Carving Pumpkins

Well last night we decided that we should finally carve our pumpkins. We had hoped that Jackson would enjoy it as much as he did last year, but he was SO not into it. Maybe because we are not really into it either. Anyways, we tried to get him to pull the guts out, but he did not want to do that. At the end once we were all done carving he did put a spoon in and pretend to get stuff out. Kenadi on the other hand kept trying to eat the pumpkin guts and was enjoying it. Oh man! Anyways, here are some pictures.

Hmm...

It's been awhile since we've posted and that's because nothing too exciting is going on. It snowed last night. So this morning while Kenadi was napping, Jackson and I went outside to play in the snow. He had a great time until he fell in. Then he cried and that was the end of that. Now, out of boredom the kids are taking a bath and loving it. That's what we do when its too cold to play outside and there is nothing else to do. Maybe something exciting will happen and I will blog again, but for now we'll keep it at this.

Kenadi is Officially Mobile!

Kenadi is on a move and crawling now! Here is a video of her in action.

More Pictures from this Weekend!

SOme of our Awesome New Family Pictures!

Jackson's Birthday!

We had a fun day with Jackson. We opened presents, went to the dinosaur museum, had homemade pizza and talked on the webcam with the grandparents. It was a great day. Here are pictures from it. 



New cars! always a fun thing for little boys.



Kenadi was thrilled to be at the dinosaur museum. We kept her in her carseat because she was sleeping and this is how she looked when she woke up.

Jackson say, "Aaarh" because thats what dinosaurs say.

This was a cool thing. Its filled with sand and has water in it that flows and dinosaurs and trees so you can design the landscape. We had taken Jackson to the bathroom before getting to this but he didnt need to go, too bad the sound of the water made him realize that he needed to go and we couldn't get to the bathroom in time. Thats alright. It was his first accident and the sound of the water was making me need to go to the bathroom.

He really liked the frosting, so thats why he has two cupcakes. I can't really blame him it is really good frosting.

Can't believe we have a two year old. He is such a fun kid! Happy Birthday Jack!

Happy Birthday Jackson!

Jackson turns 2 today! I can't believe its been two years since he was born. He has grown so much. He has definitely been worth all the trouble he caused during my pregnancy. Look how cute he was as a newborn.

 Yesterday, Jackson got a birthday card and was excited to open it.

 This morning we had doughnuts and milk for breakfast then Jackson got to open a couple of presents.

 Happy Birthday Jackson! We love you more than we ever thought possible! 

At 2 years old, here are some of your favorite things:

Green Vegetables- if its green you'll eat it. Especially salad, cucumbers, and bell peppers.

You love to Dance! You break out dancing to any song that comes on.

Singing in the car

Singing Popcorn Popping

Milk and Capri Suns

Dinosaurs

Cars 

Curious George (this is like your absolute favorite!)

Toy Story

Cookie dough 

Cooking with mom

You are so much fun to have around. You still don't say much, but are great at following directions (most of the time), you are basically potty trained- we still have maybe 1 accident a day but you only wear diapers for naptime and bedtime and a pull up for church, you have stayed in  nursery 2 weeks in a row by your self, you are so cute with Kenadi and play with her all the time (sometimes a little too much but she doesn't seem to mind being dragged to wear the toys are). We love you Jackson and hope you have a wonderful birthday!

(We are going to the dinosaur museum later today and there are still presents to open and cake to eat so there will be more pictures to come)

Pictures

Well since I have been totally slacking in putting up pictures here are some from the past couple of weeks.

He eats bell peppers like an apple

After a nap, he was coming up the stairs but was too tired to make it all the way up so he fell asleep on the stairs. He slept like that for probably a half hour then made it up to the second set of stairs and fell asleep on those too.

Miss Kenadi looking pretty before bedtime. She is 7 months and moving all over. She hasn't figured out how to go forward, but has mastered moving backwards.

Poor kid has a cold. Yesterday morning he woke up all stuffed up and congested. Hopefully he gets feeling better, his birthday is tomorrow!

Do you ever

look at your life and think how wonderful it is? I do..quite often. Mostly during the quiet times of my day (i.e. noon  nap time and late at night when everyone but me is asleep). Now don't get me wrong, there are days (like yesterday when one little girl didn't want to take naps- I won't name names) that it is a long day to get through, but then to see the smiles on my kids faces when dad gets home and they are all playing around together is the best thing in the world. Even when things are a little on the tough side, I wouldn't trade it for the world. I feel so fortunate that I can stay home and play with my kids all day. After one rough day with whining children, I was telling Andrew how Jackson and Kenadi just wanted me to hold them and I had so much to do. He then asked me if I would prefer it if they didn't ever want me. Yeah that was a good reminder that even in the days where I have a million things to do and they just want me to sit and hold them, thats okay. Everything can wait (usually) and I can just sit and hold them. They aren't going to be little forever (and no, I wouldn't want them to stay little forever either).

Slacking!

Man, I've really been slacking on our blog lately. I do have a good reason though, we have been potty training! Anyone whose potty trained (Bobbie you don't count) knows how time consuming it is. For the first couple of days I didn't even take a shower until Andrew came home because I didn't trust Jackson and didn't want to clean pee up off of the floor. So we've been doing that for a week and its going really well. He still has accidents and we still need to remind him to go potty but slowly he is starting to just go and sit on his potty when he needs to. Just this morning I asked himand he told me no. Then about 15 minutes later he went sat down on his potty by himself. I am ecstatic! Maybe it really is sticking in his little brain! My goal is for him to be daytime potty trained (minus nap time-not ready to tackle that one yet) by the time he is 2. We have just under two weeks until then and I think he'll get it. He is really good at holding it and has not had any accidents when we've been out. Even when we went to my great grandpas house on Saturday which is about 45 minutes away he didnt have an accident! We were pretty excited for that. We're so proud of how well he is doing, especially since he is still on the younger side for potty training.
   Other than that we really haven't been up to much. We are loving Heber! The kids and I love to go for walks up here. It is so beautiful! It seems so much quieter than Orem. Our ward is super nice too! People are genuinely nice and welcoming. Such a different experience from the last time we went to a family ward in Utah (we went when we were first married and absolutely HATED it). So far its been a great experience. Jackson even stayed in nursery the whole time yesterday. We aren't sure if he liked it but they didn't have to come get us so it must not have been too bad.
   Well thats it for now. No pictures right Andrew just put them all on the external hard drive and we all know how good I am at getting pictures off of there). But I will say that Jackson just went potty again, by himself, without prompting! YES!

She's Back!!!

So as I mentioned in my previous post about Kenadi, she has been having a hard time adjusting to our new place. It probably is because for about a month we had no routine whatsoever. Anyways, last night as we were eating dinner she got really fussy. We knew she was sleepy but she didn't want to be picked up. Andrew picked her up and she started crying hard. So he laid her on the ground and gave her her binky and within 5 minutes she was out! Man, I love that she is doing that again.

Then, this morning she was playing on the ground and started whining a bit. Then all at once, and I mean like within a minute, shes quiet and not moving. Yeah she's asleep! So I guess we are delaying our walk for a little bit and I'm just fine with that- especially since she fell asleep on her own.

Love this little girl! (Did I mention that she slept through the night last night. Hopefully she's getting back into that routine too! And she just went back to sleep after her wonderful brother stepped on her)