30 Already??? . . . Really?

Well, I'm about to turn 30 (next Tues. to be exact) and can't believe it.

The celebration starts today with my birthday surprise from my husband! I have no clue what it will be but he did get my parents to watch Madi and said to be ready at 3 o'clock today! I will post all about it very soon.

I decided to post the 30 best things about turing 30 for me! So here goes:

30. Aerobics 3 days a week - much needed exercise!

29. New friends

28. Vanilla Cokes from Sonic

27. My newest passion of journaling - thanks Shari!

26. Scrapbooking

25. People Magazine

24. The park with Madi - she LOVES being outside!

23. Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Desperate Housewives . . . I could go on!

22. Laundry - Yes I love doing laundry!

21. Finding new recipes to try out on Matt & Madi

20. Crest White Strips - Gotta have pearly whites!

19. Swim lessons coming up for Madi

18. Nebraska trip over Spring Break - can't wait!

17. My new lipstick from Estee Lauder

16. Black Raspberry Vanilla Body Cream from Bath & Body Works

15. Jon & Kate Plus Eight

14. DVR - the best invention EVER

13. Chili's chips and hot sauce

12. Mexican food - especially Jorges

11. My new hair color (Pix to come!)

10. The best birthday present ever from my husband -

If you know me, then you know how much I LOVE to take pictures.

9. All the new babies being born right now - Mylee, Landry, Foster . . .

8. Blogging about our lives for distant family & friends

7. My parents are the best!

6. Madi's Grandparents - the girl is so blessed!

5. Being able to stay home wiht my adorable daughter. She won't be little for long!

4. My family

3. Madison is the most precious gift!

2. Matt - the most AMAZING husband

1. My walk with the Lord is more important that ever!

Cousin Tuck

We kept cousin Tuck while Shelle took Tripp to the doctor - nothing serious just stuffy nose! They were both so cute and actually sat still long enough for me to snap this pic.

Again, we need to get this child some toys. She found her Daddy's belt and held onto it all day long.

Get this child some toys!!!

Every Tuesday morning, Madi and I meet our friends at the mall for some play time and walk time. Well, this past Tuesday morning I was running late so Madi was playing in the bathroom while I got ready. I noticed her by the dirty clothes, but didn't think anything of it. Then as I was getting dressed I noticed she had her Daddy's underwear (and yes they were dirty!) on her head. I quickly grabbed the camera and started clicking away. She usually runs from the camera but this morning she was loving it!

Poor child obviously needs some new toys!

Her mommy and daddy are so proud!

Work on Valentines Day ? ? ?

Matt worked the gym at his school on Valentines Day. So our day was a little different than normal, but great none the less. Madi and I took Daddy lunch up at school. Then we walked ALL over the school. Madi thinks it's her own personal playground.

Then we took a few pics . . .

Daddy gives the best kisses!!!

Matt always gets mad that I don't put pics of me on the blog.

Well, I'm not very photogenic (spell?) and usually the one taking pictures so it's just easier to leave those pics out. But I decided to get a few of me and Madi just for Matt. I'm not sure what was so funny in this first pic.

You can see Matt's lovely classroom in the background. His walls would be so bare without Star Wars and Hockey posters!

Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day!

We took this pic for family and friends . . .

And we took this one for her Daddy!

I figured emailing Valentine wishes was a whole lot easier than mailing them out.

I know, I know . . . lazy!

Hope your Valentines Day was wonderful!

Grandpa is the Greatest!

Grandpa and Grandma re-did their floors and had some extra wood left over so Grandpa made Madison a box for her toys. As you can clearly see, Madi thinks it fits HER perfectly.

We were getting ready for bathtime and Madi took off from the bathroom.

This is where I found her!

She loves this box!

The Purses AGAIN!

The purses go everywhere with Madison. And if anything is ever missing, the purses are the first place I look. I've found the remote control, her sippy cups and just today we found Cousin Tucker's pacifier in there too.

She's too funny!

30 in Las Vegas!!!

Matt and I decided to celebrate our 30th birthdays in Vegas. Well, not our acutal birthdays, but in between them at least. My mom stayed with Madi here at our house. That was the hardest part of the trip, leaving our baby!

We found this adorable PINK golf part in the Forum Shops of Ceasers.

Now we need to get Grandpa and Grandma to get Madi one! JK!

Thank goodness for Matt's long arms or we wouldn't have been able to have a pic of the two of us.

Matt complained but we had to get this pic for our nephew Tripp!

The following pics are from a wax museum that we went to. I forgot the name of the place, but some of the statues were amazing.

The sign said that if you touched J-Lo's butt, then she's blush. It's true!

This is the fountain show at the Bellagio. Beautiful!

We also saw KA and the magician Lance Burton. If you are ever in Vegas, go eat at Diablo's in the Monte Carlo for AWESOME mexican food.

We had a great time, but are SOO glad to be at home with our sweet, sweet girl!

Somebunny's all warm!

Thanks Aunt Erin for the adorable bunny hat and mittens!

Do I HAVE to wear it?

Anything to go outside!

Cousin Ethan's 3rd Birthday!

We loaded up and headed to Roswell Saturday for Cousin Ethan's 3rd Birthday.

It was so difficult to get all 3 to look at us.

Madi LOVED all the balloons.

She wanted to carry one around the entire party.

Cousin Owen crawling around outside. He's taking a few steps . . . won't be long now!

Cousin Ethan got golf clubs for his birthday and of course Uncle Matt had to try them out!

Owen was the only one that would look at the camera for me. Such a cutie!

All 3 cousins had so much fun playing outside. Ethan mowed the yard for the party!