nauvoo pics

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Our brother Sione, he is so awesome! As you can see he let the girls do his hair.
Brian Richardson , dancing
Some of our cousins that stopped by.
chillin in the bus after work... i look scary! :P

pictures of our trip

o.b.x.

We have been to the ocean! I think that we have all decided what beach house we are going to live in when we are married!
We have seen the most beautiful beaches... so now were gonna be hard ones to please. Along ripped arms from swimming, comes an amazing ...TAN! but with some of our tans comes ... peeling . And once again beauty is pain and no one has ever looked so good RED, a.s Zeke and I.

So i think it was our third time at the beach, When we finally bought body boards... ( swimming will never be the same ;p )Oh and I'm the body boarding master!... kinda. So Clair and i started off into the water not having a clue what we were doing aka looking like BUNCH girls.
And we went on laughing and failing for about 15 minuets or so when i FINALLY asked the older and wiser, how to do it. All they had to say "you just gotta be in the right place at the right time" WOW, what words of wisdom ... i understand now. So this is just what you do to look like you know what it is your doing. SO other words the wise don't body board? SO i cant be the master because i just happened to be at the right place at the right time... Right? uh NO! I refuse! It takes skill.. Right? please somebody tell me I'm just an amazing ... uh... uh. Okay fine.


so i always happened to be in the right place at the right time. hehe, SO later that day Clair ( who is my always be at the right place at the right time buddy aka shes pretty good too. ) we were jumping these huge over our heads, waves. You know once again thinking were pretty cool. ( oh and it WAS FUN ) until we had to stand there for five minuets. w.a.i.t.i.n.g. for these waves. And we made the mistake of saying how boring this was... And while we sat there ignoring what our kindergarten teacher taught us ( we had our backs to the waves ) came the big ones.

5 in a row! I almost died.. literally. So i now know what it is like being tossed around in side a wave. I hit my back/ shoulder on the ground... And heard and FELT everything crunch. And the only thing i could do was try to brake the wave to get air. And if Clair wasn't there.... It would have been bad. She had to drag me out and drag we down the beach to my mom were i was declared not broken. But very bruised... And so i don't tease mother nature anymore!


Love Madi

Cousin malyssa

Hey, My cousin malyssa came up with her youth conferance group from where... tah duh teaxas 1 ANd you all kniow how much i love my texans. ANd these ones were almost better than dannis group. Hard to imagine. but i met almost all of them lasy year when i went to texas to visit malyssa.ANd this year i rememberd some of them that didnt rememeber me and some that i didnt recognize that gave me a hug ... and now im to lazy to type, so i will type later

Danni ... play the game

So last night i left the pagent early, so could walk up to the temple by myself and watch when they lit it up at the end of pagent. And on my way up the was a group behind me all speaking spanish. So i got up to temple before they did and layed own in front of the temple on the side walk. And along came the group... shining there flashlights in my eyes and saying who is that and they didnt realize that i was not from there group until they were all standing over me. can you say awcward!HaHa SO they all start apoligizing1 Some in spanish and some .. something else! so then they all layed down with me to watch the lights. ANd the boy next to me waws named Danni and he was from peru ( but the ward was from texas) so as we all lay there whispering i fit right in randomly i had no clue what they were saying but it was all good. then some one through a peice of gum at my head, And im like what was that? first lights now gum?? and Danni says pass it and say play the game so i did. ANd for they next half hour we played the game the things Like her name is madi , play the game.
Or a nickle, or a gum wrapper. HAHA i love my texans! oh and they were at our camp ground . But but danni w2as a the high light he was so freaking halarious.


SO yeah thats my life in nauvoo being spotted down by a bunch of kids from texas. Or just making new a and very ... very random friends here.

Nauvoo

Here we are, and have been for the last month in the beautiful place called nauvoo!
Selling shaved ice has been a blessing, for every time we turn on our lovley machine ... we get soaked. :D we also met the richardsen family as they too are here in nauvoo for the month, missouri. they have 25 kids! they had five of there own and adopted 20! they are an amazing family. And we get the privillage of having them on a our road trip with this fall.... THEY ARE GOING TWITH US ! At least the girls of family. The boys on the other cant share a bunk with me so they are going home with there dad to build the family a new home!

The girls and i Are way excited. they are all so stinking cute. And it wil take me a whole to get all of there names down, But i have faith that some day.. maybe i will remember all of them! i alredy feel bad they all say hi madison.. and all i can say hi guys. :p oh well!

im loving the bus even though i cant sit up stright on my bed, It is way fun. My favorite part is watching everyone who pulls into the camp site .... stare.
oh well sucks that we are that cool hu ;)

utah

So we took our big rolling turd for its first road trip, to utah. It was so awseome to not have to sit on everybody. To be able to sleep the whole way was amazing! All of my family members have asked me ( with a smirk on there face ) how was the bus ride.... and i get to say awesomE! they all go "uh hu really" oh adn then when the go inside of the bus they all say ( j.c. and shane) " holy crap, its alot different than i expected. :D " Its really nice!

we took our best friends the crocett girls, and they made the whole two and a half days so much fun.
My bff Maddy will be going to lake powell with my family and i.!
okay i cant think of anything else.. but my cousin j.c. is sitting next to me watching some tv sow about parashooting.... And the rest of my cousins will be here soon im way excited to see them . <3

Danni and her bus!

Danni was so rudley awakened by the camera and my mother!

Bus update!

Dad, and Bryan have been slaving away in the 80 degree weather an have gotten allot done! The master bed room is completed and they are working on the first buck bed frame now!

More Bus Pics

We got the flooring down... and Brain was a little tired hahaha.

The bus!

We have started our big BIG project!!

April showers, bring may flowers

April, does my dad look scary to you??

This month has been so crazy!
For mutual We have been combined with the young men. ANd we have been learning how to dance. The first week we learned the country swing from brother and sister mayne. the second week the tuya's taught us a hula called pearly shells. It was so cute and sister tuya looked so beautiful doing the dance she was so perfect at it. And while the girls danced the boys sang to us a song called "pearly shells" It goes like this : Pearly shells , from the ocean, shining in the sun , covering the shore. When i see them . My heart tells me that i love you more that all those little pearly shells.:

I t was so much fun And they gave all of the youth a gorgeous shell necklace.
On the 18th... they split the ward! It was so horrible that i have it marked on my calender : life ended: ( on the 18th of course ) It might not have been so bad if church was not they only place i get to see friends. But i cried. ANd we are now in a brand new ward ( that was created on the 18th ) called the far west ward! SO cool. There are only 56 youth in the ward and i dont even know half of them. But one of my old friends Karen is in my ward.... But i only got to bring four friends from Cameron with me. But this will be a new adventure, at least i will get to meet new people.

and for our last two weeks of mutual we learned ballroom dancing, And this last week we had an official dance. And sadly i had to ask someone to dance ( ahead of time ) because it was my .... daddy. Yes he is awesome enough to come to mutual, with me just so he could dance with me! ... Oh and scare away all of the other boys. apparently my dad is scary looking...hmmm Not to me!

p.s. i was dumb and danced bare foot and got my feet steped on by my dads huge boots!
ouch!

More roses

March

Aunt bubu sent my mommy Roses! They were so pretty that i had to take pics! ANd i also Took a couple of really awesome but random pics that i really want to show you!

Febuary

The Groves came over For elijahs first birthday on the 26th.....ANd Eli's got sick and slept all day, so WE finally had his party after everyone left. He was so fun to watch. as he tried to figure out how to open his present, and learn what the cake really was.

november

For thanksgiving, Aunt bubu, uncle thom, alexis and david came up from texas to stay with us for the holiday. WE had so fun
On Thanksgiving day i went to the ward turkey bowl at the high school football field ( i did not play, in fear that i would be crushed ). It was so cold that day! I spent the whole hour or two watching my Daddy crush All of the little young men on the field! It was awesome ... Oh and i walked around the track with Brother Dennison and sister ruskinan ( no idea how to spell there finish last name ). I looked so silly warring brother Dennison's Huge coat on top of my two that i already had on. :D

But the real party was the next day.
We had a shooting range in our back yard! The Dennison's and the Groves came over. And we spent the whole day shooting guns eating left overs turkey, dancing to the music of Ryan Dennison's stereo system in his truck ( so loud) And building in a fire out side. only to warm up more left over... yams. :) these are some pics from black friday. aka our annual shooting day.

December!

This Has been our last month of co-op. To finish out the year, Our co-op choir sang at the village. ( retirement home )
We sang jingle bells, and baby in a manger.... which, we only got to practice the songs twice... BUt we had so much fun being there and sing to the elderly.
Right after the performance, Sister Dennison , Andrea( bff) my mom and I, went shopping for Andrea's birthday. Her sweet 16!

We had so much fun and we got our pictures taken in one of those picture booths it was definitely our first time doing that because they didnt turn out to well.