Holidays

We had a wonderful holiday season! Traditions changed some this year, but we made the best of it and still had a great time with family. 

Apparently this is the only picture I took for Thanksgiving...

 I made Madelynn's shirt (With moms help!) and we did our normal Thanksgiving meal with Jeff's family at his Grandma's house. YUM!!

Christmas with Jeff's family is traditionally at our house. This year we did a pot luck and Jeff's mom made chicken and dumplings. Everyone came over and we did gifts for the kids, and a gift exchange game for the adults. Madelynn had a very Disney Junior Christmas this year! (Similar to last year's Thomas Christmas!) 

Madelynn and her cousin Nate!

State Fair of Texas!

In October, we went to State Fair! We always have a lot of fun and eat too much food! 

This is the parade that they have downtown at the start of the fair each year. We took the train to the fair, so we stopped downtown to eat lunch and watch the parade before heading to the fair. 

Looking at all the cars is always fun...Madelynn liked "testing" them out.

And you HAVE to get a Fletchers' Corn Dog!

Daddy won her some prizes...

She LOVES things you ride on. ANYTHING... cars, roller coasters...anything!

Playing at the pretend farm. 

And MY favorite...petting and feeding the zebras!

Florida Vacation 2012

As a family of 3 we had never been on an actual vacation. In fact, Jeff and I have never been on a vacation that required an airplane. When Jeff's friend Casey and his wife moved to Boca Raton, Florida we decided that we would come visit. We had SO much fun. This was Madelynn's first time on a beach and I think she would have moved in. We had a great time trying out new beaches, finding good food, and spending time with friends. 

This was her first time to play at the beach. I did not think I was EVER going to get all of the sand off of her....

So cute collecting seashells. She keeps all of the seashells she collected in her "treasure box" (a pink ballerina music box).

I thought the area behind Casey's house was landscaped beautifully!

 We stayed in a hotel our last night there. 

So sad...did not want to go home...

My Sweet Family

Doing pretty good at catching up! 

Here are some of our pictures from our photo session for Madelynn's birthday. I wanted more family pictures this time and was very pleased! 

Minnie Mouse

As I mentioned before, Madelynn had a Minnie Mouse Birthday party. My mom so wonderfully made this cute Minnie Mouse inspired dress and I made the bows and shoes. I am so in love with how it turned out. Here are her 3 year old pictures taken in the outfit. 

(My favorite)

 Silly girl...