"Baby Jesus please, and a star too."

Well I told Madison that if she went to bed right away I would get up early and make her pancakes! So she went to bed and got up before I had to go in there! "Where are my pancakes?" She kindly asked when she got up. So I asked what kind she would like and she asked, "Baby Jesus and the star please!" I think it turned out pretty good!

Poems by Madison

Madison came home today with a brain full of poems that she learned at school. She said that she had just learned them, memorized them and then comes home to tell us about them. One is called snow and the other is about a monkey! This kid can memorize just about anything!!

Finger painting, friends and FHE

This week for FHE we had our friends/neighbors the Shurtleff's over to share a lesson, activity and snack. Madison is 3 and Dallen is 18 months. Our Madison thinks it's pretty neat to have a friend named Madison!


We were going to make out neighbor/friend gifts that night but they weren'y ready. So we (Kathleen and I) decided that we would let the kids finger paint Christmas Trees. They got pretty mess but had fun non the less.

I smell roses!!!

GO DUCKS!!!! What an awesome game!! Good luck in the 2010 Rose Bowl!!! Travis came home from watching the game with Gary so I had to take a picture of his excitment! He was like a kid on Christmas morning!!!

Camera Testing.

My parents gave us an early Christmas present over Thanksgiving weekend! A new camera!!! It's awesome and I have been trying out some of the settings! We have been without a camera for so long so I apologize if I get a little blog crazy!!!

Dec 1st= excitment in the McDowell house!!!

Well today marks the countdown until Christmas. We have two countdown calenders both made by two wonderful friends! It's a good thing we have two of them or there would have been tears this morning!

I got Madison out of bed this morning, by reminding her that it was Dec 1st and that she could start her calendar! I hope this makes Christmas come sooner for them, they already want to open presents!

Sorry for the bed head and pj's they had just gotten up and claim that the flash on the new camera is too bright so they close their eyes!

The unattended fruit-loop bowl!!

Madison left her fruit- loop bowl on the floor this morning, and Ryleigh had her eye on it. Ryleigh has started moving and she is quick!

She tried pretty hard to get to them, and tried to eat them but sucked her thumb instead! SHe eventually gave up and moved on to something else! (by the way Ryleigh is my niece in case you didn't know!)