You've had a birthday, shout "Hooray"

Madie turned 4 last Tuesday!!! I still can't believe it! We started the day out by going to art class with Katie, then Zach & I took her to lunch at Wendy's. After that we had some visiting teaching to do and then we came home and went swimming. Finally, dinnertime rolled around and her cousins came over to party. When asked what she wanted for dinner, Madie responded with "waffles." So the kids all played and we had waffles (with pink whipped cream), hash browns, bacon & eggs for dinner. 

Madie (in her new birthday dress) waiting patiently to open her presents. 

 Grandma & Grandpa with baby Samuel (they didn't know I was taking the picture). That's a unicorn costume Abigail is wearing...I'm still not sure how she didn't get heat stroke in it!

 Some of the kids were kind of bored during the opening of presents...

 Madie opening the Belle nightgown she got from the Tolmans. To say she LOVED it would be an understatement!!!! She wore it to bed Tuesday night and then tried to convince me to let her wear it all day Wednesday as clothes. I think tonight is the first night she hasn't worn it to bed since she got it.

 Molly opening her birthday present from Auntie Lori & Uncle Justin. At first Kristi had Molly's present off to the side and Molly kept trying to open all of Madie's presents. Finally, they put her gift over in the pile with Madie's and then she would open it.

 The pink princess castle cake that Madie helped me make.

 Happy birthday little big girl!

Oh, and the title of the post is the song Madie requested we sing to her in Primary last week.

Preschool, Graduation & Mother's Day

Madie loves school! Whether it is art class with Katie (through the city) or the preschool co-op we did with some ladies in our stake or primary she just loves it! Here is a pic from one of our preschool lessons about construction. This was actually the last lesson I taught before I was put on bed rest. And she has been doing really well learning her Articles of Faith! She has passed off 1-5 and was ready to pass off #6 today, but they didn't do it today since it is Mother's Day.

Speaking of school...ZACH GRADUATED!!!!! It has been a long 4 years, but he did it (with honors even)! I'm so proud of him and all of his hard work. And thank you to all of the family that came out to support him that day!

 While Zach's parents were in town for graduation, we went to lunch together and then they took Madie shopping for her birthday. Here she is playing with Grandma Watson and her new birthday carriage (which she just LOVES, by the way).

 Madie enjoying a random May storm. It felt very monsoon-ish.

And this is the two of us before church this morning. Yes, we matched (the outfits were planned...the matching hair just sort of happened). The primary kids sang "I Often Go Walking" in Sacrament meeting and I received several compliments on how they did. It was so cute to see Madie up there singing. She did a great job of singing loudly, but not too loudly.

As far as Henry goes...he is growing really well. We had another check this last week for his heart (which beats irregular) and there was no change, so that means I get to go back for another check for that in two weeks. So as of right now, I'm been seen every 2 weeks by my ob to check on the clot and every 2 weeks by the perinatologist to check on Henry's heart. The good news is that he should out grow the arrhythmia though and it shouldn't cause any long term issues. The other good part about it is that it means we get to see him on u/s quite often. This picture is from 2 weeks ago...I got another 3d pic on Friday but don't feel like scanning it in right now.


Madie's birthday is on Tuesday so I'll post pics from that later in the week. Also, we had new pics taken of her and once I get those back I'll upload them.