Happy Birthday, Isabel!!

Today is my niece Isabel's 2nd birthday!! We hope she has a great one :) Madelyn and I will be going to Nana's house tonight to celebrate with dinner, cake and presents!! To celebrate, I'm posting some of my favorite pics of Isabel, who (in my unbiased opinion) is the cutest 2 year old girl there is!!

Slacker.....

I know, I know! I'm slacking on the posts. Let's see, what has gone on since I last wrote???

Well, Clint had his 150 mile bike ride last weekend. On the first day his leg started cramping after about 55 miles. So after that he stopped every 10 miles or so and stretched. He got to Tunica at about 1:00, so they made pretty good time. I think he and Mike just watched the UT / Florida game (which I'm glad I missed!!) then went to the dinner banquet. Sunday he said they were a little slower coming back. Madelyn and I picked him up at Graceland about 3:00 that afternoon, and he was worn out but feeling good! We're so proud of him!!

Madelyn and I took the weekend to have a girls shopping spree. We bought several things for the fall. She's really hard to shop for her at the moment, because although she's about 14 months old she has short little legs and no belly. So pants aren't fun to try to fit. This morning, for example, I dressed her in some jeans that fit perfectly - they were a size 6-12 months. Hopefully her legs will grow some or Mommy will be hemming pants regularly!!

Madelyn is so much fun at this stage! She has now learned to "dance". Anytime we tell her to "Shake her booty", she obliges. We captured it on video the other day, and hopefully soon I can post it on here (if I can figure out how to do so).

We leave tomorrow for the Edwards/Chander wedding in Eureka Springs. I'm hoping Madelyn does wll in the car, or it will make for a long trip!! But we're looking forward to going to some parks and playing around Eureka Springs.

Until next time........

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NANA!!!

Ok, first things first - Happy Birthday Nana!! We love you very much, and hope you have a wonderful day!!

We had another crazy weekend around the Buchanan household. Friday night was our big "Date night"!!! It was my first time being away from Madelyn overnight (well, except the night I was at Mom's house with food poisoning and was so sick I couldn't drive home - that doesn't count). Nana came over and stayed with Madelyn. Much thanks to her for that!! Clint and I went to J Alexander's for dinner, and then went to see I Now Pronounce you Chuck and Larry. It was a cheesy, funny, feel-good movie. Auntie A was kind enough to get us a hotel room, so we were able to go back to the hotel and relax for a while. It was nice to remember what it's like to have some good quality adult time! I was really hoping to sleep in on Saturday morning, but I woke up at 6:30, as usual. I lay in the bed until about 8:30 though, so it was still relaxing. Once we were showered and ready, we had breakfast at Cracker Barrel before going home. By the time we got home Madelyn had just lay down for a nap, so we even had another hour or so to ourselves!!

We went to Germantown Festival that afternoon, which I look forward to every year!!! It was really hot and sticky though, so I wimped out by about 4:00 and had to go home. Saturday night Clint had to go to work, so Madelyn and I just hung out around the house.

Sunday was Grandparents Day, so Nana, great-Grandad, Aunt Kelly, Uncle Clay, Ben, Isabel and Colton came over. We had a lot of fun and the kids love to play with each other. Madelyn just follows Isabel everywhere she goes!

Oh, and Madelyn has started talking like crazy. She's trying to repeat just about anything we say. Some of her favorite words are Dada, Mama, Poppie, Thank you (which sounds more like Th Ya), and our personal favorite Sock (which sounds more like Zuck). We were driving home the other day and Clint said cracker, and Madelyn just said "CRACKER" as loud as she could from the back seat. Guess we need to watch what we say around her!!! And we finally got some locks on the kitchen cabinets. Now that she can open them, she's into EVERYTHING!!

Well, we're off to dinner with Nana. hope you have a good week!

PUKE.....

Yup, that's what I seem to be doing a lot of these days. I remember feeling sick with Madelyn, but I don't remember actually having it all come up as often as it is this time. UGH!! Last Saturday was the worst thus far, with my head in a toilet 4 times. Hopefully it will pass soon :)

We had a good weekend around the Buchanan house. We went Friday and bought Clint a new truck. It's a 2007 Eddie Bauer Expedition EL. he loves it, so I told him I don't want to hear any complaints out of him for a year!! We'll see how long he makes it.

Saturday was Madelyn's 1st hair cut. She did pretty well. At first she didn't know what the heck was going on. Finally she was trying to gt out of the seat. Dumb mommy didn't call ahead to see how much it costs. I mean, they cut about 4 hairs, so I thought it would be pretty cheap! They charged me $17, which I thought was nuts. From now on I"ll have Nana cut it!!

Anyway, the rest of the weekend was a lot of down timw with family, which was nice.

I promise to post some pics soon :)