I cant wait

My parents are coming tomorrow night. I am so excited. My sister comes on Thursday. Its going to be so fun to have them all here. I am going to show them my new house and we are going to be doing lots of fun stuff. We are having Levis Birthday party this weekend too. Its a little early but I wanted to do it when my family was here. They are so far away that they miss a lot of stuff that goes on here in the Madsen household so I am so glad that they will be here for the party. Jeremy and I got Levis present today and I think that Levi will really enjoy it. I cant wait for them to be here. The days are going by really slowly. I am also stressed becasue my friend that works for JetBlue got me a super sweet deal on Amy tickets out here but she is super hard to get a hold of. Shes suppose to be emailing me the info for her flight and I have not gotten it yet. Amy is flying standby so I could get the info the day of but its stress not to be able to get a hold of her and find out what going on. I just really hope that it all works out. I am going to be so sad if Amy cant come out that I will cry for a long time. Its just a waiting game now and thats the part I dont do well with. I need a plan and I need to stick with it.

Where is Levi

Where is Levi?

Tug a War

Levi and Sammy playing tug a war

Lilly and the broom

cat and broom

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Random Pictures

Levi drinking from the sprinkler

Jeremy is building my pantry.

Levi on his scooter

Levi is screaming "No"

Levi and Sammy on Sammy's bed

Levi resting on his scooter

Levi fishing at the fall festival at the farm

Its a big one, dont let it get away

Me and Levi on the hay ride

Tired boy

Bath time

Levi with long hair

Migraines

Today I took Grandma Madsen shopping. I had a small headache before we went and by the time we got home I had a full blown migraine. I use to get migraines all the time but have not had one in a long time. I think the last time I had a real migraine was before I had Levi. This was a real migraine and I thought my head was going to pop off. I took a vicodin and sat with some ice on the neck and tried not to trow up. Jeremy made top ramen for dinner because I was not able to move. After about an hour of me almost crying from the pain the vicodin kicked in and I felt much better. I was able to function. Now I am just a little bit high from the meds and I cant sleep. I know that I am going to have bad dreams because that's what the pills do to me. I hope I don't have one of those again for a long long time.

Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Cake
(Made in a few minutes in a mug!)

1 Coffee Mug
4 tablespoons flour (that's plain flour, not self-rising)
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons baking cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
Small splash of vanilla

Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well.
Add the egg and mix thoroughly.
Pour in the milk and oil and mix well.
Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla, and mix again.
Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts.
The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don't be alarmed!
Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.
EAT! (this can serve 2 if you want to share!)

I made this last night and it was fun to watch it cook. Next time I will not cook it as long as it was a little drier than I like my cake.

First day of fall

Well our car need a whole new radiator. $450 later are car is up and running. Jeremy took the day off so we could get the car fixed and while he was home we got a bunch done around the house. I told him he should take a day off more often. We got all the curtains hung and the guess bedroom is now almost ready for the parents. I mowed the lawn while Jeremy cleaned up Sammy poop. I like mowing the lawn. Levi helped me almost the whole time. We than started to orgaize the carport. I also got the laundry done. I am now tired.
My family is coming next week. I am looking forward to it. I hope this week goes by fast.

Wow

Jeremy and I spoke is church today. I am glad that is over. Its every scary to speak in front of people. We did a good job. We were both suppose to speak for 15 minutes, my talk went long so Jeremy had to cut his short. Everyone said that we did a great job. I think that it went pretty well to. I love our new ward. Everyone is really friendly. I met two young girls today that babysit. I am trying to find a babysitter for Levi so Jer and I can go out and date. Our friends had a party last night and we did not go because we did not have a sitter. So I am on a mission to find a young girl to babysit once in a while.
Jeremy is now the Scout Master and I am the Activities Day leader. Jeremy is really excited to get into scouts again.
I am getting excited for my family to come out. 10 more days. We got a hide a bed couch yesterday so my parents will have some where to sleep. My sister will have to sleep in the living room. I am sure that we will find a place for everyone. I am just looking forward to having them all out here.

We were on our way home from my nephews birthday dinner and the car started to over heat. So now our one and only car is broken. If its not one thing its another.

Back online

Today we got the internet, cable and a home phone. I am happy because now I can be online anywhere in the house, and since I went over my cell phone minutes last month I can use the house phone to cut back on my cell phone use.
Jeremy and I were asked to talk in church on Sunday and I am so scared. I am trying to prepare my talk but LDS.org is not working right. I do a search and than I try and open a link and it cant find the link. Its making me very very nervous. How am I going to write a talk with out the internet? I guess I will have to do it old school style. I have to talk for 15 mintues. Thats a long time to be up in front of everyone. Wow I am scared. I hope that the site is working tomorrow. I got some what I want to say but I need about 10 more pages. I know what I would like to talk about I just need the stories and stuff to go with it and thats what I need the internet to do. I am going to try and not stress but I cant sleep right now.

DMV

Yesterday was a not so good day. I spent the whole day dealing with the DMV. It was not fun. We sold the jetta and I was trying to figure out where the title for it was going. Its titled in California and I wanted the DMV to send it here. So I dove all the way out to the DMV which was about 30 mintues away just for them to tell me that they could not help me. So I had to call the Californai DMV 3 differnt time. I was on hold for 15 mintues each time. The out come of all of the crazniess was the title is being mailed to my moms house. All that and I did not have to do any of it. I hate the DMV.

Lilly

sleeping cat

Cat

levi and lilly

Lilly

We got a kitten today. Jer told me that when we got our own place that I could have a cat. So tonight we went and picked up a free kitten. We named her Lilly after Shreks mother in law Lillian. Levis favorite movie is Shrek one, two and three. He will ask me all day long if he can watch Shrek. He now says "I need Shrek". When he wants some thing he will say that he needs it. Its cute. Levi is in love with Lilly. The whole ride home he wanted her to sit on his lap and than when we got home he would not leave her alone. He says " I need Lilly." Its so cute that he can say her name already. I have yet to hear him say Sammy but 15 minutes after we name the cat hes saying her name. He was carrying her around the house and kept wanting me to put her on his lap. I think that it is so great that he is an animal lover. Jer and I love all animals so I would be really worried if Levi did not like animals.
Sammy and Lilly are still not to sure about each other. She likes to hiss at him and Sammy just whinnes and shakes. But after Levi was in bed Jer and I were playing with Lilly on our bed and Sammy came in and the next thing I know Jer, Sammy and Lilly are all asleep on the bed. I think that Sammy and Lilly will become friends after a while
Some of the pics with Levi and Lilly Levi is naked because he had just gotten out of the bath.
If you watch the video Levi has this thing with Lilly sitting on his leg. She must sit on his leg. I think its funny.









On a complety diffent subject. In my last post I said that we had been working on the lawn. Jer moved the lawn for the fist time this weekend and Levi wanted to help so I thought I would post some of the pictures of Jer and Levi mowing the Lawn.

Weekend News

It was a long weekend. I was with out the internet all weekend. I found an unlocked internet signal when we first moved but when I woke up Friday morning it was gone. We did sign up for Comcast but they wont be coming till Friday. My signal came back this moring so I thought I would write something.
We sold Jers car this weekend. We now only have one car. Jer works so close to home that for now unless I need to go somewhere before 11 he will come home at lunch and give me the car, I will than take him back to work and than pick him up at 430. If I need the car before 11 than I will have to get me and Levi up at 5 so we can take him to work. I think that we will make it work. We will be saving $300 a month by selling it.
We had dinner at the inlaws last night. That was fun. Its nice to go over and visit and than we able to go home to our own house.
We spent most of the weekend working on the yard. The grass right now is trash so we are trying to revive it. Jers dad has given us a lawn mower so we mowed and fertilized it and water it and than this morning I ferliized it again. We are trying to bring it back before the snow falls. The neighbor across the street has the most beautiful lawn so our gole is by next spring to have a lawn that looks like his. The house across the street is for sale.
My parents are coming to visit next month. I am so excicted. My sister is suppose to be coming out also but this moring I got a not so funny email about the ticket I got her not being valid. My friend works for JetBlue and got me a very cheap ticket for her but I am not sure whats going on now. I will be really sad if Amy cant come out. I miss her like crazy. I think knowing that my family is coming out has made me really home sick this weekend.

Mondy

Today was a good Monday. I started hanging pictures in the house and it feels more like home now. Levi took a good nap which was wonderful. He has not had a good nap since we started moving 2 weeks ago. I think that he need it and hes getting more use to his new room. He is starting to sleep the night through more often than not so that's good too. We spent a lot of time out side today witch was really nice.

Busy Weekend

Me and Levi

Jeremy and Levi

Our Living room with furniture in it

Levi enjoying his snow cone

Some times I think that he looks a lot like his uncle Cody and this is one of the time

Say Cheese

Tickle Tickle

Not sure if sad or confused or just contemplating

Stickers for Dinner


This weekend was busy. Saturday Jeremy worked. When he got off we went over to our old apartment and got the last of our stuff from the house and we cleaned, and shampooed the carpets. Now all we have to do is clean the fridge over there and get the rest of our stuff from the garage. Than we will be compelty moved out.
Than when we were done cleaning we came home and unloaded all the stuff. Than we went to this 30 year birthday party for our new Stake. It was fun. They had a bunch of bounce houses there and snow cones and cotton candy and scones. It was all free and we had a good time. Levi was on a high from the cotton candy but he had a good time.
Today we went to church. I had a great time at church. I really need to hear the lesson in Relief Society. I love our new ward. It reminds me a our ward back in California and it made me kind of homesick but I do think that I will fit in this ward a lot better.

The video is of our Sunday night dinner. Levi was having more fun putting stickers all over. We have had dinner every night this week as a family at the dinning table. Thats a huge deal in our house. Before we moved we had most dinners in front of the TV. So when we moved into our house we have had every dinner at the table and that makes me happy.

Kite

Dirty Boy

I had swept up the sawdust and Levi found the pile and laid there for about 15 min playing in the dust with his matchbox car. He was having a great time making tracks in the dust. I wish I could know what was gong on in his head.

Floors

Moving.

We spent our first night in the new house last night. We had some amazing friends help us move and now I am trying to unpack and find a place for everything.
We had a big rain storm and we found out that our house likes to leak water. There is a moved call "The Money Pit". Jeremy has never seen it so I am going to rent it because I feel like thats what we are living in. I do love are new house. Its just going to take more work than we thought to fix it and it seems that every time we turn around there is something else that needs to be fixed.
The hard wood floors turned out really nice. I love them and I love that Jeremy spent so much time and energy working on them. I took so many pictures so I will post them soon.