How life goes by quickly! My baby has turned one. Her first birthday was on February 12 and we had a grand time! Dan's parents and sister came up, so for the weekend we had 4 kids under the age of 3 in the house. Talk about busy!!! We didn't do much for a party, as she is only one and won't remember any of this anyway. We had family over for cake after supper and then opened gifts. By the end of the gift opening Maddison was ready for bed! I made my first birthday cake ever (well, for a kid anyway...) and it turned out great. Because Maddison LOVES puppies and anything that goes "woof" I decided to make a dog cake. So to the internet I went and found instructions and whatnot for a dog cake. Then I used Emily as inspiration for the frosting and went from there. It actually turned out really well and I was quite pleased with it!
Seeing as this is the first post of 2011, I have to say that we have enjoyed our year so far! After the huge snowfall in the middle of January I decided to buy Dan a snowblower, so we now have a snowblower! We also bought me a new computer because my old one was rapidly wearing out. It's nice to be able to turn on my computer now and know it will turn on! We've gone skating a couple of times and discovered that Maddison loves it! She just grins and laughs as we skate around pulling her on the sled. It's very cool! Her newest accomplishment (as of today) is taking a few steps between me and Dan! It's very cute to watch!!
We've had quite a busy year already with the church, but it seems to have slowed down in the past couple of weeks, so that's nice. God has already used this year to stretch us and teach us many things, so it is looking to be quite the year!!
So Happy New Year, Happy Valentines day, and Happy family day!!!!
