Maddison Dale

>> 12.26.2012

WOW....it has been 6 whole months since I've blogged last. whoops.

I promise I'll post some updates (Maddie's 4th birthday, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas), but for now, here's some cute photos of my little munchkin!

Makeup

>> 6.04.2012

Maddie has been interested in makeup a lot lately. Every time I do mine, she wants hers done too. Now, when I do her makeup, you can barely see it. We don't go all Toddlers and Tiaras with it.

I usually let her pick which colors she wants to wear and one day she chose green (not sure why or how I even had that color because I have never worn green). I wanted to do something a little fun with so we put on some brown eyeliner and I did a little design (I am in no way a makeup artist and it definitely shows! lol). I had to take her out for some fun pictures :)

She wanted to go pick some flowers :)

My Maddie Girl

>> 4.18.2012

So, I took some pictures of Maddie at my favorite Orchard the day before Easter. You can check them out here :)

Growing Up....

>> 4.16.2012

My little baby sister turned 17 back on March 26th no longer making her a baby (ok, maybe she wasn't a baby for like the past 12 years, but I just can't believe she's almost considered an ADULT). How crazy is that? My mom is only 45...ahem....I mean 30, and 3 of her 4 children are adults with the last one not far behind. Not to mention the 2 almost 3 grandbabies ;) Sorry mom, you're getting old. Anyways, Allyssa turned 17 and she couldn't be more excited about.....being attractive. Apparently 17 is a very attractive age ;) And you know what? She's right! This girl is GORGEOUS.

My mom made this llama hat!

ha ha and my sister in law made her this beard! Love it, don't you? :)

Her birthday theme was Doctor Who (which I've never seen before nor heard of until she couldn't stop talking about it. Apparently the guy is super hot ;)

After presents and cake, we decided to head outside for some fun and some more pictures! :)

(no, he wasn't really grumpy, the sun was just a little bright! lol)

I swear, this girl is always posing!

Don't worry, no toddler's were hurt in the making of this photo! ha ha

After I got some pictures of Maddie, we got a couple of Allyssa in her dress that she wore to her Junior Prom. Isn't she gorgeous?!

Emma Bemma

>> 3.14.2012

This little thing is the newest member of our family :)

We call her Emma....sometimes Emma Bemma :)

She is so cute and funny and a little fireball! Maddie loves carrying her around even though I assure her Emma is big enough to walk on her own.

Emma is about 10 weeks old and loves going on walks and playing outside. She sleeps about every 20 minutes because she runs around so much and tires herself out!

She eats 3 times a day and is doing really good with dry puppy food. Her favorite toy is her little leopard stuffed animal. We bought it about 3 weeks ago and it already has some holes in it :)

This last photo her really crackse me up! She's so cute and funny!

We love you Emma Bemma!!

New Year

>> 3.13.2012

New Years wasn't very eventful. We usually have a party with just my family and we have lots of food and drinks and play games all day. But we don't all live together anymore and we didn't really have any plans.

Maddie and I ended up going up the street to my sister's apartment and she made us dinner and we watched the Big Bang Theory. We got pictures on our phones, but I have since gotten a new phone and don't have the pictures anymore :/ It was fun even though it wasn't exactly tradition. My mom just stayed home while my brother and sister in law went to a party.

That's one that sucks about being a grown up I guess. I miss all the things we used to do when we were younger. Now that my sister and I moved out, we don't do things together as a family anymore (except major holidays). But, I have Maddie now, so I get to do all the things for her that my mom did for us and we'll get to create our own memories and traditions. :)

What We Did Last Christmas....

Christmas really is the best time of year. It feels like we have a million family parties and I love each and every one of them!

This past year, we went to go see the Zoo lights (our first time) and got to see Santa and a couple reindeer! I think Maddie was excited although she was a little frozen to show too much expression.

The same weekend we went to Zoo lights was the same weekend of our extended family Christmas party, the Owen Winterfest. Maddie and I stayed up in Heber with my grandparents to help get ready for the party. We had hot chocolate, helped wrap caramels, and Maddie got to help mums make the little penguins :)

When everyone comes up, we usually play out in the snow for a little bit and everyone comes inside for some food and then it's time to play White Elephant. This year, it hardly snowed at all, but luckily there was some snow to play in. Not enough for the snowmobile however.

We then had our family party where we basically get together after Christmas to give our papa and mums presents (and of course they spoil us all with gifts too).