My brilliant husband

I can't even believe that it has been almost two months now since my brilliant husband finished his masters degree and I haven't properly acknowledged him on here and given him the praise he deserves! :)  (He would probably unplug the computer on me if he knew I was typing this right now).

Some of you already know, but for those of you who don't, Dylan graduated with a Masters of Engineering with an emphasis in Engineering Management and a Minor in Business just a couple of weeks ago (though he finished his last class at the end of March).  He has been working his butt off the past 2 1/2 years and should be so proud of himself for what he has accomplished while continuing to work full time and still being the best husband and dad there is.  We are so proud!! Congrats, daddy, on such a huge accomplishment!  We love you!

Character clothing

As you see, Madison has a Mickey Mouse nightgown.  If you know me, you are probably wondering what got into me - buying that sort of thing.  I have this thing about clothing with characters on them, and can't bring myself to put anything like that on Madison.  Before having a baby, I would even get nauseous when I would see room decorations covered in Disney or other cartoon characters (no offense to anyone who likes this sort of thing - just not my cup of tea). The thing is, now that Madison shows preference towards certain toys (her dolls) and certain characters (she LOVES Minnie Mouse), I am getting into it too!  She loves Minnie Mouse so much that I decided we had to have a big Minnie Mouse stuffed toy, and when I saw this nightgown, I couldn't pass it up.  Seeing her face when we pull it out for her to wear makes me forget that character clothing is kind of tacky.  Now, at this point, I am still not willing to let her leave the house in actual clothing covered in Disney Princesses or Dora The Explorer (though I have to admit we did buy her a Disney Princess backpack that even lights up!), but the other stuff I can deal with.  Who knows, if Madison really wanted a character room at some point, I might even be ok with that. :)  Oh how they change us...

Madison goes camping

A couple of weekends ago, The Wiltshires and us took a trip to Jellystone Park near Canyon Lake. I hadn't been camping since I was a little girl, but I remembered loving it and wanted to start camping as a family with Dylan and Madison.  I wasn't exactly sure how she would do, but she did great!  Slept fine and I know she had lots of fun.  We were exhausted by the end of the weekend, but loved it and are planning our next camping trip already.

We took lots of pictures and instead of uploading a slide show, I am going to just share some of my favorites.

Madison and Landon

We took these around Easter, but I don't think I ever posted them.  Too cute not to share... Madison LOVES Landon so much and anytime she gets to spend time with him, she asks about him for days following our visit.