Well with 2009 coming to a close I realized that I had yet to send out a christmas letter this year. Thanks to all who sent theirs to us we had fun reading them and maybe you will get one from us next year! We've had a crazy couple of weeks but it has been so much fun. I will get pictures up soon but I figured a written update was better then no update at all.
Madi had a great first birthday on the 23rd and despite the weather we were able to celebrate with quite a few family and friends. She definently knew how to open all the presents and it was fun to watch her excitement, however she had her 12 months shots in the morning so by the time we had cake she wasn't feeling well at all and didn't even try it :( She did however througherly enjoy the left overs a few days later. Her 12 month check up went well. The doctor is happy with her progression so far and thinks that she is doing exceptional even though she was a month early(gratefully she doesn't seem to be having any problems being behind like they thought she might.) I am happy to say her height is finally catching up to her weight!. at 30 inches we finally moved from the 10th percentile to the 52th. Her weight is still in the 70th at 22 lbs but she did loose 2 lbs from her 9 month visit! (Thanks to all the moving trouble she is getting into.) She is so close to walking now that it is just getting frustration for all invloved. She knows how to walk just holding 1 hand and can stand on her own when she wants to but has yet to put it all together. (soon though I know!)
Christmas was a lot of fun as well. We had a great Christmas eve spent with Tiffany's parents and then were able to spend christmas day and the following day with Joe's family in Pine. We had a great time but poor Madi was so overstimulated from all the excitment of the week that she was pretty crabby on christmas day and unlike her birthday wanted nothing to do with her presents only her cousins new toys!
We were no able to be in our house for New Years like we would have liked but the progress is going well. So far they have finished almost all of the outside and have the drywall up inside. It is finally looking like a house we can live in and we are looking to close sometime around the middle of February.
here is a brief look at 2009 for us
January was busy with Madi and she came quite a bit sooner then we expected. With the economy and housing downturn we were worried about Joe's job with Stock but luckily he survived all the layoffs.
February Madi got to meet all her great grand parents, aunts and uncles during a trip to Utah for Tiffany's cousins wedding. She also got pretty sick but was able to bounce back wonderfully. Tiffany also had to start back to work at the end of the month.
March was pretty uneventful with nothing to exciting happening other than Madi getting bigger.
April brought some big change as Joe was able to leave Stock and started a new job with Smith and Nephew which he absolutely loves. We were very grateful as Stock soon filed for bankruptcy and closed.
May we started the process of looking for a house to rent and decided that it might be a good time to buy instead. We started looking at that point in Aurora and more south denver.
June we moved in with Tiffany's parents so that we could save some money we still hadn't found a place we wanted to move to. At this point we were hoping to be moved in by the end of summer.
July we celebrated both Joe and I birthdays and were able to go to Utah for the 4th of July to suprise Tiffany's grandparents with a family reunion of all Tiffany's mom brothers, sister, and grandkids.
August was much of the same with nothing really happening. We had some fun camping trips and enjoyed summer with some BBQ parties.
September started with the annual Haynie family campout over labor day. It was so cold that we were worried about Madi and ended up staying only 1 night. We also were getting discouraged with the house hunt as it was getting closer to the $8000 tax credit expiring and we still hadn't found anything we could live it. We then expanded our search to North Denver and set a final looking date of the last weekend in september, we finally found our house by the end of the month on our last weekend looking.
October we were able to go to Austin Texas to visit Tiffany's sister and had a great week out there visiting and seeing Austin. Madi had her first plane ride and did great! We dressed Madi up like a monkey for halloween and she was able to trick or treat with her cousins at great grandma Nona's nursing home. Joe also started taking some classes at Front range in business.
November they finally started digging the hole for our house and we started the countdown. We had a fun Thanksgiving with Joe's family.
December brought us closer to moving into our house, Madi's birthday and Christmas and all the excitement from the begining of the post.
Happy New Year to all and I hope 2010 find us all happy and well.
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