No More Diapers!!!!!!

Hooray! Madison is Potty trained! We started last Teusday and she has done so well! It took her a few days to get the hang of it, but we just stayed in and did a lot of potty time and practice -and lets face it, used a few bribes (candy and playing at the park) Now, a week later she went all day with no accidents, not even a little one! She wears "big girl" panties all day and uses the potty-even at Wal-Mart! She still wears a daiper at night to sleep, because she dosen't wake up, but if she has a diaper on before she falls asleep, she'll call for me and go potty on the toilet! I'm so excited to finally be finished with diapers (at least for the most part) especially stinky ones! Once she starts sleeping dry through the night we'll get rid of them for good! Hooray! Great Job Madison! I'm so proud of you! Now you really are a big girl-definately not a baby anymore!

Happy 2009!

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We definately did.
We spent our first Christmas Eve at home. We had a wonderful dinner, watched Christmas movies, painted Christmas ornaments and got to play Santa! On Chrismas morning we opened a few presents then headed over to Gilbert to be with Mahlons family and opened more presents. We had Christmas all day! It was great! We spent the weekend there then came home and enjoyed Mahlon's time off. It was so great to have him home for a couple of weeks! New Year's Eve my sister and her two little ones came over and we partied all night (not really, they and Madison crashed at 10pm) Mahlon and I watched movies and said "oh, happy New Year! around 12:05. It was fun but we neglected to take pictures. It was a great break and now that Mahlon's back to work I'm back to my routine. I decided to start my New Years resolution once things got back to normal so I'm back to my work out routine that I gave up on pre-Thanksgiving! Also I'm going to try and get better about reading my scriptures, going to the temple, having Family home-evenings, reading the sunday school and relief society lessons and coinsiding scriptures before class, doing my visiting teaching, etc., etc., etc.! Ha Ha! That's a pretty long list of resolutions so wish me luck! Now that I look at all the things I need to improve on, I feel like a big slacker! So here's to 2009 and a perfect me! : ) Enjoy the pictures!


Madison making her Gingerbread house!

This is Madison openeing her HUGE present from Grandma and Grandpa which had to be brought over from Gilbert seperately and required that we totally rearange Madison's room inorder to make it fit!