Please don't let mommy be mad at me...

So as most of you know by now, Lauren is potty training or should I say NOT potty training. Well last night Lauren was sitting on my bed and she had 'that look'. I wasn't sure what was happening but I was sure something was. Well my first instinct was Lauren do you need to go potty? I wasn't to worried because she was wearing a diaper but I always ask. Then she looked down and my eyes followed, yep a big wet spot! With out me knowing she had found a pair of underwear, aghhhh! So as I am telling her that it is not OK to pee where someone sleeps over and over again I ask her to take her clothes off and put them in the dirty clothes. Well she has a dirty clothes hamper in her room but I guess she thought down stairs. Normally this would not be a problem but Joe is the Weblos Leader for our ward and all those 11 year olds were down there. So as I am still telling her it is not OK to pee where people sleep that I don't like it when she does that etc. I finally get her cleaned up and ready for bed. Anyway after all this as I was putting her to bed we knelt down to say her prayers. As she blessed everyone from Buddy boy to Joe (yes she calls him Joe - how do you break that habit?) she ends her prayer by asking Heavenly Father to "help mommy not be mad at me anymore for peeing on her bed." Well, now I can't be mad.

4th of July

We had a great time on the 4th. We started with the parade in Provo and then later on went out to Peter and Janelle's and grilled some Tri tip (dosen't it look good), went swimming and watched the fire works.



Mmmmmmmmmmmmm!



What do you think? Does his Grandpa love him?



Doesn't the drool make him look dignified!



Ahhh, Fireworks... it was only Later I discovered the Firework setting on my camera.

Tim's Home

Well having Tim home has been fun! These are some pictures from when we picked him up from the airport!

The Garage

So this all started when we thought we might have mice in the garage. We were pretty positive we had mice when one jumped off some water jugs in front of me one afternoon. So while I was in NC Mom, Dad, and Joe decided to clean out the garage. Well to say it was a mouse problem would be putting it mildly. They began finding evidence of mice everywhere. The most prominent spot a box Pat had brought home that we thought contained only pots and pans. This was not the case. Under the pots and pans was food. You know the stuff mice love, rice, pasta, crackers and well you get the idea. So when we noticed several sleeping bags that were chewed we figured they had found a pretty good space, we were feeding them and they had shelter, we were great hosts!

Well to make a long story short, they took EVERYTHING out of the garage, cleaned and checked it all before putting it back and had a bunch of garbage. Well along the way Joe had mice that jumped out of the box at him, Dad dumped a box out and chased a mouse down to the sewer drain, and Mom had one hop out and decided that there was no way it was coming back into the house so she grabbed a pole and whacked it! That’s right, she killed it. Tyler now thinks his Grandma is “The Man.”

After all this, we placed every kind of trap we could think of in the garage, traditional traps, bags of poison, some new kind of trap, peanut butter in a bucket and glue traps. Well, over the next few weeks every time we went in the garage we would check the traps. We caught more than a few mice! Well, after we hadn’t seen any in a few days we were thinking things were going pretty well. Until Mom came running in one Saturday as we were getting ready to go grocery shopping telling me I had to come look at one of the glue traps. We had thought mice were as bad as it could get, until I saw the snake!

Beautiful Bundles

A lot of people have been asking me how they can contact me and get some of the things I make. My web address is www.beautifulbundles.com. I do not have very many things posted right now, but should have some things up soon. But if you know what you want you can contact me through the website custom order option and I can just make whatever you want then post it for you to buy, or you can email me and we can work out picking it up. In addition to the things you see on the previous blog I also make all weather car seat covers, really nice nursing covers and baby wraps (like the Moby Wraps). I also so do custom drapes and bedding sets. Oh and my email is jessica@ehat.org.