32 posts tagged “madyson”
We have been on several dates over the past week. I was able to get a photo from Ryan's Christmas party at the Hilton.
Our winter garden has sprouted, we now have 4 kinds of radishes, broccoli, winter squash, green onions, lettuce, jalapenos and yellow onions. Christian picked a few heads of broccoli over the weekend and I made the most delicious veggie and chicken pizza.
Madyson got a student of the month award last Thursday. I went to her assembly and was not only able to see her get her award, but also to see her class perform 3 Christmas songs.
Both Saturday and Sunday we got special Christmas deliveries from Friends. The first was a basket of homemade jam and bread from Shane and Bree. All I can say is mmmmmmmm!
Next was a platter from Aaron and Michelle, complete with 6 of each item for our family of 6...so cute and yummy!
Miss Olivia was fixed on Friday and has not skipped a beat! She's just as playful and sassy as she always is. She has a new favorite place to perch.
I had ugly Christmas Sweater bunco at my house, but fortunately for the girls didn't take any pictures. Let me just say there were indeed some VERY hideous Christmas outfits that night!
GINGERBREAD THAT IS....
Maddy did fantastic in the Nutcracker this week!
Thankfully my Mother-in-Law, Debra, was able to sneak some pictures during the show and then saved the day by having her camera for after the performance as I forgot mine! Here's a peak!
Thank you to everyone who came and say Maddy your support and love is sooo appreciated!
Maddy's Nutcracker performance is in 2 weeks! Wow it's right around the corner! It's going to be a whirlwind week for sure. She's looking forward to dancing on the big theaters stage (but secretly I know she's counting down the days until she gets to put on stage makeup and get flowers, because I know thats her favorite part!)
She has had rehearsals since September and is in love with her part. Her costume is mended and ready for the show.
Saying Maddy is my "mini me" is such a understatement.
Last night I was reminded just how much of a "mini me" she really is.
She wanted to get in on the betting action from a few weeks ago so during dinner she bet her father to see who could guess how many pairs of shoes she has.
They teased back and fourth and finally he decided to guess 15 pairs. Maddy (who had not counted them) guess 21 pairs.
After dinner she and I ran upstairs and I watched while she counted and counted and counted, emptying two overflowing drawers of shoes onto the floor.
The final verdict was 22. The child has 22 pairs of shoes. At that moment I realized not only to we look alike and have the same personality but we have the same LOVE of shoes!! CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maddy went to a Halloween party for her friend Brock last weekend. She's dressing up like a playfully adorable witch.
A friend made the costume look how cute it is!
Wow, look at those baby blues! (also, see the lime green spider hanging in the back of the picture? Ethan made it out of a egg carton and pipe cleaners!)
Little Miss Madyson had her first audition this weekend.......
It's for the Nutcracker! She was so excited!
That is until they called her to line up and then I say she was nervous!
But apparently there was no need to be nervous because 30 minutes later she came out with a call back slip!
At the call back she auditions for Fritz's friend and a Mini Bon Bon....
The whole process was a 4 hour waiting game. This is what the waiting room looked like.
Last night while Ryan was watching his first college football game of the season Madyson and I decided to braid her hair. We did 10 braids total while her hair was wet so that she could wake up with mermaid hair.
Today Christian and Madyson headed back to school. Christian is entering the 7th grade and is really looking forward to the school year.
His friends gathered at the corner of our street this morning with their bikes and then off they went.
Last Friday night, Maddy wanted to go to dinner and then cosmic bowling for her 8th birthday. Since her big brother, Christian, and cousin Grant are out of town, she decided she wanted to ask Uncle Eric, Aunt Roxanne and Nessa to go and bowl the three of them verses the three of us.
So Aunt Roxanne, said "we would party like 1999", which Maddy thought was funny. So we started our adventure at Bj's restaurant where we were up to our eyeballs in food followed by the worlds largest cookie topped with 6 scoops of vanilla ice cream!
Maddy's eyes about popped out of her head at the sight of her jumbo birthday dessert! Then she opened her gifts.
Then we were off to find, and when I say find, I mean LITERALLY find the bowling ally. You would think this would be an easy task, but it wasn't. The first one we went to was totally full and had an hour wait, so we piled back in the suburban in search of another one. We arrived at one a few miles away and Maddy was throughly pleased that they would be starting their CoSmIc bOwLiNg in an hour.
After we all had on our snazzy bowling shoes we listed our names in the computer and "Butthead" (Eric) was up first.
After 3 frames of totally sucking, we decided to ask for the little bumper rails (which we said we needed for Madyson) and that really improved our game. We all managed to shoot in the hundreds....
Once the lights were out and the fog was thick, Maddy and Nessa proceeded to dance on the lanes!
and Eric showed off his professional bowling stand.....Dad you would be SO proud.
My first baby girl turned 8 years old....
Happy birthday Madyson!
