Thursday, March 30, 2017

i love my family.

the week started out so nice.
the weather was beautiful.
we were able to get out of the house and go for some walks.



monday wyoming was hosting a game for the college basketball invitational.
we won so there was another game scheduled for wednesday.
madyn was sooo excited.
she has been trying for the last two or three games to get on the big screen
and at wednesdays game she got on.
it was the highlight of her night.
we were pretty excited because we won Wednesdays game
so we made it to the championship!
that will be played next week and be the best out of three games.
so we are pretty excited because we for sure will get at least one more game played here.
thursday i had an appointment with the baby doct.
measuring good, and heart beat is great.
then that evening i had a relief society dinner to go to.
mads went with me and we had a great time getting out of the house.
when it was all over, they were sweet enough to give mads one of the balloons 
they had used for the decorations.
when we got home she decided that our Christ statue could have it.


she has been so funny lately.
she is starting to put all this knowledge together about life and death and living 
with our Savior again.
the other day we were riding in the car and she tells me,
mom, Jesus had a big job.
so i asked her what his job was.
she said when he made the world. i bet when he was done he just said phew!
or she's been trying to figure the after life out and how we live with Jesus again.
i love how she absorbs what she learns from primary and what we try to teach her here.
friday i was in major need of getting out of the house.
eric got off work/ school early,
so that afternoon we hit up the matinee of Beauty and the Beast.



madyn wasnt too sure about it all....
she was a little on edge, which didnt really suprise me since she cant even get 
through moana right now. 
but there were moments were she absolutely LOVED it.
she died laughing all through Be Our Guest.
shortly after she was out- poor girl was so tired.
but honestly all i can say was i absolutely loved it... eric not so much.
after the movie we walked over to the park so madyn could run around.
we had a great evening walking around the park and all being together.
saturday i headed off to baby shower and madyn and eric took off for a daddy daughter date.
they hit up murdochs and then to the dinosaur museum... madyns favorite of course.
we both got home about the same time so we decided to take off to
curt gowdy so eric could practice shooting his bow.
and of course mads had to take her bow too.









we had the best time walking the course with eric.
until mads fell and her hand landed on a cactus. 
it was pretty sad. she wouldnt let us look at her hand, so we probably
walked around about 10-15 minutes before she would let us look and pull
out all the little spikes.
i felt so bad i didnt realize she had any spikes in her hand... so to let her 
walk around that long broke my heart. 
im sure that was miserable.
after our walk we went and sat down by the lake and tossed rocks in the water.






i love them.
they seriously make my heart happy.
they also put a new playground up at one of the shelters so
we took madyn up there to play for a bit, by the time we got up there
we just figured taking the other entrance in would be just as fast....
yeah, we were wrong....
by the time we made it back to the main road we were practically to Cheyenne.
so we decided just to get dinner while we were over there.
we went out to a new restaurant and had Chinese.
 it was soooo good!
by the time we got back to laramie madyn wanted to go to the park again.
it was sooooo cold out!
but little miss insisted.
i know this may sound silly but i had the BEST day.
it was so nice just being all together with each other.
we have had the best week, and mads and eric have been such troopers with me.
i have been sooo cranky!
and they have put up with a lot.
i sure love them a lot.

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Sunday, March 26, 2017

daylight savings. zoo. doctors. travelling.

daylight savings time is a butt kicker!
needless to say. sunday was a bit rough.
madyn planted a flower in sunbeams and was soooo excited to grow something.
when we got home from church she would check on it like every 20 minutes to see
if anything had changed yet.
she makes me laugh.
the rest of the week madyn was on spring break.
so it did kind of make the transition for daylight savings time a bit easier.
monday we had an appointment to get to in the afternoon and
needless to say that made our day rough.
we had a massive meltdown about barbie shoes... yep that's right
stinking barbie shoes.
we were late to our appointment, madyn's hair was not done,
her face a mess and red eyes for her... and my blood pressure was probably through the roof.
with madyn FINALLY in a good mood they had to poke her so they
could test her iron levels.
i think my girl might have an aversion to blood.
she flipped and lost all the color in her face- she was sooo green,
i seriously thought she was going to pass out.
luckily she just decided she needed a nap when we got home.
i think after our rough afternoon we both needed that break.
wednesday when eric got off work we took off to head to the valley.
we got in about 7 and went straight to see carilyn.
mads was pretty excited to see and be around family.
thursday we got up bright and early and headed to my doctors appointment in utah.
after my appointment the whole family decided to meet up and go to the zoo.
when we pulled up there were TONS of school buses and it looked packed.
luckily all the kids were on their way out.
it was a perfect day to be there.
the weather was beautiful, the animals were lively, and it wasnt busy at all.
madyn has been itching to get to the zoo lately and has had a major
obsession with giraffes so she was in seventh heaven.















i love that little climber!
she cracks me up.






















seriously it was just the best day.
we all went out to pizza after before we all went our separate ways.
mom, eric, me and madyn all headed back heber way to stay with micah over night.
we went and saw grandma cliften before we went down for the night.
the next morning we got jetty off to school and watched locky lou while micah took
karys to get her tubes taken out, one was lodged in her ear drum and not
coming out on its own.
while we were at micahs, mads stubbed her toe and cut it....
she hopped and hobbled around everywhere.
needless to say little miss milked that ALL day!
madyn loved playing with her cousins!
it was hard when we had to take off again because she didnt want to leave her friends behind.
but we had another doctors appointment at the U to get to.
this time to see the obgyn and have ty get checked on.
everything looked good and we had a great visit with the doctor.
so we took off back to the valley.
it had been a long day of sitting around so as soon as we got home
we took off on a walk and then spent the evening hanging out with carilyn and tony.
saturday eric was ready to head back home but everyone was begging us to stay so we
compromised and said that we would stay till after dinner and then head home.
we ended up getting home after 11 but i loved having a few extra hours with everyone.

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