It's NORIE time!

While the boys were off deer hunting we got to spend time with norie, we really just laid back and enjoyed eachother's company.

Madilyn likes playing all the time!

We have been waiting for this for months! Madagascar 2! yes, it is finally here!

Norie took us and it was lots of dancing and rythym

and madilyn watched every move that was made!

I LIKE TO MOVE IT MOVE IT!

Here they are after the movie and i believe she was being a Lion!

ROAR!!!!!

before the movie started, there was a little boy in front of us telling us to SHHHHH!
well being a good mother i am, i told him that wasn't going to happen!!!!
I know that was bad! but the movie wasn't on in my defense!



Madily sure likes to sing to her Norie!
we are working on jingle bells right now.

AWWWW, madilyn getting her sugars from her norie!

can't get enough of those!

All play and some work too!

So thankfully Norie agreed to help me with some long overdue curtains that we have needed for our bedroom! We started on them sunday and got finished with them monday night! lots of hard work from all lparties involved!

Thank you norie!

The seamstress(aka) norie

The rebound pinner (aka) madilyn

Hey quite your horsing around, we got curtains to make!!!

The pinner, presser girl (aka) vanessa

I will have the finished product on here but i will let the suspense rise, just a little...

(ok i don't have a picture yet, gosh)

Hangin' with Papa Rockin' with Daddy

So, surely by now you have noticed the labrador on the cover of this magazine, which is called LQ(labrador quarterly) madilyn and papa were quite interested in what was going on here

Do i see a future in ... Dog Show

Oh yeah, it's gonna happen
What other 2 year old would read a whole magazine
with there papa for half an hour!!



here she is with daddy rockin out on her drums, home made by Nories pans

William turns 5!!!

We went to williams b-day party

it was alligator themed(chomp)

Amanda si a fab job and Jr and the Hamilton family split the present of getting hima big boy bike!!!

I think he will like it

After the party we all went swimming in the jones center too!

Miranda and madilyn say cheese!
Madilyn being silly as usual



William and his bike!
looks happy to me!

After the party, Madilyn keeps asking to go back to williams party to swim!

still to this day!

HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE

My has the time gone by...

My girlfriend Kristy came to town, we haven't seen her in about six or so years, it was sooo great getting to gether, we all pick up where we left off, like we never left eachother, this is how you know that you have a true friends!

That night it was below freezing, and we had our arsaga's, flashlight, and eachother.

We went out looking for our names, and by golly we found them, even if april's was under a big pile of mud!

I love you guys, can't wait to go out again in another six years!

here i am laying down in the freezing cold by my name on the senior walk @ the University!
Here is April and Kristy so excited to look back to get their pictures taken

here is the gang all together (including kristy's cousins Kaylee & Lance who i haven't seen since kaylee was in elementary and Lance was in jr. high and Lance now is getting his masters and Kaylee is a junior in college) Man am i getting old.

HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE

New Family Member

Well, here he is, Mr. Sherman. "the hairy one"

Jeff has wanted a St. Bernard ever since Julie and Jake showed us Marley at our wedding!

So a big thanks to Aunt JuJu and Uncle Jake for that.

Madilyn loves him so much

she tries to carry him around,

but that doesn't really work out for her.

Izzy and Sherman get along great,

they are really good for each other.

Anyways he is 12 weeks old and

almost over half Izzy's size,
So i will be asking Norie for major pointers on how to discipline him

Here is jeff and Sherman

so much for not on the FURNITURE

Madilyn playing with Sherman
Let's see how this will look in about 6 months

so, does the kid come along with the house?

I, uh, just, uh can't pick him up...

Uncle Chad's!!!

Dad and I went to a diabetes education class, so it was Uncle Chad to the rescue!

I dropped Madilyn off, and when your at Uncle Chad's your always listening to something!!!

looks to me they might be rockin out to jason mraz.

HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE

YO YO

Ok our child is Hilarious, First to honor the voters out there, we went early voting today,

waited about an hour in line but we got-r-done.

The ladies asked Madilyn who she was voting for, and without any hesitation she said...DORA! everyone in the room was laughing, but enough about that.

Tonight Madilyn wanted to show us the right way to yo yo, please notice that she is literally moving her yo yo up and down!!!!!

Trick or Treat!

The girls were so excited to get there candy!

Also we all want to say thank you to Mawsy, for all the help to get ready and for the costumes!

We love you!

Halloween night

Here is Madilyn trick or treating and we had to stop and say hi to all the mummies, hehehe

Three musketeers at it again, and let me just tell you, they definitely knew what they were supposed to do this year!!! Madilyn even said trick or treat twice to get double the candy!

Madilyn has her arms out because, andrew kept telling her to do the same thing, he had to do it so everyone could see his spider legs! They are so cute!

William is thomas the train, madilyn the lady bug, and Andrew the spider!

Miranda is a Gothic angel , she had wings, but they kept messing up, so we went with out them

They look great together

Madilyn does everything her big cousin does

Pretty costumes!



Girls with attitude!

HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE

Halloween cookies and Applebutter

We have been quite the cooks lately

Here is Madilyn and Daddy

Making Jeff's famous Applebutter, people drive miles for that stuff!

Stir daddy stir this way!!!!

Night before halloween we made scary cookies together
Really we just made a big ol' mess
and the cookies went in the trash


Jeff is holding a cat that madilyn decorated with a big blob of black icing!

As you can see madilyn ate as she decorated!

I thought my ghost looked the best!

Family Time

I can always fly really High with Uncle Chad!!!

Wow are we actually doing a family photo???

Ok, you are probably wondering about the eyes, i took like three pics before this and one of them always had there eyes closed, i finally said, DO NOT BLINK!
good one guys

CHillin with the FAMILY

We have had family over a lot so I thought it would be a good opportunity to take photos

here is Madilyn, Mawsy, Miranda, & Papaw

Madilyn & Grandpa Tice

Madilyn is just being her silly self, grandpa thinks it's funny!



AWWWW i really liked this one because they are smiling at each other

Granny Tice and Grandpa Tice

Granny always gets down and plays with me!

Madilyn is showing Granny how to check out her items at the cash register, BeeP