Carson Potty Trained!!!!!!!!

So Carson has been completly potty trained for a while now. Although #2 can get a little messy, with no help.
Last night me and Trent were sitting in bed at 10:00 watching TV and Carson comes down the stairs totally asleep. He climbs in bed for a few minutes with Trent. All of the sudden he jumps up and heads for the bathroom pulling down his pants.
He comes out of the bathroom and I thought to myself how cute that he came all the way downstairs still asleep to use our bathroom.
Then he climbs in bed with me. After a few minutes I carry him back to his bed. When I come back to my room I head for the closet to get ready for bed.
In our bathroom right when you walk in is the closet to the left (there is no door). Keep going straight and the toilet is a towel bar length away on the left.
Anyways back to the closet. I step into the closet and my foot gets wet. There is a straight stream of pee from the bathroom onto the carpet into the closet.
I guess I am still counting him as being potty trained at least he didn't pee in my bed.

Annual Christmas Tree Hunt

So every year we go up out of Sisters to get our Charlie Brown Christmas Tree. This year was a little different, there was no snow. So We missed out on our sledding hill but Casey and Julie made a scavenger hunt so the kids didn't seem to care. We brought our 4 Wheeler and trailer and Trent put foam in the trailer so we had a lot of hay rides.





Don't be fooled once you stand it up it is a Charlie Brown tree.



Dont'

Molly Morman

Ok so I am playing Molly Morman today. 1st the egg seeds and now Peppermint swizzle sticks ( I had lots of broken peppermints and candy canes from the parade).

We are having Enrichment Night tommorow with a tasters table. I couldn't decide what to do and finally I came across this in Better Homes and Garden.

1. Marshmallow

2. dip half of marshmallow in mixture of 1 cup sifted powdered sugar and 3-4 teaspoons of water.


3. finely chop peppermint/candy canes. I used my hand chopper.

4. Dip wet marshmallow in crushed peppermint.

5. Let stand.

6. Poke with a toothpick and use in your hot chocolate. YUM!!!!

Family Home Evening.

Ok so I ripped this off from one of the Dickinsons blog. We were given some seeds from a customer and so I thought we will take a wack at it. We planted the seeds in the egg shells. 1st we poked holes in the bottom of the shells then filled them half way with soil. Then we put the seeds in and filled them the rest of the way. Last we watered them and wrapped them with plastic wrap. When it is time to plant them outside after the last frost we just put them in the ground, shell and all. Pretty cool well update you on the flower situation later.

Christmas Parade in Redmond.

So I only got a couple of pictures and then got into trying to get Carson to run for the candy. Unless the candy was right at his feet he wouldn't get it. Then we realized that he was standing over Megan's candy bag. Why would he have to run for it when Megan was bringing it to him? It was great weather and the kids had so much fun. I think the best float was the Redmond Police. They had the Grinch in a Jail cell on the back of their float. Yah Christmas is saved.

Gold Canyon Candles

I have been selling Gold Canyon Candles for a little less than a year. They are the best smelling candles I have found.
Here is my website in case you are interested:
www.mygc.com/messinger

Thanksgiving

So this year we stayed home all by ourselves. It was so nice. We woke up and I put the Turkey in the oven. Then we went to the kids gradeschool to play Football with a bunch of people from Church. Trent and his friends kind of started their own game of tackle football. The touch game was a lot of people with girls and little kids.

Then we went home and we all sat in the hot tub for awhile and warmed up.

When we got out the Turkey was already done (dang the convection roast feature).

So me and Trent worked real fast to get everything else ready.

After we ate at 3:00 we spent the rest of the day hanging out. And over course cleaning up after Thanksgiving. I had to clean out the fridge, because this year I actually defrosted the Turkey in the Fridge ( I have never been organized enough to do that). Normally I just defrost the Turkey in the sink in water. So the Turkey bleed all over the fridge YUCK!!! By 5:30 I think I was finally done cleaning the fridge, kitchen, and had done 2 loads in the dishwasher. I was so tired after that I got the kids to watch Harry and the Henderson and I feel asleep with Ashley laying on me.

All in all it was the most relaxed Thanksgiving I remember.

Now what do we do with the rest of the weekend?

Megan's Pictures

We had Megans pictures taken for her baptisim program. The rest of the family is soon to be following we just have not had the time to get together with my friend Somerlie.


Megan 3rd Grade 9/08

Carson

So Carson is pretty comical. His new jokes are "Have you ever seen a chicken walking a chicken?" He just changes the subject each time. Chicken, car, and dog are his favorite. He'll tell his joke over and over. As long as you keep listening.

Halloween Pumpkins

So carving pumpkins SUCKS! Ok maybe just cleaning up after it is all over. So I decided to pull out the potato heads and let the kids stick the pieces in their pumpkins. I think they actually liked that more.



Yes Ashley actually did this too her pumpkin. She never stops, she has to keep going until all the pieces are gone.


This was my pumpkin. I thought for sure Ashley was going to do the princess but as you see from above she just wanted to use all of the extra pieces.

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So I made it to Carson's School before I noticed I was wearing two completely different shoes. I just slipped them on and ran out the door. What are the chances that I could slip one foot in a Right shoe and one foot in a Left shoe?

Ashley's Birthday at the Pumpkin Patch

We had such a great time with our friends, Thank you all for coming and making Ashley's day special. We closed down the pumpkin patch. When Ashley told me during the summer time that she wanted to have her birthday at the Pumpkin Patch I was a little scared about the weather. October 28th has not been known to be too warm, but it was gorgeous.

We went on the hay ride and feed the cows. Then when we tried to leave they were chasing behind trying to get the hay.

We feed the animals and went to the petting zoo.

The final and biggest hit was the play area with the zip lines (the kids are crazy)!