Christmas in...

This year we spent Chrismas Eve and Christmas morning with Erik's family and then flew out Christmas night to Colorado to spend the rest of the week with my family.
I'm pretty sure Madalyn thought Christmas would never end because of how many times she got to open presents at different houses. For having both our families in different states, we were pretty lucky to be able to spend Christmas with both of them!
Here's all the Freeman grandkids on Christmas eve. Hey, we do the best we can right? No picture with lots of kids is perfect. :)


I love this picture! Layna sure loves her tongue.

The kids on Christmas morning. Although Layna was up early, Erik and I couldn't wait any longer and around 8:30 we woke Madalyn up. I'm sure one day we'll be wishing she would sleep in longer Christmas morning. :)



Amanda's "friend" Tucker sent these soccer jerseys from Argentina to Amanda and all the kids. Apparantly Layna wasn't all excited about them, I was though. Where was mine? :)


Christmas at my parent's "house" was a little different this year...to say the least. They sold their house and so we spent one last night in it and then helped them move the next day. Until they find the home of their dreams they are staying in a condo and so we joined them there for the remainder of our break. Good thing is that it doesn't matter where we are, we still love spending time with my family!
Madalyn and Kambria had a lot of fun together. They both got princess dress-up clothes, which was a chore in itself everytime we had to take it off Madalyn. She would sleep, eat, bathe in that dress if we let her.
Here they are both looking in the mirror. SO cute!



Even Weston and Layna had fun playing together. I think Weston really enjoyed having someone younger then him around.


My little Layna, She thinks she is so big!
Look Mom! No hands!

We took the girls bowling. Minus a few dramatic episodes as to whose turn it was, the girls loved it. Sad to say that both of them actually got higher scores than some of the adults. Oops.

Madalyn's Preschool Pictures

Madalyn's Preschool class! Yes, all girls...the year did start out with a boy but now it's full of girls. Madalyn absolutly loves preschool. Good thing since I started her early :)


The photographer was nice enough to take some individual pictures of the girls too. These are a few of Madalyn.

Happy Halloween!

Carving Pumpkins! Always so much fun. In the past Erik makes it his goal to find the weirdest/ugliest pumpkin out there to carve. This year he found white pumpkins. I've never seen white ones before. I will say this was one of his better looking pumpkins for sure. Madalyn ended up just helping dig out our pumpkins because her pumpkin was as hard as rock. It took Erik forever just to cut out the top of her pumpkin so we decided for our own safety to not carve hers. All she cared about was digging out all the seeds and "yuckies" anyway.




This year I decided we were all going to be Super Heroes!!! Madalyn has been wanting a super hero cape for awhile now, so I thought why not just make us all one and be them for Halloween. Madalyn loved it! And her and Layna were so cute in them. Now Erik and I on the other hand...:) Well the pictures explain it all.






Who looks best with the hair?????

Cornbelly's Corn Maze

Awhile back in October we went to Cornbelly's Corn Maze at Thanksgiving Point. Thanks to my sister-in-law Gretchen we got a great deal, otherwise us cheepos would probably have never gone. :) We all had a lot of fun, however we made the mistake by doing the corn maze last so Madalyn was tired and hungry, and both Erik and I were getting frustrated that we couldn't find our stupid way out of the maze. We should have gone through the maze first I guess.
Madalyn loved the princess corner. They let them dress up in any princess outfit they could find. Madalyn could have stayed there all day if we let her.



They had a lot of fun things to play on and what not. Even Layna was having fun:)



The best part were the huge jumping pillows. Erik and I want one in our backyard!

What are mosquitos good for?....ABSOLUTLY NOTHING!

Last Saturday night Madalyn's eye started to puff up a little, I didn't think too much of it, gave her some Benadryl and sent her off to bed. The next morning she wakes up to this....

We weren't quite sure what it was, there wasn't any drainage and it didn't hurt her, so I wasn't too worried, but then she woke up the next morning and it hadn't gone down at all. That's when I decided to take her to the doctor. Low and behold he tells me it's just a mosquito bite. WHAT?! That's one NASTY mosquito bite. It's now gone completly down and she looks normal now, but I tell you, we felt so bad for her those couple days. She kept calling herself quasemodo, Erik called her cyclops...it was sad. She would sit in front of the mirror and just look at herself like what the heck is wrong with me. She kept asking me why her eye wouldn't open. "It's just too heavy Mommy" is what she would tell me. Poor thing! At least she was still happy and acting life herself, it must have not bugged her too much.

What happened to my little girl?

Madalyn started preschool a couple weeks ago. She absolutly LOVES it. She asked everyday for like two weeks before it started when she got to go to preschool. This is her on her first day...they grow up way too fast I tell you.

Thanksgiving Point Discovery Garden

Erik and I took the kids back to the Discovery Garden a couple days later. Madalyn loved it. They have dons of really creative things for kids to do and walk through.
There was the Bear Cave! Madalyn thought this was a real bear at first and didn't want to get up on him. :)



Climbing up the light house. I couldn't believe Erik made it up there...it was VERY small!

Can you find her?

We feed the fishies.

Madalyn played us some "lovely" music.

And the most favorite part of the whole gardens...Noah's Ark! It had water everywhere that the kids can play in. Even Layna had fun in it. :)