Maddie Jo

Madison JoAnn Wadley

Today June 20 at 5:30 PM, we had our third little angel baby. Her name is Madison JoAnn Wadley. We will post more pictures soon. Madison was 6 lbs. 11 oz. and 19 inches long. She is perfectly healthy and mommy and baby are doing great.

Baby's room

Not the actual colors, John's phone didn't pick them up well.



For the baby's room I found these really cute Hawaiian flowers but didn't know what to do with them. After looking through some wallpaper books, I found this bright green wallpaper and thought they would look adorable together. However, the wallpaper was going to cost about a hundred dollars and I wasn't willing to spend that much. So, I got John to tape the wall off and we painted it on. We didn't find out what we're having, but I put a very light pink on two of the walls for an accent. So, technically right now we have a little girls room, which is what I think we're having. I made sure it could easily be turned into a boys room though, imagine some surfboards and such, it would look cute. Anyway, we haven't put the flowers up permanently yet we're still trying to figure out where they should go, and John doesn't like the idea of them being up at all if it's a boy. So, maybe we'll completely finish after the birth.

Drew has been doing much better in the health department. We haven't had a major illness in a while, it's been nice and I'm sure he's enjoying it too. He has started to talk more, and to use words that have more than one syllable. He's also climbing into things and trying to do more of what Alexis does. It's nice to see him progressing so quickly!! He has started potty training himself. If we are going to the bathroom, he'll want to go too, and he actually goes!! He has also started to tell us when he needs to poop, it's heavenly thinking about not having to change poopy diapers. Although he's not perfect at it and we still have a ways to go, it's nice that we're already going down that road.

Alexis has learned what attitude is in a big way. She doesn't act like a three year old, she acts like a thirteen year old. The other day John was cleaning out the van and she told him that she wanted her car seat in the very back. John told her that he wasn't going to put it back there. Her prompt reply was: "It wasn't a question". Needless to say, it didn't go back there. She also really wants a cat, she's not getting one. We told her that we had too many animals already and so we couldn't have one, thinking this would stop the relentless asking. A few seconds later she looks at us and says: "We could give Sandy (dog) to Grandma and the fish to Aunt Angie, then we can get a cat!!" She keeps us on our toes in more ways than we can count, but it's kind of fun to see where her little mind takes her.

Carnival

The only time Drew smiled on a ride, it hadn't started yet.



This is the face Drew had on every single ride.





Springville City was having their annual carnival and when Alexis saw it she just about died from excitement. She was kind enough to wait until they had opened before going, which was about a days wait. She loved going on all the rides, and I think Drew did too. He didn't smile at all during the rides, but he would get a smile and want to go before each ride and after a few of the rides he was smiling too. From what I understand about John as a child, he didn't really smile until he was almost three, it didn't matter what you did to him. I think Drew's more like John every day!! The one ride that Drew was really excited to go on, was the Merry-go-round. So, we waited in line and when we finally got on, he didn't like being so high. (When we went to the farm, he LOVED riding the real horses, but this one was not floating his little boat). Overall it was fun, a lot more money than it was worth, but they enjoyed. You'll notice they both have little dog back-packs in the pictures. These are actually little leashes, yes, I put my children on leashes. John wasn't with us, and I don't like the idea of some pervert trying to steal my children. Don't worry, the kids love them they think it's fun.

The basement

John's room



Kids' play area



Alexis and Grandpa Hakes getting ready to paint. Drew and Alexis didn't like their masks, go figure!!




Kids basement area. Yes, it's very bright, hopefully it turns out!!



John's theater room, it makes us want chocolate!!

Have you ever had one of those never ending projects? We thought our basement was one of those, never ever going to get done but always there for us. Well, we might actually finish it!! We're surprised too. We had someone come in and finish it and now we're painting. Yes, we're painting. We decided to turn the bedroom into a little home theater room/no kids area. It's not big, but it'll be nice to go into a room and know that we aren't going to get our clothes sticky. The big long living room we decided to make into a kids playroom so that the upstairs looks like we've cleaned more recently than we really have. Hopefully it all goes well and our ideas actually work.

I'm a believer

I've got to admit I was skeptical when I heard about "upconverting" DVD players. Supposedly these players are supposed to upscale your old dvd's to 720p or 1080P resolution for improved picture quality. I am creating this post so everybody knows.... IT WORKS!! I read a lot online about this technology so I finally bought an Upconverting Samsung at Sam's Club to try it out and I was blown away. It works amazing! The colors are so brilliant (Use an HDMI cable) and the details are sooooo much improved over just a standard dvd player. So for all those nay-sayers out there like I once was, here's your testimonial. I'll have to wait a while for a blue-ray disc player, but for now, upconverting dvd players really do work well.

Design studio

We created a funky collage of a picture of our design studio at Rocketship Inc. This will be coming out in a local business magazine here in a couple months. There's going to be a 2 page spread talking about the company. It's a pretty good place to work. Almost everyone gets dual monitors. We also have bagel Tuesday! It's a pretty small company. Maybe 9 employees total. I've been here just over a month now. Quite a change coming from a very large company in Provo Craft.