Mini Book Of Mormon covers

          

With our YW's Beehive class, we made these for them to take with them to Girl's Camp! The rest of the YW leaders found out and loved them, so we decided to make them for all of the girl's in our ward to take with them too! They turned out soooo cute! I LOVE these so much! I pretty much made up the pattern myself, cause I couldn't find what I was looking for on the internet (go figure)! My Beehive girls sew'd their own covers, and they did a WONDERFUL job! They are very proud of them, as am I! :)

My friend is cooler than your friend!

So my friend, Kirsten, is very talented in many ways... but one inparticular, setting up a cute blog. She started re-designing her blog, and now she wants to re-design some elses! Check out her site! 

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poop & pee and everything in between....

So time has come. Wednesday was Cohen's first full day potty training. For the last month or so, he would occasionally go on the potty... maybe once a day. But it was very casual. Now it's legit. He has his frog potty planted right in the middle of the family room, front and center of the TV. Cars playing on replay... sippy cup around him at all times. The first day was amazing! He went potty at least 20 times if not more. With only two accidents. Lots of cheering, dancing, running around, and lots of candy and stickers! Day two, went well... four accidents total. But he did very well. I just realized I literally could not leave the room he was in, or he would have an accident. Today is day three.... LOTS of accidents this morning... but there was also a lot going on this morning. Once it calmed down, he has been accident free! So it's been very fun and exciting around here! I have been a little (a lot) frustrated at times... I had no idea it was going to be so hard!

I am very proud of Cohen. He has all of a sudden grown up! It's crazy! He is working very hard -- He takes himself to the potty, and his face after he has successfully pee'd in the potty, is PRICELESS! Makes this all worth it.

Where have you gone?!

So I haven't posted in quite a while. Busy? a little. Nothing to blog about?? definitely not. For some reason our computer is INSANELY slow. It takes FOREVER to upload pictures. So I have given up for a while. Having two computer guys in the house... you'd think I wouldn't have this problem. Well we can't figure out why it's so slow. So until we can figure it out, my posts will be pretty sparse.... with little - to - no pictures. :(

Thanks for bearing with me during this process!! And I hope to be up and running soon...

Hope is the keyword.

Family trip to Lincoln City - June 4, 2011

Saturday morning, Jeff and I packed up the car, and the kids and headed west! We spent two nights and three days in Lincoln City! The weather was A-MAZING! We got there after lunch, checked into our hotel, and headed to the beach. It was probably 75 degrees... and from the pictures you'll see we definitely took advantage of it! :) Cohen was on cloud 9. He couldn't get enough. Jeff and I switched off sitting with Molly while the other would run out to the water, and throw rocks into the ocean! He was having the time of his life!! Molly....... She didn't really care for the sand too much. When I would sit her in the sand, she wouldn't move. And if she touched the sand, she would shake her hand, so the sand would come off! She was totally a beach babe none the less! :)

By day two, she would finally touch the sand!

Cohen hanging out at the hotel. These are the views from our room. We had a really nice grassy area right outside our sliding glass door. Cohen loved running free all over the grass, above the beach. He lined up his whales on the steps outside our door, we flew a kite, and flipped around with Dad! I LOVED that hotel room! It was perfect for us!

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We spent a few hours at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport. It was really fun! Cohen loved going from one exhibit to the next! And Molly loved the fish tunnel that they had. She would crawl on the floor, but the floor was really the fish tank! It was awesome!

We found a different beach our last evening there... we were pretty much the only ones there! It was great! Cohen and I walked around and picked up rocks and shells, and Molly had fun walking around!

This was one of the highlights of the aquarium.... These fish would open their mouths so wide, it looked like their head was detaching from their bodies. While I was holding Cohen and looking at them... I looked at Cohen, and he was mimicking them!! It was HILARIOUS! Totally cute! Now when we ask him what the fish at the aquarium were doing... he does this!

At the top is a picture of the kid's room. They had their own bedroom, and it had bunk beds, and a wii! It was so awesome! They loved that room. Here they are sleeping... and then all snuggled up on the way home.

Our view from our hotel

We had such a blast that weekend! It was so nice to spend that time as a family. Jeff and I had a nice time relaxing at night, watching the sunsets and watching movies and we slept with the door to the porch open so we could hear the waves! It was just awesome!