We did it!!!

Three weeks ago I made the decision to try potty training Grayson. I had planned to dedicate three days to it. This means no leaving the house, no pull-up's, no diapers. I set the timer for 30 min and we would go try. He loves books so we Incorporated reading while he sat on the potty. By day #3 he had a whole 3 stickers on his potty chart and I had wondered what I had started. Then day #4 (Thursday) came and we had nothing planned so I thought one more day. Two accidents in the morning and then something must have clicked, he went from noon on Thursday to Sunday morning with no accidents! And now three weeks later I can't even remember how many days we have gone. And he has stayed dry at night for over a week and a half.

I let him pick out a new package of underwear at the store and he chose dinosaurs. The day we bought them he had put on a new pair each time he went potty and would carry all the other ones all over with him.

Good Job Grayson

What do you do....

So yesterday morning we were getting ready for church and Addie and I had already had a disagreement on the dress she should wear. She loves her polka-dot easter dress (from two years ago) that is a bit on the short side now, but I let her wear it one more time. That's not the worst part. I was in our bathroom doing my hair and when I walked out I saw that the door to the other bathroom was closed. I immediately knew why... she opened the door and had the biggest, proudest smile on her face. Yes, she had done her own hair. She sprayed it with the squirt bottle and then brushed it out. With her curly hair you can only imagine what it looked like brushed out. "I did my own hair mom"..... What do you do? Ryan and I looked at each other and we were not sure what to do.

Well I let her go to church that way and I grit my teeth the whole day. And I had forgotten that in Primary they were going to spotlight Addie Wilson's Family!!! So you can imagine what her hair looked like the last 15 minutes of a 3 hour block of church when they did the spotlight and we both got to stand up in front of everybody. But all in all the sun still came up this morning. So let them be little...I guess.

This picture was taken after the water had dried but the whole top of her hair was soaked.

Tubing at Soldier Hollow

We had the opportunity to go experience the tube runs at Soldier Hollow near Heber on Saturday. If any of you have ever wondered about trying this... you NEED to. It's the coolest thing.

So if you look to the left of the picture you can see the row of tubes being pulled up the hill. Yes you sit in your tube and get pulled up. No walking up the hill involved. And then you choose the run of your choice to go down and away you go. Okay, so I did not get to try it. I gave up my pass to Grayson who was "too young." But it looked so fun and it is defiantly on my list of things to do next winter.

This girl did not want to stop. When we left it was dark and the slope was lit up by lights and Addie said "I want to go six more times." She loved it so much. and did not want to stop.

This was a picture of Ryan after the first ride down. He is pulling Grayson in one of the tubes. Ryan wanted to quit after 1 time but then we got a hat on him and his face covered up a little he was good for the next two hours. Grayson went twice and had a bit of a scare the second time down so we ended up watching from the nice warm car.

Dinosaur Museum

On New Year's Eve we ventured up to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point. The kids loved it!

It's a good thing we had Grayson with us. He would let us know which ones were mean and which ones were the nice ones.

And who doesn't love a family picture when your pregnant?

Riding the Stegosaurus.

David (Ryan's dad), Ryan, Grayson, Addie, Colleen (Ryan's mom) in front of the giant shark mouth.
This is Grayson playing in the Erosion display area, where they get to build dams and lakes and see how erosion works. They thought it was pretty neat.

Happy Birthday Ryan and Christmas Eve

Ryan's birthday is the 24th so we had a fun day celebrating him. The kids and I decorated the living room with streamers and balloons while he got to stay in bed late. Then we had birthday pancakes (Ryan even got a candle in his) We got to go to lunch together without the kids. Then we hit the slopes again for some sledding fun and returned home just in time to have family over for cake and ice cream.

Happy Birthday Dad, we love you.

After the celebration the kids opened the traditional Christmas Eve present... pajamas.
This year my mom helped me make them and they turned out so so so cute. We made top and bottom for both kids and pajama pants for Ryan and I. My mom even surprised us with a present for the new baby and inside it she had made a pair of p.j's for the baby.

I took a whole bunch of these two crazy kids and sadly this is the best one.

This picture was actually taken on Christmas day but we will say it was Christmas Eve.

First Snow

This post is rathher late but when you have a husband home 24 hours a day for two weeks and the Holiday spirit the last place I want to be is sitting in front of the computer. A couple of weeks ago we got the first real snow fall (the one that really puts down the snow) So we HAD to hit the local sledding hill.

It was around 8:00 at night when we finally got home and got all dressed up. It was perfect, and the kids loved every minute of it.

What would playing in the snow be with out eating a whole bunch.