WOW!!!

So I made cupcakes and we decided to let Madi have one! Well... SHE WENT NUTS! She tore that cupcake to bits and tried to put as much as she could in her mouth! Most ended up on her though! It was so funny hopefully she will do the same on her birthday!

Addie and Madi giving loves to each other.. Well... Addie giving them to Madi and Madi not too sure what is going on!

Addie burping Madi! This was hilarious! Addie also tried to feed Madi a bottle it was pretty funny! She is definitely is a little mommy!

Uncle Nick got her this shirt and I had to dress her up in it! My mom made that bow in her hair.

(she looks cross eyed but she is not and this is her polite smile!)

Madison's first time at the zoo! She wanted to pick the gorillas nose just like her uncle Nick and mommy!

This baby monkey went and stared at Kai then came a stared at Madi! Both Kai and Madi stared right back in was cute!

Madi's first ride on a merry-go-round and she rode on a giraffe she kept looking around like what is going on! She loved it though.

We put the two together at the very end Madi just wanted to pull Kai's hair and Kai was too distracted with going up and down. They both loved the zoo.

This is my best friend Trista's little girl Brooklyn. We have been friends since birth literally. They had fun together steeling each others binkys and everything!

Trista and I have a picture just like this! Brooklyn stole the binky out of Madi's mouth and Madi is looking at her like hey that's mine!!! lol!

So life has been so fun lately! My brother Corry and his wife Meg just moved up here! It has been so much fun! The first week they were here though EVERYONE and I mean EVERYONE got the flu! It was horrible! Everyone was just bumming around taking turns in the bathrooms and laying around. Thankfully we all recovered.... Madi got an ear infection on top of the flu and let me tell you it was so hard thankfully I had my parents around to help because Brett was sick and so was I. Anyways we have been having so much fun with Meg and Kai! Madi and he are starting to interact more Kai picks on her and she picks on him. He walks around everywhere and Madi crawls as fast as she can after him and when she can't catch him (which she never does) she screams at him and sometimes even starts to cry and pout it is so cute and funny. Madi is talking like crazy... I guess I should say babbling like crazy. She says dadadadad it is way cute and every time she does that and Brett is around he says what!? She has started laughing like crazy too. She doesn't giggle out loud too much but she thinks everything is funny. Her favorite thing to do now is when she is supposed to be taking a nap she sits in there and talks and starts screaming and everything and then when I go to check on her she starts laughing so hard and kicks her arms and flails her arms and just goes crazy with excitement! I love every minute of being with her. There are definitely hard times but after this whole sickness thing I appreciate the good times so much more.

I just had to post these!

Someone thought it would be fun to dump out mommy's purse! This look she gets from her dad! It's the "What! I didn't do anything" look!

So she was playing with her bouncy and standing up with her feet on the ground I looked away for a second and turned back around to see this! Fearless little girl!!!

She didn't even cry to get down she just kept chewing on the top! If she had let go she would have fell right back on her head! I took her down after I was done taking pictures and laughing my butt off!

She has gotten so big! She used to not even come close to filling up her car seat! Uncle Nick got her those "pimpet" shoes as he likes to call them!

She is such a little poser!

Um..... She was laying down but decided that wasn't fun anymore..... This was much funner just ask her!


She looks so big! She doesn't like to hold your hand when she stands, she wants to do it by herself! She really thinks she can walk! She falls everytime she lets go to walk its cute!

I'm not sure I see the resemblance! She definately is her daddy's girl!

I'm not sure does Brett like Michigan or what!?I made that blanket he is laying on and the pillow and the pajama pants he is wearing match the pillow... (Ryan and Randy eat your heart out!! lol!)(Madison is wearing a Michigan onesie too and has a binky next to her that is Michigan)

You are kidding right!?

She was supposed to be sleeping and I went in to check on her and this is what I saw!

This is our "pimpin" Madi! Uncle Rob got her this whole outfit all the way down to her slippers!

We were waiting to board the plane in California and this is the only way Madi was happy!

I made the mistake of teaching her to stand like that while we were walking through the airport!

This is at a beach around San Diego area. The water was so cold and Madi started screaming when the waves came up and got on her feet! Brett had fun in the water with his family tho!

Now that she knows how to stand up on things she thinks she can CLIMB on them now!

Aunt Jaclyn made her these bows and I just couldn't resist putting them all in her hair!

She is so funny! This is a goofy smile but she makes us laugh so hard sometimes!

So this has been a very eventful month! Madison is now crawling! She has been army crawling since 5 1/2 months and then she got to be around her cousin Kai and she learned how to crawl just by watching him! So not only is she crawling but she is pulling herself up on EVERYTHING!! She is also trying to climb on things. Today I found her trying to climb up on her bouncy chair! She had one leg up and was trying to pull herself the rest of the way up with her hands! She also knows how to work her mommy and daddy over. She will crawl on the ground and start whinning and stuff and then she will crawl to wherever we are and then put one hand up in the air toward us like pick me up please! We just can't help but just pick her up and cuddle her! She also LOVES being on the couch! The back of our couch is against the window and she loves to climb up the back of the couch and look out the window. She loves being outside and so I amsure she is wishing she was out there. She watches cars drive by too an it makes me laugh so hard cause her head will totally turn from side to side while looking at the cars! She will do anything she can to get to anything and everything Brett and I have in our hands. Today I was sitting on the ground and the laptop was behind me on the couch and the little stinky came crawling up to me so I was thinking that she wanted her mommy and wanted to cuddle with me! OH NO!!! I was totally wrong! She tried crawling up my body and kept trying to grab the laptop! She is strong too cause she seriously almost crawled up my body by herself! She thought it was funny tonight too when her and Brett were hanging out she kept looking out the window while on the couch and she would look over at the couch and would just fall back on it! Brett would say uh oh! and she would start laughing at him and do it again!! Oh yeah!! She has officially gotten her first tooth too!! You can just see the top but it is so sad to see her grow up!! We also had to lower her bed so she won't stand up and fall out of her bed! She is finally sleeping through the night too. It is amazing! I couldn't remember how nice it was to sleep all the way through the night and now that I remember I don't know how I went through 6 months of not sleeping! I hope everyone is doing well!!

Because someone made me......

You.
Can.
Only.
Type.
One.
Word.
Not as easy as you
might think. Remember: one word answers.

1. Where is your mobile phone? couch

2. Your significant other? HOTT

3. Your hair? medium

4. Your mother? crazy!!

5. Your father? helping

6. Your favorite thing? motherhood

7. Your dream last night? dunno

8. Your favorite drink? dr. pepper

9. Your dream/goal? rich

10. The room you're in? front

11. Your ex? retard

12. Your fear? loneliness

13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? stable

14. Where were you last night? work

15. What you're not? old

16. Muffins? blueberry

17. One of your wish list items? house

18. Where you grew up? las vegas

19. The last thing you did? dinner

20. What are you wearing? comfies

21. Your TV? huge

22. Your pets? dogs

23. Your computer? stupid

24. Your life? rollercoaster

25. Your mood? blessed

26. Missing someone? grandpa's

27. Your car? cavalier

28. Something you're not wearing? socks

29. Favorite Store? aeropostale

30. Your summer? awesome

31. Like someone? husband

32. Your favorite color? yellow

33. When is the last time you laughed? tonight

34. Last time you cried? thursday

35. Last person to text you? Desi

36. Told I Love You? Madison

37. Wish you could take back? dunno

38. Your Best Friend? Brett

39. Your best quality? Butt!!

40. Most memorable moment? Sealing

Our little ray of sunshine!

She loves he "big" girl food! This is prunes! YUCK!

She was eating a bottle all by herself and fell aslee like this!

We went 4 wheeling at my Uncle Howards cabin and Brett took Madison on a short ride!

Madison and he buddy Cadillac (Brett's dog!) He loves her and she loves to pull his hair!

She may not look happy here but she loves to swing! She usually giggles it is so cute!

She is blowing kisses at everyone with her Beautiful lips that she gets from her daddy!

So my mom has a baby pool that we filled up so Madison and Landen could swim....She was okay in it but I think she was more tired then anything but Landen had a blast!!

Its been a while so I don't know where exactly to start! Madi is 5 months now and growing bigger and bigger every single day! It makes me so sad to see her get so big! She isn't just this tiny little thing anymore!! We were looking at pictures of her the other day and it made us so sad to see how huge she has gotten especially from how tiny she was! It is exciting though to see he figure things out and get her little personality! She is up on her hands and knees and rocks and tries to lunge forward and that is pretty funny minus the face plants! She doesn't cry amazingly enough when she face plants! Just these past couple of days she has figured out that she can scoot forward and she she does that a lot now. She still hasn't gotten the whole sitting on her butt thing but that is because she doesn't like to sit still so I put her on her butt and she dives to the side to grab toys so I put all her toys in front of her and into her hands but that still doesn't work for very long! Madison LOVES Otter pops! She chows down on them and everytime I take it away to take a bite she reaches her hands up and grabs it and tries to take it away from me!! She is so funny! She can pretty much hold her own bottle now! Which is nice somedays when I need to get things done! The poor thing has Bronchitus right now but thankfully we caught it at the very begining stages so it isn't too bad. We ended up changing her formula and its a miracle she sleep all through the night now!! It is so awesome to actually get some sleep! I love it! I am working part time again and it has been fun! It is nice to get out into the real world again. Brett is doing good he is just looking around for police jobs so hopefully he will find one soon. Other then that he still works at Standard Plumbing Supply and he really enjoys that. Bretts sister Renee and he little boy Landen came in town this past week and we had a blast!! It was so nice to see them and just get to hang out! We are trying to talk her into moving out here so hopefully we did a good job convincing her to come out here! Miss you Renee!!!

Brett Graduates and more!

Our happy little family on Brett's graduation day!

Madi LOVES folding herself in half and eating her feet!

Just so you know we were parked! Madi was on her

daddy's lap and grabbed the steering wheel all by herself!

From left to right Aunti Dee (grandma's sister), Grandma Hatch,

my mom, me, Meg.

Madi fell asleep while holding her bottle! We couldn't get it

away from her without her grabbing it really hard!

This is a raw Cohog (pretty much a clam) Brett really did eat one and so did I!

I was eating steamed clams and drenching them in butter!

Madi and uncle Robby chilin at the house. She eventually fell asleep it was cute!

Brett had to make sure Madi could say she had put her feet in the Atlantic Ocean!

I am so happy to say that Brett is finally done with school! I have my husband back!! Sadly though I have gone back to work part time. Brett keeps telling me just to quit but I know that me having a job will help us out a little financially so oh well. Anyways back to Brett graduating! He got a cool diploma and he also got an award for perfect attendance! I am so proud of him! He is now applying to a bunch of police departments and we are hoping that he will get hired on soon. Well Bretts parents came and town for him graduation and we had so much fun! His dad worked most of the time but Bonnie and I got to spend a lot of time together and she got to spend a lot of time with Madi which is really important to me! I only wish they would move closer to us again!


So we just barely got back from Massachusetts and we had a blast! The day we got there it was almost 100 % humidity and no air conditioning in the house our family rented. We all could have just passed out! It did get better and a lot more tolerable later on in the week. The last day there it rained so hard but it was fun because we toured around Boston and got to go see some historical sites and we got to go to Fenway park where the Red Sox play! It was beautiful and green there and we loved every minute. I wouldn't mind living in a place that green and beautiful but one I don't like humidity and two its too far away from home!


Now for the best news of all! Madison can now roll over from back to front and scoots a little across the ground! It is kinda funny to watch her scoot! She started rolling on Tuesday or Wednesday of last week! It was when we were back east! Brett reached down to help her roll over but before he could help she did it by herself! So now if she isn't folded in half sucking on both her feet she is rolling onto her tummy and scooting! She hasn't figured out that if she continues to roll front to back and so on she can go somewhere but I am guessing she will figure that out soon! She giggles now and we have started her on baby food! She loves it and gobbles it down! She is growing so fast and it makes me sad! I am excited though for her to learn to crawl because she just wants to go everywhere right now and she can't! Well hope everyone is doing well!

Playing Catchup!

Daddy's first time giving Madi a bath!

Doesn't she look happy to be there!!? haha

First swimming trip!

I had to take one last picture in this shirt!

It's too small for her now!

So this is Madi's first pony tail! I still can't

decide if I like it! I did a photo shoot with her this day!

She is so cute when she sleeps!!

So she throws fits now when she doesn't want to be in her bouncy anymore

and this is what she ends up doing! It is so funny!!

This is on our way back from family pictures.

She was exhausted and passed out!

4 generations of Portuguese women!

Kai was loving playing the piano with Corry!

This is Nick and Madi the morning we brought him to the MTC.

Nick and I outside the MTC. Yes my eyes are
blood shot from crying so much!

So it's been a while so I'm going to fit as much as possible in and hopefully it won't be too long!
Madi had her first swimming experience and I really don't know if she liked it or not! She really
didn't have too much of an expression the whole time! When we got out of the pool she
started talking to Brett and that is it! She didn't peep while we were in the pool or anything! She
is getting so big and is filling out as you can tell by the pictures! She is having problems sleeping
through the night so hopefully we can get that problem solved and quickly because I am getting
really run down! It always seems like she takes really good naps in the day when I stay awake
but if I go to lay down.....well she has to wake up! She has some alarm that sounds when mommy goes to bed! I have the best news ever! Brett is done with school!!!! I can't believe he is finally
done! He past all of his tests which I knew he would! It is going to be so weird to have him home
now!! We had a lot of family in town this past weekend because my little brother had his mission
farewell and we blessed Madison the same day in my parents ward! It was awesome! I am very
sad though because Nick left yesterday July 2 to the MTC and let me tell you they don't make
that MTC very fun to go to!! lol! Just because you are dropping off a brother or sister that you
won't get to see again for 2 years! Its kind of scary but I know Nick is in God's hands now.
Well Madi has started to roll over from front to back officially now! I think it is kind of an
accident but she does it! It is kind of cute though because she goes into a pike position and then
rolls to the side! She has gotten to be very vocal too! If she wants something she makes sure
EVERYONE knows! She is starting to laugh a little more and she smiles a lot! It is nice! She is
still a daddy's girl and she is a total grandpa's girl! Poor grandpa though every time he holds her
she won't look at him! It's probably because he is so much taller then everyone that she gets to
see everything in a totally different view! Brett did really well with blessing her on Sunday too.
After the blessing Brett held her up and she spit out her binky and started looking around like
crazy! I think she liked being the center of attention! lol! We are looking forward to this next
week because Brett's parents will be here to see us and for Brett's graduation! I hope all is well
with everyone!