My Cousin Marie

I have not seen my cousin Marie in like 6 years. I miss her like crazy. We were like best friends like sisters. We had so much fun growing up. I am going up near Layton tomorrow to see my friend Lindsey so it makes me sad to think of all the fun times I had at Layton with her, and that now I have no clue where she even is... I would spend summers at her house in Layton or she would come down to my house and we would take road trips with Grandma to Eureka and Huntington. She was always the life of the party. She would always come up with the best games or funnest ideas. She was so nice and loving. She was like an adult with all the answers. I would just want to do everything she did, and I would want to dress just like her. I thought the plan was that we would move out and go to college together, but she kind of stopped talking to me then. And then when I got married all I kept thinking about is where is she, she wouldn't miss my wedding would she??? Then I tried to call her and her number had changed, she was gone forever??? I miss you Marie and I wish you would come back into my life. I hope you are OK and things are good for you. I hope one day you will find me. Love you tons, and miss you like crazy.

Potty Time

So we have really wanted Noah to start potty training for a long time but he hates the toilet. He screams when we even suggest that he sit on it. But it is time. We are going to start cracking down on this kid. Hopefully!! it will work. So yesterday I was determined to help him go on the potty because he woke up dry. It took a good half hour of convincing and bribing but he finally sat down. He knew he had to pee and then he did it! Yeah for Noah, he peed on his potty! But today was not the same. When I went to get him out of his bed ( he seems to still think I need to come and get him out of his big boy bed??) he had already peed in his diaper. So we still did sit on the toilet but I was not sure if he needed to go or not...rrr.... but this kid can only take siting on the toilet once a day I think. He just gets way to stressed out when I try to have him sit on it again. Maybe we will just have to go slow, once a day for a little while and then we can add more potty times. Noah doesn't care if he is wet, he doesn't care if he is has poop in his pants he never even tells me that he wants to be changed. He is too busy with his own life to care about his potty problems. That is why I thought maybe he isn't ready. He doesn't seem to even know when he goes he just goes.... I thought I would wait till it is warm and just let him loose outside, but maybe that is not the best idea. I tried letting him just pee in his underpants but that seemed crazy because then he just pees on my carpet and I have to clean up a huge mess rather than a small mess. I thought this whole potty process would be a lot easier. I think he is ready he is just the type of kid that doesn't like to change things up. But I bet once he has a nice little routing of going to the potty it will be good. I hope, I hope, I hope. So wish me luck for the up coming Potty time!
Harvey went to church for the first time today. I felt kind of like a bad mother making him go to church when he is so little exposing him to all of the germs there. I don't know if I will be able to make it back till he gets blessed in May. I kind of wanted to get him blessed in April but Rick's family is going to San Diego for spring break and they will be gone on the day I wanted to bless him so we will have to wait till May. Maybe I should have waited till May to take him to church. I sure hope he does not get sick. Sandra in my ward, made these cute little booties for Harvey and he got to wear them to church.




Yesterday Noah was so cute, we both had our babies and were just relaxing with them at Grandmas. He even put a diaper on his baby.

Kitchen/Bathroom

So I showed Rick my blog and he wondered where the updated kitchen pictures were... well I guess I better put some up. I love my new kitchen. I have tons more space to store things. We found a little space behind a wall that we put a pantry and put some extra storage above the fridge. I picked out the tile and the wall color. It has made a huge improvement to the whole house. The kitchen really is the heart of the home. We also redid the bathroom. The old bathroom pictures you cant really see how small the bathroom was. The tub was along the right side and made it so the bathroom was super narrow and long. We decided that the only way to fix this would be to put the bath tub at the end of the bathroom. We got a small 4 foot tub, its way to small for me to soak but perfect for a shower and to bathe the kids. I really like the blue color I picked out for the walls. Rick found these awesome small white tiles for the floor, that seem to fit the style of the house. I love it. And now we are working on the Laundry room. I am really excited to fix the laundry room since we walk though there every time we leave. It is super annoying to have it such a mess.

Big Boy Bed

Noah slept in his big boy bed! Yeah for Noah! Rick took down the crib and during the day Noah was glad to take it down. Then when it was time to go to sleep he was real upset. But he did it. Slept in his big boy bed (toddler bed) all night, in his new room too. When he woke up he said that he slept on the floor and that, that was not too fun... um... maybe he fell out? But he was so proud of himself! I hope nap time goes as well. I am just excited that Harvey gets to reclaim the crib soon. Maybe we will have to wait a week or so for the big boy bed to set in, so Noah doesn't revert back when he sees the crib up again. Its nice to have a room for each of them. Noah is such a good boy and I am so proud of him.


Here is Noah's new room. Gotta Love the free posters from the Daily Herald. We still need to get a dresser, for now his some of his things are in the old room.

Camera

So my dumb camera busted. The buttons don't work... this happened before so I don't know weather I should try to get it fixed or just get a new camera. I like that my camera has a wide angle lens and fast start up, but I don't really like the color on most of my pictures, so a new camera might be a fun option. um... but witch camera to get??

Two Months

Wow little Harvey is already 2 months old. We are going into town in just a little bit for his check up. So he has been sleeping a little better he only wakes up once a night at 3am. For a while there he would wake up two times and that was just more than I could handle. Luckily Daddy would take the first shift and I would take the second. But this past week he has only woken up once. He goes to sleep at 7pm and wakes up to eat at 3am and then for the day at 6:30am. (Usually) so I can handle that.

In February We just had fun for Valentines day. Me and Noah made Daddy some pink heart cookies and decorated the kitchen. Rick got me a spa pass and that was super nice. We all exchanged cards so it was a good Valentines day.