Wow, So Much Going On

Tuesday I originally sought out to create a post about some funny things that Maddix has started doing, some of which happened that day, but by the end of the night my day had taken a major turn around!

This would be our rental car. But what for?...

At 4:00pm Tuesday, Travis hung up the phone from reaching the Polish Consulate's voice mail, yet again, and made a decision: We needed to drive to L.A. and go to the Consulate in person and there was no time to lose. At 7:30pm that night we hit the road, Travis, me, and Maddix.

He was such a good sport to get in the car and just go

We drove until we reached Vegas at 1:00am where we were extremely ready to check into our room. Only problem was that Travis realized he forgot to book the room, and it took an extra half hour to finally get in a room and get to bed. Meanwhile Maddix enjoyed all the bright lights, sights, and sounds.

View from the room

Wednesday morning we woke up and continued our drive to L.A. When we reached the consulate they were less than helpful.. Travis told me it was a wake up call into what a lot of Europeans are going to be like. She told us we needed to mail in all our information, where we interjected that we had all the information if she'd just let us give it to her; but she declined. Although we drove from Utah to L.A., had all are papers with us to give her, and were desperate to get this all taken care of, she just looked at us firmly, told us to mail her the papers, and asked us to leave. So we did. We turned right around and went home.

Once again, Maddix was AMAZING during this whole time

During the drive home we decided it was worth the drive however, despite not getting our forms in, because the lady did give us some information that we otherwise wouldn't have had; important information that wasn't listed on the website (that she so highly recommended over and over during our conversation). So yesterday night we arrived home at 1:00am, ready for that trip to be behind us.

So today we woke up and immediately ran to the post office with all our papers to mail into the consulate that we were just at the day before. The lady said it would take up to 14 business day, but most likely less to receive our visas. Let's hope it's less since our flight date was set on Jan 29th. The Lord will prevail.
Now to post the events that transpired Tuesday that had me cracking up :

I walked into the kitchen and what did I see?

Oh, what is that coming out of the cupboard?!

Its a Maddix Monster!

 

 

This is the first time he's ever done this and I thought it was hilarious. Then later that day he pulled another moment that had me laughing

This is over at Grandma Lori's house. He once again decided to try and climb inside the cupboard. And then tonight, in his room, he again tried to climb up onto his shelf:)

It didn't pan out so well for him. But I love that he tries!