Madison's 1st Ice Show

Daddy Daughter Date Night Picture

Daddy Daughter Dance 2011

Madison had been so excited about this dance for a long time and it sounded like they had lots of fun. They ate dinner at the dance, they danced together and Madison danced with some of her friends, and she got a flower. Here are some pictures from the day.

Madison was set on a messy bun, so after looking on youtube for a while we found a more elegant messy bun style that was pretty easy to do and it actually stayed in until the end of the dance.

A New Dress for Madison

Madison needed a new dress. She is going with her daddy to the Daddy Daughter Dance the weekend before Valentine's Day this year and there is also going to be a Spring Dance at school.

We made a big deal of the dress getting event. We all huddled in the dressing room while Madison tried on about ten different dresses.

Of course, I tried to lead her towards the dress I liked best on the hanger, but that rarely ever works anymore. Anyways, dresses never look the same on your person as they do on the hanger.

This dress isn't one that I picked, but I think she looks fabulous and both her daddy and I think she picked extremely well. This girl's got style!

Party Treats

Every year at "Meet Your Teacher" night at school the kids get to choose a party to bring treats to. This year Madison chose the Holiday party, so we took melting snowman cookies.Out of all the parties available, Gabe, of course, chose the 100th day of school party, which is tomorrow. We decided to do 100th day of school cupcakes. I think they turned out pretty cute.

Shellsburg Winter Dance

Madison and Gabe had their Winter Dance tonight. They both had a great time. Maddie danced and played with Isaiah the entire time.

Gabe danced with Leo for a while.

They ate corn dogs, Cheetos and cookies for dinner. Gabe actually ate a corn dog.

Gabe slow danced with Darby for a while. They had lots of parents taking their picture. There were probably 3 "couples" dancing in the entire gym and 2 of the "couples" were Gabe and Darby and Madison and Isaiah.

They came home and got undressed to get their pajamas on and I had to make them get their clothes back on to get this picture.

Santa Knows Everything!

Santa has emailed each of the kids a special video.

They are pretty cool.

Click here to see Madison's video:
http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/watch/cQIKy60cqjAnsWbRBsnnrQ

Click here to see Gabe's video:
http://www.portablenorthpole.tv/watch/3SNx63W8KKnk4nO0RlY6uA