Princess Stage

The princess stage did not last very long around our house. Maybe it will make a return again, but until now the dress of her royal highness is making a nice door decoration. The big thing Maddy is into these days is animals (& really always has been for some time). She likes to pretend each week that she is a different animal. One week it was a squirrel & the only way she would let me put a ponytail in her hair was if I called a 'squirrel tail.' The next week she was a mouse. This week she is a 'bunny bear' in honor of the bear she bought from our neighbor's garage sale. (Our neighbor's happen to have 2 domestic bunnies living in their backyard.) It will be interesting to see what kind of wildlife next week will bring to our house!

Good Bye Kitty

Today we said goodbye to our kitty, Priscilla, who has been part of our family for almost 15 years. She has filled our lives with so much love & will be missed by us.

This was Maddy w/Prissy last year

A more recent picture

Grandmas & Hats

I have occasionally written about how blessed Maddy is to have so many living grandmothers. Over Mother's Day weekend, we had the opportunity to spend a little time with all 3. Our church held a 'Hats off to Women' brunch on the Saturday before Mother's Day that my mom & mother-in-law attended. We had a really nice time & enjoyed listening to women at different places in their life speak about the 'hats' they were wearing in this season of their life. Here are a few photos of the event:

Maddy with Grandma Mommy & Grandma Linda


My mom was the grand prize winner for the best hat- she is a Red Hat Lady so she is semi-professional in her hat wearing & collection

On Sunday, we headed to a nursery after church to pick out some flowers & veggies for our gardens. My stepmom came with us & was also wearing a hat that day. I thought this was pretty cool to be able to have each grandma in a hat for the weekend. Here are a few photos from that:

Hanging out with Grandma Lenore at the nursery

Easter Part 2

I know it's been a little gap between posts. It was a stressful week, which started with my e-mail account getting hacked into & auto-sending e-mails to my friends about a new i-phone. And as if that wasn't bad enough, all of inbox & sent mail got deleted along with all of my contacts. Grrrr... Anyhow on to part two of the Easter Post.

On the Saturday before Easter our church had their annual Easter Egg Hunt




Then came Easter Sunday.....

Easter Part 1

I see that's been almost a month since I've posted, so I thought at a minimum I would post some Easter photos. We celebrated a whole weekend of events (starting all the way back to Wed of that week w/a very monumental birthday for me). Matt put a sign in our yard so all the neighbor's would know:

Matt had mandatory training for work on my actual birthday so Maddy & I headed to Benihana's for my free birthday dinner & she walked away with a little gift from the manager who was smitten with her:


On Good Friday, we headed out to Amery for church with Mom & dinner with the family. It was a little chilly, but we headed to the park next to Mom's apartment so the kids could run off a little energy. Here we are at the park:

Wordless Wednesday

Silliness

Maddy's been sick this past week, but seems to have finally turned the corner. We are hoping she can go back to daycare tomorrow.


Here are a couple of silly photos from the past couple of weeks.

Hanging out with Clifford sent home from her preschool (reading box):

Powder!!!!

Using my laptop: