Skippers vacation oh I mean business trip

Skipper left on Monday for a business trip. He went to the Arizona Diamondbacks game last night and is golfing this morning...did I mention he is staying at the Four Seasons in Scottsdale!

We miss him so much and can't wait for him to come home on Friday! This is the longest in our almost 4 years of marriage that we have been apart and I hate it! Madeline keeps asking where he is :( . Next time we get to go to!

Here is a couple of pictures of where he is staying!

Madeline's first picture of herself!

July in a nutshell

Marcus, Haley, and Madeline

My Mom, little sister Haylie, and me

Madeline in her England jersey

Skipper, Madeline and I

Haylie and Madeline at This is the Place

Grandma, Haylie, and Madeline


I lost my camera so I only have pictures from the first part of the month. I have been hoping that my camera was going to show up but it has been 3 weeks and I am tired of waiting. I am going to go buy a new fancy camera this week! My mom, little sister Haylie, my brother Marcus and his wife Haley all came out and stayed with us the first part of July. It was so much fun to see them and for them to see Madeline. We went to the Real Salt Lake game and got to watch fireworks. Skipper bought a little England soccer Jersey when we was in England a few years ago and it is Madeline size now. So I put her in it to surprise Skipper, and boy was he. She was so cute at the game. Afterwards Skipper was carrying Madeline and a man tapped him on the shoulder and said that he was watching her during the game and wished that he had a camera. He was from England and he wanted to take a picture of her in her little England soccer jersey.



My mom, Haylie, Madeline and I went to the this is the place park. It was fun for them to see what they have done there. It is a little pioneer village and it is fun to walk through. My mom couldn't believe that Madeline ran the entire 3 hours we were there. We have gone swimming a bunch this month and Madeline is finally loving it. We also got to go to Lagoon with Skipper's family but no camera so no pictures. It has been a fun and busy month!!

1-866-867-5568

So this is wells fargo's online fraud number which I had to dial this last week. I was checking and balancing our account one day and I noticed a purchase for an airline ticket on LAN Airlines. So after making sure that Skipper was ditching out on us we found out that someone had gotten our information and was taking a vacation on us. Everything turned out okay. Wells Fargo has a great fraud dept and gave us our money back. I do hope they find out who did it though because I have a few choice words for them...

I have a new niece!!

My older brother Matt and his wife Ashlee had their first baby, a little girl, on Saturday at 4:30 am. She was 10 days late poor girl!! The baby girl came in at 9lbs 4ounces and 21 inches long. She hasn't been named yet but I am so excited that she is here!!

Madeline's new song

Yes No E I E I O.

She has started to sing to me all the time. It is so cute. Two days ago she started singing me "yes no e i e i o". We sing her the old mcdonald song so I know where she got the "e i e i o" from, but to put it together with the "yes no" part I have no idea, and it rhymes.

I think I have a little poet on my hands!! Every time I try to record it she won't do it....of course!

Moab, 18 months, Moving, and Etc...

So we went to Moab for Skipper's family reunion and it was fun. I have to say that my favorite part was playing games with the adults after the kids had gone to bed. Skipper and I haven't been able to do that in so long with his work, and school schedule. I think that Sunny, and Shilo will have to agree that Mafia was the best part.The only bad part is that the day we got home Madeline got sick with a stomach virus and wouldn't eat anything for 4 days and then hardly ate anything for about another 4 days. I had her 18 month appointment during this time and she always has been a small girl but she was less than the 5% for her age in her weight. Her Dr. reassured me that with stomach virus's babies can drop 1-2 pounds easily. Here are her stats:

Height: 32 inches 50%-75%
Weight: 19 lbs. 12 ounces
I can't remember her head circum. but she was in the 50%

Her appetite is back and her pants are fitting better so I think we are on our way.

I am happy to say that Skipper is graduated and he got another 4.0 his last semester. Who knew that he had it in him? He has been interviewing with a company in SLC for about a month and he got the call in Moab that he got the job. So we got home from Moab, and between the sick baby and packing (we had to move in a week!!) we weren't able to say goodbye everyone. We aren't very far away so hopefully we will get to see all our friends soon!!

The disk that has my pictures on it is packed somewhere so I will post those soon!!

Finger Painting

....or body painting. I bought some finger paints for Madeline and I's craft time. She had a blast painting herself. Quite the little Van Gogh.

If you are wondering about the picture of Skipper's toe, I took it off. He was mad that I didn't wait until the end of the poll but it was disgusting.

Nia says to always add a picture

According to our blog name this is both Nia and I's state of the art blog page, but I'm sure people were wondering if she really had a husband, since I was never on here. Well I do exist and I am amazing. Anyway, so I just finished school and am finally a real man. Ok, technically I don't finish until we have some sort of private open screening of my documentary at the school, and then I'll be finished. Then no one will be able to tell me I'm no man, because I will have proof. It will be a piece of paper that says "Bachelor's of Communications", and I can just hand it to them and walk off, but not before I get the paper back because that thing costed me like 14 grand (14 G's as Nia would say)
So I'm officially on the market now, so there are any random employers out there looking on this site feel free to make me an offer. It's funny, though, when Nia and I decided to move back here and finish school, I thought that the combination of school full time, working nights, and seeing Nia and Madeline for about 35 minutes a day would be harder to do than find a job after I graduated, but I was wrong. I can't get so much as an interview. Apparently they require more than a 4 year degree to be a surgeon. I don't know why I even bothered now.

Oh yeah. Nia always adds a picture to her posts, so here is a picture of my toe after they permanently removed my toenail.

Corn Starch

Sometimes when Madeline has a stubborn diaper rash I use corn starch. I have found that it works better then desitin. She has had a diaper rash the last couple days so I decided to use it on her yesterday morning. I was in a hurry and I left it out where she could get to it and while I was getting ready she dumped it all over the living room. The carpet in our apartment is dark green and there were little white footprints all over, and hand prints all over the couches. She was so proud of herself. I came out in the living room because she sound really excited and she started jumping in the pile of corn starch and smiling at me. It was so funny!!

This morning she kept bringing us clothes that she wanted to wear. Here is the final product!