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!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is here and we have a little monkey in our house!!! Troy is obsessed with his costume this years, which is a nice change from the last 2 years where he screamed the whole time the costume was on! I loves spotting pumpkins on porches while we drive around in the car or go on our walks and he loved carving his pumpkin with his Dad. We will spend Halloween Day at the town's parade (the Elementry kids walk in it in their costumes) and visiting Dad at work along with Grandparents. We'll hurry home to deliver goodie bags to Troy's neighborhood friends and Dad will take Troy trick or treating while Mom stays home and passes out candy! Happy Halloween everyone!

Wiggles Slippers!

We were at Target last week and I found these cute slippers! I couldn't decide between the Thomas the Train ones or the Wiggle ones since Troy adores both...so I got both! Thomas will have to wait until Christmas though. :) He wears these slippers all over the house and even outside. No more "blue shoes" (his blue Crocs), he wants to wear the Wiggles!

What went on while I was gone!!!??!!

Hey everyone! Well Kev and I just returned home from a Vegas weekend to find some very crazy pictures of Troy's weekend with his grandparents! My mom and dad ("Cookie" & "Papa") stayed with Troy for the weekend and had a ball. It doesn't look like they had any

fun at all does it??!!

Troy's Fall Pics

Troy went to the photographer today so I wanted to post the pictures...they turned out OK I think. He was definetly the hardest to work with this time, I'm sure it's just his age! We had a fun day in Provo today...birthday money shopping for Kev and a pedicure for me at the mall :) Troy thought that was pretty cool watching the lady scrub my feet!

Ultrasound Pictures!

I don't know if this will mean anything to anyone...it seems like the only people who can figure out these ultrasound pictures are other moms! I had my 21 week checkup yesterday and the checked all of the health and "guts" of our baby and he looks perfect! He is over a pound now! Here are the pictures they gave us...you can read in the upper left corner what the picture is of and that helps a lot! I thought I better scan them in before Troy destroys the pictures cause he carries them around all day. He says he loves his "baby girl" but we'll see how he acts in a few months! (Yes, he refuses to say it's a baby boy, but the Dr. said she's 110% sure it's not a girl!)

Future Tiger??

I love this picture recently taken of Troy by his Aunt Tracy. Troy's cousins invited him to play golf with them to celebrate the end of their summer lessons. I think he's going to follow the footsteps of his Dad and both Grandpas in loving the game of golf.

Baby names....

SO the biggest issue in my life right now is figuring out a name for this baby boy in my tummy! I don't know why it bothers me so much, I guess cause Troy had a name from the time we left our ultrasound office. We were so set on the name, we never looked back. We have it down to 3 names...but we are always open for more suggestions! Leave a comment for your vote or for a new suggestion!!! The names are: Boston, Drew & Colt. The middle name will be John if that matters! Please help! Oh and here is a pic of my growing tummy--18 weeks left and counting!

Hello!

Hello Everyone! I have to thank my cousin, Stacey Willardson, for encouraging me to do a family blog!!! This will be so fun to post pictures of what my little family is doing! Here is the latest pic of Troy taken at the botanical gardens...he's obsessed with this picture of him on the "big ant"!