In between Christmas and our Anniversary

These are not really in much of an order.  But it's basically all that went on in between Christmas and our anniversary, it's all just everyday stuff but it was a fun month and a half!  And as I was putting them all in here realized that I have way more of Aspen then Hunter :(  She is starting to get to that fun stage where she is discovering everything, so I guess that means more pics!

Sporting her tights hat on New Years.  This is my only picture of New Year's.  I think I must just get too caught up in the holidays since I only had one for Thanksgiving too, and only really got Christmas pictures at our house not much at the Grandparents houses. 

We spent New Years in Kanab with my family.  It was a great weekend except for one set back.  Hunter decided he wasn't even going to go number 2 in the potty anymore :(  I don't know if you will remember but he was always going number 2 in the potty, very rarely number 1 but hadn't had a number 2 accident in months.  It was so frustrating from the time we got to Kanab he started going in his pull ups and it was like 3 times a day!  We barely had enough pull ups to get us through the weekend.  I was hoping that it was just since we weren't home, but nope it continued when we got home.  Finally after a week or 2 of changing big poopy pull ups I found a solution.  You are going to think I'm crazy when I tell you this but it amazing worked.  I went and grabbed a pair of underwear had him put them on and told him he was not going to go poo or pee in them he was going to do it in the potty.  I really didn't think it was going to work I was just so frustrated that I needed to do something and I was just hoping that when he went in the underwear he wouldn't like how it felt and start trying again.  But he didn't have one number 2 accident until just a few days ago and it was kind of our fault, I'll tell ya more when I do that post.  He even started doing really good with peeing in the potty.  He still occasionally has accidents, especially if he is playing a game and doesn't want to stop, but I feel like he was doing pretty decent.  (Yes was, the past few days he has had quite a few accidents.)

Aspen grabbed Hunter's apple off the table and went to town on it!



We had some fun trips to the park.  Can you tell she loved the swings!

Surprise. Surprise.  Hunter even picks his nose while swinging!  No wonder he wanted the baby swing instead of the big kid swing.  We can not get him to keep his finger out of his nose.  I think half the time he's just doing it for something to do with his hands!  The turkey has caused himself to have bloody noses more times than I can count!

I think she thought I was taking too long getting ready or something!  I came out of the bathroom and found her half under the computer chair.

You always have to document the first time they eat an oreo!  I think she was pretty happy with her new found favorite treat!

Of course she was bound to get messier than the first picture.

She looked at her hands, saw they were all messy and I guess this is what she figured you're supposed to do with messy hands!

My belly is too full! Stop taking pictures!

We got a new table finally!  Our other table had one of the chairs legs broken so only 3 chairs, and with Aspen sitting on top of it in her bumbo she could reach every bodies plates.  It was definitely time for a bigger table!  It has a leaf in the middle so it can be even longer and we have 8 chairs total.  It also matches our kitchen really well.

I think the kids really like it too!  Hunter has already put some pretty deep scratches in it.  I was not a happy mom.  We had some Menchie's (a frozen yogurt place) spoons that he likes to use and the top of them are apparently sharp enough to gouge my table.  He doesn't get to use those spoons anymore.  He did it twice, the first time I didn't see when he did it so didn't know how he had done it.  Luckily you can't really see it unless the light hits it but you can sure feel them.

Aspen figured out where there were some binkis within her reach.  She started crawling just shortly after Christmas.  Or I guess you might call it scooting.  She will have one leg up or her foot and the other on her knee.  The last couple weeks she has started to sometimes crawl on her knees but she can move faster the other way so will usually cruise around like that.  Oh and one of her favorite things to do is go under the kitchen table to try to find a snack.

Success! She found the binki!

For Christmas Ben got me a bike and a trailer for the kids.  They love to go on rides!  For the Superbowl we loaded our snacks up in the trailer with the kids and rode to Ben's parents house.  It was fun but definitely wore me out.  The bike Ben originally got me was a Black Friday one and when we put it together it felt like it was falling apart, so we ended up taking it back and combined that money with Christmas money we got and got me a very nice one.  So of course Ben needed to get him a nicer one too.  So we knew tax money was coming so we ended up getting him a new bike too.  We are all set for many rides to come!

Hunter will usually ride his own bike.  Me, him and Aspen went for a ride the other day and I pushed him farther than he had gone before and he did great!

Aspen kept going in and out of sleep the whole time.  Just a few seconds before this picture she had been awake.

We finally cleaned out our basement.  We've only been here 3 years now, I guess it was about time to unpack something besides just the necessities :)  We ended up filling up both our huge trash cans (the ones the trash people pick up) full of stuff that we have no idea why we saved!  And we took several boxes and bags worth of stuff to the D.I.  Can you tell Hunter was loving going through everything?  He kept finding all kinds of treasures :)

We spent a good part of a Saturday with Ben while he was on call and got called out to work.  Hunter climbed to the top of this "mountain" which is actually one of their tanks.

The kids always love bath time and up until Aspen could scoot around Hunter always claimed the spot by the faucet.  Now that she can move she is always trying to get in there to play with the water too.

Aspen got her 3rd tooth shortly after Christmas (I think that's why she had a snotty nose on Christmas, she was teething.)  She didn't get her 4th tooth until about a week or 2 ago.  So the one top tooth was pretty much all the way in!  It looked so funny!  I was waiting for that one to come in so long that I didn't even notice that she was getting a tooth on the bottom too!  The day she finally got the other top tooth she also had a third bottom tooth.  So I'm not really sure which one was #4 and which was #5.

She loves to eat real food now.  I call her my little piggy cuz she will scarf down just about anything I put in front of her and usually won't stop til I stop giving her food!  Then when I set her on the ground and she heads under the table to try to get whatever she dropped!  There are some meals that she eats more than Hunter!  I have no idea how she is so little!  She must have her daddy's genes or something!

This day she had wiped her messy hands all over in her hair.  So I had to wash her whole head with the rag and this is how she looked after she got all cleaned up!

And one of her most recent past times is to yank the dish towel of the oven so she can talk to and kiss (I wasn't fast enough to get a picture of her kissing) the baby in the oven!!

2011 Randomness

I found a bunch of random pics that I had meant to post on here and I don't think I ever did.  So here are a few more memories of 2011!

This was at Tuckers baby blessing.  And the stroller is one of my niece Talee's doll strollers, but Hunter really wanted someone to push around in it!



This was in Kanab for my Grandma's funeral.  The kids were loving on dad!

Ihop had free scary face pancakes for Halloween for kids. They were huge!!

I always play with Aspen's hair after bath time so Hunter wanted his done too.

This was a very raining trip to Costco!  Hunter's hair is tipping over, haha!

Duh, mom.  This is what your supposed to do with Cars go fish cards!

Aspen snuck a piece of jerky of the table and was so proud of herself!

Oh the things babies find to play with.

I couldn't believe I hadn't posted this one yet!  We have pictures of Ben doing this with Hunter on here too.

And I bet you are all thinking I bet her New Year's resolution was to not let the laundry pile up so high that it takes her whole living room floor to fold it.  But it's not :)  Happy 2012 here we come!

They loaded!

Here is Christmas finally!!!  I think I got things mostly in order, but I did have some of the pictures loaded before they stopped letting me load, and my friend told me to update my blogger and see if that fixed my problem.  It worked!!  But you can totally tell which pictures were loaded before they are slightly different sizes. Oh well.  Here we go:



This is the only picture I had of Thanksgiving and hadn't posted it yet.  I thought it was just too cute not to share.  Everyone was gathered in the living room (I think watching the kids play Wii, I can't remember for sure since it was SO long ago) and Hunter just fell asleep.  He very rarely does that so we knew he must have had a really fun day!

Hunter hasn't figured out the whole wait in line thing (he's starting to now, his Sunbeam teachers have been teaching all the Sunbeams :) and Ben totally just left him up there thinking he would know what to do.  Nope the poor kid didn't know what was going on he kept getting in the way of all the parents taking pictures, then couldn't quite figure out why other kids were going around him to meet Santa (he had totally butted everyone in line, so they just kept going like he wasn't there.)  I felt bad for him but of course he was still just so excited and didn't seem to really notice.  Finally I got Ben to go help him.... well Ben's helping was just shoving him in front of the other kids.  What a helper.

 

 

Here he is finally getting to sit on Santa's lap!  He jumped of almost the second I put the camera down :) And I have no idea why this picture is to the left.  I could not get it to center, it says it's centered when I click on it but that sure doesn't look center to me! (This is why I hate updating things :)

This year all our weekends were busy so we ended up spur of the moment deciding to just go by a tree.  Hunter still enjoyed it, he wandered all around the different trees and kept telling us which ones he wanted.

And he loved decorating it!  He put several bulbs right close together... again.  He did that last year too.  And pretty much the same spot even.  Although this year he would put them in other spots too, just usually pretty close together.

So excited that it was all decorated!

Aspen loved holding the ornaments.  She kept throwing them and couldn't crawl yet, could only twist in circles, so she would twist and twist trying to find more to play with.

My mom brought a gingerbread house kit over.  Hunter had a blast!

The finished project.  He would talk about it almost everyday!

I searched and searched for a countdown calendar this year.  I couldn't find one that I really liked and was getting really bummed.  My mom told me I should just use baby jars and glue them together like a Christmas tree.  I told her no.  I really didn't like that idea.  Then I thought about it more and more and it grew on me.  Except I decided to just put the number of the day on each of the jars instead of making a tree out of them.  Since it was like the 9th or 10th before I even did this they weren't very cute.  But I plan on decorating them with cute Christmas paper and using them next year.  Once they are decorated I bet they will be really cute, and they fit perfectly along my counter!

 Here are the kiddos on Christmas Eve in their new jammies!

Christmas morning before the kids were up.  Ben was on call again this year so of course got up really early, did his rounds, and was back home before any of us even budged.  His coming in woke me up but not the kiddos.  I laid in bed for a while then we decided to wake them up.  It was like 8:00, and I think the wait was killing Ben.

Looking at what Santa brought.

Santa brought Hunter a choo choo train!  That's what he had asked for when he sat on his lap.  We didn't know he wanted one so had a last minute stop at Wal-Mart :)

She was so cute with this doll.  She sat there and talked to her for quite a while.

I hate this picture of me but had to put it on.  Look at how excited Hunter is for my toothbrush!

So happy!

He loved this and played with it tons!

Cheese!!

 

She totally has a snotty nose in this one but just looks so happy!

 

Well there you have it... Christmas in almost March :)

Now We Know Why...

I still can't get the pictures to load.. grrrr. I pic the picture then hit the upload image button and it looks like it's going then the gray lines stop going around the circle and it just sits there. Dumb. But I did learn something today.... This is quite embarrassing to put on here, so don't laugh... too hard anyways.
So my friend, my sister and my sister in law all try continually to get me to go to Zumba with them (or really anything at the gym) and I refuse to all of them. I really hate the whole working out with a bunch of other people thing. I know that nobody else really ever looks at you but I still just feel very awkward and uncomfortable so I don't like it. I went with my sister to a kick boxing class once and it was really fun but I really just felt like a retard doing it with everyone else. Ben got me a bike for Christmas and we have P90X and Wii Fit and between those 3 I do get somewhat of a work out. Better than I used to be anyways. And I have been losing weight between that and watching my portion sizes so that's good enough for me. Ok back to what I learned, or I guess my husband and sister in law learned since I already knew it. We were at Ben's parents for the Superbowl today (by the way we rode our bikes there.) And Jos was trying to convince me to go to Zumba again. Well she ended up doing a kick and then showed us how high she could kick both of her legs. So what did I do. Yep I'm sure you guessed it, I had to do a kick to see how high I could do it too. Well the first leg was alright but it was my right leg. I really should have started with my left since it was bound to not go as high, but for some crazy reason I started with my right. So of course I had to try really hard with my left so that it wouldn't look quite as weak. I'm sure you are all seeing where this is going so I could just stop here.......

But I'm just not sure you could visualize it well enough :) I think I better mention that we were kicking towards Ben so that we could really tell how high we were kicking. Well I threw all my strength into kicking that left leg as high as I could. A little too much strength. And then landed flat on my back. With my head barely missing the wall, stool, chest, and couch. Somehow I knocked a pillow off the couch that landed on top of me though. Did I mention that it was on a hard wood floor? Too bad that pillow didn't decide to fall under me instead of on top. My butt, hip, and back wouldn't be hurting anywhere near as bad right now. Now we know why I shouldn't go to Zumba. I'm doubting Jos will ask me to go again, not now that she saw my "moves." I guess it probably would have helped a lot if I would have had shoes on, or at least taken my socks off. Stupid socks. But they are very cute. Lucky or I would consider throwing the stupid things away right now. Don't worry it's ok to laugh. I did. So hard that tears came out. Oh and did I mention that when I hit it was so hard that it knocked all the air out of me? Both ends. I'm really glad it was just us 3 in the room at the time. I'm hoping we were all laughing too hard for anybody else to have noticed that. Or maybe the crash of the landing blocked it out. Except now you all know. Oh well.
Now someone just needs to tell me why my pictures aren't wanting to load so you don't have to keep getting embarrassed for me :)

Backseat Driver

I was finally updating my blog! Then.... my pictures wouldn't load!!! I think my internet is struggling with how windy it is, but half of the pictures are loaded and I will try again soon (maybe Sunday since I am going to watch my little sister dance this weekend.) I promise I will get my Christmas pics on here! But I did have a funny story that I wanted to share, in the meantime:

Hunter is a total backseat driver. It gets kind of annoying at times. He is constantly telling us how to drive and where to go. In a 10 min trip he will ask you where we are going (even though he already knows) at least 10 times. And since he really does know where you are going he can tell you exactly where and when to turn, and it doesn't fail that he tells you (that part I think is really cute, just the constant asking where we are going gets very old.) He also will tell you what all the lights and signs mean as you drive past them. Also like his daddy he will yell at any car in front of you to MOVE! One of his favorite things to do is when he is supposed to be getting in his buckles (since he can did it himself but we end up doing it for him half the time since he goofs off too long and then gets mad when we do it instead) he will climb to the front and open the garage and then wait for the keys to start it.
Yesterday he was telling Ben to drive faster (he does this all the time) and Ben proceeded to tell him that he can't he has to go the speed limit (he hears this from us all the time) and instead of just ending with that like we usually do, Ben continued on with saying that if we speed a cop will pull us over, give us a ticket, and that costs money and we don't have a lot of money to spend on tickets. Hunter sat there quite for a minute then responded "I have lots of money dad, go FAST!!" We laughed pretty long and hard at that one :)