A Teenager

It’s strange how quickly time passes. There are a few pauses along the way when one sees their child locked in time. Otherwise, time pushes forward and changes everyone. Madison celebrated her 13th birthday today, which Tiffany directly refused to …Continue reading →

Feeling Better

After emergency surgery on her knee, Madison has made a massive recovery. Here we are, less than a month later, already enjoying our time at Utah Lake with Grandpa pulling us on a tube. Madison was back to walking very …Continue reading →

A Surgery Survivor

Memorial Day weekend just after graduation and Madison got a bit too fancy with her gymnastics. Tiffany (who is not to be held accountable) had just purchased a second-hand picture frame that she was very excited to use. In her …Continue reading →

A 5th Grade Graduate

Despite being just the right size, Madison claimed that some of her classmates were taller than her. Who would dare do such a thing? Madison loved 5th grade. She got Mr. Langford as her teacher and he became her favorite …Continue reading →

Under the Sea!

Figuratively. I’m sure Madison has been to the ocean before, but for this occasion she’s in the performance of The Little Mermaid Jr. playing as Carlotta. Now before you interject with an insane question like “what’s the Little Mermaid?” let …Continue reading →

A Soccer Champion

Madison and Drew both had soccer (even though they missed a big chunk of the season to Echo). Madison’s age group does playoffs, so on Saturday we played our game. First shot on goal for the other team was a …Continue reading →

A Pianist

Madison has been taking piano lessons for a few weeks now, but she’s already so improved. She gets right along with her teacher, and is quickly learning proper technique and it shows. Today she wanted to show me a song, …Continue reading →

Driven

It was Tiffany’s idea to sign the kids up for piano lessons. However, based on the date of this entry, Madison hasn’t had her first lesson yet. That hasn’t stopped her. Her piano books arrived in the mail yesterday, and …Continue reading →

Responsible

I’ve probably talked about this before, but Madison is so far beyond her years. I can remember years ago playing at a park when Drew was probably two, so Madison would have been five or so. There were a number …Continue reading →

A Big Sister

I thought about making a separate blog for each of my kids, and maybe I still will, but I want to be able to talk about Drew and Lizzy on Madison’s blog, because they are a big part of her …Continue reading →

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