I so love this little photo of the child....

Oh...good news for tomorrows test...they are only going to do an ultrasound...a normal one which of course doesn't hurt. I asked. I had to prepare myself for her screaming. It will still be an ordeal because she'll have to lie there so I am SURE we'll be having to hold her down but at least it won't hurt.

Want to watch Madison play a little soccer? Click here: http://s202.photobucket.com/albums/aa115/kelmichaels/?action=view&current=20071112001.flv

She is actually really good playing. She can do running kicks and all! Over the summer we went to go watch Haley play soccer and Madison always talks about soccer and Haley!

Oh....VIKINGS SUCK!!!!

Not much else is going on....Madison's bladder infection is much, much better. The antibiotics worked really fast, thank God! It's soooo nice to be able to sleep through the night again. On Wed. we have to go for the ultrasound which I am NOT looking forward to. Steve thinks he has a meeting that afternoon at work and I told him he will not be attending the meeting becuase we have a family emergancy *as in me who can't handle watching Madison scream at the doctors! Hopefully there is nothing going on with her kidneys and then we can resume normal life!

Oh..I joined a gym and have been working out like a madwoman. It's sooo nice to belong to a gym again. This is a all woman's gym and it's really cute in there. I had such a hard time trying to work out at home. I guess I have never been able to work out at home...too many distractions. Plus it's getting too cold to walk outside so I HAD to join.

We took Madison swimming tonight at the same pool where I take her for swimming lessons. Steve got to see firsthand how it was with her not getting in the pool. By the way, yesterday when we went for lessons, she finally got in the pool 1/2 way through the LAST song everyone was singing. But Steve just decided to grab her and bring her in which acutally worked out just fine. We had fun. Then came home and ordered a pizza. Now...it's 8pm and both Steve and Madison went to bed already. I tried to go to sleep but 8pm is a tad bit early for me.
Oh...have I mentioned that my favorite show that I am totally obsessed with is "pagent place"? It is the ultimate reality show that has Miss USA, Miss Teen USA and Miss Universe. It was on last night and I haven't gotten this into a show since Melrose place. I was so excited the show was on...I got the big blankets, made popcorn and shut off all the lights just to watch it! I love getting into tv shows. I'm sure with the writer's strike my show will be effected....grrrrr.

Well if this isn't the day for bloggin! 2 today. Pretty good I'd have to say. Well, posting Nikki's YouTube video got me inspired to post this little video of Madison dancing to the CMA awards tonight. Here it is...by the way, you will get a kinck in your neck because it's sideways again. Sorry about that! I keep forgetting to turn it the other way when I'm shooting the footage. Hopefully it's not too dark! click on this link: http://s202.photobucket.com/albums/aa115/kelmichaels/?action=view&current=20071107001.flv
We got back the test results from Madison's doctor...she either had a bladder infection or a kidney infection. Mother's intution is it's only a bladder infection. Or maybe that's denial. But they want her to have an ultrasound becuase she's so young to get one. I just hope it's not a kidney infection. They gave her an antibiotic so we are hoping that it clears up NOW. I can't believe she has had to go this long with a bladder infection. I don't know about you but I've had a bladder infection once and it was NOT pleasant. Poor little girl.

Oh, here are some AWESOME photos of our little model wildchild...

Such a big head (hair) with a little body. She was so funny taking these pictures. She was actually MODELING! She is going to be TROUBLE when she is older. Jeepers!

My niece is famous!

Here is a my niece Nikki who has a new drinking buddy named Kelly Clarkson. This video is now posted on YouTube.com. My pride for her is enormous!!!!! Obviously my 2 nieces are here helping me get the video on my blog. Without further ado....(drumroll please), my niece Nichole's very own YouTube moment guest starring Kelly Clarkson...

you can watch it here: (click the link) http://youtube.com/watch?v=N-XvEJ71IbM

Monday

oops, a little blurry...sorry about that on the eyes! This is Madison and Lucy....the dog that we just got done babysitting for. Haven't we been doing that alot? Lucy is usually pretty easy....she even has doggie pads to go potties and poopies on....except for THE OTHER NIGHT that Madison slid on! Oh, it was gross and I literally TOSSED her into the bathtub and used adult soap on her.

We are waiting to get back her tests that will hopefully give us an answer to why she's screaming in pain so much...not that I want this, but I hope it's a bladder infection so we can just give her an antibiotic or whatever pill that makes those go away within a day or so. Poor little girl. It's like she's being attacked with pain. My heart just goes out to her. It would also be nice for Steve and I to be able to sleep through the night again. It's like her being a newborn all over again waking up in the middle of the night.

Boy...this sure wasn't a up-beat blog entery, now was it?

Happy Halloween

Have fun tonight everyone with trick or treating OR passing out treats. Madison is at her daycare halloween party. Getting good use out of this costume this year! Yea for Madison! She'll be bringing home candy though...which if you've seen her with candy you'll know why we are not looking forward to it!
This morning we had swimming class. This time she actually got into the pool (way after everyone else did) but did not really want to participate with trying to do some swimming activities with the rest of the other kids. She kept saying, "mom...I'm so scared". She wasn't really I don't think but kinda acting shy and intimated. Not sure if she's really scared or not. Then she ended the swimming class by stating she did NOT have fun when I asked her if she did. I don't believe that either because she said she did not want to go to her daycare party because she doesn't like parties. I told her she doesn't like alot of things. She agreed and then proceeded to say she was scared of her lion costume when asked if she was excited to put it on.
I have a confused little child. hee hee.

Just some layouts with my designs.

How do you like the pumpkin we carved tonight? Steve did the top and I did the face. Well, I guess there is no face....I meant the ghost. Pretty cool huh? It actually looks really cool when the candle is in there. Yep....tonight was THE night...we carved pumpkins, we ate supper outside while a fire was going, not to mention that the tv was also going. Our favorite pasttime lately has been watching TV outside. We just plop it right on the table and sit around and watch. Tonight Madison got to watch her cartoons. Usually we have what we want on.

Here is a picture of Madison with her "friend" as she called the pumpkin.

OH...I should of mentioned this first...WE HAVE A FEW BIRTHDAYS IN THE HOUSE... Jeff's was on the 28th, Kayla's was on the 29th, and Lynnies is the 30th! So...happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Jeff, Kayla and Lynnie...happy birthday to you! Hope everyone had or has a great birthday!

Only one more day until Halloween! Whoo hoo. Oh, that reminds me. Does anyone remember these?

Yep...those are the halloween decorations from mom's house when we were little kids. I thought I'd pass on the tradition. Madison likes them alot. Expecially the skeleton that glows in the dark. I love this time of the year!

I don't think I mentioned that yesterday we went to the pumpkin patch to pick out our awesome pumpkin. Here is a photo from that experience. The little girl was not "participating" with the wonderful photo opp, so I just had to deal with it.

Layout of the little bugger.

Here's a little halloween treat for ya all!

Halloween Party

We just got back from a halloween party at Kari's house. It was so cute with all the little ones dressed up in their costumes. Madison had lots of fun. Oh, YES...she wore the lion costume after 1/2 hr of trying to trick her into it. Once she saw all the little ones in their costumes then she put hers on. She is sugar comotosed on the couch with Daddy right now. Tonight she is getting a babysitter and mommy and daddy are going out on a date! :)

Happy Friday!

Happy Friday everyone! Oh, I didn't blog that Madison started swimming lessons! We went on Wednesday morning. She would NOT get in the pool though until literally the last 5 minutes of class. She is the oldest one in our class, hence the only child old enough to acutally state their preference of NOT getting in the pool quite loudly! So....we sat on the sidelines with our feet dangling in the water while all the other little ones got to sing while hanging onto their parents in the water. It was really cute all the little babies. Hopefully next week she'll get in the water.
Did I mention that I am painting the bathroom downstairs a red color? Oh, I have no idea why I decided to do red. Have you ever painted red? It's not like painting any other color. You need to double up on the coats. I forgot how little the bathroom is which makes it really hard to move around in. I'll take a photo of it soon. The first coat looks pink. It'll take a long time to finish.

I know, I know...it's been FOREVER again since I have blogged. Been busy. Very busy. Not sure with what but too busy to blog apparently! But it'll all be worth it after you see this little media footage I got of the child
http://s202.photobucket.com/albums/aa115/kelmichaels/?action=view&current=20071023018.flv

Just click on that link and you can see her go! What a little ham. Definetly going after Tyler!

Over the weekend we went down to the lake fishing........we (steve and I) were catching all sorts of huge sunnies and had major bites, but then the little girl decided she needed to get naked right then and there and of course when we told her no, she protested with extreme screaming. Since we were right on the lake shore, it multiplied the sound wave of her piercing screams. We had to go. Steve and I were soooo bummed cuz of all the great fishing that was going on.

Hey, so far so good with Madison staying a lion for halloween. We talk this daily and although she doesn't want to try on her little costume, she "says" she will wear it on halloween. Personally, I don't think it's going to happen. We'll see! We have a party to go to on Saturday so we'll have a trial run at it!

Hello my poor little neglected blog..oh how I miss you! hee hee. Seriously I have been very busy with trying to get mine and kim's little biz running. By the way if you ever go there, to our site and blog, once it's up and running; you will see that we aren't kim and kelly...we are Lauren and Ashley Anderson. Neither one of us want our real names associated with being online so we made up alter egos. Pretty names huh? Apparently our alter egos aren't married either cuz I just realized that we are sharing the same last name (anderson). Sorry guys...don't take it personal! hee hee. They don't even read our blog so they wouldn't know anyways! Oh...and we used an old picture of us. Actually, if you want to go check our our website and blog you can at: www.inkededges.com
It obiviously isn't all the way finished as you go thorugh some of the pages, etc but you can see the jist of it anyways. We are slowly getting it up and going. Fun stuff but it really takes awhile to get it going. Please leave comments on the blog to let us know you visited! You don't have to sign up but it probley asks for your email address...thanks:)

Here is a picture of me and Madison on Sunday watching the vikes win.....

Yes, she was just a wee bit crabby...oh well...she lived thorugh it! This was after the game so she was close to nap time. Well, the nap that never really happens but it's when she gets REALLY tired anyways!

Oh...guess who was home over the weekend? Our long lost little 19 yr old. Ty came home so he could go to a play at his old high school with friends! Did we tell you that he was moving out of his old house into a new house up at school? Not sure what the ordeal was about but it's turned out for the better because he has cheaper rent. Perfect for anyone but expecially for college. I was listening to him talk to Steve telling him how he eats alot of romain noodles. Remember doing that in college cuz it was the only thing you could afford? hee hee. Anyways, Ty gave me his new address but he forgot what the zip code was. So if you write him you'll need to look it up! The new address is 915 12th st. South, Moorhead, Minnesota. Well, what the hell, why don't I just look up the zip right now? hang on......don't go anywhere....okay, I am back. The zip code is: 56560-3701. There ya go!

Okay...gotta run. I will try to keep up more on the blog. Have a great week!

Today Grandma Gracie and Auntie Barbie came over for a haircut and just some good ole' visiting with a cup o java! It was pretty fun. I gave Barbie a little makeover. See her before and after pics!

This is the BEFORE:

And this is the AFTER! Beautiful!

Oh...I forgot to mention that the results are in for spelling Madison's nickname.

The results are with a whopping 64% to spell her nickname as: MADDIE! Thanks to all who have participated in the little poll!

Well, I am being summoned to the kitchen from the husband so I shall quite blogging and get to my "wifely" duties....ha ha. He's already made supper and is currently washing the dishes. I am yelling out to him how cold I am and he said that I need to come out in the kitchen cuz he's sweating with the stove going while he's washing dishes. I suppose I can go out there and at least visit with the feller.:)

Back from the cabin.

Well, the girls are back from the "girls only" get away at Jennie's cabin! Here is a little layout I made with some photos of us there!

We had a good time. Nice little get away from the kiddies and hubbies. Although we all agreed we really missed all of them. I even went fishing and caught a couple sunnies and a little baby northern. Thank God Kelly Sullivan can take fish off because I sure in hell wasn't going to do it! One of the mornings I went down to the lake by myself while everyone was still sleeping and I caught myself a HUGE bass. Of course there was no one to take it off for me so I ran back up to the cabin and grabbed a pair of scissors and had to cut the line. Somewhere in that lake is a bass swimming around with a lure still stuck in it's mouth. Not sure if I am suppose to feel sorry for the fish or not. Let's just say I am not putting alot of effort or energy into feeling much for the fish. Not sure if that makes me a mean, non loving to the animals type of gal or not either. Oh well...

Here is a video of my little wild child. She is crazy. I had to videotape this last night because this is what I got to take a little 2 day break from. hee hee...she's nuts. Sorry...it's sideways. Hit this link to view the video....can't remember how to get it ON the blog because it's been so long since I've posted a video. Remember to hit your back button to come back to the blog.
http://s202.photobucket.com/albums/aa115/kelmichaels/?action=view&current=20071008112.flv

Here are more photos of us girls at the cabin. Once again, these are not really posting right so not sure why but there are 3 different links below to look at for more photos...ok?

PHOTOS 1

PHOTOS2

PHOTOS3

Anyways, that's all I got for ya all.

How do you like this layout with all the papers and elements I've made myself! Kim and I are slowly getting our business up and running. We'll see how it all goes. So far it's been really fun getting things ready. Still...it's a timely process that isn't going too fast. But then it's only been a few weeks since we decided upon our little new adventure.

Well, I am off to a "all girls weekend" up at our friends cabin. No children, no men....just us gals. What are we going to do you ask? Well...what happens at the cabin, STAYS at the cabin. hee hee. Fun stuff I'm telling ya!

We (ok, Steve) is now babysitting Lucy...who is Tim and Michaela's little puppy. Chester....who is Jimmy and Alexis's BIG puppy went home. We should just open our own little boarding place. Is that what they call it? Not sure! We'll (again, Steve) will only have lucy over the weekend!

That's about all that is going on right now. Gotta go! Have a fabulous Friday and weekend!

Finally get a little time to blog!~

Hello! I am finally sitting down to blog on my little neglected blog! Steve's away on a business trip down to boring Ark. where it's 86 degrees and humid, as I've been told; and the child is asleep with unknown knowledge that the pillow gently placed next to her sleeping little body is not actually mommy. NOW I have the time to sit down and work on my blog.

Ok....we are on to Halloween costume #2. It's a lion. She wanted it so I got it for her. She states she "did not like the bee", so hence getting the lion outfit. No luck on getting her to try it on. Bet cha 50 bucks when it comes time she throws a fit and goes out trick or treating in nothing. I'll have to withhold candy from her and then use it to brive her to get into the outfit.

On Sunday, Madison and I went over to Auntie Barbies for a little packer/vikes party. It was fun. The girls dressed up as diva's and modeled for us. It kinda of reminds me of the old Madonna days! Fun stuff.

I'll blog abit later on, but wanted to post this cute little layout of Madison. I have done this picture before but it's so cute!

Pics of Tyler

Finally, a little blogspot about our TyTy! Here are a few photos of him in his summer play productions! But don't get your hopes up too high...that's ALL we have about him. Haven't talked to him lately. The first 2 are from his play "I love you,now change".....the 3rd is from "guys & dolls".

Cute little layout of the booger.

Oh Lord forbid, Halloween is totally going to be a nightmare. This is the cute little bee costume that I bought at Target for 12.99.

Cute, cheap, but the kid is NOT going to go smoothly with it. It took close to 24 hours for her to LET ME try this costume on, and then when SHE decided (yes, the 2 1/2 yr old made the decision, not the 38 yr old) she was ready to try it on, she was screaming bloody murder because both her arms got stuck. Jeez Louise.

The outfit is going back to Target.

I wonder what outfit number 2 will be and wonder how many more outfits there will be. Surely other mothers can give advice on this subject in the comments below.

Happy Monday!

Well, I figured I had better blog something so people don't think that I have given up on my blog! There just hasn't been much to blog about! Even I, who can pretty much talk about everything and anything doesn't have much to say lately! Just not alot going on which sometimes is good!

This weekend consisted of going to the park and fishing again. Madison brought along her dolly to the park and I photographed her (the dolly, not madison) while I was watching Steve play on the playground stuff with Madison.

I am sure the people thought I was nuts taking a picture of a doll. Of course they probley think I am even crazier taking a picture of my starbucks iced' coffee.

Oh, we have Chester back for another week! Yeah! He is such a good doggie and Madison LOVES playing with him! Well peeps, that's all the news that the Michaels household has. Have a good Monday everyone!

Not much to blog about lately. I WISH I would remember to bring down my camera (bet cha never thought I'd forget my camera ever, did ya?) to Lynnies so I could take a photo of what we have been doing to her porch. It is probley the coolest porch EVER! I wanted to do a before and after photo, but there will only be an "after" photo since I forgot the camera again when we started.

Chester went home with Alexis today after I picked her up from the airport. We'll miss Chester, BUT we get the honor of babysitting him for another week next week. Kinda got use to that doggie being here:)

Here's a cute little photo of the little booger that Steve took. The white thing in the photo is her little puppy.... hee hee, she was relaxing by the pond with her puppy.

I think Madison had her first little dream where she woke up actually being mad. She woke up this morning accusing me of having ice cream but not letting her have any. I kept telling her we don't have any ice cream and she'd say, YES YOU DO!!! She was in complete hysteria for about 15 minutes. Surely she got that from her mother:) She finally calmed down abit and was quite happy with her cereal bar that I ended up giving her.

That's all peeps. I don't have much to say!

Sunday

Well, it was another beautiful day today and we went back to the park! FUN STUFF. Not a whole lot going on besides that. Oh, I finished putting magnets on the back of the little alphabets that Madison and I created on our last little craft day (actually craft hour, maybe only 1/2 hr at the most). The magnets look cute and colorful on our fridge! You my friends get a little sneak peak at them...here they are.... I don't know if I ever mentioned that awhile back I won a contest at our little town scrapbooking store. I won the grand prize of 100.00 worth of stamps. I acutally had to wait for ever for the lady to get them to me and she felt so bad she gave me 200.00 worth of stamps. That was so fun picking them out! It was like being a millionaire and instead of spending 10.00 like we would do on ONE stamp, perhaps TWO if it was a good payday, you'd go out and easily purchase 200.00 worth of stamps...just because you can. To tell you the truth, 200.00 worth of stamps really is not a whole lot of ACTUAL stamps. Not that I am complaining..... We are still babysitting Chester. I will miss him when he is gone. I think we will all miss him. Except Steve won't miss cleaning up the poop part of him:) hee hee.

Saturday

What a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful fall day today! Is it acutally fall or technically still summer? I guess meterology isn't my strong point. I don't even know if meterology would be the correct name. That's weather, right? Must be then:)

Anyways....on this beautiful day we went down to the "big" park. Madison was soooo happy that we got there FINALLY. Seriously, I am closterphobic and had a little mini attack the last time we went to the park and I had to go through those tunnels. I am sure the 100 degree heat had something to do with it, however, I STILL can't muster up the courage to get through those tunnels hence we never got there most of the summer since Steve's hemotobin seroma (the leg thingie) prevented him from doing any climbing on or in things.

We also brought the poles along and did a small (very small) amount of fishing. Madison started getting crabby and well, you know how that goes! Madison caught a few small sunnies and Steve and I didn't acutally catch anything but had a few fishies take our worms!

Then we went walking and saw the first signs of fall! Come to think of it, doesn't summer end like September 21 or something? I just don't remember leaves turning this early. Guess it is mid September. We walked while missy m snoozed in her stroller (grahm crackers and all on her mouth still). It was a fun day out today!

Oh......we are so horrible at bdays...Happy birthday Niki and JoAnne! Of course it's midnight and I just looked at the calender and saw we missed your bdays (both)....oops. One of these years we'll be really good and get it right...on time.

Babysitting...

Boy, am I ever slacking in the blogging department lately. Too much stuff to do I guess. But then again, ask me what it is I am doing and I can't really tell ya. I am sure Steve can't tell you what I am doing either!


Oh, we are babysitting Chester. Chester is Jimmy and Alexis's doggie. Here are some cute pics of him.

Madison absolutely loves him! And Chester is SUCH A GOOD DOGGIE! He listens very, very well and I am totally comfortable with him around Madison. It's fun to watch them because they are on about the same wavelength! haha. I am laughing so hard right now over that statement but it's so true! I am sure I will get some excellant photos of the two of them over the week.

Oh, did we tell everyone that Tyler got into the Shakesphere play at college? We do not EVER hear from the boy so there is not much more I can say about him. Steve did call him tonight because it's been so long since we've heard from him. I would assume the school or Barb would notify us if he were in any type of immediate danger. Ty, if you are reading this blog, "PHONE HOME".

Made these papers myself.

Do you like the papers in this layout? I made everything myself. If you aren't a digi scrapper you probley won't get it, but this is my first minikit. Kim and I are starting our own little digiscrapping business. Just learning some of the ropes so nothing is great.....YET!

Layout of Anna

I LOVE this layout I did of Anna and her horsie!

Layout for Papa

Love this picture soooo much that I had to do a layout of it for you papa. A little bday present AFTER your birthday:)

It's been awhile since I've posted!

Hi!
I feel like I haven't been to my blog forever and ever! But fear NOT....I have returned with updates glore. Acutally nana and papa have been in town for papa's bday for the last 4 days or so and we've been busy running around with the fam. It's been really fun. Thursday night we went over to Jeff and JoAnn's for dinner. Then on Friday, Steve took the day off of work and bright and early the guys went golfing (I choose to sleep in)! That night everyone came over to eat supper. Nana had a little mishap with the jalapeno's buring her hands. Poor Nana. In the afternoon we also went golfing, this time with myself included. Note: the absolute worst game I have ever golfed. Seriously. Infact, the afternoon golf game wasn't that hot for anyone that participated in our little golf group! Saturday the guys woke up early again and went fishing while Nana and I and the little misses (Madison) went to Anna's horse show. It was fun! The horses are beautiful. Sunday was the reinsance! Nana and Papa are leaving tomorrow! It was fun spending time with everyone! Bye Nana and Papa.....we love you and miss you already *disclamer: you both are acutally sleeping in our house right now, but you know what we mean!