As previously posted, June 19th was Madyson's 7th birthday. Heres her celebrations in photos:
As previously posted, June 19th was Madyson's 7th birthday. Heres her celebrations in photos:
So, when you have a herd, a clan, 3 quarters of a basketball team, a circus (as my brother calls it) sometimes it's necessary to number them to keep them straight.
Therefore in order her you go...
Christian #1, Madyson #2, Makenna #3, Ethan #4
ToDaY is #2's 7th BiRtHdAy.
7 REALLY? Where did the last 7 years go exactly?
Her birthday venture started yesterday when her Nana took her shopping for what was dubbed "Madyson day". They shopped till the dropped and then ate at Red Robin where Maddy was on cloud nine, because she got "a very big sundae" for dessert. Today her Grandmas is taking her on a bathing suit hunt, tonight my brother and his family are coming over for dinner and presents, Saturday I am taking her and her best friend to the American Girl store for a girly tea and Sunday will be presents and dessert at Grandpa's house. Whew. That was a mouthful.
DISCLAIMER: when I was a little girl, birthdays consisted of 1 day. Think this child is spoiled?
]]>Went on a field trip yesterday with Miss Madyson to the ZOO. I was in charge of three little girls,
We saw some beautiful animals like,
and then we saw some stinky ones like,
The girls found this guy to be disgusting....They all held their noses and made fun of him. I gotta admit he wasn't pretty and did smell. Collectively the four of us agreed our favorite animal of the day was a HuGe HiPpO!!! This guy was so fat he just layed next to his pool and snorted like a pig..
Later while we were watching the seals get their lunches we heard one of their names was Grant. Maddy thought this was fantastic, he's the one perched next to the zoo-keeper..
The zoo had a peculiar looking giraffe. Look at those legs!!!
The best part of the day wasn't the 60 something first graders, or the hour and a half bus ride or even the brown bag lunch. It was spending "alone" time with Miss Madyson. I love her personality and her wit. She is very much my "minnie me".
It's so hard being the youngest of four siblings.
Ethan is normally one of two things, either super quiet observing things or super loud being the center of attention.
His moods depend of three things. Christian, Madyson and Makenna.
Ethan is usually Makenna's shadow, so I should have questioned WHY Madyson had him in her room "playing" for over an hour.
Why? Hum, well apparently he is the perfect life size human doll.
Is it possible that my Neice and nephews are old enough for PrOm?!? Crap, I feel old....but not as old as my Brother and Sister, you guys are seriously old to have children going to prom. (It's fantastic to be the little sister, love you guys)
So two weeks ago my Nephew, Taylor and his buddy got dressed up in the "Zoot suites" and headed to prom. This kid has the best personality, you seriously have to know him to understand how he could pull such a thing off.
Apparently his date had a good personality to go along with this. She looked beautiful.
My oldest Nephew, Michael, decided to ditch Prom this year, but somehow my Sister managed to get a photo of the two boys together. Aren't they a handsome pair?
Then this past weekend my Neice, Vanessa also went to prom. Her Nana made cookies in honor of the big event.
I did her hair. I think she liked it? It was suppose to look like a photo she saw of Taylor Swift.
Her and her boyfriend looked so cute together in their hot pink formal wear.
Maddy was loving this whole "Prom" thing, she absorbed the idea and got a fancy new dress, Aunt Roxanne did her hair and makeup and she painted her toes hot pink in honor of Nessa.
Aside from getting all dolled up, she also enjoyed the punch and yummy cookies from Nana Linda.
The kids and their Grandma Judy have had new pets. They've been taking care of caterpillars that eventually made cocoons and then became butterflies all in shoe boxes. Yesterday was THE DAY according to their little birth paperwork to release them into the wild.
Roxanne and Vanessa picked up Little Miss Madyson and I bright and early this morning for a day of.....
SHOPPING!
The four of us made a day of it. An eight hour trip to the Jessica McClintock store and then onto the Mall. We got lost in Macy's for a few hours and then walked the interior of the mall, shopping at Forever 21, Pacsun, Anchor Blue, Claries and Icing. We were on a mission for a PrOm DrEsS for Vanessa. She must have tried on 80 or so dresses today and we finally narrowed it down to two different ones.
So what does a girl do wth a delima like this? Buy both of course!!
She purchased a hot pink one and a royal blue one. Stunning, absolutely stunning. The kid has amazing skin tone and long dancer legs, so everything looked stunning on her.
Mission complete, so next we moved onto general dress shopping for Madyson. She picked out 20 or so dresses and the four of us hit the dressing rooms. She twirled and swayed and giggled alot while trying each one on. She finally decided on a hot pink, red and light pink polk-a-dot dress that is very swishy.
* pictures to follow of the shopping diva's
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Madyson desperately wanted bangs. I was dreading it. I thought for sure she would look really awkward and yucky, but instead she looks gorgeous! THE BANGS ARE A HUGE SUCCESS AND SHE LOVES THEM!
Look at my fuzzy, but cute, Student of the Month....
She was more excited about getting dressed up in sparkly clothes to wear on stage, then about receiving the actual award.
]]>This picture is fantastic, especially since I've always referred to my little ones as my Chicklings!
Christian, Madyson, Makenna, Ethan
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