Sideways Underpants

We’ve been working on potty training Cailyn for I don’t know how long now.  The last time I bought a box of pull-ups I vowed it was the last box. (I have actually made that vow the past three times I have bought pull-ups.)  I can now proudly say that we have half a box left and she hasn’t used a pull-up for almost 2 weeks now!  It is the greatest thing in the world.

When I got home today from picking the kids up from Grandma Bonnie’s house, Cailyn was asleep, but I wasn’t sure how long it had been since she went to the bathroom, so I took her and sat her on the toilet.  She woke up and went potty.  When she got off the toilet to pull her panties up one of her legs was through the waist hole.  Brad said that had happened once before, but it was so funny to actually see it in action.  Cailyn and I both sat there and laughed about it.  Hey, I’m just happy she’s going by herself now.  I’m sure learning how to put on her panties the right way will come later.

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

     Yesterday me and the kids went with my mom to the University Mall to do some shopping.  While we were walking through the mall we started talking about how it would be fun to have the kids get their picture taken with Santa.  We didn’t think he would be there until December seeing how Thanksgiving hasn’t even happened yet.  We continued to walk through the mall and we ran into Santa.  The most incredible part about it was there was NO LINE.  That never happens.  I think it had been the 2nd day since he had been there and the lady at the front said she didn’t think very many people knew about it yet.  Anyway so we got their picture taken.  

     It was really funny because when we first walked past the gate to get into where Santa was, Cailyn said with a voice that sounded like she could start to cry, “Santa’s not scary.”  That is was she says to anything that is really scaring her.  It’s kind of her way of trying to get over her fears even though most of the time it doesn’t really work.  I told her that Santa is nice and that she should go sit on his lap and that I was going to get Gavin out of the stroller so he could be in the picture too.  She came and “helped” me get Gavin out of the stroller. (She was clinging to my leg the whole time.)  I put Gavin on his lap and then picked Cailyn up and all she kept saying is “I want you, I want you, I want you.”  I reassured her that everything would be okay.  So she sat there and told Santa that she wanted “Barbie and the Diamond Castle” with a look on her face like she had seen the ghost of Christmas past.  

     Anyway…it all turned out fine.  I was actually surprised that Gavin did as well as he did.  Usually he starts bawling when people he doesn’t know or thinks looks scary look at him.  We didn’t get any smiles from them, but I guess it’s all about the experience.

Misunderstanding!

Brad:  ”Cailyn, come eat your piece of bacon.”

Cailyn:  ”It’s NOT pizza bacon!”

My brain just died!

  I am sitting here at school trying to work on one of the million papers I have due and my brain has finally died.  I need a break and it’s only Tuesday…I’m in trouble.  As I have been sitting here, I have just kind of been thinking about my family and how much I love them.  I need to document something that Cailyn said the other day, so someday when she hates me I can look back at this post and remind myself that she really did like me at one time of her life.  

Gavin had gotten a bag of cereal out and spilled it all over the kitchen floor.  Brad went into the kitchen and started picking up the marshmallows and putting them in a bowl for Cailyn because they are her favorite.  I walked in and saw what he was doing and told Cailyn that she was lucky because if it was me cleaning up the cereal it would all just go in the garbage, marshmallows and all, because I’m a mean mommy.  Cailyn’s reply to my remark was, “You’re not a mean mommy, you’re a nice mommy.”  That just melted my heart.  It’s things like that that make parenting worth it.  Of course there are other things but when you have a 2 year old that has a mind of her own and can’t sit still or listen for one second, and a one year old that ou can’t really communicate with at all, it’s things like that that makes all the frustration worth it.  The thing that kills me is how fast my kids are growing up.  I feel like time is slipping away at too fast of a rate.  I can’t wait till I’m done with school so I can spend more time watching and helping them grow.

There is one more thing that I want to say in this fine blog today.  I love my husband!  I don’t think I say that enough.  We are both so busy with school and work that it’s hard to make time for each other anymore these days.  I get frustrated to easily with life a lot of the time but no matter what, he is always there to listen to me and comfort me.  He puts up with a lot.  Words can’t really describe how I’m feeling right now.  I just really love him.  Okay, I’m done….I’m not down with the gooshy stuff.  It’s not really my thing to publicize it…whatever!

Here are some pictures that I just like a lot!

(For some reason I can’t bring myself to post an entry unless it has pictures in it.)

This is a picture of Cailyn on her 2nd birthday.  I think it brings a new meaning to “shovel it in!”

This is one of my most favorite pictures of Brad.  I love the look on his face!

I Slack Therefore I Am

So after about an hour of aimless wandering on Facebook, reading up on some pals and such, i thought to my self, “don’t you have a lot of things to write about on your own blog?” and then I said to my self, “yes.”

To make a long story short, I tried to log into my blog and had forgotten the password it has been so long. it took me about 15 minutes to remember it, and now I am here writing! we’ll see how much I can get done today. I’ll try to make a bunch of posts, so it’s more interesting for everyone else that is reading.

Here we go!

It has sure been a load of fun since the last time I posted, we’ve been around the world and back (at least it feels like it.) I have been LOVING IT at my internship with W.W. Clyde, and have found that it is what I want to be doing! It’s coming up on the end of the internship, and job offers might be on their way, let’s hope so, cause I would really enjoy doing this as a career! (more will come in future posts, with details on what I actually do).

Anisha has been taking over most of the managing here at Grandview Manor, and being a mom of 3 kids (Gavin, Cailyn, and Bradley), while going to school full time and doing her summer internship 3 days a week with the Pleasant Grove Forrest Service, and Service has been what it is. She goes out and works on/manages trail crews tidying up and maintaining the many trails of Utah Co., and enjoys it, but it would be better if she got payed for it. Hopefully next summer she can do it again and will get compensated for it. My I tip my hat to her, she never ceases to amaze me with her energy, and her will to get things done, one of the many reasons I love her so dearly.

Cailyn is growing up too fast, she is the daughter of my dreams and such a delight to our family! She loves movies and singing along to any song that she hears. she is just so fun!

And Gavin is growing as well, he’s crawling, climbing, and exploring and he is just a cute kid!

So there’s the readers digest version of an update on our family, now let’s go to the details! this time we’ll try to keep up!