A little bit of everything!

So obviously I haven't posted in a VERY long time... And I apologize to the few people that do actually read this...
As my previous post states, I don't get along that great with this blogger site, and that statement is still accurate. :) I uploaded many pictures and I hope to be able to give you a story line and a great update... but they appear to be out of order and all mixed up. SO alas..... scroll through and enjoy and I will try not to be frustrated with the annoying unorganized, scrambled pictures and little comments...

SO.... Madison turned two! Crazy right?!? This little punkin had the day of her life! We let her wear her favorite Dora p.j's all day and we just had a laid back fun day for a little girl who turned two!

Apple Slices!!! Right on!

A streamer runway! This was probably the best part of the whole day for her!

She got a potty for her birthday! This is not your ordinary potty either! This baby sings when you have a successful potty break! :) Ha! Who knew they made such amazing things for little girls to go potty on?? I mean it really is a throne!

With a throne comes panties for the little princess..... Already catching on! 

She got a backpack for her birthday... it has Elmo on it and she loves it! And she also got a little cowgirl outfit and she decided she needed to wear the belt! So funny.... What an outfit right?

So take a time out and we are going to rewind a little bit....

I threw this one in here just to simply show the unusefulness of this wonderful pet gate. :) Ha ha... it actually helps quite a bit... but I found it very funny and interesting that my child had managed to crawl through the tiny pet door... and then proceeded to leave the room the same way. Shesh... it was suppose to be for the cats to use.

I am throwing this picture in here just so you can see kind of how Madi's room is set up now... It is messy and crazy... but I promised to put up some after pictures.. and this is the best I found... You will see if you look closely this is more for a mischevious act by Madi...

And here is an upclose... She found the baby powder after a nap... and while it seemed like a rather long nap.. I was unconcerned because she was quiet so I figured she must have been really tired and needed an extra long nap.... Little did I know...

She was busy busy busy....

Whoops....

And another time out mischevious act! She found the diaper rash cream and proceeded to cover her face and her baby's.... Always thinking of others right?

This is an after picture of our living room.... Messy and unkept but I said I would post them..

How cool is this little girl??

Okay so another switch of direction... For Brian's birthday in June, I bought him tickets to a motocross event down in Vegas! We turned it into a very nice getaway for the two of us... and we had a blast!!



So to all my fellow wives... This is what happens when you turn your hubby loose at the rental car counter. Apparently we got a "great deal" and lucky us... we got the "last available car in the whole rental car place!" Ha ha ha... but bless his little heart he had a very enjoyable time driving it. :)

And I guess I did too! :)

We went exploring in a Casino/Hotel place and found a neat aquarium so we decided to check it out!

And I'm pretty sure none of you will care nearly like we did... BUT after the aquarium we went outside and there was a huge promotional thing going on for the motocross thing, as well as nascar or some sort of car thing... and a few other events going on that weekend... BUT we happened to be outside at the same time Jeff Emig and Kevin Windham were signing autographs... Like I said... I know most of you have no idea who these guys are... Let's just say it was very exciting and so much fun to actually get to meet them!! And the proof of a picture! :)

We got to go to the Las Vegas temple with my best friend and her hubby!! It was a beautiful temple!! They all are.. but with all the lights it was amazing!!

So like I said.. out of order... but at the Airport!

So here is my hubby very excited to be taking another picture with me! :) This was at the actual thing I bought tickets for. It was the Monster Energy Cup if any of you are actually interested enough to want to know what we went for..

And yes it's true... Sad but true... it was time to get rid of Buck Buck... so on our way back we bought a new vehicle... (which i LOVE!) A lovely Pathfinder... so as to not be stranded in the snow or pummeled by a semi in the lovely land we live in now days! :)

Good-bye Buck Buck.... We had some wonderful times together! I will miss this car!

SO AGAIN... rewind... this is back in August I believe...

Look at these cool babes!

Water break

King of the Mountain! :) No worries grandma is strategically placed behind little Madi to gaurd her from falling...

So a big discovery we had over the summer were the "Hops!"... Grasshoppers were fascinating to her! She LOVED them... she even started hopping because of them.. She will hop everywhere if you ask her to now... And she was not afraid to get a little close to the little bugs...

Must examine closely!

They are so cool!!

So we had a garden... and Madi and I spent lots of time there... the basil got so big Madi would back up right to it and sit in the plant! So funny..... We had great high hopes for some great peppers and fun pumpkins, yummy potatoes, carrots, onions, squash, cantelope, watermelon, corn, cucumbers.... BUT...

Alas, I live in the artic tundra and before my peppers and things could ripen the frost came and killed it all in one night! p.s. this was in August.... :(

This were the rewards we reaped... Most of it was not ripe enough to eat... :(

BUT... I did just set my green pumpkins on my steps and over time they turned orange and by Halloween they were nice and orange!

Our lawn!

And we have adopted a new kitty... he showed up at our door step meowing... and being the suckers that we are we couldn't bear to let him shiver in the cold... so we said we would let him in for 1 night. So he camped out... locked in the bathroom... and alas we still have him. :) Lets just say we hope no other dropped off homeless animals come scampering out way!

His name is PITA.... :)

Summer Fun

What a GREAT summer we have had!! Sorry it has been so long since I updated our blog... But today is the day I am going to try and catch you all up and what has been happening in our little world. :)

We finally got around to painting the house... so this is before.....








And this is mid-way.....

This is before.....

UGH!! To say i'm having a hard time with this blog post doesn't even do it justice... I have downloaded and re-downloaded pictures... I have tried to post them to this page... Anyways some other time I will add the final pictures. Right now I'm going to scream. When i'm done throwing my tantrum I will come back and finish this post..... and perhaps not post again for 2 months.... My brother says computers don't do anything that you don't tell them to.... sometimes I don't agree with that. :) Stupid stupid......

We started the summer all together... and yes I do realize we are all in sweatshirts.. I promise it was June.... :) In June I went again down to Farmington for school and Madi and Brian stayed here. Donna came and watched Madison which was a huge blessing for us and made it much easier to leave. Brian celebrated his birthday while I was gone... :( Poor guy.... We had a little surprise party before he left, but still lame to miss your hubby's birthday... The big 30 even!! :)

When I came back I was only home a week before Madi and I flew out to WA to visit P-town and help out there...  I was there 2 weeks and then the Armstrong's decided they wanted to keep Madi until Brian and I were coming back 3 weeks later.... (Stick with me I realize there is alot of time phrases that mean nothing but it will all come together... promise) At first I just laughed at them... but then I talked with Brian about it and we realized the things we could get done... So we ended up agreeing to it, and I flew home without lil Madison......

While she was gone we got a TON of stuff checked off the list that had haunted me for a YEAR! So that was lovely. LOVELY!! We finished the extra bedroom - we had to mud and texture the walls- and then we painted it pretty purple and moved Madison into that bedroom. We painted our living room and also our bedroom!! I can't even explain how happy this made me! It took all 3 weeks to get it all done, and the day before we were leaving was the day the house finally got put (mostly) back together. :) Hopefully I will be able to post the rest of the pics showing what all we did... but like stated before... I'm not getting along with this program thing so not sure it's going to happen... :)

So here follow some pics of what Madison did.... and what we also did while we were in different states...

She slept extremely well there!

All the Rowe's got together at Doug and Donna's new house and we had a very fun weekend riding, shooting trap, and eating yummy food.

Madi helped make pancakes in the mornings...

I got my garden cleaned up, thinned out and back to life - for the most part...

She learned what swimming was all about. My parents have a pool and Madi LOVED the water! She has always loved splashing, and water coming out of faucets, and buckets of water... but a pool..... she was really loving it.

Just another rough day without mom and dad.... what to do.. what to do...

She met some beautiful horses

Made some more friends

Her and Alyssa became great pals. Alyssa took her to some tot swimming lessons... and they had a lot of fun! Madi learned how to go underwater and hold her breath even! A "bob" if you will... I had to get caught up to speed by Alyssa when I got there.

Hee hee... I love this picture!

She learned what smelly markers are all about. Has anyone seen these type of markers recently? Can't say I have... these markers are from years ago!! BUT they still smell!!

She learned breakfast is a very serious time of the morning....

And she gained one heck of an attitude.... ha ha ha I wish I could blame that all on them... unfortunately I know that's not the problem.

She was taught how to thin properly.... ha ha ha ha... no but she did learn that Daisy would chase any apple Madi threw... no matter how many times...

She made a really good friend. Her and Alyssa are quite the pals....

Finally Brian and I made the trek across to WA... It is right at 1000 miles and it took us ALL day.... another reason we decided it was okay to leave Madi there... she HATES the car seat, and one less 1000 miles in it was an okay thing! :)




So we played in WA... and i forgot to get pics from all of our events... so hopefully I will post those soon too... but we did take family pics. Betsy took the pictures for us and it was super fun and great! Even Brian said it wasn't that bad! :) So here are some of them...

And we made the trek home.... 1000 miles... It took us 2 days this time. Poor Madi couldn't take the car seat more than 12 hours at a time... ha ha ha

We stopped in Bozeman and it was the best stop ever. The hotel had a pool and we loaded our stuff into the hotel and then we went straight to the pool and played for a good hour. Madison LOVED it. It made the day so much better for all of us. She laughed and splashed and had so much fun in the pool.

We came home to storms... but the storms brought lots of rain which in turn brough a "pool" for Madi... Ha ha ha poor thing.. we have no pool so when she saw the water she was sure it was there for swimming in. So I let her.. put her in her swimsuit and let her have a blast... It was all fun and games until she started laying on her tummy and then rolling... in the mud....

That is when we went to the tub... But of course I got a picture before we went inside. And yes that is mud on her nose... :)

 Her stylish look now days! :) I love that she is such a girl... hilarious.. I don't really even have a purse but she has taken this little pink bag and made it her purse! So funny!!

This is what happens when you put your child in "quiet time" and they actually are QUIET!! :) When she had been quiet for 20 min. I decided something must be up and this is what I found....She had taken diaper rash cream and pasted her face!! And I was hoping she had actually fallen asleep... HA HA HA jokes on me! :) My favorite part of this was she made sure to cover her baby's face too!

I braided her hair! It was very fun for me... This is what it looked like a day later. I had her sleep on it!

She somehow pulled up skype and got so excited and I came over to find her talking to no one but really telling "no one" a HUGE story... so funny!! All by herself...

So that has been our summer thus far... As it comes to a close it has been super fun and busy. But I have really enjoyed it! I love getting things checked off and we were able to have some real fun family adventures! We hope you are having a great summer as well!!