Madison's hair

So if you've known me for any amount of time and you've known how I feel about the mess of a thing called Madison's hair this post should not come as a shock to you...this...

is Madison's hair. After she takes a bath (and sometimes when she gets up in the morning) this is how it looks. I do my best to make it pretty every day. Most days I succeed. For all you moms who can slap a headband on your child and call it good I envy you. I could only do that for a short amount of time.

This hair is the biggest cause of fights between Madison and myself. Every morning it's a fight to get her dressed and hair done. If she had her way it would be a diaper and hair...like this...all day every day. (I know my mom is sitting laughing right now, because she had the same problem with me...mom I'm sorry)

Anyway, my mom said the other day she was able to get Madison to sit still long enough to curl her hair up cute. So I thought I'd give it a try...maybe this could be the answer to our morning fighting!

I tried...

and failed. I don't know how you did it mom.

Then I thought I'd try sponge curlers!

and they worked...

until she pulled them out after about 5 minutes...maybe in a few months I'll try again. Until then, well you know :)

Some More Pictures

I know I'm a big dork, I'm just having so much fun with this camera! Here's some more pictures of Madison up on the red hill. Enjoy!

A Little Photo Shoot

Here are some pictures I took yesterday with my new camera (with a little help from photoshop :)! I think they turned out so cute!

My very favorite picture EVER!
I love my family!

Madison playing (softly?) with the baby

A Madison Update

I decided that I haven't updated about Madison for quite some time so I guess I will do it now. She is now 13 1/2 months. She is completely a toddler now and it is very hard for me to deal with that :)

Anyway, first off, Madison got her first black eye. I was trying to get her dressed for bed, which is an incredible feat every night. She HATES getting dressed (and now she can run away). Anyway, so I was trying to get her dressed and she turned to run away and slammed right into the coffee table. She fell flat. It was sad. And she got a black eye.

I like this picture because you can see her eye and she looks really tough here. If you look closely you will see her shoe down in the left corner...yeah she was trying to kick the camera. My sweet angel has quite an attitude.

Some of Madison's daily activities...playing. She is a good little player and especially enjoys the baby. She is also totally into books lately.

Another activity is sleeping in the car. As much as I would like to spend all my time at home, that still isn't an option, so Madison has to run errands with mommy sometimes during nap time and half the time she falls asleep. It makes for an ornery Madison and thus an ornery mommy. :)

And of course still eating. She loves her food for sure! Yet she still only weighs 15 lbs. She also still fits in the bumbo at grandmas.

Some words Madison says at 13 1/2 months:
mommy
daddy
baby
no
yeah
doggy (and woof)
kitty (and meow)
book
cheese
shoe
juice
grandma (sounds like ama)
more
uh-oh (one of her favorites)
and we are currently working on bird.
She is a little mimic though. She will say or do anything we say or do. Sometimes it's really funny.
So that's some of what Madison is up to these days.

Ice Skating

St. George recently got an ice skating rink and a few weekends ago (I know I seriously suck at posting lately.) we went with some friends or ours. It was way fun!

Chris and Jordan

Me showing off my ice skating skills. I don't know why I don't have a picture of Alan showing his skills, I thought we took one, but oh well. Anyway it was so fun I thought I would share.

Also for an early birthday present Alan got me a new camera because the one we have is a dinosaur. So I will have fun taking some pictures and get them on here! I promise :)

A Much Needed Update

It's been a long time since I've updated about our little family. We have been incredibly busy, but for some reason I can't tell you what we have been doing because nothing really comes to mind. We were just busy. Anyway, here is how the last month has gone...roughly.

Here is Madison in her Christmas dress sitting under our tree.

Madison with Santa. She wasn't too sure about him, but she didn't cry either.

We spent Christmas at Alan's parents this year. We normally would have spent the night at our house, but since none of his siblings came to stay we decided that we would stay over at his parents. We had a blast! It wasn't really Madison's first Christmas, but it kind of felt like it since last Christmas she was a mere 2 weeks old. So she was way fun!

It was always a tradition in my family to open a gift on Christmas Eve so we all opened one. Here are Madison and Alan showing off their gifts. Madison's jammies that say "I've been good all year" and Alan's down comforter. I love this picture of them by the way. :)

After we opened presents on Christmas morning we went over to the rehab center to see great grandpa Adams. Madison loves her great grandpa and he lights up when we go to see him. We miss greatly going to sit with him in the mornings.

This was my Christmas present! Alan completely surprised me. He called his sister Ali down in Pheonix (who was coming up Christmas night) and told her to find this coat for me and bring it up with her. I was completely surprised and so excited! I love it. Thanks babe!

The week after Christmas we decided to go up north to visit some family and friends because Alan had some time off. There was so much snow up there! Madison looked like Randy on A Christmas Story...she can't put her arms down!

While we were up there we went sledding with Alan's sister Emma and her family. It was so fun! I haven't been sledding like that ever and it was awesome! We also stayed at Alan's brother Norman's and his buddy Ryan's. We had such a good time. I love being up north and wish we could get up there more often. That's all for now. I promise I will be better about updating from now on.