Okay, so I'm a blogging slacker

Sorry to the couple of faithful followers to my blog. I have been busy, overly exhausted, a little spacey and kind of forgetful these last couple weeks, so the last thing on my mind was updating my blog. I figured while I sat my lazy self on the couch and watched American Idol, I could update a few pictures of our last few weeks. Madelynn started smiling a couple of weeks ago and I learned that it is her social smile, not gas! She smiles every morning when she sees us and always has big smiles for Jack and Olivia.

This past weekend we had my mom and dad as well as my sister Kelli and her family come into town for Madelynn's blessing. It got a little crazy in the house with 6 adults and 6 kids four-years-old and under, but we had a lot of fun. On Valentine's Day we took the kids to the Children's Museum.

The kids and their cousins had a lot of fun playing at the Big Red Barn, the sand area and the water table. Jack loved the grocery store and Olivia loved the house where she could play "mommy." I loved trying to get all the sand off of the kids (it was everywhere!). I guess it's good that we played in the sand and then the water, not the other way around! The kids loved climbing on this little contraption and Hayden and Olivia were pros at climbing all the way to the top, so Jack and Roman tried to do it too. Roman did fine as long as someone helped him and his short little legs up. Jack, on the other hand, freaked out a little because he was stuck and couldn't figure out how to get up or down. In fact, Adam had to squeeze in and get him! Every one in the museum was watching the drama unfold as Jack screamed and Adam climbed! Sorry, I had to document the whole thing because he was so cute when he was scared!

Okay, this looks like fun... I think... Adam trying to help him down from the outside, but that didn't work.
Isn't is sad how he is reaching for help but stuck in that net?!Adam finally squeezed through but Jack didn't believe me when I said that it was Daddy's hand that he saw.Finally Adam just pulled him down and he saw that it was Daddy. He got a little confused a couple times on the way down and would start to climb back up, but Adam held on to his foot and pulled him down until he was out. It was pretty dramatic!

We had a good Valentine's Day. Kelli and I made a yummy dinner of chicken marsala, wild mushroom risotto, a yummy strawberry and feta salad and rolls. For dessert we did lemon pudding souffles and then watched Madacascar 2 (so funny!).

On Sunday we blessed Madelynn. Her blessing dress was handmade by my sister Celeste's mother-in-law. It is seriously a beautiful dress and I wish that it was okay for her to wear it more than once! It is a shame to only wear blessing dresses one time, isn't it? The blessing was beautiful. Adam blessed her to be strong in the gospel, and have a strong mind and body. He let her know how much we all love her and blessed her to marry in the temple to a worthy man.