We LOVE Daddy

This was taken last Sunday night at my grandmas! I sure love it!
They don't look alike at all do they?! :) It's times like these that I am so glad I carry my
little camera in my diaper bag!

Honestly, where does the time go? Madeline is almost a YEAR OLD!!! I can't believe it!

They love to play together! Dave was playing "horsey, horsey..." she giggles the whole time!

Gardens After Dark

While I'm totally blogging backwards I figured that I would put this in too... we went to Red Butte to see
their "Gardens After Dark" They painted Madeline's face for her!

Here is Miyo, Maurea and Brian!

This is Madeline under the black lights!!! Cool huh?!

This was just a fun picture of the gardens and the reflections...

I'm totally blogging backwards!

This is Madeline's Halloween costume! (minus the glasses... those were grandma geegees)

This is our little white Tiger! We chose it because Madeline LOVES her little stuffed animal that
is a white tiger... We trick or treated at both grandparents' homes then came home to bed! It's amazing how
Halloween changes over the years! It was so fun though!!!

Here is Grandma GeeGee (Gray) and Grandma Barb. We are so grateful to have them both around!
(Dave's grandmas)

This is us at my mom and dad's house! If you look closely you can see the white tiger I was talking about on the
floor by Dave's feet! She was more interested in the monster that Becky gave her that night than her tiger!
Do any of you girls remember this wig? When we dressed up as colors of the rainbow one year?!

Madeline

I let Madeline play near my nightstand for a little change of scenery... I had no idea what a mess she could make!!!
AND... all those clothes on the floor are her birthday clothes. (Her birthday is December 16th. I was so proud of myself for getting her shopping done early!) She is getting into all the gifts I had "hidden" under the bed.
Looks like I need to do a better job of hiding next year!
She is looking at the books that I bought her in this picture!

Don't you LOVE those "oops, I got caught" faces!

This is her newest face... She says "oooooooooo"

AND this cheesy face. She may have seen us do this a few hundred times to her... now she does it to us! :)

Daddy's special Day!

Dave and Todd Gardner took their girls fishing in the freezing cold!! They had sooo much fun!

... and where were their mommies? Oh, at Twilight of course!!! (And yes, I did see it twice within a 24 hour period... free tickets, couldn't pass them up!)

Twilight Midnight Showing

So, this is my sis... saving seats for the midnight showing
of Twilight! We took all the ladies from Busath!

Me, my sister Courtney, and my mom!!!

Chelsea, Kimberly, Mallorie, Sammy and Maddy...

Chelsea and Kiely... all darling gals from Busath! We had a blast!
I am curious if people like the show or not...

More from the U GAME!!!

I thought this crowd was unbelievable!

Dave and Creighton

Madeline really wasn't sure what to think of Dave at first...

... but she still gave daddy "kisses"

Utah vrs. BYU

Can I just say that we have been anxiously awaiting this game all season!!!
We even got to the game 3 hours early!!!
This is us at the tailgate party with Blake Bauman's company!

We didn't have time to paint Dave's head before we got to the game so Creighton did it while we were sitting there.

Here is the "season ticket crew"!

Even Madeline's binkie was U of U colors!!! WHAT A GAME EH?!!!

Raking Leaves with Daddy

Dave was raking leaves on Saturday so
naturally we just had to go out and take pictures!!!
I had to work early that morning so when
I got home, he already had her dressed in her
U of U outfit... for the game that night! :)

Here are some of the pictures from Saturday!

We love you daddy!!!

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Busath photographers were invited to a Halloween party
and I got to tag along!
Everybody HAD to wear costumes to be
invited, so we decided to go as a
P-I-M-P and a ...
you get the picture!

Pumpkin Patch with our friends!

One morning Miyo, a dear friend and amazing photographer at Busath, and I
went out to the Schmidt's pumpkin patch to take pictures of our little girls!
Madeline's halloween costume had not arrived yet so I put her in this little
pumpkin shirt instead! The pictures turned out so cute! I will post more as soon
as I get them!!!

Lake Mead

Dave's family usually goes to Lake Mead every summer.
For the past two years, we have gone in September.
It is so much better then because the crowds are gone, and
it is not 110 degrees every day!

This year we brought a few extras!
(From left to right: Jacky (Jesse's girlfriend), Jesse, Dashel, D.J., Dave and Dan)
Becky, Madeline and I are on the beach taking the picture!

This was coming off the lake one night!

Isn't she so cool! Ha ha!

Madeline was helping us drive the boat!

The whole fam-damily!

This is Dave's attempt at crashing on the air chair...
looks like he succeeded!

Grandma Becky loves to play with Madeline!

...and I guess Dave does too! :)

Jesse and Jacky

Madeline was giving me kisses!!! She doesn't do that anymore
so I am glad I have a picture of it!

Wow this chair really dwarfs her!!!

I sure liked this expression! So sweet!

The timing of this picture was kind of fun... this wagon is
in front of the mexican restaurant in Beaver!

Madeline really loved her new life jacket!
That lasted about 30 seconds... then it was
back to the good old neoprene?

She definitely is a mini-Dave! (oh, except the girl thing... she's cuter!)