It's time.

UPDATE: pictures added!

Time to get back to blogging again. I miss it dearly. It's my journal and even if no one besides me will ever look at it again, it will be priceless to me. So here we go!

Lets start with right now....

She didn't really eat or move from this spot for 2 days :(

Everyone pick a spot and cuddle up!

We are all getting over a nasty virus. Lots of coughing and runny noses going on around here. We've been doing lots of cuddling and movie watching. On days like this we are loving warm steamy showers and hot bowls of soup. Mmmmmm. I think we're all at the end. It has been sunny for 3 days straight and it has been wonderful to open up the house and get some fresh air! Nothing like sunshine and fresh air to get those bugs out of the house.

Just documenting that I was there joining in on the the sick fun.

Despite all that, we have managed to have some fun!

Notice her pants. haha

Bathtime brings lots of smiles here!

It rained, or should I say poured for 2 weeks straight at the begining of March. So, we decided if you can't beat um, join um!

This week has ben sunny almost every day!

Madi turned 3 one week ago today! She is just a little princess. Everything about her is so delicate and lady like. I love it! Madi is so artistic. Anything that has to do with art will keep her busy and happy for hours. She's loving coloring and she will spend an hour just cutting paper to shreds. It must be therapeutic or something. Maybe I should try it out hu?

It was like a pink christmas morning on Madi's birthday!

They are going to be best friends.

Marlie turned 6 months old on the 16th! Madi and Marlie are one day short of 2 1/2 years apart. I didn't even realize that until last Wednesday. Fun! Marlie is so close to sitting up. She LOVES her rice cereal, carrots, green beans, peas, but NOT bananas! What a silly girl. We haven't tried anything else so far. I'll keep you updated :) She only wakes up once a night now, which is wonderful. She rolls all over the place and loves her new play mat. The only time she isn't cooing and smiling is if she's really hungry or tired and I'm not being very attentive to her. She really is my angel baby. Oh and when I put her in her high chair to eat, she gets so impatient and yells. It's so funny. It's not even crying. It's just a full on screech. I guess eating brings out the worse in her. Haha. Love my girl!

This girl can get around!

Sucking on her fist and grabbing her toes. Her two faves.

She sucks on EVERYTHING but she goes for the thumb mostly.

Mmmm...I love this angel.

David is an avid eBay man lately, since we haven't had work all month. It's been a HUGE blessing to have such a savy husband. he is amazing. He sure knows how to provide for his girls. Well, he needs the computer for eBay now. That's our life right now. I love it.


To be continued.....

It just so happens

that my favorite month is here! Well, in 15 minutes it'll be December. There's many reasons why it's my favorite. Just to name a few in no particular order:

• christmas
• my birthday...25 baby!
• the whole spirit that surrounds the holidays
• spending time with family
• having an entire season that's dedicated to the Savior
• getting all snuggled up in my cozy slippers and pjs in front of the fire
• and the list goes on.

To commemorate the start of this wonderful month here's just a peek at my joy.


Marlie smiles and Madisyn makes eggs (the video didn't upload all the way. oh well)

I love my life.

A shiny red trike!

...for Madi!

Madi's great grandma Jeanne contributed to the fund and we finally went to pick it up a week ago. THANKS GRANDMA!!

She loves it! In fact for the first few days we had some tears shed over Madi having to come to the table to eat with us instead of sitting on her new "BIKE!" (that's she sounds every time she says it)

Getting ready for the assembly with daddy.

She is quite the handy little girl :)

Vuala! Here you have it.

Taking it for a a test drive. vroooom!

My favorite feature is the wood panel on the back.

Something tells me she will be giving her little brother or sister (we find out this Monday!!!) lots of rides.

She's not too sure about how this whole pedal thing works quite yet.

So cute! Oh and her favorite part about the bike is the bell. Can't get enough of that!

Daddy showing her how to fly on her trike.

Something tells me she'll never quite master this one on her own.

If only it wasn't blustery and raining today we could go get some use out of it. Looking forward to the summer!!

My baby

is not a baby anymore.

See for yourself...

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It's been about 3 weeks now since Madi turned 2.

TWO? How did we get here so fast?

I have really enjoyed every moment of it.

She has her moments and sometimes those moments may last a day or two, but honestly she is such a joy. I catch myself wondering how David and I are so blessed that heavenly Father would send such a choice daughter of God to us, with all our imperfections. We had the opportunity this past weekend to watch General Conference. One of the talks stated that motherhood and fatherhood are the only callings in this life that we will never be released from. I felt so overwhelmed with emotion just thinking about Madi and the other spirit children that are waiting to come to David and I. What a amazingly wonderful responsibility.

With that said, I have been a mother for a little more than 2 years and I couldn't be more proud of my 2 year old.

We had a few different celebrations for her.

While in California, we celebrated with my family. It looked something like this...

Opening presents is just too exciting!

...but not as exciting as birthday cards! (seriously she LOVES cards)

That about sums that up :)

We got home from Cali the night before her actual birthday.

In the morning, she woke up to the Greenwood family birthday tradition of breaking through the birthday ribbon across the bedroom door. She didn't quite get it as you can see. haha

Oh well, crawling under it works too! The birthday girl in all her morning glory :)

Madi and I went to good ol McDonalds play place for some "chicken, fry frys (french fires), apples, and yuice (apple juice)". She had a blast. There happened to be a little 2 yr old boy there and they played and played. It was great!

Wednesday (that was the 17th) nights are really quite busy in the Greenwood household. In fact it's the busiest night of the week. We barely get everyone at the same table for dinner before some leave for scouts, and others (including David and I) leave for mutual (young mens & young womens). No one gets home till after 8 and Madi goes to bed pretty much the minute we get home. That doesn't leave much time for birthday celebrating.

Luckily, the next night was completely free for everyone. So, we had a grand celebration. It looked something like this...

We had a feast fit for a 2 year old princess! Hot dogs, fresh pineapple, chips, broccoli salad, and milk :)

Present time! Stickers are her obsession at the moment.

There were lots of dollies and there was even more PINK!

Love my family!!!

Madi isn't a big cake fan, but she happens to love ice cream cones. So, it was a no brainer when it came to a birthday dessert fit for my Madi Princess.

Make a wish!

That's one happy kiddo!

Thanks to all who made her special day (or should we say days) so memorable!!!

Suprises!

Surprise #1...

Madisyn and I are taking a last minute "birthday" trip to visit my parents in the bay area! They miss us and we miss them. So, we're going!

Madi is turning the big 2 on the 17th (St. Patricks Day) she's our lucky charm :)

It is free for her to fly until she's 2. So, we're milking it for all it's worth pretty much. We fly out the 9th and come back the 16th. haha

We're going to party in California...come back...and party in Washington. Lucky girl :)

Surprise #2...

Well, it's not really a surprise, but it's exciting to me!

I heard my growing baby's heartbeat on wednesday and it was a beautiful sound.

Honestly this pregnancy is just flying by. It's sad to say, I don't sit and think about being pregnant and adding baby #2 to our family like I did with Madi. There's just so much going on and it just kind of feels like I'm pregnant behind the scenes if that makes any sense. I couldn't be more excited to be a mommy of 2, it's just different being pregnant this time around. In 6 months he or she will be here. That seems like no time at all!

We get to find out what we're having in 6 weeks! I remember getting to THE ULTRASOUND took forever with Madi, but with this one I just can't slow time down enough to really anticipate it.

I'm feeling great! I've only gained 2 and a half pounds so far. So, I'm pretty glad about that. Hopefully I won't gain 51 pounds like last time. Yikes! I promise I'll put up belly pictures soon! My plan is to take a picture every fast sunday (so once a month). That's what I did with Madi and I love looking back and seeing my progression. Can't miss that opportunity this time around! This Sunday, after church is belly picture day! I'll post them up before I leave for California.

Surprise #3...

This one really is a surprise, even to me as of this morning.

Picture courtesy of the real estate site

See this quaint fixer upper of a house.........(that's the front yard. the door is out of the picture to the right)

David and I put an offer on it this morning! We need to tidy it up quite a bit.

paint (lots of paint!)

new carpet

new windows

new floor in the bathroom

a few appliances

quite a bit of yard work

and lots of good old fashioned elbow grease.

Luckily, we have many hands willing to help!

It's a steal of a deal and it has so much potential! I'm so excited to make it beautiful. Best of all, it'll be ours.

It has a good sized fenced backyard, 3 bedrooms, and it's still close to family.

I might be jumping ahead of myself here. We don't know if our offer has been accepted until the beginning of next week, but it looks very promising. I just had to share!

I'll keep you updated on the progress. I'm sure you'll know more about our place by the time it's finished than you want to :)

Two Ten

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

2010 has some very exciting things in store!

Here's just a few of the things I get to look forward to:

a 4 year anniversary

a two year old

a wedding

a new niece (I'll be an aunt for the first time!)

a few graduations

a new home

quite a few trips this summer

a missionary homecoming

and this :) !!!!!!!!

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Details to come :D

24 continued...

For those of you who were wondering, here's what the rest of my special day had in store :)

There were a few more happy phone calls.

Madi and I picked up our Christmas cards and did a little Christmas shopping for daddy.

Once Madi went down for her nap, I left to go pick up David from work. His instructions were "bring a coat and a camera". Ok that's easy enough.

He was a bit late getting off work. So, while I was waiting in the car, I decided to take a picture of me. It was a good hair day...actually it was a good everything day :)

When I held the shutter release down nothing happened.......yeah I forgot the small detail of an SD card. Oh my :(

Good thing David had his phone. Thank you iphone! You saved the day, or at least let me capture an amazing memory.

Here's what we did. (It was a total surprise by the way!)

It was so amazing. So romantic. So David. I'll never forget it :)

As soon as we got home, we all went out to dinner.

Ate too much.

Had a DELICIOUS marion berry crisp. (That was the free bday dessert they give you)

Came home to Skype my lovely family :)

Did presents and cake.

Not just any cake.

A brownie, mint chocolate chip ice cream layered cake.....yummmmmmm.

Thank you my love!

VERY SPECIAL DAY!

THANK YOU EVERYONE :)