Trip to Provo

Last week the kids were out of school on Thursday and Friday so we decided to make our first trek over to Provo to visit family.  The weather was beautiful and we had a great time with Preston and Mandy, Grammy and Grandpa, and the Matthew McKell family.  

Hiking Y Mountain

Family Pictures for 2012

Fort Collins Temple

When we decided to move to Colorado a few months ago one of the definite selling points was that we were going to have a temple built in Fort Collins.  It was announced in April 2011.  A couple of weeks ago they released an artist rendering of what the temple will look like.  I might be a little biased, but I find it to be one of the prettier temples that I have seen.  I look forward to it being built and I hope it looks exactly like the photo below.

Maddie's New Job

Upon turning 5 yesterday, we decided it was time for Maddie to start earning her keep around here. 

Our First Colorado Snow

Being new to Colorado, our first snow was a big deal.

Halloween/Maddie's Birthday

Every year we get to celebrate Maddie's birthday and Halloween, seeing as how she was born on Halloween 5 sweet years ago.  Here are some shots of the big day.

Maddie's New "Stompies" slippers

"M" cookies that Maddie took to preschool

Sir Parker

Maddie the Skalleywag

Bristol/Stinkerbell

Princess Tigerlilly

The Crew ready to roll

Sleeping Beauty

It seems as though every family has that one kid who can sleep anywhere. Maddie is our Sleeping Beauty and we have the pictures to prove it.

Before Dinner

Straw-in-Mouth

Getting her "Beauty Sleep"

On the Stairs

At Church

In the truck

On the stairs again

During Dinner

At Parker's baseball game

In the truck again

At Home Depot

You're doing it Wrong

During Family Night

Semi Standing

Take cover, Tomatoes!

Yesterday morning, Monday, April 16, Maddie and I were upstairs and I was watching Fox news.  They began reporting on the destruction of the tornadoes that ripped through Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska over the weekend.  They showed some footage of a tornado.  Maddie happened to be looking at the TV and asked, "is that a tomato!?", I replied, "yes", not really thinking too much about it.  She immediately starting running towards the closet.  I quickly explained that it wasn't here that we were ok, there were no "tomatoes" outside.  Poor girl, she watches too much news with me.  :)  Dave says I've got her as paranoid as I am.  Her "paranoia" comes on the heels of a storm two weeks ago that caused 17 tornadoes to touch in the DFW area.  Maddie was watching the news with me as we kept track of the storm.  What can I say, we need to be informed and prepared and I'm just teaching her.  :)

We Should Have Done This Sooner

We really dropped the ball on trying to document our family and what the kids are doing. In an attempt to rectify that we have decided to start this blog in hopes that we can capture some of the funny, zany, and incomprehensible things our kids say and do. Since we have some catch up to play we are just going to post some random pictures that we have taken over the past few months that we found to be particularly funny.

Maddie has been known to fall asleep wherever, whenever. We found her on this stair the other morning at about 6:30. Who knows how long she had been asleep there?

Parker is a big Mario fan. So much so that he decided to turn the outline of his hand into Mario, complete with hat and mustache. It's even better when he uses his "Italian" accent to say Mario's name.

Just as Maddie can fall asleep anywhere she can also fall asleep wearing anything. She calls this mask her "Beauty Sleep".