There's a party in our potty!

Dylann has started the potty training business and it happened purely by surprise. We have been working with her by setting her on the potty only a couple of times a week just to get her over her fear of the potty. So she would at least sit on the potty for half a second before jumping off and running around naked for a while. Then, all of a sudden, while we were at Grandma and Grandpa Sanden's house on Saturday something clicked and she went on the potty and then went again, and again. The next thing we new she was dry all day! So she has decided that she wants to be a big girl and use the potty. She has been using the potty pretty good since and loves wearing her new BIG GIRL underwear! YEAH DYLANN!!

Here she is going potty at Grandma and Grandpa's house! Of course she needs to have her sippy cup every where she goes and that includes the bathroom!

I did it!!!
Dylann looking awfully cute in her new big girl underwear. When we took her shopping for the underwear she first wanted to have the boy's spiderman underwear. We did settle on Hello Kitty underwear instead. Silly girl!!

2nd Annual Neighborhood Party!

Right now all of us are recovering from another exciting and fun neighborhood party. We started this tradition last year with our neighbors and it was a huge success and so we had to do it again this year! The only problem we encountered this year was the yucky weather. The clouds were threatening rain all week and so we were all on the edge of out seats trying to come up with a plan if it did rain. Thankfully the rains stayed away for the most part for the party. It was cloudy as could be and drizzly at times, but we were still able to have a great time and lots of people still showed up. The kids were running around on sugar highs all night from the cotton candy and bouncing like crazy in the bounce house that we had rented. The kids really had a blast and so did the adults. It sure is fun to meet some of the new people in the neighborhood and to catch with some of the neighbors we don't see to often.

Gage is sporting a great cotton candy face:)

Aaron is considering become a professional carnie after this party!











Lohan is showing Aaron his Kung Fu moves.
Luke is wondering what the hell Lohan is doing
More Kung Fu. Only with sticks.

Memorial weekend

We had a perfect Memorial Weekend this year!! The weather was beautiful. Hot and sunny it was all weekend long. We were busy bees all weekend as we are trying to finish some of our landscaping that is 3 years overdue. We got a good chuck of it done this weekend. We planted lots of bushes and flowers in the hopes that some of them survive. We also came up with the questionable idea to put in a pond in the front of our house. We were thinking that ponds can't be that hard or too expensive, but as we are finding out we may not be exactly right. I guess we will just have to see how it turns out. :)

The kids had a great time this weekend playing in the pool, have our first campfires in our new fire pit, fishing, and swimming in the lake. Dylann is a little water baby! She could spend all day in her swimsuit laying in the pool playing Littlest Pet Shop. Gage isn't as into the pool as Dylann is, but he loves to be our little helper and he helped us dig many of our holes for our new flowers.

We brought the kids fishing and swimming today with Grandma and Grandpa Kilen and we all had a blast. Dylann actually caught a fish which is rather surprising. She has her own fishing methods and apparently they paid off. She sat on the edge of the dock twirling her fishing pole in the water and she would get mad and start to yell at the fish as they tried to eat her worm. When she caught her fish she didn't know what to think. She couldn't believe she actually got one. Gage was a little disappointed that he didn't get a fish, but soon forgot about it when we went down to the beach to go swimming. He had a blast seeing how deep he could go and running around. Dylann loved swimming in the lake too. She thought that she could go as deep as Gage and didn't care that water was up to her mouth. She has no fear when it comes to water. I'm not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing!

After all of the activity this weekend the kids are completely exhausted and in bed early tonight. Yippee!!

Making marshmallows with Dad.

Yummy!





Silly face.


Dylann thought that she should spread the frosting from her donut all over her arms like lotion instead of eating it. Strange little girl.
Gage and Grandpa with the first catch of the day.
Grandma watching Dylann fish.
Gage and Dad working hard at catching some fish.
Grandpa helping Dylann get a worm on her hook.
Mom helping Dylann reel in her first fish!!!
And here it is!
Pretty little fish!
Dylann had to touch it's tail.
Trying to catch more. Dylann thought that it was easier to fish while laying on her belly.
Gage trying hard to catch something.
Grandpa got another one!



I actually caught a fish!
Gage exhausted after the long weekend.
Dylann stealing strawberries from our strawberry planter.
Here is a video of the kids and a "frog" that they found. Actually it is a toad. It is a little dark, but fun to listen to the kids anyway.

Gage and Dylann are pretending to be super heros and "flying" off the stairs.

Dylann caught her first fish.