Movie Night!

On Saturday night, we hosted our first neighborhood party in our new house! We purchased a 11x16 foot inflatable screen and hosted a backyard movie night for all of our neighbors! We had a blast! We watched the Cat in the Hat the movie, had popcorn, s'mores and just enjoyed getting to know our new neighbors! The kids had a blast and I think the parents did too!

Grey Oaks Bike Parade & Popsicle Party

This was our first holiday in our new house! Our neighborhood hosts many great events for the residents. Maddie participated in her first bike parade and popsicle party! She had so much fun getting dressed up, decorating her bike and parading through the neighborhood with the other kids to our park for popsicles at the end!

4th of July 2010

4th of July at the Yoxalls!

We spent 4th of July this year in Manhattan with some of our closest friends! Many of them now have kiddos too, which makes it so fun for us all to get together! Even though it rained most of the weekend, it did stop just in time to do some fireworks and watch Manhattan's display which takes place right behind our friends home! The girls did fireworks, made smore's and just had fun hanging out!

Finally Done!

After two and a half months......two swingsets....140 bags of rubber mulch....some sweat....some tears....we finally have a swingset!

As many of you know, we purchased a swingset...that arrived in 5 large boxes, and 10,001 pieces to put together. Dustin was on day 4+ of working on it, when a storm came through and carried our partially put together swingset over our fence and into the neighbors yard! So, we were back at square one. After working with the insurance company, toys r us, and my extended warantee we re-couped our initial money and actually picked out a better swingset. After we started to put together our original one, we realized it was not the best quality for the price we paid. So, since we had to start over we went with one that we could see and test out prior to buying. It was on sale, and they had $99 installation deal going on. Totally worth it. The set was delivered and installed in about a half a day.

We then decided to put down rubber mulch to ease Dustin's mowing process, and also as a softer covering to land on if someone was to fall!

So, tonight we finished putting out the final 40 bags of rubber mulch. We were told we won't have to replace rubber mulch year after year like regular mulch! Let's hope that is true!

So, finally we have a swingset! Maddie loves it...and has already spent many hours swinging and sliding like a monkey!

We also discovered Maddie loved jumping on a trampoline....not a big suprise since she is always removing the couch cushions to bounce on the springs of the couch. So, we also added a trampoline to our backyard of fun! We now love spending our evenings out back watching & playing with Maddie! Hopefully we have many years of fun to come!

Hair Cut

Maddie has long hair, I have un-officially trimmed it here & there, but she had never had a real hair cut by a professional. About a month ago, we were dropping Snyder offer at the pet groomers and Maddie threw a fit and started crying because she didn't want us to leave her "bubba". I quickly explained we were just dropping him off to get a hair cut. Ever since, she has wanted to go to Primp my Pup to get her hair cut. Well, I decided that probably wasn't a good idea, and took her to a kids salon instead. So, a few pics of Maddie's first official hair cut....at the age of 3 :-)