CPS Poster Child

My sister Lora took this picture of Madilyn during the 4th of July weekend. I just think it's such a funny picture. The pitiful face she can make just makes me laugh. It's just so dang cute. The other thing that I find funny is the dead beat mom in the background taking a nap. It doesn't seem to phase her a bit. It looks like Madilyn's doing a public service announcement for CPS. :) LOL

** 4th of July **

The 4th of July was a lot of fun. Madilyn and I were able to spend it in St. Johns. Nothing like waking up at 5am to cannons going off. It just screams...it's the 4th of July wake up!! I actually have always loved the cannons going off though. Once we were up and ready we headed down to the park for a little BBQ and some chit chatting with friends and family.

Look at the festive ribbon in her hair!!

Cute little Claire :)

Watch out single ladies!!

Summer Fun

Family love :)

BBQ Fun!
On June 27th my brother Kyle came home from his mission. It's been so nice having all my brothers and sisters back together again. The past few weeks have been crazy filled with lots of family get togethers.

Patient

After a few sleepless nights rocking and consoling my daughter. I decided to take her to the doctor. I'm so glad I did she ended up with an ear infection on top of teething. Not something that is pleasant for Madilyn or her mom. I did however after two sleepless nights using tylenol, which is a bunch of crap found infant IB profin. It works for a whole 8 hours at a time...beautiful!! When we were at the doctors office she was the perfect little patient. She just set so still when he was checking her heartbeat and lungs. It was even cute when he was standing talking she looked up at him like she was listening to everything he had to tell her to get better. Very cute little patient. :)

Ever since Madilyn's teeth came in she has been making all kinds of facial expressions. It's so dang cute. This particular outfit she's wearing is one my Mom saved from when I was a baby. I wish I had the picture of me wearing it. That would be a fun comparison.

Swimming Season

Swimming season has began. I've been waiting for this time since February. I was so excited to take Madilyn for her first time. So the first day in May that it hit triple digits we were out in the water. The day was so nice and the water was freezing. I thought for sure I would get some kind of squeal out of Madilyn, but nothing just a look at me like "what do you have me doing now?" I put her in her raft/floaty and she laid her head back and just floated. Once I got her use to it she started to splash and flash her fabulous grin.

We just had our first Mommy Tot lesson on Tuesday. It was so much fun. Madilyn really enjoyed it. Before the end of the summer little miss thing will be doing cherry bombs!!

Little cutie patutie!!

Working on her summer tan :)

Arthritis Walk

The first of May we spent the morning at the Phoenix Zoo doing a walk for Arthritis. I thought this would be a great opportunity for Madilyn to see all the different animals. We started off on the walk passing by the giraffes. There was one right next to us eating out of his bin. I was so excited for Madilyn to see this large animal for the first time. However, after several minutes trying to get her attention to focus on this large animal it was apparent she was more interested in the hundreds of people doing the fundraiser walk. So Jill, Sara and I enjoyed the rest of our walk watching the animals while Madilyn observed all the people. I will have to try it again next year maybe she'll be more interested.

There was only a river and wall to my knees between this cheetah and myself!!