Friday, January 28, 2011

Tubing at Soldier Hollow

As part of Chad's birthday celebration, we spent Martin Luther King Jr. day on the tubing hill at Soldier Hollow just south of Midway. It was warm that day, which made for some slushy tubing conditions, but it was a great temperature for playing outside!

Getting all dressed, and ready to go!
Picking out our tubes.


Chad and Aaron on the rope tow. (I'm hooked, definitely the best way to go tubing!)


Ethan on the rope tow.



Noah on the rope tow.


Noah tubing down the hill!

Ethan fell off in the middle of the hill!


...and then climbed back on!



...and kept going!

We all had a great time, and the boys didn't want to leave when our two hours were up!

Posted by Andrea at 11:26 AM 1 comments

Chad's Birthday, Part 1

Have I mentioned before how much I love celebrating my husband's birthday? I do! He is such a sweet man, and does so much for our family, I love having a day each year when we can celebrate just him. This year Chad's birthday was kind of a week long celebration, and we had a lot of fun as a family.

My sister-in-law Brenda's birthday is about a week before Chad's, so the weekend before his birthday my parents took us all out to dinner at Tepanyaki. We've never been there before, and it was so cool! I wish I had taken pictures. The boys loved watching the man cook the food in front of us, and the food was absolutely delicious. Then we came back to our house for cheesecake (Chad's favorite!) and ice cream.

On his actual birthday, the boys and I woke up and fixed Chad a big breakfast of cinnamon waffles, Tabasco-flavored sausages, and orange juice. We don't usually have big breakfasts around here, and since Chad loves breakfast we tried to make it a big deal. We were going to go tubing that day, but unfortunately Chad spent a big part of the day fixing our car (poor guy!) so we ended up doing that on Monday instead. He opened up his presents later that afternoon, but his big present he's still deciding on. He's getting a hiking/camping backpack that can also hold all of his camera gear, but he's still trying to decide which one he wants so I'm afraid it will have to be a belated gift!
Posted by Andrea at 10:27 AM 1 comments

Little B and the Potty Seat

I guess this gives new meaning to the term "Porta-potty", doesn't it?!?! We've had such a hard time getting Aaron to be willing to potty-train, so when he wanted to tote his little potty all over I certainly was not going to deny him! No worries, he did not actually use the potty while sitting in our kitchen nook.

I can't tell you how happy I am that we have finally (almost) potty-trained our last child. We're still working on the #2 (TMI? Sorry.) because it grosses him out, but I think we're almost there. Hooray!

From experience, I think I can say that potty-training is the hardest part of being a parent so far. Two out of three children have been difficult. ;) Aaron is very independent and the trick was finally just to let him do it on his own. We put him in underwear and let him decide when he needed to use the bathroom. That was the trick! I am so proud of him, and he is so proud of himself! What a cutie.
Posted by Andrea at 10:07 AM 1 comments
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