I can't sleep so I made a layout. I actually WAS sleeping but Madison woke me up crying so hard (and loud)...she fell out of bed and was pinned between the wall and the bed frame (we have that big heavy wood frame) while sitting on the floor. I actually thought she was exgaratting but she was really pinned in and after the 3rd attempt I tried to get her off the floor and couldn't I got super pankicy. Steve's sleeping out on the couch and I didn't know if I run out to get him and leave her there alone or if I scream out for him and freak her out even more. Anyways, I ended up acutally lifting up this big heavy frame off of her leggies (it wasn't ON her leg but it was so close to the wall that she couldn't bend them). Don't ask me how I lifted that bed but I did. Must of been the aderaline kicking in. She was hugging me afterwards so hard and I was just shaking like a leaf. That was scary....I didn't know if I broke her legs by getting her out or what. Okay....that was my drama for the night and I haven't been able to get back to bed since. It's now 4:30 am. Maybe I'll go back in and try to sleep. Yes, she fell asleep right away.
You know, this is the biggest blogging day I have ever had. I almost wrote a book today! Aaaaah, the day *and night, in the life of a Michaels.

I was laughing at the caption that I wrote for mom and dad.....it's the Love Boat theme! Anyways, this is one of my favorite pictures of mom and dad. The other one is the one that mom has in her bedroom. You know the one at Fair Hills where both mom and dad are standing in front of the sailboats, in great shape, looking like the athletic family of the century. hee hee.

Here is the last picture I can remember taking with Daddy. Poor daddy. I miss him. But this is the last picture I can remember taking with him. I must of had taken others because this was in 1997 I think. hmmmm. I know Kim has one the night with him before he died. Why don't I have something abit closer than 2 years before he died? But I like this picture of us. It's funny now because you look at him now and he is looking not too good and you can tell that his body is shuting down, but then at that time, you'd never know that's what was going on. I mean, we knew but I didn't know that dying actually has a look. IS THIS A DEPRESSING blog or what? Sorry. Sometimes I just get on here and start typing what I am thinking. I actually don't think it's depressing...I just kinda look at that as a matter of fact and that's that! So, it's not sad to me, but it might be to you...the reader of my fantastic blog. hee hee. See, how I can change the mood right before your eyes and you don't even see it comin'. Anywhoooo...

I finally cleaned Madison's room tonight. I may of mentioned that in my earlier post today (really, how much can I actually have to say anymore?). Thought I'd take a little photo for you disbelievers. Even madison swifted her own floor, with my help of course. I like her new dresser. We finally got rid of the recliner that we've had in her bedroom for all these years. We put it outside on our curb for "Bloomington Curb Clean Up Day" last week. Usually people drive around all day and night looking at other people's junk. It's kinda fun. If I was a drinker, I'd sit out there and make a drinking game out of it. Anyways, no one took the recliner, which I thought was wierd because seriously, if you see what the people driving around takes, you'd be suprised too.
Here is a picture of Madison tonight at the flower shop. We went tonight and picked out our flowers for this year. Steve was going to take me on Mother's Day, but remember I wasn't feeling well and I just wasn't up to looking at flowers then. But tonight was another story. I was bored as hell (after my cleaning episode) and the mintue Steve walked in the door I told him I wanted to go do something and the only thing we could think of was to go get our flowers.

Bought some of our normal impatients and a spikey thing for our front steps. And this year in the back Steve ONLY wants perennials..............so we ONLY got perennials. We didn't even know what we were doing, so if you come to our house and we permanently have these flowers that don't make any sense, you'll know why. I think I finally gave in to his perennial idea sometime last summer when I didn't have the energy to fight. I will surely miss our backyard porch (what the hell is it called? deck? no,....patio is the word I am looking for), our backyard patio filled with tons of pretty flowered pots all over the place. Our pond area will look pretty if what we picked out turns out fine......but we don't excatly know for sure what permanently will be there, will we now? I guess there's always a shovel. I am sure it will allllll work out just fine. Positive thinking kel.

Doesn't this look like Madison? I am going to assume I was 3 1/2 or so in here. I think I totally look like her. Why do I think that's so wierd? She's my kid! Ok...funny, madison just walked in here and I said *in a little kid's tone, "hey madison, does this look like you?" she said "no" and walked out. ha! That's halarious! Maybe it doesn't look like her.
This is the photo that I took it from. Kim always gives me crap when she sees this because of my "low" ponytail. I was going through a sophaticated peroid. I even remember going through that little peroid. Surely didn't last through my adulthood, hee hee. Mom says she hates this photo because she remembers trying to take this so many times. Thank GOD for digital cameras, huh? I am trying to scan all the photos that mom gave me and maybe make a book out of it. I just remember so much about being little that I think it would be cool for madison one day. I kinda always get a bit paranoid that I will put all the work into it and it end up not being around one day, like a fire or something. Which brings me to this weekend was the weekend that I had my fire back in 1999 and lost everything. That must be an aftermath of someone being in a fire, thinking that what ever they have is going to be gone again. It's not like it a total paranoia or something, but I guess somethings that I do I go back to that type of thinking. Anyways...guess I am not sure if I want to put all that work into it or not. But then again, it would of been so cool to read through something like that of mom's with all her childhood memories. So who knows....maybe I will. I guess I would take the time to do any of madison or tyler's stuff so why not my stuff, right? Dang right I am worth it. hee hee. Nice motavitional talking I did to myself. I am worth spending the time on my own little book. I sound like the guy from Saturday night live....you all know who I am talking about.
Oh, speaking of tyler. He called the other night and said that he got a 200 dollar scholarship from school. Not really sure who or what again...but hey, that's awesome! We also hear that he is going to chicago to go perform with the bearded men group at 2nd city, which is a famous improv theather which is known for hosting Saturday NIght live people. Wow...is this blog just flowing with talking about one thing and it leading into another with similar tone. This is a photo I took off of the bearded men's website. Obivously Ty is in the middle of doing some type of improv.
Well I had best get going. I just feel like sitting here and blogging. But again, I will say it...I sure in hell have alot of nothing to talk about. Just wait until I actually have a subject to talk about and see where that goes;)

people...is is ever going to become summer out? I don't think so. Technically it really only is may something...i don't even know the date, but it's the mid of may so that's fine and all, but I look at the other end of summer where it can technically get cold at the end of aug so we could have a really short summer.
That was nice polite talk, huh...about the weather!
Oh...I have decided it's time to take the "boot" off. I couldn't stand it any longer and for the most part it feels okay. After weighing myself this morning and seeing that I have gained 5 lbs, okay actually 4 lbs that I need to start walking. So I am going to try to go walking and see what happens. 2 weeks of being inactive and all more has gone to hell than the original "gone to hell". Jeepers.
Madison and I are going to run to Target AGAIN. I am so sick of that store. She needs more medication though so we have to. She has totally associated Target with Starbuck's cookies. My bad. Totally my fault! Darn. Live and let learn..........
It looks like the sun is peeking in. There I go again with polite talk. We may have to go to the park which for some reason I absolutely LOVE going to the park this year. Last year I always kinda dreaded going for some reason. Not sure what that was about. I expecially love watching how Madison interacts with other children. She is so positive and outgoing and friendly. Always introduces herself to the other kids (hi, I am madison and I am 3) and shares her stuff with them. They on the other hand aren't always so friendly back which of course breaks my heart. You can tell the kids that go to daycare, have older sibblings or go to school. They interact so much more. But that doesn't always mean they are friendly or will share. I have realized how advance Madison is with her speaking and social skills. Also her coordination. Maybe she's normal and some of the other kids her age are behind. Not sure but there is definetly a difference. I guess it's nice to know that she is holding her own with her development. Now, if we could only get her to sleep in her own bed. Which is the latest issue I am having with her. I am going to make a star chart and start using that soon. Kim and Tom gave us Kayla's old bedroom set *dresser and headboard, and we are going to take down her toddler bed and put up the twin bed because she never used her toddler bed anyways. Anyways, that is what we have to work on. I still don't know how we got in the habit of her sleeping in our room but that has to stop. I guess I know...it was easier. Trying to take the easy way out. Which bums me out because the whole time she was a baby, not once did we ever bring her in to our bed. That would of made life sooo easy back then if I did that. If I could of forseen the future and know we'd be going through this NOW, I would of just said, the hell with it and brought her into bed. By the way, the dresser looks good in her room. I am tempted to change the paint in her room, but I am not sure. I like how it looks I guess.
Madison is sitting on my lap right now. I'll let her type out a sentence or a word.
daddy
She wanted to spell out daddy. She does a good job of finding her letters on the keyboard.
Guess I should go now. She's eating a freeze....and it's dripping on me. I have another thing to work on...her nutrition. She had fruit for breakfast but she always thinks she'll get a treat after she eats breakfast, lunch or supper. She doesn't need a treat every time. At least she gets in alot of fruits and veggies and good stuff for her. I'd still like to take her off of alot of foods, like hot dogs though.
Madison wants to spell tyler now...
tyler michaels

Tyler sent me the nicest mother's day card! I was so surpised. Even more surprised when Steve laughed and said that he didn't even remind him to. It was such a nice card! Nikki sent me an "aunt" mother's day card too! That was awesome. I didn't know that they had auntie mother day cards. Thanks Nik! (I know you are reading this at work RIGHT NOW)!
Madison went potties in the potty chair for real again tonight. She even said that "she felt like she had to go" and then got out of the tubbies and sat on the potty chair! That was great! She wants to wear a pull up to now and it's bed time.........we put one on her but I am going to change it into a diaper for bed because this is all really just luck and it's not like it down to a science yet.
I still am pretty sick. Such a horrible, horrible sinus infection. I was looking on the internet about remedies and then I read, "could lead to brain infection"....jeepers. Not info I was looking for. Of course this information is just sitting in the back of my head. My brain that could become infected.
Gotta go to bed and watch the finale of the HILLS. Stupid show but I'm sucked into it.

Here is my mother's day photo for this year. I am sicker than sick and I guess I don't really care what I look like. Or else that's just age. Must just be because I am sick. Because I guess I wouldn't be embarassed if I didn't care. I have a horrible sinus infection and it feels like someone hit me in the face really hard. My teeth really, really hurt. Very annoying pain if you have never had a sinus infection. Anyways, I finally crawled out of bed this morning. I actually didn't crawl, I kinda got dragged out my madison and steve, which was good because I'd probley still be laying there since I have been since friday night. I never got up yesterday except one time to go out in the living room.

Other than that, this has been a nice mother's day. This morning we went fishing...

We each caught some little fish. It was fun. Then we went to the big park and played. Well, I sat and steve played with madison. Then we went home and steve right now is cooking us steaks and later on we'll go to dairy queen. They also bought me the new neil diamond CD for my present. So over all it's been really nice.
Speaking of mommy's, mine has pneumonia in both of her lungs. She still doesn't feel well and will go back to the doc's on Tuesday. Scary. Hopefully she'll get better between now and then.
Have a good mother's day to all the mommy's out there! And if you aren't a mommy, I also hope you have a good day today too. I know how hard it was for me wanting to be a mommy and wasn't and then mother's day came and it was kinda sad. So if you aren't a mommy, hope you have a great day!

Hey Mom...I finally found the letters that you gave to Madison for her bday! I don't know how I couldn't see them in her armoire but there they were, as clear as day! Anyways...tonight we played around with them...
We spelled all of our names. Steve wanted to throw in the word "baby" to put in the picture and I thought that was mean cuz it wouldn't be funny...everyone would think we were preggers. AND WE'RE NOT! He apparently thought it would be funny. Thank God I am here to straighten him out.
I LOVE these next 2 photos of Madison! These are the money shot photos that I was looking for earlier! The top one doesn't even look like her body is connected to her head. I am laughing so hard right now. But it doesn't, does it? She has such a large head and such a small body.
Could you get any sweeter than this? I LOVE it when she plays along with the camera. If she did this all the time, I'd be in heaven. You know there will be more of these photos popping up in my layouts that I do. They are so cute!
Oh, here is my solution to her bangs.......just shove em' up there in a ponytail. Looks cute on her. I like her hair off of her face.
Anyone getting sick of this dress yet? Probley the best 20 bucks I have ever spent! It's starting to get really raggedy though. I hate to see the meltdown that occurs when the dress has to be tossed.........anyone want to watch her that weekend? It'll be worse than getting her off the bottle or getting rid of her pacifier.
I TRIED to mow the lawn tonight. Pretty dang hard to do while you are wearing "the boot". I usually love doing it so Steve told me to try. I could only get done with 1/2 of it before my leg starting hurting bad. We have both agreed that I have done pretty good without bitchin' about my leg. Pat myself on the back for that:) I just wish I could go workout. I really want to go walking. That I really miss and it's only been a week.
Today down at the park I flew the kite that was at the scene of the incident. I got it really high up in the air. It was pretty cool. Don't ask me why but I am obsessed with getting a kite super high up and keep it there. In my mind, it's windy-er up there and I think once it's up, it will stay up. I have yet to prove my therory. Not that it's a therory. Come on people, we are talking about MY mind! You never know what I am going to think up. Anyways...that's how I tore my calf muscle...trying to prove a therory that only exists in my mind. No wonder I am on meds:)

Here's Madison with the little bubble blower machine that I bought at target! It makes a ton of bubbles. I have to do something with these bangs again....jeepers.

Here we are this morning at the park. It was sooo nice out and I decided to try and clean abit before we went to the park and then when we got there the storm blew in. Bummer. Last time I try to clean! ha! I'll tell that one to Steve. I was able to get her bangs back in a binder so that's good!

We have fun at Jim and Alexis's. Pretty much relaxing for us which is kinda hard for us to do. We both didn't know what to do without Madison for 2 days. We can handle one day without her but 2 is kinda pushing it unless we are actually going somewhere or doing something. Sitting a relaxing just ain't our thang. Don't get me wrong...it was fun down on the farm at Jim & Alexis's...we had a good time. Just wierd without this little thing constantly talking to us or walking into us or having a fit and crying!

NO more crutches...they gave me "the boot". Lovely, huh? It'll take 6 weeks to heal. That's just great! Mid june I'll be able to be done with the boot.

OMG I can't stand her bangs any longer. Can you? Am I going to make it growing them out? I don't know guys.....this may not happen.
I'm looking a bit busty in here. Some people wish this...I don't.

Isn't this kinda cool? The two of us have the same smile...I still see more of Steve in her than me. Well, everyone is sleeping but me. I thought I'd come here and see the 155 pictures I took of Madison outside in her little princess dress. I only got a couple of good shots out of all those photos. I am sure most would think they all pretty much turned out good but I am looking for the money shot. And I didn't really get one out of all those photos! Bummer. Such of a life in the day of a model. Or photographer. Gotta go to bed now. Nighty night.

Yep..here I am on crutches. What did I do you ask? I got a kite injury. We were down at the park last night flying a kite and I turned around to run with the kite and I pulled a calf muscle. The doctor thinks that I tore the actual calf muscle fibers. How gross is that? I heard and felt a "pop". How gross. Anyways, it's literally a pain in the ass with first, trying to walk and now second, trying to use crutches and 3rd, trying to "take it easy"...yea right, when have I ever taken it easy? It's VERY hard to sit still. Poor me. It took me 38 years to get my first pair of crutches. Madison was funny last night because she was imitating me walk. Anyways, I am sure these crutches aren't the most body flattering thing in the world....of course I am worrying about that! Oh, which brings me to the point that do you people realize that I can't work out at all? This is horrible, just completely horrible. Once again, not that you can even tell that I work out, but OhMyGod....now I can't work out. This is not how I envisioned summer would start. I don't know how long this is going to last. God, I have a feeling it's going to take a long time to heal. Maybe if I walk around with the crutches alot it will burn calories or at least keep (first it has to get) my arms fit. Oh, then today I found out my gym is closing down. This is my cute little gym right by my house. Oh, what a horrible day for news. This means my tanning bed is going away. I can't possibly drive far just to go tanning. Yes, people...this is the stuff I worry about. I will TRY to look at all this positive. But it's sooo hard. Poor me. I am having a pity party for myself. I just hope it doesn't take too long to heal. sigh.
This weekend we are going down to Jim and Alexis's house. Grandma Gracie is going to watch Madison. It should be fun. It's too hard to bring Madison down to their house.......or to anyone's house. She just gets into everything and is so loud! Anyways, it'll be nice to get away for a day/night or so. Talk to you all later!

These are for the lady I do layouts for...kinda cool...sorta looks like ads.

Oh my God, how cute can one kid get? hee hee. I just wanna give her huggies!
Okay...I guess these are cute enough to make up for Inked Edges to sell. Here are mine that I just created....I guess to everyone these just look like layouts. They are actually premade layoutouts and you just put the photos in place. Anyways...I think mine are alot cuter.

Oh..look at my sculpted arms....sigh. You'd never know that I now go to the gym 5-6 days out of the week. I got to quit looking at these photos. sigh....

Check out our video down below of Maddie and I on the little ride at the Mall of America. We went there today because of the &*%$# snow! It was fun. Maddie rode on a few rides and got her ice cream cone. We just ran some errands and stuff and now are back at home. I am kinda tired and could acutally nap but it's 6:30 and I'd probley end up sleeping most of the night if I did. Madison is taking a nap and has been sleeping for about 2 hrs now.

This sure is one long blog that I am posting today (read the first part of the blog down below this entry!). We are trying to get Madison to go to bed and she doesn't want to go. She's drawing a monster for Auntie Lynnie on the office floor right now.

Here is a photo of Madison with the pretty, fuzzy bag that Linda brought for Madison! Notice the dress she had on. This was from Christmas this year but she wears it as one of her princess dresses! And she has on her high heels that Nana bought for her for her birthday this year. She loves those shoes! Aren't her bangs obnoxious? She rarely lets me put barretts in her hair. I figure when she gets sick of not being able to see she'll keep the barretts in.

Here is our new license plate for our car. Do you ever do word association to memorize your license plate? Of course I always do! For this car, it's: SCARY GIRL YELLING 65 twice(2)! Get it? I remember license plate back from cars of mom and dad's! Remember our station wagon? Not the green one, but the white with wood paneling? That license plate started with the letter of CTE. I didn't memorize the numbers at that point in my life. I've matured now and realized that sometimes you need to know the numbers too for certain reasons! My old Z71 truck that I use to have had the license plate of KEP901. I guess that's all the ones I can remember at the moment....SO word assocation doesn't ALWAYS work! Does anyone else do any of this stuff, or is it just me? hee hee.

Look at Steve's plants. They have grown sooo much. He must talk to them alot! I think these are his tomatoe plants. He thinks he did this too early because they are going to freeze outside if he transplants them. Don't worry folks...I'll keep you updated. Like, I am sure that ANYONE really cares about this.

Ok...now on to bigger and better things (I am laughing my butt off right now)...I went shopping yesterday and got myself some tops. Here they all are. Notice that they are all basically the same but just different colors/patterns. But then again, when in the summertime have you ever seen me not in a sleeveless top? It's all I wear. They seem kinda dressy, as if I had a job or something important to do or to go to. That's okay because the alternative is me dressing in my sweat outfits, which I am sure EVERYONE will agree with me, is time to quit wearing them. It's time. That's all I can say. If I put on one more sweat outfit I am going to die.

I guess I could wear this one out to a night club or something. hahahahaha.
No, this is not a dress...kinda looks like one in the photo. I really like this one but it might be a little too young for me. I am kinda that in between age where nothing is age appropriate. Steve likes it. But I didn't try it on for him, so I am not sure what he really thinks of it. To tell you the truth, you are suppose to wear leggings under this one, which is TOTALLY not age appropriate at all. I don't even know if Steve is really telling the truth or not because he says EVERYTHING looks fine. He's too smart of a guy to actually tell me something doesn't look good or I look fat in something. I wish he'd tell me the truth but he thinks I'd freak out on him. Of course I would:) I'll have to try it on for Kim. She'll tell me the truth. It was funny because Steve said last night, "I heard you and Kim were trying on your new swimsuit (oh, trust me people....nothing to get excited over) but you never showed me". Duh! We girls are certainly funny. I am sure everyone is just thrilled looking at my new clothes. You know what is funny? You know how girls supposibly love shoes? I don't. I hate trying them on. I hate wearing a new pair. And more than anything I hate spending one cent on them. I always feel so tom-boyish when it comes to shoes because as a girl we are suppose to love them. I can't STAND spending any money on shoes. I'll pay $ for a shirt, no problem....I'm okay but not thrilled to spend $ on jeans/pants/shorts but I'll do it. But shoes....Just Can't Do It. However today I went to Target and bought 2 pairs. I don't know if I even call one of the pair as ACTUAL shoes. More like flip-flops. I'll take some photos of those too. Who'd of ever thought you'd get to experience ALL my shopping with me?

The top shoes are a pewter color. Aren't they cute? I like them. for someone who doesn't like shoes, I like these alot. The bottom shoes are just comfy cheap flip-flops. I have them on right now. Oh...look how both pairs match my new shirts. I didn't think the pewter ones would really match but I was wrong. There is grey in the 2 bottom shirts! Wow...that's awesome! They match really good. Hey...I did good:) I rock at shopping! Guess I'll have to go more! haha!

Madison had gymnastics today. Today they worked on round-offs (no, she can't really do them yet) and back summersaults (she can do these with help but doesn't really care to do them with my help...but will with the teacher's help). Then we went to McDonalds with a playland. We met Auntie Lynnie and Loggie there for lunch. After that we went to Plato's Closet. That is one of those used clothes stores but they are all name brands. I got myself a pair of AmberCrombie & Fitch (I could care less of the brands as you can tell by my spelling of the name brand) jean shorts. I'll spare you the details and photos of the jean shorts. It was fun. I'll have to go back there by myself one day without the little munchkin with me. She was running all over the store. There was another little boy there and she was kinda playing/running around with him. But then the boy got into trouble from his mom for running. I may of gotten "shot" a look by her for letting Madison run. Whoops...my bad. I guess I need to pay better attention when we are places and Madison is being loud or running around. I think I just zone her out or something. Maybe I just don't react like the other mothers do. This has happened many other times before...in some stores, in the doctor's office, etc. I wonder why I don't react much to that. Maybe I just don't think it's a big deal if they aren't screaming or getting in the way of others and they can just kinda run around and act like the 3 year olds that they are. Perhaps my tolerance is more than other mothers in certain things. I don't know. Maybe I am wrong in all the case senerios. Guess I am not really sure. Anyways, it's happened enough times where another mother has yelled at her kid and then I kinda snap to it and realize I have been letting Madison do whatever and I haven't yelled at her yet. It's just happened enough times where I have realized that I don't react really. Okey Dokey....THERE are my parenting skills out in the open! I won't even tell you about me not bringing any diapers when I go places! Which brings me to my child NOT being potty trained yet. At what time do you start worrying about that? She still isn't potty trained and now lately doesn't even want to try. Even suckers aren't working as the incentive. We are going to have to take some extreme measures here soon.

Well, I have rambled on pretty long here.........I need to go help Madison out with her play dough. She's watching Musical High School 2 AND playing play dough! Guess I don't have to clean since that is all I have been doing the last few days. Steve told me yesterday I was SUPERWIFE. I said, "I know"...I blogged about myself today! Too bad that cleaning streak doesn't last! Wonder what got into me? It must be the RockStar energy drinks that I have gotten into a habit of drinking. I have gotten Steve hooked on them too. They totally give you energy. Just like drinking a pot of coffee! Imagine how hyped up I get after drinking my morning coffee AND having my energy drink!

Oh....the tv show on last night wasn't "Who Wants to be a Millionaire", it was "Deal or No Deal". Just a little fyi for you folks.
I went to the casino today and won 50 buckaroonies. Then I want shopping back at the scene of THE (yesterday's) incident (Kohls). Bought a couple of shirts. That was fun!
Last night I was being the best little wifey ever and totally cleaned the kitchen, did laundry, cleaned the bedroom, etc. Now I am going to finish the laundry and finish cleaning and make my big ole' man of a husband happier than ever that his little lady is domesticated. Good thing he doesn't want me barefoot and pregant!

So, today was totally beautiful out...beautiful sun, beautiful breeze....and 2 beautiful large, huge bloody knees FROM FALLING OFF THE CURB AT KOHLS! Unbelievable. This was done in front of about 5 cars and people walking into Kohls. Actually what happened was Madison was crying her head off and I was holding and consoling my child and I must of judged wrong where I was walking and be both fell off the curb onto the street. Of course I was falling I held onto her so she wouldn't get hurt and went full force down on my knees. They are a bloody mess and hurt pretty bad. How embarssing. I acutally wasn't that embarssed because I was hurting too bad.
Oh, did anyone watch "who wants to be a millionaire?" A lady's daughter who works at the DNR was on it tonight. And the lady who works at the DNR was in the family/friends support part. It was so cool to see someone that we both knew. I wonder how you get on that show? Maybe I'll search the internet and apply. I am sure I'd have the 1.00 in my case.

We went to Logan's first baseball game of the season tonight. Oh, it was so nice out! It was really fun and we'll be going to more of them this year. Here is a picture of Todd (proof that he's out of the hospital). He got a little excited a few times and Lynnie told him to settle down. We don't want anything more happening to him.

We played outside all day today. Madison REFUSED to come in all day! That was fine with me. It was so beautiful out! We went on a 5 mile walk today. My calves are going to be super sore tomorrow.

Look at this cute picture of my little rug rat in her princess dress which is so torn and tattered! This was after the baseball game tonight. She goes from rug rat tomboy to rug rat princess! hee hee, my little cutie.