Madison's Birthday!

Wednesday was officially Madison's birthday even though we celebrated all Weekend!  We started her celebration on Saturday.  She has Cheer Practice on most Saturdays to get ready for their Homecoming routine next weekend!  So she had practice last Saturday until around 2 and then we went home and freshened up and headed to Steak and Shake with Danny & Carolyn included!  We had quite an experience at Steak & Shake... the wait was L O N G and the service was not great....  The food was Great and the manager came by and knew we weren't thrilled with our trip and paid for the whole meal  so all 6 of us got a free meal.  They had been slammed all day and was understaffed...  so we told the manager we would be back. 

After Steak and Shake we headed to Chuck E. Cheese to just go and play games!  Madison, Grant and Eric love to play games!  The deal was all the tickets we got we were giving to Madison since it was her Birthday celebration!  So we had fun and Madison has learned to be smart with her tickets and got one big item and we paid a couple of bucks and didn't go home with JUNKY stuff!  Works for us!

Wednesday I sent cupcakes to school for her class to enjoy during her snack time!  She loved the cupcakes and so did all of her classmates!  Madison walked around school on Wednesday and announced to everyone it was HER BIRTHDAY!  I had to fix her hair special and she wanted to have a cute outfit on!  She is too funny....

After her Cheer/Tumble class on Wednesday after school and Grant's guitar lesson we headed to
O'Charley's to eat supper before church with Eric.  Eric met us there and Madison picked O'Charley's because that is her favorite place!  Here is some pictures of her at O'Charley's!

 She loves to fill in the Mad-lib and then 

read it back to us!  She thinks it is so funny!

 Madison eating her favorite food...

side Salad and Noodles with Alfredo sauce!

 She loved every bite!

Happy 7th Birthday Madison!!

Beech Bend

Since Madison has started cheering this year, our days have been filled to the rim!  She practices most days and between her "Cheer Tumble Class" and Grant's Guitar lessons we are barely home by 5:00 each night!  The Crock pot is the best invention to supper plans!  Put food in and forget about! 

The second best thing in the world is my new washer and dryer!  Eric broke down about 3 weeks ago and bought me a new Maytag Bravos XL Washer/Dryer and it has changed my life!  I can literally throw in a weeks worth of towels in one load!  AMAZING!  My  dryer is wonderful too, I have cut my ironing time in half!  With my new steam feature on my dryer, WOW!  I don't know how I ever made it without it! 
Less time ironing = more family time and enjoying this wonderful fall weather!

Back to Madison's birthday..... Well last week was Madison's birthday. She turned 7 years old on Wednesday!  She has been counting her birthday down like Christmas!  She made a paper chain and has counted down for the last month or so...  It was like a national holiday in our house!  :-)

We decided to take the kids to Beechbend after church on Sunday, we went to an 8:00 service in Nashville and then headed over to Beechbend and got there right when it opened!  We had never been there, we always go to Holiday World, well it has nothing on Holiday World...  It was a great park, just made me feel like I was at the fair with carnival rides.  They did have a great wooden roller coaster that I rode, but just not the same as Holiday World.  Grant and Madison had a ball and that was all that mattered because that is the reason we went!  They did have a Magic/Illusion show that we went to and watched and they got Madison and Eric from the audience to participate in the Illusion!  It was a great experience for them both!  :-) 
Here are some pictures from our day!  It started out dreary and misting rain, but ended up being an awesome day with no lines and Grant and Madison had a ball!  They rode rides like they owned the park!

 This is when we first arrived!  

They jumped out ready to start the day!

 This was the first ride they rode and 

Madison wanted me to ride it with her.

 The Buzzy Bee ride Grant and Madison enjoyed it!

 This was inside the arcade area and indoor food court.

 Grant and Madison enjoyed riding all the rides together!

 They loved it!

 Riding the train!  Madison in front...

 Grant in the back!  

 This was at the water park side, Madison had fun 

playing in the pool.

 This was the kid's roller coaster!

 Madison had to ride it two times in 

a row it was so much fun!

 This was the Kentucky Rumbler wooden roller coaster!  

It was the last ride I rode.  It was fun!

This was Grant and Madison last ride of the day!  

They loved it too!

We had a great time and enjoyed the family time 

and the not waiting in line to ride anything!

Madison and Sarah Grace

Madison and Sarah Grace

Ready to Cheer on the Bulldogs tonight!!

GO DAWGS!!

Tim Hawkins and CheeBurger CheeBurger!

Yesterday we went to see Tim Hawkins in concert in Huntsville.  There was 30 of us from our church that left right after church and caravan-ed to Huntsville.  Grant and Madison couldn't wait to see him.  I was really excited too, and couldn't wait to see him in person instead of You Tube or on a DVD.  The place was sold out and we got their early to get in line to pick our seats so we could be close!  I laughed so hard I cried numerous times.  When I left the 2 hour show my sides were literally hurting from laughing so much!  His jokes hit so close to home....   Here are a couple of clips I got from youtube that are funny.  There are tons out there and if you have hours to kill look him up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwWDilQHlg&feature=colike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OwZGmYV-1I&feature=colike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XZn0Jz_D2k&feature=colike

After our show we left and we were all starving!!  We headed to Cheeburger Cheeburger!  Wow they have great burgers, Eric said it is really close to Five Guys (which I have never been to).  We got there and it is just on a strip mall little diner and we walk in and the guy says do you need a table for four.....  I said actually we have around 25-30 more coming!  He looked around and needless to say we kind of took over the place and rearranged tables all over the place.    The next thing was ordering!  Well on the menu they have a ONE POUND hamburger and if you eat it all you get your picture made to hang on the Wall of Fame!  Well Eric wanted to do it and he ate the whole thing!!!  It was great!
This is Cheeburger Cheeburger's website if you are not familiar with the restaurant.

http://cheeburger.com/home2/index.asp

I got some pictures to share with you from Cheeburger Cheeburger.

 This was the ONE POUNDER before Eric tackled it!

This is the picture that will be on the Wall of Fame!

Madison wanted to take the picture with her daddy!

She was proud of her daddy!

We had a great trip!  Can't wait to see Tim again sometime in Concert!

He needs to come to Tennessee!!

Preppy B's

Madison has come into a new adventure this year!  She has become a CA Cheerleader.  She will be cheering at all the "Varsity" games.  She is loving being a cheerleader!  I think since she had started Gymnastics last year, that has really helped her in her decision to become a cheerleader.  This is the first year of the "Preppy B's" with the varsity girls.  They have always had the cheerleaders that cheer all the Saturday football games with the younger football players, but this is a separate division with the varsity girls.  The Varsity cheerleaders picked a younger one to be their "Mini me Cheerleader".  They will be in the Homecoming parade with them and lots of fun extra things!  Danielle Chase picked Madison as her Mini cheerleader, I had Danielle in 4th grade and they live down the road from us.  She made a connection with Madison immediately!  They all get to work with all cheerleaders learning cheers, it is like one big family!

They had their First Game last night against Ezell Harding Christian School and WE WON! They really cheered their Football team on!   The Cheerleaders did Awesome and Madison had so much fun. I have a few pictures from the Game lastnight and Cheer camp today.

 Madison getting ready to cheer her team on!!

Go Dawgs!!

 Had to get a few shots before she got started!!

What a cute cheerleader!

 Danielle showing Madison one of the moves for a cheer!

Madison and Danielle watching the game!

They are getting ready to cheer them on!

 Madison and Danielle!

Go Dawgs!

Way to go Madison!

 Madison at cheer camp today practicing stunting for 

a cheer-leading routine coming up soon!

 She saw me up in the balcony and they told her to look

at me and smile for a picture!  You look great Madison!

 She went up part way with her 3 spotters!

 Another shot with spotters and going up 1/2 way.

She went the full way up and LOVED every minute of it!  

I think I was a nervous wreck up in the balcony watching!

She would get down and say "lets do this again!"  She 

can not wait to go back and practice stunting again!

Back to School!

Well, today was our first day back to school!  We got to start off with a 1/2 day and then start with our full day tomorrow!  Grant and Madison had a great day of school!  Madison has been ready to go back for about a week!  She was excited to see all her friends!  Grant is now in 5th grade and Madison is in 2nd!  They are growing up too fast!!  I have a picture of each with their teacher!

 Grant with his 5th grade teacher Mrs. Cross!

He is ready for a great year!  

Madison with her teacher Ms. Pullen.

She is so happy to be at school!

They both had a great day and 

ready for a full day tomorrow!

Inservice Week!

Well this week is officially the last week of summer for Grant and Madison.  I have had a full week of inservice.  I will finish up my inservice tomorrow.  Grant and Madison have had a fun-filled week with the Grandparents!  Monday they ate breakfast at home and then headed to Burger King for lunch!

 The King and Queen!

Then they headed out to Chuck E. Cheese.  

They played lots of games and had a big time!

 By the coin totals looks like they had a lot of fun!

 These were the prizes they choose with their tickets!

 A close up picture of Madison's puppy she got.

It looks cute!  I like this one since we won't have to feed it!

After they left Chuck E. Cheese they headed down the road

to Krispy Kreme and ate donuts and watched them

from start to finish make donuts!  Yummy!

 They are enjoying their donuts!

 These were the ones they had left for me and Eric!  :-)

 Watching the making of the donuts!

 Madison is really watching!

On Wednesday they went to Lynnville and ate at a place called 

"Soda Pop Junction".  Grant said they had the best burgers 

around!  Grant is a pretty picky eater and if he says it was 

good you know it must have been fantastic!

 Madison had a salad with Ranch!

She looked happy!

 Grant can't wait to dive in to his burger!

 After they ate they went and visited the train museum that 

was across the street from the "Soda Pop Junction".

 They got to get inside a train that was outside for kids to look around on.

Today they went to watch Ice Age 3 in 3D with the grandparents and 

they really enjoyed the movie!  Thanks to Danny and Carolyn for 

keeping Grant and Madison entertained all week!  Tomorrow they are 

planning on going Bowling since they have 2 free games everyday till Oct.

Next week Madison starts 2nd Grade and Grant starts 5th!!!  

They are growing up way too fast!!!