Whenever Winni gets a hold of my cell phone she says, "Good Morning Daddy!" It's so cute! No matter what time of day she says the same thing. I guess Trae has picked up on it because he loves the phone, and when he gets it he holds it up to his head and says, "da da da da!" So sweet!

Last night was cooking club. The theme was Pajama Party and we were served breakfast! It was sooo good! I got some great recipes, including pumpkin waffles and buttermilk syrup! I can't wait to make them for my family. I decided to get into the whole pajama party idea and I put my hair in rag curlers! Don't I look great??



So, after wearing these rags all around town, including the airport, I came home and took them out and....





I think maybe next time I'll try tube socks...we'll see how it goes! :)

Winni has been laying on the manners A LOT lately! Which is great! Sometimes it's very sweetly and other times she's a little bossy. In the morning it's, "Mommy, Please COME HERE!" Sometimes it's, "Mommy, could you please wash this? It's yucky." I didn't think I was too anal about the "Please" and "Thank You's", but apparently a little guidance goes a long way with this little girl. She even told the deacon "Thank You" as he passed her the sacrament on sunday. It was so cute! A little loud, but still very cute!

So, there I was, sitting on the wooden box of dress-up clothes in Winni's room. I was trying to get her to go to sleep, but she wasn't falling for it! I had had a little bit of a stomach ache and I felt the gas building up!!! I decided to let it go! To be honest, it was long and loud, but without stink! At that moment Winni sat up in bed and said, "Mommy, excuse you!" Then sweetly, she took the opportunity to teach me when she said, "Mommy, you go poopy in the potty...ok?" It was so funny I had to go and tell Walter! Which, in turn, kept her up longer!

Why is it that my husband can put the kids to bed in 10 minutes and I'm ready to pull my hair out after an hour and no one is asleep!!! I've got 3 nights until he leaves again, I think it's his turn to train the kids! You can find me soaking in the tub with a good book around 7:30 for the next 3 nights! I'm gonna miss him!!

We made some great friends in Monterey, California when we lived there for 1 1/2 years. A lot of our friends are now in Omaha, NE. Our friends, Phil and Micaela Tice came to town for a wedding this week. They brought their cute kids, Ashelyn and Stephen. We hadn't seen them in a year, so they had never met Trae and Winni had grown up quite a bit. I was at the store when they got to the house, so my sister, Julie, let them in. As they were noticing the pictures of our family on the wall, Winni came out to greet them...butt naked!! Apparently she had been working on potty training, by herself! My sister, being a little embarrassed because she wasn't too sure how well we knew these people, acknowledged Winni and her nakedness. At that moment Winni turned around and, with a toilet paper stream hanging from her little bumb crack, shook her bumb and said, "Look at my bumb!" I couldn't be prouder, I just wish I'd been there with a camera! :)

My sister called tonight and invited us to her daughter, Jaxynn's, soccer game. I thought, what a great idea, we'll eat our chicken quesadillas at the park while we watch her game! As I left the house I had 2 bowls of Ranch for dipping and a plate of quesadillas. I was juggling all this on my double stroller and the thought came to me, If I drop anything, I hope its the ranch cause i can eat the quesadillas without ranch. What do you know...I dropped the quesadillas!! So I quickly picked them up and went on my way. As we were going up the hill at the park I hit a bump, and the ranch went flying!! I managed to keep some of the ranch in the bowls, so I went on my way. I got to my nieces game and sat down with my sister and enjoyed my extra crunchy quesadillas!! Winni thought they were fantastic!