Father's Day! 21 Months!

Sunday was FATHER'S DAY!

me and megan made these little dorky DIY message/ play road t-shirts.

madyn seriously LOVED it.

 

 

we made him breakfast and then headed off to church.

it was a rough day with the little sunbeams.... but we managed.

after church we ate dinner then headed to the snowys for a little jeep ride.

we saw a bunch of deer but no moose or elk.

 

 

I love the snowys! they are seriously soooo gorgeous!

madyn started getting grumpy so we decided we needed to head home.

we had such a good day.

we are sooo lucky to have eric in our lives.

he is the BEST father for madyn.

she absolutely adores him!

Monday Madyn turned 21 Months!!!

 

 

21 Months of Madyn!

she has really started talking like crazy.

she has started using simple sentences and is growing her vocabulary daily.

she is getting another bottom tooth in!

she loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse! especially the Hot Dog Dance.

she loves to play outside and blow bubbles.

she is a pro drinking out of a 'big girl cup'.

she loves her play jewelry.

she loves "crack-crack" (crackers), dry cereal and corn.

she is obsessed with shoes and sunglasses.

she loves to play with her cousins! especially the babies.

 she loves to tickle!

she is a HUGE tease!

she loves to listen to Disney songs and tries to sing right along.

she loves to climb and be adventurous.

our girl is always on the go! she keeps us busy, busy, busy!

we sure love her lots!

 

 

we had a good day running errands and getting stuff done around the house.

that evening we went to the park with Mark, Brandy, and Easton.

Madyn was happy to have her little friend back.

that night was absolutely gorgeous!

 

 

I honestly love WYO SOOOOO much!

 Tuesday Madyn was such a grumpy grump!

I noticed she is getting 2 new teeth instead of just the one....

so lets just hope the teeth are the only thing turning my little princess into a giant monster.

Wednesday we had a WONDERFUL morning.

Madyn woke up at 7 asking for PUPPIES! PUPPIES! PUPPIES!

(new obsession- 101 Dalmations)

so I turned it on, on the ipad. next thing I knew she was back to sleep.

so we slept in till 10!

it felt soooo good and refreshing.

at 11 we went to the outdoor pool at the rec center for our ward's playgroup.

us and one other mom was there from our ward.

we had invited Brandy and Easton and so they came and joined in on the fun.

we ended up staying till 1:30ish, when madyn came up to me and pronounced GO!

the weather was seriously soo perfect. It was clouded over so it wasn't super hot

and the pool water was nice and warm.

we enjoyed our little outing.

that afternoon we went out to work on my flower beds and pull weeds out of

the grass.

Madyn is such a little helper...

 

 

she really cracks me up!

that evening we met up with Mark and Easton over at the park.

those two are soo funny together!

I love watching their little friendship!

it makes my heart happy :)

 Thursday madyn had her first "big girl pony tail"

she looked sooo grown up.

it kind of made my heart ache just a little.

but boy oh boy she really cracks me up!

I was trying to get a pict of her hair and she just hammed it right up for me!

 

 

Friday Madyn hammed it up again for me!

she kept crawling on our side tables and then wanted me to take her pictures.

she kept saying CHEESE! CHEESE! CHEESE!

she seriously keeps me soooo entertained.

 

 

we ended our night at the park again!

she loves chasing Easton around. and he loves when she chases him.

 

 

Saturday we got up and going and took off to rodger's canyon.

we shot only a couple of rounds when another car pulled off right next to us

and got out to shoot their pistols.

we were so annoyed that they had to park right next to us when

no one else was even in the canyon.

sooooo since that didn't last too long, we decided to headed over to Sybille canyon to

see the elk refuge.

we ended up seeing a herd outside of the refuge and then

three (what I would say were massive, and eric would say they were alright) size

bulls in the refuge.

we also saw a couple of moose, deer, and some antelope....

so a little of everything.

when we got home madyn got into my makeup...

oh man she keeps me busy!

 

 

we had mark, brandy, and Easton over for a little bbq.

seriously seeing madyn and Easton play tickles my heart!

they are sooo cute and fun together!!!

 

 



in the valley... then back to laradise!

so we are still in the valley for a couple of days.

the hysell family got back into town from their vacation

so we spent some time hearing all about their adventures and looking at pictures.

we sure missed them a lot!

Monday I went down and worked at the shop for awhile.

I was able to get a lot done and accomplished.

Tuesday me and mom went and got our hair cut.

madyn did soooo good at the salon!

but it was definitely feeling like it was time to get back home.

our jeep was still not done so Megan agreed to take us back to Laramie

Thursday afternoon.

so after tying up some loose ends and getting more

stuff taken care of on Wednesday we were able to take off on Thursday.

and let me tell you... the ride home was TORTURE!

it felt like soooo long.

but the kids travelled awesome.

madyn was so happy to see eric.

that little girl sure missed her daddy!!!

Friday we went to Cheyenne and did a little errand running

and got some shopping done.

and once again the kids did amazing.

they are seriously the best!

I love them sooo much!

 

 

Saturday afternoon megan and her kids took off

back to the valley.

we already miss them so much.

we spent the rest of the night cleaning the house, taking care

of the yard, laundry and getting back into the ol' routine.

that night we watched American Sniper.

oh my heck I thought that was such a good movie.

I'm so grateful for the sacrifices that people make for our country.

anyways we are so happy to be back home and with eric again.

but we enjoyed our week with the family, it's just good to be home again.



Momma's in LARADISE!

sunday we woke up bright and early...

madyn decided not to sleep in... the little stink!

we had a nice day at church even though

our sunbeams were super wild!

we came home, had dinner and took a loooonnnnngggg nap.

it was just what we needed.

after we went over to the park with

mark brandy and Easton.

those two little ones are so crazy together.

they are quite the pair!

 

Monday mom came into town.

she got in around 1 and so we waited for madyn

to get up and then we went and had a picnic at the park.

we had such a good day being outside and watching madyn play.

Tuesday we went to Cheyenne and got a little shopping done.

I seriously love having mom in town and someone to hang out with.

Wednesday we got some errands ran.

 and did some things around the house.... not too much to tell.

that night I got soooo sick....

I was up all night running to the bathroom.

Thursday we headed back to the valley...

it was a long ride home since I still didn't feel all that good.

I couldn't eat or drink anything without having to run to the bathroom...

that night I took some baby picts and I think they turned out cute....

maybe some previews another time.

Friday I was still sick, sick, sick!

I was sooo happy when I woke up on Saturday and was feeling

back to normal.

 

 

me and dad worked hard around the yard and

getting stuff around the house done.

that night we celebrated Austyn's 6th birthday.

megan made a DELICOUS dinner and we had some very

yummy cake.

 

 

 

I am sooo lucky to have that sweet girl as a neice.

I can't believe how grown up she is!



it's JUNE!

so Sunday we got up and going so we could get
back to old Laradise!
we stopped in rock springs to have some lunch.
can I just say how much I love Café Rio?!?
cuz I do! A LOT!
we were really soooo tired though...
I feel bad, I pretty much slept the whole way.
we got home around 3:30 and we went straight to take a nap.
it felt good to be back home.
Monday I got busy getting laundry done, everything put away,
and the house back in order.
madyn must have been super exhausted still because she took
a very nice long nap!
(I secretly love those days)
she was super cuddly too... so I really can't complain.
until we went to Walmart....
oh man that girl can throw a fit!
so after we left, we kept talking to her on the way
home about fits, and being a good girl...
she was not amused...
this was her look the WHOLE time!

man that girl cracks me up.
it was so hard trying to be stern and discipline her when
all we wanted to do was laugh at her.
oh she makes me smile!
also can I just say it is totally not fair that
my daughter has such awesome skin!
seriously look at those tan lines!

the next couple of days we spent working outside and playing inside and
getting lots of errands ran.
eric got home one night and needed to work in the garage on the mower.
madyn just wanted to be out with him...
so this is what I went out to.....

she is such a little goober.
and she LOVES loves LOVES taking eric's hat off and wearing it.
oh I just love those two lots!
 Friday eric got off work somewhat early so we decided to celebrate
our anniversary a little early.
we headed over to centennial to eat dinner at the best restaurant!

this is seriously my favorite steak place!
then we went home and watched dumb and dumber to.
it was absolutely ridiculous but eric loves dumb and dumber,
so I guess I was trying to be a good wife or something.
 but he didn't like it either soooo I guess we wasted a free redbox.
Saturday we got up and hit a few garage sales...
we really didn't find anything worth getting.
then we headed off to Cheyenne.
we met up with mark, brandy and Easton
and did some shopping and ran some errands.
we also went out to eat at a new hamburger joint and took
the happy jack way home.
it was a beautiful ride!
everything is really greening up and the sunset was gorgeous.
we had a really good anniversary:)
3 years seems like such a little time in perspective to how
long we have actually been together.
I kinda love him a lot.
im a pretty lucky girl to have snagged such an awesome man!

Families Can Be Together FOREVER!

Sunday morning we visited with Tony for a bit
before he took off back home.
we then headed to church....
our little sunbeams were SOOOO wild!
it was kind of a long day.
that night we took a walk over to the park
to let madyn play for a bit.
I got super sick....
so that wasn't very fun.
Monday we relaxed and took it easy.
we also worked on the yard.
I finally got my front gardens planted.
we had to take a quick trip to Walmart to get some more
plants for my back garden
I guess I didn't realize how tired my little stink was....

 

after Walmart we went to the park to play a bit.

Mark, Brandy, and Easton met us there

but it got rainy so we didn't get to spend much time there.

Tuesday we went out and planted the flowers out back.

our back garden seemed to take forever!

there were tons of weeds and old roots to pull out.

little miss is loving our yard and playing outside!

we can't wait for it to warm up more and less rainy so we can spend some

more time out there.

Wednesday my girl had a very runny nose...

I felt so bad for her.

I hate when she doesn't feel good.

her eyes were so droopy and she just looked so sad.

I had some things I needed to go do but I just said screw it and

spent the day loving on my little stinker.

that night she started feeling better so we went outside for a bit.

she colored with her sidewalk chalk and then proceeded to lay down on her pictures

and roll around... hence why she is sooo dirty...

 

 

Thursday we spent our day packing and waiting for eric to get off work.

we had to get the house all together before we left for the valley.

madyn was kind of a stink and wouldn't sleep!

we spent some time playing outside trying to get our plants watered and ready.

and my poppies bloomed!

I was a little sad that they weren't red like the others in the nursery but I am fine

with white ones too.

 

 

 

and I think our lilac bushed are starting to get healthy.

I seriously think that no one even tried to keep up with this yard and trees.

eric finally got off work and we took off about 6:30.

madyn slept the whole way!

it was pretty crazy, she really doesn't sleep well in the car.

we got to the valley about 10.

and then little miss just perked right up.

we spent the night with the gillieses.

Friday we got up and headed down to Utah.

 

 

we had a few errands to run before we went to Micah and Casey's endowment session.

their session was great!

they had lots of love and support and Oquirrh mountain was the perfect place for them!
grandpa was even feeling well enough to join them at the temple.
what a blessing that was.

 

after mom, dad, micah, casey, me, eric, gina, ryan, aly and willy all went out

to eat at Olive Garden.

we waited FOREVER but it was delicious.

 megan and bryan watched madyn for us and that was such a HUGE blessing.
I think she loved playing with her cousins.
we got back into Heber pretty late at night.
and let me tell you, we were EXHAUSTED!
Saturday we got up and going and took off again to the temple.
we took some family pictures of the Coleman family before they went in
and were sealed for eternity.
it was seriously such a good day.

 

 

 

after we had a bbq at their house with all their family and friends.
it was seriously such a great day.
and once again they had tons of love and support.
I think we all figured that Grandpa wouldn't be able to make it
because he would be exhausted from the day before but he made it!
I love seeing him at the temple.
he has always been such a wonderful example to me.
I know how much the church, temple and families mean to him.
I love him sooo much!

I don't think I ever fully understood the parable of the lost sheep
and how great the Shepard's joy would be if he found the 1 lost
until now.
my heart has been soooo full seeing micah and casey come back
to the church and then making these sacred covenants.
im so proud of them.
that night we headed back to stay in the valley.
we were able to visit a bit with Tony before we went down for the night.
I can't stress enough how great of week it was.
seriously perfect in every way!