Mom and Shannon are coming!

I am driving by myself with the kids to pick up Mom and Shannon from the airport today (1.5 hour drive) wish me luck!! We are then going to Lancaster to experience some amish! I'm so excited!!

time to get a gate for the stairs?!

Maelie and Kyla with their friend Abbie

AHHH!! Look what Jaxon did yesterday!

He was pretty proud of himself!

seriously in shock here....

and a FIRM believer that every child is so different! When I pottytrained Maelie, I thought it was the hardest thing I had ever done and I thought I was a horrible mother! SERIOUSLY! So, I have totally been putting off Kyla, even when she went potty at 16 months old, I didn't push it at all. Well, Kyla is already telling me when she needs to go! Maelie doesn't even do that still!!! Maelie only tells me she needs to go when she needs to poop! I am still telling her to go before we go anywhere and when we get home and she still has occasional accidents! ANYWAY, it is just so crazy how different each child is! I am in HUGE relief that Kyla is doing so well and just hope and pray that this continues and isn't a fluke! Pleeeeeaaaaasssssseeee!!!

Jaxon is such a little cat napper so he is pretty worn out by the end of the day! Last night he fell asleep while Jonas was feeding him some pears. He was seriously sitting there with his eyes closed and still taking bites of pears! It was so funny! He slept that way for about 40 minutes!

He loved playing with these paper towels yesterday and got so mad when I tried to put them away! Poor little guy got shots today...

Maelie loves preschool! Today she made some binoculars that she was pretty proud of. She also loves being a sunbeam and practices her primary part everyday. She likes to make new friends everytime we go to the park. She likes to play with Kyla and their favorite thing to do together is play dress up!Kyla is potty training! Today we picked out some princess undies and some little pets that she gets when she goes potty. She is doing pretty good! She is very girly and likes dressing up. The other day she came out in a tutu and a tutu only - Jonas said, "Wow Kyla! You're so modest!" And she said, "No I'm not modest, I'm showing my shoulders." Ummm... Kyla, I think you're showing a little more than that! I always hear Maelie talking to Kyla about being modest and how the princesses usually aren't. She's very aware of it, I just hope she doesn't offend someone someday! Jaxon is all over the place and into everything. He is such a happy baby - most of the time! He still only has the 2 teeth but I think he is working on some more because he hasn't been sleeping that great. However, last night he slept all night, we were pretty excited!! He is eating fruits, veggies, cereals, bread, and puffs/cheerios!
Sorry, not much else going on, we're just living normal everyday life! =)

picture tag

This is fun! The rules are to use google images to search your answer and pick something off the first page that answers each one!

my first job

my college degree

what I'm doing now

the town I live in

my best friend's nick name

my first name

my favorite object

my favorite food

my favorite animal

my favorite color

the town I was born in

my bad habit

my maiden name

my age

my past pet

my favorite place

a place I'd like to visit

I tag everyone because I want to see everyone's! :)

Child of God

On Sunday, Maelie got her part for the primary program and she already has it down, click on "child of God" to the right under videos!

William Oknevski???

We have someone else's box sitting in our bathroom and I want it out! I have called both my moving company and the moving company who's box it is multiple times and neither will give me the time of day!! They did say I was a savior and someone will be in touch with me ASAP! YEAH RIGHT!! Does anyone know William Oknevski? I'm sure he wants his box back and maybe he has a box or 2 of ours...??? Yup, it's official, we have unpacked everything, well, pretty much, the bathroom box is still under the bathroom cupboard, etc, etc, etc... but I know of a few things we are missing, my ipod shuffle, a pair of shoes, and a few books from the missionary library. I am thinking we are missing a book box because our book shelf seems a tad empty! The good news, we have all pictures and irreplaceable items! ANYWAY,... Maelie is doing great in preschool, Kyla is already done potty training (as in she wants nothing to do with it), Jaxon is taking a NAP - gasp! I should go clean! Jonas got a calling as EQ teacher, my first beehive lesson went well! Anyway, these are some pix from our family reunion in August... all the girl cousins (minus Lexy) - Maelie, Anna, Kailin, Kyla, Brooke, Brielle, Emma, Karsyn

the babies! - Jaxon, Karsyn, Brielle, and Emma

the boy cousins - Jaxon, Brandon, Jakob, Ethan, and baby boy Zacary

all the craziness of the fam

Kyla being silly

the Stanford's

Maelie cut her hair on Saturday - luckily it's just in the front and as long as I pull the front back you can't tell. She looks so sad about it tho. And her face is just a little scratch that she "needed" a bandaid for. :)

Jaxon loves to be in the playroom and he is soooo fast! I put him in the living room and 2 minutes later he has made his way back to the playroom again! Tricky since the girls have so many choking hazard type toys!

surprise, surprise

I bought this a few days ago because I had a feeling it was coming...



And luckily we already had some of this...



because....That's right! We have a little teether on our hands! I noticed the first one yesterday and he's working on that 2nd one today. So far, not so bad as long as he has something in his mouth!

And Kyla was extremely quiet a bit ago so I went to go find her and found her like this...Why is that funny? She's in bed asleep! Perfect place for her to be! Well, it was nice because I didn't have to fight her to take a nap and also she still sleeps with her baby blanket eventho she has new big girl bedding! I guess it's progress that she didn't climb into Jaxon's crib and find a binki to put in her mouth!

She has also started the potty training adventure! Yippee!

I have been waiting and counting on a certain conversation with Maelie since we left Arizona. I have been surprised with how well she has been doing and it finally came after we were talking with Grandma yesterday. Maelie said, "I don't like this house, I want to go back to our old house." I was prepared for this and said, "Maelie, do you miss Grandma?" She nods her head all sad like. I said, "Wouldn't that be fun if Grandma came to visit you in your new house?!" She got really excited so you better not make a liar out of me, Mom! :) Don't worry, you have time, we'll be here for a while! We love you and miss you all!

just some fun pix

Maelie's 1st day of Preschool

Whelp, she (and I) survived it! She was so excited and did great on her first day of preschool!