Birth Announcement

For those of you who didn't see the birth announcement I sent out. Here it is. 

My friend Lindsay took the picture and I couldn't be happier. 

He has more chub on him now. I will post his blessing pics I took soon. 

I love/hate how much they change in such a short period of time. 

I used Tinyprints.com

Here are a few others we toyed around with using. 

a little utah

utah has been just how i thought it would be
i am so happy daniel took 6 week paternity leave and was able to come with me
i will be so sad to go back to california because having 2 kids i don't know when i will make it back

we got to see daniel's grandma when we landed in vegas
stay in st george a few days
see some friends
drive up to payson
be with family
watch the crazy people at walmart on black friday
and we still have a few more days here
i hope to see more payson friends but it's hard with the holidays and a newborn

brighton has had a rough time on this trip
potty training has been a roller coaster
so has sleep
i hope we can get back on track when we get home

nixon has been the sweetest best baby
we are blessing him this sunday at my parents ward at 11
if you want to come let me know i will get you more details

here are a few phone pics :)

visiting the st. george Temple 

after we left we asked brighton if he had fun 

he said "fun? beach! ya fun"

daniel said "ya the beach is fun, this is a different kind of fun" 

:) 

gotta love kids 

driving to payson 

cousin lucy meeting nixon grey 

cousin canyon 

i think he has been doing nothing but growing on this trip! 

we took B bowling today to the payson bowling alley 

let's just say he loved every second of it

"No more diapers Elmo"

I have had Elmo's potty time movie/music stuck in my head for the last week.

I have to give MAD props to the Hubby for potty training Brighton this last week.
Daniel was so gung ho on getting Brighton trained and I just had anxiety the whole time. With a new baby in the house I did not think it was the right time to start potty training. I said, "if you want to do it go ahead." And Go he did!
 Now that I look back on it I think it was a good time cause
 Daniel gave Brighton so much attention doing the training and he loved it!

He used 3daypottytraining.com method. (Thanks Laura)
We watched a lot of Elmo's Potty Time
We bought this awesome stool.
We bought this seat, although this one looked really cool and I kind of wish I would have bought it. 
We started last Friday and I would like to say he is officially 95% done.
We are still working on Poo Poo but he is doing really good at it.

The first 3 days consist of staying home drinking lots of juice and practice practice practice. Brighton picked up on it a lot better than I thought he would and I am very proud of him and Daniel.

The real test was being out and about. But he has been a champ at that too! Not one accident and we have been out and about a lot. He is very good at holding it.

 Brighton has not worn a diaper in over a week and he has not had an accident since the start of the week.  We did the first 5 days with no diaper at night too he stayed dry a couple of those nights but the nights he didn't stay dry were bad really bad and no sleep for a 2 year old is not good. Even though this program is big on no diaper or pull ups, after 5 days we gave in and did a pull up at night. We tell him they are night time undies and he has to keep them dry and he does pretty good at it. He even wakes himself up sometimes and goes pee and then goes back to bed.

It has not been easy and I didn't even do anything, and there were times we wanted to quit but Brighton wasn't. He wanted to keep going with it, he loves his underpants and when he did have accidents he would always say I'm sorry I'm sorry over and over it was sad. We never tell him it was bad he went in his undies, just that it was gross and that he needed to stay dry but he really wanted to get it done and feel good about it cause he loves the praise he gets when he goes. (And the CANDY and TOYS)

Anyways so there you have it. Brighton potty trained at 26 months and Daniel is all to blame for it!
I know I have the best husband! :)

Happy Halloween

We started the party off by going to the Trunk or Treat at the church. 

It was our first trunk or treat and it was a lot of fun and easy to get lots of candy. 

 I love this picture of Brighton he looks like such a bum with this face. lol 

Then Halloween afternoon Los Altos downtown was doing a trick or treat from 12pm~4pm 

We met up with some of our friends and did a little trick or treating at the stores. 

Halloween night we were a little spent but thought we would end with a bang. 

Going around the neighborhood. 

Well I guess I don't know proper Halloween etiquette. 

I thought 5:30~6:00 pm would be a good time to start trick or treating. 

(the sun does set at 6:12pm) 

Well Brighton got a lot of nothing. 

We only had 2 houses answer the door and the second house didn't even have their candy out yet. 

Daniel said we should have waited for it to be dark but that felt too late. 

I wanted to trick or treat, eat dinner, then get ready for bed. 

So we got candy from 2 houses everyone else either didn't answer or sent us away

 saying they weren't ready. 

Poor Brighton was sad. I guess next year we will wait for it to be dark. 

Nixon and I. 

Cat n Mouse 

Waiting for someone to answer 

Lemos Farm pumpkin patch

There was so much to do at this patch.
Hay Ride, Pony Rides, pumpkins, feeding goats, train ride, and a bouncy house.

I was a little nervous taking baby Nix out only being 5 days old but Brighton just had to get out of the house.

It all worked out and was a lot of fun.