Tuesday, February 17, 2015

CH-CH-CH-CHANGES!

Madison has been complaining about not being able to see the board at school for a few months now...regrettably. You see, Kylie has reading glasses and they are super cute, so I suspected that Madison just wanted glasses too although it's pretty much inevitable that all of our kids will end up with them at some point. But after her teacher had to move her desk back to the front, I decided it was time to take her in to the doctor. Major mom-guilt moment! She most definitely needed glasses! 

 She was a little bit nervous but the doctor was great and she was able to find some cute frames. It only took 6 days of waiting til they were ready to be picked up and here they are!

 She looks so sweet in glasses. Such a fun change...till soccer season starts anyway.


And moving on...... THIS HAPPENED!
 I don't even know how many inches this was, but my hair was pretty long. It was damaged on the ends and looking pretty thin. I either needed some extensions to fill it in, or chop it off. I'm still unsure how much I like it. I've always colored it a dark, rich brown, so the lightened locks are taking some getting used to.
 You can't see the length completely in this picture, but it was more than halfway down my back.
 I had to include this picture. The sunset was making my hair look red, so Kylie took a picture of it for me. It has some red tones to it, but it's definitely more brown than this picture. But....this is the length. CA-RA-ZY! 

8 is GREAT!

Madison was baptized on February 7th! She has been anticipating this day for years and she said it was everything she hoped it would be. Terrence was on the east coast for 3 weeks prior to the baptism and flew home the night before. He walked in the door at 1:20 a.m. and had to be at the church in the morning for the baptism at 8:30. He was just slightly tired. 
Madison was so happy all day long. 

 We forgot to take our traditional baptism picture after the baptism, so this is the day after at church. They welcomed Madison as a new member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the bishop presented her with a hard cover Book of Mormon which Terrence and I had written our testimonies in.

 Between having her Daddy finally be home, being baptized and having so many visitors (some of which traveled hundreds of miles to be here) just for her.....it was a pretty exciting day.
 We had so much support from our families and are so lucky to have so many of them close. 
 Aunt Trista came from Colorado and brought her two oldest kiddos with her. This is Emily (8) and the little one is Aunt Andrea's daughter Avaree (4) 
Our bishop gave the analogy of baptism being like an old school NINTENDO. When you mess up, you just hit the reset button and start the game over. Madison is so excited to take the sacrament every Sunday now so she can hit her reset button. I think I should invite my bishop to teach our FHE every week. He really knows how to teach principles in a way kids can easily understand them. It feels so weird to have two kids that are old enough to have been baptized. We love our little family and are so grateful to have been blessed with so much....even if having kids this old means we also have a few gray hairs and a few more creases.