Madsen Family Reunion at Fairview Lakes

Blake was helping Nick get his fishing pole fixed. McKenzie got to it, and got it all tangled up it took the two of them to get it all worked out.
Kaden, Eli, and Alivia had a blast together. It was really cold that day and it even snowed a little bit the next day. The reunion was in the middle of July.

Both of my girls love Mike and Annie. They are really fun Aunt and Uncle.


Look how cute Elise and Alivia match. Elise and Annie and their family's camped up there that weekend in tents and couldn't find a spot for a really long time. Blake decided that it is a good idea to keep their campsite at Fairview Lakes.



At the pond there is so many tad poles. With every step a few jump. It was a lot of fun for all of the kids. We took a bunch back down to Fairview to put in Terry's pond but none made it past a week,

My Girls

The girls love to ride horses. Once you get them on it is a fight to get them off. Nick and I each year take the horses through the Fairview horse parade, when we are done we take all of the kids on a horse ride around the yard.



The girls getting ready to go down to Fairview for the 24th celebration. This is one of our favorite times of the year. All of Nick's family make it and we camp out in the back yard. This year Blake and Terry put up a sheet then set up projector and watched Percy Jackson and the Lightning thief.

Camping at Fairvew Lakes

McKenzie was pretty sick for the weekend so which was no fun. But considering it turned out to be a really fun weekend. The girls had a blast and the dog had even a better time. much better then being in our back yard all of the time.
Before we left we went to Terrils to get our food for the weekend while I was there I say these bow and arrows with some guns and bought them for the girls to have. It was a hit, they both played with them the whole time and had a blast.
The girls played in the car while nick loaded the Canoe back on the trailer. I had to go and unlock the gate for my mom to leave and walked back to the lake while Nick loaded the Canoe and oars.


We went camping up at Fairview Lakes and took our Canoe, it turned out to be great. The weather was a little chilly but very beautiful. as we took off from the shore our dog Nellie wanted to come with us so she jumped in the water and swam to us. The girls loved it even though it made our Canoe really muddy and wet it was actually really funny. We also went four wheeling and I guess Three wheeling on Saturday. My mom came up and stayed the night with us and when we went on the ride me my mom and Alivia rode on the 4 wheeler while nick and McKenzie rode on the 3 wheeler.

Kenzie's 2nd Birthday

Happy Birthday Kenzie you are now Two. We just got ready so that we could go and have a day full of fun. We first went to Fat Catz in Ogden and ate at the Pizza factory that is connected, then we went and played some games that were at the bowling alley and then we went to play a couple of games of bowling. We all had a great time.

Livie and Kenzie wanted to ride on the merry go round for the first ride, they both love this one and it was great because it was only one token a ride.
Alivia riding the motorbike ride. It is kind of nice having kids this age because they have just as much fun playing the games when you put the money in as when you haven't.
Kenzie loved the car game and the dance game. She kept running back forth between the two.

The kids played air hockey for a while McKenzie and Alivia against Alex. Alex won by one point.


They all enjoyed bowling, I did too but by the end of the second game I was ready to get going.

Kenzie loved doing it and all of the kids wanted to carry the ball by themselves as you can see Alex doing in the background.
While we were bowling Grandma Whitman called to wish Kenzie a Happy Birthday. She just walked around the bowling alley like this not saying anything just listening to what Grandma had to say.
Lisa was so nice and went and bought all of the kids Ice cream, which they all loved and made a mess with.

Last year for Kenzie's 1st Birthday her cake had a candle on it so ever since then she has been terrified of cakes. It was no different this year she wouldn't even sit near the cake. The cake was supposed to be a castle but I ran out of time and some of the cake didn't make it so this is what it ended up looking like.
Alivia, Alex, and Joey wanted to help her open her presents but in the end Kenzie is the only one that did.
Kenzie got a princesses dress that had a hat like the girl on pinkalousious Kenzie kept wanting Nick to wear it and all of her baby's

My little Princess is now Two. How they grow up so fast I will never know. She has been a great blessing in our lives and has brought us much happiness, she can be very stubborn and has a mind of her own. I am so glad that Heavenly Father has blessed us to have her in our home.

Welch Days

The kids loved the parade, it turned out to be a really great one there was candy everywhere. when we were finished we had a walmart bag completely full of candy.
Spencer was the one holding the flag in the Parade he did a very good job.

We got a flag for all of the kids to hold during the parade. The kids also loved to have them after. This is Joey or Joseph the little Foster boy that is staying with Lisa and Dave right now. Is he not the cutest little boy you have ever seen? I wish that he could stay with us but so far it sounds like more than likely he will be able to go back to his parents.

It was a lot of fun, they had a greased pig that they had a ribbon tied around it's neck and they had to get the ribbon off and if they did they would get $10. Alivia, Alex, and Mady all kind of just chased the other kids that chased the pig. It was kind of sad how loud the pig squealed.




Loren's friend Jonathan was in this year's strong man competition, he did really well he took first place and set a record in one of the events.

Sara and Tammy where in charge of putting welch days together, they did a really good job I had a really good time I think that we might start making it a annual outing for our family.

This is Sawyer, Sara's little boy. My mom had him most of the day and this is him hanging out in the city hall staying out of the heat.