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Madison has turned one!!

I cannot believe that my baby is one. Time has flown by. Take a look at our family pictures, that we actually took on her birthday. It just worked out that way, not planned. It is always a stressful event, and with Madison (and Corey and I) sick and teething, it was an extra challenge. But like the trooper she is, we managed, and I think it turned out great.

We didn't do much for that day, since it's a work day for Corey, and we're having a crazy party for her on Sunday. What were we thinking. (More me than we) Oh, well. It should be lots of fun, and a good memory. No amount of $$ can buy that. Hopefully, we'll have lots of pictures to add to the blog for those of you interested in seeing from afar.

Our final days together

Ahh, the generations all together. I was hoping for a nicer picture with me in it too, so that we'd have three generations of women together. However, this one came out much nicer.

Here we are on the last night at the Bellagio. They have a green room that is beautiful. I cannot believe that I had never really visited it before. We take things for granted here in the LV.

Sittin' back in the nice shade on a beautiful day, now that Corey and Bob had the structure done.

Here is the Monkey...crawling on a cold floor. It is so cute to see her crawl across a hard floor. She doesn't like the cold on her legs so instead, she crawls from her feet.

Just for Grandpa Moon

The first night Bob and Jan came into town, Maddy didn't have a clue who they where. Now, they are best buds.

Here is the nearly finished product that Corey was killing Bob over.

Whoohoo!!

Bob, Jan, Scott, Janice, Emily, and Denae's Visit

Every time Bob and Jan visits, we put them to work! Corey and Bob were working on Corey's shed/work station. It was a ton more work than Corey thought. It took them the entire time that Bob was here to finish it/get it up. They did however have some bad weather days, with high winds and some scattered rain.

Here is the family enjoying some grub.

Scott was showing Madison how use her walking toy. This is a toy that Madison got while she was still in my belly. Now she walks like a pro behind it. Not quite a pro walker on her own though. Thank you cousin Tennille.

Here is one of next years calendar pictures. Hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil. Very cute.

And here is the whole gang on their way out of town. We had such a nice time with the Propecks. I hope they can say the same. Coming down to LV they had some crazy weather. They could write a blog on their trip for sure. I think going home was much better.

Madison and her Grandparents

Bob and Jan came down to L.V. for their annual trip to visit us. We had such a nice time. It was nice to have Bob get to play with Madison, since the last time he saw her was last July, when she was 4mo. old. What a huge difference it is at 11 months. Now she is trying to walk, talk, and get into every possible thing she shouldn't.

Here, G'ma Moon is giving Madison her bath. She loves!!! bath time. The baby is like a fish. So Jan had no trouble at all. Sometimes if she is in a bad mood, I can give her a bath, and it's all smiles and giggles.

G'ma Moon is reading her one of her many books. She likes to be read to, however, she has a very short attention span. Therefore, after about one sentence has been read, she tries to close the book.

G'ma was so desperate to get something in her hair, here is how it turned out. She has the longest hair on the very top of her head, because she couldn't rub it off in her sleep there. So it is kind of like a Mohawk. However, now that she isn't swaddled anymore, the hair around her head is coming in much thicker. It shouldn't be too long before people will stop asking about the little BOY!!!

Since we had such a nice large group (The Propecks joined us) we decided to celebrate her 1st birthday a month early. G'ma got her a small cake and a candle. As Corey was trying to help her blow out the candle, Madison took her hand to it. Just as Corey went to pull her hand out, he breathed the flame out. It was all quite hilarious.

Here is Maddy and Me opening up some of the presents her family bought her. Here is the gift that Janice, Scott, Emily, and Denae got her. She is still playing with the farm animal song toy. We all had such a nice visit. It's too bad we live so far.

Corey's Birthday

We always go to PF Changs for dinner on Corey's birthday. Now they give you these sticky sticks to make stuff out of for the kids. They gave each of us one. I got to work right away and made our family. Aren't we cute.

I got Corey a new pair of boots. It seemed like he needed a new pair, since he only had one. He seemed to like them. IT was a nice dinner with the family.

Martha at Epcot

Martha, Martha, Martha... she is so fun. She had to do the game show, and let me tell you, you'd think they were paying her to do it. She was getting the small crowd going, and was more enthusiastic than anyone there. I think she won.

My crazy BFF.

Epcot

It was a beautiful day. The weather was in the upper 70's. Here we are at the front of the park. Caitlin wanted to go to the Magic Kingdom and we wanted to see Epcot, so we went here and they went there. It was a nice day to relax and have fun. Martha doesn't like rides and I'm not super big on them either, so Epcot was perfect. For those of you who don't know about Epcot, it is a park about the different countries around the world. Each country has history, historic artifacts, a film, some have rides, a formal restaurant, and cafe. They each have many shopping stores, and the people who run the country are actually from that country. It was cool.

The whole park is placed around a large lake in the center.

Here is Madison going on her very first park ride. We went on a boat tour of Norway. She clung to me like a little ape. Soo Cute!! But she had fun, she got excited and never cried.

Here we are in Morocco. We had our sit down meal here. It was very good.

This is Madison's first meet and greet with a Disney character, Mary Poppins.

The reason we're in FL

The 3rd guy to the right is Chris, who I taught for a short time. He is the son that is going pro. He was in 6th place that day, however he started 9th. This was his first pro race. It was crazy to see the wipe outs. I teared up for the first one. Too much for me.

Here is Pat holding Maddy inside of their bus at the track.

This is one side of the lavish air plane we took to FL.

Here is the other side of the plane. Maddy is looking at Chris as Dee (the Mom) is holding her. Let me tell you, I've never done 1st class, but I can say this must be 10x better. It was so cool!!

Kennedy Space Center

We are watching a video that was on Apollo 13. We saw the actual control room (below).

The is the back end of a space ship

Here is Madison eating her first french fry. She also nearly choked to death because she bit off too much at once. (oops!)

Here is the bathroom accommodations on a space ship. Nice isn't it?

Our Daytona Florida Trip

Tuesday (our real official first day there) we took our student out to see a historical lighthouse. However, we were hungry so we went to this restaurant first. Huge mistake. The food was good but the service was horrible. It took us two hours to get out of there, and then we only had 1/2 hr to do the tour of the lighthouse. We were not pleased. The lighthouse was still cool.

Here, Martha, Madison, and I had our first bites of alligator. It tasted light chewy chicken. Not bad, I'd get it again.

Here is Madison eating her first bites of crab. She is so spoiled at 10 months.

Here we are on one of the buses at the Kennedy Space Center. That was so much fun. We hop around onto different buses that takes you around the center. We got to see the launch pads and control centers.

The space center is in the middle of a wildlife preserve. So in this picture, if you look towards the basin, there is an alligator. They were everywhere. We also saw armadillo's. They have to make their fences end in a curve so that when the alligators climb the fence, they fall back to the ground.

The bus driver told us a story of when an alligator got into the cafeteria during the night shift, and they had to call animal control to get him out. The night shift also have to check under the cars with flash lights because they tend to rest under the cars. Crazy.

Miscellaneous Madison

Here is Madison and I at the Hoover Dam. Already the baby has been to see some National Landmarks and she doesn't even know it. Martha, Madison, and I took our student to see the Hoover Dam. We had to go three times because we wanted to see a particular tour, and it wasn't possible the first two times we went. Long story... so by the third time, we finally got to go into the tunnels and inside of the walls of the dam. It was cool.
I think Daddy took this picture of his daughter being cute. Lately, she likes to tilt her head and look at you cute.

Daddy took this picture as well. He was feeding her, and I guess she was in a good mood, since she was smiling a lot.

Here is the family during super bowl. My Mom and I made a ton of food, we relaxed, watched a good game.

Here is Madison traveling better than first class. Look to the next posting for more info.