The adventures in Potty Training!

Well this week was actually a step in the right direction...Gavin is really starting to catch on to the whole potty training concept. Today we took him to church in big boy underwear and he had an accident the 2nd hour. (Just after I leaned over to Matt and told him one of us should really go into nursery after class to take him potty :) So this is what Gavin looked like the rest of the day :) Pretty funny stuff...he looks like a beach bum church goer :)

Date night!!!!

My cute little Laurels are just not dating!!!!! They always get all bummed when I tell them all my fun dating stories and they say no one goes out on dates anymore! So I decided they needed a blind date! I contacted another ward and had 5 of their Priests (we were minus one so last minute we had to grab a Priest from our ward too) and we went on a date! It turned out to be so much fun and after the date the girls were giddy and loving boys again! Prior to the date they "hated boys" and said they were going to move into a convent. I was so excited to see the change and it was so fun to see them on their date.


We went to a nearby park where they also allow you to camp, so that we could have a campfire to make smores. To start the night we had the girls bring an item that represented them...the items they brought were:

• a football


• a toy frog


• an ipod


• a book


• a flag


• bubbles

Then we had the boys pick a number and then that was the order they got to go up and choose an item. Then that girl was his date for the night. The pairings were PERFECT! We ate pizza and then the first thing we did is we sent them on a photo scavenger hunt. The items they had to find and take a picture of were:

• a purple flower


• a picture of a kid playing


• a picture of someone wearing the same color shirt as them


• a picture of a tree hug


• a profile picture of them and their date making a funny face


• they had to have someone take a picture of them together on the slide


• a picture of one of them on a swing


• the lake


• they had to make their initials our of nature (leaves, grass, twigs, etc.)


• an animal (squirrel, raccoon, etc.)

The rest of the night we sat around the campfire and played games. What a fun activity. Did I mention how much I love my calling?????

Yoga at it's finest!

I came downstairs this morning to this...

Matt just started doing the P90X workout program and Luke has really gotten into it too. He convinced Matt to wake him up at 6:00 am so he could do it with him. So this morning was Yoga. I thought it was so cute to see little skinny Luke doing his Yoga. :) He is even trying to eat right like Matt and turned down ice cream :)

The Cat is out of the bag...

Well Sunday night we told the kids the big news...I am pregnant! We really didn't want the public to know yet but thought that Luke & Emma were old enough to keep a secret...we were WRONG!!!!!! Monday after school I picked them up and asked "Did you tell anyone?". They both replied "NO!" But after Emma added...."I didn't tell but someone guessed and there were 3 people standing there that heard." She said to my friend's little boy that she had something she wasn't supposed to tell anyone and eventually he guessed I am pregnant. His mom is also our neighbor so the whole neighborhood will know soon enough. Then Luke comes up to me and says "Well mom I just told Mrs. Lipsit because I knew I could trust her not to tell anyone." :) Then after piano he said his piano teacher guessed after he said that I wasn't feeling well. She is our Relief Society President also, so soon the whole ward will know! They are so excited that they can't contain themselves!


Monday morning Emma comes running in and says "Good morning Baby Momma!" She can't stop rubbing my belly and last night she found a binky laying around and came and stuck it in my belly button! For Family Night all Luke wanted to do is come up with names. Some of the names he and Emma have come up with are: Lenny, Rodney, Crisanthamum (not even sure how to spell that one), Molly, Brianne, Vanessa, Addison, Lisa, Liza, Jami, Kylie, Chaylee, Annie, Allie, Taylor, Dane, John, Nathan, Junior (actually he wants to name him Luke Jr.), Maximillian, Jake. Can you tell they are a little excited!!!! It's so fun to see them this way. Now if I can get them to keep it a secret a little longer!

What a wonderful Easter!

We had a wonderful Easter! I don't remember the last time General Conference landed on Easter, but boy was that a treat! It was so neat to hear such powerful witnesses of our Savior! What a wonderful weekend!

When Matt went to the Priesthood session we decorated eggs...

Then Sunday morning was the Easter egg hunt in the backyard...

Then we had a SPECIAL treat...Kim and Morgan were in town looking for a house and they were with Morgan's family and they all came for Easter dinner!!!! It was so much fun to have guests!

Emma and Luke were very excited to have their cousin's aunts, uncles, and grandparents...they made a welcome sign and then Emma made little name cards to go at the place settings at the table. It was so cute! I told her I could tell her the names of all the guests but instead she just wanted to write aunt and uncle and grandma and grandpa...but look how cute she spelled them! She is so thoughtful!

And then she took the time to draw pictures for her cousins....I had to include this one of Max because she really got the chubby cheeks right :)

Spring Break I LOVE YOU!

Spring break snuck up on me so fast and we hadn't made any plans. We thought a fun thing to do (and cheap) would be to go camping. We were just going to go to one of the many state parks here in Florida, but everyone else had the same idea and there were NO spots available except in Ocala or Naples (TOO far away!). So we went with plan B....my favorite hotel...the Grande Lakes!!!!! It was a BLAST! They have the coolest pool ever, or I should say pools. There are about 5 pools all connected by a lazy river that you can float around in inner tubes. It was soo much fun. They had all kinds of Easter activities going on by the pool too. I love getting away, even if it is still here in Orlando :)

The funniest thing happened...one night at dinner Gavin was sitting at the end of the table. Neither Matt nor I were near him and suddenly we notice the guy behind him wiping off his arm. We noticed he had chocolate on him...Gavin was struggling with his ice cream and it flipped and the ice cream went all over the guy and then the bowl went ROLLING on the floor! Gavin said his bowl just kept "spinning" :) The guy was very understanding and his cute little daughter had some kind of disability and she came over to get a picture with Gavin because of the funny memory :) Only Gavin :)

Emma's SLuMbEr pArTy!!!!!

Emma got to have a slumber party with her friend Bella!!! I love the pictures my friend Jennifer sent!!!