A Day In The Life of Addison...

7 Am - Wake Up

7:17 Am - Cartoons & toast with Daddy

9:03 Am - Arrive at baby sitters

12:11 PM - Lunch

1:02 PM - Nap Time

4:17 PM - Pick up from baby sitter (by Nana)

6:15 PM - ballet class

7:16 PM - dinner

8 : 32 PM - bath

8:47 PM - kick back in the recliner with warm PJ's, fruit gummies, my blank & Dora pillow......

Ahhh! This is The Life!!

P.S. There is a new post below!!

The Longest...

icecicles I've ever seen...

It's amazing to me that these icecicles have grown over the past month over our front porch. At night after everyone goes to bed I find myself looking out our front window staring at them. I think that they're beautiful, don't you??

Happy Valentines Day!

As you read in the previous post, Spunky & I celebrated Valentines Day while Addison was away at Aunt Christal's.

So, we celebrated Valentines Day on Saturday by going out to eat to Nick - N - Nates with Addison (we let her pick where she wanted to eat). On Sunday our church services were canceled due to the snow on Friday & Saturday, so we extended our Valentines Day celebrations.

I woke up to a cooked breakfast by my wonderful husband, eggs, muffins & strawberries. It was really really good! I think that he was going to bring it to me in bed, but I got up before he brought it to me (oops!).

We then gave Addison her Valentines Day gift, a hippity hop! She loved it and she has bounced around the house ever since.

I also made some special Valentines Day treats for my little family. I first made strawberries dipped in chocolate, and then I made some cupcakes complete with chocolate icing & sprinkles!

All around, we had a fantastic day! Josh & I don't typically buy Valentines Day gifts for each other (we did when we were dating), we normally just go out. He often buys me flowers throughout the year, but on Valentines Day we normally just enjoy each others company over a romantic dinner & maybe a movie since we don't get to do either of those things very often!
Happy Valentines Day!!

Date Night!

Addison sure was a lucky little girl this week! Last Saturday Aunt Christal (or To-to as she calls her, and we're not sure why) invited her down to Winston - Salem to spend the night & experience her first Ringling Brothers circus! After much thought & prayer her Dad and I let her go, but we missed her a lot while she was gone! From what I can tell, she had a great time, but she did tell me that she was scared of the tigers at the circus, but Loved the acrobats! She even slept really well at Aunt To - to and Uncle Sha's (no, that's not a typo...she calls him Sha).

While she was away, her Dad & I went on a much needed date. We first went and had dinner at The Apollo Flame (where we had our first date) and then we went and saw the movie "Dear John". We had a fantastic time together, and yes we talked about our little one the entire time over dinner.

If you are wondering "Dear John" is a great movie! I have read the book & I still agree that the book is better, but I still really enjoyed the movie.

On Saturday we plan on doing some Valentines Day activities as a family, as we are so happy to have our little girl back home!

January snow storm!

On Friday we were hit with another batch of the white stuff....not as much as the December snow storm, but we still have at least 8 inches or so. It's really difficult to play in because over the top of the snow is about an inch of ice. Hopefully, the ice will melt down so that we can build a snowman!! Enjoy our pics!

Addison eating the snow!

"Ellye" the snow dog!

A Belated Christmas post...

Contrary to popular belief, the Goodman family has not fallen off of the face of the earth! We've been really really busy lately preparing for Spunky's mission trip, Christmas and we all had a great week off together the week after Christmas. Here's some pictures to sum everything up...




Leaving decorated sugar cookies & eggnog out for Santa! The next morning she went straight over to her table and exclaimed "Santa made a mess"!




I took this picture after Santa made his delivery at our house. Addison recieved a bike, a scooter, a new baby & high chair, an outfit & the pizza that she asked for. In her stocking she recieved some tinkerbell bubble bath, candy, crayons, a coloring book, a bath poof, and jewelery....what more could a girl ask for?? We also gave her some new clothes & a beautiful "Sleeping Beauty" dress & shoes. Spunky gave me some clothes that I wanted, a new Bible,and a gift card to The Gap. I gave him some clothes, a Hollister gift card, and money to get his passport with.


Addison asked Santa numerous times for a pizza & he delivered it!

She loved opening presents!


First Play Date! Addison's friend Lydia from church and dance came over to play. They had a great time playing dolls & dress up!


On New Year's day we took Addison roller skating at the Franklin Skating Rink. She had a blast and did really well!

Not Me Monday...

I haven't participated in a "Not Me Monday", in quite a while, but after the week that we've had a "Not Me Monday" is definitely in order. If you think that I'm crazy, and don't know what I'm doing please head over to www.mckmama.com !

* After the snow had stopped on Saturday, my lovely little one wanted to go outside and I definitely knew where her gloves were, and I did not have to put socks on her hands because you know....things get lost in our house!

* Also because of the crazy snow, I did not get cabin fever so severely and jumped into my Nissan Rogue and backed up out of the drive and tried to get out (especially after my husband was standing in the car port advising me not to back out, because I could get stuck), and I did not get stuck, and it did not take my husband an hour to get me unstuck....oops!

* I also did not come very very close to running out of toilet paper, and I did not have to call my parents to bring us some, because we couldn't get out!

* And lastly.....I did not run out of deodorant and I did not wear my husband's Old Spice instead.