Congratulations Keith!!

Keith is now officially a CPA. We got word earlier this week that all exams have been passed and he is certified. I'm so proud of him and all the hard work he does for the family. It was a long and tough road with hours upon hours of studying and we are glad that's finally over!

Congrats Keith, We love you!!

Aaron's Finally Crawling

We have been working with Aaron to actually crawl vs. doing the "army crawl" and he did it today!!

Madison's 8th Birthday

I can't believe how fast the last 8 years have gone!! Thinking back to the first moment I held her, I never in my wildest dreams would have imagined I would end up with such a wonderful daughter. Keith and I are so lucky to have her and cherish every moment. She has so many great talents and she is a great big sister. We look forward to see what the next 8-80 years bring. With a feisty girl like her, I'm sure we are in for the ride of our lives.

This year Madison wanted to have a slumber birthday party. So to keep things under control we kept it at inviting 4 girls. The party was the Saturday before her birthday. They had a great time making flip flops, bracelets, painting nails and playing dress up.

The day of her birthday Lesley and the kids came over and we had lunch at a park. The kids then cut and hung a sign for Madison. Later that night Keith's family came over to celebrate. She got a new bike (her other one was too small and her knee's would hit the handle bars), new clothes and of course every beauty queen needs her make up.

For some reason I can't get pictures to download, so video clips will do for now. Here is one of her blowing out her candles and another of her trying out her new bike.

Madison's Dance Recital 2009

Madison had her end of the year recital this weekend. She did a fantastic job and I can't believe how much she has learned in the past year. She is an amazing dancer and we are so proud of how much she has learned. She really enjoys taking dance and the studio she goes to has wonderful teacher who are patient with the kids.

Here are some clips that we have from her dances.

Ballet-Song: Love me Tender. Ryan was sitting in my lap and seemed to have ants in his pants so it's a little bit of a bumpy ride :)

Tap-Song: Uptown Girl

Jazz-Song: Humuhamumukukua's -It's a Hula Song from High School Musical.

Hip Hop-Song: Can't touch this. The memory on my camera ran out, but you can still see a bit of the hip hop that she has learned. This is the dance they won trophies for at their competition.

How do they grow so fast

For the first time in 2 years I went and got pictures of the kids taken. The last pics we had taken Ryan was 1 so we didn't have any of Sean or Aaron yet. It was an adventure since I took them by myself (Keith stayed home to study for his last CPA test). Ryan was such a ham throughout the picture taking and Sean was a little scared. Madison was the pretty princess that she is. Aaron was wonderful and laughed the entire time. We managed to get some really cute picture.

Madison-7 years

Ryan-3 years

Sean-16 months

Aaron-4 months

Enjoy!

Show me Hannah Montana

Madison and I were playing around the other day and put her Hannah Montana wig on Aaron. He thought it was so funny. Sean didn't like it so much (I couldn't even get a picture of him)

Anyway I thought I would share some pic of Aaron playing Hannah Montana.

Proud Mama

Madison was in a dance competition this past weekend and they did very well. Her team danced 2 dances, ballet (danced to Love Me Tender) and hip hop (danced to Can't Touch This) in the mini division. For Ballet they won 1st placeFor Hip Hop they won 1st place & high pointMini Division they won grand championThey won 4 of the trophies for the company to display in their window along with their youth, junior and senior divison trophies.