Saturday, September 10, 2011

Happy, Happy Birthday, Maddie!!!

We celebrated Maddie's 2nd birthday in Nashville at Gigi and Papa's house since Daddy is still working in Tenesseee. We had a Diego themed party with plenty of balloons - 2 of our favorites!



Gigi and her Girls!



Daddy in the Bounce House!





The Cousins!


The Cake - Diego and Baby Jaguar!



The party!



Beautiful Almost Two Year Old

Our precious girl! We think you are SO Beautiful and SO Sweet!!















Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Cowgirl!



Maddie has been really into ropes lately. I've always hated when people call ropes, lassos, but that's exactly what she does! Diego and Dora are always "lassoing" things, so she goes around shouting "Lasso!" every where. Hilarious. The dogs are some of her favorite targets; luckily they're good sports!

Random fun


We still love our "pishing pole!"





I put her baby swing in her room for her baby dolls, but so far, Maddie likes it best. Here is a very clear picture of life today. Playing on the iphone and swinging without shorts on!



Trip to Knoxville

At the end of July, Maddie and I went up to Knoxville to visit Daddy. We had a lot of fun taking in some of the local sights.


Reviewing the safety info prior to take off!


I put my foot down on buying a 2nd ball at Wally World, so she climbed in the bin!




The mall by our hotel had an indoor playground and a train! They should never build another mall without one. That was my favorite place to go!


The Knoxville Zoo was awesome!









And, after two occassions of living in TN and always wanting to go to Gatlinburg; I finally got to go!! We had to go really close for a claim, so we just made a day of it. Or an afternoon anyway. We went to the Ripley's Aquarium and absolutely loved it!


They had these cool aquariums where you could crawl under and poke your head up in the middle. Pretty great view. They also had tunnels in the pequin habitat and you could walk under the large aquarium where all the sharks were. Maddie wasn't impressed with Sharks swimming overhead, though, so we had to make a hasty exit!


The peguins were definitely the hit of the day. Maddie made us go back 3 times and she posed with this peguin until we drug her away.



And one of my favorites, these little glowing jellyfish!