Christmas, Birthday, and the 2 year old!

Happy New Year to all! We had a great December with Madi's 2nd birthday and Christmas, however I am still trying to figure out where the month went! Madison is now a crazy 2 year old and I will have to say while we have had our fair share of temper tantrums so far the 2's really aren't that terrible. She has been great and is very excited to be a big girl. Her birthday celebration started with a tinkerbell party with a few of her friends on the 15th. It was fun to celebrate with friends and gave them all a chance to play and have fun (although Madi did spend most of the afternoon hiding in her tent...) We then had a small family party on the 23rd which was also a lot of fun!

Helping momma with the cupcakes
Happy Birthday Madi!

So proud of the finished product!

Helping to decorate

We had to turn the house into a 'party house' not a christmas house...

Her party hiding place

All the guests enjoying a couple of madi favorites... Chick-fil-a chicken nuggets and fruit

So usually Madi won't eat frosting and just eats the cake....this time she just ate the frosting.. For her party on the 23rd she requested that I make cherry pie instead of cake at all...

opening all the fun presents. Thanks friends!!

Aunt Deniese and Uncle Kenny got her this purple pillow pet for christmas...she has had to carry the hippo around for weeks now!

Super cute nativity advent calander that Madi got from Great Grandpa Tony and Donna. We have had so much fun with this!

So our first santa visit at Chick-fil-a was a disaster! But even so Madi kept talking about how she wanted to go see santa and tell him that she wanted a choo choo for christmas. So on her birthday we found this cute little santa village near our house. It was perfect because she was the only kid there and they let her take her time talking and singing jingle bells with Santa. She won't sit on her lap but she did finally ask him for a train, gave him a high five and a hug and then went to enjoy her candy cane sitting next to the elf. I see it as a pretty good feat, maybe next year we'll sit on his lap!

Papa made this cute bench for Madi and her dolls. She absolutely loves it!

you can't say this kid has no imagination...She sat on the bench said she was cold, picked up the rug and was using it as a blanket..

The present opening pro!

Madi and Alyssa playing hopscotch

Fun dress up from Aunt Crystal and Uncle scott

Race cars from Grandma and Papa Haynie! She absolutely loved this present!

Blowing out the Candles. We had to sing Happy and let her blow out the candles about 4 times.

Christmas Morning! Santa brought Madi her train and a lot of other fun stuff

Madi was really excited when she woke up christmas morning, we didn't think she really knew what was going on until she came down the stairs, saw the train and immediately said momma look santa brought me a choo choo. I guess she is a santa believer now!

I think the train table has become my new coffee table. I could have never imagined that she would love this so much!

Madi also got a lot of other great presents and toys. We had 3 fun christmas's! Unfortunently my preggo brain left the camera at home so we don't have any pictures from our other celebrations at the Baune's and Haynie's.

singing jingle bells madi style "jingle bells all the way, in a horse and sleigh, all the way HEY!, jingle bells.."

Playing mommy with her new doll furniture

The caged madi! She put herself in the cage

Joe and I were able to host Christmas dinner for my parents and little sister crystal and her husband scott. It was fun because we have never been able to have a holiday meal with my family, and we like to host parties!

The kids table...Soon Madi won't be the only one to sit there!

The most adorable cloths that she got for christmas from grandma and papa Haynie.

Merry Christmas Dadda!

Merry Christmas Momma!

The 2 year old princess!

We also finally got our first real snow storm! Madi was so excited to play in the snow even though it didn't last long. we had to drag her back in the house after about 20 min because it was sooooo cold.