Happy Birthday Miss Madeleine

Today is Maddie's 15th birthday.... Where does the time go??? I know its an old cliche... but really I remember just thinking what will she look like as a kid like a 4 year old.... I signed her up for high school a week or two ago and have cried several times since knowing that we only have her for a few more years! Me and Maddie do so much together and I just don't want this motherhood thing to end!!
Enough about me....
Here are 15 random things you may or may not know about Madz.1. She is very confident in herself, she does not really care what others think about her, she is who she is.... I love that about her. This was her this last summer at the public pool.. no she doesn't care if people stare at her for wearing her swim cap... she did not want to ruin her hair.

2.She likes the most random gifts and little things make her really excited! This ball is what she got this year for her birthday she can't wait to try it out (she really wanted a golf cart, she had me pretty much convinced but not her dad its too excessive and when Tom said it would have to come out of my houseboat money I couldn't do it)... It is always fun to see what she will want for Christmas and her birthday...

or like this shirt, my sister Audrey made a birthday girl shirt for her baby... Maddie really wanted one as well. She also wants the squeaky shoes, but I have yet to find them in adult sizes!

She wanted her room filled with balloons???.....??? She has been telling us this for months we should have been more prepared poor Tom was up half the night!

She wanted this perfume, because it has a little ball thing you squeeze to get the perfume out, like the old fashion kind..

(another balloon picture)

3. She is a 4.0 student not just some quarters, it is also her accumulative. She has a goal to get it every quarter, and she is one who sets her mind to something and does it!! I hope she keeps it up!

4. She is going to be performing in the Herriman Talent show, she tried out and made it... way to go Madz!

5. She is deathly afraid of mice!

6. She is not even a little bit afraid of spiders, I taught her to be the spider killer at the tender age of 2.

7. She is great with kids, she loves them and they love her. She has sleep overs and make overs etc with her little cousins and she can really work magic with them

8. She is saving her money for a convertible blue slug bug...and will be driving in one year she will actually be getting her permit this next week aaaahhhhh!

9. She loves sugar!! Especially ice cream/shakes... she likes to call her aunt Autumn and say, hey I was thinking we could go get some ice cream, and if its not too much, could you drive and buy??

10. She is very very money conscience she never spends her money she saves almost every bit. Even when you take her out shopping she is very concerned with how much things cost even if someone else is buying. She thinks spending $50 on jeans is out of control let alone $100's... when looking at shoes yesterday she says... "ya I like them but really I have plenty of shoes"

11. She has 2 jobs (one teaching for me and she also she teaches at Jolley's tumbling)

12. She wants to live in Hawaii, and be a surfer more then anything. She is working towards going to surf camp this summer?? We will see how it goes (if she makes the drill team, it may interfere)

13. She loves Taylor Swift!!


14. She wants to be a pharmacist when she grows up and is pretty goal oriented with her path to get there already paved out in her mind.

15. She is "amazing Maddie" as my mom used to call her (making fun of me I might add). I love her (she first made me a mother which is what I had always wanted), she is a great first child, she is a good example, she is an over achiever, she is beautiful, healthy, strong, strong willed, can be kind, can also hold her own when needed and sometimes when not. She is smart, funny, quirky is not afraid to do anything or say anything to anyone. Is a hard worker....

Did I mention I love her!!!

Happy Birthday Madz I am so glad you part of our family!!