Go Flames!

Our sweet friends Wayne and Annemarie took us to a Flames game on Saturday night. This was my first NHL hockey game and it was lots of fun! When my family first moved to the Portland, OR area My friends took me to a Winterhawks game and I thought we were at an NHL game! I thought the guys playing looked SO young! It makes me laugh now that I am living in Hockey country. I never would have guessed that this girl who grew up in San Antonio, TX, went to a junior hockey game and thought it was the Big League would be becoming a hockey fan for the BEST hockey team! ;) Go Flames! We did not win this game but I have hopes to go to more games and cheer them on to victory! The game was fun but Annemarie said the crowd was pretty tame and not into it as much as normal. Annemarie and I were talking (which we did almost the whole time) when the Flames scored the first goal and I missed it so I quickly learned how to talk and watch the game. :) I had a good laugh at the scantily clad girls who would come out and shovel the ice. PLEEEASE!! Give me a break! I guess it is at almost all major sporting events now. I don't think I have seen any at a MLB game though. The cute little bat boys better watch out or they might not have a job soon! :) It was a great first time experience. Thanks Annemarie and Wayne!

NEW PICTURES

Looking in an ambulance at the Home and Garden Show. We were looking for deck ideas but didn't really find anything. I still had fun! I don't know about Malcolm. :)

Madalyn got the camera and took a picture of herslf. Please excuse the boogers!






Ballerina Girl! She dressed herself in her ballet clothes and fairy wings. She got this ballet bar with some DVD and mats for Christmas and wanted to use them today. The music is funny. I finally got some family pictures on the wall and we finally put a picture up over our couch but Ifeel like it needs something else. I really have not known what to do with this space! The picture reminds me of an Italian villa. I really like the picture. It doesn't look as small on the wall as it does in this picture. I had some more pictures so I thought I would blog again! Let me see if I could use the word picture anymore in this blog. I am annoyed because when I post it doesn't look like it does when I preview it. I was just writing by the pictures and explaining them but now they are all clumped together. You get the idea so I am not going to try and get it perfect! :)

Pictures

I am back with some pictures. Malcolm was making fun of the new look of my blog. I know hard to believe! :) He said the font is so big his grandma could read it no problem. I like it and want my blog to be friendly to the visually impaired. ;)

These pictures are from last month. Malcolm and I went to a BNL concert. I don't know if I should write out the name because I might get some weird comments. Hopefully, you know what group it is and what you would do if you had a million dollars. (hint hint) Kori and Lisa invited us and we had a great time! We had not been to a concert in a forever so it was lots of fun.






























Here are some Valentine's Day pictures of Madalyn. We made cookies for her class and some friends. In two of the pictures she is showing her V-Day cards from Nan and Papa and Grandma and Grandpa. One of the pictures is of some Daddy and daughter guitar playing and singing. So cute!

Still Here!

Hi! Long time no post! I hope I still have some readers! We are just plugging along with life right now and things are good. I feel totally blessed everyday! Thank you Lord! He is just amazing and is revealing himself to me in ways I have not let Him in a long while!

I will post some pictures later but just thought I should get back to blogging and posting pictures of Madalyn because if I don't our family doesn't get to see her. They haven't seen her since Christmas so I am going to try and start blogging regularly. I have been able to do better at some other stuff like this in my life recently so I think I should be able to manage this! I switched to new blogger and experimented with some new colors and that was fun! I don't know if I am completely happy with my new look but it is fun to play! Thanks for reading and I will be back soon with pictures.

Christmas in Pictures

I'm a Bad Blogger! My sister told me to blog before I left my parent's house and that was a week ago Friday! I know it's late but I still wanted to post about our Christmas holidays.

Papa and Madalyn
Auntie KK your so funny!
80's dance girl!











Excited about her Dora Talking House



Christmas morning is so fun with a three year old!
Happy Birthday Great Grandpa Reynolds!
"Making cookies" with great grandpa


Madalyn took the pictures of Grandpa and Great Grandpa


Presents from Grandma and Grandpa
























Helping Daddy put up the lights

Update

Just a quick update and some pictures of what we have been up to lately.

Madalyn got a gingerbread decorating kit yesterday as a present so we put it together today. It was really quite fun and I think Malcolm and I got into it just as much as Madalyn did! It was a fun family activity. I think it turned out pretty cute! In this present she also got an advent calendar with a little book of fun ways you can do an activity as a family to remember and celebrate each day of advent. I am looking forward to using it!

Daddy and Madalyn decorating the gingerbread house

All done!

We celebrated American Thanksgiving with just the three of us and it turned out to be a really great day! Madalyn and I stayed home all day while I did all of the cooking and watched the Macy's parade. It was fun watching it with her and showing her all the big floats. She loved watching the singers and dancers from the different musicals on Broadway they had perform and watching the Rockettes. She actually was trying to do their routine with them! It was so cute! Trying to kick her legs and moving her arms aound like them. :)

Mommy and Madalyn ready to eat a good Thanksgiving dinner
Daddy and Madalyn eating our Thanksgiving Dinner
Having some pumpkin pie

Our Journey Care Group started meeting in November and we really love it! We have a great group and it has been a great way to connect and share life with other families. A week ago we made cookies and some other treats for the staff at the school where we meet every Sunday. I am excited to see how we can come up with (and just have our eyes open) to how we can serve others. That's what it's ALL about! Clap! Clap! :)

Making cookies with our Care Group
Madalyn and her friend Rachel-They love to dress up as princesses!

Thanks for reading (lurking)!

Funny

I thought this video was great! This guy has some really good stuff! Hope you like it! I don't know how to get the actual video on here! Sorry!

http://www.whiteboydj.com/babygotbook.html

I don't know how to get the above to actually be a link that you just click on to get to the video! Help me PLEASE!

Pictures

These aren't the retirement pictures but just some I wanted to post and one I promised to show Bonnie.

Madalyn dressed herself today! You can't really tell but the pants are way above her ankle.
Madalyn took this picture of Daddy playing for us!
Madalyn got the camera and took some pictures. This is one of them. I think it is kind of artistic. :)
Here you go Bonnie! These are the curtains in the kitchen. Silly Girl in the picture!

Better Late than Never Halloween Pictures

Winter Princess
Trick or Treating in the snow!
Performing her Halloween songs at preschool
Cute Halloween outfit
Putting on a puppet show

It has taken me a while to get these pictures up here but Finally here they are for your enjoyment. I think I tried three times to get them on here and blogger was not cooperating so I gave up for a little while.

Madalyn was sick the Saturday night and Sunday (and Heather might say Monday :) before Halloween and then Malcolm and I were sick on Halloween. Yuck! We tag teamed it to get Madalyn to her preschool party and out trick or treating. Malcolm was able to get her to preschool. There was NO WAY I would have been able to do that the way I was feeling. I did feel better in the evening and took her out to get some candy. It was pretty cold! It was my first time trick or treating in the snow! I doubt it will be my last. Madalyn did great and would shout "Trick or Treat" at every door. Since then she has talked about when it's Halloween tomorrow and we can go get some more candy! I think she liked it!

There are some great pictures from the big retirement party that I need to post. I know you don't believe me but it will happen soon!

Happy Thanksgiving

Well, yesterday was Canadian Thanksgiving and we had a great time at Steve and Rebecca's. We had a wonderful meal and fun visiting with friends and family. I forgot my camera so I don't have any pictures to post! :( I like celebrating two Thanksgivings. We get three turkey dinners for three consecutive months (including Christmas) and it is always good to be thankful so I highly recommend it! It is probably not good for the waistline but oh well! ;) I am hoping to have a big dinner to celebrate American Thanksgiving with some american friends here but anyone is invited. The more the merrier! I have never really cooked a turkey before (without my mom helping me) so it should be an adventure! I am thankful I am in a mixed marriage! :)

I have a cute Madalyn story to share. Yesterday, Madalyn found some of Malcolm's mints on his bedside table and she asked me if she could have one. I couldn't really see them so I asked her what they were and she said, " a Tic-Toc". It took me a minute to figure out what she meant. They were Tic-Tacs. It made me laugh!

I had better go and try and get everything done that I need to today. We are leaving on Thursday to go to Regina for Malcolm's Dad's retirement party. It should be lots of fun and I am really excited! Next time I blog I will post some pictures!

Fall Pictures

Today it was a beautiful Fall day so I thought I would take some pictures of my sweet girl! I think some of them turned out pretty well. I am hoping to find a pumpkin patch to go and take her picture at sometime soon as well. I just love the Fall! The crisp, cool air, the leaves falling, football, apple cider, wearing new boots (I just got some!), a holiday that reminds us to always be thankful and the list could go on.

We have had a pretty busy couple of weeks with lots of company and the launch of Journey Church. It was all pretty exciting! I will post pictures of some of those fun times later but for now just enjoy these of my beautiful girl!