On January 11, 2008, Madilyn (Madi) turned 3 years old. It is hard to imagine that she is already that old. Anyway, we had cake and ice cream with Grandma and Grandpa Dahle on the 2nd and then headed up to see the Mullen grandparents on the day of her birthday. I made her a butterfly cake and she still talks about it to this day anytime anyone says "birthday". She thinks she is pretty cool now that she is 3!
Below are some pictures from her birthday.
Here is the famous Butterfly cake (at least famous in Madi's eyes, she still talks about it). 
There's the smiling birthday girl!
She got a puppy purse from Grandma and Grandpa Dahle.
Here are the presents from all of us. She also got a baby cradle, but it came about a week later - oops! Silly mom for not ordering sooner.
Grandma Mullen made her a Strawberry Shortcake apron, baby burp cloth, baby blanket and a baby quilt that was made from all of the flannel she has made baby blankets out of for all of the grand kids (wow, I feel like I just used the word baby way too many times). The blanket and burp cloth were also made out of the same material that Madi's favorite blanket is made out of. For those of you who don't know, she is very attached to her thumb and her favorite blanket she has named "pink". The minute she sees that blanket, the thumb is in her mouth (a bad habit that I know is going to be a challenge to break, but has been very useful for getting her to go to sleep). 
Grandma Mullen even made her a birthday cake for her to have while we were up there. Very spoiled! While we were in Island Park we had a chance to get a little snowmobiling and sledding in as well. The powder was so deep and fluffy we had to be very careful not to get stuck on the snowmobiles (even though Lynn managed to get stuck a couple times - hee! hee!). Actually it one of the times he got stuck wasn't too funny. We had to dig and pull over and over and probably ended up digging about a 4 foot deep hole around the snowmobile and still couldn't get it out and then finally we found out that a belt was broken and that is why it wasn't moving. Very frustrating, but at least we finally got it out.
Lynn practicing his turns, I never did get very good at turning in the powder. I have a hard time trusting that I need to turn the handles right when I want to turn left (sound like Lightning McQueen on Cars doesn't it).
Parker, Madi and Lynn all ready to head down the hill!
Even Grandma got a chance to do a little sledding with the kids.
I just loved this pic of madi.
Parker ready to head on down the hill.
Lynn taking the kids snowmobiling. This is definitely one of their favorite things to do.
They also can't get enough of Grandma reading them books. It is very cozy being in the cabin with a fire going and about 4 feet of snow outside.
On the way home we stopped to visit with Grandma Helen Mullen for a while at her new place of residence in St. Anthony. It is nice having her a lot closer to Mom and Dad's now. She seemed to be doing really well and enjoyed seeing the kids.
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