Celebrating 3 Wonderful Years Together

Well, as you look at these pictures there might be one person you are surprised to see (or not surprised if you know us) MADISON!!!!!!!! Yeop, we had it all arranged for us to leave her and the night before I was having a semi meltdown. Antaun and I talked about it and agreed together it would be more fun to take her. Our family time is VERY limited right now because of Antaun's schedule so we just wanted that time together as a family. So off we headed to the good ole' town of Bolivar for a walk down memory lane!!

It only gets better and better every day!

At one of our favorite places, the Bolivar park

Antaun and I used to eat here every chance we had, the BEST mexican food you will eat.

Madison LOVED the ducks, so much so she almost swam with them once. It was a close call but we caught her before she fell in. She kept saying, "wait ducks, wait, hold you." =)

We went to the amazing pizza factory and had so much fun together.

Maddie's first time playing putt putt. The only thing I can say is, "Look out."

Maddie's latest smile.
Doesn't she look onery??

Look at the Little Fishies

We took a swimming class this month with Nikki and Lainey. It was a blast! We were surprised to find out during the first class that we would be dunking our babies under water!!!!!!!!!! I thought, hmm, I don't know about this but it actually went well and Madison is really used to the water. She is really brave and loves it, so is Lainey.

To my surprise Madison only complained of wearing her cap one or two times. We built up how cool it was and how it would keep her curls pretty. We will see how this summer goes.

I really think this picture could be entered in a cutest baby swimming contest!

Lainey is so silly!

We love this little girl! 27 and a half months

Madison is so much fun! I love this age so much. We can actually communicate together. Tonight Antaun and I were tucking her in (in our bed, hmmm) but she said, "Let's talk togever." It was so cute! She is very excited about our new baby coming in September and says she is going to have a sister and said we should name her guul (girl). We find out in two weeks what we are having so we will see. Maddie loves to talk to the baby, the other day she said, "Mommy, baby hiding."

One thing that really amazes me about Madison is her ability to express clearly how she feels at the age of two! Antaun has been working a lot and the other night she started to cry in bed with me and I asked her what was wrong, she said, "I sad, I miss my daddy friend." Then the other day in the grocery store she looked at me and said, "I'm grumpy."

And to date Madison's longest sentence, "Here go daddy, I'n done with this apple!!

Sorry for all of you who just want to look at pictures! It's helpful for me to type out this stuff so I don't forget before it gets in her scrapbook!

Happy 1st Birthday Lainey Grace

Lainey loved the frosting!

This is what they did when I said, "can you put your arm around him?"

Lainey trying to see what's going on

Giving her mama some love.

Happy Easter

Since it was about 45 degrees outside we decided to have an indoor egg hunt. Madison got her share of sugar from the candy inside the eggs!


I love this with Lainey in the background.
SOOO precious.

Man I have a handsome husband!

Little onery girl

With her new "lipstick" as she would say.

Looking through her easter basket

The night before Easter we colored eggs. She loved it!

For all of you who wanted to see what Maddie's hair looks like wet, here you go!

Her masterpieces.

"Booaaful eggs"

Just a quick funny story about our little Madison. We were sitting in church Easter morning listening to the choir perform. There was a little boy minding his own business at the end of the pew. Maddie did great through the whole cantata but at this point she was getting a little stir crazy. So she climbed over Mawny's (grandma) lap to sit by the boy. I thought oh no big deal, change of scenery. Until my mom taps me smiling and said look. I look over and my cute little two year old is sweetly holding this boys hand. He happened to be 7 or 8 and was not paying any attention to her at all. I cracked up laughing and said, "mom, get her." She protested a little bit, she really wanted to sit by this boy.

OH MY GOODNESS, Antaun just about flipped! He has already put her in "time out" (kind of) for sitting on a boy's lap at church!!

The other day she looked at me and said, "I like boys, mommy,"

What will we do with our little flirt!

My mom tells me I was the same way!

Welcome Spring!!!!!!!!!

It was a beautiful first day of spring. 70 degrees and the perfect day to go fly a kite!
Madison actually did really well flying the kite, she loved it. That is until she accidentally let go of the string and the wind carried it into a tree! This was tramatic to say the least but we recovered and waved to the kite as it continued to fly hooked to the tree even as we were driving away! It was quite hilarious watching Antaun sprint for the kite before it hit the tree!!! =)

Nikki and I took the girls to the park and I am making this face because right at this moment I am being kicked in the butt by a bratty little boy behind me! The next time around I said, "No kicking, kid." Well a little nice than that but you get the point...
Lainey LOVES the swing, she laughs and smiles, it's adorable.