Madilynn is 1

first of all I can not seem to down load pictures right now to the blog, so they will be on another email. Back to the blog...It is so hard to believe but Madi is 1 year old. Where does the time go? It is completely insane to think that it was a year ago that we had her. The week before Madi's party, my parents arrived to Idaho. It was so wonderful to see them and Sidney. Madi was equally glad to see them as she immediately attached herself to them and did for the rest of their visit. After they left she would crawl around the house and into the spare room looking for them. But it was great to have them here. My mom and I took a card class in Boise at Archivers the next day and it was a lot of fun. Also Mark's uncle Roy and some of his riding pals stopped by the house too and my parents and I made them breakfast one morning. That was wonderful as I had never met him. We visited Shoshone Falls to when my parents were here. They really enjoying seeing it since they never had. My mom and dad also took us all to the zoo in Boise. That was so much fun and Sidney and Madi loved it. My mom was wonderful in helping me get last minute stuff picked up for Madi's party.

Fast forward to the day of her party, Saturday June 20th. I got emotional that morning when I went in and got Madi up. I couldn't believe I was getting emotional but I also couldn't believe our baby girl was 1. My Mom and rushed to Boise to get balloons picked up and Thank goodness for my friend LeAnn who loaned us her SUV or I would have never got all 40 balloons home. The guys were home putting up the canopy and tables and picking up the house. Once we got home it was the mad dash to get things put together before people started to arrive. Thank goodness for my parents too or this wouldn't have come together so nicely.

Guests started arriving a good 1.5 hrs in advance to the party starting so I had to just keep working around them. But it came together beautifully. My dad was cutting up watermelon as my mom was making flower arrangements. The night before my mom and I were up til close to 11 making chocolate dipped strawberry's and other treats.

The party was PERFECT, Madi had 41 guests who came to help her celebrate her special day. Including her Great Grandma and Great Grandpa who drove in that morning. Madi did so well considering she hadn't had a nap since 1 o'clock. She was such a trooper. The kids had fun at the party too, they were playing games and blowing bubbles. It was a WONDERFUL day. After the party we sat around with Madi and opened her MANY presents. Then Kim and Trevor hung out awhile longer which was wonderful and Trevor and Sidney played in the sprinklers. They even played with Madi in her sandbox. Mark and I were just so truly blessed to have many family and friends there and such an amazing little girl.

Next month marks the date that we are having our frozen embryos implanted. We are very excited and hope one takes. less than a month...we're almost there. That would make our due date the 1st week in April. just hope Mark is back from his deployment by then. (He's due back in February)

Hope you enjoyed the photos and story.

xoxo

R