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Photo Tinks by WiddlyTinks.com

Photo Tinks by WiddlyTinks.com

Picture a day...

I have decided to start a picture a day blog.  The link is over on the side of this blog.  Hopefully it will get me taking more pictures of every day life instead of only the big stuff.  Take a look, hope you like it.

FINALLY- GOOD PICTURES

It has taken me 6 MONTHS to find the time to take Abbie's two-year-old pictures.  I have been busy but not that busy, I just haven't made the time to take them.  I have taken other peoples pictures just not my own kids. (Thats sad, really sad.) Well they turned out so cute, I'm so happy and it was really easy.  I also took some of Ashton and he is a little harder to get a good picture out of, he loves to pull this funny smile where he really isn't smiling just gritting his teeth.  His preschool pictures were terrible, and that is being kind.  He wasn't even looking into the camera on most of them.  Oh well these are super cute.  Now to get some of Lexie, she was as school while we were taking these but it couldn't be helped.....

Remember these??

Well they have grown into these HUGE things....

The plant took over my front flower garden but it made some of the biggest pumpkins ever. It was even kind enough to make three, one for each kid. Can't wait til its time to carve them.

Ashton in Ashton

Going to Yellowstone while we are visiting Jake in Idaho Falls has become one of our families favorite day trips.  Since it is only 2 hours to Yellowstone we get up early and drive to Yellowstone for the day and stay until it is too dark to see anything in the park and then head home.  One of the little towns we pass through on the way is Ashton, Idaho.  Ashton thinks that it is weird that a city (town) has the same name as him and doesn't think it is very funny when we start telling him that "he" is coming up in 20 miles or however far away it is.  Well this time we needed to make a pit stop there so we decided to find "his" sign and take his picture by it.   What a good sport.

What a girl needs

I have been potty training Abbie for a little while and she had been doing pretty well.  She was having WAY more dry days that accidents.  Things were going so well, then when she filled up her last "potty chart" (about the same time she had her bladder infection that definitely didn't help matters either) I didn't bother to make another one because I thought that she was doing so well that she didn't need it.  Well things have been going down hill from there.  I was getting very frustrated, well today I had the brilliant idea (duh!!) to make her another potty chart to see if that would help motivate her to use the potty.  What a HUGE change it has made.  Putting a sticker on a piece of paper holds some sort of magic I am sure!  I think the potty chart will be here till we are done with potty training for good!!

picking out the sticker... I went all out and got big smiley faces this time, she loves them.

all these stickers are from today!!!  No accidents here!!!