Happy Easter

I never got around to posting about Easter. At very least I want to post the pictures. So here goes...

Top - Austin, Luke, and Madison
Bottom - Keira, Cameron, and Kailey

My Beautiful nieces Keira and Kailey

Austin and Madison

My handsome nephews Cameron and Luke

Fancy girls - Kailey, Madison, and Keira

Me and my 2 awesome kids.

(one of)My beautiful sister(s) Angie and her adorable boys Luke and Cameron

Nothing says Easter like playing in the sandbox in beautiful dresses and cute Easter clothes.

Blowing bubbles, notice the nail polish matches her dress, we got lucky with that one.

Madison decided on a couple games to play with her cousins - this is "the egg and spoon race".

and this is after Austin won the race. She was a little disappointed.

She wasn't too happy with the Easter Egg Hunt either, one of her cousins beat her to one of the eggs.

Kailey

Keira - I wish I had taken a picture of the egg Keira painted, it was a beautiful purple/black swirl.

Madison coloring eggs.

My awesome son Austin; who thinks he is getting too old for the games and egg hunts, but stills plays along to for me. (he won the egg and spoon race - and gave his prize to his little cousin Kailey)

Madison - My baby is turning into such a beautiful little girl. I can't believe how fast she is growing up. Pictures like this make me want to hold on to her even tighter.

Pierced

Madison has been asking to get her ears pierced for about a year. After this last MRI we decided that it was time, and today was the day. She did great. She was a little hesitant at first; she said that she still wanted to get them done but that she was nervous. One of the girls that did the piercing explained to Madison that it would be really quick and that it would not hurt. Madison asked if she could sit in my lap. Once that was ok'd she was ready to go.

lining up the dots

my brave little one, I had to ask her to hold my hands, I think I was more nervous then she was

1, 2, 3,...

go.

She has earrings.

One Word Wednesday

Heroes

CURED

Today Madison had an appointment with Dr M (neurosurgeon). Madison's scans are clear, we guessed this already. There was a lot of other discussions about Dr M's move to Banner Desert, that he wanted his focus to be on the patient and not big business. Some where in this conversation Dr M said that he feels Madison is CURED. That we will continue cautiously, watch for signs, and continue 6 month scans for now... but he feels that the tumor is gone FOR GOOD. Dr M talked about lifting some of the limitaions that have been placed on Madison. For now, no tackle football, wrestling, gymnastics, or trampolines. Other then that we need to start letting her be a 5 year old girl. She needs to go to school, and play without limitations. I can't imagine a better day then today. We are incredibly blessed. So, I'm going to go enjoy time with my little angel's on earth.

Snake and Lizards

The bribe reward for Madison doing a great job during her MRI this week was a trip to Az Reptile. Last week, J stopped by there creepy crawly shop and asked if he could bring Madison in to hold a snake. They said to go ahead and bring her in. So......

Snake handling she did. And she loved it. (Madison has fallen in love with Bindi the Jungle Girl and all the reptiles Bindi gets to hold. She asked if she can have a snake in her room to scare her cousins play with.) I hear the guys at AZ Reptile were amazing, I didn't get to go. (dang that work thing). But J let me know that they were amazing. The were very patient with my princess. They let her hold several snakes, and lizards, and 2 of the cutest turtles that I hear grow quite large, like eat my midsize dog big (not that i think they would eat my dog but they get that big).

These are a few a the picture J took for me since I could not be there with them (sniff sniff). As you can see, they had a great time, she was in heaven and didn't want to leave. A big thank you to Az Reptile for giving my daughter her Bindi the Jungle Girl moment.

*** a little side note - the guys at AZ Reptile (blue shirt and tattoos in several pictures) didn't know that the visit to there shop was our again bribe reward for Madison going good in her MRI, they did not know that she had brain cancer, they didn't do this for any other reason then they are amazing people. Again thank you AZ Reptile for making Madison (and J's) day. There is a special place for people like you guys. ***