Dave's Birthday! January 2009

Dave is officially 31!!!
I feel like we just celebrated a birthday!
Actually, Dave's birthday celebrations lasted almost a whole week!!!
We had dinner with his family on a Monday.
Dave's birthday was on Wednesday, we went to Braza Grill for lunch! Yum!
and Saturday we went to Cafe Rio with our friends, who are
visiting from Brazil (Todd and Becky Smith and kids!) for lunch...
Then for dinner we went to Ruth'sChris Steakhouse and came home
to a dessert party at our house that night with everyone!
Boy! He's spoiled!!! :)

He had such good helpers to blow out his candles!

And Here's the crowd!

Okay, so this is not from Dave's party...
we went to watch Ricky (the bass in Crimson 4-Dave's group)
who was the scarecrow in Wizard of Oz at
Roger's Memorial Theater.
All of Crimson 4 is here in the picture!
(Dave, Isaac, Ricky, and Andrew)

These guys were great!

okay so this is Madeline feeding herself!
I wish you could see her face up close! It is covered
in applesauce!!!
Notice the floor too!
(This picture is what stemmed the "We love Bathtime" post :)

We LOVE bath time!

MAdeline has started to feed herself; therefore, We LOVE
BathTIME!!! We still bathe her in our sink...

But she is kind of outgrowing it! ha ha!

Oooooh, I LOVE this face!

Christmas! 2008

Here is what our little house looked like Christmas morning!

Merry Christmas!
(Madeline was really happy have her picture taken!)

She loved the Cabbage Patch Doll that Grandma Becky gave her!

I had a Teddy Ruxpen when I was little! (that is the bear on the left,
for those of you who don't know what that is! Costco had them!)

Here's Dad recording Madeline opening her gifts!

We gave her this little remote control doggy and it was
the BEST gift we could have given her!
She LOVESSS IT!
Here she is giving kisses!

And here she is giving Hugs!

This is actually the first time she saw it~ the pictures are a little out of order!
She started squealing when she saw it!

This is Christmas Eve at my parent's house. The girls have
on their new pajamas from Grandma and Grandpa Palmer!

Cam and Danielle (my bro and sis-in-law) got a new puppy!
Madeline, well, LOVED that too!

Dave took this picture! Cute huh?! She loves to play the piano!
(I don't know where she got that from! :)

AND this is us obviously putting UP the lights (sorry the pics are out of order)

how fascinating!

She's Such a GiRl

I absolutely LOVE this picture of her...
I know that she is in front of the garbage and
next to her Diaper Champ, BUT, it still makes
me smile!!!

I left the room and found her playing with
Mommy's nylons.

She just couldn't quite figure out how to put them
on... but she tried...

...and tried!

This is just another one of the pictures that I smile at.
She is trying to make the iPod work.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MADELINE!

This is my darling babysitter, Paige, who helped me set up for the party!

Here are some of our first guests!
I LOVE that Adam and Miyo stopped by!

Here are the little party people!
(Eliza and Austin)

...and more!
(Cloee and Sadie)

Here are our darling friends! Thanks for
coming guys!

Our fam!
(Dave's mom, my mom, Cloee and Courtney)

Sarah and Me

Okay, so this was the moment that I had been waiting for...
as well as everybody else that was there...
She started out great!

She was excited about the Tinkerbell on the top...

...but she REALLY didn't like the messy frosting!

This is our FAVORITE picture of the whole night! ha ha

Here is uncle DJ

Madeline LOVED opening presents!
Thanks for all the gifts!

Here are some more party people! :)
(Isaac, Jenny and Andrew)

This is the aftermath of the party!

And this is the "afterbath" of the party!
She cuddled with Daddy!
(Something she RARELY did up to this point!)