Always on the go!

I am finding it harder and hard to take pictures of sweet Madeline because she is ALWAYS on the go!! 

 Her and Dane sat still for about 6 seconds....then both wiggled off the chair to go run!

Showing daddy exactly what she wanted for her new house at Lowes. She knows what she likes.

So I have the one child who always is on the move. Then I have the other one...who, well, she is just always in trouble! The other night we were on the couch and could hear her chewing on something. When I went to see, she faked being "asleep" and tried to act like she wasn't doing anything mischievous. Do you see what's wrong with this picture?!  She was clearly eating my shoe and then tried to pretend like she wasn't!

In other news, our pod is being delivered in 15 short days. That's not a lot of time. We'll be busy, busy, busy getting everything ready. We have some great friends coming to help us load up all of the heavy stuff - moving day will be here before we know it!  Happy Tuesday!

A great week in Atlanta!

This weekend I traveled to Atlanta with my family to tape Family Feud. We had an incredible experience-it was so neat to see how the show was taped. Being an actress is tough work! We had a couple of long days at the studio- production issues delayed and prolonged some of the taping- and I can honestly say I'm EXHAUSTED! Such an emotional roller coaster! I cannot say anything other than we did a taping. (And I can promise you'll have a couple of laughs at our expense!) I'll post later about air dates when I get them. 

Thanks SO much to my best work girlfriends for making the trip. It was SO nice of you all!  I am so blessed to work with such great people!

Dinner with my gals at Julio's

I also had a lot of phone calls and texts from friends back home--thanks so much for the support! We really appreciated all of the warm wishes. 

The hardest part of the week was leaving sweet Madeline in KY. She had a BLAST staying at her nana and grandpa's! Thanks so much for watching her for us!  I could not wait to get home and see her sweet face. I had taken this picture of her right before I left and I kept looking at it while I was away. How cute is she?!

Keeping up with the Hughes'

So, first of all. I've been married four years and I'm still never quite sure the grammatically correct way to use my married name in the possessive tense. Is it Hughes's? Hughes'? Hugheses? I guess I don't feel too bad; I just asked Chris whose had the name his whole life and he wasn't sure either! Ha. TARA MCKINLEY--I know you'll know!

***In other news***

We've recently taken a trip to crazy-town! We have been busy, busy, busy! First, we sold our house! We've still had to keep it clean for the inspector, the appraiser, the radon tester, etc, etc. With a very active 16 month old and a wild shedding Golden, it's not that easy to just keep it clean in between visits. I would say it takes about 7 minutes for our completely clean house to turn into a disaster. We usually put Madeline to bed and then try to get as much cleaned and packed up as we can before we get too exhausted and go to bed.

In between selling our house, my family got chosen to go on Family Feud. While I've been cleaning, I've also been preparing for the questions by watching the daily episodes and quizzing myself. Who knows...this might lead into a reality show for my silly family! I think we've got a great team and I'm looking forward to heading to Atlanta soon to tape the show!

As for Madeline....well she makes us laugh every day. She's picked up several new words, and is continuing her quest for complete independence. She basically refuses any help with eating, no matter how liquid-y. Yogurt, applesauce, etc, she doesn't want ANY help eating it. Evidenced below, after dinner at my mom's tonight.

Madeline also is in her first contest! She is entered into The Oldham Era's Relay for Cuteness fundraiser. Votes cost a quarter and all proceeds go to cancer research. Here is her submission.

Next up: Toddlers and Tiaras. Or, maybe I'll get to be on Dance Mom's. Hmm. PSYCH!

The next few weeks are going to be FULL for us, but I'll do my best to keep blogging. We close in 6 weeks and have lots to do! Happy Monday!

Easter Weekend

We had a great Easter weekend in Lexington!

Madeline loved spending time with her cousin. We took the kids to Monkey Joes which has bounce houses and toys. Madeline stayed in the "3 and under" section and loved it. Here she is riding her first carousel.

Dane also took Madeline on her first Jeep ride. It was hilarious. She LOVED it. I see a Barbie Hot Wheels in her future!

Having a little "engine trouble". Dane likes to pop out and look at his engine every 100 feet or so.

Easter morning!

This isn't a great picture of Maddie and I, but you get a full view of her dress.

Thanks to Laura for hosting everyone for Easter dinner. It was wonderful!

Happy Easter!!

Just playin'

Maddie's cousin Dane come to town and she went to visit him at nana and grandpa Hughes's house. They are hilarious. They sat at dinner laughing the entire time at each other. Then, we moved them to the bath where they sat next to each other laughing again. Here's a cute picture.

Madeline helping nana water her flowers

Finally, here's a sweet photo of our girls. Madeline was having a snack the other morning and decided to sit with Stella and share it.

Happy Wednesday!!

Busy girl!

Madeline had a really fun, really busy weekend!

Shopping with daddy! Her and Chris went to Lowe's & Costco while I rested at home recovering from a head cold. Here she is having a snack and a smile!

Visiting great-grandma who is finally home from Florida!

Having fun in the wagon!

Playing with every toy in the basement!

Cheering on the WILDCATS to victory! GO BIG BLUE!

15 month check-up

Maddie had her 15 month well-visit today. She's still a small-fry by national standards; she sits in the 10-15th percentile for height and weight. Head circumference is 50th percentile.

The doctor gave us a few things to work on with Maddie in terms of her speech and a few new things to introduce to her diet. She did pretty well during her shots...after we distracted her with some goldfish!

A few funny photos from the last few days.

Waiting at the pediatrician...trying out her first pony tail. I don't think she's ready quite yet!

We've started taking Madeline jogging in the evenings. When we got home last night, we realized she had fallen asleep! This doesn't even look comfortable!

While I was cooking dinner the other night, Madeline pulled some books off our "travel" section of our bookcase. She looked through these books and planned her first trip to Paris!

I was doing my couponing last night and Stella kept trying to get me to pet her. I told her to "go lie down" and she laid down right in the middle of my work. I took the hint and had some snuggle time with her after this!