Madilyn's 4th Birthday!!

My little girl is growing up and she is a whole 4 years old now! I can't believe it! Madilyn is amazing, she really is such a good girl.  She loves to play and have fun, she loves to read, and she is really learning to love coloring and drawing pictures.  For her 4th birthday I felt kinda bad because we had just flew into Mesa (where we are living now) the night before.  I mean we didn't even get to our house until like 9, so my mom was kind enough to drop some wrapping paper and a few gifts that we asked her to get at our house before we arrived.  That was a huge help.  So she woke up I think at 4 am for the day, so since it was her birthday we opened presents bright and early! She was so excited, she had been counting down the days to her birthday for such a long time!

She loves her daddy! 100% daddy's girl!

Well my mom was making the cake for Madilyn, but her fight (she was visiting my sister in Texas) didn't come in until later that night on her birthday, so we just had ice cream. 

Madilyn also decided that she had to go to Chuck e cheeses for her birthday, because her cousin Noah went there for his birthday.  She had no idea what is was, but she had to go.  She wanted to go when grandma was there, so we spent the day running errands and trying to get all our stuff unpacked. Notice the living room in the background, I work long hours to get all our stuff cleared out of there, and it was a HUGE pile of stuff.

Then like at 9am the next morning on the 7th my mom pulled out the finished cake that she made her.  isn't' this awesome.  my mom is the best ever!

Madilyn got a kitchen for her birthday, and her cousin Ellie was there for a few hours before they drove to Idaho to visit family.

So here is the famous Chuck e cheese.  Funny story...we were standing in line to pay, when we hear a machine close to us going nuts, we look over to see Madilyn standing there with tickets coming so fast out of the machine.  So we run over to see what happened and come to find out, a nice little girl was kind enough to give Madilyn a token to play.  Well she just so happened to hit the jack pot.  The little girl was in shock, and Madilyn was under the impression after that, that all the machines would do the same thing.  So we gave the little girl a token to pay her back. But after getting over 200 hundred tickets from the whole day, they walked out with two "cool" straws and two bracelets.  Ridiculous! But she loved it.  Unfortunately I didn't get many pictures, and they are mostly of Eliza because Madilyn was way too busy to stop for a picture!

Well there is my adorable little 4 year old.  I couldn't have asked for a better little girl!