Movie night!

We conquered our first movie as a family!  I'm not talking about renting one and sitting on the couch, we actually went to the dollar movies and watched UP!  The kids did great!  (as long as we had popcorn!)  Every Sunday night is our "Family Night" and we try to do activities as a family.  We decided that tonight, even though the weather was AMAZING, that we would try a movie.  We love the dollar movies, and if the kids didn't do well it didn't cost us an arm and a leg.  I was so proud of them. Macy ate one popcorn kernel at a time and Connor shoved fist-fulls into his mouth non-stop.  After we got home we took the dogs for a walk and enjoyed even more family time.  

Today's weather was amazing and we are looking forward to MANY more days like this!

Talking about Potty training

So we have begun just talking to the kids about potty training.  Reading books, letting them watch us, (another lovely part of parenting, you never pee alone) etc.  One night we were out back playing and I stripped them down to nothing.  I told them that they could go pee pee if they wanted.  Macy squatted like she was playing baseball and pee pee'd twice!  Connor didn't really want to, but finally after I started washing the dog he came over and pee pee'd next to us!  I almost missed it!  The picture of Macy is right before she pee pee'd and Connor is pointing to the spot he pee pee'd in!

Christmas Carol Train

As a promotion for the upcoming movie, "A Christmas Carol" there was a free train tour with a lot of the costumes and masks, as well as clips of the film that came through town.  Brian took a long lunch on Friday and we took the kids.  They are SO into trains that they couldn't stop talking about it.  We went to McDonald's after the tour for lunch.  

Spaghetti night!

The kids both love spighetti, which makes it one of my favorites as well.  There is no fighting them to eat it.  Plain noodles, white sauce, or red sauce, they don't care.  They can't get enough of it!  My mom has a picture of us kids after eating spighetti with napkins on our heads.  I had to snap these in rememberance of those days... 

Long time...

I know it has been a long time since I have blogged...my dear friend Julie has just helped me get connected again.  I'll catch you all up on everything soon...

:)