Rowland's Shiner!

Anyone who knows Madison knows she likes to play "rough." I'm pretty sure she broke my nose once when she smacked me in the face with our cordless phone. (My nose has already been repaired once from breaking it when I was little). A week later just as the swelling started to go down, she hit me in exactly the same place with the remote control...ouch! She of course thought it was hilarious both times!

A few weeks later, she was sitting on our bed playing when she threw one of our big heavy led crystal glasses right at Rowland's eye just inches away from him. (He was lying down with his eyes closed so unfortunately he didn't see it coming). It immediately got swollen and bruised. It looked and sounded extremely painful!

As Rowland puts it, of all the fights he was in as a little boy he never had a black eye...until his 18 month old baby girl just gave him his first one! Once we made sure he was ok, we couldn't help but kind of laugh about the irony of it. He also jokes now that it's payback since he accidentally gave his Dad a black eye when he was little too! What are the chances?!

This was taken a few days later as it was starting to heal. There was kind of a dark ring around the bottom there for a while. A few people saw him and jokingly asked what he did to make ME so mad at him. ;)

Christmas '08 Pix

I FINALLY added my Christmas pictures!

I don't post very often because Madison HATES it when I'm on the computer.

It was Madison's first time to Temple Square; she loved looking at all the lights.

My mom had her annual Christmas party where we always have a feast of what Jesus would have eaten by candle light and act out the Christmas story while Brian read it from the Bible. My are always the 3 wise men...and the shepherds. My neice, Alexandra was Mary. Last year Madison was small enough to play baby Jesus but this year she was the Angel.

I was the donkey!

Madison with her Grammy who she adores!

She was very good at opening gifts this year; she's finally getting old enough to actually care.

We had a nice dinner with my Grandparents & my sister who came in from Las Vegas

at our house.

It was a VERY child-proof Christmas this year...and will be from now on.

We found out why we should have spent the extra money for the non-breakable ornaments. :)

These are some of the MANY batches of cookies I made for all my neighbors. After all that work, I had to show them off :).

We used to help my mom decorate Christmas cookies like these as kids so it's a fun tradition I want to pass on with my kids but I think we'll just make a few batches in the future. My mom wasn't kidding when she warned me that it takes a long time to make that many!

My Daycare kids loved decorating some that they got to take home.

On Christmas day we first celebrated as a family where Madison opened her presents, then we went to both in-laws for the rest of the day. Her favorite gift was of course the most simple & cheapest gift of all, the old school popcorn popper! Isn't that usually the case?!