Crazy Crows

About a week or so ago, Brady, Cadence, and I were out swimming in the pool.  I kept hearing some crazy "caw" sounds in the yard but initially we couldn't figure out where they were coming from.  Finally found them, a pair of crows, walking back and forth along the wall nearest the pool.  They just kind of watched us for a while and then took off.  

Later that evening, when my brother and sister-in-law were loading up to head back home, my mom called us all out side to see the commotion.  The crows were back, and they were obviously making themselves at home.  They were not people shy at all.  In fact they were following us around cawing like crazy.  I ran inside to get my camera, since I knew no one would believe how close we were getting to these birds without proof!  It was insane.  

Two days later we found out that our new "neighbors" weren't exactly the greatest to have a around.  They would follow us everywhere and land practically on top of you.  They even followed Cady and I in the car halfway down the road, swooping down at the windshield like they had a death wish or something.  The family across the street had been dealing with them for almost two weeks and they were really getting annoyed.  My mom and I did some research and decided that we really needed to find a way to get them out of our yards.  We found out that once you have one pair living in your yard it wouldn't long before other pairs decided to join them.  They are crazy social and like to live in groups and we did NOT want that.  In the end, we didn't have to do anything about it, since the crows attacked the grandma that lives across the street one to many times.   Our neighbors took matters into their own hands, and I am sad to say the crows are no more.  My mom and I would have liked to find a more humane way to get rid of them, but we are glad that they aren't dive bombing us (especially Cady) in the yard anymore.  It was getting crazy and no one wanted to go outside.  

Other than the crow incident things have been going well.  Cady is growing like a weed and giving us all kinds of lip now.  We still love her though!  lol.  

Also here is my 35 weeks picture.  I feel huge and I am really getting sick of the heat, but I only have about 4 more weeks to go.  The good news is that we have finally picked a name!  We will be naming her Rory, unless she is born and doesn't look anything like a Rory.   In that case we will have the name book at the hospital with us and we will have to see what we can do.  Cadence is excited about her name (we were kind of worried about that since she has been calling her Violet for about 4 months) and I am so happy to finally have something to call this wiggler.  Despite not having ANY room in there, this child NEVER stops moving.  It is totally crazy and my ribs and pelvis are constantly getting a beating.  Cadence never once kicked my ribs so this is a whole new experience for me...and I am kind of worried about what kind of personality she is going to have!  

   
Oh and our house is coming along!  I am pretty sure that I will have Rory before it is finished, but it should be pretty close either way.  Hope you are all doing well!

Too much going on!!

So much has been going on! First of all here is my 28 weeks picture!  I realize that it is 5 weeks late, but I have it so I should put it up!  

Pregnancy is going good.  We still don't have name for this little girl.  It is really very frustrating, but I am sure that we will find something by the time she makes her grand arrival.  

Our house is coming along!  I should really take some pictures of it and post them.  To be honest I don't go out to see it as often as Brady does so I just go off of what he says is happening.  We should be having an inspection sometime soon though and then I will let you all know if we are really on schedule or not.  

This past week or so has been really busy.  Megan went through the temple and Ryan and Megan were sealed on Friday the 11th!  It was an awesome day and I am so proud of them!  Now we are looking forward to the birth of their son in October!  I can't wait to meet him!

I wanted to post some pictures of the last couple of weeks!  There are some of Cadence and some of my nephew Tyson!  Enjoy and I will try to post more of what is going on in our lives in a couple of days!  

Tyson being cute (he is always cute).  This kid is soooooooooo mellow.  It is insane how mellow he is.  Also he apparently is good luck as well.  My brother-in-law, Colin, was holding him while he was bowling on the Wii and managed to pick up an insane hard spare and the bowled something like 5 straight strikes.  Everyone playing wanted to hold him after that!  

Cady has been bugging me to take a picture of her "pretty shoes" for a while.  She likes me to take pictures of things and then show her the picture in the camera.  She loves these shoes and I am totally kicking myself for not buying them in the next three sizes since she is almost grown out of them.  

More of Tyson...he is just so stinking cute!


Can you tell how much she loves him!  All she ever wants to do is hold him!

Anyway, I hope that everyone had a great 4th of July and that your summers have been great!  Till next time!

Shhhhhhhhh.....

I don't want to jinx it...but CADY IS POTTY TRAINED!  Almost two whole weeks accident free!

We have been really frustrated with the whole idea of potty training as of late and had almost given up.  The Sunday before last Brady and I decided to give it one last try with some new tactics that I got from a bulletin board online.

How did we do it you ask?  Well here is what we did...

Step one was to move the potty out of the bathroom and put it in plain sight.  On Saturday before last we put the potty in the foyer.  It is in the middle of the house and very easy to get to from just about anywhere that doesn't already have a potty.  Also Cady could see it pretty much ALL the time.  We did not mention the moving of the potty.  Cady commented on the change of location but we didn't explain why we were doing this.  

Step two was on Sunday.  We put Cady in some underwear (she picked out some princess underwear and we bought three weeks worth so we wouldn't be washing it ALL the time should we enter accident heaven).  We showed Cady were the potty's were (all the potty's in the house) and then gave her instructions on how to go potty, something like "When you have to go find a potty, pull down your underwear and sit on the potty until you are done.  Then you wipe and pull up your underwear and flush the potty."  We did not ask her if she had to go or if she would like to go.  We let her tell us.  The day started off pretty good.  Her only accident was a Number 2 accident.  We told her that she had an accident and that since is was her poo/pee that she had to clean it up.  She did most of the work and we would help when it was clear that she needed it, but we did not do it for her.  She was miserable cleaning it up, and I felt bad, but we stayed consistent.  We really wanted her to learn that this was her responsibility and that no one else could tell her when except for her.  Part of that responsibility is cleaning up her own messes.  

Step three was to just keep doing as we had the day before.  By day four (Wednesday) we were accident free and have been ever since!  I really couldn't believe that it worked, but even when we go somewhere or are in the car Cady lets us know if she needs a bathroom!  She is SO proud of herself and still claps and tells herself good job whenever she goes.  It has been awesome to see her so confident and happy.  She hates to put a diaper on for sleeping now.  Claims she is a big girl and that diapers are for babies.  That we should save them for her little sister.  

So CONGRATS CADENCE!  We are so proud of you!

Here's to Four Years!

Today is our 4th Anniversary! I can't believe it's been that long already...and at the same time it feels like so much longer! I just wanted to tell Brady how much I love and appreciate him. It has been an awesome four years and I look forward to many more!

Family Visits

Whitney and Cord came to visit to meet Tyson and we had so much fun hanging out with them. I also got some new shots of Avery.
New things I have learned about Ave...she almost always looks surprised and she almost always has her mouth open. I love it!


Cadence was mad cause I told her that she had to wait to go swimming and this was the look she was sporting for about 15 minutes....


More of darling Avery...


After Whitney and Cord left Cadence was refusing to take a nap. She needed one badly...I know this because she was throwing fits left and right about things she normally doesn't have issues with. So she had to go to time out (put her nose on the wall). When her 2 minutes were up she went and found her Eeyore and just about every baby doll she could find and climbed up in a chair and told me that she didn't like me. I left her a lone for a bit since I was on the phone with Dr.'s office and by the time I finished (we are talking like 5 minutes) I looked over and found this...
This was at 4:45pm...much to late to be taking a nap. I only let her sleep for 40 minutes and then woke her up. She was still up till about 10pm that night. It was insane. But the picture was priceless.

Pictures of Tyson

Tyson is here!

My sister, Cecily, and her husband Donald welcomed Tyson Kai (hope I spelled that right!) into the world yesterday, June 7th, at 3:30pm. He was 6lbs 15ozs and 19.5 inches long. He has big feet and crazy long fingers and a head full of "nappy blonde hair" (my sister's words not mine!). If any of you have ever seen my sisters husband (his genes are very islander) then you understand how odd the blonde hair part is...Donald is very dark and we were of course expecting crazy, curly, dark hair. Apparently our family's blonde genes are a bit more powerful than we ever thought! lol. So it is crazy, curly blonde hair!
Cecily is a champ. She had contractions for about 24 hours at home before they were regular enough to be admitted at the hospital. Once she got to the hospital (at about 8:30am) she just clipped right along and Tyson was here a few hours later!
I will have plenty of pictures very soon!
The funny thing about all this...my mom's birthday is June 4th, my grandma's is June 5th, my dads is June 6th and now we have Tyson on the 7th! Talk about a busy week in our family!
Yeah for my first NEPHEW!


P.S. Stef...Cecily says that she was copying you...you know since the 7th was such a good day to have a cute baby boy! Happy Birthday Caleb!