hello kitty

we were at sams club last week to pick out birthday cake for madelynn birthday party. she flipped out with she saw the hello kitty cup cakes. "mom i want that one...HELLO KITTY!" she said. i think every one in sams heard her. i didn't even know she know who hello kitty was. i made her look at the rest of the cakes...but her little heart was set on hello kitty. we had a great time at her birthday party, the high that day was 102! not to bad! i think we were all melting by the end. we were lucky to have dustin parents down from ut, it was fun to celebrate with them! madelynn told me she didn't want any presents if she could just have a pinata. i think that was every ones fav part of the party...other then dustin his fav part is the cake...no surprises there.

my baby is four

it feels like yesterday... it was the morning of September 22 my mom had just gotten into town. i had to call the hospital to see what time they wanted me to come in to get induced. i was so excited to have my baby, what i heard next devastated me, they told me that they had no room, they had so many people in having babies that they were putting girls in the halls, and closets, they said it might be a few days before they could get me in. i couldn't believe this. all that day i was sad and frustrated. i went to take a nap and woke up to my phone ringing, it was another hospital saying they had room for me and to come on in. it was about 7:30 ish when i got to the hospital. i was so excited, next thing i knew it was 4:15 in the morning and i heard the best sound any mother can hear that first cry! In that moment my life changed as i held my madelynn effie! i can't believe that was four years ago. happy birthday sweet girl.

ymca nursery this is annie speaking

this is erica, i met her ten years ago this fall. she and i worked at the ymca nursery together. she loves to give me a hard time about how i used to answer the phone at work. i never thought that job would have been such a blessing in my life. i made a life long friend from it, we have seen and been through so much together. i was able to spend the afternoon with her when we were both visiting missouri this summer. i miss her so much and really think she needs to move out to az and live by me.

sunshine

madelynn started her 1st day of preschool today at sunshine preschool. madelynn loves school and couldn't wait for her school to start. she spent most of the summer asking when it was time to go back to school. i love that she has an excitement
about school and learning. she is such a happy sweet little girl who brings me so much joy.