So the new car is a 2007 Hyundai Sonata with 31,000 miles on it. It's so nice and smooth to drive! I might have to make Jeremy drive my Escape more often so I can drive his. After Camden turns 4 March 1st we get to have his car seats so we'll be able to leave one in Jeremy's car and won't have to transfer all the time. Not that we did tranfer before we got the new car, we just never drove his anywhere. This is the newest car Jeremy's ever had so he's pretty excited too. For a more detailed look you'll just have to come visit.
And I guess since this is actually Maddox's site I should post some pictures of her. This is her usual reaction to her daddy trying to kiss her. Combination of his pokey face and her being a mama's girl.
You can't really tell that there's a dog in this picture since she's the same color almost as the chair. That's Bella, the BAcon's new puppy. Bella's a very cute and smart girl if you discount her jumping the fence daily. Bella loves to lick Maddox and roll around on the floor with her. Maddox loves it right back though as you can tell from her reaction in these photos!
Here she is hanging out with her Aunt Suzy, and Aunt Jennifer checking out some shells.
One night Jeremy and I stayed at the house while everyone else went to the condo. I got some pictures of Maddox's newest strange activity, showing her muscles. She only does it while in a high chair. She's silly. 
After her favorite dinner of spaghetti we went miniature golfing. Jeremy's not paying attention because he's busy adding up the score and double checking it. He can't believe he lost to me by 8 strokes! hehe
Maddox made it for most of the hike but towards 11:30 she was way beyond her nap time and gave up.
Another day we all went to the park to play except Jeremy and Stacy. They sat in the hot tub smoking cigars, drinking beer, and talking sports and politics the whole time we were gone.
Maddox had a lot of time to practice walking with her cousin Matthew.
On New Year's Eve we had dinner and opened our crackers with the hats in them. Maddox wore hers throughout dinner. She had to go to bed after that and miss all the fun. We had a different activity every hour (crafts, games, swimming, charades) until midnight. I wish I could post the video of all 11 of us (the two littlest were in bed) crammed into the hot tub singing Row Row Row Your Boat in a round but it's on the real video camera which is makes it to difficult to post. The water level in the hot tub was halved when we all got out.
We went back to the beach a couple of days later. I wore Maddox in the snugli early in the morning and we took a long walk up to the furthest point of the island to my favorite spot for shelling and wading. She got so tired that she about fell asleep again. Then we played in the sand some more. Her Daddy tried to bury her in the sand.
After a long day on the beach Maddox will even cuddle with Matthew. Too cute!
Whew! So that was our trip! The drive home was uneventful. We went to Tampa to have dinner with Suzy's family who was flying out from there in the morning so that took 2 hours off our long drive. We left Tampa at about 8:30pm and got home at 6:30am. Maddox slept like a rock the whole way, only nursing once. When we got here Jeremy went straight to bed and I had to stay up and play with the chick who got to sleep all night! She and I have taken it easy and napped a lot. Tomorrow life gets back to normal!
She enjoyed swimming in Grandma and Papa's pool. She liked to sit on the edge and kick her legs. And she liked sitting on my shoulder while I jumped up and down in the water, she laughed a lot at that! And she likes swimming with her doggie Jessi who swam about every day. She'd laugh when Jessi would swim out toward her. It looks like I have no pictures of Jessi's swimming fun, just M's.
On Sunday both of my sisters and their families arrived so we had Christmas again. For some unknown reason Maddox had a fever that night so she wasn't very interested in opening presents. Jessi seemed to think we were making her a bed. 
Papa enjoyed his new night light Maddox gave him. She wanted to be sure he had enough for all these grandkids that were visiting.
One of her favorite activities is pulling all the tapes and cd's out of the old entertainment center. 
We sort of forgot to take pictures of Christmas morning because we were taking video. So here are a few after the mess got cleaned up and she was checking out her new toys.
After presents we spent the rest of the morning packing up for our long drive to Florida. We left on Christmas day about 3:20 pm. It's a twelve hour drive, do the math. Whee!