Week of Milestones!

So we have had a very exciting week! McKinlee has started using the big toilet at daycare. She actually goes and tells them when she has to use the bathroom! Of course, I can't get her to go for me here at the house, but at least she is doing it somewhere!! I am SUPER excited for the days when she will be diaper free, and I think it will be just around the corner! YIPPY!!

Logan got his first 2 teeth within 48 hours of each other! Last Monday he got the first one and on Wednesday the 2nd one popped through. There wasn't really any fussing..typical Logan! He is just the happiest, sweetest baby in the world! I mean, McKinlee was an exceptional baby, but Logan is even better!! How did we get so lucky?!

Not that this is a milestone, or anything, but I did celebrate yet another birthday. My sweet sweet husband gave me the BEST present ever! He said he was going fishing, and he really was, he had the car packed, the friends ready and everything, but at the last minute he didn't go. He didn't even tell me he wasn't going, and instead he came home and cleaned the house and the garage! That was the best surprise in the world! We then had cake, and he even taught McKinlee the words to Happy Birthday, and they sang and we had candles and the whole shabang! What a great day! A couple of my Primary kids even brought me some yummy yummy cookies! What more could I ask for!? THANK YOU!

Well, once again here are the pictures of the past week!

Logan's first 2 teeth...i had to hold his tongue back or else you couldn't see them!
I LOVE my babies!
Happy birthday!
McKinlee helping put the candles on the cake...I think she actually thought it was a cake just for her. I went ahead and let her believe that :)

Halloween Fun!

So, I have been slacking (once again). There are some new developments in the Colson household....I have gone back to work. We decided a few weeks ago to have me apply for a job with the Sheriff's office as a dispatcher, and what'd ya know? I got it! So last week was my first official week back to work and I loved every second of it. There is a ton of stuff to learn, but i do enjoy what I am doing and the people I work with . It has been nice getting out and talking to people, but I do feel terrible about leaving my little kids at daycare. Jared has been AWESOME about getting them fed, dressed and out the door every morning. He has made it so much easier to go back to work. Now the time I am spending with my babies is quality, even though I miss them terribly during the day. McKinlee is actually in a pre-school and loving it! She is making new friends and learning a ton. Logan is in the same facility but just in an infant section. He doesn't care one bit, big surprise! He just goes with the flow. It is fun to go pick them up and have them get all excited to see me. I am just happy things are adjusting. I keep telling myself how blessed we are and how prayers are answered, just sometimes not in the way we were expecting them to be. Jared has been able to spend a lot of time with the kids by himself being a daddy and I think that is the greatest thing that could have happened! So enough with that let's get on to Halloween festivities 2008!!!

This year McKinlee totally knew what was going on. She knew she was going to dress up and get candy and let me tell you, she got a butt load! I had the day off (Yippy!) and so Jared took it off as well and we headed off to Idaho Falls to buy candy, run errands and meet Jared's mom for lunch. We dressed the kids up in their costumes (McKinlee was a kitty and Logan was a turtle) and went into Sam's Club where we were going to meet Jared's mom. I am totally not a mom who usually dresses the kids up to go shopping, but we wanted Barb to be able to see them in their costumes. I was happy to see many other crazy moms who had their kids dressed up, too. So McKinlee was able to get candy all throughout Sam's because everyone thought she was cute. By the time we actually got home she was already chuck full of candy and really didn't need anymore, but Trunk or Treat here we come! McKinlee really did enjoy going from car to car collecting her 'loot'. She doesn't understand the concept of waiting in line, so she would just weasle her way to the front of the pack and grab what candy she wanted. Hopefully next year we are a bit more polite. However, she did say 'thank you' to every person... Logan was just as content as can be and eventually fell asleep in the car. After trunk or treat we decided to brave the elementay school carnival. As Jared said 'it was a great form of birth control'. There were kids all over hopped up on sugar! We tried to be good parents, though, and let McKinlee do some stuff like the cake walk, haunted house, duck pond, and fishing pond. Jared even bought her a cotton candy. She had it all eaten in about 3 minutes (no exagerration), then started helping herself out to her friend Luke's. She was COVERED in blue sugar from head to toe. By the time we had done the fishing pond we were all ready to go home. Jared took McKinlee to a couple houses to go Trick or Treating, then we headed home, bathed the kids, and put them to bed. Halloween was EXHAUSTING!!! But, we had a blast!

My parents and aunt came up Saturday morning and watched the kids while Jared and I went to Jackson so I could do a Scentsy party. They then met us for a late lunch and mom and juju took me shopping for my birthday while Jared and my dad took the kids back home! It was GREAT! As much as I adore my children, shopping is much more enjoyable when they are not around!

Alright, that is our last couple weeks in a nutshell, now here are the cute pictures of Halloween!