Happy Happy Birthday!!

I have to tell my husband HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! And I LoVe YoU SO much!

This wonderful man fills my life with so much joy!

 

 JD turned 29 today! He told me I couldn't buy him a birthday present this year, so I was an obedient wife and only Madison bought him a gift!!! :) 

5 years ago the love of my life gave me a rose in the Pocatello airport, a year and a half later we were sealed in the Idaho Falls temple. During those wonderful years he has made me laugh, held me when I needed to cry, and loved me! JD is a wonderful husband and father. I'm so grateful that we are blessed to get to spend so much time together each day! 

Law school has not been an easy adjustment, it's hard to take a year off and then get started back up again. It's hard to watch JD have pour through book after book and know that he is hating every minute of it. I'm so grateful to be married to such a hard working man!

Thanks JD for being mine for eternity!

Now... Here are some cute pictures of my second cutie pie!

 The other night we had sliced raw carrots for dinner, she wanted something to suck on so I handed her a carrot! It was so cute!

 Even though this picture doesn't show it, Madison LOVES her jumper! Her arm got stuck here and she was not happy about it!

 Madison's new favorite toy is this purple highlighter!!!! She'll choose it over other toys!

Note: Notice all that drool!!! 

This video is Madie dancin with her Dad! I missed when she was smiling real big!

The second video is of Madison jumping in her Jumper! She's getting pretty good at it!

Our Baby is 5 Months 2 Weeks old!!!!

We can hardly believe how the time has gone by! Our little Madison just gets bigger and bigger!

SO CUTE!
Madison has been so fun! She is the happiest baby! There are so many times through out the day that she makes us laugh! She brightens our world!

This is a new development! She arches her back like crazy which is now causing problems when we set her in the bouncer  or sitting up on the couch!!! I'm gonna have to start buckling her in or she'll fall out!

Mike, JD had me take this picture for you! He says that you don't have to worry cause even after your little one comes you can still play video games!! :)

I thought this was cute! A couple Saturdays ago they both were conked out for close to 2 hours!!!

This video is actually from around Halloween time, I got some of her laugh, but JD had her laughing a lot and I missed the best part. - still cute though!

Nothing to new here. We got our first snow storm on Saturday and we actually made national news because of it, I guess there was over 400 accidents. I'm glad to say we were not one of them!

The snow did mess up my craft fair. Of course no one wanted to face the snow just to come and see us!

Madison is our world right now! She's starting to roll onto her side, talk a lot more!, and we'll start her on food in probably three weeks!

Best news ever.....we'll be home for Christmas in a little over a month!!:)

Dear Great Gandma's, Pa's, Aunts, Uncles and Grandma's and Pa's.....

Please write!!!!

I'm letting you know that I just changed the settings on our blog you all can leave comments even if you don't have a gmail account. I learned that a lot of my family look and my blog and can't leave comments.  

Well not anymore, please leave as many comments as you'd like!

Grandma and Grandpa time!!

Madison had just woken up!!

Ummm... is that right!!!??? What a goofy Daddy!

So Madison found her thumb for the first time last week. It was kinda cute!

Every morning we take Daddy to school and Madison stays asleep sometimes! This was her still passed out in her carseat after getting back to the house!!!! Gotta love those cheeks!

We went for a walk and I was cuter then ever!

It was a beautiful autumn day and we had a great time!

Grandma and Grandpa came this week and we got to have lots of fun!!! :)

Madison loved her grandma! She was so cute and laughed a lot!

Awww!

Grandma gave me this cute outfit! And Mommy made the cute flower!

Grandpa time!

I love this picture!

Happy Halloween!!!

Tonight was our ward party and we dressed up the same as last year but with an addison!

We were Hans and Fanscie again!.... and here is Barbella!

Hans and Barbella!

And the family photo!!!



3 month vacation

It has kinda felt like we've been on a 3 month vacation and now I'm ready to go home!

(JD would disagree about the vacay thing!!! He's working super hard.)

I LOVE St. Paul! This really is the funnest place to live! And we've been able to make some really good friends! I would love to stay here if it was just a little closer to home. But the last couple weeks I've really missed Ogden and Idaho.

9 Things I miss most:

9-Having a carport

8- Arbon's beautiful mountains

7-Affordable milk and meat

6-Good neighbors and friends

5-Having a temple 5 mins away, and someone to watch my baby

4-Bountiful Baskets

3- Mike and Amanda

2-Getting to show off my cute baby

1- Being only 2 hours away from family

5 Things I love about St Paul:

1-Double coupon day @ Rainbow!

2-Our apartment (but not our neighbors!)

3-Good ward and friends

4-LOVE the parks and beautiful landscape

5-SO SO happy to be with my Hubby and Daughter!!!!

This feels like it's where we're supposed to be and I'm very happy, but I sure hope we can move back to Ogden in 3 years!! Cross your fingers!

FINALLY...updated the craft blog!

I know..... It's been SO SO long since I updated my craft blog.

I promise I will try and do better. I have set a goal to complete at least one project a week, and I'll try and post them right after they are finished!

If you want to check out my lastest posts click here.

Bling Bling!!

So my sister came and visited this last week! It was so wonderful to have her here! Time of course went by way too fast. I loved getting to spend some time with my sis!

We went to Mall of America and got stuck here for awhile. This nice lady saw Kieley's gorgeous long blond hair and just had to show us her amazing straightener that was only $300. By the time we left she was going to sell it to us for $89!

This cutie pie caught the eye of many through out the store. During our long straightener tutorial people would go by on the escalator and walk back down the stairs just to get another look at my baby!!!

We were so excited to go soak in the hot tub and play with Madie in the pool, but the pool heater was broken and thus too cold for comfort, and the hot tub for some reason was way too hot. But Madie still looked cute in her swimming suit! Check out those thighs! 

Madison is loving to chew on things! This is her going to town on her Dad's hand!

Here's my beautiful sis while we were out sightseeing. This is a lighthouse on the Mississippi! ...You know in case you get lost trying to get across!!!

We had a great time!

So I love this picture of my sis! Have I mentioned she is gorgeous!

View of Minneapolis

And now.... When we were at Mall of America little Madison got her eyes pierced! She looks cuter then EVeR! Here are a couple pictures to prove it! :)

I made sure and got her the earrings that look like Mommy's! Here is a picture with our matching earrings! 

This adorable outfit is from her Aunt Kieley!

This picture was taken just after a blow out! 

The first video is from last night. Madie woke up and just wanted to play! For some reason she like to wake up and play with Daddy really late at night!

The second video was her playing with me today!

Moral of this post.... I love my Family!

Weekend in Wisconsin!!

So we spent the weekend in Wisconsin with JD's sis and her family. We had a BLAST! We also took each others family pics and got some good ones!

This little cutie is now 4 months old!!!! We went to her dr appointment today and she is doing great! She is 26 3/4" long and weights 16 lbs. 4oz!!! She is over 95% for her length and is about 90% for her weight!

She is such a happy happy baby!

 Kevin and Madison playing together! Madison loved getting to watch Kevin and Julia. I think she was bored today being at our quiet house.

 This is Jessie and Cody. Thanks for all the fun! We stayed up WAY too late both nights we were there - and loved every minute!

 JD and Madison waiting for our turn to take pics. As you can see JD is SO pleased to be taking family pictures; he needed Madison's pacifier to make him feel better!

 Here are some of my favorite pics!

Cody works at Harley Davidson and took us to their building. It was after hours so we couldn't go in but it was still cool!

We went to walk around at a lake and Madison loved it! She was so happy to just sit and look around!

(If you look close you can see me in her eyes!!!!)

Jessie did a great job on this pic, I love it!

What a fantastic weekend!

Can't wait to get my favorite pictures printed and hung on the wall!