Potty Trained Boy!!

Daddy got some darn cute pics of our girl in boots:)

Life wont stop long enough to write it down! I'm sure I'll miss a lot of fun facts, but I'll sure try. Biggest news to start out.... Lincoln is officially POTTY TRAINED! WAHOO!! It was coming home from the baby shower in Ut when he told me he needed to go a couple times. We pulled over every time and he went (whether it was a gas station, grass, parking areas, or wherever!) So from then on for 2 weeks now, no accidents day or night. He wears undies all the time!! Huge accomplishment Lincoln! (He even went poo poo at school!!) And I will be honest, it is a bit of a bummer for night-time because we have to leave the door open now just in case he needs to go potty. Therefore, he wakes up around 6:30am very morning now! Ah!! But I guess I'll live with it if he's going potty...

Mike has been home this whole week, miracle! Of course still at the shop till later M-F, but no jobs. It has been pretty fun to have a somewhat "normal" life. He still came home at times after the kids were in bed, but it was still great to hang with him later. We love having Daddy around.

While I was getting ready for the day, I came out and found a huge fort Daddy and the kids made. Awesome.

We went to Utah for Annica's baby shower on the 5th. We left that morning and came back later that night. We made a stop in Evanston at Walmart for an hour! (It takes so long to do anything with these munchkins) But Lincoln did very well staying dry the whole trip! And it was super fun to hang out with family for a while and for the kids to play with Koban.

This is Quoia on our way back home from Grandma's; she had a fabulous time:)

And Linc...we barely made it to the gas station and he was out.

Darling Koban:)

He had a blast and of course did not hold still at all! I had to put him in here to have some peace for a moment.

Silly Grandpa:)

Love her!!

And love these darling twins.

These 3 were so funny! They wrestled and wrestled forever. The kids just had a blast with Aunt Kiki.

Quoi started copying her.

So cute!

Mommy Tenille and Kob

The kids got to help Annica open her gifts.

So on Ty's birthday party night, Daniel and Annica show up with Annica wearing a super cute shirt they bought at Spencers that day. They were so excited to show us how "cute" it was. Well.... after a while we were all just staring at them and finally Anna says, "Oh, they don't know!" (Don't worry, I wont post the picture;) They had no idea what was exactly on that shirt. From Spencers, need I say more?? She was mortified! Daniel of course loved it even more. Anyways, we finally held her down and I got a picture of it. So....

For an extra baby shower gift I took it upon myself to print out the pictures and frame it just for her, I know, so sweet right?:) She was not too happy about that, but come on, how could I not??

She just decided to lay down on him while they ate their snacks, such nerds!

Tired cute boy with a boo boo

Oh yeah, and I forgot! So the next day after Lincoln hit his head, he was upstairs in his room for "quiet time" and he decided to rip off his expensive piece of glue on his head. Thanks Buddy:) It was kind of funny. When I saw it I asked him what happened and he said, "Oh, I took the bandaid off." Like it was just another bandaid, whatever. Oh well, what do ya do. It's actually a super cute wrinkle on his forehead now. It'll be awesome:) Really, if I would have known I wouldn't have taken him in, but I guess you live and learn.

She had so much fun with Daddy's luggage, that was her toy all day.

Of course everything is digital these days, so Linc had so much fun holding pictures of himself and Sissy!

Cheese!

More Cheesers!

He made a big train of crayons.

Ta-Dah!

I started going to a book club and I love it. I'm going to try to read my books and go each month. I also finished my Personal Progress again! It feels so good and it was a wonderful experience to do it again. I love setting goals and sticking to them. It's just the setting of the goals that I need to work on:) Now I'm going to work on getting my "Bee" (read the Book of Mormon again and give 40 hrs of service) I want to get it before I get released from Young Womens, so I better get working!

These past weeks have been busy (and I don't like to be "busy") They've been full of extra Young Womens things going on, a new play group we go to, library's story time, tanning, working out (rare!) and just a bunch of extra things. I went to Lincoln's first Parent Teacher Conference. They said he's still pretty "busy" and quite energetic, but really smart. He is good with other kids and isn't mean, and if someone does mess with him, he just runs and gets an adult. Good boy! They can tell we read a lot of books at home because he loves them. He is doing great and loves school and his teachers. And its been super fun to be with Quoi by herself.