what a fun day looks like around here

this morning maddix slept in for me. i can’t complain. we ate breakfast, then took jimmer on a long walk.
we got ready and headed to the gym for body works plus abs class. my very favorite class. maddix loves the kids club now :) well…he doesnt cry anymore is what i mean.
when we got home, he took a nap.
i ate lunch, laid out, went swimming, cleaned.
maddix woke up, ate lunch then the party started.
first we made a race car track. after about 20 minutes of watching the yellow car fly down the track, maddix got jealous and wanted to slide down it himself. our race track then turned into a slide. why had i never thought of this before?? we were entertained for about 45 mintues with an ottoman, a yellow race car, and a pillow to slide down on.
then we watched “happy feet” and ate cheerios.
after that, we made chocolate chip cookies for daddy {his absolute favorite}.
naptime! {lasted about 20 minutes}
daddy came home and we decided to go to the mall and walk around. maddix couldnt get enough of the slide in the kids play area. he got a huge smile on his face each time he went down. it was priceless! my favorite part was that we walked around the whole mall, even went into stores and we didnt even spend a penny! this never happens. go us!
time to make dinner. maddix ate a banana popsicle {frozen banana on a stick. he loves it! genius. plus it takes him forever to eat, it’s perfect} while dinner was cooking maddix pulled out all the tin bowls from a drawer and began stacking then one by one on top of each other. he would take one from the drawer walk across the kitchen, set it on the floor, go back and get another one and so on. after we ate dinner, brig bathed maddix while i cleaned up. maddix loves his bubble baths ! its so fun to watch him sit and play with the bubbles and to see how entertained he is by the smallest things.
i got ready and went for a run and maddix went to bed. i decided to take jimmer since it was getting dark. he did awesome! he’s never ran that far before so i was a little worried, but he was the one that was keeping me going! when i got home i made a delicious strawberry banana protein shake, drank it, showered, and now im enjoying doing absolutely nothing, but blogging and pinning my heart out. oh how i love pinterest. best thing ever invented.
{{{{ps if i ever get super rich i am going to make so many yummy fancy dinners and desserts! {cooking fancy is expensive!} but for now i will just keep pinning them and drooling over them :) }}}}
today was a perfect day in my opinion. i love my family. i love that i have been so fortunate to spend all day with maddix :)
the end

eighteen

yep, its this time again! maddix is 18 months old!!! nursery is the first word i think of when i hear 18 months. we’ve already taken him in a few times and he’s already pro at it. hallelujah!

i couldnt help but get a little emotional looking at all the pictures of maddix up until 18 months old. he has changed so much. he used to have black hair and now it is turning blondish! craziness. i’ll let the pictures do the talking.

     

maddix is the craziest, cheesiest, funniest, most adorable, most loveable little boy i know. he definitely has his moments, but he’s super cute so it makes up for it ;-)

he is talking so much. he tries to repeat just about everything we say. his famous words are….. dada’s bike, ba ball (baseball), bubbes (bubbles), shoes, sit, ice, hi, buh bye. i cant think of any more right now!

maddix loves saying hi to everyone he sees. he also loves playing peek a boo with random people especially at the grocery store. he throws everything that he picks up. and has injured both parents in the act! he has an obsession with bikes. any time he sees a bike or motorcycle he says, “dadda’s bike!”.

we love our little man sooo much and love watching the new things he does and says each day!

HAPPY 18 MONTHS MADDIX!

WE LOVE YOU!

our life

i always blog about little everyday moments, but i realized i haven't really blogged about what we’re actually doing with our lives :)
brig is still working at University of Phoenix as an enrollment counselor. he is loving it and totally rocks at it! he enjoys going to the gym everyday during his lunch to keep up his nice body for his wife, which I'm totally okay with ;-) he is still working on his bachelors in business management right now and will be done in August 2012. he has been thinking of some different careers that he might be interested in, but still trying to decide. brig is the membership clerk in our ward. he recently got home from his Alaska trip where he brought home 80 lbs of fish!!!! don’t worry, we already sold it all in less than a week. crazy.
as for me, i am very fortunate to be at home with maddix everyday. however, i do start dental hygiene school in 3 weeks which will definitely change that schedule just a little ;-) i usually spend my days going to the gym, running errands, cuddling maddix, feeding maddix, cleaning, eating, spending money (one of the many reasons I'm excited to start school!) and doing other mom stuff! i am a beehive advisor in our ward which i love.
maddix will be 18 months next week. holy cow. NURSERY TIME!!! WOOO HOOOO! I've already been taking him in there for the past month a little at a time to get him used to it and last week he actually stayed the whole time by himself! i am so excited for this :) he is such a hilarious kid. he is always trying to say new words. he loves to copy us. his most famous words that we here multiple times a day are bi (bike), ball, dada, momma, ma (not quite sure what this means yet, he says this when he points to everything), tst (toast), ps (grapes) oats, baba (sippy cup), baby, hi, bye bye. he still loves to be outside, which i refuse to do obviously (unless we’re swimming). he loves to dance. in my opinion he has the best little boy smile ever. he has 12 teeth (finally his last molar came through! hallelujah)

we are loving our neighborhood, ward, friends, jobs, house, maddix, each other, and everything else that we have in our life :) we are so grateful for our knowledge of the gospel and that we are sealed for eternity. we love spending family time together. playing racquetball, swimming, playing the piano, dancing, eating talking, grocery shopping, etc. brig was just saying how nice it is to have every night together to just relax and hang out together. i told him we better enjoy it now because it definitely won’t stay like that for long! well, hope you enjoyed my update :)our attempt at a family picture, not too bad?