Looks like Madie might be headed for Marketing!!!!

Madison's new life in marketing!!!!!.... Think if I send this to Sprite they'll want it for an ad?!

(And of course it was her Father's doing!!!!)

 All bundled up ready to take Daddy to school in the 9 below weather. (Yesterday it was -9*, but felt like -25*!!!)

 You can't see it very well but I put the vinyl "love you" on the wall last week and a "welcome" that I forgot to get a picture of. I'll be putting all of those pictures on my craft blog...so check it out soon.

 Ad #2!!!!....This time we'll try Orbits!

 She loves to unload the diaper bag....I have no idea how she got the gum out of the box, but she did!

 Madison helping me put her new bumper pad up!! Yep I finally got it done and love it!

I have more pictures of the bumper pad on my craft blog! CLICK HERE

Lets go SWIMMIN'!!!! 

We bundled Madie up and headed to the pool last Saturday with some friends!!

This is our building with the pool in it! Yep it's cold here in Minnesota!

As you can see she LoVeD the pool!

Look at those thighs!!!

We had SO many pictures I had a hard time choosing which to use!

Madison was so tired and fell asleep while I was sitting in the hot tub!

 SUPER BOWL!!!...We went to our friends house to watch the game! We had a great time but I forgot to take pictures of Madison and Tate playing together! They were SO cute! Madison would take a toy from Tate and he would just grab a new toy, then when Madison saw he had a new one she would drop the one she had and then take Tate's again!!! This went on for quite some time. She even took his pacifier and LOVED chewing on it!  We might have a difficult time with sharing in the future! :)

This is how Madison falls asleep most of the time. She likes to play with my hair and my face!

 And our sweet little princess sleeping!!!

We love her SO much! She talks all the time and does the cutest things ever!!!!!

What a blessing!!

School for JD is going ok, still has hard as ever and not much fun, but JD is awesome. I forgot to tell you that JD got great grades last semester (of course!) I can't remember now, but they were all A's and B's!!!!

I keep myself busy with cooking, cleaning, coupon/thrift shopping, LOTS of crafting, and best of all wifeing(if that's a word!) and mothering!!!!

Here's a cute video from a couple weeks ago! Her diaper was VERY full!! :)

(for some reason this video is only showing up in Internet Explorer, if you use something else you'll have to switch to Internet Explorer to see this video. sorry I don't know what happened.)

Peas Please!!!

The other night I was feeding Madison some peas...I've been trying to teach her sign language and the best time to do that is during feedings. I set the jar of food on the table to sign "more" when she reached out for the jar! I tried to hurry and grab it but with no luck!! As you can see from the pictures below peas were flung across the carpet and up the wall all the way up to the ceiling!! :) 

If you look closely in this picture you can see the peas all across the carpet too!

She was super happy after cause Mom was laughing so hard!

 Gma Terri was nice enough to get Madison a snowsuit. We have had some 15 below days and I've been SO glad to have it! Madison is now in a bigger car seat so it stays in the car and gets SO very cold.

She look so adorable every morning when I put it on her!

Our undies came in the mail the other day and Madison loved them! What can I say...we're teaching her young to make good choices!

Sleeping beauty!

 AND NOW...... We have had a week of Costa Rican food!!!

It has been great! The first few meals were only okay, but then I got the hang of it and found the special Salsa Lizano (Costa Rican sauce) at a Mexican place and boy have we had some good stuff! The only problem is I forget to take pictures! But here are two! (And they weren't even my favorite dishes either!)

 We've had Arroz con Pollo, frijoles arreglados, garbanzos con carne, arroz blanco, tornillitos en salsa blanca con pollo, bistec (steak), gallo pinto, horchata, picadillo, and marinaded chicken! None of that probably made sense to any of you, but it has be SO yummy! We're having the missionaries over on Thursday and we'll be treating them to Garbanzos con carne, frijoles arreglados, arroz blanco, green salad with lime as dressing, horchata and tres leches cake! I can hardly wait!

Now more pics of our adorable little lady!

Her eyes look amazing in this picture if you zoom in!

The other night for Family Home Evening we had our friends over and went swimming. After swimming Madison and Tate took a bath together!!! We had to take pictures for the future!

Madie loves rice crispys! They'll keep her occupied for awhile!

Yummy suckers!

She was grumpy before this and then couldn't get enough of the sucker!

If you look close her shirt is shiny blue!

Oh our happy girl!!! She makes us so happy everyday!

Sporting the hat Mommy made for her - but is too big!

Daddy Daughter chill time! As always Madison rules the house.....as you can see she is the one with the remote!

WOW...I'm wiped out that was a lot...when I've got such a cutie pie I I like to show her off!

Craft Blog Updated

I finally updated my craft blog.....still behind, but making progress!

If you'd like to see it click HERE!

SOOOOO much to tell about!!!

First..... Before we left for Idaho we had to take a picture with Elder Brooks just in case he was transferred while we were gone. He is such a great missionary and we will miss him a lot when he goes home next month. Madison just wanted to look at him during the pictures!!!

 Now to Christmas........

This was Christmas at our house before we ran to the airport. If we started the presents Madison could finish it off, but it took a LONG time! 

 She got a Hungry Hungry Hippo Game and Battleship... I know, I know she was on 6 months but they were free and she could care less!

 HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS!!

We were in Idaho from Dec 22 - Jan 10. It was great fun!

We learned Madison is the fan of the piano!

Guess this was what she wanted for Christmas!

Madie was SO cute opening her presents! She sat there loving that everyone was looking at her and  just squeezing the bow!

When she finally tore it and everyone cheered and clapped she got SO excited! She put her hands into fists and squealed!

Madison got to meet her 2nd cousin Lydia while we were home. They were SO cute together,; as you can see Madison is super excited about it!!!! Lydia is 12 months and Madison is 6 months and they are the same size!

Madison woke us all up for Christmas at 5 in the morning! Stayed awake for all her presents to get open then passed back out!!

Grandpa teaching her to use her new phone!

That's my baby alright!!! She'll be dribbling before she's walking!

Two Proud Daddys!!!!
We spent two different days with Mike and Amanda! They were nice enough to have there baby three weeks early just so we could meet her!!! Chloe Marie is beautiful and their parents have already decided they will be best friends!

Madison pulled the blanket over her face and couldn't figure out what was wrong.  When we play peek-a-boo she can pull the blanket that way and it comes right off....this time that wasn't working! :)

She had just woken up and still wanted some cuddle time!

My uncle Paul took this at my Aunt's Wedding! I love it!

Lucy and Jordin jammin' out!! 

She's never had Sprite before, but she knew what she was supposed to do with the can!

Eatin lunch at the airport like a big girl!

Chilllin with Dad in Denver!

In this video Madison is making herself rock!!

We had a wonderful time with family, but man did our own bed feel wonderful!

And Finally to conclude with a VERY embarrassing story....
We had the missionaries over the other night and they asked me to say the prayer before they left. As I was praying I said, "Please bless the missionaries to have.....and instead of saying success.... I said sex. HOW terrible! We were all red faced and laughing! I was even embarrassed when I saw them today at church.

I tried to load a really cute video, but my sister has it on her blog, click HERE to see it.