Family

Finally blogging again. 

Ashlin at 13 months

 I'm finally posting Ashlin's 1st birthday.  This was a month and a half ago.  She loved her chocolate zucchini cake, and got all good and messy.

 She is always making us laugh.  She loves to grunt, which is what she thinks is the best way to get attention.  Her favorite activity is to unload drawers and play in the flour or sugar.

Christmas was awesome!  We tried doing a live nativity, but Gavon pretended more to be a ninja than anything.  Shayden knelt by the box all cute.  We had a Jerusalem Dinner, read some scriptures and watched the Bible Videos on lds.org.  On Christmas morning Shayden opened a Barbie with clothes.  "This is exactly what I asked Santa for!"  She hugged it and put it to the side.  The next present was fingernail polish.  She opened it and said, "I told Santa I wanted this for next year but he gave it to me this year.  That is so funny!"

I Love Being a Mom!

 I get to ride bikes in stores!

 Go to girls nights with family and wear crazy lip gloss!

And I get to let my kids do this kind of stuff!  (This is powdered sugar...their bedroom is covered!)

Gavon Turns 3

Gavon's birthday is tomorrow, but Paul had to go to drill so we celebrated a day early.  He had a spiderman birthday cake, with pizza and ice cream.  For his birthday present I made a hot wheels cubby fabric thingy as shown.  How do you explain that?  I got the idea from a Relief Society activity and thought it was perfect for Gavon.  The fabric on back is Lightening McQueen and it has velcro that latches it shut so you can take it to church or in the car.  He loved it!  When he saw me making it once, he said, "Is that for me!?"  I had to hide it for a while.  Shayden and Gavon did a pinata too.

Daredevil Baby

She did this all on her own!

Ashlin the Cutie Pie

Ashlin took off walking, and turning around at about Halloween.  We had an amazing Halloween by the way!  We went to Beaver to have some fun with Trisa and Jared.  It was so fun!  Paul was in his gorilla costume, Shayden was a beautiful ballerina, Gavon was a dragon, and Ashlin was a bumblebee.  Shayden immediately started dancing across the room after I got her ready; she had so much fun.  Gavon kept breathing on people saying it was fire, and Ashlin was the center of attention with Holly, Karri, Valerie and Hiedi.  Poor Tayci (How do you spell Tayci Tris?) just had to watch everyone play with Ashlin.

Well, besides Gavon being superman in his underwear, this is the best video I have of Ashlin walking around.  Everyone in my neighborhood gets big eyes when they see her.  "She's walking?!"  They're all of a sudden not little babies anymore.  She has the cutest personality.  One thing that drives me crazy though is that she grinds her teeth like crazy.  The dentist said he's only seen 3 kids in the 10 years he's practiced with severe side affects with grinding.  I think Ashlin might be one of those kids.  It's like nails on a chalkboard.  When I tell her no or to stop, she whines this cute little wine. 

Potty Training Gavon

It's crazy how each kid does their own thing.  Gavon has been doing really well potty training the past few weeks.  I've been doing laundry like crazy, but I think that's normal.  He's usually a pretty submissive kid, but he likes to be funny.  When I put his Thomas the Engine underwear on, "Ha ha ha, I can poop on Thomas."  I tell him, "No, you go on the potty, bud."  Most of the time he doesn't care if he pees his pants, so the goal is to get him to go on the potty before he goes in his pants.  He did great today.  Only one accident.