It has begun... Potty Training

Ok so it was 6:00 am on Sunday, I had been up most of the night with Kayelea.... What started up as a runny nose ended up with a horrible cough which means sleepless nights.... Anyways she woke up again at 6:00 and said she needed to go potty... " What did you say?" Really she finally decides she wants to you the potty when she is sick... Only Kayelea... I ran her to the bathroom and to my surprise she went #2... I know your thinking thats a little to much info, but to tell this story you have to know... Anyways the morning goes on with me running her to the potty and her either farting or pooping... No peeing... And I began to think isn't this usually the oppisite they pee and they don't want to poop???? Then the next thing I know she is screaming to go potty... So once again I pick her up and run franticlly to the potty... As she calls it she began to "Tinkle" and she looked down at her self then looked up at me with a big smile... Kayelea then said "It's working mom." Too Funny.

Walmart with kids...

Lets just say the place I dread the most with kids is Walmart... Its starts off with just getting through the door of Walmart... Then theres a little sigh of relief ahhh we made it...And then I give myself words of encouragement you can do this the kids are going to be great you have patience... Ok here we go lets grab a basket and put Kayelea in it.... And then a dark cloud comes over and bam you have the what was a sweet little girl turn into a screaming devil baby....Kicking and screaming as you try to put her in the shopping cart... Once I finally get her legs through and she has finally calmed down I stop and think to myself ok now that's over I can get through this... As I start to push the shopping cart I realize wait a minute didn't I have two kids when I came in? Oh my where is your brother as the panic comes over me and I frantically start looking around I finally spot Nathan over in the produce making balloons out of the plastic bags.....Ok patience has now gone out the window and we have just started this journey in the store.... Now I have both kids and all the drama is over right?..... I ask Nathan "Hey bud do you want to go pick out some apples for us?" all excited I gave him a task he runs to get the apples... I get the bananas, oranges and I look over to check on Nate.... What oh my gosh really.... Nathan is not getting the apples but he has 10 melons on the fruit weigher and it looks like its on overload about to break.....I get over there to him and as patient as I can be at this point I ask him to please put the melons back and get the apples that we need.... Are we done yet? No that's just the produce we still have to get meat, milk, juice, lunch meat and the list goes on.... Well we make it through half the store after that and things seem to now be going smoothly.... When out of no where Kayelea gets the urge to start screaming.... As I cover her mouth and tell her No the screaming seems to get louder... Ok at this point I am willing to beg and bargain... "Listen Kayelea if you will stop screaming and let Mommy get these last items we need I will give some candy." Ahhh silence again... Then "Mom I want candy to." "Ok Nate you can get some too." And of coarse "Well Mom can I get a toy instead of candy." " No Nathan no toy keep pushing and you won't get candy either." Now we have made it to the check out line... I can see the light yay! We are almost out of here I am so excited! Who would have ever thought I would get so excited about leaving a store... I used to love to shop....How things change when you have kids.... Just when I think we are almost out of here I realize oh I forgot the eggs.... Oh well I am not going back.... So this is my experience at walmart and that is why the kids now stay at home with dad....

Never A Dull Moment

There is never a dull moment in our house... Last night Nathan had boy scouts at church... After we had to go to Home Depot and then I decided it would be fun to take the kids to the Yogurt Bar... It was our first time to go there as a family and I thought this will be so fun for the kids to fill their own ice cream cup and put their own toppings on it... Sure enough I was right they were totally excited about it! So we filled them up and paid... The table we sat at was about a foot off the ground and had these triangular chairs ( Nathan picked out this spot). The Yogurt Bar is real cute and hip... We all started to eat our ice cream and I dont know if it was the ice cream or the beat of the music.... But Kayelea was on her feet working the room... Everyone was looking at her laughing... Because not only was she dancing around but then she got on top of the chair and started to shake what her Mama gave her.... Dustin put his head down and said " Oh Boy We are in TROUBLE." It was sooo funny!!! And then just today I went to Sam's Club with my mom and Kayelea was in the shopping cart singing her little heart out.... When she was finished she turned to my mom and said "Top That".... Never A Dull Moment!

     We were invited over to our friends house tonight for family home evening... The kids and I got ready and headed over there... As we were driving down the street Kayelea says out of no where " Jesus loves me so much! And my family too." My heart was just melting.... Then she topped it all off with " I miss God." Oh my so sweet... Just thought I would share this with everyone...

What Really... Oh My

If anyone knows Dustin and I then you all know how things always seem to disappear in our house like cell phones wallets etc. Last night I had ran a few errands with the kids before we came home... We went to Tjmax, Michaels and Pump it Up... A few minutes after we had arrived home I left with Nathan to go by my moms house.... On our way back home I talked to Dustin's parents and when we got home I passed the phone to Dustin.... After that we got the kids ready for bed and Dustin went upstairs to lay with them... So I took full advantage of my time alone.. Washed my face got in pjs layed out on the couch... As I got up from the couch and went to grab my phone from where Dustin was sitting it wasn't there... Hmmm where is it I looked all over the couch and then came to the conclusions he must have taken it upstairs with him so I will just get it in the morning.... The morning came and I was running around like a mad women trying to get the kids fed and ready while looking for my phone.... Took them to school came back home looked for my phone everywhere I tore the house apart but still no phone... At this point i'm thinking really you just can't let Dustin touch anything he would lose his head if it wasn't attached to his body.... Frustrated I left for work... Later on that day I went and picked my mom up from her house I wanted her to go with me to get the kids... She had been out of town so I knew they would be really excited.... We picked Kayelea up first (Nathan had Drama class) and we came back to my house until it was time to get Nate. With my mom there we called my phone looked for it everywhere and yet we still couldn't find it..... Am I going nuts or what.... Ugh... I gave up and went out to the car to get Kayelea's school stuff... As I was going through her backpack Kayelea was saying " No mom mine mine mine."  As I was pulling her little pink purse out of her backpack she started saying in a very frantic voice "Gib Me Gib Me that mom." When I opened this little pink purse I found my cell phone.... "Kayelea you had my phone this whole time." She replied " It my phone and you gib it to me wight now." I couldn't stop laughing I mean really only Kayelea....So I'm looking through my missed calls and then I opened up my text to read "Hi Kayelea has someones cell phone I have been hearing this noise the alarm is going off and I called you to tell you it was here thinking it was maybe a extra and it rang when I called it." After reading that I was laughing so hard I had tears... My 2 year old is one sneaky gal... She is always doing something....



At Kayelea's class party!



Nathan and friends at school carnival!

The kids class projects that were for auction.... Yes I bid.... Ok I mean Yes I out bid eveyone... I had to have them it had their sweet little handprints....

In the bed at the spooky hotel....

Waiting for everyone...

The Family in Jefferson!

Right before the Spooky Train... The Gang!

I created this blog so that family and friends could see what is going on in our lives... With that being said I am going to back track to October.... October was a fun month the kids and I got the oppurtunity to go see our family in Salt Lake... When we came back we had planned to go stay in Jefferson for the Halloween weekend... They say it is one of the most haunted places in Texas... So Dustin was on a mission to see some ghosts.... We stayed in the Excelsior Hotel ... I loved this hotel it was old and had so much history it really fascinated all of us.... If you live in the area and you have never been you need to go.... We had planned to go on the G rated spook train and corn maze which both the kids were really excited about..... The only thing I can say about both of those is don't do it... G rated whatever more like R it was aweful and we probably scarred our children for life.... Luckily the next day was Halloween so we were able to make up for this horrible expeirence by going trick or treating....

Blogging....isn't easy....ugh

Is there a book called Blogging for Dummies? If so I need a copy....I just don't seem to get this... I need major help setting up my page if you couldn't already tell seeing how life like our picture is...HELP WANTED looking for an expeirenced blogger who has time and patience with unskilled new to this blogger....

The New Year

    2011 I can't believe it!!! I thought for the New Year I would start something I have never done before like a blog.... Not sure how all of this works yet but I will soon figure it out....

     New Years Resolution - I was talking to my son Nathan (age 8) about what his goals for the New Year are ( I think it is important to set goals no matter what age). Nathan looked at me and said " Mom my New Year regualation is that I am going to be a better listener." Trying not to laugh I said "Nathan that is a great goal to set for yourself". It's moments like that when I realize just how little he still is. I know that in the next year or two these little slip ups will disappear and the hand holding will slowly fade away. There will soon come the time when he won't want to snuggle as much anymore either.  I hold on tight to these moments and spend as much time snuggling with him as I can, because in a blink of an eye he turned 8 and  in a blink of an eye he will be 16 interested in other things then his Mom. I am so thankful to be his mom and my New Year resolution is going to be to keep track of all the cute things he says and sweet moments we have.
     Then there is my sweet little baby girl Kayelea Jean (age 2 1/2) I have made her a New Years Resolution of my own POTTY TRAINING! Ugh where do I begin with this.... Oh Kayelea, I have bought every kind of toilet from musical potties to beautifully hand painted toilets which hold toilet paper and books... Still she refuses to sit on any of them... This with Nathan was so easy I just took the diaper off and that was the end of that... With Kayelea I took the diaper off and found wet sometimes dirty surprises all around the house.... She is one those kinds of kids where everything is on her terms only, but I have now put my foot down no more nice mom... We are getting this done before her 3rd birthday 3 months and one day... Everyone wish me luck I will need it....