We have a lot to talk about!!!

Hello to all!!!
It has been an eventful time since the last blog. The last time we showed you how wonderful she could write on the walls, and this time it only gets better.

I will start will the uneventful things and save the best for last.

These are pics of Madalene at Grandpa Bob and Grandma Jaynie's sitting in her princess chair. We went up the first weekend of February for Seth's masters classes.

Madalene as usual has to have her accessories!!!!

We went to a friends house the weekend of the 7th. I had to capture her sleeping. There are times that I wish she always looked so sweet.

Also the weekend of February 7th we went to help a freind work on an addition to his house. Madalene always likes to be in the middle of things, just in case Dad needs some help.

So now on to more interesting things. We have had a very eventful time with Madalene since I have started my student teaching. Within the last two weeks she has tested all of the limits. You saw the writing on the wall, then there was the day she emptied an entire tube of foundation on the back of Sammy,(telling me "Sammy has his makeup on) and the other night she dumped gallons of water onto the bathroom floor (we have carpet in there). So to top off her wonderful behavior on Thursday night we were at Uncle Tim's house and she does the one thing that I have been terrified of her doing. Madalene found a pair of scissors, Tim didn't even know they existed, and cut herself some bangs!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! This is what we get for saying that we have been so lucky to have a child that has been pretty easy thus far to raise. So here are some pictures of her hair cut. I have not trimmed the hair, what you see is what she did. She does not like the fact that her hair is always in her face, so we have decided to let her suffer for a little while.

She did not want me to take pictures of her hair, so she told me she was going to have her angry face on!!!!!! She does not like to talk about what happened!!!!

So on to what is going on today. We got Madalene a swingset for her Birthday, and today is the day for the construction of it. I have some pictures from this morning and hopefully later there well be more.

(The Before)

This is the site were the swingset is going to go.

The Hardware!

The lumber.

We recruited some help from Garrett and his boy Collin. As you can see we now have two big helpers.

Everything is set out and ready to go!

Seth and Garrett went to get some mulch, so the kids thought they would play before work started again.

Art Work on the Wall!!!

We did not do a very good job of taking pictures over the weekend, so nothing good to see from Blacksburg yet. Yesterday we had an interesting day. It was the first time Madalene had taken her art work from paper straight to the closet doors in her room.

These are pictures of what her doors looked like!!

They are beautiful H's, but not exactly where I would have liked for her to have written them. I found a little bit more humor in the art work than Dad did. I knew the day would come, but I was still a little suprised by the amount of damage she could do in a short time.

So of course the next thing to do was get it cleaned up. Don't think for one minute I didn't make her help clean up the mess.

With a little bit of help from Mom we got all the pencil off the walls, and had a very long talk about were we color at.

Good Morning!

We have a busy day ahead of us today. Madalene and Mom are washing laundry and packing while Dad is at work. We are taking a short trip to Blacksburg (were VT is) to visit some friends for the weekend. I took a couple of pictures this morning and as you can see we are not out of our pj's yet!!!

There should be plenty more pictures to come after the weekend!

It's been awhile!!

It has been awhile, I know!!! So I am going to update everyone today with several pics and little notes. Then I promise to keep up from now on!!!!

These two pictures are Madalene and Dad trying to catch a mouse that has run under the chair. The mouse is visible and they are putting traps all over the inside of the chair to gaurantee a catch. The mouse still escaped!!!

Happy Halloween!!

This is the pumpkin Madalene painted for Sara before we went down to visit in November.

Just a few pics from our trip to Florida. Kathy and I are going to have to dead bolt all the doors when these girls get older.

These next few pictures were during my fall break. I had the day off and took advantage of it. We started out at the library and ended at the park. Tons of fun!!!!!

Just another day on the farm. Madalene does not like to miss out, especially if it involves the tractor.

This is Thanksgiving in South Carolina. For the past several years we have made gingerbread houses. Madalene did a great job!!

A few pics of Christmas. The last one is our buddy Garrett in GA.

The picture below is the beautiful sight we woke up to on Sunday. I know it does not look like much snow, but it is the most we have had seen since we've lived here!!!!!

On to the important things. These next two pictures will officially have you caught up. I took these this morning before starting this project. Once again she is a princess!!!! Everyday we battle over what she is going to wear. If it was up to here she would be Cinderella every where she went.