#daysofsummer

This weekend was spent poolside. The entire weekend! 

It was P E R F E C T!!!

Both my kids love the water. Apparently I gave birth to two fish because they are meant to be in the water! They can't get in fast enough and they cry when they have to get out. And if the ground wasn't cement they would probably flop around like fish out of water!

It was so fun and both days we ran into friends. The same friends both days! I'm pretty sure Kyson has a girlfriend. For life! After we spend all day swimming our norm is to stop and get Hawaiian Ice. My favorite!

I am loving summer this year!! We have had so much fun outside and it hurts my heart knowing we only have a month left of summer break. I'm not ready for Kyson to go back to school!

Presley: 9 months

-Presley has  s e v e n  teeth now!! The girl has a mouthful! We've been very blessed with two kids that have had barely any side effects due to teething. Whew!!

-Presley is now wearing clothes anywhere from 6 months-9 months. Unless its a swimming suit, then she wears 12 months. The little chunk!

-She officially started crawling on June 29th at about 5:00 PM. But who's keeping track :) She had a whole audience cheering her on, taking pictures and bribing her with things to crawl to. Grandma's iPhone won the bidding war!

-She quit sleeping through the night. UGH!! I blame all the traveling and strange beds.

-She's officially met all of her grand parents, aunts, uncles and cousins. She's such an attention hog!

-Presley went on her first long road trip (obvi!) and did amazing!! She slept the entire way haha. I'm not complaining!

-She went to her first movie! Granted it was a private viewing to Transformers 4 with no one but close friends and family but still! She slept through the first half and then laughed through the rest. I guess she gets a kick out of big robot dinosaurs!

-She took a spill off of a bed. A very tall bed! She was taking a nap and decided to crawl right off it! My momma heart had a slight heart attack!

-Presley weighs 19 pounds (56th percentile), 28 inches long (56th percentile) and her head is 17 inches (76th percentile).

Lagoon pt 2

Day two at Lagoon was spent doing nothing but riding rides and playing a zillion games trying to win Kyson toys. We won so many stuffed animals that we literally had to walk back to camp just to drop them off so we didn't have to carry them around the park the whole time! We had the best time letting loose and losing our voices on rides!

To get Dave's step brother, Brandon, back from forcing me down that drop slide, I made him do the Sky Coaster! It's the ride where they strap you into a harness, hoist you way up in the sky and let you swing through the air! Brandon was so nervous! Payback. Ha! I loved it, it was such a fun ride!

crappy iPhone picture. 

To see a video clip go to my instagram, @denise_madsen

Lagoon, it's what fun is pt 1

After spending a week and a half in North Dakota, my In Laws and Dave and I all caravanned to Lagoon down in Salt Lake. It was a long, painful drive! We stayed right there at the campground in Lagoon in a fifth wheel. My father in law loves to spoil me for some reason so he let Presley and I sleep on a bed while he kicked everyone else out in to tents. I'm not a big fan of camping so I didn't even mind not sleeping next to Dave if it meant staying out of a tent. Ha! We spent the first day setting everything up and recuperating from that awful drive! Day two was spent at Lagoon A Beach soaking up the sun, poolside. Kyson was literally two inches too short for any of the slides/rides so it was a bummer telling him that he's too short. But then we realized that hardly any of the lifeguards were checking height so we were able to sneak him on to some of the big slides. Oops! He loved them!! 

I am not afraid of heights, but I am deathly afraid of cliffs, drop offs, edges etc so when Dave and his step brother convinced me to go on one of the drop slides, I about had a panic attack! Climbing the stairs was giving me anxienty and waiting at the top feeling the tower move with the wind about made me turn around and run down the stairs. But I held out and went down that stupid slide! I'll never do it again, haha.

We spent the day swimming, tanning, going down slides, playing with the kiddos and just relaxing with family. And even though I saw a full woman's boob at the kiddie pool, it was a great day! That night we played in the park! I was shocked at how slow it was in the park! Especially since it was the fourth of July. I thought it would be packed, but it wasn't which was so nice! There were literally no lines for any of the rides! We were able to get in most of all the big rides in just a couple hours.

Crappy cell phone pictures...

It was so fun being able to ride all kinds of roller coasters for a few hours while my in laws played with the kids. We love Lagoon!

a day in bismarck

One of my new favorite things about going to North Dakota is getting the opportunity to meet up with my good friend, Paula! I met her through blogging a couple years ago and it was an instant friendship. BFF kind of friendship!! We're already planning our lives out being neighbors and boating buds! I kind of love this girl. And Kyson is IN love with her :)

We met up in Bismarck for the day. We had all kinds of fun outdoor plans set up but Mother Nature had other plans! I was so surprised that freezing cold North Dakota didn't have more options for indoor fun. So, after we ate our body weight in pasta, shopped for Hot Tub's, soccer balls, and socks we decided to go bowling... right there in the mall! It was all Kyson's idea! :) But then we went real bowling. Ha!

We had to bowl with the bumpers, for Kyson, and you would think that it should have helped our scores. It didn't! We all did terrible. But I still won that terrible game of bowling. Holla! It's embarrassing how many picture we took. Dave now knows what it's like to be a full time photographer. And Paula now knows how crazy-about-pictures I am! So to spare you from having to endure that, here's a few of my fave's.

Kyson was so sad when we had to say goodbye. He cried in the car. He loves Paula! I really don't blame him though. Literally on our way out the door we decided to step into a photo booth for some silly pictures. I mean, why not?

Love you, P! Can't wait until we're neighbors :)

roooooad triiiiiip

One of the best things about being in the Military is being able to take long vacations and still get paid. Each year Dave and I take three weeks off and go visit family. This year we started out driving up to North Dakota to spend time with Dave's Dad, step mom and siblings. The first week was spent relaxing and catching up with the family. Kyson was in heaven being surrounded by cousins that he could play with! We went swimming, Presley learned to crawl with everyone watching and cheering her on, and I got my fix of Pazookies! Four in a week! What diet? Ha! Even though North Dakota is full of little Po Dunk towns and hours away from real civilization, I always love going there. The town my In Laws live in is such a picture perfect, cute, well taken care of little town. We always have the best time there!

To see a video of Presley crawling for the first time, go to my instagram,

@denise_madsen