Madison's 11th Birthday!

On November 8, 1998 Madison Suzette was born. We were so thrilled to have a girl and to have her arrive so healthy even though she was 4 weeks early. She has been such a joy and help to us. Every mother needs a daughter and I am glad I was chosen to be her Mom. Madison is growing up to fast, she is becoming such a beautiful young lady. Here is a recent picture of her after getting her perm.

Birthday Morning, opening her presents.

What could it be?

Cheese!

Madison's birthday was on a Sunday. We got together for our monthly Forbush Family get together and celebrated her special day with cousins, uncles and aunts and Grandpa and Grandma Forbush.

Two cakes so we could have enough for everyone!!!

We love you Madison!

Halloween 2009, I'm just a tad slow!!!

Now that I have Christmas music playing I guess it's time to post our Halloween Pictures. About a week before Halloween we went to some of our friends house to carve pumpkins and had a great time. The night before Halloween someone decided to steal our carved pumpkins off our porch, not sure why. I thought we would find them smashed somewhere, but they were no where to be found. So.... Halloween afternoon we had to go buy more and carve them or I think Kaden would have not made it through the day. He was so looking forward to lighting his pumpkin with a candle. I was very grateful for the nice weather so we could carve outside.

2nd round of carving, probably good since I didn't have my camera the first time!

Mark's office has a great time dressing up each year for their patients. This year they decided to all be rock stars. Mark was very excited about his Michael Jackson costume. He looked great and I think had fun playing the part. He is pretty good at the moon walk.

Madison was Bat Girl, she looked great and it was something totally different for her. She had a great time trick or treating with her friends.

Jacob and Kaden were Mario and Luigi. They looked so cute. They had a fun time trick or treating with some of our neighborhood friends the Pugsleys. I went with them this year as it was a little warmer and I like to save the cold years for Mark.

The Rest of Our Family Vacation- Aug 2009

I'm just a tad slow on this post.....but I still wanted to do it. After we spent a few days in Lake Tahoe, we headed to Yosemite National Park. It was quite the drive, lots of turns and curves and well you can only imagine what happened. We were glad we were prepared with ziplocks. Once we finally got there... we had a good time. So many hikes to choose from.

We hiked to Vernal Falls, 2 miles up and 2 back. We also hiked to the base of Yosemite falls, only 1/2 mile there and then 1/2 back.

It is so beautiful there... how could anyone question that there is a God.

Amazing scenery and my cute family.

I love the grins...we made it!

The boys loved climbing all the rocks. I think this is better than any playground.

It was so fun to see these deer, they let us get so close. Tyler loved taking this picture, he didn't even have to zoom in.

Mark and I sitting in front of one of the Sequoias in the grove.

Tyler found this pine cone that he thought looked like a phone. He told me to take a picture because this might be as close as he will ever get to owning his own cell phone.

This was my favorite Sequoia. It was just fun to walk through a tree. Most of the tourist(which it seemed like a million) only went to this point of the hike. For some crazy reason we thought it wasn't going to be that long or hard to continue on to the Mariposa grove and the famous fallen tunnel tree.

This is the Oldest Sequoia. It was around during the life of Christ. Pretty cool!

Gigantic tree, makes you feel pretty small!

The Famous Fallen Tunnel Tree. This is the one that people use to be able to drive through. Wow! Glad we did the hike, but boy it was hard. It was at least 4 miles hiking up to this point. 8 miles round trip. Our kids were troopers! They were so tired and so hungry, we all were, but we made it!!! It was a great once in a lifetime experience!