is already 10 months!! Time has just flown by and she has gotten so big way too fast!! I forget how much I love this stage she is in right now! She has started to crawl and is all over the place! She has been so happy since she can finally get to where she wants by herself. She loves to play up in the playroom and could stay in there for hours and be happy (which is so nice for me :) She loves to play with her sister and will laugh at just about anything she does. She loves to play patty-cake and sing any kind of songs. She is waving hi and bye and trying to repeat the noises she hears. She is so sweet and we love her so much!!

Cute little pig-tails!

She is such a good little eater! She will eat anything you give her and she thinks she has to be eating whenever we are.

Watching Mickey Mouse with her sister- she loves it just as much as she does!

Smiling for the camera!

She absolutely LOVES to walk around! She could hold your hands and walk for hours!!

Brooklynn's picture she took of her

She loves to snuggle in her warm towel after her baths- especially with daddy :)

I peeked in on her during her nap- so cute :)

Best Friends

Brooklynn had her best friend Jaxon come over and play about a week after we moved and they were so happy to see each other again! (like i said it had only been just over a week and you would have thought it was months!) Brooklynn and Jaxon were the bestest of friends and they loved to play together! I think both were a little sad to have to leave each other, but I'm sure they will stay in touch :)

here they are starting preschool together

my attempt at getting them to settle down while Madi took a nap....didn't take long before they were back up running, chasing each other, and screaming like little girls!

It's what they do best :)

Playing with the doll house-I'm sure his dad would be proud :)

This little girl absolutely loves her daddy! Every night before she goes to bed she tells him she is going to "catch" him in the morning before he leaves. The days he is already gone before she wakes up she is not happy! And the days she does catch him she always tells him she doesn't like him to go to work or school. She has got him wrapped around his little finger!

Brooklynn getting married! (She's even holding her bouquet of flowers)

I thought this was too cute! She helping daddy make cookies.

Friend Party

Just before Christmas our great friends we live by all got together and had a little Christmas party. It's always a good time when we get together and we are going to miss them all so much! (we already do!) We had great food, a nice little FHE lesson, and exchanged white elephant gifts. Hopefully we can still get together and enjoy each others company- it's always a great time!!

"Santa" stopped by for a visit- the kids were so excited!!

(our sweet bishop dressed up like Santa and visited the kids)

Brooklynn, Jaxon, and Josh

Brooklynn gets so excited to tell Santa what she wants then she gets on his lap and gets all shy- however she did manage to tell him she wanted a princess piano

Madi did great on Santa's lap! She just sat there-but at least she didn't cry :)

Christmas 2010!

We had such a great Christmas this year! I think it was my favorite one so far :) We were able to have my family come stay with us for it and it just made it that much better. We had a Christmas Eve party at our house with my family then we went to bryce's parents house for Christmas day and dinner.

Brooklynn and her cousin Alliah ( they had so much fun playing together)

everyone getting ready for the Nativity story

Kera, Madi, Kelsey

My mom and the girls made a little paper nativity and they had fun playing and coloring while we played games

This was Madi the whole time! She was just as happy as could be and loved all the noise and people. She finally figured out she was big and could stand, she also thinks she can just take off walking by herself. She will let go of your hands and try to walk- she is getting so big so fast!

Grandma and the girls

They didn't love all this attention at all!

Our Family picture on Christmas Eve

Brooklynn and Daddy looking for Santa's sleigh (too bad it was too cloudy they couldn't see it)

Santa wanted cookies and a maple donut this year!

I think the anticipation of Santa coming this year was hard for Brooklynn. She finally understood it and could hardly wait for Christmas morning!

She got way too spoiled! But it was fun to see all of her excitement.

Madi was pretty excited too

Madi got lots of fun noisy toys! Yay for us :)

It was great to have my parents, little brother and sister there with us on Christmas morning.

Cinderella playing the piano

She is just the happiest little thing!! She would get so excited and start dancing when she would here the music

Santa finally brought a princess tent for Brooklynn- she has been asking for one all year!

The girls laying in the tent together- Madi just loves being big with her sister

This year we really tried to focus more on the true meaning of Christmas and less on the presents- I know this is really hard cause it's so fun to see the kids faces when they open their presents, but we really tried explaining to Brooklynn about the Savior's birth and that we should focus on that and less on all the other things. Hopefully next year she remembers what we have taught her and how much we love our Savior and how grateful we are for Him in our lives.

Thanksgiving in Washington

So we decided this year for Thanksgiving we would make the 12 hour drive up to my parents house in Washington. I was so dreading the drive with the kids however, I think they did better than Bryce and I! Brooklynn, colored and watched movies the whole time, and Madi took little cat naps and barely made a peep! I couldn't believe how good they did especially since we woke them up at 4 am to leave. Brooklynn was so excited she practically jumped out of bed when we told it it was time to go and maybe slept a total of 30 min the whole drive. Once we made it there we had so much fun just hanging out and having nothing to worry about! Here are some things we did...

went roller skating- Brooklynn I think did better than Bryce :) although he was starting to get he hang of it just before we left.

Madi LOVED snuggling Grandma!

Brooklynn helping Grandma cook

painting- I don't even know how many pieces of paper she colored and painted on- Grandma will have a few pictures to last her for a while!

went to the big carousel, Brooklynn went first then Madi and I joined her the second time around

Going to a movie with Kelsey- Brooklynn just loves her aunt Kelsey!

Making Grandpa read her some books- she just loves to tease and I think she teased him pretty much the whole time we were there!

Grandpa and the girls

Grandma and the girls

Brooklynn just posing- I think her favorite thing to do was to have everyone hang out and watch her tease

Brooklynn's masterpiece!

We got so spoiled up there and we were so lucky to get to spend a while week just hanging out and enjoying some quality time with them. Thanks mom and dad and kelsey for letting us come crash your house!!