Poll #5 Answer!

This one was a tricky one! Only 25% got this one. She loved to sleep in the swing. In the early morning when mom and dad couldn't get her back to sleep, the swing did the work!

A Couple Days In The Life Of The Madsens

Here is Kyler doing his yard duties! He is such a big helper, Dan goes and gets his rake and Kyler wants his to help....we aren't complaining!

We went to "This Is The Place Monument Park" for the kiddos Halloween extravaganza. It was alot of fun, and Kyler really enjoyed himself. They had a corn maze, train ride, face painting, and all sorts of other cool stuff. As you can see we just had a blast, and Addie loved it too!

Here are some pictures of Kyler riding his new sk8board! Thanks to Shawn & Kristen, he was able to pay for the board himself. HAHA. It was between this design and one with these mean looking dogs on it....and he told me "I want the one with the skeleton!" He actually does very well on it! We were impressed. We have some video that we will try and post soon.

Sunday Best

Church doesn't start until one so in the morning we have some time on our hands. Here are some pics of the kids waiting patiently (or at least Kyler). From the moment he gets up on Sunday he wants to go to church. We are having a difficult time getting him to understand we have to wait until there are people there.

Poll #4 Answer!

In May Dan was at a young men's presidency meeting for our church. Kyler got his bike for Easter and still hadn't gotten the hang of it. I was sooo pregnant and took him over to our church parking lot. We worked on it the whole way there and by the time we got there, he pretty much had it. When Dan got back, we went back over to the parking lot and he was thinking Kyler didn't really have it down. He could not believe his eyes when Kyler rode across the parking lot unassisted! This is a picture of Kyler riding his bike with his "motorcycle helmet" on. A third of you got this one right!

Our Backyard Buddy

We were out tearing out our vegetable garden for the winter, and Christie spotted our backyard buddy. Ever since we moved into our home we see them at least once or twice a summer. We find that having the Praying Mantis in our yard is a good sign for our family, and our veggies. HAHA.

Poll #3 Answer

Only two people got this one right. Kyler tripped getting into our neighbors mustang. He was bleeding really bad and when I went to get Dan he thought I was probably exaggerating. Once he saw it he knew we needed to go to the hospital. Kyler cried at the hospital only because he wanted to get down and play hoops. He got nine stitches. It was a MEMORIAL DAY we will always remember.

Poll #2 Answer!

You all got this one Right!! Inn On The Creek! Give yourselves a great round of applause! Here are two pictures from our wedding reception at Inn On The Creek. Cutting the cake...of course. And a funny one. A little bit of background on this one. We wanted an ice sculpture, but didn't really know what to have it of. So they suggested we think of something that is personal to us. Well, we love our turtles so we had a turtle kissing sculpture at our wedding. We are following the turtles lead. On an end note, the ice artist enjoyed sculpting turtles, because it was different. What can we say.

Poll Answer

Yes, 50% of you got the answer right! Bertha is her name, and the Big literally means BIG! We put a picture of her up next to my 9.5 size shoe, and she is about 2.5" high. She is a big girl, and has been with us for 5 years. She is part of the family and deserved a spot on the blog.

Spending Time Together

We took another drive up East Canyon today and man what a difference from yesterday. Today there was no snow, and yesterday as you know there was snow. Also, we didn't need coats and it was Perfect! We had a small family home evening up at the lake, and also helped return some of the rocks from the shore to the lake!

Tribute To Comfort

I just waxed the cars today, and felt that they needed to have their time in the spotlight!! Also, I wanted a picture of our home with the white shingles because if the weather permits we are getting our roof re-done on Monday the 15th. WooHoo!

Autumn Day

During Conference today, we decided to listen on the radio and go for a drive. These pictures were taken up East Canyon, and what an amazing day it was for pictures. Beautiful is an understatement! Much to my surprise Christie has quite the eye for photography! She actually took two of the four pictures.

Kiddos!

We thought that a child comparison might just be interesting. So intermingled in here are pics of Kyler & Addie. Enjoy!

Face It!

Here is a collection of some of our favorite Kyler pics. We felt more needed to be posted of our first born, so here he is!

Cat Nap!

Addie decided that the Cubs loosing 3-1 wasn't worth watching anymore. Enough said!

Dad told me NO again!

This is the reaction that I received, after I told Kyler to eat his dinner instead of drinking my lemonade. Wow, can we say ticked off! HaHa, isn't this reaction what dad's are for.....right?

Addie's new toy!

Can we all take a second out of our busy lives and bask in the joy that Addie gets from her new toy. I think sometimes we get so caught up in "life" that we don't really sit back and realize all that we have. It can be little things like, toiletpaper or toothbrushes. Or it can be big things like houses, cars, etc. So what does this photo say to me....be greatful for everything!

Big Brother, Little Sister!

Don't they make a cute pair of siblings? Kyler just adores his little sister, sometimes to the point of smothering.....well I guess it is a better option than him disliking her, right!

SMILE!!

Honestly, I can't think of anything more precious than a babies smile! Can you? Isn't she just gorgeous.......that's my girl!!

Where's Addie?

This photo takes me back to the days of "Where's Waldo?" Anyone else get that from this pic?