Just the kid

We haven't been up to much lately, just a lot of work. I am taking off this weekend to take Maddie home for the week. I have a conference in Sheridan, so Maddie gets to spend the week with Grandme Carol, Grandpa Howard, and Grandma Susie. I am sure she is excited as are the grandparents. I am a little anxious, but I think every mom is when they leave their kids, even when it is the people you trust most in the world. Robbie is excited to get a week's worth of good sleep, which I can't blame him at all. I'm hoping to have more pictures after the week, but we will see, I always seem to just plain forget to take pictures. But until then, here are a few.

This is one of my favorites, she sat on Daddy's lap for quite a few minutes just staring at him, it was so adorable. She hadn't seen much of him, cause he was out on alert so much, so she was obviously thrilled to be sitting on his lap.
Here is Maddie and Aunt Carrie, she just loves her.
And of course Maddie just playing, happy as always!!

Maddie's Singing Voice

So this past Sunday I went to church with my sister, and Maddie was in the best mood ever and just thought it would be awesome if she talked the whole time. Well thank goodness it was a big church, so not too many people heard her. But the best was that during every song she would just start singing, it was so dang cute. Well last night we were listening to the radio and Maddie started singing all over again. I actually got it on video this time, so here you go, hope you all enjoy. Forgive my laughing and prompting in the background.

There hasn't been too much else going on here, except for a pretty grumpy baby. She is teething and is miserable. My baby girl doesn't cry for no apparent reason and on Sunday evening she cried for 2 hours straight, then proceeded to wake up five times during the night. And of course this all happened when Daddy was out on Alert, thank god for good patience.

Maddie also went in for her 4 month checkup on Friday and is healthy as a horse. She was 14 lbs, 14 oz, 24 3/4 inches. She was in the 75th percentile for both. She is so big and seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. She is now rolling over all the time, and loving every minute of it. Anyway I included another picture of her, because her eyes just look so blue in this one, couldn't resist.

Look at those Baby Blues!

Maddie Has also started to eat solid foods, and as you can tell by this picture, she's just loving it!

Mom and Dad have been very busy working, seems like Mom has meetings all the time, and Dad is gone a lot, since he is back in the squadron and pulling alerts more often. However Maddie is super excited because she gets to go spend a whole week with her Grandmas soon. Mom has to go to a Training in Sheridan, so she is going to drop Maddie off at Grandma's for the week. We can't wait!

Weekend

Here are a few more pictures from the weekend.

This is a picture of my whole family, it was so great to have them here to be a part of the girl's Baptism.
Here is Bailey and Madison. Bailey has sure turned into a fiesty little girl, but she is still cute!
This is the girls at the UW vs AF football game. We sent this picture in, and it was on the big screen during the 4th quarter, we were so excited! The game wasn't the best, but it was a win for my Hubbie, and the girls were so good the whole time!

Madison goes in for her 4 month checkup this Friday, and I am looking forward to it, just to see how much she weighs, since she is such a chunk! I will post more then!

3 Month Photos

So last Thursday before all the family came into town, we made a quick trip to Loveland to get Maddie's three month pictures. I realize that this a little late, but we have been so busy. Anyway, once we got there we had a little bit of trouble, just cause my little girl, doesn't like to lay down unless she is sleeping, but after we worked that out, she was the most photogenic little girl ever! Here are a few of the adorable pictures. We spent way too much money, but they were just so dang good!

My favorite out of all of them!
My little sophisticated daughter, isn't she adorable!

I have to say Madison is the cutest baby ever, I know I am very biased, but she is pretty dang cute!

Baptism

So I know that a lot has happened since I last posted, but the latest is Madison and Bailey's Baptism. We had tons of family come into town to see the baptism and also see the Wyoming Pokes play Air Force. We had a great time and here are a few pictures from the events.

Here is the two after the baptism's they had the cutest matching dresses.
This is the picture that we took at the UW game, we sent the picture in via text, and they got their picture put up on the big screen in the 4th quarter.

I have a lot of other pictures to post, and a lot to talk about, but for now, we still have some company and we are all trying to catch up, it sure was a busy weekend. I will post more soon, I promise!

One more catch up Picture

A month ago I also attended a going away outing for Robbie's Commander's wife at the Melting Pot in Fort Collins. Again is was amazing, as it always is, and it was a blast to be out with the girls. Here is a picture of the gang. It sure was fun, and I have to say we shut the place down, we were definitely the last to leave.

Family Pictures

I don't know if many of you remember but well over a month ago we all went to my cousins wedding, I finally have some pictures from the wedding, well actually I've had them for a while, just haven't had the time to post them. Anyway here are a few.

This one is of my Grandma Doris and the two babies, Maddie and Bailey, they were both so good that day and slept through most of it.

This one is the whole family, Brother in law Shane, Sara, Bailey, Mom, Dad, Me, Maddie, Robbie, and Carrie. Aren't we all so cute. I know we aren't very dressed up for the occasion, but please remember, it was snowing on the 7th of June!!

And here is our little family. Again Maddie slept the whole day, but she was so cute.

I will be posting new pictures of Maddie soon, she's just been so cute lately, we can't seem to put the camera down! Hope everyone has a great weekend. Ours will be quite low-key. Last weekend before fair starts, and then my next three weeks are going to get crazy, so after August 1st don't expect any posts out of me til after the middle of August.

Too much to talk about...ugh

So I have a ton to talk about and it seems like not enough time or space to do it in! But here's a start. So since the last post we took Maddie in for her 2 month check up, talk about a trip. It took forever, but was still good. We found out that Maddie was 12 lbs 6 oz, that put her in the 90th percentile, mind you that was a week and a half ago, so I am sure she is probably closer to 13 lbs by now. Anyway she is super healthy and hardly even cried when it came to her shots, what a good girl. She is doing great at the daycare, and good news her cousin is going to start going to the same daycare in August. I am so excited to have the two together everyday, plus I have to admit makes it alot easier when one of us is in a bind! She has been opening up more and more everyday and she is finally getting really interested in toys, which is so fun. Today was Cheyenne Day (in other words the whole town shuts down and it is super crazy) so we stuck around for the air show, and then decided to get out of town. We drove down to Colorado and hit Babies R Us, and I tell you what our little girl made out. She got a bunch of toys and is just loving them. We also found the cutest dresses for the girls to wear for their upcoming baptism in September. Yesterday was also a big day for Maddie, she got to attend her first Parade. The Daycare took all the kids to one of the Cheyenne Frontier Days Parade, and it was so cute. They made all the kids little shirts, and even though they couldn't get one small enough for Maddie they made one anyway and draped it over her, they were all so cute.

On another note our family has huge news. My sister Carrie got the State IT job and is moving to Cheyenne in a little over a week. We are all so excited for her. Plus the best part is that she got an apartment in my same complex so we will get to see a lot of her, we can't wait!

Over the weekend, my sister came down with some of her friends for the Rascal Flats concert. My friend Vickie also came down, I am hoping to get some pictures from her in the near future from that. Anyway we had a great time. Robbie also was really busy as he finished up the front yard. Our yards now look awesome; they are all finished and looks very professional, he did such a great job!

Here is the picture of the frong yard. We are still working on the one spot that is dying, but hopefully it will come back to life.
And these two pictures are the finished back yard, the back of the yard are all roses, and they are just now blooming and absolutely gorgeous.

I included some pictures of Maddie, hope everyone likes them she has sure become a cutie!

This is Maddie literally 30 minutes after her shots, look how happy she is. This is also her new High Chair, I know it's a little early for that, but we just love it, it reclines so we can put her in it when we are cooking in the kitchen and at the table, so she can see us. She obviously loves it too!

Here's Madison getting some tummy time on her mat, she just loves it.
Maddie hugging her new toy, something she can definitely grab onto.
And of course the most beautiful little girl in the world, she's just so happy!

Weekend Fun

So I know it's been a while and a lot has happened since then, but the first thing I want to start with is our weekend. We had such a blast. On Saturday we played Mud Volleyball, I know sounds super messy, which it was, but it was such a blast. It was also for a good cause, it was a fundraiser for MS. Anyway attached are some pictures, as you can tell we were all super messy by the end!

Here is our team after all the action


Our first team Huddle

An action pic

You're probably wondering where Madison was while we were playing in the mud, well she got to visit her cousin. My sister Sara was kind enough to babysit the whole time, and as it turned out they had a great time.

Here are Maddie and Bailey being loving cousins

The next day I went to a Bridal Shower for one of my college roomates, and it was wonderful. I have a bunch more to catch up on, but that will have to wait til another day.

Back to Work

Well today was my first day back to work, and it was so much harder than I ever imagined. However, from the sounds of it, she did great. She ate great, slept great, and was just a doll. Robbie went back to drop off her blanket at around 8:30, and he said that the daycare had already made a schedule, so that each of the other children could feed her, because they all wanted to hold her, too cute! However, they must have just worn her out because all she's done since we got home is sleep. She was happy and smiley for about 15 minutes, when she realized that it was me holding her, and then she ate and went right back to sleep. She's either growing, or just super exhausted. But all in all a decent day. Work was work, stressful cause I was gone for 7 weeks and I am all by myself now, but oh well. Anyway, attached are some pictures of her this past weekend, my mom and sister were here and we just had a great time!

Here is Maddie all dressed up in the outfit her Daddy picked out for her, doesn't he have good taste?

And here is a cute picture of my sister Carrie with Maddie, so adorable.

We are headed home for 4th of July, we are super excited to be able to go home with her as often as we can. Hope everyone has a safe and happy 4-th!

What every parent hopes for!

So the other day I was feeding Maddie, and she started holding the bottle, which by the way was great, but then I look down and to my discovery she was flipping her dad off. We both laughed so hard and then decided it was the prime opportunity to take a picture. Now I promise you that she did this on her own, we had no part in this, looks like our little one is headed down the right path, hehe!!
This is just another picture of Maddie playing. She has finally become somewhat interested in toys, so we laid her on her play mat and she just had a heck of a time smiling, talking and playing with the toys.

Here is a picture of Robbie and I and some of his co-workers from a going away party last week. We had a great time!

We have been super busy with lots of going away parties, but we are finally done with all of those. One week from today is going to be a sad day for our family. I go back to work, which is really bumming me out for many reasons, but of course the obvious one, cause that means I have to take my little one to daycare. Also Robbie goes back down to the squadron, but he finally gets to upgrade from Deputy to Commander, it's about dang time. He's been a deputy for 3 years now, which is pretty uncommon, but better late than never. I hope everyone is having a great week!!

Just a thought

So on the 27th of May, I had a breakdown with my baby, she was crying and crying and wouldn't stop for 8 hours. Well about the point that we were both bawling, I said a few choice words, and then all of a sudden I started hearing sirens fairly close to my house. We live in a townhouse so I thought maybe my neighbors heard me in my frusturation and called child-services on me, and they were coming to take my child. I know, what a dork, I came to my senses and realized that was probably not it at all. Well then I headed into our bedroom to calm down a bit, when I heard noises outside, well turns out there was an ambulance and a fire truck right outside out house, I thought they really did come to get me. Well of course they weren't, I looked across the way and the stretcher was sitting outside our neighbors house. This brings me to my real point of the story. I read last night that he had died. He was only 46 and something really hit me about this. He and his fiance were supposed to get married in the fall and he had so much to live for, let alone the nicest guy on our block. I just wanted to tell all of our friends and family, that I love each and everyone of you very much. I know we say it all the time, but it never seems to be enough. I know that each one of you have a lot to live for too, but you never know when it's going to be your time and it can hit you when you are least expecting it to. So in that thought, appreciate everyday and love those closest to you as much as possible!

Happy Father's Day and more Madison

I would like to wish all the Fathers out there a Happy Father's Day! There are so many of you and I hope that you all had a wonderful day. We sure did, we started with church and it was a great service, and another plus Madison slept the whole time. Then we drove over to Laramie to eat some Winger's. After that it's been a lazy day, and we are both completely ok with that.

Robbie with his Baby girl, all dressed up for church!

One month old, and lovin every minute of it!

Madison has gotten so animated this week, I just love it. She has finally found her voice, and she is just jabbering away. She also learned how to smile, and I love it when her big blue eyes are just staring away and then she just gets a big old grin on her face. She is eating like crazy and growing like it too. I do have some good news however, I am sure that this is just a fluke, but my baby girl has slept through the night for the past three nights. She slept for 6 straight hours on Thursday and Friday night, and then last night she slept 7 hours, it was amazing. However I woke up at 4 in the morning having a panic attack cause she hadn't woken up yet, talk about scary, however she was just fine, and decided to stay asleep for another hour after that. Let's all hope that this continues, cause I am sure liking the sleep!

We've been super busy lately, Thursday night I had a wonderful dinner with the spouses group. It was a going away for our Commander's wife and we ate at the Melting Pot in Fort Collins, it was amazing. Then Friday night we headed down to Fort Collins again for a going away for some of our other friends, Sean and Lindsey Lee. This next week is jam packed with going aways, seems like everyone we know are leaving this month. I have to say that this is the worst part of the military life, you make good friends and then they all move away, guess that is just something I will have to get used to.

Well I sure hope you all have a great week, I am hoping to get some good pictures from this weeks activities.

Trip home

Well we got home on Sunday and I have to say it was really a wonderful trip. My cousins wedding was on saturday just outside of Yellowstone and it was snowing! Yup that's right, snowing on the 7th of June, Crazy huh! It was a beautiful wedding and I will post pics from that on another date, as I was not the one taking the pictures, so I don't have any yet. Other than that it was nice to just spend time with family and friends, since it's been a long time since I have been able to do that. However, as always, it feels great to be back home and settled. However it is bittersweet since Robbie is super busy with an inspectrion this week, so I won't be seeing much of him, hopefully we will have some time together on Father's day, but who knows with the AF.

I have included some pics from the trip home, hope you all like them, and let me apologize now, sorry mom, I had to post some of you at some point, you are the grandma now!

My Sister Carrie and I with Maddie all dressed up for Church

Robbie and Maddie, he was trying to rock her to sleep, however, looks like he put himself to sleep long before she went to sleep, but I just had to snap this photo, thought it was too cute not too!

Grandma with her two grand-daughters. Bailey is on the left and Maddie is on the right, this picture is just too cute.

The cutest Cousins ever, Maddie and Bailey

The Nerve

So Sunday night at around 11 pm, I get a call from my husband. A group of people had just stolen our beautiful planters. UGH!! The nerve of some people. These planters were beautiful and my mom had planted all the flowers for me right after I had Madison. We never got a chance to take a picture of them or the finished front yard, but now I guess it will be finished without the flowers! I just can't believe people now a days, don't they have better things to do, or steal for that matter. Thankfully my neighbors saw them and alerted my husband as to what was going on, because I guess they tried to get into our backyard, but thankfully we had that pad-locked. Guess it could've been worse, but still, get a life!

Anyway, I will quit ranting now. I am still at home and loving it. It has been wonderful to just spend some time with family. I will be home on Sunday, and will have lots of pictures and such to post. Hope everyone is doing great!

A few Firsts

Well in the past couple of days we have had a couple of new things going on in our house. The first being Maddie's first time in the swing! She looks a little scared in this picture, but in truth, she just loves it, as do we, she goes to sleep everytime she's in it!

The other first, was her first real bath. We were getting ready to give her the normal sponge bath, when Rob was cleaning her belly button and it fell off! We were so excited, we got to give her a real bath. She loved it, except that she was hungry, so she cried the whole time, but other than that she really liked the water!

I thought this picture was just too cute not to include, proud daddy! He just can't seem to get enough of her, which is adorable.

Well I will be leaving for home on friday. Robbie has a big inspection coming up, so Maddie and I are going to go home for a week and spend time with the grandparents and other family! I am so excited to be going home for more than a weekend. I think that the last time I was home for an extended amount of time was in college two years ago, or more! My cousin is also getting married while I am at home, so I hope to post some wonderful pictures when I get back.

Relieved

On Friday we had our first pediatric appointment for Madison, this turned out to be quite the ordeal, even though it should've gone smoothly. After some careful listening the Doctor heard a heart murmur, these are pretty common in infants, but she was still somewhat alarmed. She said that most newborns have these, but that Maddie's was just a little bit louder than she would've liked. So after my little girl was stretched out on a cold metal slab for x-rays (no three day old baby should have to go through that), and was messed with for 15 minutes trying to get her blood pressure, the verdict was that we would have to make a trip down to Denver Children's Hospital to check things out. So today we drove down to Denver to make sure that nothing was seriously wrong with our little one. They did a quick EKG and found out that everything was perfectly normal! Thank goodness everything is ok with our baby girl!

On another note Robbie's dad was here to visit for a couple of days and he just fell in love with Maddie.

Other than that we are all doing great, Rob and I are both extremely tired, but still doing good. He goes out on alert tomorrow, and I am somewhat nervous, thank god they are only 24 hours instead of 72! More to come soon.

Our little Snuggler

Well it's been a few days now and we are finally starting to get settled in to the house and used to having a little one around. Everything has gone pretty smoothly, even the dogs love her! However Miss Maddie has decided that she just loves to be snuggled, and as you can tell we all just hate that!! We just can't seem to get enough of the little munchkin. Here are a few more pictures from her first few days home, hope you all enjoy!

As my sister Carrie likes to call her, here is my little frog. She loves to lay all bunched up in a ball on our chests, it's her favorite way to sleep.
And of course here is Daisy with Maddie. Daisy has been so cute, she is so concerned about Maddie, she is always with her or looking at her, I think she thinks she is her mama.
Here is Maddie in the Moses basket that my wonderful Auntie's gave to us. She just loved it! And of course don't miss her best feature, her bottom lip all jutted out. She's definitely her mama's daughter!

Madison Lee

After what seemed like a lot longer than 9 months, we finally have our little girl in our arms. Madison Lee was born May 13, at 5:11 AM, she weighed 7 lbs 3 oz, and was 18 3/4 inches long. She absolutely adorable, and we couldn't ask for anything more in the world. It was a long Monday when we went in to be induced, but my goal was to have her before sunrise on Tuesday and we just barely made it! We are all doing great, settling into the house, and just basically loving every moment of it. Thanks to all of those that stopped by, sent cards, presents, etc.. We have a great support group and we just love everyone of you! Here are some pics, more to come soon!

Little Madison Lee

Proud Papa, he just loves this baby girl, can hardly get him to put her down, it's so cute!!

Robbie, Madison, and I not long after she was born!!

Robbie's mom, Susie, and Madison! So glad you could be here Grandma!