She is 5!

Madalyn turned 5 this month which is still hard for me to believe! We had princess party with all sort of royal characters. We had several Cinderellas, Sir William the Dragon Slayer, Spiderman, Belle, and more. Madalyn was Snow White and she looked beautiful. We had a lot of fun at the party.

Hilton Head 2008

We went to Hilton Head Island for our beach trip this year and we absolutely loved it. We went with our friends the Douglas' so of course Madalyn had a blast because her "boyfriend" Gavin was there. She kept looking at pictures of her and Gavin together after the trip and commenting "how romantic..." which she then would follow by swooning onto the couch. She is a mess when it comes to boys already. Most of probably already know that she has asked Gavin to marry her and he said yes- she will periodically check with him to make sure he has not changed his mind. I am glad that her and Gavin are such good friends it will be interesting if they do get married someday, but that is a long way away.
Back to the Hilton Head trip we really liked it there- it is very different from when we go to Inlet Beach in FL. The sand is much better for making sandcastles which Garrison and Madalyn took advantage of and made a large castle complete with little guards and sand Crabs surrounding it. They even put a flag in top when they were finished. We had mixed weather- the day we went to try and fly our kites was extremely windy in fact too windy even for Kite flying. There were sunny warm days and then one really cold day, but overall we had a alot of fun.

She's just being Miley

The girls love to listen to fast upbeat music when we are driving around in the car especially Miley Cyrus. I took this picture while Madalyn was showing us some of her moves and singing along to one of her favorite songs. I think the sunglasses are especially fitting. I think Madalyn thinks she is 5 going on 15- We better watch out!

Easter Egg Hunt @ Church

We went to an Easter egg hunt at our church which due to the rain we had to hang out inside, but we still had a lot of fun. Both the girls had a lot of fun and found lots of eggs. Mackenzie found about 50 I think (although she did not have too much competition) and she got very excited when she realized that there was chocolate inside the eggs. Madalyn also found a lot and enjoyed hanging out with the silly Easter bunny.

Easter Egg Dying

We spent the Saturday morning before easter dying our easter eggs which we then added sparkles to which the girls really enjoyed. We made and egg for each color of the rainbow and then several pink ones. Princesses do love pink!

Flower picking and Dandelion blowing

On this trip to the park Madalyn taught Kenzie to pick flowers and tried to show her that you can blow the Dandelion puffs- Kenzie just did not realize that not all flowers had puffs on them to blow off, but she tried to blow anyway. The girls and I had a lot of fun at the park this evening.

More Snow

We had more snow- in fact this was a pretty big snow for Nashville. The last time I remember this much snow was before Madalyn was born. This was the biggest snow that the girls had ever seen and they had a blast going out an playing in it. Sadly it was not a very wet snow so it did not make a very good snowman, but Garrison and Maddie made a small one, it was quite a bit bigger than her teeny tiny one she had made during the last snow. This one had a baby carrot nose and some craisin eyes. We also tried to do some sledding- Garrison did much better than I did, but we could not get the girls to try. I think if we had an actual sled it might have worked a little better, but how often do we have enough snow in Nashville to use a sled?