Let It Snow!

We were pleasantly suprised last night with a beautiful snowstorm! We work up to close to a foot of snow in our front yard! Troy loved watching it from his window but he didn't like his hands getting cold in his mittens. He definetly needs some better snow gloves! He sure looked cute all bundled up though!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving as we did here in Ephraim! We hosted Thanksgiving dinner this year for Kevin's family and it was a lot of fun. I didn't get a lot of pictures other than my pretty tables that I set!!! I was too busy trying to get everything organized to keep up with pictures!

Here come the Gingerbread Men!

I decided about a month ago that my Christmas tree this year needed a "theme". I had been holding out for my mom to give me her Santa Clause tree which is TO DIE FOR, but it doesn't look like that will happen any time soon :) So I decided to do a Gingerbread Man tree. Of course, I decided that before I even started looking for Gingerbread Men and soon realized that cute ones are very hard to find! After searching everywhere here in Utah, I enlisted my mom's help and she found the ones in the first picture. Then, Stacey called and said to check at Cracker Barrell and I found the ones in the 2nd picture there. The monogramed ones came from the internet from some Christmas shop in Canada! It will be fun hunting for ornaments every year!

Colt's Quilt

Here is the quilt that I made for Baby Colt! I love how it turned out...I wanted it very "baby boyish" if that makes sense! Grandma Madsen binded it for me with lots of love!

New Hobby!

My friend, Stacey, got me into this new stitching hobby...I am so burnt out of scrapbooking I needed something to do that was different, and this I can do while laying on the couch!!! I told Stacey I would post these here for her to see...they aren't perfect but I am so impatient, nothing I do like this will be!

Troy's New Church Outfit

We took these pictures of Troy this morning before church, we just thought he looked too cute and grown up in his new church outfit. I forget how big he is getting until I see pictures like these...I step back and think "WOW, where did the time go!" He didn't want to take his outfit off after church he liked it so much!

Getting fatter....

Hey everyone....just thought I would post my baby progress! I am now in my 3rd trimester! (27 weeks!) I am hoping the holiday season will really speed things up! I have definetly popped out a bit in the last little while. I even had a 10 lb. weight gain last month! Yikes, that better not be a normal thing! We have offically decided to name our baby Colt John Madsen and we are thrilled! There is a lot of sentiment behind the name. The initials will be CJ which most know is my brothers name and initials. Colt is the name that my dad picked out and since we loved it too, we thought it would be nice to let him name the baby since I won't ever name my baby "Richard" or "John" (Sorry, Dad!) And John is after again, CJ's middle name, my Grandpa John and several Uncles on my Dad's side of the family. That said, Dad, this baby is for you!