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!

Cecily's Babyshower and Cadence and Avery

So much has happened in the last little while!  To start off, on the 10th we had my sister Cecily's baby shower!  I know some of you didn't know she was having a baby.  She is due to have a little boy (the very first boy in our immediate family!) around June 9th.  Her shower was AWESOME!  So many people showed up and she and the baby made out like bandits!  I can't wait to meet her son and see what a great mom she will be.  

Whitney and Avery flew out a couple of days before the shower and we had a great time hanging out.  I don't think Cadence left Avery's side unless one of them was sleeping!  She was such a big help and still asks when Avery is coming back to our house!  We took some pictures while they were here.  Much thanks to Whitney, Mom, Cecily, Cadence and Avery for going with me out to the JW Marriott to scout some places to take photos for my shoot on the 10th!  We had such a great time!

We also got to go up to Cedar City this past weekend.  Brady, Whitney,Cord, and Cord's brother's and sisters (some in-laws) all went paint balling!  They had a great time.  Cadence and I had a great time baby sitting Avery!  Cadence was once again a huge help.  Avery is teething and was a bit grumpy from time to time (who wouldn't be...I remember my wisdom teeth...not fun!).  I need to pick up some food stuffs at Walmart while everyone was gone, so I packed up both kids and went.  Both kids were being so very good.  Cadence was sitting in the basket with Avery in the seat.  We were getting a goodly amount of attention though...I think most people were trying to figure out how old Avery was and just how far along in my pregnancy I was.  Only one person actually asked me about it.  We managed to get everything we needed before Avery had a complete meltdown...lol...poor girl was hungry and tired.  We made it out of the store alive and I am happy to say that I think I will survive having two little girls out in public.  The weekend was great fun, but I am happy to be home.

Other than that things are going as usual for us.  We are waiting to hear more on our house.  I will drive over this week and get some pictures of the lot.  I hope to do that every week so we can keep track of the progress!  

I hope that everyone is having a happy May and that all you moms out there had a great Mother's Day!