Tenille & Madi's wild ride....

A few weeks ago, my sister Tenille's husband was out of town working in Hawaii. She was so bored with him gone that she pretty much moved in to our house. She was there more than we were! Ü She made dinner a lot which was awesome! But she spent a lot of time with Madi too! In that time Madi learned how to say her name... sort of. But one of the days Bryon had been itchin' to ride so we pulled his old nag out and saddled him up. Tenille has always been scared of the horses after an incident with a pony about 20 years ago. Well, after watching Bryon ride, she decided that she was ready to get on ole' George. Once she got on, Madi of course wanted to get on with her. Normally I would have been a little bit aprehensive to put Madi up there with a novice, but I knew George would take good care of them. It was a VERY windy day but he just kept puttin' along.

Here is Tenille, facing her fears and riding the ole' man!

It was pretty windy that day, check out their hair, it looks like a hurricane's a comin'!

Here they are puttin' around the yard. What a good boy!

Madi had so much fun! Tenille, you can come ride any time!

I LOVE MEATBALL SUBS!!

The other day Bryon and I had picked up Subway for dinner. Madi was eyeballing my meatball sub pretty bad! I decided that I would share with her and she how she liked it. I put her in her chair and cut off a chunk of the sandwich. I guess to say she liked it would be a huge understatement. Here are some pictures of the destruction that took place....

Grandpa Davis loves me THIS much!!!

I know I have referenced it in previous posts, but I don't think we have done this thing justice! Madi's first birthday was August 3rd. One of her many many wonderful gifts was a rocking horse that her Grandpa Davis made by hand. It is seriously one of the coolest things ever! It looks like one you would buy at the store, but it has a little something extra..... it was built with love! Our little cowgirl is one crazy momma when she gets on this thing. She rocks so hard that it literally moves the horse. She is now getting into her wild woman stage where she will be rocking and she'll let go. It never fails to make my heart drop to my feet when I see her do that! She hasn't fallen off just yet, but she has had some VERY close calls and is lucky mom and dad are always near when she is on her horsey! Here are some pictures of her on her trusty steed.

Here she is with her "What you talkin' 'bout Willis" look..... Dad was teasing her, and she wasn't happy 'bout it....

And here she is showin' off that pretty pony.

THANKS GRANDPA DAVIS!!!!

Eating makes me sleepy....

I really have neglected our blog in the recent weeks. Sorry! I have so many fun pictures to share, I don't want to go on overload, so we will ease in to this one story at a time. A couple of weeks ago, Bryon and I were getting ready for the day. Madi needed to get some sort of food in her tummy before we headed out to run errands. We had put her in her chair and poured some goldfish crackers on her tray to help her pass the time and get a little sustinance in her. She had been chatting away, like usual, when all of a sudden there was dead silence. Anyone that has been around a child knows that silence is usually a bad sign. I poked my head around the bathroom door and this is what I saw.....

Yeah, eating makes me tired too.....

Another day, another....duck

Ok, so you all know that I LOVE my animals! But seriously, something has to give! When my parents very first bought their house (pre Bryon days) I just happened to come home with some baby ducks. I thought they would be so cute in our backyard, which they are, don't get me wrong, but when you buy them as babies, you don't know whether they are drakes or hens. We have lucked out and even though we have had ducks come and go, we have never had an issue like this one. Our old hen that has somehow made it from day one lays eggs every day throughout the summer. Every morning when the dogs get out they find the eggs and eat them. This has been our system, this has worked. Our latest batch of ducks came with one hen and 3 drakes. This hen figured out that if she layed her eggs in the duck house behind our barn that the dogs couldn't get to them. We realized they were back there too late. After an incident earlier this summer when the dogs got to some eggs that where almost "done cookin'" I cried when I saw them eat them. So when we found the new eggs I didn't know how long they had been there, but I couldn't bear the thought of throwing them away or letting the dogs have them, so we waited. I honestly thought that because they were back there so long that they weren't fertilized and would never hatch. I was wrong. On monday we were blessed with four little additions to our ever expanding ranch. Then on Wednesday we were blessed with on more. They are so cute and Madi LOVES them. I think she thinks they are the ducks she plays with in the tub. She wanted to hold them so bad, but they are a little bit too squirrely for her and the momma duck is NOT pleasant to be around right now! YIKES!!

Any body want some ducks? Ü

My Sick Little Angel

This past weekend has been a little bit rough on the Davis household! Bryon was working graveyards all weekend and Madi started feeling a little bit under the weather on Friday. On Saturday she really didn't want to eat any thing and was really whiny. This is not the norm for Madi, she is usually very happy and content to play with her toys and hang out with the fam. She was also pulling on her diaper like it was putting too much pressure on her tummy. She was really lethargic all day and just wanted to sleep. By Saturday night she was out at 9:00. I thought it was great! I put her to bed, cleaned up a bit and I hit the sack too for some much needed rest. at about 7:15 in the morning I woke up to her SCREAMING in her bedroom. I ran in there to find her covered from head to toe in vomit and poop (Sorry if this is too much information, you may want to stop reading now). Needless to say her bed didn't make out much better than she did. I pulled off her clothes and hurried her in to the tub to clean her up. She was so sullen it was sad to see her so uncomfortable. I got her all cleaned up and had my mom come down to hold her while I cleaned up the rest of the mess. So all day Sunday Madi was pretty much the same, whiny, uninterested in food or drinks, really tired. By Monday she was feeling much better. We assumed the bug she had had passed. She was eating again, not all the way back to her normal self, but she was feeling better. Yesterday, she was still acting better and we were very relieved to have our little one back. We decided to go ride our horses last night and Madi wanted to spend some quality one on one time with her aunt Tenille. They went to a candle party and spent a couple of hours together last night. When we went to pick up Madi, Tenille said that she was kind of whiny again, and just acted like she didn't feel well. She was super lithargic again, so we hurried and put her in the truck and headed for home. No sooner had we pulled away from the house and her tummy just couldn't hold it any more and she tossed her cookies! Twice!!! Its a good thing we live relatively close to Tenille. As soon as we got home, Bryon grabbed Madi and ran for the tub while I parked the trailer and put the horses to bed. I cleaned up the truck as best I could and pulled the car seat out (YUCK!). I have a VERY weak stomach and it was really hard to keep from tossing my own cookies! I went down stairs to help Bryon and Madi was laying on him on our lovesac. She just wanted to be held! It was so precious! Bryon comforted her and she was loving every minute. Bryon did run to the store to get her some Pediasure to help her out and she seemed to love it, which makes me happy. She seems to be doing better this morning and Bryon is off work for the next couple of days so he will be able to stay home to take care of her. Hopefully she will be back to rockin' and rollin' in no time! Poor Kid!

Make way for the princess....

This past Saturday my mom, Tenille, Kristin, Madi and I met up with my cousins and headed out to Swiss Days! This was the first year that Kristin and I have been there. It was really fun! We checked out all of the booths and everyone of us had a moment of weakness and made a purchase. My moment of weakness was this adorable booth filled with a lot of princess dressup stuff for little girls. Madi was drawn to the wands! She wanted one so bad. Then we found the crown, we couldn't leave without buying her the crown. Then it turned into, well we could dress her up like this for Halloween. So, we ended up getting her wings, a tu-tu, a crown and a wand. I was really sad that I forgot my camera when we went up there because the whole rest of the day Madi wouldn't put down her wand and a couple of times she almost hit people walking by us (I think it was intentional too!) By the time we got done, Tenille had a really cute flower wall decoration, Kristin had scored a cute hat and purse and my Mom had bought hats for all of the girls to have their pictures taken in. It was a definite score! We also saw countless idea's for wall decorations and picture frames. Now we just need to organize a craft day so that we can get some cute stuff to fill my bare walls! I will leave you with this cute picture we took of Madi trying on her costume. The wings are still a little bit big, but we thought she looked pretty cute!