Cookie Mess

Garden Strawberry

Look! Our first strawberry from our garden! It is kind of small, but tasted wonderful. Josh, Martha, and Madsen split it into three small pieces so we could all enjoy the fresh home-grown flavor.

Too tired to keep going.

Madsen has been playing very hard these days. It is not uncommon for him to come inside after a very active day, want to watch a movie and crash only a few minutes after it starts.

GOING HOME!

It's taken me a while to get a chance to blog about my good news, but here it is I'm going home in less than 3 weeks! I haven't been home or seen my family in almost a year. It has been extremely too long and unfair for both sides. My parents haven't seen their only grandchild since he was 10 months old. 10 months old! That is forever long in infant/toddler time. He was just crawling the last time they saw him. He is now running absolutely everywhere, talking a storm and is expressing his cute little personality is so many different ways. I can't wait to spend some quality time with my family, especially my mom. She is an amazing person and my best friend. And I need some time with her to be inspired, to help me refresh and regroup, to be an even better mom and wife. The sad part is Josh can't come with us this time. :( But I told him not to worry, hopefully it won't be too long before we get to live there. So a cute Madsen update, we decided to try more songs with him, to see which ones he liked and caught on to. We finally introduced Popcorn popping and he LOVED it. He tries singing it which is super cute and is so excited to do all the actions, and always claps at the end and says "Mas, peas". (more please) and get so excited when we start it again. I am absolutely loving this stage of his life. He is so funny and knows it.

Overdue update

So I've gotten worse at updating. Sorry Jenae. Things have actually been pretty busy but not too crazy, thank goodness. I can't believe that the semester is almost over. I have thoroughly enjoyed being back in school and am grateful for the opportunity I have had to attend. So an update on the past month. We got amazing seats to Disney on Ice, thanks to my best friend Nora. The Heiner's got to come with us and Max and Madsen were so excited. I will have to say that Peter Pan was the hit for all of us. Can't go wrong with the classics. :) Josh and I did this Master Cleanse diet where you drink this lemonade mix for 10 days and it was HARD! It's true when they say you won't be hungry but I craved food so bad! I just wanted to bite into something and taste all the different flavors. But it was worth it. I feel great now and my muscle's haven't felt so relaxed since the last time I got a massage! I have really bad toxic build up and knots in my back and this helped a ton with the aches. It also is a plus to have a lost a couple pounds, I'm even closer to my goal :). Mostly what I've done in my spare time is hang out upstairs, outside and make extra books for my bookbinding class. Which I'll have to post pictures of later, when I actually take some. So all in all everything is going well, so bring on the finals!

Waiting to go in!

Even little Sam was entertained :)

10th row has a great view!

Josh modeling Madsen's flounder hat for us.

Nice weather finally!

Madsen and Isa have been enjoying the nice weather. Here they are cuddling up as they both fell asleep our walk the other day. They're so cute!

18 months old

So Madsen turned 18 months on Sunday. I can't believe how fast time has gone by. Everyone used to say he looked like a little man because of his hair, I guess it was just a matter of time before he started acting like a little man. So an update on my toddler :)
Weight: 22.1 lbs. The doctor said he needs to gain a little bit of weight. Little does he know how much this little guy eats. Just the sight of food and he goes crazy. We just have to increase the milk intake. Time to make that belly poke out even more.
Length:32.25 "
Teeth:He has four teeth on top and 3 on bottom in the front and 3 molars and one ready to poke out anytime. So food no longer is a challenge.
Sleep: I know I'm crazy, he is in a toddler bed already. But he has been doing great. He sleeps through the night still and no longer wakes up crying and feeling trapped. We found an awesome deal in the classifieds. We got him a Cars bed, Cars sheets, Cars table with two chairs, and Cars shelf with tubs for his toys all for $80 bucks! And he loves it all. He always points to lightning McQueen on his headboard and laughs, then goes vroom vroom kachow!
Favorite food: Everything. I love not having to cook stuff just for him. He eats anything and everything we eat. Seriously, from Indian curry to spicy salsa, he eats it all.
Favorite movie: I would say its a tie between Cars and Little Einsteins, although lately Cars seems to be pulling ahead just a bit.
Favorite song: Rascal Flatts, Life is a highway. He hears it in the other room and he takes off running to go dance. lol
Favorite activity: Still going outside, just a little harder to do this time of year. When he's in Wyoming, he drags Uncle Trenton outside, points to the four wheeler and says "I want this, I want this" and begs for a ride.
Favorite book: "I hear..." he loves trying to make the sounds and is so proud of being able to say the watch goes tick, tock.

He loves running everywhere all day and I couldn't imagine my life any busier or more fun. I'm so grateful to have such an active little boy that I love so much in my life. (Sorry these aren't the best pics, I'll post better ones later)

HarmonE Evanston Concert

Kristi, Jeremy, Jacob, Levi, and Trenton did an awesome job at the concert in Evanston!

Madsen is a BYU fan

Prima Isa

So it's been a long time since I've posted. So there's lots of things to catch up on. I've been swapping babysitting with Tally, and it's been a lot of fun to have Isa around. She is such a cute little girl. She is always smiley. Even if she's crying you can always get her to laugh and smile just by saying her name and smiling at her. Last week she was still asleep when Tally had to leave so I just listened to her and got her out of her crib when she woke up. I got to get her dressed, which was so much fun! Little girls sure have a lot more options of how to dress up than a boy. Thanks Tally, for letting me get her dressed! So I had to take pictures of her all dressed up with her sweater, cute jeans, her bow, frilly socks and cute shoes. *sigh* someday I'll get my chance for a girl, right?