The Randolph Family: January 2012

These are old pictures...they were taken sometime back in December when we went to Grandma and Grandpa's house to decorate the Christmas tree. I found them on the camera when I decided to finally upload some pictures to the blog. I've been such a slacker lately, but I'm really making an effort to blog more this year. We have tons of awesome stuff going on all the time, I just never seem to find the time to blog about it. I really need to make more time. I love looking back at all of our posts when Maddie was little. I want to be able to do the same with Collin. So expect more blogging from me this year (hopefully)! Enjoy...

The kids love their Uncle Chris...such a big kid at heart <3

Collin was busy playing with a piece of drift wood...

...and Parker was obviously off eating something! :-)

I love going back and looking at the pictures taken on my iPhone every once in a while. There are always cute pictures of the kids that I had completely forgotten about and random pictures taken by Madeline that make me laugh. It’s a nice pick me up when I’m having a stressful day. The quality is never very good and the circumstances are usually nothing I would have busted out the good camera for, but they are special little moments in and of themselves that deserve not to be forgotten. I have hundreds of photos on my phone…hundreds…but I picked a few taken over the last couple of months that really made me smile. Enjoy :-)

Here's Maddie and Izzy at the Thanksgiving Feast at school. They were dressed as pilgrims :-)

Here's Collin the day after we took our family photos. About halfway through our photo session, Collin tripped and fell into the adorable little bench the kids were seated on in a few of the pictures. He scraped up the whole side of his face and was left with a horrible scab that lasted through much of the holidays. Our boy was tough though...we had to cut the photo session a little short, but still ended up with some beautiful pictures!

Speaking of beautiful, here's a copy of one of the photos I took of Maddie in my wedding dress. This wasn't actually taken on the iPhone, but I have it saved on here so I had to share. Isn't she just stunning??!?! We will hold onto this for her wedding day.

Here's our dear friend from the North Pole, Chippy! The kids looooove Chippy. "Chippy" was one of Collin's first words. Although he returned to the North Pole on Christmas, he still makes an occasional visit to congratulate the kids on major accomplishments. He stopped by the other day to let Maddie know how proud he is that she has slept in her bed for 15 days straight!

Maddie was awarded Student of the Month for November 2011. We are so very proud of her. Unfortunately, Maddie's teacher failed to inform us that she was being presented with the award on the day of the assembly, so we missed the whole thing :-/ We were devastated and I still haven't forgiven her teacher.

Ahhhhhh...soooo relaxing! Mads and I stopped off on our way home from her last day of school before Christmas break to get a pedicure. We love mommy-daughter dates!

This is us at the Redlands Christmas Parade. Horrible picture...I guess the flash decided not to go off and it was far too cold and windy to attempt another photo. We had a blast at the parade. It was a special treat when daddy was able to walk down and meet us on duty. The kids loved it. We’ve gone to this parade every year since Madeline was born. It’s kind of like a Christmas tradition for us now.

Here is Mackena...the Cabbage Patch Doll Maddie got for Christmas from Grandma & Grandpa. She takes this doll EVERYWHERE...sleeps with her every night, eats with her, etc.