Announcement!

Baby #3 will be joining our family in February 2010!!

We got to hear the heart beat last week and we have an ultrasound in 2 weeks. We are so excited to add another baby to our family!!

Potty Training

After Brycen's birthday we decided to give potty training another try. We had tried a few months earlier but he was definitely not ready so we took a break. I wasn't expecting much from him but he surprised us. Something clicked in those months while we took a break and he has done awesome! It has only been two weeks but he is now in underwear full time and has only had a few accidents. He even sleeps all night and wakes up dry. It feels so weird to only have one child in diapers now. I never thought this day would come.

Yesterday, he just wanted to sit on the potty and play with his toys. He stayed there for about an hour. Silly boy!

Brycen's 3rd Birthday

Brycen turned 3 on July 6. He got to have two parties. One in Prescott with Jeff's family while we were there for the Fourth of July and then one with my family after we got home. He got his beloved Geo Trax that he had been asking for for at least 6 months. He has played with them everyday since and never wants to put them down. They really are an awesome toy.

He had his 3 year checkup and he is 35 lbs and 44 inches tall!! He is way off the charts for height just like his daddy.

I can't believe my baby is 3!!

Geo Trax!

Happy Father's Day!

Leah's Bad Day

We always knew that Leah was going to be our first child to send us to the ER or urgent care and that finally happened this week.

Leah was playing in the backyard and she tripped and fell face first into the rocks. I immediately picked her up and she had a few scrapes on her face and I didn't think it was that bad until I saw a small shadow in the corner of her eye. At first I thought it really was just a shadow and then I realized, as it got bigger, that her eye was filling with blood. We rushed her to urgent care where they checked her out and said that they didn't see any serious damage but they referred us to an opthalmologist so they could check to be sure. We took her the next morning where they dilated her pupils to make sure there was no permanent damage. They said she was very lucky that she didn't have more serious damage. They diagnosed her with a sub conjunctival hemorrhage and told us that it would heal within two weeks. They said it looks a lot worse than it actually is but it still looks terrible. Poor baby!

50th Wedding Anniversary

On Friday, my grandparents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. We had family fly in for the occasion and we partied all weekend. On Friday afternoon we did a session at the temple. My grandparents are very proud that all five of their children and spouses and all of their grandchildren (who are old enough) are worthy to enter the temple. We had 17 people there minus a few who either couldn't get off work, just had surgery or are on missions. After that we had a large family dinner with some extended family. We presented my grandparents with a quilt that we made that has the handprints of all 20 of their grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren on it.

On Saturday, the whole family (at least 30 people) went to Goldfield Mine & Ghost Town. My great-grandfather discovered the mines there back in the 1890's so we were the VIP guests for the day. We got to do all of the attractions for free and we were given a special tour of the actual mines that my great-grandfather discovered. We had a lot of fun.

Tonight, we are headed over to my grandparents house to hang out and eat food. It has been a very crazy but enjoyable weekend.

June 5, 1959

June 5, 2009

The quilt

Swimming Lessons

This week the kids started swimming lessons. As always, Brycen is very timid about it and Leah has no fear. She starts squealing and splashing as soon as we get in the water. On the first day, Brycen sat on the steps and said "No Daddy, you go swim. I'll just sit here". He's so funny.

Driving to swimming lessons with their cool sunglasses. They are both obsessed with sunglasses. Brycen even sleeps with his on.