Our Family Photo's!

So here they are! As some of you know we had family photo's done not to long ago. Here are really just a few of the ones we had done. We have so many great shots it was hard to choose. The photographer was great!!!! The one above I liked because just as she told Ty to look at her and smile this is what he did! I think it is cute. I will post a few more every once in a while.

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

WOW what a weekend!

All I can say is thank heaven for Sunday! This Saturday was ONE busy day. My saturday morning started at 6 am when I got up to get ready to be at the boys wrestling tournament at 8am. It was fun for the boys and they both did so well!

Hunter took 2nd Place!

Slade took third place! We were so proud of both of them! Yes I will be the first to admit I am kinda one of those insane mom's who cheer really LOUD! what can I say I love my boys!

So after the Tournament me and Steven went grocery shopping. Then we celebrated Rachel's birthday. Today she is 11! Where does the time go. She has gotten so grown up. We are so proud of the sweet young lady she has become.

So for her birthday she got the wii game Sing it. It is a karaoke type game with disney songs. The Photo of Ty with the microphone was so funny. That boy was really rocking out.

Everyone had a great time singing some High school musical and Hannah Montana!

So onward to sunday we all got ready for church and Ty saw Steven put his tie on sooooo he HAD to have one. This is the one he chose. Yes he wore it to church cause I thought it was so dang cute and so did everyone else.

thankful #4

1- I am Thankful for Grandma's with patience to help do everything my kids need help doing! My mom is so great and I truly don't know what I would do without her around!
2- I am Thankful for Grandpa's with strong legs. In my family we joke around that my dad has a fan club. Every grandson ADORES my dad. Now I really cant explain how serious I am! My boys wont let my dad leave their sight the whole time he is around.
3- I am Thankful for family camp trips! I have so much fun each year on these! You would think we would learn to take the photo the first day when we are all clean instead of the 4th when we well I think the photo explains it all! lol
4- I am Thankful for Capitol Reef! This is where I grew up. It will always have a place in my heart.

Thankful #3

Tonight I am grateful for

1- Great friends! I LOVE my friends and YES my sisters and sister-in-laws are included. I am a talker I love to visit and I am so grateful I have people in my life who like to sit and visit with me.

2- I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE books! I am so thankful for books! I so enjoy to curl up on the couch or in bed and read. Many people do not understand my love of books and believe me I have heard it all. There is just something about opening a book and putting your self in that story with the characters and for that time you are somewhere else. It is wonderful!

3-I am so thankful for those times that everyone is happy. The kids are behaving and all is calm.

4-I am thankful for a clean house. On the other hand I am thankful that I can still play with my kids and its ok with me if a few things are out of place.

5- I am thankful for dates with my husband. I love those times when I can spend an evening totally focused on him and him on me.

6- I am thankful for my I-Pod! Who would have thought when I was a kid that you could have on small little item that would hold all 2000+ songs in one place. I LOVE it.

Thankful #2

Todays Thankful list includes:

1- I am thankful for the seat warmers in my car! They were really nice this morning when I was taking the kids to school and it was COLD!

2- I am thankful for my husbands job! So many are without work. I am grateful.

3- I am thankful for my Grandparents, Mine and Steven's. What joy I have found as an adult spending time visiting with them.

4- I am thankful for evenings when the kids are in bed and I can sit on the bed and visit with Steven about everything and nothing! I am perfectly happy.

Thankful!

So I am going to try and post a few things I am thankful for each day till Thanksgiving.

This is the season to remember and give thanks for all that we are blessed with. So Here I go!

1- I am Thankful for my dishwasher. Yes I know that is odd to start with BUT without my dishwasher I would spend hours a day standing at the sink.

2- I am thankful for my car. To get me and my kids where we need to go!

3- I am thankful for this fun weekend I spent with my family. I always laugh way too hard when I am with them.

4- I am thankful for my home. and all the fun and laughter we have here.

5-I am so grateful for the Temples and my recommend. What peace I feel there with the spirit.

The Potty training Saga continues!

Update: So we reverted back to diapers this weekend. Now I will explain why. This weekend was soooooo busy I was gone or busy ALL day Saturday. Friday When I spent the whole day running errands and cleaning house. Onwards to Saturday it started at 8am when I had to be to super sat. Then I had a baby shower for my sister in-law. After that We had a family dinner at my house. Then on sunday I spent the day at my nephews baby blessing. So as you can see it left no time for me to work with Ty. We will start over fresh this week.

Alisha's Family!

So these are photo's of my Sister and her family! Her little boys are so sweet. I took them for her a few weekends ago down at my parent's home. Matthew was an unwilling model but baby Russell was great!

Day 2

So day one was a huge success! We started the day off with a fight over weather he would wear his underwear or not however after going around bottomless for about 30 min he decided to wear them himself! Score 1 for mom. After a while I spotted him doing a little bit of the I have to pee dance to which he asked me to put a diaper on him and in turn politely refused with a reminder if he peed his pants he had to change his own cloths. After a few moments he disappeared upstairs and then reappeared a minute latter to inform me he had peed on the floor. Well I went upstairs and it was right next to the toilet so I knew he had at least tried. Score 2 for me. So praise was given in abundance and clorox wipes were handed out to clean up the mess (yes I had him I figured if he didn't like it he wouldn't want to do it again). After that Ty used the toilet by himself every time. He did awesome for as much as I was gone yesterday. Even when it was just him and rachel he would still go in and go. Score 3 for ME! Ty was awesome yesterday so by 7:30 last night I could tell he was tired so I cut him some slack and put him back in a diaper. Lets hope today is just as successful!

Day 1

Today is day one of the potty training saga! So today I have decided I will NOT put a diaper on ty.

He is way too smart. Yesterday I tried to get him to sit on the potty and go. Now with the other three kids I told them when they start going in the potty I would take them to Build a Bear and let them make their own bear any one they want. Well in the bathroom yesterday I told this to Ty well as he sat on the floor he told me he wanted a new scooter too! Well wanting this to be painless I agreed (yes I was lying however if it works lol). Well then the next demand came in he not only wants a new scooter, Build a Bear but also a new bike! Yes I agreed (another lie)! Well Steven walked by the bathroom at this point and yelled in " This is NOT let's make a deal it's Potty training! Stop letting him play you! LOL" SOOOOO that brings us to now. I have decided to just not put diapers on him and maybe just maybe he will decide to go to the bathroom. So this morning I put some underwear on him and he got mad took them off and threw them across the room. Then he went and got a diaper and told me to put it on and I REFUSED so we shall see. Oh heaven help I will need it with this stubborn little boy!

So I just found an awesome deal! You can pre order some movies for $10.00 a movie (new realease's) at www.walmart.com it is free shipping! They have the new Harry Potter and Night at the Museum a few others also! Check it out.

So I may lose my mind. I am going to Potty train Ty! I have avoided this for the last few months. Ty has NO interest in potty training. Now I have done this 3 times before. My other kids weren't to bad. However Ty does not want any part of this. I take him in and he down right refuses to use the toilet. Now I am a pro at bribery all of the other kids I told them as soon as they used the potty I would take them to Build a Bear and let them make any bear they want. At this point I have offered every thing I could think of. Yes today I told him I would give him a $100 dollars ( only cause I know he wouldn't lol). I even went and bought him one of those little toilets he did not fit cause he is too big! Well wish me luck and if you have any suggestion's I'm open!

Oh how I love a great sunset or in this case sunrise! This was just before the sun came up.

So this Saturday we are getting family photo's done. I am HOPING with all my hope that my boys listen and smile! Wish me luck.

I'm BACK!

What a weekend we had! It all started thursday when we left to go to my parents home. My family was all meeting at my parents home for the weekend. Are weekend was a full one. Friday we spent just visiting with my parents. Then on saturday everyone was there and we had a blast. We talked and laughed all day long. My mom had bought gory tattoo's and she had WAY to much fun putting them on EVERYONE! Yes not even my dad could escape her halloween tattoo's. The kids carved pumpkins and got dressed and went trick or treating. The very first photo is my favorite though. That is my mom's cat Buckster and it LOVES Ty! This cat would follow and sit on ty everywhere he went. It was so cute. What a fun weekend.