Maddie loves going to Grandma and Grandpa Carpenter's. She always has such a great time, she especially loves to play with Ashely and Lobo-their dog. We were able to stay with them for a few days after we went to Disneyland over Spring break. 
This is Olivia after her bath, we just ran the towel over her head to dry her hair a little bit and poof!
In case you didn't get enough the first time!
This was while we were waiting for the parade. We had waited for a long time and people kept standing in front of us, or trying to scootch us out of the way. We wouldn't budge and it's a good thing we had the best seats in the house. The parade makes two stops and they do a little show, the second stop was right in front of us! We couldn't have asked for better seats without riding on one of the floats! 
Emma and Maddie doing a little dance while waiting for the parade to start.
Matthew, Maddie and Ryan such cute friends!
This is the best picture of my life! Maddie's expression makes me want to explode, I think she might explode herself! She had never been so excited in her life, to see the parade with all of the princesses, and characters and music and dancing. It's like a dream come true, Disneyland was one of our greatest memories as a family, to see it all through your own babies eyes is unbelievable. We can't wait to take the girls again! 
The last picture of the night, we wanted to get a picture with Mickey all day and long story short...here it is. The kids were so tired, and sweet little Maddie couldn't fight it any more. This was such a fun day, thanks again to Mel and Nathan for letting us stay with them. We are so excited for our next big Disneyland adventure!
We had the most fun visiting family and friends over Matt's Spring break from school. These pictures are from our trip to Disneyland it was Maddie's first time, and she had a blast! We went with Liz's sister Mel and her three kids, and after getting a late start due to traffic, we literally parked our cars, got the strollers loaded and the heavens opened up! It started to rain!! Lucky for us it stopped right after we got off the tram and into the park...thank goodness.
We planned to meet up with The Green's too while we were there. For those of you who don't know them, they are some of our dental student friends, Jordon and Matt are in the same class and Maddie and Kinley are just the best of friends. Emma got along great with Kinley too and the girls had a blast! It was so fun to have the Green's there! This picture is the girls on "Its a Small World".
This is truly hilarious -and amazing- Maddie is smiling in a picture! Maddie is impossible to get a smiling picture of (especially with the lovely delay of digital cameras) she loves to ignore the constant pleas of "Maddie, look at mom, please smile like a princess, come on silly girl let me see you laugh like this"...then I try some silly sound to get her to look and still nothing... she usually says cheese, but will she smile? She won't even look up from what she is so fascinated with. She just says cheese a million times and pulls her lower lip back and almost frowns! Hopefully it is just a phase!!! Anyway, this picture warms my heart and if you all only knew how exhausted she was you would know and this is not laughter but perhaps a little more like delirium! :) We love our happy Maddie and she sure felt like a princess. This picture was taken at the "Princess Coronation Ceremony" where the kids listened to Cinderella read a story, decorate crowns, and then learn to dance like princes and princesses. Jasmin, Cinderella and Snow White were there too. It was so great!
It started to rain again so we took the kids to see the Honey I shrunk the audience show...it was really fun, but a little intense. Not all of the kids wore their glasses and not all of them made it through to the end of the show...but they sure look cute in their glasses!
This is Maddie and Liz waiting in line to ride Dumbo. Maddie loves Dumbo, so this was like a dream come true. She squeeled with delight for the entire ride and then cried when it was over!
Sweet little Olivia braving the wind! 
Maddie squeeling with delight, she is such a silly girl! She had so much fun chasing the kite. 
Maddie on her new bike!! She was so excited and is working really hard on pedaling. We are so proud of our girl, she seems so old, time flies...
Maddie and Brock (she refers to him as a "boyfriend"), riding bikes...so awesome
Yay! It's Birthday Cake! The kids made a great team blowing out the candles. 
Blake-Brock's brother and Olivia just hanging out...what a fun day for everyone!
This is Maddie after she took herself to the bathroom on the morning of her Birthday, she thought this was so great that history has repeated itself more than once since!
Here is her beautiful cake, our friends Dan and Ashley helped us bake and decorate it, Maddie loved it she was so excited!
Before going to her party at the park Maddie played with balloons that Dan and Ashley brought over...
The saddest thing happened, we were all eating dinner and Maddie had gotten up from the table then turned around to come back, (she was trying to hurry because we had been trying to get her to stay at the table and finish eating) she slipped while trying to climb into her chair. She fell right on her elbow and we weren't sure at the time but found out the next day that she broke her arm! She fractured it in two places and the sweet little thing slept the whole night that night without any tylenol or anything, she would wake up occasionaly and cry a little because she couldn't move onto her side. Anyway Matt took this picture, I wanted to lay with her for a while until she fell asleep and I guess her breaking her arm wore me out too!
