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Holly sporting come occupational gear at Legoland. No pictures of Tyson, he was grumpy...


Beach pic that for some reason I couldn't add to the previous post...

The Beach

Southern California

We've finally arrived!!
Here is a list of firsts:
1. First time living outside of "the bubble"
2. First time trying to figure out how the heck to do my hair in humid climate
3. First time, in a year, sleeping in a room without a baby in my closet...
4. First time traveling with a potty trained kid. I kid you not, we pulled over on the side of the freeway FIVE times in the first hour of driving to let the kid pee...
5. In reference to #4, first time denying my child any sort of liquid for the period of 9 hours. "No, you are not drinking anymore apple juice! We're never going to get there at the rate of your bladder!"
6. First time living in a gated community
7. First time asking a stranger at 8:30 AM, "Hi, my son has locked us out of both of our bedrooms, and my husband is in a towel and has to be to his first day of work in 20 minutes. Can you help?" Tyson learned that the lock has to be horizontal not vertical, so as not to get in trouble. We eventually got the doors open with a wire hanger and a credit card.
8. First Sunday dinner alone in a very long time. (It was very lonely...)
9. First California sunburn from Sea World!! Woot Woot!


The San Diego Temple. (it's under construction, so Dev decided to hide it behind a tree)

Holly's Sea World experience

Elmo ride at Sea World

Disneyland here we come!

So Devin has been in California all week looking for a place for us to live for the summer. After a lot of persistence, Devin officially has an internship with Callaway golf in Southern California. We will be leaving on Tuesday-ish. I have a lot of anxieties because I've never lived anywhere outside of Utah Valley. I've traveled all over, but living somewhere is much different than being on vacation. Good bye Utah, see you in September!!

10 months old!

I can't believe she's 10 months already... These were taken by my friend Mckenzie Deakins. She does an incredible job.

random cuteness

Our friends invited us to their cabin in a couple of weeks ago. This video just makes me smile...

Milestones :)

It's been a big month for us! In just the past few days Holly sprouted two teeth, is crawling and is already trying to pull herself up onto things. She's only 7 months old, and I am not prepared for mobility yet. She continues to smile at anything and everything. We can't wait to see what she's like as a toddler, but then again, I wish I could keep her at this age forever.


Warning: kind of graphic material ahead! Proceed with caution!
In the land of Tyson, I feel confident in saying that, yes, we are officially potty trained! Woot woot! Don't ask me how I did it, because I don't know. It was a lot of frustrating moments, but now he's almost overly anal (pun intended) about making sure he gets to the potty on time. I swear this kid pees like 25 times a day. And even though he wears pull-ups at night he comes in at 3 AM to announce to me that he is going potty. We started by giving our diapers to Santa (okay, it was in mid-January, but he doesn't know the difference). After a couple of days he was peeing on the potty all by himself, but it took him about a month and a serious emotional breakdown from his mother (I was so sick of cleaning his underwear!!) for him to catch on with going #2. Seriously, ever since I bawled infront of him he runs to the bathroom even at the whisper of "poopies" coming. Then he smiles and says, "You're gonna be so happeeeeeee!!" Who knew I had such a softie on my hands!? k... I'm sure you all wanted to read about these gory details, but in diaperland, this is very exciting!!

He calles this is "daytime potty"

"Happeeeeeeee!" (He's gonna kill me when he's older for posting these...)


All that potty training plus going around the whole neighborhood on his scooter has worn him out. He NEVER falls asleep on the couch, and he was out at 6:30 tonight!!