Potty Training!

This is one of those post that no one really wants to read but I use this blog to journal so, bear with me! Kason is officially potty trained! yaaa!! NO MORE DIAPERS! I had tried to potty train him the traditional way a few months ago and it was a serious no-go. He was not having it and I was not interested in staying inside all day and taking him to the potty every 20 min. on the dot.

Luckily, he decided on his own that he was ready. He was at Steve's for the weekend and said, Dad I'm going to go potty in the big boy potty. He went. Steve told me about it so I thought I'd go with it and see if it stuck. It did!! A few accidents later we were all set. Even at night! Ah, so very nice!

Summer fun with cousins

I got to babysit my cute neices and nephew for an overnighter and we had so much fun! They are such sweet kids.

Seaside Trip

 Catching up on my blog here. In July we went to Seaside with our friends. We love vacationing with them because we have kids the same age and the adults have even more fun when the kids go to bed! We all crammed into one car and drove down together. We stopped at this awesome park and ate lunch.

 Thanks to these friends (I'm trying to protect their identity, can ya tell? :) ) Kason and I just got to show up to a vacation already plannned. We got a condo practically across the street from the beach. It was W-I-N-D-Y but we had a blast making sandcastles and jumping the waves. Kason ran right in and got drenched in the first 5 minutes...which means so did I :)

 We brought bikes for the boys and they LOVED it. There is a long promenade into town that they enjoyed riding back and forth on. I couldn't find Kason's helmet before we left so I brought this hand-me-down helmet. I'm pretty sure it's for skiing! ha.

 They boys were in heaven with this train ride

 The hat shop!

 Oh...and my personal fav...the candy shop!

Bummed I couldn't get this pics to turn around..and...I'm too lazy to fix it! All in all, great trip, great memories, funny moments and plans to go back next year!

Just a few funny pics...

I don't carry around my big SLR camera very often. I keep my little point and shoot in my purse becasue it is just fine for our daily documenting :)! I hadn't uploaded any pics in a while and found a few funny ones, enjoy...

 We're cheap and don't have cable...OR a wireless modem...haha soooo this is how we watched conference! I wonder how long this will stay fun...

 Ok, this is not from my camera but I found it and started laughing..yes, he does have panyhose on his head. It was a game we played at our family reuion...think what you may..

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 I swear I turned around and this is what I found. Kason, with my running shoes on (the wrong feet) and my ipod in and playing. ha! I said, whoa- what are you doing? His reply..."I just go for run" - gotta start em young right?

This is my cute nephew. Look how stinkin high those pants are! haha we're getting a glimpse of what age 84 might look like!



Arizona Trip

I've been a total slacker on this blog, but here goes my catch up. I had the chance to go visit my sis. and bro. in law in Arizona last month. Oh my, what a treat! My mom watched Kason for me for 5 days!! What a trooper. Kason had such a blast and pretty sure, wore my mom out! That's saying a lot, she usually has about double the energy I do on any given day.

 We went on a hike in the desert...literally! It was really fun to see such different terrain. I never knew there were so many kinds of cact-i? It was hot, but windy so we survived!

 Had to capitalize on the time away from kiddo and take care of some roots while I was there! Thanks to Tiffany, Brooke's friend for taking me on such short notice!

 Brooke and Ransom hanging out on the rock at "the top" of our hike! We saw lots of lizards and kept an eye out for snakes and scorpians! Luckily, we didn't meet any...

 Brooke and I walked through downtown and stopped in these cute vintage clothing shops. Thanks for modeling, pickles!

Cannot fail to mention that she got her wedding dress on 9 months post baby! Amazing..

This vacation was sooo nice. I didn't realize how much I needed it, until I was there and got to just relax and unwind. The first day they both were gone until about 5:30, so I just layed by the pool (got fried to a crisp!) and read a book. Yes, me, a non-reader, read a book! Thanks Brooke and Ransom for letting me stay with you and showing me the sights of Tuscon!

Happy Easter!

 Kason woke up so excited to see what the Easter Bunny brought him!

 We had so much fun celebrating with cousins!

 He was such a pro this year!

 Happy Easter!!



Our Special guest....Nigel!

Kason is in a co-op preschool called the "busy bees" He LOVES it!! This week it was my turn to teach so of course, I had to utilize my connections with "the reptile lady" aka Megan, my Sis. (in law). She has a 6+ foot snake named Nigel. She should really do this full time because it was like having a pro come it. The kids all LOVED him. The one girl in our class was the most interested. The boys would touch him and then shreak and squirm while she full on held him. It was so much fun to watch. Thank you Megan and Nigel!!