Merry Christmas !

Christmas came and went way too fast this year. We really enjoyed getting the kids all hyped up about it since they are both old enough to understand what is going on. Maryn could have cared less of course and woke up about 2 hours after the opening of presents :). Presley got the baby whoopsie doo from Santa that she asked for and Knox got a sword. His favorite present was his handy manny tools. Presley's favorite was her baby doll, and the camera from aunt stacy, although she really likes the jaguar purse from Gigi. Anyway- the kids got up at 6:45, not too bad. We had christmas Eve dinner with our friends from the quad and we just took it easy on christmas relaxing and watching the kids enjoy their new toys. Knox's gift to us is that he is potty trained !!! WooHoo ! I can't believe it only took a week ! I guess he was ready. Oh ya- and I had a birthday 29 ! What in the world !

So here we go...Our tree before the chaos began :)

Their cute little stockings our good friend made for the Kids this year...
Presley filling her Jaguar purse from Gigi...
Knox getting his spike Jr....which he pretends to slay with the sword that santa brought. It is so funny to watch him pretend especially if he is just in his underwear and snow boots :)
Reversible batman/spiderman cape and hood
Santa gift...
Knox helped decorate the tree...gotta love little boys :)
Sweet Maryn ready to party on my birthday...
The wild things...

Potty Training...Take #3

Only pic I have of him in his underwear...Aug 2009

Alright....So I finally decided to stick to it. We started on Thursday afternoon thanks to my 2 sisters giving me a hard time about the fact that he is 2 1/2 and it is time. Alright- so I know it doesn't really matter until the kid is ready, anywhere up until 4, but Im a sucker for peer pressure :)...j/k. He has shown signs of being ready for a while, but I have been lazy. So anyway- since we started he has only had 2 accidents. Luckily enough they were pee accidents on the kitchen floor. Easy clean up. Knox is a crazy pooper, due to intestinal issues, so today he pooped 5 times in the potty !! We are so proud of him and a little dumbfounded and how well he has taken to it. Keep your fingers crossed that it continues to go well. We have already surpassed the period where every 5 seconds I ask if he needs to go, or put him on the potty. He can now tell us when he needs to go and has done great ! We love you Knox you are such an awesome little boy !

BOYCOTTING SANTA....

Me- "Presley you know that Santa knows that you are being mean to Knox and not listening to your mom and dad" "And if you continue to be naughty he will not bring you any toys !"

Presley- "Thats ok I have lots of toys anyway"

Me- "Well you will be super sad on Christmas when he doesn't bring you any presents"

Then I left it at that. and about an hour later our sweet little 4 year old says....

" Well if Santa doesn't bring me a present I am going to put a sign outside on the porch that says "NO SANTA"...

Thanksgiving...

So it is obviously well after Thanksgiving, but I am just now getting around to blogging about it. Thanksgiving was fun for our family. It was low key and just us. We cooked way too much, but we enjoyed our meal. We organized a Family Turkey Trot for thanksgiving morning and invited a couple families in our quad to join in and it was so much fun. We decided to make it a family tradition to do it every thanksgiving. I had promised Presley that we would do a turkey trot and she would get a shirt and a medal, but the one that we were gonna do was $18 for her to run 1/4 mile !!! Ugh ! So we made our own shirts and I went and bought medals for all of the participants :). She was super happy. Friday after thanksgiving we went on the UTA trax train to Salt Lake. We drove up to Sandy with our friends and hopped on the train. This was a treat for Knox. He loves trains. So instead of it only taking us about 15-20 minutes from Sandy to get to down town SLC, the train took about 45 minutes, but the kids loved every minute of it. Maryn is doing well, still growing so fast ! Here are some pics of our bumbles ! Baby weight is stuck on good. Im having such a hard time dropping it this time around. I have lots of excuses, I just need to exercise !!! So no pics of me :)

Pres and Knox at Temple Square

Knox on the Trax Train
Thanksgiving day with 2 happy girls ! Maryn loves to be naked, she cracks us up. She can be screaming her head off when you change her diaper, but as soon as you get it off and she is naked she is all smiles :)

She thinks she is so big :)
My 2 litle race runners and one very proud of his medal !
Running Knox
Running Presley
We went to get family pictures organized by our relief society at church. They got some photogs to come and do family pics for free and they turned out not so good, the lady cropped them awful ( that is why Presley's top half of her head is missing). Maryn is 8 weeks and just kind of slouchy, Bry and I look gigantor...yada yada- so here are the best ones out of the 8, yes 8 that we got. Some families got more than 100, and we got 8 !! I guess that is what you get for free :)