Short Hair!!!

I got my hair cut in Denver! Here's a picture just as promised :)

I love it. It's short and fun. Perfect for summer coming up. I also added some highlights (it was time for some change again)!

Fun in Denver!

We had the opportunity to visit with Shelley, Taylor, and Jordan this past week. It was so much fun to see the girls getting to play with Madi this time! I think she really enjoyed hanging out with them and I they looked like they were having fun too :)

Here are some pictures of Madilyn with Shelley and the girls. The last one really cracks me up. Madi has recently learned how to say "oooooooo" and practices it often. She was "practicing" during our little photo session so we all made the face along with her, hehe.

A BLIZZARD!

We are currently vacationing in Denver, CO. We were planning to head back to Altus tomorrow morning, but it looks like we may have to wait! These pictures were taken only two hours after the snow began at 9am. It's now 3:30 here and we have well over a foot, with the worst yet to come. Some say we'll have at least two feet by tomorrow morning!!!

Eleven Months!

Happy eleven month birthday Princess!

Madilyn has changed a lot over the last few months. Here is what she is up to now:

- Says "mama", "dada", "baba", "hot dog", "doggie"
- Shakes her head no appropriately
- Signs "all done" when finished eating
- Eats almost all table food and very little baby food
- She has learned how to cruise the house in her walker! (It took 7 months to learn how to do this)
- Pulls herself to standing consistently
-Drinks out of a sippy (bust still needs help tipping it up)

She is growing and changing all the time, and is such a great little girl. It's hard to believe our baby days are almost behind us as we prepare to enter "toddler-hood"!!

Lasagna...yummy!

Madilyn has really been asserting her independence lately. Of course, along with this comes refusing "baby food" and wanting "real" food. While she's been doing finger foods for a while, she's now starting to just eat what we eat at mealtime (and spitting out the babyfood when we try!). Here are some fun (and MESSY) pictures from dinner the other night. We had lasagna everywhere!

All done!!!

"Come to Mommy"

Sharing with Duke

Yesterday we decided to take advantage of the wonderful weather and plant some new flowers. We put Madilyn in her stroller so she wouldn't crawl away and when we turned around, this is what we saw:

Looks like she's learned how to get Duke to come near her....just share!

One by one she fed all of her puffs to Duke

He was more than happy to lay near her after a good snack!

A Merritt Family Visit!

Boy, what a weekend!

On Friday afternoon, Grandma Sandy, Grandpa Don and Aunt Melody came for a visit. Daddy had no idea Mommy and Grandpa had been planning this surprise for a little while. He was totally shocked!

On Saturday afternoon, we decided to venture out to Meers, OK. There is is little family restaurant here that everyone has been raving about. So naturally, we needed to see what the "best burger in Oklahoma" was all about! It was a pretty good burger indeed! I apologize that I do not have pictures from this outing. I know Melody took some though and hopefully she'll be nice enough to share with me:) We got lost along the way and a 45 minute drive turned into about 90! However, it wasn't too bad because as we were looking for our turnoff we ended up driving through the wildlife refuge and got to see some buffalo! I don't think any of us have ever been so close to such a large animal!

Grandma, Grandpa, and Aunt Melody just left for Oklahoma. They have early flights to catch tomorrow. We were sad too see them leave!

We had a really great time visiting with all of you. Travel Safe!