Christmas 2011 (Pitt's)

We had All of our family here for Christmas this year!!!  It was Sooo much fun!!!

We got together with my dad side and my mom side of the family which is Always fun!

We did our own little Nativity scene with all the grandkids on Christmas Eve, (I'm Super sad I didn't get a picture with all of them in it).  It was pretty funny though, because they are all still really little.

And this was the Very First year Andrew and I had Christmas at our own place.  It was kind of weird, but SO much fun to see how excited Conner got about all his presents and basketball hoop.  I was Really excited that I remembered to charge our video camera the night before, only to realize Christmas morning that we had No space left!!  So we took videos with our phones instead, hopefully it does justice.

 So here's a few pictures from this holiday season!

Conner in a Santa hat!  He Loved it!  He thought it was pretty funny.

 

Christmas at Disneyland!

 

Conner and Jack Jack spending some time with each other

 Christmas Eve... Conner is still Terrified of Santa, and yet now he says his name non-stop everyday! Lol

 Katie, Kalyn, Me and Kacy enjoying our Christmas Eve

 Conner as a Shepard for our Nativity

Charlie, Alexis, Carter and Conner in the Nativity scene

 

Just about every year my mom gives Andrew something Angels... and Andrew gives my mom something Dodgers.  So this year Andrew gave this picture of Conner all dressed up in Dodgers stuff and printed it and put it in a magnet so she had to hang it on her fridge.  We all got a pretty good laugh.  We ended up with a Rally monkey from my mom!  Go Angels!!  :0)

 Conner had fun opening his presents this year.  Every time he unwrapped his gift he would say, "It's Stuck!"  He wanted to play with his toys before opening another present.  Lol

 I Love this time of year!!  Not only do we Love spending time with family, but also remembering the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ.  I hope everyone had a Wonderful Christmas!!  We did!

Thoughts for the Day...

Okay, so I already posted this on my Facebook, but I thought I would record it also on here.

A few thoughts for this morning!... I'll go, Good, bad, and then end off on Great news!!
  

  1). Realized Late last night that I am finally 20 weeks!!! Yay!!! Hopefully, my due date won't change come my 20 wk appt.
  

  2). I REALLY wish my son was interested in being potty trained!!!! He managed AGAIN to undue his diaper, while he is still zipped up in his Backwards sleeper and get his poop all ...over the crib...inside and outside of it!! That was a Wonderful surprise this morning! (It's kind of sad to think that my not yet 2 year old son has out smarted us Way too many times all ready with his obsession with his poop)
  

  3). My sisters get into town today and my brother will be here tomorrow!!! Yay for having All the family together again!!! Love it!!! :0)

Baby Boy #2

 So I have a lot of people wanting me to update this and put pictures up of my pregnancy.  So here's just a couple that I have...

This is how we did our announcement to our family!!   We actually did it a few different ways:  

1).  I printed this picture and modge podged it on popsicle sticks, and sent them to my in-laws to do the puzzle.  

2).  Went online and made the picture into a jig-saw puzzle and emailed my family the puzzle and had them figure it out.  

3).  I just put this picture up on my Facebook for everyone else to see!!  

4).  And then let my belly do the rest for whoever doesn't have a Facebook or isn't on as often (like me) and (considering I can't hide my belly for too long...hence 2 pictures down)  :0)

 

Here is the little peanut at 11 weeks.  Just a check up to make sure everything was looking good!  It wasn't until after this ultrasound though that we finally started telling our family and then friends after that.

Here I am at 18 weeks  (I know, I look like I should be due in a month or two.  I popped out Really early with Conner too!!)  I can't seem to hide this belly for too long with any pregnancy!  Lol

I know I've kind of done these posts backwards.  I'm just kind of playing catch up.  Soon I'll have my 20 week appointment and I'll update again and put up more recent pictures.

It's a...

BOY!!!

So, I know I have a Lot to catch up on, but for now we've got some exciting news!!  We just found out that we are going to have... Another BOY!!!  We are Sooo excited!!  Conner is going to have a little brother come May!! 

We found out a little early.  I'm only about 17 weeks along, but I couldn't wait!  I feel like I've been waiting Forever for this, and our appointment was Sooo late in the day.  I tried to keep myself busy all day!  Lol  Now I can't wait for the 20 week appointment to tell us just how Healthy this little boy is.  He seems like he is growing and developing well right now!  This ultrasound they didn't check anything beside the gender, but it was nice to see the little guy moving around and watching him inside of me!  He looks healthy and looks like he's got all his toes and fingers.  Lol  That's enough reassurance for me right now! I'm not going to lie, that was kind of the other reason why I wanted to find out early what we were having... so I could just see the baby again.  Watch him, and know that he is still there and growing.  I thank the Lord everyday for this little tiny baby he has blessed me with inside of my belly.  Now if May could just come already so I don't have to worry as much, that would be Great! Lol  :0)

Halloween 2011

     I think Conner had a fun time dressing up this year.  He didn't mess with his hat at all!  I think he was more excited about the candy!!  Lol 

    We borrowed this outfit from my sister-in-law.  This was her son's outfit that she put together and made when he was about Conner's age.  We procrastinated this year and some of us weren't feeling very well ('tis the season!)  We were just Sooo glad Amber had something that would fit Conner!!  Thanks Amber and Chad for letting us borrow this, this year!!! :0)

    We also went to Chad and Amber's housing track Halloween night.  Around the corner there's part of their neighborhood that's completely decorated!!  A family owns a few of the houses there and does a theme every year for Halloween.  This year was a Fairy Tale/Disney theme.  The guy throws down about $250,000.  to decorate a bunch of these houses.  Not only does he decorate them, but he puts on a few haunted mazes and had some live performances and they handed out Huge candy bars and glow sticks.  There were Soooo many people there, we felt like we were at an Amusement park.  I think we'll be coming back next year though,  it's Totally worth it!!  

    Andrew has the pictures on his phone, so hopefully I can get some and post some up later.  Until then I just have 2 pictures of Conner. 

On our way to the Trunk or Treat!! 

 Our "Big Bad Wolf"

    I Love this last picture of Conner!  He had Soo much fun at the Trunk or Treat and Halloween night!!   I wish I would have taken more pictures!!  There were some Really cute costumes that we saw!!  Can't wait for next year!!

Potty Training???....

So lately Conner has had this little infatuation with taking off his diaper and going to the bathroom.  It has happened on So many occasions now that I have stopped counting!  It's happened in his crib, his pack n' play, his grandmother's pack n' play, and on the floor of his bedroom to name a few places.  We have tried EVERYTHING!!!  We've taped his diaper on.  We've put him in a onesie.  We've put him in a zip up sleeper.  Now he is in his onesie sleeper but we have to put it on backwards so he can't un-zip it.   That so far has been the most helpful.  Now, we just got to figure out how to keep his clothes on during the day without keeping him in a onesie forever.  Which takes me to my next idea....

POTTY TRAINING!!!

So my question for all of you is How do you train a 20 month old to potty train when they can hardly communicate with you as it is?!

This wasn't entirely my idea, actually a lot of people came to me asking if I thought about training Conner.  I thought maybe 18 months was a little young... I'm still wondering if 20 months is a great idea.

I bought a little toilet for Conner that makes sounds when we goes in the toilet, but he thinks it's a toy!  Of course, what else would he think it is?! Needless to say, I haven't Really tried to potty train this kid yet.  Any tips?!  :0)

P.s. I have pictures , but I'll spare you the details of them!

Family Reunion 2011-The River

This year for our family reunion we did a River trip.  We all met at the Colorado River, where Amber's family has a place there.  It was So nice of them to let us come and stay for a week! Thanks again!!!  It's Always fun to go back!  There's a Ton of pictures so I totally understand if you just want  to skim through it all.  A lot happened while we were there, so I kind of wanted to put everything in (more for journaling purposes). 

Here's everyone except Andrew.  He couldn't make it out until the end of the trip and Alissa and Clint only had the very beginning of the trip to be there.  I think we might try and photo shop him in there one of these days.  For now, this is Almost the whole family ;0)

From left to right: (Amber and Chad with their kids: Alexis, Carter, Owen and Ryder; Clint and Alissa, Jake, Mom and Dad, Emily, Pat and Katie and their kids: Charlie and Jack; and Me and Conner)

Mom and Dad and the grand kids

These 2 kids are inseparable.  Conner and Owen.  It's kind of fun to watch them play together. 

While we were there Amber had this cute idea to make Sugar cookie lollipops!  Huge hit!  And So much fun!!

My brother Jake doing a back flip on the wake board.

 

We've realized Conner LOVES the Wii!!!!!  This might have been where it all started.

Jake getting his head wet while wake surfing.

Gorgeous pictures my sister, Emily took.

Alissa and Emily

I had some fun wake surfing as well :0)

Emily and Alexis wake surfing

Carter wake surfing. He's 5.

Emily and me ;0)

Alexis skiing

Trying to get Conner comfortable floating on his back.

Some of the grandkids...Carter, Charlie and Alexis

The kids(Left to right): Jake, Alissa, Katie, Emily, Me, and Chad

We apparently didn't know what we were doing.

Just working on the puzzle for a little bit

Conner and me getting ready to wake surf!

Andrew and Conner wake surfing now!  We weren't sure how much Conner actually liked it.  Lol

Going tubing!  It was Sooo much fun!!  A little crazy, but fun!!

Cute little Emma

Jake with Owen and Conner

Alissa and Clint made these Wonderful desserts one night... I can't remember what they were called, but they were really good.  Conner liked it too!

Floating down the River...

Jake and Conner

Emily having fun wake boarding

Pat wake surfing with Jack

We had a relay race...  that's all I'm going to say...  :0)

Kt having fun wake surfing

My dad and the grand kids before he hurt his leg...

I just Love this little boy! <3

My dad trying to cool down as best he could...

Erika wake boarding with all smiles!

My niece Alexis wake surfing... She's only 7 years old.

More pictures of father and son wake surfing

Us kids trying to do our usual pyramid...

Riley and his cute little girl Emma wake surfing  Emma's saying Hi

Dad, Emily and Erika on the jet skii's.  If you look closely my dad's leg has a plastic bag taped around it to keep the water out.

Just missing Alissa-The Pitt sister's.

We celebrated my dad's 55th birthday while we were there.

Owen and Conner getting into mischief.... who would have thought?!  Lol

Mother and son time wake surfing again

My brother Jake getting some Sweet air!

After our relay race... everyone was Ok in the end... we were all glad that was over with, especially with everyone still alive :0)

Charlie skiing over to say Hi to us all.  He's only 3!

Floating down the River again!  We Love this!  So relaxing

Okay, so to explain a few things... 

My dad was slalom skiing (that's when one foot is in front of the other on 1 ski) when he took a Really bad fall which ended in taking him to the emergency room that night.  He tore and ripped a few ligaments and tendons in his foot.  This happened pretty much in the beginning of this trip so he was pretty bummed not being able to play as much out in the water and being on crutches the rest of the time.  He was a good sport about it all though.  

We also celebrated my dad's birthday while we were there.  His birthday and Andrew's brother Matt share the same birthday!!

The relay race... 

Ok, so, the relay race was fun don't get me wrong....  

What we had to do:  Canoe upstream to the neighbors, turn around to our rock cliff, climb up, spin around with our head on a bat 6 times, jump off the rock float to the rope.... which was attached to the dock about 20 ft, then Extended another 40 ft from what we believe was estimated....  going against the River and pulling ourselves all the way to the boat (did I  mention this was against the flow of the River?), climb up dive back in the water towards the rock cliff (still going against the River flow) and pushing the canoe off for the next team member.  Well, this was a LOT more difficult than we all expected one of us nearly drowned so we shortened the rope and still some of us barely made that.  It was an exhausting relay race to say the Least!  I think we might be modifying that even more next time... if there's a next time.  Lol

All in all it was Sooo much fun!!  We got away from our worries of life and were able to relax and enjoy the warm weather and warm water and play!!  We all had such a Wonderful time!!  Can't wait to see what our next vacation will be like next year with all of us again!