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Thanksgiving

Josh and Chris and Aaron at the Iowa vs Ohio State game. Regardless of the outcome they had a great time.

We are thankful to Doug for these AWESOME seats at the Green Bay vs. Detroit game on thanksgiving day. We were in the second row!! It was a lot of fun. Tim Allen was down on the field before the game and I told Jacob that he was the guy that did the voice of Buzz Lightyear so when Tim was standing right in front of us Jacob was screaming "buzz lightyear!! buzz lightyear!!" Of course I did not have the camera for this, and come to find out my brand new, not even paid for camera must have fallen out of the car when I got out and is now lost forever.

In case you are ever wondering what $10 ice cream looks like this is it!

The Madsens at Ford Field. Olivia stayed home with Grandma to make thanksgiving dinner. Jacob had so much fun!

We made headbands for Olivia's birthday craft, are they cute or what! WE ALL HAVE THEM! It was actually really fun doing a craft with the whole family.

This is Olivia's 6th birthday dinner. We had a great time on Thanksgiving for sure!

Random photos and updates

Our friends Katie and Bill gave us these cool kits to make marshmallow houses out of cocoa krispies. Josh and the kids made these when I was at work on Halloween

Jacob (buzz light year), Olivia's friend Anslee (bat girl), Jacob's friend Calyn (duck) and Olivia (Sleeping beauty) Trick or treating. They were out for almost two whole hours!

Olivia and Jacob before trick or treating

Olivia's class party for halloween playing the pin the nose on the pumpkin

Josh's cubs "snuggie" that his crafty wife made

Kids carving pumpkins

Tammy, Olivia and Grandma Glo at Abby's wedding

Last Cubs game of the season

Josh and Olivia at the last cubs game of the season

Me and Jacob at the Cubs game

Jacob doing puzzles in his underwear, just too funny not to put on

My best birthday present ever! My hawkeye snuggie

My birthday party at chuck -e-cheese

Madsen's at my party at chuck-e-cheese

Ella and Jacob sing the ABC's

Just a matter of time

We got a trampoline this summer. I guess we knew it was just a matter of time before an injury. I got off of work last night and came home to Olivia crying. She usually cries when she is mad but rarely when she gets hurt and she was refusing to move her left arm. I took her to the ER and as you can maybe see in the very middle of the picture below She has a broken collar bone.

She was such a trooper last night. They gave her pain medicine in the ER that made her more talkative than usual....hard to believe!! But it was pretty sore this morning. She has to wear a sling for a few days but was in no way missing school today. I offered her to stay home, she didn't want to! I asked if I could take her picture this morning and she said "fine, but Im NOT smiling!"

Our first big injury

We had our first big injury today. Jacob went for a walk with grandma and was twirling around and fell hitting his mouth and nose on the sidewalk. He split the inside of his top and bottom lips open and they really swelled up huge. He also has an abrasion under his nose. He cried for a minute then was off to play again.

The offending sidewalk. It never ceases to amaze me how much lips bleed.

Olivia and Grandma picked these flowers and put them in Jacob's room so he would feel better.

Leader, really???

For my friends to laugh at. I took Olivia to the girl scout meeting to get some more information on it and what is involved. We walked out having joined up and signing me up as the troop leader......how do I get in to this stuff????