Success

As you can see, we have been trying to potty train Kamryn. After a couple of accidents, she successfully peed in the potty on Thursday. Jeremy was home with her, while I was at work so he took a picture for me. (I hope this doesn't gross out anyone) Then on Friday she peed all over the couch! That was really fun cleaning up. Good thing we have leather couches. But we have a new rule in our house, no sitting on the couch without a diaper. Then on Saturday she made it in the potty twice and the other time a little got on the floor and then the rest in the potty. Yesterday she also made it in the potty three times, without any accidents. I think the few accidents she had really bothered her. So she panics when she is on the potty and is about to pee. But then once she finally starts to go, she realizes that she isn't getting wet and is happy! She has gone #2 a couple of times, but I don't think we have that one down yet. This morning she peed in the potty again, and didn't even panic. I think she is getting the hang of it. If anyone has any advice on this subject, I welcome it!

Double Christmas and The Rose Parade

WARNING: You are about to see a million pictures! I figured since I haven't posted anything in a while, I'd make up for it with a million pictures. We first had Christmas at my parents house, which was a lot of fun. Kamryn was really excited about her tricycle. Too bad her legs aren't long enough to reach the pedals yet! She has this obsession with Snow White for some reason, so when she saw that Santa brought her a Snow White outfit, complete with a crown, purse and slippers, she was soooo excited! She has worn it everyday since! Then we headed to Utah to celebrate with Jeremy's family. Kamryn had a lot of fun playing with her cousins, going swimming, and playing in the snow! Then we went to the Rose parade, which was so great! My mom and Jeremy's brother came with us too! Actually, we were on T.V., we didn't know we were, but we had a couple of people call to say they saw us, so since it is repeated over and over all day, we recorded it, and sure enough the camera was totally zoomed in on my mom, Kamryn and I and Jeremy's brother. Jeremy was standing behind us. You can see his shirt, but not his face! It was a great Christmas and New Year! We hope everyone had just as fun as we did!



Yay!

Her favorite present

Looking at the animals in Cabela's

The cousins taking a bath together

A group picture in the pool

This tent is HUGE!

Getting ready to play in the snow

Sarah, Keta and I just chillin'


Jeremy's favorite float


Go Trojans!!

It's Christmastime!

This is a great time of year! Every year Christmas comes and goes so fast, and I don't have time to appreciate the holiday. But this year has been different. Yes, it is true I've been listening to Christmas music since before Thanksgiving. And I am loving the Christmas shows on T.V. Some of them were around when I was a kid, so it has been fun watching them again. And Kamryn is more into Christmas this year, which always makes it fun. So here are some pictures that show how we are getting in the Christmas spirit!

Sitting on Santa's lap at our ward Christmas party! She loves Santa!!

Decorating our Christmas tree. (she spilled water on herself)

The lights at the temple.

In front of the gigantic Christmas tree at Disneyland!

For my work Christmas party, we went to a nice restaurant. They have carolers come to the tables and they are dressed like they are from "Charles Dickens". They sang "The First Noel". It was yummy!

Thanksgiving Weekend

We had a great weekend. It started off with my birthday. We had a babysitter come over and Jeremy and I went out to a nice dinner without interruptions. Then I found out my neice was born on my birthday! Yea! Then we went home for yummy Turkey dinner! (we had it twice--at my house and then at Jeremy's house the next day). Jeremy's youngest brother won his football game, now it is the championship game next week. Melissa and I got pedicures. Those always feel nice. And Kamryn helped my mom decorate the Christmas tree. She had so much fun! We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

Our little family


The picture is off-center, but the face was too funny! She liked the cranberry jello, I think it was just tart at first!

Birthday pics



Getting our pedicures

Helping Nana decorate the tree

Good times

This past weekend we had Erin, Keith, Jared and Melissa over. We had a good time staying up really late and playing Olympics. It's a game where everyone comes up with an event, and we all have to do it, and whoever won the most events wins the "gold" medal. One of the events was who can put the puzzles together the fastest. (Mormons have to find creative ways to have fun, what can I say?)






Melissa gettin' down!


The awards ceremony. . . 2nd place isn't too bad!

The kids were cuddling up and posing for an early morning picture!

A Kid-Free Night Out!!

If you look closely at the clock, you can see that it was 12:00!


This picture I took for my sister in-law Sarah, who lives in Hawaii!

I am lucky to have such a great husband and brother in-law that were willing to let Melissa and I enjoy a night out at Disneyland without the kids!! It was so much fun! We went to California Adventure first and rode a few rides there. Geez-the Tower of Terror is so scary! Then we went over to Disneyland and rode a bunch of rides there too! We actually were able to ride Finding Nemo, which wasn't really all that it is hyped up to be. We didn't have to wait longer than 1/2 hour for any of the rides. At midnight, when the park closes, we wanted to go over to Small World to take a picture, since it looks so pretty at night with all of the Christmas lights, and they let us on the ride! We were the last people on it! We closed the park down! It was a lot of fun, but I'm still trying to catch up on the sleep I lost! So thank you Jeremy and Jared!!!

Trick or Treat!!

So first off, we all know I'm not the best cook, but I wanted to make chili and corn bread for Halloween. The white chili I made was more like soup than chili, but it tasted good. Then as I was making the corn bread, I realized as I put the mixture in the pan to cook, that it seemed a little runny. Huh, that's funny. So I looked again at the recipe to make sure I didn't miss anything and I did. I forgot to put in the baking soda. No big deal, I'll just stir it in. Well, once they were cooked and ready to eat you could totally taste the baking soda! They were so gross! Who knew that it really does matter WHEN you add the ingredients! Anyway, I was hoping to hit the streets much earlier than we did. Halloween is a BIG deal around here. At least on two specific streets I know of, it is. So I really wanted Jared, Melissa, Carson and Brooklyn to see these cool houses. I guess I had high expectations, last year, we got to see both of these streets and all of the houses that are all decked out and the bazillion kids crowding the streets. Kamryn normally goes to bed at about 7:00, and we didn't get started until 6:45. So by the time we got to the first really decorated street, the kids were tired. (We hit up our street, and other houses along the way) Carson and Kamryn were so cute holding hands as they walked up to the houses. Melissa and I were 80's girls! The night was fun, don't get me wrong! And I got. . . uhh I mean Kamryn got a full size bag of M&M's! I never got a full size candy bar or anything before! Next year we'll just make sure to get out there earlier, and I'll follow all of the directions on the corn bread! (P.S. When will I ever realize that Halloween isn't for ME anymore?!)