Tepanyaki Time!

For Christina's Birthday my great dad treated the family to dinner at our favorite restaurant. It was so much fun, the only downfall was not being able to eat as much as I wanted due to the enlarged belly! Afterwards, Christina and Brian bought everyone a frozen yogurt from Yoasis. It was soooo yummy, too bad they don't have one here. I'll have to look into buying into the franchise or maybe just experimenting on how to make it myself!

Potty Training My Own Way

Well, Brice and I have been working really hard with Cade over the last month to potty train. Easier said than done. We tried everything from candy, cars, toy guns, and dirt bike rides with Grampy and the Uncles. He has his own way of doing everything! He didn't have an accident for almost three weeks and then he decided this whole potty training thing is too much work. When it came down to missing a ride on the dirt bike he'd say, "I no stink, I shake a shower!" So he decided to go back to wearing diapers. I think he probably got tired of me asking him every 15 minutes if he needed to go potty. Like always everything is on his terms. Anyways, we are going to drop the subject for a few months and try again later.

Parade Day

Mady was in the Aztec Tiger's Homecoming Parade with her soccer team. She had a blast throwing candy to the crowd. When we were walking to the parade start she made a comment, "Mom, there sure are a lot of people who like the Hornets (her Soccer team)." I didn't have the heart to tell her that most of the people were there for the football team. Anyways, she loved every second of it. Cade had a ball too, he was just so excited that people were throwing candy to him, he was in heaven.

A Work In Progress

Well, I wanted to take some pictures of the progress on our house. They have been working on it for a few weeks now. It's nice to see actual walls up. I'll keep you all posted on what's happening. Mady has made it her business to make sure they are working on it every day. When I drive her to school we always drive past it and she notes what has changed. The other day she went out there with her dad and started chewing Jason (Uncle and Framer) out about why his guys were just standing around and not working while all the other houses that were being built had people working on them. Needless to say the next day Jason called to talk to the "Superintendent" to make sure everything was up to speed!

Mady's First Soccer Game

Mady had her first Soccer Game Saturday. She had a great time even though her team lost. She is learning the game really quickly with practices twice a week. She is a little concerned about all the pushing and shoving that goes on during practices and the game. She got two different responses, Mom has always said that we don't push and Dad said she needs to push more. I guess dad wins this battle after watching how aggressive the other kids are. It's going to take some training though! Like SueSue said maybe she should just stand in front of the boys and bat her eyelashes. Mom is on the same train of thought. When I signed her up for soccer my first question was, "What color is the uniform? We need to make bows!" Dad's response to that was, "How about she learns to play the game first."

Meet Our Next Princess

Well, the day finally came to find out what I was having. We are all so excited to welcome a new sister into our family. Brice is a little bit nervous about being outnumbered as I'm sure Cade will too once he realizes there's two of "them". I wanted to surprise Mady by taking her to buy an outfit for the new baby and whichever one (pink or blue) I paid for would be what the baby is. She couldn't stand the suspense though. As soon as she knew that I knew and Cade and Dad knew and she was the only one who didn't, she started crying. Call me a softy, but I broke down and told her before we made it to the store. She can't wait, I think she is the most excited about getting to share a bed with her sister when she gets older, and having someone to love her back. Cade's not the best at that!

Tree Swingin' Fun

We had a family reunion and my kids (Brice included) discovered a rope swing. They all had a blast going as high as they possibly could. I was just a tad bit nervous though, but they thought it was great! And if you look at that great "clean" pond behind them our little fish, Mady, went for a swim in it. She swam all the way across without a life vest or anything. It gets to be about six feet deep in the middle so she was pretty brave.