Easter

The happy family of 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Easter was especially great this year because we have Madison to celebrate it with. She is such a blessing in our lives and we are so thankful to have her! Every time I looked at Maddie on Easter Sunday I teared up with gratitude to my Savior for her. Going through the trial of trying to get her here has helped me learn to rely on my Savior that much more, and to love and appreciate his Atonement for me. I feel like I have such a personal connection to the Atonement now, and will always be grateful for my big brother, Jesus Christ who look upon him my sins, pains, and sorrows. I know Christ knows exactly how to comfort us when no one else can and I am forever in bet to him for such a precious gift.

Look at Madison's face in these two pictures... Too funny! She just cracks me up:)


Madison with proud Daddy

Madison having a heart to heart with her adoring Mommy, as she looks into my eyes and pierces my HEART!

Look what the Easter Bunny brought us this year!

I don't think Maddie liked the grass that much.


Easter Photo shoot...I took way to many pictures and have to share a few of them because her facial expressions are just too classic to pass up. I feel like I can narrate what each look means! LOL.

Really Mom...we are doing this again? More pictures?

Ok I am giving in and will give you an adorable pose.



Hmmm....I am just thinking about how cute I am, and I bet my Mom wants to kiss my cheeks right now.

Yep, I am now thinking I am done with this photo shoot!

Getting more desperate to be done!

OK I AM DONE!!!

Thanks Mom for my binky and for being done! NOW FEED ME:)

We enjoyed our Easter and were thankful for good friends to celebrate such an important holiday with.

I Gave In!!!

So I gave in and bought the expensive Bellababy Photos from the hospital. I just love them and couldn't help myself. Plus Maddie is only 1 day old and looks so stinking cute in them. Here are some of my favorites, the rest are in the slideshow. Enjoy!

Madison's 1 month happenings!!!

I am not going to lie, this little girl has me completely wrapped around her little finger! She is so perfect! The first month of Madison's life seriously flew by like a whirlwind and I can't believe that she is now approaching her 2 month mark! The first 4 weeks of Maddie's life were spent inside our abode for the most part because we didn't want to expose her to any germs, we called it the "quarantine". Madison is a great baby!!! (which I am thankful for because she has allowed me to finish my school work). She is an amazing sleeper, eater, and grunter. Scottie and I are both amazed with this little girl and have to remind ourselves that she is really OURS and that she isn't going anywhere. Sometimes I find myself feeling this sense of urgency to hold her because I worry that she is going to be leaving soon....then I get to remind myself that she is all ours and that we get to keep her forever! OK I will stop rambling and let you enjoy the pictures!

Maddie smiling (aka yawning) because she is getting to meet Aunt April and her cousins for the first time!!! My sister made a trip down from Michigan to meet Madison when she was 2 weeks old.

Aunt April and Madison

All the cousins!!! Best pic we could get, and I kinda like it....ok REALLY like it!

Maddie and Emmy

Maddie and Jordie

Maddie and Andrew (notice her yawn again! Too cute)

Best group pic! Thanks for coming down April and kids, it was fun to see you and have you meet Madison!

First St. Patrick's Day. I made sure Madison was wearing green, so she didn't get pinched! She is about 3 weeks old.

First Sunday outfit. Daddy gave a talk in church....so that meant Maddie and I got to break our 4 week quarantine and go to sacrament meeting to watch him speak. He did a great job and I had fun getting to show off my 3 week old Miss Maddie Sue!



4 Weeks old with Tinkerbell. She has changed so much from when we first took her picture with Tinkerbell and I can't believe it. I want to freeze her in time to keep her from getting bigger!!! It's so bitter sweet...I want all the fun developmental stuff like smiling and cooing, but want to keep the cute, squishy and cuddly newborn stage forever.

OK the picture below is one Madison might kill me for later on but she is cross eyed and I LOVE it.


Nap time with Daddy. I just love when Scottie comes home because he wants to spend time with his Baby Girl and this is how I often find them:


Scottie put the OSU football there!!! Too classic.

1 month old means shot time!!! This is me pointing at her shot spot! Madison took her shot like a champ, and made her Mama proud....actually I hated it, I can't stand needles so I felt so bad for her! Luckily Scottie was there to be brave for me.


Did you notice that this is the same dress Maddie wore at 2 weeks when she meet her cousins??? 2 lbs makes a big difference! (I did have the dress pulled up so you could see her battle wound from where she got her shot on her leg....so I guess these pictures might be a little bit deceiving). Stay tuned for this little chunky monkey's 2nd month's happenings!

Playing Catch Up and Going Back To Valentine's Day

So with Madison's arrival, some things got pushed to the back burner like blogging about other events besides her LOL. Because this is my online scrapbook I have to take a trip back in time and blog about some important events. Including VALENTINE'S DAY.
It was my Dear Scottie's year to do the planning and he sure out did himself. Valentines was a fun last celebration with just the two of us...little did we know then how soon Madison would be joining us ( 9 days to be EXACT!)!!!

How I found my office Valentine's Morning- Every year since we first started dating Scottie has decorated my classroom (when I was teaching) or my office. I sure appreciate the effort that he puts into making me feel special, and for a hubby who is willing to publicly express his love for me. Scottie also is a smart man and has learned that giving me flowers in public is better than just doing it at home LOL. Funny but true...right ladies?

After work/school we kept on celebrating by eating at P.F. Chang's- The restaurant had an awesome 4 course meal special that we enjoyed.


Once we returned home Scottie continued to surprise me by having me sit on the couch while he set up the laptop and gave me my first present....a digital scrapbook of our last 6 years together. It was really sentimental because it was a continuation of the first digital scrapbook he had made me from when we first started dating through our engagement. As if that wasn't enough he went down stairs and then brought up a huge box from the basement with presents inside. These weren't your ordinary presents though because each of the 13 gifts corresponded with a question in his "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Game". The questions each had to do with an event in our relationship (ie. what was he wearing the first time we meet and what did we do?) and got progressively harder.


Scottie setting the game up!

Me enjoying being surrounded by gifts!!! Yippee

Me in the black robe Scottie got me- I really wanted a robe to wear while I was in the hospital (labor and delivery) so I wouldn't have to wear the hospital ones. Luckily Scottie was a good listener and got one for me because I would be using it 9 days later, and wouldn't have time to get one myself!

The robe was a $250,000 dollar question...lucky for me I got it right without the need for a life line.

Me celebrating my success at the game!!! I think I surprised Scottie by only using 1 1/2 life lines and for getting the very last aka hardest question right super fast!

Now on to Scottie. I also had a trick or two up my sleeve and had some nice things planned out for him. One of them included his present surprise. If you didn't know this already Scottie is hard to shop for and only requested money for his gift...so I had to think outside the box and get him somethings I thought he wanted.

First I started off with the money...$100 dollars:)

Then an OSU hat (thanks Jace for helping me on the phone) and some other things....I think he liked the OSU calendar the best.
Anyways it was a great day of love!!! I am so grateful for Scottie and that my Heavenly Father gave him to me! He really is the perfect guy for me, and I don't know what I would do without him. Words can't explain what he means to me, but I feel lucky to have married my best friend, # 1, kindred spirit, soul mate, and perfect eternal companion!