Happy Birthday, Lady Tanisha!

You all know that I have the BEST friends, and we have the BEST birthday parties! Well, here is our latest! My friend Tanisha LOVES anything Jane Austen, so we decided to throw her an English Tea party! Here is the invite!

Here is the backyard scene! We had 2 canopy's draped in sateen and 2 tables with REAL china and LOTS of delicious food! My sister-in-law, Hilary made the amazing cake! Thanks, Hilary, she LOVED it!

Tanisha was so excited that she purchased a dress (or 2) for the occasion! Isn't it cute! Just perfect for the time era!

We all had a great time sitting around chatting, drinking tea (strawberry lemonade), and eating!

Happy birthday, Lady Tanisha!

New Job!

A couple months ago Tyler started looking for a new job (the Dr. he was working for was relocating to OR). Within a few weeks of each other we received 3 great job offers! After reviewing the pros and cons on all of them he happily accepted a position with Dr. Hobbs and Dr. Sawyer. They own 3 Urgent Cares, and now Tyler is going to get to work in one of them! He did a rotation with them about 1 yr ago and really liked the Dr's and really liked Urgent Care. It is great because the Dr's are great and he is only at Gilbert and Queen Creek! Super close! Here he is on his way to work! He is such a stud! We are really excited for him!

After Lexi saw me taking a photo of Tyler leaving to work, she told me I needed to take one of her leaving to work-so here she is, going to work, in her Pj's!! What a cutie!

Fun Cabin Trip!

For Spring Break we went up to the cabing with Chad and Shelley! We had so much fun! Shelley and I scrapbooked, the boys watched TV and the kids played! It was fun not to have any place to go or anything to do! Chad's cell-phone didn't even work, and no internet! It even snowed and we got to go sledding! It was a fun trip! Thanks for coming Chad and Shelley!

Surfing in the Snow?

While up at the cabin we went sledding down a hill and we decided to use the sleds as surfboards! Here is Tyler "surfing!" it was pretty funny! More videos to come!

-Thanks Shelley, for the video! It is GREAT!

Got Meat?

This isn't too exciting, but I figured I better blog about something, since it has been a whole week, so Here goes!

For anyone that knows my kids, they know that they LOVE meat! They are little carnivores!

Tyler is getting very good at smoking meat, and cooking meat, and this night he made ribs.....

Maddie LOVES ribs! She would chose them over candy!

As you can see, the kids had a GREAT dinner!

Track & Field

I loved Track & Field when I was in Elementary School, and Maddie and Payton were so excited as well! We had so much fun watching them compete! It was really cute!

Payton did the Javelin, Shot Put (a softball throw), Obstacle Course and Long jump

Maddie did the Javelin, Sack Race, 50 yd dash, and hurdles!




The whole class did the Tug-of-war







These are Paytons really good friends, and these boys cleaned house! The placed in almost everything they did! Payton got first in Javelin, Softball, and 2nd in the Obstacle course.




These are Maddie's good friends, and they did really well too! Maddie got 2nd in the Sack Race!

Potty Time!

We decided it was time to start potty training Lexi. I didn't want to deal with the hassle of it all, but she is READY! So, Sat. she picked out Ariel and "Pinkybell" panties and we talked all about it. Monday morning we got her up, took off her diapers, and started giving her LOTS of juice!! I set the time for every 10 minutes and the 3rd time we put her on the potty she Peed! She LOVED getting a sucker as her treat! It was also great to have a fun fanclub that cheered her on! She also got to call Grandma Treats and tell her the good news. She was still eating her sucker when the 10 minutes were up, so we went back to the potty and she pee'd again! Again, she got a sucker (one in each hand). She is pretty smart and must have great control because 10 minutes later she pee'd again! And, of course, expected another sucker! I only had 5 suckers, so we started using Jelly Belly's-not as messy, and they don't take as long to eat!
Needless to say, she only had 2 accidents that day (one she pee'd through her panties into the potty-she couldn't get them off in time).

Yesterday was day 2. She did GREAT in the morning. In fact, I went in to get a pull-up on her so we could take the kids to school and I found her on the potty, pants down, pooping!! YEAHHHH!!!!! This was the hardest part for both twins, so I am very excited it is so easy for Lexi. She got a Pinkybell toy and we also moved her onto the big potty.
I'm sure I will keep you all posted on our Potty Party!! Today isn't going as well, but I think I just need to keep on top of things. I will let you know!