Poppy Fridays

Poppy Fridays have gotten to be a tradition. Madison looks forward to them all week. As soon as Poppy is done with work for the day they have special time together. Madison often stops to let us all know how she feels about us. "Poppy, I sure do love you." This past Friday they had "lawnmower races" and went fishing after digging up their own "sqwilliams" (worms). They even caught a few fish. Poppy always asks her what she wants to do with the fish after they catch them. Madison always says, "throw them back in." But this Friday she said "I want to eat them!" And they did. I asked her if the were scaley to eat and she said, "No mom... We took the scales off!" What a smart little girl! She continues to grow and surprise us everyday. I am so lucky to have her. I can only hope she feels as lucky to have me one day.

Adrianna comes to visit

If it is possible to have a best friend before you are born, then Adrianna would be that for Madison. From the time both girls were in our tummies they would go wild around each other. We assumed Adrianna was a boy and that our kids would date, but Rachel and I were wrong. Our girls just knew they would have a special bond that no one could come between. After Adrianna was born, 9 weeks early and 7 weeks after Madison, and came home from the Nicu we started getting together with the girls. They have loved each other since. We continued to get them together regularly and Rachel even babysat for me until last summer. Rachel and I have been through as much together as the girls have. Both of us found ourselves in the middle of Divorce this past year. The girls are no longer living down the street from each other, but talk on the phone and see each other at least once a month. They talk of each other everyday. We were so excited when Rachel and Adrianna were able to come visit this week. The time went by so fast, but was much needed on both ends. The girls were so happy to see each other and played wonderfully together. We took them to build a bear and they made each other bears with a special message. Madison is sleeping with hers at night. I snapped a few pictures of the girls and wanted to share. Enjoy! They are precious...

Hurkamp Park

I am so excited to say that warm weather and sun returned in time for the concert in the park this week! I have loved going to the concerts on tuesdays and for the first time in 3 years I don't have to work the night before!! It was beautiful there. The music was great and friends were plentiful. Heather and Dolan went with us and Alyx and Sherry met us there! If you ask Madison it was a perfect day... her "little brother" and "little sister" were their with her!

CBS comes to a close...

I am sad to say that our first year of Community Bible Study has come to a close. It will start back up in September. I can't even begin to tell you how much this time meant to my family. Madison has a hunger to learn and loves to learn about God and life's lessons. She looked forward to going to church each week. They ended with a small children's program and Madison's class sang several songs. Grandma and Grandpa came and Great Grandma too! She was very excited and proud to stand on stage and see everyone there cheering her on! Grandpa has pictures and will share when he gets home! I grabbed a few pictures before going into church that I thought I might share...

Mother's Day

Mother's Day was a very special treat this year. It gets to be more special as your child gets older and is able to make you gifts. These gifts from the heart are forever more valuable than anything they could ever buy. Madison and her Grandma Linda spent a lot of time on a very special project for me this year. i have to say it is my very favorite thing and I will treasure it forever. Because Madison put so much hard work into it and because it will remind me of how tiny she was this year. Thank you so very much Madison and Grandma.

We also had lunch together on Friday before Mother's Day to celebrate with Grandma Linda since Grandpa was away on travel. We had great fun and even went to feed the baby ducks and geese outside of Outback. On Sunday Madison and her Daddy met me to have dinner at Outback and we got to feed the ducks again. it was so great to spend part of the day with her!

Personal Hygeine...

May 8th, 2009


Ever wonder what might happen if you are napping and you leave your child alone with grandma and a bag on personal hygeine products (AKA emergency bag for work)??? This might answer your question...

More Catching Up....

April 16th

Garden Girl!! Madison loves to dig in the garden with her poppy! She has her own garden tools too. hey have planted quite a bit this year and am happy (and saddened) to say that what she planted is coming up better than what poppy planted. She is my little green thumb nature bug! Her favorite thing lately is to look for worms. She holds the little slimey squigglers in her hand and talks to them. Poor things go swimming sometimes too. She doesn't understand that they can't breath in water... She came up to the deck today and said "Mommy look at my wormy. His name is sqwilliam." She comes up with the silliest yet most appropriate names for things. I think we even have a picture of sqwilliam...




April 24th

What a beautiful day! And so special. We went downtown today, (at Madison's request), and met Great Grandma. Madison loves Goolrick's so we have started to visit at least once every 2 weeks. We met for lunch and then walked around a bit. Madison and GGrandma shared a coke float and posed for some treasured photographs! I am sure these will be special to her for years to come! She even conned me into a new lovie! (Like she needed another one!)






April 29th

Anyone who knows me knows my best friend Shannon. Our story is a rarity in that we have known each other literally all my life. She was waiting for me when I was born and we have grown up together ever since. She is a year and 3 days older than me. We have seemed to do many things together about a year apart... We got married a year apart and even had our babies a year apart... Madison is 1 year and 4 days older than Kendall. Strange how things work out! We have promised to keep our girls close so they would always have a solid friendship to fall back on... one where even when life gets busy and you lose each other it is only a matter of a phone call, or dinner to get right back to where things left off... we have done a terrible job this far!! Life is so busy and we work opposite schedules, but Shannon has had us over for dinner lately and it has been a blast to see the girls play (and fight) together. They are both sweet but hot tempered girls. They had an altercation tonight over a toy vacuum. It got pretty heated. We laughed a bit at them, took a few pictures and then broke it up! So silly! Can't wait to see what kind of trouble they get into one day...