March!

My mom gave all the girls tickets to Disney on Ice for Valentine's Day so me and my girls drove up to meet the rest of the family at the Energy Solutions Arena.

My kids always love hanging out with cousins...and seeing Grandma is always a bonus!

Brynn, Grace, Tessa

Chloe, Abby, Molly

They were spoiled and got snow cones and a special prize to take home.  Fun times!

I gave both my girls little trims...both of them were getting straggly locks.  I don't usually dare, but I did a pretty good job.  Everything turned out even and it will be great to get them through the summer.  Anyway, it was the weekend of Brynn's birthday and she looked so cute on Sunday with a new dress and a new do so we pulled out the camera and it turned into a complete photo shoot!

 

Cute kids all ready for church.

 

I loved this little note Stockton made for Molly.  I took a picture so I could always remember it.

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Middle:

I think the picture on the left is Molly in front of our house or her school, can't remember which.  But I do know what the picture on the right is:  Harry Potter playing Quidditch!  The big red thing on the left are the bleachers (you can barely see Ron and Hermione on top) and you should be able to see the wizards flying on their broomsticks...directly into the sun, it looks like!

Justin had a birthday.  I made him a {homemade} Twinkie Tower again and everyone was happy with that.  I forgot to buy candles so a match was used in place of one.

 

Molly had a Friday off for some reason that I can't recall.  I had been feeling like a lousy mom...maybe just a stressed mom...so I decided to just have a fun afternoon full of surprises.  First, I took the kids to a park that we never go to (Centennial Park).

We went to the dollar store and they each picked a prize...Molly got crayons, Stockton some ninja people, and Brynn and big pink bouncy ball that lights up.

Last, we used our coupons from the dentist to get a free ice cream cone.  Mmm!

Justin's project of the month was to install an attic ladder and add a "floor" to the attic so we can store more of our junk stuff.

 

I was able to move all the seasonal decorations up there so now the closet under my stairs is free to use for some food storage!  And that truly is exciting!

The kids love, love, love when I get out the Easter decorations.  I give them a whole day to play with the plastic eggs before I put them away (we have a lot) and that is always pretty exciting.  They begged me for a couple weeks before I finally got around to doing it on a quiet Sunday afternoon.

 

The Primary put on a missionary activity for the kids.  They had returned missionaries share stories and food from the places they served.  My kids had a lot of fun doing that, so Justin decided to pull out his mission pictures one night for FHE.  The kids really enjoyed it (except for Brynn, she wasn't too interested).  They kept wanting to hear him say things in Korean and would giggle every time he did!

 

I've always had a pretty relaxed philosophy when it comes to potty training.  I have always just waited for my kids to come to me when they're ready and it's been a pretty smooth transition.  Molly and Stockton were both trained before 3 fairly easily so when Brynn turned 3 and was still showing no interest, I knew that it was going to require a bit more effort on my part.  We started out by making a chart and buying some gummy bears and princess stickers for rewards.  I was still keeping her in a diaper and would just sit her on the toilet every 30 minutes or so.  It took her a few weeks to fill up her chart.

 

I was still laid back about it (I didn't want to push her and have it back-fire on me) and would let her wear either a diaper or underwear.  I did that until the end of April and now it is an underwear-only policy, unless we are going somewhere for more than an hour.  She is doing great, but she still won't tell me when she has to go.  I just have to be diligent and sit her on the toilet every hour and we've had quite a few dry days and that is nice.  Being potty trained is great and wonderful and I'm super excited about it...the only problem we are facing now is that without a diaper, none of her pants will stay up!!