Yet again, another year has come and gone. It has been a great year though. I was just going through some of my pictures and it made me realize how much has really changed this past year. Madison has grown and changed SO much.This was Madison a year ago...
And this is Madison now... 
there still isn't too much hair (it is starting to grow pretty good now) but other then that, physically she has grown so much. A year ago she was barely sitting up by herself and was completely dependant on us for everything. Now, she is running around like crazy and likes to be as InDePeNtAnT as possible. She loves to act like a grown up, talk on the cell phone, sing and dance, take care of her baby dolls and make as big of a mess- as fast as she can. We are so grateful to have her in our lives and love the opportunity to watch her learn and grow everyday.
And this is Madison now... there still isn't too much hair (it is starting to grow pretty good now) but other then that, physically she has grown so much. A year ago she was barely sitting up by herself and was completely dependant on us for everything. Now, she is running around like crazy and likes to be as InDePeNtAnT as possible. She loves to act like a grown up, talk on the cell phone, sing and dance, take care of her baby dolls and make as big of a mess- as fast as she can. We are so grateful to have her in our lives and love the opportunity to watch her learn and grow everyday. This year for New Years we had a fun party with Karl's family. This was the first year since we have been married that Karl didn't have to spend the whole evening setting up and shooting fireworks. He did still shoot a show this year, but he was fortunate enough to only have a small show here in the valley. It was a private show at a guys house so Karl went up during the day to set up and didn't have to go back until about 11:30 to get ready to shoot- and we all got to go up and watch the show as well. Anyway, we had a fun evening filled with lots of good food and family. Karl's family have a tradition to have a finger food feast every year on New Years Eve. It is a really fun tradition because we eat lots of foods that we don't usually get to eat. Everything we eat has to be able to be eaten with only your fingers or toothpicks.
Here are the last few pictures I had on my camera for the year 2008.
These are Madison's new Christmas pants. Obviously they are still a little bit big. Madison was playing and I looked over and this is what I saw.
Feeding her dolly in the high chair
Feeding her dolly in the high chairPlaying with Ivy in matching hats
HaPpY NeW YeAr!
Madison had a lot of fun playing with the many friends she had that night. Melissa and Mitch have a dog named Hunter. Madison was completely enthralled by him. She also had a lot of fun playing with our cousin Ally... under the piano.
On Christmas morning my family has a tradition that we all line up youngest to oldest to get to go in and see what Santa had brought for them. Santa doesn't usually always wrap the little ones presents so as soon as Madison walked into the family room she found what he had left her. She was SO excited! She loves baby dolls and now she had a stroller AnD a car seat for her dolls to use.
She got lots of fun presents from her aunts, uncles and Grandparents and once again LoVeD playing with everything she got... including her clothes.
After opening presents we all made breakfast and got to play with all of our fun new toys. Karl and I got lots of fun new games to play on our Wii so you will all have to come over and play with us.
Usually on Christmas we go to a party with my dad's side of the family but since we got snowed in the party was moved to Friday which meant we just got to spend the day at home, in our pajama's being lazy.
On Christmas night Andrew, Irene and Irene's sister Elaine came over and we made homemade pizza and watched a movie. After the movie they tried to go home but realized as they turned out on the main road and saw a huge pile of cars at the bottom of the over pass that they didn't want to try and drive home in the snow. So... we had a sleepover. We stayed up late laughing and talking about how Robbie and Karl almost got us in trouble with the cop who kept driving past our house. We also played "name that movie" by trying to look across the street at our neighbors who had conveniently positioned their big screen TV right in front of their open window.
On Friday we went to My Aunt Connie's house to celebrate Christmas with my dad's side of the family. It was a lot of fun because we got to see a bunch of our family that we hadn't seen in a long time. My cousin Candee and her family just moved back to Utah from Washington and her brother Brett just moved back from California. Also, my Aunt Carolyn's granddaughter Chelsea was also able to join us from Texas. Unfortunately these were the only pictures I took...
This is my cousin Candee's little boy Chad. He is only 2 months older than Madison.
This is what Madison is going to look like pregnant... but hopefully she will be a LoT older. They were stuffing all the wrapping paper up her shirt.
While she slept we got to go through our stockings and then got to eat this delicious breakfast.
After breakfast Madison finally woke up and we got to open all of our presents. She LoVeD all of her presents. She was so excited about the new baby doll her Nanna gave her that she was shaking while I was trying to open the package as fast as I could.
After she opened her first present, she spent the rest of the time wandering around looking at everything everyone got and playing in our empty boxes and wrapping paper.
Karl ended up getting his Wii fit which he was way excited about. I got some cute new clothes too... which is always exciting. They also gave us some money this year instead of lots of presents because we decided we needed the money more then the presents. Thank you so much for the wonderful Christmas! We appreciate everything you all do for us.
