Happy Birthday Princess!

My Dearest Madison,

Today you are 4!!! I can't believe it! You have grown up too fast. Way too fast!

Just 4 short years ago today, at this time, I was laying in the hospital, in recovery, waiting to hold my baby girl! You were born at 10:52 p.m. on Thursday, May 12th. I remember Daddy wanted to hold off until midnight so you could be a Friday the 13th baby! I said NO WAY, I'm not waiting any longer, let's do this! LOL.

I remember Daddy's words when they pulled you out, his very first words when he layed eyes on you were "she's beautiful" and "look at those legs!" You were so tiny but your legs were so long.

Four years later, you are more beautiful then ever. Your smile lights up a room and can make any kind of sadness turn into happyness. Those cute dimples of yours are to die for. And those curls of yours are too precious.

I hope you have had a happy birthday. This morning when you woke up, I told you Happy Birthday.... you are 4 years old today! And you looked at me with a big smile and said "THANKS MOM!" What happened to you calling me mommy or momma... now it's just MOM? You are getting so grown up! Today you spent your 4th birthday at Disneyland, just the three of us. We wanted your day to be special, and all about you... and we thought Chad would have more fun with Grandma, being spoiled and having one on one time with her. We were able to go on all the rides, rides you had never even been on before because you were either to short or too scared. You even went on Thunder Mountain and Splash Mountain! Your favorite by far though was Soaring Over California. It's funny how every ride you got off of you said was your favorite :) You made us proud today.

We love you so much baby girl, and are so proud of you.

xoxo ~Mommy & Daddy (or should I say Mom & Dad :)

M.I.A. in the blogging world!

Sorry I havn't posted anything lately. I've been kinda bummed out because my laptop took a crap. I'm not sure if I've lost everything I had on my computer or not. Chris was using it the other day and it froze up and he turned it off w/out properly closing down and when he went to turn it back on it went to a weird black screen asking us if we wanted to log in in safe mode. We've tried everything. Looks like something happened to windows when he turned it off. Thang god I saved most of my pictures to our external hard drive last month. The only ones I could lose are the pictures from easter, which I'm so bummed about. As soon as we get some extra money and time we will have to get it looked at. In the meantime, we are using Chris's computer, which is sooooooo much nicer then mine because he used it strictly for his music and recording.

So, other then that, not too much going on. Our lease is up August first, so we are going to try and find a bigger place, hoping rent comes down. We are in desperate need of a place w/ a washer and dryer. I think once I have that I will be happy! Would love a yard for the kids to play in, somewhere we could put either a little play house or sand box. We are ready for a change so I'm excited to start looking.

I will try and post some pic's soon.

Easter Egg Coloring

Here's some pic's of our Easter Egg Coloring fun!

Here I am trying to assist Chad in NOT breaking all the eggs!

Maddie writing on her egg and Jacob deciding what to do next!

Chad getting frusterated....what else is new?

Maddie very excited to FINALLY color EASTER EGGS!

Jacob writing his name

Chad wondering if the green water will taste good...??

Mom... give me an egg already!

Jacob wondering why he can't pour the vinegar?

Checking out all the pretty colors!

Chad holding an egg, and I'm still worried he's going to drop it or throw it like it's a ball, LOL!

Time for STICKERS!

Jacob, Madison and Chad had lots of fun coloring eggs! More pic's to come later of Easter Day.

Easter Bunny

Tonight we took the kids to the mall to see the Easter Bunny. I wasn't sure how Chad would react, if he would cry or be excited. We got there, and we went and saw the little animated bunny who talks to you. Chad wasn't too sure of the bunny at first, but then saw Maddie was laughing at it and he thought it was pretty funny too. Chris put Maddie on one side and I put Chad on the other, we got about 2 pictures until Chad started to cry. I'm not sure if he was afraid of the bunny or if he was a little intimidated with everyone calling his name and trying to get him to smile. Maddie was so concerned about her little brother, it looked like she was going to cry too, but she patted Chad on the back and said "It's ok Chaddy-boy, it's just the easter bunny!" We finished up the night with a ride on the Merry-Go-Round, that brought a smile to his face.

My little musician

I would love to share this cute video of Chad and Maddie at the swap meet. We went to the OC Gun show today, and it was so packed that me and Lisa decided to walk over to the swap meet with the kids while Chris and Derek looked at the guns and stuff. We ran into this guy playing some violin type instrument, and Chad just loved it. Every time he see's someone playing the guitar he immediately starts playing air guitar (this he learned from his daddy!). Everyone fell in love with Chad, and thought Maddie was quite the little dancer. This is just a quick video, we were there watching this guy for at least an hour, while Chad and Maddie stole the show by how darn cute they were being :)

St. Patrick's Day

Here's a few pic's of St. Patties day evening. Spent a mellow evening at my mom's house. Ate pizza and watched the kids danced around the living room. 5 years ago I would have been dancing around some club drinking green beer. Oh how my life has changed. LOL!

Birthdays, right around the corner!

Chad is in LOVE with this movie! Looks like this will be the theme for his 2nd birthday party.

I can't believe he will be 2 in just 3 1/2 months! Tonight Maddie said she wants a My Little Pony party.
I'm sure it will be different tomorrow. She's already said she wants a Tinkerbell Party and a Princess party. Hopefully this little girl will make up her mind soon because her birthday is on May 12th!! I wish their birthdays weren't so close together, so much to plan for.