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.
We took the pumpkins outside and put candles in them, we can't wait for Halloween. The kids are going to be cow girls.
Now to the Prayers are really answered: everyday we pray for our families protection, Monday was a day that our family was truly watched over. It was after lunch, Natalie loves to go outside and it's sometimes really hard to keep her happy in the house. Garrett and I were in the kitchen talking and outside our sliding glass door we have a small porch then a large cement patio where the kids ride there bikes. We opened the door and let Natalie play with the dog on the porch, we were standing right there, and could see her. Then no more then a few seconds go by and she is not on the porch anymore, Garrett runs outside to check on her and she is in the middle of the road. She had followed the dog. Now we don't live in town where kids play in the road and the traffic is slow. The raod by our house is 55 mph and lots of trucks are going by our house because of harvest time. We could have lost her so easy that day, it makes me cry when ever i think about it. We were truly watch over that day and given a wake up call, the kids can no longer go outside by themselves. Our Heavenly Father Watches over us.
Emily's birthday is Halloween the 31st, so we always have lots of fun during this time of year with decorations and food. Emily had made cupcakes and we frosted and decorated them last night. With kids it's always really messy, but the kids loved trying to make spiders, mummies and pumpkins. We love spending time with Aunt Emmy, Morgan said this morning when she woke up" we always make fun things with emily, can she come back tonight" (last year they made a gingerbread house together)
