Happy Halloween

For Halloween this year we had my family over for a dinner and then some trick or treating.   We first met at the mall to do our usual round there.  It's a great place to get a good base of candy.  Plus it's quick ( O :  We then came back to our house and had some dinner and at that point Caleb was spent, and went to bed, but Terryl took Maddie out around our street with my sisters and my dad.  Maddie loved it!  She sure loves her Aunt Rashell and Beckie!   She loved her suckers, and had a ton yesterday.  I had to hide the candy this morning so that she wouldn't ask for any today.  Maddie was a Rock Star, and Caleb was a scary Giraffe. ( O :  Terryl even dressed up, without my influence, which has never happened. ( O :  I did dress, up but no pictures, forgot. I did some "fancy" face make-up and wore my wonderful purple wig, and some wings, so I guess you could say I was a fairy?  All in all we had a great Halloween and now ready to start into the big holiday season!

Sesame Street Live!!!

If you know Madalynn at all, you know that she LOVES Sesame Street and especially Elmo.  So when I saw that Sesame Street Live was coming to Utah I knew we had to go.  So we forked out a small fortune and got great seats so that she could get some hugs from some of the characters as they went through the aisles.  She didn't know where were going or what was going on even when we got there since she has never been to anything like this before.  Of course there were tons of Sesame Street items for sale.  We hadn't prepared ourselves for this fact before hand which probably wouldn't have helped me anyway.  Maddie quickly spotty a Big Bird.  It was behind glass and she kept telling me that he was stuck. ( O :  I was ready at that point just to give in.  It was kind of a Maddie day and every child going to something like this always wants something to take away from it.  But Terryl said no and we were going to walk away, and Maddie was honestly CRUSHED.  You see Maddie has several crys so I know when something is just a tantrum because she isn't getting what she wants and when something is really wrong.  This cry was the "something is really wrong"  she was SO Sad.  I looked at Terryl and just told him I would be back in a sec.  Which he knew I was going to get the Big Bird.  I couldn't help myself.  It was so SAD.  I don't consider me a push over, this was tragic in her eyes.  Even one of the guys there helping with the event afterwards, said to us, "wow, that was close!"  She couldn't have been happier to hold that Big Bird.  She Quickly introduced him to her Elmo and Cookie that came along for the show as well. 
We had her dressed in Elmo P.J.'s and she was the cutest thing ever.  We got there early enough that one of the workers there told us we could put her on stage and take some pictures before the placed filled up.  We were more than happy to do so.  The pictures aren't great because of all the lighting they had, and I tried every setting I could think of.  But what we got was good enough for memories. (O :  We really enjoyed it and it was worth seeing Maddie's face light up when they came on stage.  These are the things that you don't do all the time and so we were excited to be apart of this with Maddie.  We sure love her!!!