Madison is 9 months!
Her personality is really starting to come out. She says dada and baba, and latetly when I sing to her she tries to sing back. She is finally growing she didn't gain a pound from 4 months to 7 months and we were a little worried, but she is starting to get chubby now.
We just got her pictures done by Sally. She always does a great job! Check them out at sweetlysimplephotography.blogspot.com if we get 20 comments under her pictures there we get a free 11x14
I took this picture on our back porch the other night, I thought the sunset was beautiful, and it was one of those moments that just make me so thankful for where I live. Mike and I had our 6th Anniversary this month. Im am so thankful to be married to him, it gets better every day. He is a great husband and father.
Mikes birthday was Jan 12. he turned the big 31! We celebrated by having both our families over for cake and ice cream.
Brielle is in a different dress every day, and she asked me to take a picture of her and her barbie dancing.
Madison is getting big too fast! She is 6 1/2 months. We love watching her smile and laugh, I think a babies laugh is the best sound in the world.
Koda is finally getting the potty training thing down, I am so relieved! He went into primary this month, I still feel like he is to little to be in there. 
My moms family had a girls bonco party today, and while I was gone Mike and the kids made our family into snowmen and had hot chocolate.
Every year in December the Blads go to the family cabin for a Christmas pary, it is so much fun!! The adults all do a white elephant and the kids all do one too this is the kids opening their presents.
This picture is out of order, but it is Thanksgiving morning when we got our Christmas tree.
This is the kids making gingerbread houses, Dakota kept asking all weekend when we were going to make them, he remembered doing them last year and couldn't wait to do it agian.
This is how Dakota rode the swing it was way too high for him to go by himself.
We have a pond at the cabin that you can fish out of and swim in during the summer, and is perfect for ice skating in the winter.
We had a really good time, we ate lots of good food, and made some more really good memories!
There is a book called Fancy Nancy that Brielle loves, it's about a girl that loves every thing to be fancy, so for Brielles birthday we did a Fancy Nancy birthday! We had my mom dress up fancy and come read the book to the girls, we made a little store with feather boas, tutus, jewelry, and fancy feather fans, and the girls all got to go shopping and pick their own fancy things to wear. After they all got dressed up Mindy painted all their faces fancy. Then they ate parfaits ( that's what they eat in the book because they are fancy) and dipped fruit and marshmellows in chocolate, after that it was time to open presents. We love having Brielle in our family, she has such a sweet spirit, she is very creative and a huge helper! She is always doing sweet surprises for us, she loves to make people happy! She had a lot of fun getting ready for her party, she drew some fancy pictures and hung them on the fridge for decorations, and made a list of every thing we were going to do at the party, and hung it on the door so we wouldn't forget. I am so thankful to be her mom!
We had a chocolate fountain for a centerpiece, I hadn't ever used it yet and when I set it up I was missing a piece so the chocolate didn't work qiute right but the girls still got to dip their stuff in it. 
All the tutus at the store
The feather boas
This is our store sign
These are the fancy shopping bags we made for each girl to put their stuff in. I got the tutus, feather boas, and fans from a website called heavenlyhalos.com it has way good prices, if anyone every needs anything like that.
We started potty training Dakota, and Brielle made him a potty chart that he could put a sticker on each time he went potty, and when he he got it full he could go hunting with Mike. So he wetn rabbit hunting out behind our house, and he had a blast! He is just like his dad!
Yesterday Mikes horse bucked him off when he was on the mountain, he landed in a bush and a stick went through his leg OUCH!!! He had to go to the Dr. to get it removed, and him and Jordan thought it was cool to watch the Dr. pull it out of his leg. He got a couple pretty big chunks of wood out, and his leg is quite sore today, but other than his leg, he is alright and I'm very thankful for that!
The Dr had to sew a drain in his leg, looks pretty grose, but it is supposed to help it so it wont get infected
Mike made me a new bed!!! We got king size mattresses so Mike made me a new bed, I loved the canopy bed that he had made us but I love this one too!! I was out of town with Mikes mom and sisters for the weekend and Mike was going to finish it and surprise me, but when I talked to Dakota on the phone the very first thing he told me was that daddy was painting my bed black, you gotta love kids!!
This is one of the horse rides Mike went on during the deer hunt, they got snowed on and froze but he had a lot of fun!!
