Finally...

I finally finished my chair, which has been sitting in our garage FOREVER! I absolutely LOVE it and LOVE even more that Cam LOVES it too, after shaking his head at me when he first saw the beauty. (Thank you so much Kym for helping me reupholster it!) ...

Before...

After...

It's not perfect by any means, but turned out pretty cute. It'll be going in the kids bathroom upstairs. I made a shower curtain a few months ago with the same fabric as the chair, it turned out really cute too, hopefully it won't look too cheesy... matchy matchy. :)

Tooty Taya

This is what Taya said today... (I wonder where she gets it!) :

"Taya tooted. (giggle giggle) Smell Taya's bum."

Where are her manners?!? :/

Silly Taya...

My friend, Shea, came over yesterday and we came down the stairs to this...



What a character.

What We've Been Up To

*Taya's been up to no good, as always. If you've read any of my previous posts you would know. But she is entertaining, I'll give her that much :) We sure do love her though!

This was taken on Super Bowl Sunday. She was "helping" Daddy BBQ outside apparently with no shoes on...


And of course, how did I know this would happen next? ...
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*Dodger is growing so fast! He's such a sweet boy and so happy despite his poor lizard skin :( Hopefully it'll get better soon. And yes, all of his dark hair is gone :( It's all coming in blonde now, which is exactly what happened to Cam when he was a baby.

This morning Taya wanted to lay in Dodger's jungle gym with him, it was so cute :) ...

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*Cam has been super busy with work and has picked up a new hobby ... barbeque! He LOVES it and I LOVE that he cooks :) We bought a smoker and he's been cooking with some BBQ professionals in Utah and I think is going to enter a contest sometime this Spring/Summer. We'll have to start taking more pictures of his masterpieces. I must say, he's getting pretty good at it!

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*Ashley: I've been busy with sick kids and sick me, but have been OBSESSED with a few craft/refinishing blogs and have gotten some new motivation here and here . I have a few projects I've been working on, here's a sneak peek:

This is an old chair of, I think, my Great Grandma's. It came with a bedroom set that I already refinished for Taya, but I never took before pictures of it :( ...

This is my new purchase from KSL that will go in our nook. Can't wait to finish it! ...
Stay tuned for the finished products... hopefully sometime next week!

Thank You Taya

for putting an onion in my soapy mopping water.

Sicky Sicky

I know I've been blogging a lot about Taya lately, but I just had to write this down because I thought it was so cute! ...

Taya's been sick since Sunday night and today she was bawling and I told her that chicken noodle soup would make her feel better. I cooked the soup and she immediately came over, took a noodle out and put it on an owie on her toe. :)

Hello Terrible Two's

All in one week Taya has:

- Broken our pantry door off (she brings me the brown sugar everyday... "mmm mommy, nummy")

-Dumped two bags of cereal on our family room carpet, one of which was Fruity Pebbles... could that be any harder to pick up??

-Unrolled the toilet paper from our bathroom into our bedroom (about 15 feet) TWICE

-Burned her hand on the fireplace

-Sat in our garage and played in the oil leak from my car

-Stuck a chocolate chip up her nose "MOMMY STUCK! MOMMY STUCK!"

-Eaten pretty much every marker in our house... see my previous post

-Learned how to breasfeed her baby doll
"baby ian Taya's boobies" (ian=eating)
what?!?


-And today found the tallest stool we own and got a hold of our Melatonin "mmm bedtime nummy Mommy" ... yeah, she was a little tired today:

"Mommy, tired. Nap"
"Let's eat some lunch first, then you can go to sleep, Taya"
"Mommy nap"
"Ok, we need to eat food really fast"
"No food. Nap"

Oh and did I mention that most of this happened today??
Apparently you're supposed to watch your kids during the day :) .

I need a vacation.

Such a Gem

You know, there's those cute little kids that have the perfect hair with the cute barrettes and the perfectly kept clothes that always just look like such sweet children?...

And then there's my sweet Taya...

Who eats markers.


And thinks it's funny.


"I swear I'll never do it again, Mom." ...


"And what's this?" You ask ...
Three bitten off marker tops.

Thanks Taya.

When It Rains, It Pours

Our family has had two days in a row of sad news, so we're off to a rough start this week. Jenna and Andrew found out today Cash has problem with his intestines, so please keep this little guy in your prayers, he's having surgery either tonight or tomorrow to correct the problem :(

Breakfast

This morning I was made Taya waffles and pretty much talking to myself I said, "Where's the syrup?". Taya replied, "Taya deep it all gone". ("drink" :) ) Now I know why she wakes up so early, apparently she can get to things much easier when Mommy and Daddy are still sleeping!

Kiddie-Poo's

It's been a long time since I've updated on the kids, so here it goes...

TAYA

Taya is still a character. She runs around the house dancing and shaking her bum all the time. She'll say "mommy watch" or "Dog-ger watch Taya" and shakes her little bum at him. She's been potty trained for over a month now and is doing AMAZING! She won't even pee when she sleeps too, it's great! (Except for getting woken up in the middle of the night to take her potty.) She's been saying so many new things, it's so fun to see how little minds grow. She surprises me all the time with the things that come out of her mouth... for example (I can't believe I'm writing this, but it was one of those moments you couldn't help but laugh), the other day she tooted and looked at me, laughed, then pointed her finger up and said "yisten" ... and tooted again! Are you kidding me!? Wonder who taught her that... CAM!! After church the other day a boy was walking out with us and as we were headed to our car Taya said, "bye stinky boy" :) Daddy's teach the most wonderful things don't they? haha, our poor children.

DODGER

Dodger is getting so big, such a chubby little guy. He's such a happy baby, but has quite the scream when he's mad. He started smiling at six weeks and is now in the stage of wanting to laugh. He's extremely ticklish, loves watching Taya, and loves having his hair played with.

2 month appointment:
23 inches, 55%
12 lbs, 59%

Baby Cash

Jenna and Andrew had their baby on December 31st... yes, I'm a little late in posting :) He was 7 lb 4 oz and 19 inches long. Such a cutie and so tiny!

Isn't it amazing the difference in just two months!? ...

Cash & Dodger

Mom, Taya, Me, Jenna, Cash, and Jami

Congratulations Jenna & Andrew, he's a doll!

Christmas 2009

Christmas time was so much fun with Taya this year! She loves all the Christmas lights and loved plugging and unplugging the lights on our Christmas tree. She sings "Santa Clause is Coming to Town" all the time and asks to watch "Elf" and "The Polar Express - or "the train show" - every single day. We still watch it, unfortunately. I think I have the whole thing memorized by now! We had so many family parties this year and so much fun with everyone! It was a great Christmas, but extremely busy and a little difficult adjusting to two kids, so needless to say I'm looking forward to a little more relaxed week next week! :)

Grandpa Treu was bouncing Taya and Maya (cousin) on his lap and they were cracking up, it was adorable! ...

Grandma and Grandpa Treu with the kiddos...

Our family on Christmas Eve at my sister's house, Taya's face cracks me up ...

Grandma and Grandpa Woodward came over on Christmas Eve and gave Taya a kitchen. She LOVES playing with it, she makes us food and drinks everyday :) Thanks Mom & Dad!! ...

Taya was really cute Christmas morning. We had to wake her up at 8:00... why can't that happen any other day of the year!? Every morning we're awakened by our sweet princess at 6:30, but of course Christmas Day when I'm automatically up that early she sleeps in!! Grr... Anyway, this is what Santa brought Taya. She opened all her presents sitting in her car :) She had a lot of fun opening presents, but left them half opened because she'd get to busy doing other things! ...

Our little Santa man, he's getting so chubby! :) ...

Christmas afternoon we headed up to Wyoming to see Nana and Papa Schiffhauer. Taya had a blast playing in the snow and by the campfire! It was nice to get away and SO nice to have other people watching my kids! And the presents were nice too :) haha. ...

Cousin Maya and Taya...

Thanks everyone for a great Christmas! Every year right after Christmas I always say I can't wait for Christmas next year! Luckily we have enough candy at our house to last us until then :) Maybe we'll save it and give it away for Halloween... Save us a little money! Ha. Hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday!

Such a Nice Big Sister...

Tonight Cam yelled at me to hurry and come see what Taya had done...

Thanks for sharing your baby with Dodger, sweetie :)

Update

Yes I'm still alive over here, just haven't posted for a while, sorry! Dodger is getting big so fast! He started smiling this week, it's so cute. He's had colic for a while BUT little interesting story - our chiropractor told Cam that most colic comes from the spine so he said to bring him in. I was a little skeptical of the whole thing, but WOW!! Seriously I can't believe the difference! He used to cry for about three hours every night and has been adjusted twice now and no longer has a fussy time. We couldn't be more excited, it's so nice not to have a screaming baby. I always said I didn't know how mom's could handle that, but I guess you don't really have a choice! Anyway, he's much happier now, and I am too. Although, I did have to stop drinking Dr. Pepper and that I am NOT too happy about :( So sad!

We've been potty training Taya for a little while now and she's doing AMAZING! I'm so excited about it, changing a two year old's diapers after a newborn's isn't very fun :) It's so funny though, all her pants fall off of her now cause she's so dang skinny. It's pretty cute though! She talks about Santa and watches Elf literally everyday... does that make me a bad mom? :) She sat on his lap at our church Christmas party and gave him a high five when she was done. I think she was pretty proud of herself. Haha. I'll have to post more pictures when I get them all uploaded.

That's all I can think of at the moment. Time is flying by so fast! We're so excited for Christmas, it's coming up so fast! Jocelin finished Dodger's baby pictures, so I'll be posting those soon, they're adorable, she did a great job! Here's a few random pictures until then ....

So happy in his new swing! (Thanks Mom & Dad!!!)


Crazy hair!... speaking of which, he got his first haircut today! :)


Taya finally got to use her new snow clothes the other day! She kept making this face for some reason :/