Syd's Preschool Graduation!

It was Syd's last day of school today so I went at the end to watch while they had they're little graduation. They had made little hats and they got diplomas so it was really cute. We took a couple of pictures with her friends so she could remember everyone.

Syd has always had a crazy smile, she used to kind of tuck her lips under and now its turned into another crazy smile, I don't know how to describe it though. She's so funny!

(Thanks Heidi for the other pics seen as though I was there late, good job me, so thanks!)

Sleeping Cuties!

This morning Spencer and Madison were asleep in my bed, they looked so cute so I took a picture.

P.S. Spencer's potty training is going okay I guess, he peed a bunch of times in the evening yesterday but this morning he's doing okay so we'll see how it goes!?

Accident number 1!

Well it's been all of 10 minutes and Spencer already peed in his big boys! Alteast he was outside so he didn't get it in the house! I'm not sure how much longer this is going to last! It seemed like a good idea but maybe not really!!!

We'll see how this goes?

Today Spencer has already been potty 2 times so I thought we'd give the big boy underwear a whirl! I'm not quite sure how this is going to go but we'll see. He goes potty quite a bit but still pees in his diaper a lot too so today could be interesting. It might only last during the morning, it depends how patient I am, (I'm not a very patient person)! Anyway we'll see how it goes and I'll keep you updated!

Nice and round!

Maddie took this picture of me on Saturday, she loves using the camera. I'm not a fan of getting pregnant pictures taken but seen as though Maddie took it I thought I'd add it on here, plus then my family can see me in all me bigness! I actually really don't care about getting big when I'm pregnant, it's just the getting smaller again afterwards but it's all worth it! Only just over 3 months to go now, YEAH!

(Note me lovely tan line from my watch, pretty impressive after only being in the sun a few times).

He's a real little man now!

So today we decided to go and visit Steve's Grandparents who are in our ward. Maddie was at school so I just had Spencer and Sydney. They were having a great time and Spencer didn't want to leave so I went to get Madison and then we stayed there for another 3 hours. It was a great afternoon and the weather was lovely.

Apart from being such a wonderful day I think the best part of my day today was Spencer's new discovery!

Trudy's (Trudy is our relative that lives behind Steve's Grandparents) grandson Cole needed to go potty while we were at Grandma's so we told him to go by the tree. He's almost 3 so he knows all about going potty outside and thinks it's great fun. Anyway just after we had told Cole to go potty by the tree Spencer decided he wanted to join Cole in this manly venture!

So Cole went potty and Spencer watched patiently and then when he was done Spencer decided it was his turn. Spencer took his shorts off then his diaper and started to pee. He's not potty trained yet but he goes potty at home when ever he feels like it so he kind of knew what he was doing. It was so funny to watch him though because he would kind of lean back and then he would try again. Of course he wouldn't put his diaper back on and was trying to go potty for about 10 minutes. We got a picture but it wasn't very modest and we thought we'd save him that embarrassment even though I guess he wasn't very embarrassed about running around Grandma's half naked!

After tinkling here and there around the pine tree like a puppy he decided he would try and go number two but I didn't think that was a very good idea so I quickly took him in the house and we did that on the toilet. Even once we got back outside he wanted to keep trying to pee, it was so funny.

When Steve got there after work we were telling him about it and showing him the picture, which by the way Spencer was saying a nice big cheese when it was taken! Steve said, "well it won't be long until he's standing at the ditch bank with his cousins, seeing who can pee the highest or the furthest".

Well that was my fun day, I guess what I learned from that is that boys really are VERY different from girls. Well I guess I already knew that but today just helped reconfirm it even more. It was pretty cute though!

What a great deal!

So I just got back from Albertsons and I'm sooo excited with the great deals I got! They already had a good sale but after using some coupons, instead of paying $175 I only had to pay $40, what a fantastic deal!!! My receipt was HUGE and the kids ran around like nutters but it was all worth saving that much money.

For that amazing price I got 20 boxes of cereal, 10 boxes of fruit snacks, 10 boxes of granola bars, 10 boxes of fruit roll ups and 4 bags of cookies, not bad! The only bad thing was when I got out to the car the receipt blew away so I had to chase it around the parking lot which wasn't too much fun and after I finally got it I wondered whether it was really worth it as my belly was aching.

Anyway I've been trying really hard with my food storage this year so deals like these are fantastic.

Oh my GOODNESS!

I know I said that I'm sure Spencer hurting his nose was the beginning to the injuries this summer but I didn't think another one would happen so fast. Tonight he decided to nose plant off the stool in the kitchen and this was the result. Not a very nice picture I know but this is what I saw when I walked in the kitchen. He kept saying, "this is not good". I'm sure his nose is probably broken by now after these two last events and a few weeks ago getting bashed with the swings twice. BOYS, it must be a boy thing!

My poor son!

MY POOR FACE!






Yesterday the kids were playing outside while I was at the store and I came home to my poor little son looking like this! He had fallen on the wooden stairs outside and had hit his head and bashed his nose to pieces, he looked like a clown at first, well he probably still does bless him. Anyway I took some pictures this morning before church, he would look so handsome without his lovely scrapes but oh well! Anyway life is good and I guess with summer round the corner this is probably just the beginning of all the cuts and scrapes they'll get in the next few months!

Sydney's trip to Bear World

Today we went to Bear World for Sydney's preschool trip, she had such a good time. It was so nice just to be able to spend some time with her doing something different. We saw elk, deer, grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, a moose, a buffalo, white lamas, and a few other little animals. It was cool to see the bears just walking around all over the place. One of her favourite parts was being able to pet the baby bears, they were so cute! They had a little petting zoo at the end but she wasn't into petting all the animals, only the deer. She was more worried about stepping on poop I think, which was all over the place!

We had to ride the bus there, that was her other favourite thing. She had already told Maddie that she was going to sit at the back of the bus and that is just what we did. We got bounced around all over the place back there but it was fun and as long as she had a good time I could handle feeling like I was on some kind of theme park ride!