Fall is in the Air

These past few mornings when i have gotten out of bed you could feel that fall has come. And I HATE IT!!! I am totally a summer person. i love everything about the summer: the hot weather, shorts and sandals, swimming, yard work, boating, and not getting dark early. So I am kicking and screaming going into this next season, plus it seems like summer just started. Garrett on the other hand loves this time of year. HUNTING SEASON STARTS!!! He is going on thursday with 6 other crazy friends to hunt for 6 days. I think the girls and i are going to Bosie to my sister in laws house to visit for the weekend. The kids are always asking to go see Jace and Ivey. One good thing about the fall is the season for T.V. shows start back up, and i have to say I really do love hot chocolate on a cold day.

Happy Birthday Madalyn !!!!

Madalyn turned 5 years old yesterday, she was very excited for this day to come she has been asking when is my birthday? She knew that summer is almost over and then that means it's her birthday.


She loves strawberry shortcake, so we had to make her a cake with her on it. When she saw it she was very surprised and very happy.

This was at her birthday party that night. We had all the family over. We are lucky to have lots of family around. We had a madie's grandparents, great grandparents, aunts uncles and cousins.

We started the morning by opening gifts from us, she was awake by 6:30am. She got roller skates, finger paints, a new coat, and some beads to make things, and color books.
morgan just could not wait she wanted to help open gifts really bad.

The roller skates were a big hit, she wears them all over the house. She is getting better. I hope we don't end up with a broken arm.
Madalyn with all her gifts from us. Grandma McGary(my mom) took her to town to lunch and shopping, she had so much fun. She talked all about her day in town when she got home. She was nice enough to let Morgan tag along with them. As i look back over the years i am amazed at how much joy Madalyn has brought to our family. It seems like just yesterday we brought her home from the hospital, she was such a hard baby but she has really changed. Madalyn you have become my big helper over the past year. I love you very much and love all the happiness you bring to the family. I love seeing your desire to do what is right, your testimony is growing everday. You are a great example to your parents, and are helping us to being forever family.

oh a fishing we will go......

We are back from our fishing trip to rufus woods, we left on thursday and got back home late saturday night. We decided to rent a cabin up there and not camp. It was so nice to have that and not worry about cooking over a camp fire. Plus it was really hot up their and the kids would have been so hot in the tent. Chad and Jande came up for 2 of the days, that made it nice to have them up their. The fishing was great, we caught 30 fish. We could have had alot more but with kids we had to take lots of breaks and do other things.
This is the view from our cabin, it was really pretty.
This was the last fish we caught before coming home, we caught these in the last 2 hours.

Coming home in the dark, we fished on the boat the whole time. It worked out great.
The girls loved the fish, they really enjoyed the camp fire and smores. Garrett was in heaven with all the fish we caught, this was the most fish i had ever caught in one weekend.
Madalyn and Natalie enjoying some time off the boat at the cabin.
kyla and morgan are great friends and love being silly together.
Natalie loved that she could get in and out of her own chair
We loved spending time together as a family. We came home with lots of great fish to eat, and lots of great memories.

The Fashion Queen goes to School

Today was Madalyn's first day of Preschool, she was so excited for today to come. She woke up at 6:00 am and came in and wanted to know if she was late for school. She turns 5 on the 22nd of this month so she is really ready for school.



She is my fashion queen, she loves shopping for clothes and thinks she needs everything. She already has the next 5 days of school clothes picked out on what she is going to wear on what day she will wear them. She keep saying that she looked so cute. I wanted her to wear some green pants that looked so cute with this but she said that today was a special day and she had to sparkle. Her pink pants have sparkles all over them. She was very excited about her new skecher shoes, they make her run really fast. This is a picture of her teacher Mrs. Gray. There are 6 kids in the preschool the teacher wants to keep it small, which makes me very happy more one on one time.

The other girls wanted to pretend that they were going to school too.

Thank Heaven for little Girls

I wanted to take a minute to thank my Heavenly Father for these 3 wonderful girls that he has given Garrett and I. I love having three girls so close in age (most of the time), they are really good friends and big helpers to each other. I love everything about having girls, the cute clothes, all the hair bows, dress up clothes, the sweet little smiles that melt your heart. When i was a few weeks away from having Madalyn (i didn't know if she was a girl or a boy) i was crying to garrett one night cause i thought that she was a boy and i wanted a girl sooooooooo bad. I guess that is why i have all girls now. We love the girls and hope to someday get a boy.