Memorial Weekend Camping Trip

with Katie, Jason and Alexis plus a some Family of Katie and Jason.....

Camping in Colorado Oh I mean Arizona.... Just felt and looked like beautiful CO.

We left Friday evening and got up there by 6pm. It rained the whole time up to the mountain. We got our tents put up just in time for the SNOW to start falling............ We ended up leaving Saturday afternoon. We were all hanging out in our own cars trying to stay warm and we thought it would be better to go home for the kids sack since it was just TOO cold!!!!!!!!!
Katie and my friend Kelly and her husband and daughter Cameron were going to meet us up there BUT didn't get to since we came home! Kelly and Clifton had us all over for a BBQ Sunday night. That was a lot of fun then Monday we all went to the Water Park together.




Jack and Gillian in our tent while it was snowing!
Gillian peeking out of the tent!
Gillian
Jack trying to stay warm in the tent.Daddy and Gillian trying to stay warm by the camp fire!Daddy, Jack and Gillian all by the camp fire.
BRRRRRSaturday Morning!

Jack and Alexis trying to stay warm! Their so cute!Katie and Gillian by the camp fire early in the morning

JackMommy and Gillian trying to stay warm!Daddy and Jack warming upStarted snowing again! Jack walking around exploringMommy and Gillian in the warm car.

Gillian warming up! Katie, Jason and Alexis in the white truck behind Gillian warming up too!Decided to leave!

Gillian in the front seat playing while we loaded up the car!Jack and Gillian playing while we loaded this up!Daddy taking down our tent!Gillian in the carCan we GO YET?????????????

I will post the rest of our weekend a little bit later!

Thanks for reading! =)

New Look for me!

My friend Kelly cut and colored my hair Friday night! She did a great job and I LOVE it! I went really short in the back and did a more dramatic A line cut! What do you think? Thanks Ryan for taking these pictures for me! =) Love you!



Side view
Back
Yes I know crazy to have a blog about me and not the kids! I thought I would try it just this once! =)

Mother Goose

Every Wednesday at 10am we go to the Anthem Outlet Mall for Kids Play. Kids Play if a great FREE program for kids of all ages. Mother Goose reads a story, sings songs, they have a letter of the day. Each week has a new theme like flowers, Day's of the week, bugs....... They have a lottery drawing each week were they give away gift cards to stores at the outlets or DVD.... At the end of the Story time they have a snack. We meet our friends Katie and her daughter Alexis and Kelly and her daughter Cameron. Usually after story time we go to the park and play until lunch time.

On May 21, 2008 Jack was picked to hold up one of the numbers during the counting part of the program. He was soooo excited! And I was so proud of him for raising his hand and volunteering!

Mother GooseFrom Left to Right: Cameron, Jack and Alexis (coloring)
Gillian
Jack holding the number 6
He's so happy he got picked!
Holding his number high up in the air!
Jack wondering what this other kid is doing?
Happy Boy!Everyone is up there now! 1-2-3-4-5-6-7Such a good boy!
This is such a great program! Just one of the many things way we LOVE Anthem Arizona!

A movie from this Morning!

Just thought I would post this cute video of the kids from this morning. You get to see Gillian walk just a little, plus her reaction seeing Jack had woke up. She gets so excited to see him every morning! They love each other so very much!

Gillian is 11 months Old!!!!!!!!!

Our sweet Baby Girl is growing up so fast! She is now walking! Yes walking! She still crawls more then walking but she is walking more and more each day! She is doing great with the potty training. She poops and pees at least once if nice more each day on the potty! She claps her hand right after she poops or pees in the potty! She gets so excited! She wants to be a big girl. And be like her brother. Yesterday Jack, Gillian and I walked to the mail box which is just around the corner. Gillian didn't want me to hold her she wanted to walk. So I held her hand and we walked to the mail box. She was so proud of herself!


Words she can say:



Mama, Mom, Mommy, Dada, Dad, Daddy, Jack, Hi, Done, Night Night, Nana (Banana) Hey, Ya, No, Yum Yum.....

Here are a few more pictures of sweet Gillian I took on May 27, 2008



Have a wonderful day! Thank's for reading!

Gillian POOPED in the POTTY today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As well as peed 3 times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yahoo! She is so amazing!!!!! We are just so proud! Had to share!!!!!!!

Pee Pee in the Potty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah that's right Gillian peed in the potty TWICE today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last night she was acting like she was about to poop. So Ryan said go put her on the potty. I ran up stairs and got Jacks old potty seat. Set it on the potty and set her down. She loved it. But nothing happened. So this morning as soon as she woke up I took her I sat her on the potty and she peed!!!!!!!!!!!! I was/am so proud of her! Then after her afternoon nap I sat her on the potty again and she peed AGAIN!!! Oh yeah!!!! Potty training at 10 month!!!!!!!!! Wahooo! What a smart little girl we have! We are so so so sooooooo very proud of her!

Gillian sitting on the potty last night for the 1st time!!!
Gillian sitting on the potty today after going pee pee!!!! She's SO happy!!!!!!!! (Yes I censored here photo's! LOL I just did a quick edit! Nothing profesional)
Gillian SO Proud of herself!
SO BIG!!!
What a girl! 10 month old and peeing in the potty!!!!!!!! =)