Mothers Day 2012

For Mothers Day Dinner, *which Jay and I celbrated the Sunday before Mothers Day* Jay said I could pick anywhere I wanted to eat, and I picked Dickeys BBQ Pit :) Lol a little out of the box, but it is soo good! So Jays parents watched the girls so Jay and I could ride the motorcycle over there and the food was of course delicious, especially since for some reason the girl only charged us for our sandwhiches and not everything else we ordered - anyway, it was a great night out :) I got home Saturday night to beautiful flowers and a card from Jay. I also got a great massage which was very nice! The plan for the next day was to visit Jays Mom, (my mom was in Vegas) and then head to my aunts house for our monthly family party at 5. Sunday morning the girls gave me the cute cards that they had made me. Those are my favorite! Rylee had woke up with a cough and fever so I felt very bad for her. Jays parents called and said they wanted to take us out for lunch, so we decided on Apollo Burger - another one of my favorites! When we got to Apollo Burger, Rylee started coughing really bad and ended up throwing up all over herself, and me. My arm, pants and sandals got hit. It wasn't pretty. I cared more that she wasn't feeling so good. Once she threw up though, she seemed to feel much better. :) Lunch was still delicious despite the mishap. After lunch, we headed back to Jays parents to hang out. When I went inside, Brikayla was climbing in the tree in their front yard like she always does, and a few minutes later I hear Brikayla start crying and saying owie. I hear Jay telling her that that's why she shouldn't be climbing in the tree. When I asked him what happened he said "knowing her, she broke her arm"...she had jumped up and grabbed a branch, then was walking her feet up the trunk of the tree almost so she was in a laying position, when she lost her grip and all her weight fell on her elbow. She didn't scream or anything, but she didn't stop crying/whining either. After five minutes or so of her not stopping, I took a closer look at it and noticed it was swelling. We decided we'd better take her in because she wouldn't move it either. We left Rylee with Jay's parents and took Kayla to instacare. After waiting forever, we were called back and after the doctor had her try to move her arm, with no success, they took her back for xrays. She sat on Jay's lap while they did and she was in a lot of pain. We went back to the room and a few minutes later, the doctor had us look at the xrays. She broke her actual elbow - the part where it gets bigger at the end of the bone. The nurse put a splint on it and gave her a sling and gave us instructions to call Primary Childrens the next day to set up a time to get her cast. (The next morning I called and they said we would wait until the following Wednesday - which was ten days later - so we're still waiting!)

We still ended up heading to my Aunt's house even though we were almost two hours late. I'm glad we did - it's always good to see my family. We also got to pick up Brikayla's flower girl dress she'll be wearing for my cousins wedding. All in all I got a few reminders of how much my girls need me ;) and how much I love being a mom through the good and the bad. I love making memories!

Random

A few months ago my mom got the girls a powerwheel moped type thing, they just love it!

We also got the trampoline set up that they got for Christmas. It has been a big hit and is a great motivator for them to keep their room clean! They aren't aloud to jump on the tramp unless their room is clean :)

Rylee fell and cut her lip open when she was running at my parents house. It was really bad and she has a little scar there now. She was a trooper though. She only cried for a second and then was up and trying to run around within minutes of it happening.

At the beginning of April, I found a great deal on the Pass Of All Passes - they were only 9.99 each - Ry was free and so was Ron. The POAP is a card that gets you into a lot of different places such as Trafalga, Seven Peaks water park, some of the Bees games, Some Rocky Mountain Raceways events, a lot of other sporting events throughout the valley etc. Well we decided to go to Trafalga and get our first use out of it! It really was a great deal because just that trip alone would have cost us over 80.00 probably, and we did it for 40.00 and it's still good until next April! The girls loved mini golf, Brikayla climed the rock wall twice - she did so good and go so high, unfortunately she had sandals on, so next time we go we are going to have her wear tennis shoes :) We all had dippn dots and of course they loved the carousel and the airplanes. I'm really looking forward to getting a lot of use out of those passes!

Diaper Free!

So proud of my little Roo! It hasn't even been a week since she I decided to try to get rid of the diapers, and she only had accidents for the first two days, other than that she has done just perfect! The only thing I can say is that now that she goes in the potty, she feels the need to go ALL the time - we had to run some errands today and every store we went to she had to go potty - some of the stores didn't have potty's so I had to have her hold it, which she did :) Same with car rides - she has done so well! If she says she has to go, I tell her to hold it and she's done great! She doesn't even ask for a treat from her potty treat jar all the time, only about half the time :) It makes me happy that she's potty trained, I was hoping to have it done before we go to California in September and she is definately ready!

Rylee vs Potty

So about a week or so ago, we were at Walmart and Brikayla had to go potty. We went into the bathroom and while Brikayla was going, Rylee said she needed to go. I decided I’d put her on there just to see. She went! A few days later, again at Walmart, she did the same thing. Saturday we were at Chick Fil A and she just said “I need to go potty” and she did. Sunday we were at Red Robin and she did the same thing, 15 minutes later she told me she was poopy so I took her into the bathroom, but she wasn’t. I asked her if she needed to go and she said yes, so I put her up there and she pooped in the potty. I was really proud of her J All the while though, any time we were at home she would just pee in her diaper. I would ask if she wanted to wear underwear and she would say no, that she liked her diapers. She said big girls wear diapers. Well, yesterday she did the same thing when we were at Walmart. I asked for some advice on Facebook last night and mostly everyone said to just get rid of the diapers and put her in underwear. Today we started at 9:00. I changed her (hopefully) last diaper. Then I put her in 1 of 3 pairs of training underwear we have. I asked her every so often if she needed to go. Every time she told me no. Then, accident number 1. I explained to her there were only 2 pair of training underwear left. I put the second pair on her and continued with what I was doing. Accident number 2. I put the last pair of training underwear on her and explained to her there were no more. Continued what I was doing. She came running into me and said “I’m peeing Mom.” She had gone a little in the underwear, I put her on the toilet and she finished on the toilet. I gave her one of her treats and told her good job, told her to try to tell me a little sooner so she wouldn’t pee in the underwear at all. At this point the other 2 pair were still in the washer. So, I got out her My Little Pony underwear that Grandma had bought her and told her she couldn’t pee or poop on the ponies because they would be sad. She was asking if she could have one of her potty treats, but I told her they were only for when she went on the toilet. A little while later she came running and said she had to pee. I put her up there and she went! About an hour and a half later, same thing happened! An hour later she went again! I hear running and “I need to go potty, I need to go potty!” She made it! She ended up going 3 more times! 1 time she dribbled a little in her underwear, but made it to the toilet. So proud of her. I'd say day one of Rylee vs Potty, Rylee is the winner :) Tomorrow morning Grandpa Sphar will be watching the girls, so I hope she does as good for him as she did for me!