My little Minnie!

I couldn't resist the opportunity to put up a few pictures of Joie in her cute little Halloween costume.  She has been asking to wear it for weeks so when I finally told her it was Halloween she screamed "MINNIE DRESS" and wanted to put it on immediately.  She loved Halloween and loved Trick or Treating.  It's crazy to think I will be taking two little girls out trick or treating next year!

Although you may not be able to tell, she was so excited to be in her Minnie dress that she wouldn't hold still or pose for me to take a cute picture!  She just wanted to stand in front of the mirror and twirl.

Potty time!

What have we been up to lately??

A whole lot of this

and NOT quite as many of these!

and LOTS of these...

and this!

That's right people!  The potty training has begun!  Joie has done so well!  We have had a few accidents but its only ever a trickle and than it scares her and she runs to the potty to finish her business!  Its been about 5 days since we have had an accident.  Joie just hangs out in big girl underwear around the house.  I'm not brave enough to take her out in public without a diaper yet.  She still sleeps with her diaper on too. I will update on progress made because I know this is just the very beginning of the potty training process.  Its so funny how excited you can get over someone going pee pee in the potty...there is just nothing like being a Mommy!

25 weeks

Many have asked for a pregnancy picture so here it is.  Just so you all know once I start getting really fat I will not continue to post pictures of myself.

This is me and baby at 25 weeks.  We had another ultrasound this week and she must be the shyest baby ever.  They were going to do a 3D ultrasound of her face but she has kept her face completely hidden behind her hands both times now so I guess we will just have to guess what she looks like until her arrival!

Our little helper!

The other day my mom was making dinner and I decided dinner needed garlic bread (which of course I was only interested in buying, not cooking).  So my mom said she would watch Joie while I ran to Smiths.  When I came back Joie was wearing an Apron and cleaning my moms sink...and she was LOVING it.  It was really darling!!

I love her big cheesy grin!  Doesn't she look like such a big girl?

Joie turned 2

I am a few weeks late on this post but my little angel turned 2 on September 10th.  She is getting SO big and cracks me up all the time with the hilarious things she has to say!  Right now Minnie Mouse is the love of her life (which tugs my heart strings a little because thats exactly how I was when I was her age).  We are having such a blast playing together every day and just doing girl stuff.  I'm not going to lie, we think she is pretty darn cute!

Every time we get out of the bath Joie wants me to put product in her hair and blow dry it.  So one day I decided to straighten it and she thought it was the coolest thing ever.  She just kept saying over and over "I'm pretty momma, I'm pretty"

Baby Low: The Sequel. Coming January 2011

That's right people! Baby GIRL number 2 is coming in the end of January.  I am a little over 20 weeks pregnant.  We found out in May that we were expecting and found out yesterday that it is a girl.  We are SO excited to welcome little missy into our family!

Vegas Trip!

Well a couple of weeks ago we took a fun little trip to Las Vegas.  My parents just moved there and we were excited to go spend some time with them before fall semester started.  I was there for about a week before Andrew came down and during that week we mostly just hung out and relaxed but once Andrew was there we fit a lot into a short trip! 

We got to see my brother Phil the day before he went into the MTC and as you can see Joie gave some great snuggles.

We got to play in Gigi's pool everyday, go to the Shark Reef Aquarium, go to the splash park, and do about a million other things.  The highlight of Joie's trip was definitely going to see "Great Sphinx".  The great sphinx was in one of her TV shows once and she has loved him ever since.  She was so excited to see about a million statues that looked like great sphinx inside the Luxor and every time she saw one she would scream "GREAT SPHINX" at the top of her lungs.  She now carries a picture of Great Sphinx everywhere we go and threw a tantrum the other night because I didn't let her bring her picture of Great Sphinx to bed with her.