19 months old

Madison is 19 months old today. I can't believe it. She is growing up way too fast. She is so smart and really knows what is going on around her. We have been truly blessed with such a wonderful child. She is however going through the terrible twos a little too early for my liking. At 18 months, she started telling us "No". I didn't think she really knew what she was saying until one day she didn't want to do something and looked at me in the eye and told me "No". We have already started putting her in time out.

Behinds all of that, Madison really is a great child. She really wants to know more about everything and is asking a lot of questions. Mainly, what is that? why? Her vocabulary sure has changed and it is hard for me at times to remember that she is still just a baby. She knows how to say everything that she wants and still really wants to watch Elmo. He is really the only TV show that she wants to watch. We introduced the DVD player to her on the way to North Carolina and I think she really likes to watch it, but hasn't really wanted to watch it all the time when she is in the car.

I miss her everyday when I go to work, but also know that she needs that time to be with her friends. She knows everyones names at daycare and loves to be there. Sometimes it is a little hard and she doesn't want to go, but all in all is happy. I don't like the fact that I have to leave her everyday, but really look forward to picking her up at the end of the day.

Madison, we are so thrilled and overjoyed to be your parents. I pray that through the years you will learn more and more about our Lord Jesus Christ. As we enter this holiday season, I pray that your dad and I will be able to show you the true meaning of Christmas. We love you!

Family Christmas Pictures

We took my whole family pictures over Thanksgiving. Brad, Madison, and I also needed to take pictures for our Christmas card. It has been a long time since we did them. I think the last time that we took family pictures was with Olan Mills for a church directory. We have all changed a lot since then. My oldest youngest brother got married in June of this year, so his beautiful bride was a part of the pictures. We also have our new addition on the way, so I got to take some pregnancies pictures. It was an all in all great picture time. The only problem was that you can never predict Texas weather, so that morning it was very cold and windy. You can't really tell in the pictures, but we were all very cold.

Here are some of my favorites:

The whole family

Madison with her Pappaw and Granny

Madison giving her Daddy kisses

Madison with her uncles, Unk and Uncle Blake

6 months pregnant

Madison pointing to the baby

Picture Tag

So, I was reading a Steece's Pieces blog today. She had a game of picture tag as her newest blog. Since 4 is my favorite number. I thought I would take part in the game. Ok, so here it goes:

Picture Tag

Object of the game is to:

1. Choose your 4th folder in your pictures

2. Choose the 4th picture and explain it

3. After explaining, tag four people to do the same

4. You can't crop, edit or especially not cheating

Ok, here is my fourth picture in my fourth folder



Well, it is a picture of Madison when she was 6 months old. It was taken by her sitter, Crystal. She has a really good camera and wanted to take pictures of my sweet girl. I love looking back at these pictures because it just shows me how much she has grown over the year. Her sweet little face still looks the same. She is my everything and I am so excited to be a mommie again with our new addition coming in March 2009. We don't know the sex of the baby, but we already know that we love this baby just as much as we loved Madison when she was born. I never thought that I could say that, but I now can. Madison is going to be a great big sister. She already takes her babies around the house telling them, "Shh, it's ok". It is the cutest thing I have ever heard.

I tag Kasie, Jamie, Betsy, and Dacia. We will see who actuallys reads my blog. I have a lot more to update, but this is it for now. I need to rest before my little one decides to wake up from her nap.

Random Pictures

Random Pictures from our last year... Sorry for all of the posts. I had a lot to update and finally found the time. Enjoy!

Mornings at the Reeves (Duke with his head sticking out of the sheets waiting for Madison to drop some food for him). She also has to have her lambie very close by.

Our Little UT fan! (her Uncle Stephen is so proud)

Rocking in my rocking chair as a little girl at her Pappaw and Granny's house

Playing on my Strawberry Shortcake Tricycle at Pappaw and Granny's house

Laying out on the hammock at her Pappaw and Granny's house

Swinging with her Daddy at her Pop and Nana's house

Brad's Dad

Well, we found out the results of the scans for Brad's dad, Kelly Reeves. The cancer did in fact come back in his liver and lungs. He has already started chemo and will be doing chemo every three weeks.

Please continue to pray for him and his recovering to beat this disease.

18 months old

I can't believe that Madison is 18 months old. She is so smart and wants to know about everything. She really enjoys being around her momma and daddy. She loves the dogs and has to tell them Hi and pet them at least once a day. Duke (our little dog) and her our best friends. I think Duke likes her because she feeds him occasionally. Cali (our lab) is still unsure what to think about her, but Cali loves when Madison throws her the ball.

Madison repeats almost everything that we say. Most of the time you can understand what she is saying, but sometimes it is a little hard and we have to interrupt. She loves Elmo and has really gotten attached to her lambie. It used to be that we didn't need to have lambie around very much, but now she has to be very close. We know when she is tired because she goes and grabs lambie and then, says bye (like ok Mom and Dad I am tired and want to go to bed). I am so excited about Christmas and can't wait until we get to be Santa for her this year. She is going to enjoy it so much.

Madison, we love you so much and can't believe how fast you are growing up. God has truly blessed us and we couldn't be more grateful for the child that you are. I love watching you grow up and learn new things everyday. One of my favorite things that you do right now is give us kisses and big hugs. You are such a sweetheart. We love you and can't wait for you to be a big sister in March.

Madison playing in the dirt at her Pappaw and Granny's house

Update on Brad's dad

As some of you know that Brad's dad was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in July 2007. He wasn't given very much of a timetable other than they needed to start treatment immediately. He underwent a year of an experimental chemo. In August 2008 he had scans done that showed "No Evidence of Disease" which was a complete miracle given that it was stage 4 when he started out. In October he had additional scans done and found out that the cancer had returned, but that are unsure of the degree and where.

Please pray today for Brad's dad. He will be going to MD Anderson to have scans done at 2 pm to see where the cancer has come back. He has his follow up visit with his doctor on Wednesday to find out the results. Please pray for wisdom of the doctors to know what course of action to take and the timetable at hand. Pray for Kelly, Pauletta, and the boys as they get the results as to what course of action to take next. Also, please pray for Deborah (Stephen's wife) and I to be the encouragers in this adventure in our lives.

We serve an awesome and healing God. He has already performed one miracle in Kelly's life. I pray that He will allow for us to continue to see that miracle taking place throughout the coming months.

Thank you in advance for your prayers. We have definitely seen the power of prayer throughout this whole season of our lives.

You can read the email that Kelly sent out after his scans in August on my blog the blog title was Father-in-law update posted 8/25/08.

Fall Festival 2008

Madison had a wonderful time at the Fall Festival at our church. She got to play some games or watch Daddy show her how to play the games. She also got to do some trick or treating down the trick or treat hall. She went up to everyone and after they had given her the candy she would say "thank you". It was the cutest thing! I wish that I brought my camera, but we forgot our camera at home. Here are some pictures that our wonderful friend Kasie took for us.

Watching Naomi play the bowling game

Our cute little pumpkin

Naomi holding Madison's hand (Madison had to carry her pumpkin around everywhere like a purse)

We had so much fun and look forward to having another child to dress up next year.

Stephen & Deb's wedding

We just recently made an adventure to North Carolina to see Brad's brother Stephen get married to his beautiful bride, Deborah. She was beautiful and the whole ceremony was wonderful.

Here are some pictures from the event...









Madison was actually in the wedding (aka the flower girl). I carried her down the aisle and she was very good through the entire ceremony. I was so impressed with her. She was such a trooper.

Pumkin' Patch

We went to a pumpkin patch for our some of really good friends daughter's birthday. Madison had so much fun and really enjoyed getting to pick flowers. Hopefully, it will be a tradition that we will start with Madison and Baby #2.

Picking flowers at the pumpkin patch

In all of the pumpkins