Huge Mile Stone.........

This little girl is completely potty trained!!!!!!!!!! Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!! It has been a long time coming. We had some complications that I honestly believe were a side effect of some vitamins she took when she was my tiny little preemie. So now I can say that everyone that told me to not stress that when she was ready it would just click was right. So in a little over a year and a half she has moved out of the crib into a big girl bed, gave her "buddies" to the Pacifier fairy, she is totally potty trained, and has become her little sisters security object. What else could I ask for? We are so proud of our Aubree!

new obsession

LUSH is Fresh Handmade Natural Cosmetics Complete range of natural handmade bath and body products. I LOVE IT!!!!! I was reading a few beauty blogs and everyone was talking about LUSH, I am just lucky enough to have one so close. I love the bath products, and one of the nice things about it is that they are all natural, the only reason I care is that I tend to be sensitive to some soaps. One of their products is a bar that you break up up under the running water and it creates bubbles, like Hollywood bubbles (the girls LOVE it). The "flavor" I choose also made the water turn purple (it didn't stain the tub).

Lush doesn't advertise so it is all word of mouth, so if you've never heard of it that's why. If you are into bath products I would highly recommend checking it out. When you get there don't be intimidated just tell them what you are looking for and that your new to Lush and they will take care of you.

A moment of silence please.....

I am sure that by now you have heard that of the death at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Nodar Kumaritashvili was a 21 year old luge compedetor from the country of Georgia. Eli and I were watching the watched parts of the opening ceremonies but totally missed the part about the Nodar, we were watching the news when they covered it. I was sick when we heard about it. I feel so sad for his team mates but most of all for his parents. To be so proud of your sons accomplishments and on his last run through before the opening ceremony on one of the last turns it all was over. What an emotional roller coaster. We will keep his family in our thoughts and prayers and ask you to do the same.
The turn that cost him his life. The Olympic Committee has decided to make that wall higher, and that it was athlete error not the course. It was back open the next day. We would like to wish the other luge athlete good luck!!

Happy Love Day!!!

( I know its a few days until then, but I will forget and I wanted to share this)

The very first Valentines day Eli and I spent together he tried to plan this really nice dinner, he did a bunch of research and picked a spot. We were headed out to a quaint little place in Springville. When we walked in it was a hole, I don't really don't remember a lot but I do remember the seats had duct tape on them. Anyway it was kind of a disaster, so ever since we go to Panda Express. Yes, you read that right for LOVE DAY we eat at Panda Express, and it is always a huge success. So if you are trying to figure out something to do for Love day, just remember that we think Panda Express is romantic for us.

Are we Crazy?

In March Eli, my dad, and I are participating in a Sprint Triathlon. We will run 3 miles, bike 9, and swim 150 meters. We have some friends who can do it all in just over an hour, this will not be me. We will have 2 and 1/2 hours to complete it so my goal is to just finish. While training we are learning a lot things like:
- to us running on a treadmill is torchure, but we enjoy running outside.
- Eli is a great swimmer, I am not sure I remember anything from swim lessons as a child
- there is no need to weight train all you need to do is push 60 lbs of kids in a non-running stroller
- I can come up with a million excuses to not run, but nothing can give you the same feeling as when you are done

So stay tuned to how we do and it couldn't hurt to pray for us.

Ready to get back to business

First blog post from my new slick Net book. I love it so much. I might be a little spoiled but the reason I got it was a very long frustrating experience:

Well my lap top that Eli and I bought when we first moved to California has been trying to die on me for a couple of years. A couple of years? How can that be? Well about a year ago it wouldn't turn on so my dad had his friend look at it, my hopes were just to get the pictures and maybe the documents off of it. Well he did better than that he got it to totally work again. This time if it gets warm it shocks you just enough that its uncomfortable. And to make things worse the cord was dropped and now doesn't work, so again I have to have the pictures recovered.

Luckily I was needing to down load a bunch of pictures from the camera and the cord was upstairs so I just downloaded them on the big computer( 95% of the time I did this on the laptop). Now I am going through a ton of pictures on the big computer to see if I am missing any. So the next chunk of blog posts might be out of order, but I just want to get them up before I forget. My goal is to be caught up by this weekend. Guess we'll see.

Happy Birthday to my baby!!!

Today is my baby's 4th Birthday. I can't believe she is 4, how the time flies. 4 years ago I went in to the Dr. office for a routine ultra sound to check growth progression. 5 hours later had an emergency c-section and a sweet 3pounds 5 ounces baby girl named Aubree. After such a surprise entrance to this world, I don't know if she has ever slowed down. She is an amazing big sister, a huge help to her mom, and the apple of her fathers eye. I am so blessed that my Heavenly Father would entrust this sweet spirit to our family. We love her so much and just wanted to wish her a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Aubs is hilarious, here are a few of the things she said just last week alone:

Right after she finished drinking some punch:
"there's a party in my tummy, so yummy, so yummy. There's a party in my tummy, so yummy, so yummy.

While she was in the back seat of the car with a bag of chips
"mom, I have a new pet"
"really, What?"
"a birdie" as she is taking crumbled up chips in the palm of her hand and having Hayley eat from her hand "here birdie birdie"
We opened gifts this morning so that she could play with them all day. She loved all of them, but was so excited to be just like mom with her hair salon kits from Gran and Papa.

She has been really great about sharing the new toys with her sweet sister. When I asked her if she wanted breakfast, she said," not right now I am in the middle of doing this hair."

Who knows like mother like daughter?