Weekend in Ohio

We went to Columbus this weekend. Maddie got to see her Great Grandparents for the first time! They loved seeing her and we spent a few hours with them on Friday night! God protected us on some icy roads and we had a wonderful time! We spent the weekend with Grandma and Grandpa Kaufman, and Rob, Amanda and the boys came over to play!

We also got to stop and see "aunt heidi" (Andrea's Best Friend) and her new house. Then we stopped by Dayton and saw new little Ben Pierson, and Steve and Kandi's new home. We wish we could make the weekends longer, but it was lots of fun!

Shelly's Pictures

Shelly was so kind and came to our house to take more pictures. She did an amazing job, and the pictures turned out beautiful. We are so thankful! If you want to see more pictures you can check out her blog at http://www.shellyvalentine.blogspot.com/!

"Cousins"

These are some fun pictures from when the "cousins" came to visit. Madison loved seeing her Uncle Rob, Aunt Amanda, and her cousins Zach and Eli. Zach and Eli were so nice to her. They sang her lots of songs and kept her company the entire time! She misses them already!

These are some pictures from a Saturday morning photo shoot with Aunt Amy:) Madison loves having her picture taken, and Amy loves taking pictures! It was fun to put all the fun clothes on her that Aunt Amy and Uncle Chris had purchased while they were here!

Visitors

Happy 1 week Madison
Grandma Wickard
Grandpa Wickard
Grandma Kaufman
Grandpa Kaufman
Aunt Hannah
Uncle Pete
Uncle Dan and Aunt Heidi
Aunt Amy
Uncle Chris

Madison has had many visitors. Just a part of having family spread all over the country. She sure does have a lot of people that love her and we are sure she will grow up a world travelor.

After the initial visitors at the hospital, Grandma and Grandpa Wickard came to visit. They stayed from January 12 - 15. She was on her Bilirubin blanket, so we just sat around and held her most of the time. It was a lot of fun for her to get to see Grandma and Grandpa, and Grandpa loved having mornings to hang out with her when she was wide awake in the morning. Mom and dad loved that too because that meant we could sleep in. Grandma was excited to get to celebrate Madison's first week birthday! We all enjoyed a wonderful ice cream cake.

Maddie's next visitors were Grandma and Grandpa Kaufman. They were here from January 16 - 20. Although she was off of her blanket, we still stayed inside and out of the freezing cold weather. She got pretty used to getting held and sleeping all day! Grandma and Grandpa K. brought lots of food and helped around the house a lot, which made life easier for everybody. She misses both sets of Grandparents very much and is excited to see them again soon.

Aunt Hannah just couldn't wait to come see her little niece. However, because of her busy basketball season she had to find a time to sneak away. She came January 24-27th. She held her as much as she could in the short time she had, and had lots of pictures to prove it. Hannah hadn't been here in a while so she also got a chance to hang out with some of our friends. Uncle Pete, Aunt Heidi and Uncle Dan even came down to hang out with everybody too!

Our most recent visitors came in from Wisconsin on February 7th, (Madison's one month birthday). Aunt Amy and Uncle Chris drove all night on Wednesday to try to get here to see little Maddie. They got stuck in stopped traffic for 3 hours on Wednesday night and didn't get much sleep, but finally arrived and Madison was so happy to see them. We didn't think anyone could take more pictures than the first sets of visitors, however Aunt Amy might have single handedly taken more pictures than everyone combined.

Our visitors aren't over yet. Rob, Amanda, Zach and Eli are coming this weekend to see Maddie for the first time since they saw her for a short time at the hospital. The cousins are very excited to hang out, and we are looking forward to having them. Hopefully they are going to get a chance to babysit little Maddie so we can go out for Valentine's Day!

God has blessed this season of life for us, and we look forward to more visitors! Our family has been so great to Madison and she has lots of gifts, clothes and pictures to prove it. She is never short of hugs and kisses, and she wishes everyone lived closer. We are thankful for safe travel, and the wonderful blessing of having a house that works well for visitors!

Our little girl is here....

All of these are thanks to our good friend Shelly!

Since our little girl arrived we thought we'd join the Blog-o-sphere thanks to the help of Jessica Siegelin. I did get her stuck on Myspace....so it only seemed fair. Well for starters you can visit Shelly Valentine's Blog to vew pictures of Madison in her first few days. Shelly did an AMAZING job in capturing the emotion of those first days. (You may have to scroll down to see the pictures....look around the January 8th date).

Well life with Madison has been absolutley amazing....a little sleepless, but amazing!!!! She is getting early lessons in shopping already and is growing like a weed!!!! Here are a few pics of our little one......more well follow in the days to come:

The above photo is taken by Shelly Valentine Photography.