3 down 1 to go

After at least 6 months of offering rewards, encouraging, begging, tears, temper tantrums (from both him and me), and just plain giving up Treyton is finally potty trained. It has only been two days, but in those two days he has gone from not trying at all to taking himself to the bathroom several times a day without me even really reminding him at all and even going #2 all by himself while I was running on the treadmill.

I told him on Monday that if he didn't get potty trained he would not be able to go to Boise with us next month for our little trip we are taking. I told him he would have to stay home with Grandma while we stayed in the hotel and went swimming and he would miss all the fun. This shook him up a bit and he went from refusing to put on underwear to putting them on and doing it no problem. Today we had only 2 small accidents and they were really only half accidents because he only got his underwear a little wet before he stopped and realized what he was doing. I really think we are done with diapers for him! I am so excited, now I only have 1 more child to potty train!!! Hurray!


Sorry, I had to take a picture of him doing it, he was so proud.

Carolina was so happy about it she called everyone to tell them. Look how cute she always sits with her feet crossed like that, I love it!

Mitchel's family birthday celebration

Poor McKay feel off our tramp at the party and hit is nose on the ladder- he is going to have a nice bruise

Mitch on his new "bike"

Oh boy!-Yikes

His 2nd cake

His birthday present from Dad & Mom

The party

Tonight we celebrated Mitch's birthday with our families. It is quite the houseful when we get everyone together. But it is fun to see all the cousins playing together and to enjoy one another's company. Reid made another motorcycle cake, this cake may have topped the one he made yesterday, not sure they were both pretty good. Mitch got lots of fun gifts, but the best was saved for last, he got a kid motorcycle. I'm not sure how I feel about this, it seems like it is a broken bone waiting to happen but it is something Reid really wanted to get him. He bought it used and has actually had it for a couple of months just awaiting the birthday. The plan is to use it when we go camping. Reid will ride his motorcycle, I will ride the 4-wheeler, Savanna the kids 4-wheeler and Mitch the kid motorcycle. And Treyton and Carolina will ride with Mom and Dad. We will see how this actually works.

Mitch is a really good kid, he is a joy to have in our home. For the most part he is very obedient, a very good helper to his Mom and Dad. He has done really well in Kindergarten, he has learned so much this year and I am so proud to call him my son. I love you Mitch! I hope this next year is your best year yet!

Mitchel's friend birthday party

Mitch blowing out his candles

Savanna broke open the pinata

Hayden hitting the pinata

Kaden taking a swing

Mitch opening his presents

The whole party- top-Gabe Bingham, Kaden Taylor, Savanna Fuhriman, Mitch Fuhriman, Dawson Abrams, 2nd row- Sarah Hamilton, McKinley Anglin, Carter Harris, Hayden Jackson, Elijah Beck, bottom- Cooper Sargent

Cool cake- Reid decorated it all by himself- he even made it himself.

(I am a little nervous to post this, only because we invited several friends to the birthday party from the neighborhood, but we couldn't invite everyone and I don't want anyone to feel bad that there child didn't get an invite. Just know that we did not intentionally leave anyone out! It's kind of funny that the only girls he wanted to invite were his cousins Sarah and McKinley and his sister Savanna) Since this serves as my journal and I am making a book out of it I choose to put it in.

Today Mitchel got his first friend birthday party. It was successful I think. I almost cancelled it because I have been really sick the past few days with strep throat, but I have been on antibiotics so I shouldn't be contagious anymore and I didn't want to break Mitchel's heart so we moved forward with the party. We grilled hotdogs and hamburgers for lunch, then they got to break a pinata, they played a few outside games like freeze tag and redlight, greenlight, we opened presents and had cake and ice cream. And then I just let them play for a while. I think that they all had a fun time. The kids were really good, I'm glad that Mitch has fun friends and cousins. In Mitchel's word "I got a lot of cool things for my birthday".

Here are some pictures from his party.

Warm weekend and random pictures!

Me and Carolina - we went and fed the ducks

Carolina didn't like being stuck in the stroller

Reid and the kids- they loved feeding the ducks.

Treyton, Mitch and Reid

Savanna, Mitch and Reid

Savanna

Carolina, she is starting to walk behind this little push toy, she is so proud of herself

Savanna and the neighbor kids, warming up after jumping on the tramp with the sprinkler

Savanna, Ammon Hoffman, Alex Beatie, Olivia Willey, Trista Hoffman, and Eliza Willey

We finally had a warm weekend, we tried to get some time out in the sun. I made the mistake of telling Mitch earlier in the week that once it hits 70 degrees they can play in the water. Well it was 71 degrees on friday and so he had to get the water out- although they froze when the turned it on. Oh well, they had fun anyway!

New Easter Sunday outfits

Savanna Bananna

My man Mitch

Little man Treyt

What a dolly!

Savanna

Mitchel

Treyton

Carolina

I wanted to get a picture of all the kids in their new Easter outfits, so as I got each child ready for church I took individual pictures and then my goal was to get a picture of them all together. Well I ran out of time and was going to be late for church, so I was going to take their picture when we got home. Well before I could make that happen Mitch and Savanna had changed, so I guess that picture will have to wait. Here they are individual- pretty cute kids if I do say so myself.

New backyard toy

He dug a hole and stuck it in so that it won't move around, and now the kids can climb on it.

Carolina in the swing for the first time. She didn't really like it!

digging the hole

Reid wanted to make a new sandbox for our backyard, so he went to a tire shop in town and they gave him a big tractor tire. When he got it home he realized it wasn't quite big enough for a sandbox, but he still thought it would make a fun new toy for the backyard. He is still looking for another bigger tire for the sandbox.

Crashed Ford Explorer

Here are some pictures of Reid's parents Explorer that was totalled on the day of the bad storm. It was kind of crazy how bad it was and lucky that his Mom wasn't hurt any worse than she was. She is kind of beat up but overall ok.

We took our kids to see the car, and they were mesmorized by it. We have told them all about air bags (because we don't let them sit in the front seat because of them) and so it was interesting to them to see what the air bags looked like.