Happy Day!

Internet at home, finally! Now blog updating will be so much easier! We had a wonderful December! Christmas parties, snowmobliling, presents, dresses, candy, cookies, Holidazzle, winter walk, you name it we did it!! Below are a few pictures from our busy December. We hope everyone has a safe and Happy New Year!

Maddie in her beautiful Christmas dress. With all the Christmas' we went to this year she got use out of it! 3 days in a row!

Going for a ride on the snowmobile with Daddy! We have LOTS of snow here in MN this year!

Family photo at the Holidazzle Parade. We also did the Macy's display. She loved both of them! It was a little chilly, but we made it work!

At Grandma's daycare they always do the Nativity play. Last year MJ was a sheep. This year she was a shepard. I thought she made a pretty cute shepard!

:)

October Fun!

Here are a few random photos from this month! We have been busy! :)

Dora the Explorer is Madelyn's favorite show right now. Anytime she sees her or the map she gets really excited! We went to the store in the mall and found the Map on the wall. She was so so so excited!

Swingin' on her belly is the way she likes to swing!

We tagged along to the apple orchard with Mom and the other daycare kids. We ate apples and picked them! YUM YUM

Riding the pony at The Twin Cities Harvest Festival

Cutest thing: M would run around the corner at the corn maze, stop, and say "CHEESE" lol she would wait until we took a picture!

They had a corn pool to play in. I don't know who had more fun, Josh or Maddie Jo. :)

Brushing the sleeping sheep!

Fall Wedding

Our friends Adam and Jenny got married this October and Madelyn was the flower girl! After screaming down the aisle "NO, NO" during rehearsal on Friday night we were a little unsure about what was going to happen the day of the wedding. But she walked down with no problem! We were so proud of our little Maddie Jo!

Family Photo at the wedding reception.

Beautiful Dress! :)

Mommy and Baby! :)

Daddy and Baby! :)

Our little family! :0)

Addy and Maddie

We are very excited to have our friends back in town! Maddie loves getting together to play with her friend Addy. (And Mom loves spending time with Kim!) The girls are so cute together and they actually play really well together.

Hi Addy!

They loved the sit and spin and could successful turn themselves together. It was really cute!

We have swimming lessons on Tuesday nights together. Both girls just happened to be wearing blue bikini's so we had to take a picture!

Go Twins!

Josh bought us Twins tickets so we finally got to go this past Sunday. When he bought them we thought about bring Maddie Jo, but as it got closer we decided she is not ready to sit through a game! So she went off to Grandma and Grandpa's and we enjoyed the game. What a beautiful place! We definitly want to get back for another game in the future.

DJJD weekend fun!

Another Defeat of Jesse James Days has come and gone. What a busy weekend it is. I got home on Sunday afternoon and was exhasted. We had lots of fun going to the craft fairs, spending time with family and friends, eating fried food, watching the ducks at the river and riding in the fire truck at the parade. Check out the pictures of us riding in the fire truck during the parade.

Sitting in the fire truck waiting for the parade to start.

Auntie Nenna and Maddie Jo

Driving with Daddy

Future Fire Fighter

Matching shirts

Bouncing on the bouncer behind the fire hall. She thought this was pretty fun!!

Catch Up!

I know I say it all the time...but BOY HAVE WE BEEN BUSY!! Here are some pictures from the last few months! We took a trip to Mall of America and had some fun.

At Build a Bear we built a kitty cat. We let her pick one and she picked the cat. She thought it was pretty fun!

Maddie LOVES Dora right now. So we thought meeting her would be really fun. But instead of loving Dora she was afraid and screamed. I guess Dora is only cool on TV! :)

Then we headed to some rides. We are going to have a little dare devil on our hands. The little rides were not fast enough for her!!

Daddy and MJ rode on the train. What fun they had!!

Rice County Fair

We had lots of fun at the Rice County Fair again this year! I found the pictures we took last year in the tractor tire and thought it was fun to see them next to each other. Our family has changed in this past year! We hope everyone is enjoying their summer! We cannot believe how fast it is going! :)

Family Photo 2010

Family Photo 2009

Maddie Jo 2009

Maddie Jo 2010!!

Zoo Trip with Grandma and Grandpa!

Josh and I both had to work one day this week, so Grandma and Grandpa had the day off and they took MJ to the zoo. She loves all animals and the zoo especially!! We are surprised at how little fear she has for animals. Maybe she will be a vet when she grows up! :

Farmer Maddie Jo

Combing the sheeps hair...yes it is real!!! She loved them!

Grandpa and MJ

Grandma and MJ

ThE fOuRtH oF jUlY 2010

We had so much fun this Fourth of July. We spent time with family and friends and watched fireworks, went swimming, ate some pretty good food and just enjoyed our time together. Maddie LOVED LOVED LOVED fireworks! We watched them in Lonsdale on Saturday night and she giggled and pointed! It was very cute. On Sunday we watched them in Northfield and she fell asleep. (We found out Monday that she had a double ear infection! Poor baby wasn't even pulling on them or crying when she was sleeping!) We really enjoyed the long weekend together. There are not many weekends when Josh, myself and MJ get to spend time together, usually he is working, so it was a very nice weekend together! Happy Fourth of July to everyone!!