Gotta love the holidays!

Its been a great week here. Yesterday was a fabulous birthday!! My sweet hubby had asked each of the boys what they wanted to give me. Tyson said a necklace, Cash said roses and Dayson said cake (are you surprised?) So my hubby got those so the boys could give them to me. I asked Cash how he knew I liked roses, and he said, "One time dad got these for you, and you said 'I love these' so I knowed that you loved roses." So cute! And the roses are beautiful. The best thing about this birthday was that my hubby listened and remembered little details. Like my cake. He knows that I love German chocolate, so he almost got that, but he remembered me saying I've been craving oreos this week, so he bought me an oreo cake. How sweet is that? And he didn't get me anything to do with carpets this year!!! I got a new lens for my camera, which I had been wanting for quite a while! I tell you, I'm in love! And my sisters got me some fabulous stuff too, that just made my day! Then me and hubby went out for a romantic dinner. It is always so nice to go out without the kids! I think the best part of the whole day is Dayson didn't have one accident!!! The first time ever!!!

Ok, so now its Sunday. Church was crazy. I tried to hustle, cuz I needed to get there a little early to set everything up, and make sure my music was there and everything. I didn't make it. I was 10 minutes late. I had to leave my boys and run get my music. And Scott had to work. But it went ok. The kids sang their primary songs really cute, and I just made Dayson go up with them, since he's bigger than most the sunbeams anyway. I always wish I could just sit and watch them, but someone has to play the piano, right? Then I had to get them down, and dear Karly sat with them while I played the flute for the next choir song. The only time during the whole meeting that the boys were quiet was when they were sitting with Karly. After that, when I went down to sit with them, they were fighting, and yelling, and laughing and climbing everywhere. My favorite moment of church was when they were passing out the sacrament, and Dayson and Cash saw some girl take 2 pieces of bread. They yelled out, "Mom, she took 2 pieces!" Then even louder, they yelled at her, "You're not supposed to take 2 pieces, just one!" Then back to me, "Mom, she took 2 pieces!!!" Yes, I get it, she took 2 pieces, but BE QUIET!!! Dayson was quite distraught that we only had sacrament today, and no nursery. So what did he do? He came home and pooped in his pants. So much for me thinking that we were potty trained. Oh well.

Oh, and one last quick story about last night. We were taking neighborhood treats around, and the boys would take turns taking the gift to the door, and the other one would ring the doorbell. It was going ok, until one house, of a family who they all like. Dayson was carrying it, and Cash was supposed to ring the bell, but then Cash wanted to hold it, and was trying to take it from Dayson. Then he started hitting him, then yanking on him, and the gift. It was about this time that the door opened. Instead of giving the gift, the boys kept fighting, for another whole, long embarrassing minute, with me yelling to give it, and the lady at the door trying to take it. Oh, the joys of boys, right?

On his own terms

So, my life is immersed in potty training right now. So much so that I didn't leave the house at all yesterday. We did so good. We made a new rule, that the boy can't play the computer unless he poops first. So he'd go poop a poop the size of a skittle, then come play one game, then go poop again, and play another game. He did that about 10 times. We wore the same pair of underwear the whole day. Things were going great!!! Then, he slipped up stairs. I was talking to my hubby, and the kid slipped right past me. He found his way into the computer room (because his brother didn't lock it...grrrr!) and peed all over the floor, and pooped in his pants. He was only by himself for maybe 2 minutes. He is a stubborn little guy, and it was his way of telling me that he is doing this on his own terms!

Another day, another blog

Ok, its official. Yesterday was the poopiest day of my life!!! So the potty training. Lets just say its not going too well. We started on Saturday, with no accidents. Sunday, we had 2. Then there was Monday. He pooped his pants 6 times!!!!!!! We went through 8 underwear changes. He has the sorest bum! I made him change his own poopy underwear (after all, I didn't poop in them, I shouldn't have to clean it up, right?) and we fought over it each time. He also uses 10 times the wipes I do. So at the end of the day, we had 8 dirty underwear, 2 packages of flushable wipes flushed, 1 package of regular wipes used, 1 miserable bummed boy, and one really annoyed mother. How in the world does the boy poop 6 times?!?! But we aren't giving up. There is no way today can be worse than yesterday, right?

Its only been a month

Ok, so its been a month since I've blogged. But I'm going to be better, I promise!
Thanksgiving went of really well, and there were only a few awkward moments. The best part was that Tyson was baptized by his dad the next day. We got to do it when all our family was there, so it was really special. I can't wait to post pictures of the special day.
Now, for what has been keeping me busy this month. Tyson had his first basketball game on 2nd of Dec. The next day I spent almost 9 hours scrapbooking, getting my stuff ready to send off to Tinkering Ink. Then on the 5th I helped Tyson's class make gingerbread houses, and that was fun. Then I had Scrap Club at my house two days later. Then two days after that I had the ward Christmas party. Then the next day I had to go to ward choir practice. Not because I'm singing, no...They asked me to play the flute. I haven't done that for years!! So that is a bit of stress. Tonight I have a gingerbread house making party. Then this week I've gotta finish the calendars for Scott's family. I've also gotta get Kelly's bathrobes made. I've got another party on Saturday, and I've still gotta get gifts for my kids. But I'm going to try to blog more, just because I need to keep track of my life before it goes out of control!!!