Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Christmas Season

Christmas was a lot of fun this year. We had our whole family home. Christmas Eve day is always my favorite time. It's the day we bring down all our presents to lay under the tree and then we get to eat our Christmas lunch. This includes tamales, chili, Grandma Drain's famous fruit salad, enchilladas, and cokes. Now that's what I call a meal. :) It's also the day that we have our Patterson Christmas party and get to visit with all our extended family. These fun family traditions are what Christmas is all about.

Madilyn opening her tree ornament for the year.

Uncle Adam helping Madilyn bring down the presents

Jill and Brigham at the Patterson Christmas Party!

Madilyn Christmas Eve opening up her pajamas. Little stinker can never sit still so Lora is holding her arm so I can try and get a decent picture!!

Madilyn found the chex mix Christmas morning that Aunt Jeri makes each of us. Doesn't she look cute in her pocka dotted vest Grandma got her? :)

Caught...eating ginger snap cookies. Can life get much better than that?

Donut Day!

So this year I finally made it home for donut day. It took a great deal of convincing family members what an asset I would be if they waiting for me. Every year the girls spend a whole day making donuts to take around to my mom's and grandma's friends for the holiday season. This year Lora found aprons we had made during one of our Mother Daughter dates. Mine still fits however, Lora's was a little bit small, but she was trooper and still wore it.

Look at all those donuts around the countertops!

Madiyn helping out with the frosting

Madilyn's first donut...oh the excitement!!

Playing some football with her uncles

Poor Sick Baby

On Wednesday I recieved a phone call that Madilyn had a tempature of 101.7. I left work and went to go pick her up. After spending the rest of the afternoon trying to get her tempature down it was finally time for her to go to sleep. The next morning we woke up and she still had a fever so we decided it was time to take a day off and hang out. All Madilyn wanted was for me to hold her and lay on top of me and sleep. So I decided I would make our sick day fun and made a big bed on the living room floor with lots of blankets and wrap her with her favorite little blanket, Grandma made her. I grabbed the animal crackers and her juice and we sent and watched cartoons. Well as long as I could.:) I really don't like cartoons that much so we compromised and watched some of her shows and than some of mine. It was so nice spending the whole day with Madilyn and not feeling the pressure that I should be doing something else.

Madilyn has since went to the doctor finding out that she has a double ear infection. Here's a picture of her 3 days after being on the antibiotics. Back to happy baby sleeping through the nights. :)

Halloween

This year we spent Halloween in SJ. It was so much fun being with everyone. We first started with the town Halloween parade where all the children walk around town and down main street showing off their costumes. Afterwards we ended up at the park for hotdogs and playing. Madilyn tried the swings for the first time and absolutely loved them.

Do you like the antennas??

I loved the back of this costume. Everytime she bent over her little butt would look so cute. :)

Later on that night we went tricker treating with Aunt Lora. It was great we made bank on candy. Madilyn was a huge hit with her costume and cuteness, which produce more candy. Lora and I felt like little kids again on Halloween. We had planned just to go around the block, but ended up being out for 1 1/2 hours.

When we got back from trick or treating Kyle, Candice, and Cord Whiting thought it would be fun to dress up and scare the kids that came to the door. It actually was a lot of fun watching the kids get so scared they would run screaming from our door. Oh the joys of scaring little children. Waahahaha!! We ended the night watching scary movies. A perfect way to end a wonderful holiday like Halloween. :)

Kyle as the "Mask", Candice as the "Witch", and Cord as the "Bull"

Birthday Girl!!

Madilyn turned 1 years old on September 28th. We had a birthday celebration at Grandma's house in St. Johns. Strawberry Shortcake was the theme of the party. I decided I wanted to make her cake. So after several visits to cake decorating stores I was able to find all the supplies to make the perfect Strawberry Shortcake cake. Her party ended up being lots of fun with her cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents. What else could a girl ask for on her birthday!!

She loved the strawberry frosting and got very upset when I thought she had enough.

Showing everyone all her presents!

Checking out her new hair bows Aunt Candice and Uncle Kyle gave her.

Anticipating her next gift!

Madilyn loves cell phones so when she got one from her cousins she was thrilled!!

Growing up!

Madilyn has been growing so much in that past couple months. Last week she started standing up with no hands and if you say "Yea Madilyn" she will start clapping for herself. She loves playing and getting into everything. I can't believe she will be one years old in 19 days. Time seems to go by so much faster when you have kids. Below are some pictures from the last month. :)

Paris darling :)

Hey look at me I can drink out of a cup!

Girl loves her food!

Ahhh...just another day helping mom with the laundry

Visiting mom at her office. Showing off my new skills. :)