4 years old

Today is Bridger's 4th Birthday!

It amazes me how much they grow and learn over only 4 short years...

from only a few hours old ...

to (almost) 4 years old...It is truly amazing!

Happy Birthday Bridger! We love you so much, and appreciate the great little guy are are. We are very very lucky to have you in our lives! You are truly a wonderful blessing!

Birthday fun post to come soon...

JESSICA...

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSICA DEAR! HOPE YOU HAVE A SPECTACULAR DAY!!!

I made a handfull of post the other day, so if your interested check them out!

I'm a big girl now...(depending on the day)

Addisyn turned 2 in July. A few weeks after her birthday I started the process of potty training. Can I just tell you how much I hate doing this. For the first few weeks (yes, few weeks) I would have her sit on her little toilet, and she wouldn't do anything...so I would put her little panties back on and she would go into the living room and PEE!!! So frustrating! Literally she would take 5 steps from the toilet to the living room and then decide that she had to go. I would do this a few times a day, give up and put a diaper back on the little stinker. Like I said this went on for a few weeks. Then she decided that it was okay to go on the toilet...pheww...well, not really! She would decide when she wanted to go on the toilet, not when she had to go to the bathroom. Isn't this just a fun little process that we all have to go through! BUT, I am happy to say that she is doing pretty well right now. I don't have anymore of the 10 pairs of panties a day. Some days she wears the same pair all day long! Hallelujah...but there are the occasional accidents

She is so cute though, her favorite part of this process is flushing the toilet! She goes on her little potty, and I put it in the big potty and she flushes the toilet say "bye bye water." She doesn't say by to her pee or poop, but the water...I think she is adorable!

Just one quick story: We were having a rough day. She wanted to play and was not wanting to use the toilet. I was getting so frustrated, after about the 5th accident in about 2 hours. I started yelling (which is something I wish that I could change...) and told her that she would sit on her toilet until I told her she could get off! SHE DID JUST THAT...and put her little head on the laundry basket that I have next to her toilet and fell to sleep! I didn't even get the camera because it broke my heart. I had already been crying because I felt so bad for getting so frustrated with a two year old...this just made me cry more! Sometimes I feel so bad that my children have to put up with me as a mom! Potty training is so frustrating!

Ready...Set...GO!!!

Our nightly routine consistes of: brushing teeth, saying prayers, lots of hugs and kisses, sometimes some tears and whining...but it ALWAYS consist of the words...

"Line up...Start your bikes...Ready...Set...GO!"

I don't even remember how this started, but every night without fail the kids line up on the back wall in the living room and have a motor-bike race to bed! Bridger is ALWAYS the first off the line. Addi usually gets a late start, but smiles and revs her little engine the whole way to her room. Bridge gets completely devastated if for one reason of another Addi "Wins" the race. We have tried to teach him that he cant win them all, and that he can't be a poor looser if he looses the race.

I love that it brings a smile to ALL of our faces at the end of a day. I love to hear Bridger giggle and laugh because he was the first into bed, but to hear Addi start her little bike and rev it all the way to her room is just so darn cute! Ready...Set...GO...

Raindrops keep falling on my head...

...but we didn't care for one single second! One night after Jason got home from work we decided that we would go try and get a few huckleberries. This year I didn't have a little baby, so I was able to enjoy the time a little bit. We took one of the kids' portable DVD players and thought we were in for a fun evening. We hadn't been there for but a half and hour when this HUGE black cloud came rolling in over our heads. We were pessimistic that it would pass right over up and head to Jackson. Well, that was not the case. It started to rain, so we took shelter under some big pine trees. Then it started to poor...so we waited, and waited, and waited. All with HUGE smiles on our face. Then the lighting started, and the thunder was cracking. Jason and I new that this little storm was here to stay for the night. So after about 15 minuets under the tree we decided that it would be best to run to the 4-wheeler and get home. It started raining so hard, the water was beating us down the mountain. It was like we were driving through a river...it was just crazy. The rain hurt your face when it hit you!!! When we made it back to the house, I don't think there was a dry spot on any of us. My shoes...yes, my shoes were so full of water from the 4-wheeler ride that it felt like I had been walking through a creek! It was crazy. The kids were such troopers and loved every minuet of it! We just wish we had been able to get more berries that day, but it was so much fun to share this moment as a family! I love my husband and my 2 kids more then anything, and am so lucky to have them by my side!

A "little" IMAGINATION...

I say "little" very lightly, because Addi has anything but a little imagination. This was one of my first glimpses of tea parties, dress up, sleepovers and fun with my little Addisyn. She was given this adorable little tea set for Christmas from Grandma Lori, and she completely loves it. The pieces are strung from one end of the house to the other ALWAYS, so on this particular afternoon these few pieces were all she could find for her little party. She came to me and said "You hungry mom?" I gladly put off what I was doing and found a seat on the floor and enjoyed a tasty treat of wheat thins and pretend "juice."

No sugar...

I had another doctors appointment on Friday August 21, 2009. Today was the day that I would be doing the glucose screening. I didn't feel like I needed to worry about it because the past two pregnancies I haven't had a problem. So on my way down to Rexburg I drank "the drink" and then arrived to my appointment. They did the finger prick to check my blood sugar exactly 1 hour after I had drank "the drink." The doctor came in and did his regular examination routine...his little heart rate was 154...normal! Isn't that just the most amazing sound in the world! I just love it so much...thump, thump, thump...! I had only gained 2 pounds...which I was okay with I guess, and everything seemed great! Then the results of the glucose screening.... POSITIVE-did I hear that right, POSITIVE! Yes Bran, you have gestational diabetes. My levels were at 149 and should be around 130. Dr. Hopkins decided that the plan of attack would be to meet with a dietitian then to monitor my blood sugar levels with diet, exercise and a finger prick. I will need to chart my levels and see him again in 3 weeks. Of course, your heart sinks a little when you know that there is something wrong...especially because you are overweight. It made me feel a little embarrassed, and sick to my stomach, but I was doing okay until today...the damn Internet can really scare a person! I shouldn't have read the articles that I did. You hear the words... still born, higher risk of SIDS, heart problems, large babies, c-sections, breathing problems...ect and I couldn't stop the tears. I became scarred and upset at myself. I can't help but feel like this is all my fault. I am putting my baby boy at danger because of my weight problem, and because I can't have any self control. I guess this is one way of kicking my butt into gear. This is one way for me to watch what I eat...this is one way for me to find the self control that I have a huge desire to have, but can't keep. This is one way for me to change the way I think about food. It will be hard to have NO SUGAR, but it will be way easier knowing that my little unborn boy will be better protected and safe from all the problems and complications that could arise if I just stick with what the dietitian tells me. I am anxious at this point to meet with them, and hope that they give me a call to schedule the appointment first thing on Monday! Time will tell I guess...Wish me Luck!

ONE GREAT THING... DANIELLE IS HOME FOR AN ENTIRE WEEK! I am so excited to see her sometime this week, and even more excited that she gets to meet little Oakleigh for the first time. I know that it has been breaking her heart not to be able to be home! WELCOME BACK FOR A WEEK D.

KAYBREE...my new little niece!

I just wanted to Welcome little...

Kaybree Vera Luthy

into our Family! She is a perfect little angel sent directly from heaven. Britt and Bryce didn't know the sex of the baby, and I thought I was going to be getting another little nephew...but what a blessing she is to have in my heart! I love her so much already...she is a beautiful and perfect gift from our Father in Heaven. I love you so much Sweetheart!

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