Little Camrie

I'm so excited, I got this ebook from my friend about potty training in three days and I read it and did it and Camrie did such a great job. I've tried to start potty training her in the past, but she just didn't get it, so I did what the book said and at the end of day two it just clicked for her. She's had a few accidents still, and I'm sure there will be more, and we have to wake her up at night if we want her bed dry, but she's doing so great and I'm so proud of her. Where on the right track, and it's not taking me 11 months like it took me for Jamie.

Camrie runs up to me and says "mama potty" then runs for the bathroom, she's such a good girl. When I ask her where pee pees goes she says, "In the toilet..... not in panties", It's so cute I love it. Yay Camrie!! The school I want her to go to won't let kids in that aren't potty trained, so that's a big plus to it, I'll get to sign her up for pre-school.

She's done such a good job, I'm so proud of her.

YAY!!! We finally got some snow.

Today is Valentines day and we finally got enough snow to play in. Colby went outside to shovel the walks and I got the girls in their winter gear and we went outside and made a big snowman and a snow bunny just for Jamie. She's been wanting to make a snow bunny since last year when she saw one in another yard, but we haven't had enough snow to do anything until today, yippee! The snow mans arms are made from one of our little trees we planted last year that someone stepped on and broke when they were putting flags in our yard to mark where power lines were. That was a bummer, but at least we got to use it for something. It's a good thing we went out a little early too, because I just looked out the window and most of our front yard is melted already. I have to say I probably over dressed the girls, but I didn't realize how warm it really was until I went out there myself. When I came back inside the temperature gage said it was around 44 degrees. That's alright though, we didn't freeze, we had fun, and the snow was great packing snow.

Say HI for the camera.

Can't play in the snow without eating a little.Nancy gave us a cute little "Snow man can" for Christmas. It has a plastic carrot, some buttons, and some little dots for the eyes and mouth. There's only enough for one snow man, but we split them up into two for the snowman and the bunny.Jamie's getting old enough to be able to do some herself.Notice Colby's sleeves? It was pretty warm. And I totally didn't mean to cut off his head, but the sun was on the camera, so I was lucky the girls are even in the picture.

Thanks Daddy for taking a picture of me and my girls. Just so you all know I rolled the snowman's bottom, and I don't know how those little fifth and sixth grade kids used to roll those snowballs that were bigger then they were, because I had a hard time rolling one the size of Camrie.

Ahhh... Good times.

Lots of News

I haven't updated my blog in awhile, so I thought I should.

Jamie gave a talk in church on Sunday and she did such a great job. She didn't want my help at all either. One of the teachers went up to try to help her get started and she told her that she didn't need any help. The teacher sat down and looked at the other teacher and shrugged, like... I guess she doesn't want help, it was pretty funny. She talked loud, she showed her pictures to everyone, she remembered all of it, and she gave a great, funny, but great testimony when she was done. The Second Counselor got to see the talk and came up to me later and told me that when she was doing her talk him and his wife just stared at each other in awe.. He said he couldn't believe she had it all memorized and was doing it all by herself, he thought she was a natural, and he said he'll be asking her to say a talk in sacrament meeting. I'm so proud of her, and am glad that she is becoming so confident. Jamie will be turning 5 in March. She's getting so big.

If you didn't all read Colby's status update in our Facebook, we're expecting another baby. Due in October. I figure if he's going to post it there I might as well post it here. We're pretty excited. I'm not super excited about the whole October thing since that's right around the hunt, but it will be fun to have a baby in the family again. The girls are really excited too, especially Jamie. I don't remember who, but someone asked her what she thought we were going to have and she told them it wasn't her decision and that Jesus would decide what we get. I couldn't believe she said that, what a smarty pants, it was really cute. I have been soooo tired, and I've been craving meat, mostly chicken. I like being pregnant, but then there's so much I don't like about it. We plan on putting Camrie and Jamie in the same room with a bunk bed, and putting the baby in Cams room. It's going to be great. I can't wait.

I got a new calling in the ward, I'm the Enrichment Leader. It's been a lot of fun, and a blessing to me, I get to help plan and organize all the activities, and it's been really good for me because it's helping me feel like I'm part of the ward. I'm getting to know so many women, and I'm learning to love all of them so much.

On a sad note, Colby's work has been SUPER slow, so a lot of people have been laid off, Colby has had a huge cut in pay because his trucks aren't working for him, and we've been scrimping like crazy. Colby's been calling everyone he knows for side work, and has been working every day except Sunday for the past few weeks. We luckily had some money in savings, but if work doesn't pick up soon he might have to go out of state and find work with another company. I really don't want him to have to do that. Hopefully work will start coming in and we can get back to our normal life. I hate not being able to eat out, or go to the store when I need or want something, or pick up a small toy for the girls when we go to buy milk and bread. I know it will all get better sometime or another. We know work is coming up, we just don't know when.

I'm glad that the weather is warming up and am excited for February. I hope everyone has a fun Valentines Day!!!!

My pictures have nothing to do with my post, but I thought they were fun and cute.

Thanks for the cute sweat shirts Aunt Lisa.