Freedom from diapers!!!

Brenden is now 2 years, 3 months, and 22 days old and is now potty trained!! I couldn't be happier (okay, if I were on the beach with Matt, I would be). His bribes were skittles for peepy and toy cars for the poopies. Now I have to ween him from getting a new car every day, there is the real trick. He is too smart for me.



In other news, I am plugging away at my training course, but getting a little burned out. I must keep on spending my free moments in front of the computer so that I can make it through the course. Once done, then I get to spend my free moments working. Maybe that is why I am getting burned out, realizing that there is no more personal Camarie time, it will be completely spent serving others and work. I'll have to start treating myself to monthly or weekly outings.

Anyways, Matt is having fun doing paperwork, getting asked stupid questions, and using the drills, saws, and wearing space suits. He is happy to be finally doing strictly orthopedics but looks forward to the day when he is not the low man on the totem pole. He is also looking forward to September when his call load is extremely light and we will actually have some fun weekends.

Calvin and Brenden... Best Friends

Here are the photos from our visit with Josh, Dawn, Calvin, and Jonas. We had so much fun!! We mostly went to the pool because it was so hot and humid this week. Enjoy!

I'm also going to include videos we took. :)

Feeling Sad?

Here is a video of Brenden and Calvin singing their favorite primary song. Enjoy!!

The County Fair

We just made our annual trip to the county fair, and it was definitely different than it was last year. Brenden is truly a big boy.


Last year he was too small for everything, but we did go to the petting zoo and he was very brave and pet most of the friendly animals. This year, he touched the Yak's nose and needed to be held for all the other animals. He did want to hold the weird rabbit/kangaroo looking animal just because they were his size, but other than that he wanted to just look.




We saw the pig races again this year and I am including a video of the first race. Brenden was acting a little shy when we first got there but after the first race he turned to me with a big smile and said "Again?" There were three races in all and he loved everyone of them, I think he even started cheering during the third race. Our pig won the second race and came in second by a snout in the third race.
Our pig's names were Arnold Schwarzenhoggin, Kevin Bacon, and Brittney Squeals.

After the pig races it was onto the rides. He was a big boy and went on his first carnival rides which he loved.

First was the car ride, he picked out the car he wanted and everything.




From the cars it was to the dogs which he watched while he was diving the car. Again, he picked out the dog he wanted. It took him a while to pick out his next ride but we ended up making the decision for him.
Once we told him we were going to the train he was very excited and I decided to ride with him so he wouldn't be alone. We sang train songs and waved at daddy, it was fun.
Last but definitely not least, was the Ferris wheel. This was his favorite hands down, Matt said it would have been worth it to spend all of our tickets and do the Ferris wheel over and over, unfortunately it was our last ride of the night.



Once we were done riding the rides we cooled off with some snow cones which Brenden was in love with. After we got home and all washed up we had our cotton candy, everyone was a huge fan, including Cricket!!! She was begging for more and more but I couldn't let her get addicted.

(Don't you love it when you go to take a picture and the kid keeps walking towards you like he has to be on the camera for a good photo?)

Overall it was really fun, can't wait to go again next year!

Reason for procrastinating posts

So the reason I have not posted anything in so long is because I have gone back to school, well online school anyway. I am studying to become a medical transcriptionist so that I can work from home and bring in some extra cash to be able to pay for groceries and gasoline, Matt's paycheck just doesn't cut it thanks to the great economy. So keep me in your prayers as I am trying to pass the grammar section right now and am doing poorly at identifying the different parts of a sentence. I knew my skills were sad but I had no idea that I couldn't even pass a third grade english class. It is very humbling.

Cricket and Dressing Up

Just so you know, Cricket is not a dog that likes to dress up. She gets very shy and just looks at you like "Why is this funny? This is extremely degrading. I want to curl up in a dark corner somewhere and never be seen again." This outfit is one of her chew toys, she takes this and shakes it like she is trying to break its neck. Poor dog.

Here we are on a day trip with some of Matt's cooworkers. Brenden decided that he wanted to drive the boat while it was ancored, he turned the blower on and freaked us all out because the boat was in two feet of water. That was the end of his driving. We had a really fun time that day and Cricket was in heaven because she was aloud to run and be a crazy dog in the woods.