Kim, Danny and Miss Madison's visit

We had a great visit with the kids, it was a lot of fun having them here. They drove up Wednesday afternoon and Dave and I tried to stay up but no go. We both kept waking up now and then and looking at the clock. At 2:30am I told Dave we needed to call them, they should have been here by now. Dave got up and walked into the hallway and noticed the bedroom door closed. They had arrived around 1:30 and didn't call us, like they said they would, and just went straight to bed. Dave and I went in the morning at 8am to go pick up trash with our group, thinking they would sleep in, but as soon as we started Kim called me and said that I should get home and child proof my house. Dave said he would help with the trash and that I should go home and be with the kids and Madison. Dave had put some locks on the cabinets and drawers, I had picked up a lot of stuff so we thought we were pretty much child proof, but not enough for the smarty pants Miss Madison. There really wasn't much stuff I had to move, it was just the stuff I thought was high enough that she couldn't reach, but she is so darn tall, we keep forgetting that.

Madison loved the gym room I have, she was always getting on the treadmill, the bike and elliptical were too much for her. The exercise ball was another favorite for her, it had to be in the living room everyday. In the mornings we would open the shades and the hot air balloon would be out and she loved watching it. She also loved being in the backyard, the crunching of the rocks under her feet, she loved hearing it. She would even do the fast dance on the rocks. Getting bored walking around the backyard with her that's when I got the idea to put her in our wagon, she was in 7th heaven. She would ride around the back and front yards then I would take it to go get the mail with her. She would just sit and ride until the last day, she only wanted to ride for a little bit, then all she wanted to do was walk in the rocks of all the neighbors houses.

While the kids were here we drove up to Jerome and had lunch at the Haunted Burger, then let Madison play at the playground, we did a little walking around shops too. Another day we went to Sedona and did some walking around there too. Miss Madison has developed some nice temper tantums, plus, if looks could kill she can throw a few of those at you too.

Kim had brought down my Mom's jewelery bag with her, it was so weird because when we opened the compartments you could smell my mom. Dave, Kim and I all agreed on that, and after the kids left for home I went through the whole thing and matched up all the earrings. I went from owning only 4 earrings and now with all of my mom's I have like 35 now. I even remember her wearing the Christmas ones, Santa, the Snowman ect. God how I miss her.

Anyway, hated to see them leave but glad they made it home safe. We are looking at driving down to Victorville in a couple weeks to go to a car race that an old neighbor of our's is promoting and we haven't seen them in at least 20 years, so on the way back to Arizona will stop by and see Kim again. Our big trip, to remind everyone is in May, we are headed for Iowa, but before we get there we are planning on visiting, Kim, Mike, Aunt Evelynn, and Marisa. Will know more details later and let everyone know.

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Just remembered another thing, while Kim was brushing her teeth, one morning, Madison managed to empty the bottom drawer of the cabinet climbed inside then stood on the side and was asking mom if she could wash her hands, little shit!! 1st time said she had done that, that's only because of all of Kim's cabinets are child proof and our's aren't.