Potty Training

So on Saturday as i was shopping around trying to figure out who has the best deals on diapers, wipes, and pull-ups i came to this conclusion i really don't want to buy pull-ups anymore. I just wish there was this magical button that i could push and BAM he is potty trained but unfortunately there is no such button. So i talked to my mother-in-law and she told me when potty training her kids she just put them in underwear 24-7 no pull-ups not even at night, instead she put a plastic protector on their mattress and made a few layers of bed sheet, plastic trash bags, bed sheet, plastic trash bags, etc. At first i wasn't sure that i wanted to try this but i figured well why not so far nothing is really working. so off to Target we went, we spent $9 dollars on a Vinyl mattress protector and got a really good deal on diapers and wipes. So anyways we are on day 3 and have only had 2 accidents both of which have been at night :) which is WAY better than how things where going. He is so excited know he even went all on his own today i only had to remind him to go 3 times today. It is so funny because he will go into the bathroom and all of a sudden i will hear "I did it!I did it!" and he will come running out of the bathroom giving me the thumbs up yelling "Mom i did it, i did it!" I could not be more proud of my little man. They grow up so fast that in a blink of they eye 3 years have come and gone. I love life and i love my little guy and i can't wait to see what happens in the next 3 years. :)

It has been awhile....

Well it has been awhile sense my last post... over 9 months to be exact! The last post was announcing we were expecting a baby. Well in the 9 months we found out that our bundle of joy was a girl and then we ended up having that baby girl. :) Hannah Marie was born November 16, 2012 she was 7 lbs. 9 oz 20.5 in long and we couldn't be more in love with her. Camden has been absolutely AMAZING with her!!! I am so impressed it is unbelievable how great he is with her which is awesome for me because i had my doubts and i was so worried. He is always willing to help in any way he can whether it is getting her binkie to throwing away diapers to climbing the side of the crib to ask her if she is okay and then running to get myself or Orin and saying "Hannah needs you now mom, come on." Camden has grown so much in the 2 short months Hannah has been here with us and i could not be any prouder. We had started telling Camden a few months before Hannah arrived that he was going to be a big brother and he was going to need to help protect her and i didn't think that it was really making any sense too him but boy could i be any more wrong. He has even become protective of kids that are smaller than he is. I had the biggest "Proud momma" moment ever a few days ago. We went up to Logan with Orin and while he was at school I went and had lunch with a friend and we went to Chic-fa-la so Camden could run around and play and we could catch up while chatting Camden was playing with some boys that were possibly 2 to 3 years older than he was which was completely fine. Than another little boy came in and he was 1 to 2 years younger than Camden and was extremely shy, he just stood in the corner. When this little boy got the courage to leave the corner and go play with some of the things on the wall the older boys pushed him out of the way. At this point Camden was just sitting on the stairs watching what was happening, now Camden i will openly admit is not always the nice one he can sometimes follow the crowd instead of being a leader. So i am sitting there thinking this is going to go 1 of 2 ways and i am really hoping that it doesn't go the way i think it is. All of a sudden Camden stands up walks over to these boys gets in between them and screams at the top of his lungs "That is not nice!" and he has his hands on his hips. From him screaming that the parents of these boys look and see what is happening and goes in there and drags their son's out of there. Camden then looks at the little boy and motions for him to come with him, the little boy just stands there. After about 3 or 4 tries Camden just looks at me through the window and shrugs his shoulders and has this discouraged look on his face, and he walks off and goes and climbs the play thing and comes down the slid. He motions for the little boy to follow him and finally this little boy starts to follow him. Anyway one thing leads to another and Camden helps this little boy climb all 4 stairs to the top and helps him over to the slid and gets him to go down. Pretty soon this man approaches me and says "Is that your son in there?" i told him yes it is, and he proceeds to tell me "Thank you so much for raising a little boy that will stand up for other." my eyes began to feel with tears as this man continues to tell me that he has been bringing his little boy to play places for over a year now and no matter how hard he tries he can never get him to leave the corner let alone go up the play place and down the slid. This mans eyes began feeling with tears as he told me how grateful he was for my little boy and that he was able to get his son to go up and then come down the slid not once but multiple times. After thanking me again he went and sat back down, when it came time to go because i had to go pick up Orin from school this little boy did not want my son to leave he keep trying to get him to go back inside to play it was the cutest darn thing i had ever seen and i could not have been prouder of my son in that moment!! Anyways that was my proud momma moment and i just had to share it. I will try to be better about updating the blog but i can't promise anything :)

Exciting News!!!!

Well it's about time i make another post. So back in January Orin and I decided that we were gonna leave adding to our family up to Heavenly Father and we began trying, the doctor told me that my First 3 months after having my IUD (inter-uterine device) removed where going to be my most fertile and most likely times to conceive a baby. Well my 3 month mark started coming up fast and i began to worry and give up all hope of adding to our family. But then something happen i became 2 weeks late. In those 2 weeks i had taken countless pregnancy tests having 1 positive and about 3 negative. Becoming discouraged I started thinking well maybe my 3 months came a little earlier. The doctor said i could simply just stop ovulating and that was it. So after praying and praying and praying on Saturday March 17th i woke up at 4 am and had this feeling to just go take a test no matter the outcome so i did and i could not believe my eyes i was silently freaking out in the bathroom so that i wouldn't wake my sleeping 2 year old in the room down the hall. I ran into the bedroom and woke my husband up and made him come look at it so that i didn't think i was crazy it was faint but it was there. The hard part was waiting seeing as how it was a Sunday i couldn't call the doctor cause they aren't in the office so i had to wait.

  So Sunday came and went SLOWLY at least for me. So Monday morning i could hardly wait to call the doctor's office i was up at 6 am with the hubby to send him off to school and i usually can go back to sleep for at least an hour til Camden wakes up but not this time. This time i was wired so right at 9 am i called the doctor's office. I am about 6 weeks along and i go in on the 3rd of April. I can hardly wait!!!!! Camden seems to be pretty excited around the end of the year last year Camden was always asking me and orin "Where's baby momma" or he would grab us by our hands and take us into his room and point to the crib that has been taken apart for months and say "Baby" as he shrugs his shoulders and holds his hands like he has lost something. It has just been too cute. He has had a hard time because he like to play rough with mom and that generally means kicking his legs and i use to take a lot of hits to the tummy but we tried to explain it too him the best we could (seeing as how he is 2 years old) that he has to be soft with mommy's tummy that he has to be careful. So he will come up to me and rub my tummy and say soft and we will say ya soft good job and he smiles and runs off so proud.

 So that is the exciting news we got this week. And we couldn't be happier right now. Now if only April 3rd could get here faster i would be even happier :)

Busy Week

Well this week has been one of the busiest of my life i think. On Tuesday me, the hubby, my mom-in-law, sister, bro-in-law and his 3 kids, my nephew, and my little guy all went to the Living planet aquarium in Sandy. It is an amazing place i loved it and the kids loved it, we all loved the Penguins there was 1 Penguin who was being a show off for us diving into the water and swimming in a circle and then diving further into the water and jumping out and then doing it all over again. We stood there for about 15-20 minutes laughing and giggling at this one penguin. After we were done at the Aquarium we all went out to get ice cream/frozen yogurt. Once we were done there my brother-in-law took his kiddos home and we headed to Ikea, we figured well we are at this end Ikea is just a few minutes away why not, so we did. We got scrub brushes (cause they have these amazing scrub brushes for dishes and they are only a dollar) and we got more kid plates, cups, and silverware so know when all the kiddos and grandkids come over we have enough for them to have their own. so that was tuesday for ya and tomorrow we are headed to the Zoo all of us again, only this time my other sis-in-law and her other baby will be able to come with us and we are gonna have lunch at the zoo. and then sometime this weekend we are gonna paint the house. This is our mastermind plan of keeping my mother-in-law busy and her mind off of being away from her hubby, he left for Afghanistan at the beginning of this month this is the first time she will be away from her hubby for longer then 6 weeks. So that is my week :)

ALL ABOUT US

ALL ABOUT US

Well we are finally on Blogspot.com wahoo, and when i say we i probably mean just me (Dani) cause Orin probably wont  get on here EVER lol. Anyways i figured i would make the first blog about us, so you can get to know us 3. 

We met in high school, dated through-out our last year in high school. We got married in September of 2008. A lot of people (mostly our friends) said we were doing things to fast and doing them all the wrong ways, but for us we didn't and we wouldn't change a thing.Once we got our first year of marriage under our belts we added to our little family in October of 2009 Camden Max was born and it was one of the best moments ever. In March of 2010 we made another big decision and life-altering change, we moved to Kentucky. Which is such a change from Utah we stayed there not quite a year a few months shy of a year, we decided that Kentucky was just not for us, so we came back to Utah. Sense being back Orin started going to Utah State (yes he commutes) he is getting his A&P license, which he says is fancy talk for an Airplane Mechanic, its a 4 to 5 year college degree. Meanwhile i have been going to the Ogden-Weber technology College and getting my Medical Transcription so i can work from home. Camden is an energetic, loving 2 year old toddler. He keeps us VERY busy i love him to DEATH!!! He plays with almost anything you will give him although he does have his moments. 

As far as adding to our family due to some medical conditions through-out my life Camden was our miracle baby, so we are leaving things up to our loving heavenly father, if its meant to be it will happen. Our religion plays a BIG part in our life and if people have a problem with that, that's fine, if you can't put it behind you then the friendship isn't worth it. 

So that's us :) i look forward to this blogging experience it will be a whole new experience for me and i look forward to sharing it with all of you :)