Vail Vacation

This past week we went to Vail with my family and sister’s family.  We had a wonderful time skiing, tubing, playing in the snow, and hanging out!  It was beautiful there.  Mason had a blast, but the babies for the most part stayed inside warm and cozy.  We also met up with Jason and Kelly our aunt and uncle while there…it was great to see them.  Mason loved having snow ball fights and tubing (he was in his own tube and flew down the mountain and couldn’t wait to do it again)!  Madelyn LOVED climbing the 2 staircases at the condo and EATING all day long :)  Mason and Madelyn were so happy to see Nanny and Papa and their Aunt Jenny and Uncle Paul and cousins too.  We were sad to leave, and can’t wait to do it all over again next time :)  We were there when Vice President  Biden was there and my parents saw him at a restaurant in Beaver Creek one afternoon and as we were leaving to come home we saw Air Force Two at the airport! However, our flight home was AWFUL!!!  At first we were scheduled to land early, but ended up flying all over Texas landing in San Antonio where we sat on the airplane for 1 1/2 hrs. before landing in Houston because of a storm :(  Over all we were in the airplane 6+  hrs.  Thank goodness we got Madelyn her own seat…Overall they did really well…a few minor meltdowns from lil miss who only slept 45 minutes on the plane!  We didn’t arrive home until 10:00pm and the kids weren’t in bed till 11pm…so we have been playing catch up on some much needed rest :)

View From Condo                                       Playin’ with Papa

Snowball fight with Kylie    Playin’ in the snow with mama

                                        More snowball fights with Nanny…Mason won :)

Madden…with those big baby blues!

 

                                                                Building a snowman with Papa

The only time I could get Madelyn out in the snow…NOT A FAN…yet :)

On the Gondola Ride up to take Mason tubing

Walking through Vail Village                           Night Night time! 

Hopefully I will upload the pics from my other camera which has the picture of Air Force Two on it…SOME DAY!

BREAKING GROUND!

How can you keep a 3 yr old occupied ALL DAY LONG???  Have a tractor dig a HUGE hole in your backyard!  They came and dug on Thursday of last week.  Mason was ready to swim that night…It will be a LONG few months of “Can we swim yet???”  Mason was so excited to wake up to the sound of the tractor I could hardly get him and Madelyn away from the window…he wanted to go dig with them.  He even went to get his shovel to help!  Needless to say we are so excited and can’t wait to SWIM ALL SUMMER LONG!! 

                                                                Notice baby doll had to watch too!

Can you say HURRY!!!!                            

I love this face!!!

Coming THIS SPRING…

Happy Birthday Precious B

What a wonderful wonderful year we have had with our lil girl!  As the saying goes, “Time Flies When You are Having Fun!”  We had a small get together to celebrate Madelyn and her first year :)  We go to the doctor at the end of January so I will have her yr. stats then.  Here are some of the things our BIG TODDLER is doing:

• Walking (started a 8 months)
• Saying several words: Ba Ba Doll, Daa (dog), up, Mama, Dada, Bi (bite)
• Loves Whole Milk from her sippy cups
• Eats whatever we eat…(never really ate baby food)
• Claps
• Shakes her head NO
• Points at everything she wants
• Loves to carry purses
• Loves to put things in her purse and take them right back out (could do this for a LONG time)
• Loves to play in her bed for a bit before you can get her out
• Seems to gravitate more to men :) Will let Papa and Daddio carry her around and hold her…The grandma’s get a little jealous, but she warms up to them really fast too! 
• LOVES LOVES LOVES her baby doll…sleeps with it…we take it everywhere!
• Fake cries to get what she wants
• Takes 2 naps ranging from 1 hr to 1 1/2 hrs
• Loves to look at pictures…especially the ones I have framed lining our staircase.
• Would EAT ALL DAY LONG if I let her!
• Doesn’t like Peaches
• Tries to do everything her brother does!!!

I know I am probably missing a few…We love her so much and love watching her grow and change DAILY!  Happy Happy Birthday lil Girl…we love you so!!!!

   

We had a wonderful day and Madelyn ate too much sugar that afternoon at her party she DID NOT NAP :)  She was so happy to just roam around the game room carrying her purses and playing with her new toys :)

~UP~

I guess I can mark this down as Madelyn’s first “real” word!  For the last couple of weeks she runs to Mason’s chair, the couch, the ottoman, our arms and moans for us to pick her UP.  So we have been saying UP all the time.  Today was too cute…she came running over to me sitting in the chair and she said UP if a big girl voice…and I picked her up and she rested her sweet lil non hair head on my chest…it was too precious!  Even though Madelyn has her own “sounds” for her baby doll and other fav. toys, and has been saying momma and dada,  I have to count UP as her first real word!

REALLY…can my baby be turning 1 in only 9 short days!!!

Christmas ‘09

This was such an exciting Christmas.  Mason was so excited for Santa to come visit and for Jesus’ birthday!  Madelyn…well last year I was frantically getting ready for her arrival and this year she was all over the place…what a difference 1 yr can make.  I can’t wait to see both my babies next year at Christmas…I love living Christmas through their eyes.  Marcus’ parents came down to celebrate with us before we headed out to Austin to celebrate with my family.  Mason kept saying, “I am too excited for Christmas!”  The only sad part was both my babies were sick with RSV :(

WARNING…Lots of pictures!!

 

Christmas Eve we opened up gifts from DD and Daddio…Madelyn loved pulling Daddio around the house and he was more than happy to follow behind :)

 

SANTA LEFT A LOT OF LOOT!

 

 

By Noon on Christmas we were opening round 3 of gifts in Austin.  Thank you Jenny and Paul for hosting and cooking a WONDERFUL Christmas Dinner!!

 

The Babies…Look at Madden…he has the most beautiful blue eyes…and IS THE HAPPIEST BABY EVER!!!

Playing games…Marcus played Wii Tennis and Mason loved playing Twister with Kylie..notice Madelyn interrupting the game :) She wants to be everywhere Mason and Kylie were.  Sorry for the blurr. 

The family pic…Iove this one Madden is getting Kylie’s headband :)