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?

Behind once again.

Once again I find myself looking at the blog and feeling sad that I haven't updated it in forever. :( To catch up we went to Wyoming for Christmas for the first time since we've been married. As sad as I was to not see my family, we had a wonderful time with the Harmons. It was my first experience waking up SUPER early for Christmas morning. It was still dark outside! Madsen was really excited about opening his presents. He was such a good little boy this year that he got lots of cool presents. His favorite I must say is his new drum set. He sits there and plays the drums, and even uses the foot pedal for the bass drum. He's my little musician. :) He also had a lot of fun jamming out to Kristi's new iPod. He just loves music so much, no matter where we are he always dances to any music he hears. We came back to Provo for New Years and had a fun party with the Heiners. Max and Madsen have so much fun together and are the best little buds. We've gotten SO much snow in the last two weeks. We had fun over the break going sledding, but I need to find pictures of that. Madsen loves snow and is exactly like his dad. He has to find the spot where the snow is the deepest and trek through it. :)For those of you who don't know I have returned to school this semester, and after this first week I'm still very excited! It feels so good to go to school and be learning lots of new things in different subjects. I'm very grateful that Tally's schedule and mine have coordinated well, although not planned together. Madsen loves his prima Isa and Tia Tally and is doing so good while I am away. A small update from today, I discovered Madsen's little molar finally poking out! He's been such a trooper and a very happy boy despite the pain I'm sure he had been feeling.

Pumpkin Patch

So these pictures are super super super overdue, but they were on our camera that Kyler, Josh's brother who is on a mission let us have for two years, but his brother Jason was borrowing the camera for a photography class. These were adorable and I had to post them especially for my mom to see. I really wanted to take Madsen to a pumpkin patch this year. I want this to be a family tradition for us. I remember doing it when I was younger and I was always so excited for the hayride and to pick my very own pumpkin. I wasn't sure how Madsen react to it all but he LOVED it! He loved the tractor/hayride, manuvering his way through the pumpkin patch and brush, and we found him a little goard just his size that he loved carrying around. We kept asking him where his pumpkin was and he would hold it up so proud of himself. :) There were also some horses in a field next to the pumpkins and he enjoyed getting close and petting them. He loves animals.

Photo Shoot

My friend from home, Kelli Brewer took us out last Saturday to take some cute family pics. Thanks so much Kelli! They turned out amazing. You're awesome. So Josh put together a neat video to celebrate our beautiful pics and Madsen's cool tricks.