Birthdays are the best!

I can't believe our little baby is already one!!!! What happened to the time. This is Sterling as a newborn.

Goodbye little baby, hello one year old!

Sterling's first birthday isn't until Sunday, but we will be at my sister's house that day so we decided to celebrate early. Sterling's elephant cake. What dinner does a one year old choose? Anything you know he likes. By the look of his face I think spaghetti was a good choice, don't you.

We gave Sterling a part of the trunk and he immediately picked it up and chowed down. I've never seen a baby eat cake so fast!!! I guess witholding sugar from him for a year was worth it. We had so much fun watching him devour his cake.

Opening presents: who has more fun, the one year old or the family watching nearby?

Sterling got so frustrated opening presents. He finally just gave up and then Garrett and Maelie stepped in and graciously 'helped out'.

A bouncy ball:

A dinosaur:

He also got cars and shoes. Happy birthday Sterling!!!! WE LOVE YOU.

Potty training!

Awwww! All my fears of potty training Garrett were in vain! He truly AMAZED me! We started him last Monday (a little over a week ago.) We said 'goodbye' to the diapers and went straight to undies. He only had about 2 potty accidents and one poop accident! He wears undies to bed and hasn't once wet the bed!

Garrett's funnies:
-he had to go number 2 in the toilet, but he refused to go number 1 with it. As he was holding his penis so he wouldn't go potty he said "I'm squishing my peanuts."

-he tooted "daddy, my bottom burped"

Garrett has turned all my dreaded future potty training thoughts into 'I can do this again' thoughts. Thanks Garrett!

The fruits of our labor

Not much labor was required to get these wonderful tomato plants. Just watering daily.

Our tomato plants have grown and produced delicious tomatoes. We have already picked off 9 big tomatoes and about 30 grape tomatoes. If anyone wants some tomatoes, just give us a call. We have 11 plants and the tomatoes are coming faster than we can eat them. They're salmonella free and delicious.

Hair fixing

Maelie liked my hair from camp so much that she wanted her's done too. This is what we ended up with. It was fun to do.

Girl's camp, corn rows, and fender bender

This video was taken on the night of the talent show. Some girls started singing a song and any one that knew joined in. (even myself!)

On Tuesday I drove some girls to girls camp and stayed just half the day. Then on Thursday I went up to stay until Saturday. Here we are on the hike on Thursday morning.

Do they look like happy campers to you?

Our bishop came up on Friday for Bishop's games and dinner and testimony meeting. It was a lot of fun. The girls did really well in the games and we didn't get last place!!!!

Look at our crazy poses.

At camp, Vanessa fixed my hair. I loved it! I had to wear it to church to show it off. I got it done on Friday night and it still looked good on Sunday.

I had tons of fun at girls camp. The weather this year was cooler than last year which really helped because last year was AWFULLY HOT AND HUMID.

Today (Sunday) after dropping Young Women off, I got rear ended. It was pouring rain and I was stopped at a red light. The car behind me was going pretty fast and once he slammed on his brakes he slid and he hit me hard (at least it seemed like that to me. Luckily none of the kids were in the van and not much damage was done to it. I've never been hit before and was pretty shaky. The only injury I got was a huge headache from the blow. I'm very grateful it turned out as well as a little fender bender could.

Sesame Place

For the second time we went to Sesame Place thanks to Here's to our Heroes Program (for the men in the military). This year, however, I wasn't pregnant so I got to ride on all the rides with the kids.
Sterling was the best baby! He didn't cry once and when he got tired, he just fell asleep in the stroller. I was really impressed with him!

We love Zoe!

GO BERT!