BLOGGER QUEEN

Oh my heck I'm bad!! I'm seriously the worst blogger ever.  I really do want to be better - I honestly just haven't had the time. But now.....I am gonna be THE BLOGGER QUEEN. Why?? Cause life has finally decided to slow down - I think!!! We are officially in our new house!! WAAAHHOOOO!!! It has been a long time coming and a whole lotta work, but we did it!! And we are absolutely loving it!!! We still have a few little things to do around, but we are in!  And we couldn't have done it without everyones help. So thanks to everyone for helping us out. We really appreciate it so much!! And in return - it's a PARTY at our house!!!  :D

I have been busting to post pics, so brace yourself cause I have a whole lot of posts coming your way!! It's just figuring out where to start.............

THE HOLIDAYS

So many of you are probably a little confused to what Holidays I would be posting about at this time of year - and I am sad to admit that I am referring to our CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS!!! YES, YES - just slightly behind I know. It is kinda pathetic actually. And I debated for many days whether or not to even bother with this post, but then I thought of my lovely family in Australia - and decided YES!!! SO THIS IS FOR YOU GUYS!!! I am not going to write much - as most of you already know how our Christmas was. But here are some pics of our Christmas. (Sadly we don't have many photos as a family - due to Michael being sick with the flu. But life goes on I suppose......

Madi doin' some serious talking with Santa!!

Had to make two visits to Santa to do all the explaining!!

Madi's room with X'mas decorations. This was the only tree we put up this year!!

Making some X'mas decorations. Madilyn was so into Santa this year - it was quite fun!

Pretty much the extent of my X'mas baking this year!! So sad - but SO good!!

 "Helping" mommy shop!!

So every year we act out the Nativity. This year didn't go so well - thanks to my little Angel!! :D

                       The crew getting ready.................................and 'Mary' not so happy!! (It was late)

Haha.....this was the best shot!! Madi sobbed the whole time.

Christmas Jammies!!

So I found these jammies when I was down in Salt Lake - so cute right!?!?

(Madilyn absolutely LOVES Jaycie!!)

Cheeky Girl Christmas Morning!!

So I gave Madilyn a box full of craft stuff, and quite clearly that is all she needed. As soon as she got markers and a coloring book, she sat up at the table and colored. She loves to color!!!

Gifts from Auntie Kelly & Uncle Alex. She loves the beads and the Aussie hoodie.

Madilyn loved her stocking.

Talkin on the phone!

   Madilyn loves "bips." a.k.a. lipgloss       

 I was trying to get Madi to stand in front of the tree for a photo - and she kept saying "tickle" and laughing outta control!! Everytime she backed up near the tree, the branches would poke her. 

Photoshoot. Totally serious!!

If you tell Madi to be SASSY - this is the pose you get everytime!! LOVE IT!!

Getting slightly bored. I think I enjoy the photoshoots more than she does!! haha.

 And he's alive. Mike came over late Christmas night to open his presents. Madi was thrilled to help!!

New Year's Eve & Take 2 with the photoshoot. I guess the tree still tickles. haha. Same shots.

 SASSY!!!

OK, OK - I dunno if you can tell but.......I LOVE HER!!!

And.......

Horrible picture - but sadly the only one of the 3 of us!!

Play Date

So Madilyn had a play date the other day with 2 cute little boys - Kyson & Dylan!! She usually plays at their house, cause that's where she gets babysat while I work. But last week I thought it would be fun to have the boys over here to play. So they came over for a few hours and had a ton of fun. These 3 little darlings get along so well together.  It's so cute to watch them play.

Madilyn getting ready for her "Play" Date!!!  :D

Madilyn and Dylan

Having snacks.

  Mr. Kyson - isn't he so cute!?!?

 Haha...I was trying to get a pic of all 3 of them. And this is the best they would give me!!! Madilyn was holding Dylan so he would stay in the picture! haha.

 Lol....Dylan saw Madilyn galloping around on this horse. So he gave it a go!!!

  Love these pics of Madilyn & Kyson cooking up a storm!!! They played with the kitchen for an hour.

Love it!!!

So Madilyn was watching me feed Dylan - and the second I got up to get something, she sat down beside him and started to feed him. Dylan loved it!!! It was seriously the cutest thing ever.  She was concentrating so hard.  

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  .....quite pleased with herself!!!