You Knew This Was Coming...

Hillary left me! She left for Hawaii this morning. What the?? How dare she do such a thing. Well, I guess BYU hawaii is kind of cool..
She's the first of the family to leave, since I am way cool and stayed at Utah State! So that's going to be an adjustment for all of us..
I'll miss her a lot!
How could I possibly not miss this:

(of course I put the picture on the top right, how could you not love my dad's killer mustache??)

And, unfortunately, the fantastic foursome will not be active again till this Christmas:

I know you will miss it as much as me!

PS if you haven't noticed I have been having waaaayyy too much fun designing my blog top "Day in the Life of Madeline" Maybe that's why my major is Graphic Design...

PPS. I really really really want to go to Disneyland. Its been two years. WAY too long

PPPS. Cool quote I found today by the one and only Albus Dumbledore:

Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

- Albus Dumbledore

just DODD it

Last weekend was the DODD FAMILY REUNION!
You may be thinking.... "Madi, didn't you just have a family reunion like a month ago??"
Why yes, I did, but this is the OTHER side of the family. I love it!

Everyone came up to Logan and we did some super fun things. Such as:

Went to Bear Lake! My dad took the boat up and it was a grand time. Except that it got super windy in the middle of the day, but that's okay. 

On Friday, my cousin Chris and his wife Annie got sealed in the temple!

We were all so happy to be there for them on their special day!

Then, later that night we watched the fireworks from our backyard:

We then proceeded to have a dance party in the kitchen:

The next day we had a slip and slide softball game! third base was at the top of the slip and slide and you had to slide down to go home:

Then we all took a shower (not together)  and took some family pictures in our beautiful blue shirts:

Some tempers ran high, but we made it out alive:

The rest of the time was hanging out with our wonderful cousins:

Our family is known for our family reunion t shirts, and both hillary and I have had numerous requests from our friends if they could order themselves a dodd family reunion t-shirt. 

This year was definitely a good year:

Saturday night we had a Luau. All of us cousins went to the DI and found some amazing outfits. Including some pretty awesome looking mumus:

Oh how I love my cousins, aunts and uncles, and especially my grandparents! 

"Cousins are like brothers and sisters that live someplace else"

My Little Brother Loves Me

So, funny story:
My door knob on the outside of my room just decided to fall off one day. So, if I shut my door, you can't get in my room from the outside.
One day Brandon felt like taking me down, so I ran to my room and shut the door (The kid is ridiculously stronger than me now and he's only 10)
I come out of my room about a half hour later, checked to make sure the coast was clear, and then saw this little surprise on my door:

                   A picture of me that says, "kick me" underneath                 "prepare to die fool!!!" Serious

I will find you and eat you

I'm serious

Aw this kid is such a gem! haha but really Brandon is making me laugh on the daily and I hope that he never ever grows up!