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Riding with grandpa

opening lots and lots of presents

My cute mom!

our family band (guitar hero)

Our yummy fondue dinner!

Ry getting his face pushed into his breakfast!

Maddie loves to play in the little ball pit!
its crazy how much time goes into preparing things for christmas and then how fast it is over. we had a very nice christmas this year. we spent our christmas eve with ryans family. they have such a fun and good tradition, i always look forward to it. we have a very yummy fondue dinner with all sorts of stuff to cook and my favorite cheese fondue. and then we have a little christmas program which this year we let maddie and jace help put the pictures on the board, so our christmas story was all over the place. it was really cute. then we opened some presents and then we sing around the piano. later on we played some guitar hero. This year was really nice because Ryan's grandparents and his aunt were able to come and spend the night with us. then we get some sleep to wake up to a very yummy breakfast of german pancakes and fruit and then it is off to opening more presents. We then traveled up to heber in the nasty snow storm but we arrived just fine. we had a lot of fun opening presents and then we munched and visited and maddie went for a spin around the neighborhood with my dad on his 4wheeler. then we had a good dinner and played some games. it was full of lots of laughs and a really fun day. maddie was exhausted by the end she was totally worn out from all the many presents that she received. until next year....

18 months already..

well i took maddie in for her 18 mon. checkup. its crazy how fast they grow and change. her stats aren't much different other than she is a little taller:

Weight: 20lbs 5 oz

height: 31.5inches

but they said she is doing great. i can't believe how fast kids learn to talk. its like everyday she adds a new word or two to her vocabulary. well i hope everyone has a merry christmas!

tis the season of frustrations

k so with all the hustle and bustle of christmas i have been experiencing a few minor frustrations.
1. we went to use our video camera the other night and the battery was dead so i looked everywhere for the charger. i think it got lost in our move, well its probably just hiding somewhere really dumb. anyways so on Saturday i called and ordered another one. the cord was like 30 bucks no big deal but then they wanted 18 more just to get it here for Christmas. so i thought OK that's fine. then today i went and checked on my order status and the lady didn't put the order through its on hold. so i called back and this new lady said i could ship it for about 30 dollars but she couldn't guarantee it to be here by christmas. so needless to say i will be borrowing my in laws camera so i can copy whatever they record! sad! but I'm not paying that for a cord that might not be here by christmas. wow that was good venting! sorry!

2. i'm still not done christmas shopping and the snow is making me want to stay in my warm house... so hopefully it gets done otherwise sorry to those who don't receive presents.

3. actually those are it for frustrations but that first one was pretty big.

Holiday fun

well thanksgiving has come and gone... i can't believe it. we had a nice time we went to logan to visit ryan's family and then went to heber for the big meal. we then had fun watching my mom find her inner rockstar while she jammed out to guitar hero. then we played some cards and called it a night. i didn't do any shopping this year the ads just weren't anything i needed to get out of bed for. saturday we went and picked out our christmas tree. we got a real one this year. i'm not use to real ones so i can't forget to water it or we may have a dead tree by christmas. last night for fhe we decorated a ginger bread house and finished decorating the tree. maddie only wanted to eat the candy not use it as decorations... it was funny. we also had fun teaching maddie who santa clause is and what he says, so now she says ho ho ho. it was great to start off the holiday season. i hope you all are doing well and have a good holiday season!!

going private

k so i think its time to go private which makes me sad but i think we should do it to be safe. so please everyone that wants to still look at our blog give me your eamil address so i can put you on the safe list. if you don't have a gmail account just set one up, its easy and free. even all you blog stalkers out there let me know so you can still look. Thanks and I hope to hear from ya soon.

family pictures

i decided that we needed to get pictures of the three of us. so yesterday we went out in the beautiful but freezing weather. maddie was so cold that she kept shivering and chattering her teeth. she didn't quite know what to think. my friend cassey did such a good job i thought. we went to a eally cool spot and got the pictures i wanted. it was lots of fun and maddie did very well. we did have to bribe with candy towards the end. oh well!

lady bugs say ARGH!

for halloween yesterday maddie was a lady bug. she was quite a cute little bug. i drew black little circles on her face and afterwards i put her in front of the mirror so she could see. as soon as she saw herself she let out this big "ARGH". i had to laugh. then i would ask her what a lady bug says and she would say argh. it was a fun halloween. we went to ryan's family's house for a great chili dinner with festive snacks and then me maddie, my sister inlaw, nephew, and father inlaw went trick or treating. maddie got into it pretty quick she was all for it. then we went back to the house and had some tasty homemade donuts. it was so yummy and fun. after we got home we had to close the night with a scary movie so we watched Disturbia. it was pretty intense. so hope ya all had a good halloween!