First Easter Egg Hunt

Madeline loves to be outside!!!
This is her first EASTER EGG

The fam.

Sarah, Eliza, Madeline, Me, Sadie and Cami!
(On the church lawn)

It was pretty cold so by the end of the "hunt" we
put Madeline's head band over her ears. Her nose was
a red as a cherry!

The Music Man

Dave and I are involved in the stake musical...
the Music Man!
It is extremely time consuming!!! BUT FUN!

This is "Marian the librarian"
( a.k.a the star of the show!)

These are Madeline's new friends!

I get to play about 1/3 of the piano pieces. I take turns
with these other two ladies at the piano!

Time with Dad

Dave likes to take Madeline out on the
front porch to watch all the cars drive by.

She actually is getting faster at watching them!
Her head bobbles as she looks side to side.
It is darling to watch!

Madeline and Gordon's photo shoot

This is the outfit that Becca gave her!
I LOVE IT!
(Those shoes were mine when I was a baby!)

Gordon is just stretching!

Babies and their binkies

Best pals!

She found WHAT?!

I heard Dave laughing hysterically in the bedroom so
I ran in to find that our darling little child has
already found that her finger fits just
PERFECTLY in her nose!

This is what I saw when I went to get her out of the car!

Daddy loves to play with me!

Madeline also likes to suck her thumb.
She sucked clear through her pajamas!
They were soaking wet!
Luckily, she now likes to suck as many fingers as she can
fit in her mouth at the same time.

Madeline loves to play!

I took probably 20 pictures right in a row of her
playing in her bouncer!

We had a lot of fun!

Madeline's Blessing Day

This is us getting ready...
the dress that we blessed her in was mine when I was
blessed! My Grandma Skeen made it 26 years ago!

Dave blessed Madeline. It was so beautiful!

After church at our home.
( We had a pretty eventful sacrament meeting-
my sweet grandpa passed out and we thought he
had a heart attack... it was pretty scary!)
These are the only pictures we got from her blessing day...

Sarah Rice's Shower

She looks like a FOOTBALL!

All the girls!

This is just a few hours after they got home from the
hospital! I cannot believe how Sarah was just
up and walking! She is amazing!

Madeline looks HUGE compared to Gordon!
Instant buddies!

Hangin' out

Madeline has started to smile at us!!!
My mom loves to make her talk!

Hanging out with the Rices and Andersons...
Look at little Ava~ she is giving the "rock-on" sign!

BIG SMILE!

Madeline will actually sit with me like this at the piano
while I practice! I think that she is probably
used to hearing the piano and she loves it!

Happy Valentine's Day

Dave's mom came over one day to visit
and loves to do Madeline's hair!
So, we decided to take "Valentine" pictures
to give to "daddy"!

Doesn't she look just like an angel?!

This one just makes me laugh!
We LOVE those chubby legs!

Court's Post

Apparently I don't know what I am doing...
I don't know how to post more than four pictures at a
time. So, because I talked about Courtney's husband and
darling little Cloee without showing any pictures of Courtney...
I need to show a picture of my most
favorite sister! :)


Can she honestly get any cuter?!


Madeline gave Courtney a hickey (spelling?)
on her chin. Let me explain: Madeline was crying
so hard while I was on the phone with my doctor.
The only way to calm her down was to suck on Courtney's chin...
(how did that happen again?)
That is called being creative!
Well, Madeline sucked so hard that she gave Courtney this
fine hickey!