Brynn's new potty seat

Here is a picture of Brynn using her new potty seat from Grandma. She loves using it and especially loves the fact that she can sit on it all by herself! We decided one of these would be lots easier than a little potty that we need to clean out each time she uses it. She continues to do so well at using the potty and we are finding that we go through fewer and fewer diapers a day as time goes by. It will be so nice when she can actually walk and talk and tell us that she needs to go! But for now, this seems to be working and we are hoping to have her potty trained a little early. We'll see how that goes.

Oh, and Brynn's first tooth finally broke through yesterday! We were beginning to wonder if she would have any teeth by her first birthday and it looks ike she will have at least one :)

Our new niece Alyson

We are so excited that our new niece decided to come early! Alyson was born on Thursday (about 2 weeks early). She is so tiny and so cute! She was 6 lbs 4 oz and 19 1/2 inches long. I don't think Brynn is a fan yet, but I am sure she will grow to love her. She tends to get jealous of little babies. Congratulations Matt and Janice!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSE!!!

I just wanted to make a quick post to wish my wonderful husband a HAPPY BIRTHDAY before the day is over!! We are finally the same age and he can't make fun of me for being old anymore :) We had a great day full of fun activities. Some of the main highlights were going to the driving range and eating at Wingers. Here are a few pictures from the driving range. It was a great day!! Happy birthday again Jesse!

Easter

We had a great Easter yesterday! It all begin bright and early in the morning taking Brynn down to see her Easter basket. She got some new pajamas, short, and lots of empty plastic eggs (which she loved). Then we got all ready and went to church. After church, we were busy getting ready for our big Easter dinner. We had some of my family (my sister, her husband and baby, and my Uncle Bill, cousin Dan, and his girlfriend Savanna), and Jesse's family (his dad, Adrienne, Matt, Janice, Bryce, Aubree, and their girls) over for dinner. It was a great meal, and was so much fun to spend time with family. Now we anxiously await my mom's visit to Utah. She's coming on Wednesday :)

11 months old and an update on life

It is so hard to believe that Brynn will be a year old in less than a month! She is growing up so fast! And she just keeps getting more fun each day. She is still not walking on her own, but very speedily goes up the stairs, and stands up holding on to everything, and walks around holding onto furniture. She also still goes to the bathroom on the toilet daily. It is so great!! She pees and poops on it (sorry if that's too much information). We just take her every hour or so since she can't really tell us when she has to go. But sometimes she will actually crawl over to the bathroom and push the door open when she needs to go which is kind of crazy. She is such a smart little girl!

I have been busy lately working on the census. I know I posted earlier that I wasn't going to do it any more, but I changed my mind. I got a call a couple weeks ago asking if I wanted to just be a lister and go around verifying addresses. The great part is that the superviser said that I could take Brynn around with me. So I decided to try it out for a while. So that is how the majority of my time is spent these days... walking around and verifying addresses. It's not the most exciting thing, but I get to do a lot of walking and also get paid for it (which is how I was able to fund the new stroller). And I will only be doing it till Brynn's birthday so it shouldn't be too bad.

My latest purchase

Here is a picture of my latest purchase...a double jogging stroller. No, I am not having another baby! But I will be watching my cute little nephew everyday when my sister is at work starting in a few weeks so I thought it would be a good thing to have. And I have been looking for a compact size tandom jogging stroller for a while, and they are not easy to find! So I was very excited when I saw someone selling this on craigslist. It's not much bigger than my single jogging stroller, and I can't wait to try it out :)