The girls trying to keep warm!


Roasting their hot dogs!

Aloha! Maddie and her friends!


Nana was teaching the girls her moves and of course Max got in on the action. He should of known that I would have my camera and it would come back to bite him!

Here was the table place settings that we set up for their luau!

Maddie and her "loot"...from her family birthday!

This is her cookie cake she wanted. The store copied her shirt that she is wearing. Most of her clothes this year had the peace symbol on it!

Here she is at school with her "giant" cupcake taking the ritual "1st" bite!

See everyone waiting for her so they can dig in!

Miss Madison as you saw from earlier post turned 10. I cannot believe that this is even possible. She was SO excited to be Double Digits! She is such a beautiful young lady. She had some friends over for a LUAU birthday party! Little did we know back in July when we planned this party that winter would make an early appearance this year! It was fun...the girls all had grass skirts and lays. We roasted hot dogs and made smores. Now don't think I am this Girl Scout trooper...I ended up have to blip the hot dogs and smores!!! The girls didn't care they just had fun. We also took giant cupcakes to school. Nana made them for her and we sprinkled them in GREEN sugar. She is soooo into green right now! We had her family dinner..she requested Taco Salad....she knows I can cook that! She got lots of cute clothes and a digital picture frame. Brandon went and got her a new scooter. Not sure if the scooter was more of a gift for him or her. Not b/c he rides it but b/c her old one had a bad tire and everytime she rode it in the garage it made this horrid sound! It was just making too much noise while they were watching TV in the "man cave"! I hope the next year goes a little slower...I am definately not ready for her to turn 11! Still trying to cope with 10.

UPDATE: Yes...wrote this post last week and didn't get the pictures attached till now! Since then Maddie has completed her VB at the Y. She did great and got a nice big medal! She really loves playing and now we might be trying to get on a club VB team. VB was always my favorite sport..(not so much running!) so she has taken a liking to it also! Her P/T conferences were this week and of course she did GREAT! Her teacher said that she is an outstanding student and very respectable! News I already knew!