Woo Hoo! Tori is potty trained! I kept putting it off and trying to get to it later but now we are done with it and it wasn’t too bad at all! Tori loves going potty now but someone always has to go with her! She loves to make Ariana go with her and Kalixta is always great to take her! She has a little potty but prefers the big one!She loves loves getting treats for being a big girl!She stay dry all night and can always hold her pee until we find a bathroom! I am so proud of her and grateful for less diapers to buy!

I finally got some GREAT pictures of Michael smiling! He loves to smile! It lights up his whole face and makes me so happy!Seriously cute right?!?!Zoe is such a great help! She loves to hold Michael and play with him when he is happy! Love my two cute boys!Here is a super cute video of Michael laughing! He laughs easily and often! He brings a lot of joy to our family!

We celebrated Adam’s Dad’s birthday a few days before Ammon’s birthday! It was wonderful to be here with him to party! We are all so grateful to have him in our lives!!

He needed all his grandkids to help him blow out all those candles!!Grandpa Buzz with each of his babies!

Happy happy birthday!! We love you!!

Ammon turned 10 yesterday! It is so hard to believe! He is a such a character! Ammon is a happy dude! He loves to goof off and make funny noises and voices! He is always making me laugh! He is also always looking for a way to make money! He will try to sell anything and at any price!

He loves and hates his siblings at the same time! He is great with Michael and loves to hold him and make him laugh!

Ammon loves to make videos and take pictures. I never know what I am going to find on my camera!

He got a birthday as special as he is! We celebrated on two different days! On Sunday we had his choice meal, Poppy Seed Chicken with salad and cucumbers with bacon ranch! We had crepes instead of cake!! This boy loves crepes!!Ammon got lots of great clothes including new socks and underwear, much to his embarrassment!! He got a fun new game, a little skate board with ramp, paper to fold, lots of goodies and a pocket knife that belonged to his great-grandpa! He was a happy happy boy!!

Tori, Michael and I took treats to his class where he proudly showed his brother and sister off and shyly watched as the class signed the Happy Birthday Song to him.

We had chocolate cake that night!Ammon is the best present opener! He gets so excited over everything!

But he did really love the origami paper and instructions he got!

He really loved the lego sets he got too!

Happy happy birthday to my sweet, funny son!

We all went to an emergency preparedness clinic on Saturday! The kids had a fun time exploring fire trucks!
They spent most of their time jumping!They also got their faces painted by an amazing artist!Gotta love that mom one!!My beautiful butterfly!Michael got his face painted for the first time!!Him and Zoe were matchy matchy!!A puppy face for my little puppy!I don’t know what all that had to do with emergencies but we all had a great time!!

Two years ago I started my height measurement tradition. I lined the kids up oldest to youngest to track their growing. As the years go by this will be so fun! It is already fun to see who has grown and who looks like they haven’t!

So this is 2011!

2010

2009

It is so very hard to believe that Michael is three months already! He has been lots of places. He has to endure a lot daily too! He enjoys being in his car seat which is good because we are always in the car taking some one some where! Someone (mostly Ammon) is always taking random pictures and videos of him!

He is still fought over daily! Everyone wants to hold him, change his diaper, burp him, or make him smile! He is very loved!

He is a great baby too! He just goes with the flow! I hope that continues!!!

Michael is growing and getting bigger everyday! He is trying new things to! He is starting to look at and focus on his toys more! I think he is even trying to grab them! He smiles easily and often! He is starting to laugh and coos a lot!

He LOVES his pacifier and I never leave home without it!

Michael loves taking baths. He kicks and splashes in the tub! At least two kids always have to help give him a bath! It makes me laugh!!I love my sweet boy and can’t imagine life without him!!

Nik had his first football game Saturday! It was a great game. I love watching football! I love being in the stands and watching the cheerleaders! Makes me feel like a teenager again! Except that I am surround by noisy little kids calling me Mom :)!!!
Yep, that is Nik, number 90! Doesn’t he look HUGE?!

Nik team, the Warriors, won 44-20! Nik had a great tackle in the backfield for a lose of yards!

Michael did great at his first football game!! He watched for the first half and then took a nap!!

The problem with playing so good was that Nik had to sit out a lot of the last half of the game! When a team is winning by so much the other team gets to pick players to sit out of the game. The other team picked Nik. I like the mercy rule, don’t get me wrong! I think is is important! I just like to watch my son play!

I went to a jump place called Sky High. My Uncle Jeff, Aunt Kylie, and Aunt Marie took me and my sisters. There are lots of trampolines. You can just jump or do flips on them. In one of the places I played dodge ball.

In another room I got to jump into a foam pit! I learned how to do a flip into it! It was so fun! Zoe is jumping into the foam too. She sank down deep into the pit!

They had really neat glowing chairs!

I had lots of fun there with my family. I can’t wait till we go again.

I like this video of Tori jumping! She was so cute and funny! She liked jumping! I think everyone had fun!

 

Since all the big kids are in school all day and Michael spends a lot of the morning sleeping, Tori and I have been spending lots of time together! We both really like this time! I enjoy the funny things that she comes out with! She is always cracking me up!

She likes to cook with me so we try to make a treat for everybody at least once a week. Last week we made Stained Glass Jello. It took two days but everyone loved it!! I found the instructions here!

Doesn’t it look amazing!!! It tasted great too!