A Night in Nashville

Jason and I were able to go spend a night in Nashville while Madi was at the babysitters. We had so much fun. We ate at this little hole in the wall BBQ place that was so good. Those always seem to be the best ones! Anyways we just walked around downtown and walked into all the different stores they had. It was fun to just get a night away from Madi and take time to get to know each other again. Seems our lives have been so hectic and crazy these days. I am working full time and Jason is working two jobs. We are getting ready to move onto the Army Post. So trying to find time to spend with each other is difficult! But we both had Friday night off last weekend so we took advantage of it!

Jason is gettin ready for the holidays! He is gonna wear this on the plane to go home since we are flying on Thanksgiving day!! haha just kiddin. It was way funny I was crackin up so hard!

Boots Galore!!! This store had rows and rows of cowboy boots. They actually had some really cute ones. And Jason wanted a pair so bad. But if we would have had the extra 200 dollars to spend on them then maybe! They had some really cute ones that were Madi's size too!


We saw the CMT building where they do all the filming for TV! Of course it was closed but they had this big spotlight on the top of the building that shown down on the ground! You can see the lights of downtown in the background!

Just Jason and I on the main strip!

Crazy lights!

This is us on the elevator going back to our car! We don't take pics of ourselves as much as we should!!!

Daddy's Graduation

Jason graduated from WLC (Warrior Leader Course) yesterday. It was good to see him again! I still get amazed looking at how perfect everything is with the Army (well when they do their formations and stuff!) Everyone stands the same, and when it came time to clapping they all clapped together a certain amount of times and it all stopped at once too. It was so funny! Anyways Jason is in the 3rd row from the left 2nd guy back! CONGRATS!!!

Madi tryin on my glasses!

His class during the National Anthem!

Daddy and his 3 girls.

Jason and his proud mother!

Thanks to Yo Gabba Gabba, Madi learned a new silly face!!!

2007 CMA AWARDS

So you are never gonna believe this. I WON tickets off the radio to go to the 2007 CMA award show! It's November 7!! I am so pumped! Jason and I got to go to the CMT Award show in April, I won tickets from Sugarlands fan website! And now even bigger and better, we get to go to this show. Here is a list of the performers....

We have SUGARLAND, CARRIE UNDERWOOD, KENNEY CHESNEY, GEORGE STRAIT, KEITH URBAN, BROOKS AND DUNN, MARTINA MCBRIDE, BRAD PAISLEY, RASCAL FLATTS (WHICH THEIR NEW CD IS AMAZING!!!), AND THE EAGLES! How cool is this gonna be!! Oh don't worry, i will post PLENTY of pics.

Home for the Holidays!!!!

So its official!! I got my tickets today for Jason and I to go home for Thanksgiving!!! I am SOOOOOO EXCITED!!! It will be sooooo good to see everyone. Especially my nieces and nephew (well by Thanksgiving it will be nephewS Amelia is due the end of Oct!) Plus my half brother Travis and his wife and kids will be there. This will be the first time since I have been married that our WHOLE family will be together... We have had everyone together before expect for Jason. He seemed to miss out on our family functions due to deployment!!! So this will be the first time and I am so excited! Wait did I mention that I am WAAAY excited? Just checking! Madi is a pain in the butt on the flights so we got red eye flights so she will hopefully sleep most the time. Plus I will have Jason this time to help me instead of mean grumpy men asking me why I can't keep my baby quiet and making me cry! Jason can stick up for me this time!!!

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH MOM AND DAD!!!

We greatly appreciate it! You guys are amazing and I couldn't ask for better parents. You mean the world to me!!

Our Sunday!

So another one of my projects (this one was a super easy one) was to make Madi a Yo Gabba Gabba shirt. I always think how cute they are on the show. So I thought hey why not. Just wanted to show a lil support for my brother (he produced YGG!) I think it turned out pretty cute! This pic was actually Sat night! So our Sunday morning started out with Madi wanting to read books. How appropriate was she!! She even picked it out all by herself amongst her 100 other books! She saw me take a pic and look what she did in the next pic. Sorry Madi for not giving you your privacy!!!

This is Madi and I all ready for church. She is so stinkin' cute! I am so blessed to have her!

Apparently nursery wears her out cuz we live like 15 min way from church and I even gave her a snack (peanut butter with chocolate chip rice cake which she loves!) and she nibbled and fell asleep. She still had pieces in her mouth when she woke up!!

So after church and her nap we went to the Riverside Walk. Its really pretty over here. We have the Cumberland River that goes right through Clarksville and they built a huge park, bark park, and walk all along the river. So we found this little pond and went to feed the ducks....

ONLY.........

She grabs the bag........

She gets a piece of bread from the bag....

And she eats it!! She said forget you ducks (although she didn't really say it she was just thinkin it)!!!! I was laughin so hard!

Then of course when I laugh at her she just gets silly!!

OUR SHADOWS!!!

So this was funny. People are fishin' in this lil pond and I hear a big splash. I was like dang I didn't think fish in here were big enough. I turn around and the hook was in the goose's leg. Poor thing. It was squakin away! Madi was laughin at it! How rude!

They got it loose, but unfortunatly the hook is still in the leg! Good luck on that one!

Well that sums up our Sunday! Pretty eventful huh!!!

Labor of Love

So I decided while Jason is gone, I am gonna take on some projects. Let me take you back to the month of April when we decided we were gonna paint our house! Well this is the color we started with (see first pic!) But the problem is.... we never finished. As you can see the plate covers weren't back on. The other part of the living room still had BLUE tape up and trim wasn't done. It was just awful. I wish I would have taken some more before pics.... We decided we didn't like the brown. It was too much, cuz as you will see in some pics down below that our hallway leading to our living room is like a dark chocolate brown. So WAAAY to much brown. So Jason and I have been talking about changing it. Just finding the time. With Jason working 2 jobs and me working full time then coming home to a 1 year old! Kinda difficult! But since it is now September ALMOST October! I thought I would finish some problems to make our house seem more like a home! So when Madi went to bed off I went.

Well of course I primed it first! And since Jason wasn't here to help, I left him a message, that is now covered up!!

I have finished this wall and almost done with the other side too. BUT I will DEFINITELY get that done tomorrow!! My babysitter even agreed to stay a lil bit after I get off work to play with Madi while I finish it! So I took a pic from my door. So when you first walk into our home this is what you see!! How awesome is that. It is such a great reminder to me of how our homes should be. A sanctuary! My dad painted this painting of the Mesa Temple since it is where Jason and I got sealed! PS don't mind Dex he was too busy tryin to get to his toys!!! By the way he likes to steal Madis toys.....

But I want you to take a closer look in the pic above. If you look to the left of the table a BIG white spot!! Let me tell you. I got a call at work today and it was Quon (my babysitter.) She says "UM HEATHER I have a big problem. I got up to go to the bathroom and Madi was tryin to grab the gallon of paint and got a hold of it (my smart butt left it on the table!) it fell down and the lid popped off and now its all over the carpet and kitchen floor. I was like crap try to get it up the best you can. So when you are lookin at the spot its not bad. But now that I see it in this picture, its awful! I will have to work on that tomorrow! ANYWAYS!

The picture to the right of the Temple on the top is Madi in her blessing dress. Then the pic below it is our engagement pic that is set behind The Proclamation to the World. We got that as a wedding present!

And then of course here is a close up of the painting! Isn't it amazing!!! My dad is awesome!

Anyways there is a small update. I will keep you up to date as to what project I have next. He is gone for 13 more days! But who is counting?!?

Bye Bye Daddy

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Jason left today for WLC (Warrior Leadership Course), you have to remember the ARMY is all about acronyms! Anyways he is gone for 15 days so I thought it would be fun to put up this little slide show of some fun times that Jason has had with his daughter. The first pic is the sign we had up in Alaska while we were waiting for Jason to come home from Iraq. Its the only thing I had!! So anyways. Hope you enjoy!

Manchester Fair

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So Madi and I walk in last night from going out and Jason was already home from work. And he is laying on the ground with his "hunting map" tryin to figure out where to go hunting in the morning. So Madi runs right up to him and lays down on the other side of the map just like he was!! It was great. I had to run and get the camera!! She kept pointing to places saying DEER!! It was so cute. Daddy was showin her the rounds on how to pick a good hunting spot!! Enjoy the pics!

She loves her daddy!

Madi is so happy to be learnin from her daddy!

And this is just a random pic of me chillin at work! I figure there aren't a lot of pics of me cuz I am the one always takin them!

Anyways we are headin to Manchester this weekend to see Jason 2 other daughters. The fair is goin on right now so we are gonna take them to it! Its gonna be fun for me to see a small town fair. Remind me of my Idaho days. Except this is smaller then Rexburg!!!