Mommy Son

I always treasure mommy son pictures because I am usually the one taking the pictures and no one ever offers to take pictures of Kasen and I. Well one night Sam and I went to Applebees and she took a picture of Kasen and I on HER camera. This was about 2 months ago, I just finally saw it this week and fell in love with it. How cute are WE? I can't remember the last time I was around someone that made me feel tan! :)

Easter Sunday

My parents were out of town for Easter, so my brother and his family invited us over to their house after church for dinner. We had HoneyBaked Ham and mashed potatoes and gravy and yummy rolls. Then Pecan pie after! Good food! Since they provided all the yummy food, we provided the egg hunt. We brought plastic eggs filled with yummy chocolate. There were 12 total so we split them up between Kasen and Brielle. I took video of Kasen kinding his eggs. He thought that was the funnest thing going around searching. Every time he found another one he would say "there's another egg"...when he found all 6 of his eggs, he put them down and started to open them all. "more nummys, more nummys" every time he opened one. It was so cute. He was so happy. It was just nice to be around family and spend time with them together. We normally see them every Sunday but it was different being at their house and remembering the real reason for Easter. Here are some pics:

I love to see the Temple...

Saturday we went to the Temple with Kasen and my friends Autumn's family. We have never been to the temple to just take pictures. Well since our sealing anyway...I am so glad we went. The spirit is just so strong even when you are outside walking around. I just felt so happy and giddy when I was there. It reminded me of how much I love to go IN the temple. But it was just really neat to be there with Kasen. He loved the flowers and kept wanting to pick them. They were so pretty and colorful and Kasen kept pointing out the different colors. Half the time he was wrong, but he is learning. It was neat for Jeremy and I to be there and reminisce about the day we were sealed. Brought back so many good memories and helped us realize that we can get through anything, if we just continue to love each other and stay close to the Lord. Here are some pics we took:

"Where'd my toes go?"

On Friday night my friend and her family came into town. We went to the beach with them since they don't get to see it too often in AZ where they live. I know I am a bad mom, this is the first time Kasen has ever really been to the beach. I am not that fond of going and neither is Jeremy so we just don't go. Kasen was freezing the whole time we were there. He wouldn't even move. If I took his hand and guided him he would go with me, but as soon as I let go of his hand, he stopped and just froze in place. He didn't know what to think of the sand. He finally took his "hip hops" off and walked around barefoot. At one point he got his toes buried under the sand and started to panic! "Where'd my toes go, where toes go mommy?" I tried to calm him down and let him know they were just under the sand and it was no big deal. Just to brush off the sand and he would see his toes. He did just that and said "THERE!!! There's my toes mommy!" It was really quite cute. Here are a few pictures of us at the beach. Autumns husband took Kasen out in the water up to his ankles. He wasn't so sure what to think about that either, but he would NOT leave until he put his feet in the water. So Bryant took him.

Pee pee on the Pot-tay!

Last night I decided I was tired of changing diapers. Kasen needed to be potty trained and that was that. He is always telling me when he has to go, or after he goes or brings me his diaper and wipes and tells me "diaper change mommy" so I know he is ready, he is just deathly afraid of the potty. So I sat him on the potty with much force and crying and pulled out the smarties and books and talked him through it. Eventually he calmed down but wouldn't go at all. I even got him juice and water to drink while he was sitting there hoping to speed the process. Eventually he didn't even want to get up. We sat there for 40 minutes with NO success. He was falling asleep. So we waited til this morning. After he drank his sippy cup of milk we went at it again. Sat him down and talked him through it, didn't take nearly as many smarties to get him to sit. PROGRESS! We sat there and read 3 books and about 10 minutes later he looked down at himself and started to giggle. He started peeing shortly after that. HE PEED ON THE POTTY! I couldn't believe it. We went STRAIGHT downstairs and got him a candy cane which is his candy of choice for going pee pee on the potty. I cannot tell you how proud I am of him! It was only one time, but it was a complete 180 from 2 days ago...soo....we are officially potty training. Here are a couple pics of him sitting on the potty, and eating his candy cane after he went. Oh and by the way, after he went he started clapping and saying "yaay Kasen!" LOL so cute!

Go, Diego, Go!!!

My mom and I went to Kohls today because they were having a sale on "nammies" as Kasen called them. We saw a lot that were cute, they were like $12 for 3&4 piece sets which is a pretty good deal. Kasen REALLY likes Diego a lot so we got him a 3 piece set. Pants, short sleeved and long sleeved shirt. Kasen was sleeping when we got home from Kohls so we waited til he woke up to give him his pj's. I gave him the Kohls bag with his two new pairs of nammies and a shirt we got him. He pulled out the first pair which was a baseball pair and was excited that he got new nammies. "new nammies, pants, shirt for me!" Then he got realized there was more in the the bag. His face broke out in the BIGGEST smile when he realized they were "go go" nammies. He immediately started reaching for the sky for me to take off the shirt he was wearing. He ran over to me and said "reach for sky mommy! reach for sky!!" We got them on and he had an ear to ear grin. You could tell he felt so dang cool wearing those nammies. He even posed for the camera with a smile, and for those of you who know, kasen just doesn't do that. You pull out the camera and the games begin. You have to chase him around to get a picture. NOT this time! Here are a couple pics of him. It's now 6:00 pm and he is dressed in his nammies for the rest of the night. Oh well, it's a lazy day!

Super Saturday!

This morning a couple of my friends...Amanda, and Crystal and I went to Mimis Cafe for breakfast. We decided to leave the kiddies at home and go as just us girls. Boy was that a good decision! It was so nice and peaceful. There were other kids around us talking, laughing and yelling, but we didn't care, they weren't our kids! We totally had a blast. We should do it again soon girls!

After breakfast I went to Old Navy and bought Kasen some new flip flops. His only other pair turned up missing and I really have NO IDEA where they went. We all searched everywhere. They are 2 pairs for $5 so I scrounged up some change and bought him 2 pairs. We has the most grateful little kid when I brought them home to him. He was so giddy and totally smiley and kept profusely thanking me for the flip flops. So sweet!

Jeremy and I got free tickets to go see a new movie out in the theatres called "The Peaceful Warrior" we took my friend Autumn and her Husband (they were on their honeymoon in san diego) to go see the movie with us. They movie itself was just ok, had a lot of good lessons, but to me it felt more like a motivational speaker, than a REAL movie. Jeremy rated it a 4 out of 10, and one of those points was because it was free. I gave it a 6 out of 10, and also one of my points was cause the movie was free. During the movie, Autumn was sitting next to me and she pulled out her phone and held it low in her lap just to see what time it was. She had it on silent so it made NO noises and she flipped it open QUICK. THEEEEE second she opened her phone, coming from a few rows back, some old lady yelled at her "TURN OFF YOUR PHONE!!!!!" She quickly and quietly shut her phone with her tail between her legs, just like a puppy dog. It was the funniest thing ever. All through the movie I kept thinking about the lady yelling at her and I couldn't stop laughing. That made the movie memorable.

Below is a picture of the two of us after the movie was over. We went to lunch afterwards.
Jeremy can't take a picture with his eyes open, for the life of him! So funny, but frustrating!Overall, I had a good day yesterday. With a few minor complications, it was good. Yaaaay!