My Maddie Paddie is One!!

Saturday was Madison 1st birthday party. I cant beleieve how time flys by. She is so cute and I look forward to playing with her everytime I see her. I taught her how to head butt which is a lot of fun until she does it to the wrong person. Then she will give me kisses after head butting. She is at such a fun age!

Madison is such a girlie girl. She got lots of toys which kept her interest for a little while but her favorite things were her new clothes. During the cake cutting Madison did not want to get her fingers dirty so the birthday princess was hand fed by her Mommy. It was a lot of fun!

I went a little overboard on pictures so I apologize now. he-he.

Nascar 2009

Jim's 5 yrs old nephew Chris has a new interest. He loves Nascar and he especially love Dale Earnhart Jr, #88. I think it runs in the family since his Grandpa, Grandma, Uncle, Mom and Dad are all Jr fans. Myself, I am a Jimmy Johnson fan.











So, Jim and Jim's Dad decide to take Chris to go see Nascar qualifying. During qualifying you can go to the pits and actually see the Drivers up close. Chris talked about going to Nascar for weeks. When I went to pick him up on Thursday night, he showed me all the Jr #88 stuff that he got for his new bedroom. He had his camera packed and his Nintendo DS for the drive down. It was cute to see how excited he was that it even got me excited. Of course I told Chris to tell Jimmie Johnson that his Aunt loves him. Chris just laughed and told me "No Way, Aunt Lara!"

They had a great time and Jim got Chris some special earphones so the noise would not hurt his ears. They watched about 30 of the 44 driver qualify and Chris was there to see Jr #88 race. It was all very exciting. They were even on Speed Channel that day. While the announcer was on TV the panned through the audience and there they were. Chris definetely has a awesome Uncle and Grandpa!!!

Chris did have to take a small nap. I guess the excitment was just to much. ha ha ha...

Another Year Younger...

On Saturday, Jim and I took Dad out to dinner for his birthday. We went to our favorite mexican food restaurants, Don Jose's. Before we headed out to dinner, we had Dad open his birthday present. He got a Paintball Jersey. He also got paintball gloves but those were actually part of his Christmas present. So watch out boys, Dad's ready to play paintball without getting wlts on his knuckles.

Dad better watch that calander when Jim is around, it might magically end up in Jim's poker room. ha-ha.

I love Lucy

This picture is so cute so I thought I would share it! She is not so thrilled about the diapers and will not walk with the diaper on. Its very funny to watch!

It's been a busy 2009.

It has been a while since I have posted any blogs but it just feels like this year is speeding by. It's already February and I have no clue what happened to January. Jim and I had an exciting weekend, last weekend.
On Friday night, my girlfriend Nichole and I went to Jennifer's party. We won some prizes and had a good time. Then we went to the Cocky Bull which is a country bar by my house. I had never been there before but we had an great time. We thought we would stay for an hour or so and we left 3 1/2 hours later. I had not dance that much in a long time. Good Excersize!
On Saturday, Jim ordered the UFC fight and invited some people over for the fight and then poker. Danny brought Holly plus there was Adam, Rick, Monica, Junior , Jim's Dad (SR), Jarrod and Rob. We had two poker tables going and I think the "pot" was $220.00. We played until 1:30am and Junior was the big winner, walking away with 92.00. On Sunday morning, Jim, Me, Danny and Holly went to Molly Browns for breakfast and then I came home, put up superbowl decorations and started the nacho bar. The nacho bar turned out perfect. Everyone came over at about 3 to watch the Super Bowl. There was about 20 to 25 people. So basically a packed house. :) Everyone seemed to have a good time and went home after the game was over. I am a horrible blogger and I did not take pictures. Sorry but the decorations were very cute.