Book Worm

One of Madison's favorite activities is reading books. She sits and listens to us read book after book to her. She loves books that have things to feel and move. Sometimes she gets too impatient to listen and just turns pages. She got a really fun book about dogs for Christmas that she loves reading. Everytime she sees a dog she freezes and watches it, and loves to play with Sydneys dogs. Hopefully she will still like reading when she gets older.

Speedy

Okay, so it's almost impossible to get a picture of Madison that isn't blurry these days. She is always on the move and any time I pull the camera out she is right there grabbing for it before I can even get it turned on. She loves to walk along the couches and furniture, and crawls any time that isn't possible.

Smarty Pants

So little Miss Madison is getting bigger and bigger everyday. Recently Madison had discovered that her light switch is in perfect reach when she wakes up from her nap to get moms attention when she is taking to long to come get her. She turns the light on and off until someone comes and rescues her. It's funny to see how excited she is that she figured this out, although it isn't funny when she turns her light on in the middle of the night. Our fix for this to keep this smart little girl from turning on the light... tape. Lots of masking tape. It keeps Madison from turning on the light, as well as us.

Christmas Reindeer

While at home for Thanksgiving break, I offered to help Sydney put up the Christmas tree, and she found some antlers that my mom had made for one of our dogs many years ago. So we had to try them on.

 Doesn't Sadie just look thrilled? Good thing Santa doesn't rely on her to get Christmas presents out, all she likes to do is sit on the couch and be spoiled.

 Taking a break from lunch so Sydney can have some fun.

Merry Christmas!

We had a little mini Christmas with Alex's family during Thanksgiving since all of his siblings (but Blair) were in town. Madison helped me wrap our present. She loves being helpful and thought the ribbon was really fun to play with.

 Such a happy and sweet girl.

Deep in thought about what she is going to do with this ribbon now that she pulled it all out of the package. 

The Wii

Madison loves playing with Wii controllers. Good thing Sydney is willing to share.

For Christmas we got a Wii for our house, now we can't keep Madison away from the controllers. If she sees one she goes crazy and will do anything to get to it. Got to love technology.

Christmas 2010

This year we decided to put up our Christmas tree a few weeks before Thanksgiving since we were going to be gone for 3 weeks. Alex talked me into putting the tree up so we would actually get to see it before we left for Meridian. This year was exciting because we got to put up our big tree that I found a few years ago on clearance for 20 dollars. I love bargains :)

Madison thought this new addition to our house was pretty interesting. She was just learning to scoot around and scooted herself all the way under the tree.

We spent Christmas day with my familiy and Christmas Eve with Alex's. Christmas morning Sydney, Alex and I were all awake at 6:30, but Madison decided to sleep in until 8:00, so we played Wii until everyone else got up.

Every year I always come up with some funny weird present for Sydney. This year I filled a box with paper shreds, and put a piece of gum in the box, with paper shreds wrapped around it. It took her a long time to find it because it had gotten down to the bottom of the box. It was pretty funny to watch her because she really didn't believe anything was in the box. We all got lots of really fun presents this year. I got a shredder attatchment for my kitchen aid... which I love so much!!! Thanks mom and dad. Alex got a jacket and a thing that tells us how cold it is outside and inside. Madison of course got spoiled to death. She got a lot of books and toys from grandma. We got her a toy piano that she loves to pound on and a ball.

Overall it was a great Christmas and I am so glad we were able to spend it with our families. They mean so much to us and we are so thankful for all that they do for us.

Long Overdue

 It has been way too long since I've updated everyone on here. This past semester has been so busy for me, but also so much fun. I had an Interior Design class, Family History, Home Decor Sewing, Pattern Making, and a Clothing Construction class. I would advise all of you out there not to try to take on three sewing based classes at the same time... it is a lot of work! Here's a look at what I've been up to.

 An about twin size quilt, made up of strips of fabric. 

 Complete with free motion machine quilting. Which by the way is very fun and very cute, but quite difficult doing it on a huge blanket.

 An appliance cover for my Kitchen Aid Mixer, which also is machine quilted.

 Super cute little pink curtains for Madison's room.

 A nice flowy skirt for myself.

 Pajama pants, complete with pockets.

 A button up collared shirt... which doesn't fit, so it needs altering now.

 Hundreds of patterns and designs made by hand.

And two half scale dresses for my pattern making class. I had to create the patten from our basic patter slopers and sew it up. The first is my midterm design, and the second my final design.

And that doesn't include the Book of Remembrance I created about my life (along with a good 30-40 pages of written information about myself), a design board of a room I created, doing family history work, and sewing portfolios. It was such a crazy semester, but definatly one of my most favorite and memorable.

Alex quit his job at Premier Powder Coating in October, so he was able to stay home with Madison and keep her busy for me while I did my homework. It was nice for both of them to get to spend more time together.

Madison has been growing like crazy. She can now say mom and dada, picked up sucking her thumb again, learned to crawl, sleeps on her tummy, pulls her self up, and got her first tooth. She loves to be right in the middle of everything and is always following me around the house.