This post is for Sandy K

So your silly missionary told me about your blog and so we decided to do a post for you so you can see what Miles has been up to. Enjoy!!! Elder Colton is a wonderful MC by the way.....

Aren't they hilarious? (I don't know, maybe you had to be there.)

I'll post more pictures later. I have dial up, so you can just imagine how long it took me to upload this video!!! :)

A Must Have!

I bought some Sally Hansen's Insta-Dri nail polish the other day and tried it. Man am I impressed. It really does dry quickly as long as you don't overcoat your nails. This stuff is amazing, especially when I paint Halie and Olivia's nails. It dries before they even have a chance to smudge it. Also, the brush has a rounded tip. So it covers your nail in practically one stroke without all the mess. How cool is that? So I give it a two thumbs up and recommend it to all you mommies out there! I am going to stock up on more colors next time I go to Walmart.

(If I get enough courage to go after all that gang related talk lately!)

JAY LENO!!!!!!

On Saturday night, I had the pleasure of attending a comedy performance of Jay Leno. It was at the Northern Quest Casino in Spokane. Man I got carded too many times to count and all I wanted to do was see Jay Leno!!! I went with my mom and we had a wonderful time. Jay Leno sure is funny! It was totally surreal seeing him live too. Sorry for the blurry pictures, but I took them with my flash off because you weren't supposed to take pictures! Oops! :)


(Does my mom's chin show any resemblence to Jay's?)

AN UPDATE!

I am elated to report that Olivia is now a full-time chonie wearing girl!!! That's right she is now pottytrained!!!! I still keep her in a diaper at night (just incase) and so far so good. I am amazed at how quickly she learned. She even goes to the bathroom by herself without asking for help. YAY!!! Think about how much money I will be saving now!!!! :)

She finally went potty!!!

I cannot believe it! Olivia finally peed in the toilet!! She is almost 27 months old for crying out loud!! I have been trying to potty train her for months with no success. We started when she was 20 months by just having her sit on the toilet in the morning. She would sit on it no problem, but would never go potty. So we continued all summer and nope, she never went potty, not even once. So I just gave up and decided to let her show me when she was ready. (BTW: Halie was completely potty trained at 22 months). Well this morning, she had a really nasty diaper and I told her "YUCK, you need to go in the potty already." Then proceeded to tell her to go get some chonies (underwear) on, because she is going to be a big girl now!

After about 2 hours of sporting them Tinkerbell chonies, I told her its time to go potty. She put her little Dora seat on the big toilet and climbed on up. Immediately I noticed she had a 'deeper concentration face' on than usual, so I told her "I don't hear anything...." and then lo and behold "tinkle, tinkle, tinkle" I couldn't believe it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She really went pee!!! How exciting huh??? Olivia was so proud of herself. I think she is finally getting what I have been trying to tell her for months now! We'll see huh? Maybe we will beat Beck and Piper!!!

(And of course I didn't have the camera handy)

Oh yeah....the dog...

Sorry for those faithful readers of mine that have been hanging on since June to see updated pictures and a name for our dog. I really procrastinated over the summer didn't I? Well anyhow, her name is Macie and she next week she will be 5 months old!!! It's hard to think that she is still so young, yet she looks so big. Her favorite things to do at this age are playing fetch, chewing up anything she finds on the floor (i.e. my kid's toys!!!), and jumping on people. She is sooo full of energy and excitement that when she sees anyone she jumps up on them. Slightly annoying, but we are working on it. Other than that, she has been a great dog. Halie enjoys getting her fresh water and food when we wake up in the morning. Unfortunately, I have been the lucky one taking care of most of the poop scoopin' duty!! YAY ME!!!

As a reminder this is what she looked like at about 6 weeks old......

(in the pink collar)

Olivia's First (Official) Gymnastics Class!!

Olivia is a Mini Hot Shot now!!! She was so excited to be in her very own class this year! On the first day there was only two girls and now the class is close to 10 kids! There ages range from 2-3. So we'll see how many of them end up at the Olympics!!!

That "determined" look