forgotten pics

I completely forgot that I took some pictures with my other camera over the holidays.

Over Thanksgiving we went to play with Blythe and her new baby brother, Emerson. The girls admiring the little bundle of joy...
Madelyn hanging out with Pop...
We also went to visit Clint's aunt and uncle. Here is the ex-math teacher Don showing Madelyn how to use his calculator!
Betsy invited our Bible study group (and all our kids) over for breakfast...very fun! thanks Betsy! In the pic...Reid, River, M, and Carter

Madelyn holding "Baby Flora"...
Poor Karen sometimes has to push this heavy load when we go somewhere with Jensen. I offered to push it once and it is heavy :) Don't they look cozy though?
Madelyn in her hand-made sweater by my mom's Aunt Josette sent all the way from France!

DART

Just for fun, we rode the DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) with Jensen! It was a first for us...

waiting on the train...

We actually missed our first TWO trains...we obviously have no idea how to use public transportation :) Once on the correct train, there was much excitement...

seeing the sights...
We rode to downtown Carrollton where we had lunch and walked around the town square. Then we continued heading south (just to make the train ride longer) before we hopped on a train back home.
Madelyn got the Barney doll for Christmas, and it has already accompanied us to many places!

Happy New Year!!

Jen and Gui were in town, so they spent the afternoon with us! We parted about 6 pm as they had fun plans for the evening and ours was to stay home and be in bed by 10 :)

the girls...

and every other combination of pic...we were having fun with the headbands!

Madelyn and Jen playing doctor...

an intense game of Chess...
Clint, Madelyn, and I rang in the new year with a champagne toast (ok Madelyn had water and it was 7pm)! Madelyn was having a blast shouting "Happy New Year" to us over and over! After she was snug in her bed, Clint and I watched Glee (we are netflixing it and are obsessed!) and shared this festive dessert....
Thanks to Jen and Gui for bringing Madelyn some fun "green" kitchen toys! And thanks also to Granny and Papa for the adorable "Pinkalicious" PJs Madelyn is wearing!

Christmas in Sinton!

We spent Christmas at my Granny and Papa's house and of course took WAY too many pictures, so I turned them into a bunch of collages to include as many as possible. I'm sure they are not in the right order, and I don't know if the pictures from each collage even go together, but here they are...

Family photos first...all the "kids" with their significant others...

We tried this picture at least 5 times and the guys kept not participating. By the time they agreed, I guess Madelyn had had enough :( Still funny though...not sure what my family's obsession with the moose is...

My parents, Madelyn, me, Clint, Kristi and Kyle...

Before opening presents, Madelyn passed out the ones she made for everyone...her "glue projects"

here come the presents!

Madelyn trying out a few of her new toys...

Granny and Papa with me, Clint, and M

Madelyn with her great-grandparents! so special...

My dad and Granny in the kitchen! Granny does all the (delicious) cooking, but when my dad gets there, he helps out...

Madelyn's super-cute place setting! and the very fun Santa boot centerpiece!

Madelyn in front of Aunt Sharon's gorgeous tree, and playing games with Brandy on the IPad. Aunt Sharon at the appetizer table, and a festive elk...

We played lots of games...

Clint received 2 games at our brown bag (white elephant) gift exchange. Yay! I love games! I got a Starbucks gift card and coffee mug. I also love Starbucks :) The bottom right is a little Wii action!

more family...

Madelyn having a tea party with Uncle Kyle, eating way too much chocolate pie with Popio, giving Popio a new hairdo, and trying on Papa's hat...

Hanging out with Papa while wrapped up like a present...

another tea party...with Aunt Sharon and Daddy

Madelyn had a blast grocery shopping in the pantry, Clint and Travis played a little Chess, and the bottom pic looks like some guy talk...

We were so fortunate to have such a wonderful Christmas with family! It was great to see everybody! Thanks to Granny and Aunt Sharon for all your hard work to make the holiday so special!

Merry Christmas!!

We opened presents a few days early at our house since we would be traveling to Sinton. We drank hot chocolate (chocolate milk for M) and opened presents in our PJs first thing that morning!

displaying her first present...

she's excited to GIVE too...
She got this robe and thought it was very cool to match Daddy...
showing off her robe!
Thanks Alex for the new doll...
Stocking Stuffers!!
Sinton pictures...coming soon!

too cute!

The other day, Madelyn specifically asked to wear her reindeer t-shirt, this sweater, and her scarf. She looked so cute, so I couldn't resist taking lots of pics...here are my favorite poses!

She wants to dress herself more often these days, and she doesn't always come up with an outfit that matches as well as this one does. I'm sure there will be future blog postings on that. In fact, I should have taken a picture of what she wore to the park today! next time...

Since Madelyn moved up to the "big kid" class at school, she was in the Christmas program!! I had the video camera but also took one picture. I made it big so you could try to find her...she is sitting on the floor shaking bells on the bottom right...

Hopefully I will get the video uploaded sometime (I keep saying that about different things...we'll see if it ever happens) so you can see Madelyn sing, do some hand motions, and most importantly PICK HER NOSE on stage!!!

Pop came to visit for a few days! He and Madelyn took her baby doll for a walk :)