Obviously you don’t need snow to go sledding, and a good thing too because they were sledding in the house. Rio with her friend Nicole

On Valentine’s Day we went to lunch and then to the Draper Open House. Rio was so excited to go to the temple. that On the way there her dad asked her if she wanted to go to the store, she said “No, go to the temple”. We went with our good friends Matt and Julie Shupe. The temple was wonderful and well organized. Rio really loved the BUS ride and the cows. After the temple we went with the Shupe’s to get birthday ice cream for their son at McDonalds. (I only have before temple pictures.)

We took Krey swimming for his first time! He liked it! He is now 6 month and is 17 pounds one ounce. We have come a long way from his birth weight of 4 pounds 11 ounces. He is rolling and trying to hold his own bottle. He smiles, laughs and LOVES Rio. He is also eating cereal. I love this boy! Oh, we took Rio too.

On February 6th Grandma Sharon came over to stay the night. Rio was so excited. She was going to sleep in the playpen while Grandma Sharon slept in her bed. We had a fun night, but I think Krey had the best time. Grandma gave him his first licorice. The next day Grandma went to a teacher workshop at UVU. We went to Plain City and had lunch with Grandpa and Grandma Great.

Happy Day, because our cousins come to see us. We were very excited to have the Hall girls and CJ come over to our house today. we made cup cakes, had lunch, and just played played played! Thank you Girls and CJ for making to long drive down, we love you!

Hailey Longenecker came over to say Hi! We were surprised and very glad to see her, and her parents. Rio and Hailey played and played ate licorice and played some more. The next Wednesday Hailey came over AGAIN! She taught Rio a new word. – sure -. If you ask Hailey anything she will say –sure-. Now if I ask Rio to do something she says –sure- instead of yes. I think it is so cute. Thank you Miss Hailey.

GOOD NEWS

My son rolled over 2 times tonight!!

Baby Doll

Rio has been a lot more into her baby. *As I was making Rio’s bed I tossed her doll just on the ground out of the way, you know because that is what you do right? No, Rio said: Baby!! Mom, you bonked her head. How was I to know that just now the baby had feelings? Sorry baby. *Now this is funny… you know how Rio’s baby has feelings, well apparently they go away when she needs to stand on her baby to become just a little bit taller so she can see something just our of her view. Funny that she can hurt it, but I can’t. *I asked her what her babies name was, and she said Doll. As in baby doll, it makes sense, because we call Krey “baby Krey” and we call her baby “baby doll” so her babies name is Doll. *The other morning I was on the computer and I need Rio to give me just a few more second. So to buy me a little more time I tossed her baby a few feet from us and told her to go get her baby. She did. When she came back I had to sit in time out. Then realizing what I had done I did go in timeout. Once I was on time out Rio asked if I could be nice now. *Rio had gotten dressed for the day and thought that she needed to dress her doll, so as she was dressing her doll in her own size 2T clothes I thought I would help things out. I showed her a little dancing dress that goes to a bunny she got in Kansas and told her to put that on her baby. Well, that was a good idea! Then I rememberd the little dancing outfit that was handed down to us from Maddie and gave it to Rio to put on. She wore the outfit ALL day. * For morning prayers I said “help Rio to be happy and go pee on the potty”, you know because you pray for stuff like that when you are potty training. Then Rio wanted her turn to pray and she said, “Heaven fader, be happy and baby go on the potty”. Just to let you know we had 2 accidents that day. Other common sayings: **Who is it? She always asks who I’m talking to. **I just hold it. When she is told she can’t have something and she just wants to get her hands on it. **Nice and warm. She says this when she covers something up with her favorite yellow blanket. **Guess what.. last night Santa scare me, and I sing jingle bells. I don’t know why but she always says this. She says it in the truck to her dad, and on the phone to her grandmas.

My Birthday

As everyone knows I love birthdays, and mostly my own birthday. For my birthday I ran 2 miles. Took birthday treats to play group. Then went to dinner with my family and Cameron’s mom and dad. I got books and sweaters and money! Thank you Thank you everyone!! O by the way I’m 26!

Ouch.....Nursemaids Elbow

Tonight Rio pulled her radius out of socket and because it was 900 before we decided to take her to the Dr. it was too late and they said we would have to take her to the hospital. Well we go to the ER and they check it was tell us that the radius can come out of socket and it is called nursemaid’s elbow. Well after it popped back in place she was fine. Funny thing was is that she was running when she got hurt, we were not swinging her around or anything.

On the 17th we had a birthday party for all of the January birthdays! Happy Birhtday to Dad, JD, Collin, and Catherine. It was a fun night, Grandma Sharon made a wonderful dinner, then we ate cake, and open gifts, it was like Christmas all over again. Then we got great news.....wouln't you like to know...can't tell, because it is not my place....you will soon find out... don't worry about asking me, because I will not tell you.

On Saturday we stopped in to see Grandma and Grandpa great. We had fun playing with Grandpa’s cowboy hat and Grandma’s magnets “maggots”.

Concert

So last night Krey and I got to see a REAL LIVE ROCK CONCERT. It was put on my Cameron and Rio. They played great music, and even let Krey and I touch their guitars. Oh what a fun time it was.

Potty Training Day 3, 4, and 5

No accidents! However, she did start to go and then she said “I pee-ed” so I rushed her to the bathroom and then she finished, and she had only gone a little in her pants! On day 4 NO accidents, and on day 5 NO accidents. We have even gone on a drive and to the store. Things are good, but lots of work!

Potty Training Day 2

Accidents – 4 Potty – 10 I stopped keeping track of other stuff, but you can tell she still was drinking a lot of liquid. Eating a treat while on the potty Sharing her treat with Krey Krey thinks Potty Trainning is CRAZZZY

Potty Training Day 1

Drinks – 3 Accidents – 5 Change of panties – 4 Treats – 5 Potty – 7 I even had a “special spot” for her to sit on. It is a towel and a water proof blanket thing. She sits on it while we play games, watch movies, and play with Krey. ***This is Rio on her "Special Spot" *** Rio put her pannties on....wrong ***Mom fixed Rio's panties

High chair time

On the 29th and 30th the kids and I went to my moms house for a night over. We got there and picked up grandma to go to the fabric store so we could make pillows. Then that night all of the big girls came to mom’s house for a game night. We played Maddies new LIFE game and talked and talked. We stayed up until 12! The next day some of us went sledding on the snow pile and then grandpa pulled us behind the tractor, it looked easy, but it was a little tricky. We had a great time! After sledding we ate pizza and played more games.

If your kids were this cute then... you would do this too.... so cute, you just have to squish them

Christmas DAY

Christmas morning was very fun, we got up at 830 (a little late, but we wanted Rio to be happy). We opened gifts and Rio helped all of us. We got lots of wonderful things and the kids got GUNS, yes guns. Single shot rifles. Grandpa Pat got them guns, he was sad that Krey was already 4 months old when he got his first gun. I think 4 months is plenty early. Rios little gun is pink! After gifts and breakfast Cameron, Rio, and Krey all took naps. Grandpa and Grandma built a snow slide in their front yard. It snowed all Christmas morning, by the afternoon it was great for sledding. Then we went down to Tony and Gina's and Pat pulled everyone around on the sled behind the four wheeler. It was so fun!! What a great day.