Valentines

For Valentines/Eric and My birthday, we had my parents and Desiree and her kids over for dinner on Sunday before V-Day.

My Mom bought the best steaks that we have ever had. They are called Las Vegas Steaks and the only place to get them is at Don's Meats in Sunset. They are a little pricey so we only have them occasionally. They are wrapped with about 4 strips of thick cut bacon and are about 2-3 inches thick and seasoned prefectly. I should have taken a picture of them.....they are wonderful. Anyway dinner was great and we had a nice day visiting and playing with the kids.

Here is Hudson giving Maycee the evil eye. They either get along great or fight terribly. This was a good day.

Maycee's messy face showing us she is eating her meat.

I made a great red jello dessert for the kids. Daisee loved it and it was everywhere.

Brylee did really well at feeding it to herself......with a bit of Grandmas help.

Did I say Daisee loved it......We had to strip her down at the table and put her straight in the tub with Brylee. Brylee freaks out everytime she hears the water running in the bathtub and starts taking off her clothes whether it is for or not. Great fun!

On Valentines Day I made some heart shaped cookies from the funfetti cookie mix. That stuff is good the cookies tasted just like the cake batter...which I love. Needless to say I ate most of them.

I made the girls wait til Eric got home to open their Valentines gift. They could hardly wait when he walked in the door.

Maycee with her Go FISH

Kimberlen and Old MAID.

Brylee and a bear bowl.

This was their treasures....heart shaped plates, card games, a bowl and they also got pinwheels.

I was surprised with roses and a card. I forgot to take a picture of the roses. They were read and beautiful. Love you guys!!

Randomness

I guess I should have titled it Brylee-ness, since most of these are of her.

This is what she does while both sisters are at school. This time she has Maycee's boots, backpack and doll. She was walking around saying "skoo, Maycee at skoo".

When I asked her if she wants to go to school she gets excited and says YES!

Her first Piggy Tails.

I just love them.

This is a little table I have had forever. It used to be a cherry wood color and was boring. I sure love it now.

We let her wear pannies one morning after she pee peed on the toilet. She thought she was neat stuff. They were wet soon after this.

She decided to do her own hair. I think she had five headbands on.

It was cute.

Christmas Time

Here we go!!!

I thought I better update this since it has been so long.

Here is our Christmas, Madsen style.

(These may or may not be in order)

First our Family Picture. Not too bad even though Brylee did not want it taken.

Girl's pictures for Eric's present. These were shirts from when his Uncle raced, whom passed away this year. He was Eric's biggest hero. The shirt Brylee has on was actually the one Eric wore when he was 18 months old.

The cousins with Santa. I promise I will not do this to my kids again. The Santa at South Towne Mall was always the same great "Santa", till this year. This is by far too many kids to get a picture of especially when one of them is scared.

The girls. Wow, what a bad shot.

Cousin Ayson, he just chilled the whole time.

Cousins Hudson and Daisee, whom was just mortified to be there.

My Holiday look. The red only lasted a short while, but was fun while it did.

Eric received employee of the year for West Valley City. He didn't even know he was nominated. He was chosen by the City Manager, which makes it that much more special.


Maycee made us this at Preschool. A box of Hot Chocolate wrapped up as a snowman. She was so excited to give it to us she wanted us to open it right away.

Aunt Kristi brought over Christmas presents. This started off the opening of gifts for the rest of the month. Brylee did a great job and acted like she's been doing this for years.

Here are the girls in the middle of all the excitement.

Eric's friend from work came over and we exchange gifts with them every year. The kids are so cute together.

Maycee and Kaily are super cute together.

Of course we had to take one of us adults. Lin, Tam, Eric and I.

And here we go for Christmas Day. Brylee and I getting her gifts opened.

Kimberlen working on hers.

And Maycee just loving it all.

Eric opening the tear jerking picture of the girls. He claimed this was the best and most thoughtful gift he has ever received. Made all of us cry.

On to his parents for Breakfast and gifts. His parents opening there address stone we had made for them.

Uncle Cory enjoying the excitement of the girls.

The girls with Eric's Mother and Grandmother.

What Eric does best, play with his phone.

On to my parents. Brylee really enjoyed her Zhu Zhu pet as did the rest of the kids. We had no idea they would be such a hit.

Maycee loves her "Girls Rock" shirt.

Mom and Dad opening their new Blue Ray player we got them.

The big "Girls" in our family tradition Christmas PJ's.

And the little ones in their jammies.

Daisee started to attack her mother and was pulling her hair and just laughing about it.

Getting ready to pack up and head out. It always takes longer to get everything out than it does to bring it all in.

So that is our Christmas in a nut shell. We had a great time with all our family and love them very much.

Christmas Parties

Our first Ugly Sweater Party. This was a fun night. I was able to visit with friends that I haven't seen for a very long time. We did the white elephant gift exchange and I ended up with a dumb figurine and Eric got a dirty magazine and some lotion. He he he.

This is Amy, our host for the night. Here she is with her massage cream and mitt but I think she ended up with my bottle of wine. She had some awesome red metallic leggings that were a hit.

We attended the FOE Christmas Party with the West Valley City Officers. This was the first year anyone besides the officers has been invited. They felt they needed a way to thank Eric and two of his Guys. We had a fun night and won a Blackberry and a Bud gift set.

Eric and LaMont.

Eric with some of the higher ranked officers. I know that one of them is the Chief.