First rainbow

We had a good rainstorm last night, and then the sun peaked out for a few minutes. I captured a great photo of Maddyn and her first rainbow!

Click to Cure Cancer Photos

Our friend Dennis Lee hosted a charity event today called :Click for the Cure for Cancer. He donated his time (he's a professional photographer) and took photos of families for a donation to the American Cancer Society.

Maddyn, Dave and I went. We had such a fun. Dennis is truly amazing!

Here are some photos from today.... more on the Shutterfly Collection.

Maddyn is teething right now, so she wasn't very smiley. She saved all of her smiles for when we got home (of course, lol). Here are some photos I took:

4 Months Old!

I went back to work on April 14th. It was hard to believe my maternity leave was over. Jared, Mom, and Dad all took a day and watched her my first week back since we had a week before she started daycare. I'm glad we did it that way, as it made the transition much easier.

While I miss spending time with her, it makes my evenings and weekends so awesome. I look forward to every single minute.

On April 18th, Maddyn turned 4 months old!! We had another doctor appt. They are going to continue seeing her and making sure the medicines are working. Her weight was 16lbs 3 oz (90th Percentile- down from last time, but still very healthy). Her height was 26inches (95th percentile again- down from last time, but still very tall).

Here are some photos from her 4 month birthday- more in the Shutterfly collection.

Shedd Aquarium

Before I went back to work in April, Dave and I took Maddyn to the Shedd Aquarium. I had a playdate with some other moms one day and we went to lunch at the Rainforest Cafe. I had noticed how much she loved the fish! So we thought Shedd would be fun.

We got there and were amazed at how much fun she had!! Here is just a sneak peak of a few photos. The rest are uploaded as an album in my shutterfly collection!!

In Memory of Bink...

Dave's grandmother Bink passed away Wednesday. We just got home from the wake and funeral. It is very sad to say goodbye to such a great woman. She had such spirit and love. I loved talking to her about politics (she was a stout democrat like me- so we loved teaming up and debating Dave, lol), books, her family history, her collections and anything she would talk about. Dave and I had the pleasure of heading to Ohio a few times to just spend some quiet time with her and Pa. We're glad we did, we have some great memories.

Dave and Bink were two peas in a pod. Dave with his corny jokes and Bink with her contagious laughter. It was so much fun seeing the two of them with Maddyn last month. I know I posted these before, but thought I'd do it again. Dave is doing ok- but as expected, this was heartbreaking news. The good news is that Bink is with Pa now, in peace.



Thank you for your thoughts and prayers to our family.
I will post Maddy's 4 month photos and stats in a few days. Along with some more recent photos.

Raising a groupie

We've been doing lots of walks now that the weather is nice out. I took the camera with on one of them and got Maddyn in her favority new pose. We like to call it her "rocker chick pose". :)



We have playdates every day this week, trying to enjoy time with friends and little ones as much as possible before I head back to work next Monday. It's been so wonderful having these 4 months off, I'm going to miss spending so much time with Maddyn! But, I know it gives me something so exciting to look forward to each night and weekend!!


I'll post photos from this last week, in the next day or so.

Happy Easter!

I've posted some photos from Easter up on our Shutterfly collection! Maddyn visited the Easter Bunny. She was terrific in line, and then when we were about 3 kids to go- she started crying. It was a chain reaction and other kids started crying! Too funny. But when we got up to the Bunny, she did great! She was in awe at his big face and furry-ness. :)

Here's just a few, the rest are on Shutterfly.

Jared got confirmed at the Easter Vigil, so I've included some of those photos as well.

Hope everyone had a great easter!!