Madi's Dance Recital

Madi had her very first dance recital last Saturday at Artemus Ham Hall. She was so cute up there on stage.

Madi with her proud daddy, mommy, and little Lukester.

Madi and her friend Ashlyn. They did dance all year together. Madi loved going to dance knowing Ashlyn would be there, too.

Bubba giving his sissy a kiss.

My pretty little dancer. I was trying to upload the video but it was taking forever!

We are proud of our little Madi Rose:)

Russell Family Happenings....

I can never get my pictures to post in the right order, so in no particular order....

Madi finished soccer the end of May! We are so proud of her. She turned into a great little soccer player and is looking forward to playing again in the Fall. She is so shy most of the time so I was a bit worried, but she did awesome.

She also graduated from Miss Lesly's Preschool. She loved Miss Lesly and all of her friends at preschool. She is soooo ready for Kindergarten....and I'm so ready for her to go! She is a Miss Smarty pants in more than one way:)


Lukey's 3rd Birthday is today:) He is such a funny little momma's boy! I can't believe it has been 3 years since he was born....YIKES! It's flying by!

This past weekend we had a family birthday party for him. We invested in a big water slide that all of the kids loved. We will get tons of use out of this bad boy ALL summer long.

The most exciting news lately is that Lukester is FINALLY potty trained! He has pretty much done it on his own and so far (let's cross our fingers) has done really well! It will be soooo nice to have no kiddos in diapers:)

Our good friends, Mike and Kenna, and their cute little girls, Shara and Jane, came and visited us a couple of weekends ago! We loved having them as our first house guests. Our kids love playing with each other, and we love hanging out with them!

Jane, Madison, Shara, and Luke

This is Madi and her buddy, Joshua. They loved going to preschool together. Joshua's mom and I carpooled and they became little buddies. Lukey thought Joshua walked on water and loved picking him up from preschool more than his own sissy:)

Home Sweet Home...

Man, if I could only explain to you the crap we've been through this last month! BUT...in the end everything turned out for the better and we are so excited to FINALLY be in our home! Madison and Luke are in heaven! Going from our 2 bedroom condo to our house is wonderful! (It was kind of sad leaving our condo though....lots of memories)! We were lucky to get renters in our condo really quick, and thankful Missy and Chris let us pile our whole house in their garage, casita, bedrooms, you name it until we got our keys! We have a ton of unpacking to do, but It will be nice to finally have a place for everything! I'll post more pictures later!

We may not be moving....

To Be Continued...

We're moving....

FINALLY!!! For those of you that don't know, we are buying a house in Henderson and should have our keys by the end of the week! We are excited to be moving out of our tiny little condo and into a home. I'm extremely sad to be moving out of our ward! We've been in our ward for almost 7 years and have so many great friends. (with a few splits in between) I hope with the move we will continue to have the great friendships we have with all of them. I also hope our new ward will be just as great! I gotta get back to the never ending packing...wish me luck!

Some"bunny" came to our house!

There was a ton of things going on this Easter. Madi and Luke had a fun time!

Luke, Arielle, Madison, Chloe, and Cadence at our wards Easter Egg Hunt. It was really fun! We have so many good friends in our ward.


My Sis-in-Law, Angela, came into town with my neices and nephews. All of the cousins had such a fun time playing together.



Saturday we went over to Mike's moms house and ate some yummy chicken and dumplings (Mike's favorite meal his mom makes), we dyed Easter Eggs, had an Easter Egg Hunt, and played Rockband. It was lots of fun!

Lukey finding his Easter basket!

Madi finding her Easter basket!

Easter Sunday! Aren't they cute? I'm totally laughing... I'm just now realizing where Luke's hand is...can't ever take just one perfect picture! LOL.

The crazy month of March!

March pretty much sucked for us, I'm not going to lie! I know everyone usually blogs about the great things that happen, but I'm here to be Debbie Downer and tell you all how March wasn't all that chipper for us! However there were a few good things that happened! For my birthday Mike sent me my favorite flowers, tulips! They were beautiful and made my day (since that day I was stuck home with no car because Mike's totally crapped out on him the day before....see I told you, I'm Debbie Downer!) But, yes, I love getting flowers and loved having them on my table to help brighten my day!

And if that wasn't good enough he surprised me (and by that I mean seriously surprised me) by giving me my Cricut Expressions! I love this bad boy already! I mean seriously, I'm going to have more Vinyl around my house than any other LDS person out there! LOL. And the scrapbooking possibilities...I'm in love!

Seriously, as much as I can complain about how misbehaved my kids can be, they truly have been so good lately and helping their momma all the time! (I've only had to break up a few fights!)


So let's hope April is good to us! I love this time of year and the weather is soooo nice!