Mother's Day

A Couple of weeks ago I Celebrated my very first mothers day for the first time as a real mother. Not a girl over 18 or a married woman...NO a REAL Mother. it was wonderful. I woke up to a wonderful suprise basket of goodies which included a card, starbucks card, chocolate, best mom pillow, mirrored picture with a childs writing on it, and Little Fockers on DVD. We went to church where they celebrated mothers with some wonderful talks about the value of being woman and our divine calling as a mother. After church we came home for Madison to take a nap and just spend time as a family. After my mom got off work we went out to dinner at Tony's Spunky Steer. I know it was Sunday but I refused to cook dinner on my special day so we went out. we had a nice dinner with my two sisters, Madison, Me, Anthony, and My Mom. After dinner we came back to my house and did the whole gift exchange thing for my mom. It was an amazing day that I will look forward to for many years to come.

Easter 2011

Playing with my Easter Gift

with great grandma Dotson

With Cousin Hannah

Easter Basket

Easter Dress


For Easter we went to my dad's side of the family. We started at church for the first hour and Madison wore her beautiful dress she was given by Joe. then we came home and get dressed in clothes a little more casual and comfortable. we got to Teresa's house early (around noon and dinner was at 2) so we enjoyed some good normal conversation and family time with grandma Dotson, Melissa, and Teresa's Families. Melissa flew in from northern California. everything seemed to be going okay...Madison even slept through dinner letting me eat in peace (she loves me so much). but she just didnt feel like being social that day all she wanted was mommy and who could blame her with 4 teenagers in her face constantly I would be mommy crazy too. she never really got "happy" while we were there. None the less we played pass the baby. The big conversation of the night was why Amanda was 2 hours late to dinner. Not something I enjoyed. the day was so stressful for madison that on the way home I called my mom and asked her if she was home. she said she was out at Grandma Anderson's house so I asked her if we could swing by since it was on the way home so we did. Madison was much more relaxed around all the adults she spends so much time with.

5 Months already

My Easter dress

Playing with daddy is one of my favorite things

I love My grandma

Waiting for my check up and shots

I cant believe my baby is 5 months. I feel like I have already miss out on so much between trying to get healthy and spending time trying to find a job...filling out a million of applications that all ask the same thing and take forever to do and no response. Some of my favorite days is when I take time to just spend time with my sweet baby Madison. So here's the stats for this month

14 lbs 2oz (25%)
26 " long (95%)
16" head (30%)

She got her 4 month old shots a little late because we couldn't get a doctors appointment. I was so scared that she wouldnt do well that she would struggle as bad as she did last time. I was so anxious and nervous that she shouldn't be able to cope with the pain. So in order to care for her in the event that her shots went crazy I cleared the whole day and Anthony took the day off work. Much to our surprise she did amazing! after an hour she didn't even know the difference.