Last week I potty trained Saylor. I would say we, but I am taking full credit for this one. Zach was gone all day at work and it was me cleaning up the accidents :) She did really well with it. I did a 3 day training program thing that my sister told me about and it worked. We are now out of diapers all the time, nights and naps. The first day she did pretty good, she had a few accidents at the beginning of the day and by the afternoon she was telling me when she had to go, and no more accidents. Day 2 she did really well in the morning and afternoon and then that evening, she had a few accidents. Day 3, I thought I was going to die and she was going to be beaten. She decided for whatever reason, that she didn't want to go in the toilet or didn't care too or something and kept going in her panties and on the floor. It was very frusturating because I knew she knew she wasn't supposed to be doing that. That night I told her she couldn't have any more wet panties and she wasn't allowed to go in them anymore and she hasn't since. She woke up dry the next morning and has stayed dry since. I was SO glad to be done with scrubbing the floor and doing laundry.
We played a lot of Pretty Pretty Princess over those 3 days. I had played it about 8 times this day, so whe Zach got home from work, it was his turn. He loved it as you can tell. And just ignore Saylor's sweet hairdo. I was experimenting with French Braiding for the 1st time in about 13 years or so and decided to try it after I had already done the one in front.
We had our family reunion this year with just my family (Mom, Dad, brothers and sisters), but we call it Fuller Fest. We do this every other year and this year it was in St. George and it was the last few days of July, a Thursday through Sunday. It was super hot, but super fun. We stayed at a house that had 10 bedrooms and an indoor and outdoor pool. We missed 2 of my sisters and their families, Cin and Had and Holl and Jeff, but we still had a total of 27 us there. (and I stole a bunch of these pics off my sister in law Audrey's blog because I didn't take very many, thanks Audrey:)
Here we are all out front, the first day getting ready to go inside and play a game that had our names (above) on our backs and we had to guess who we all were, the boys in one room and the girls in the other.
The theme this year was Hollywood "Fuller" style. The house was all decorated with cute Hollywood things.
Bird's person was Lady Gaga, and Linz decided to make a costume for her. It was hilarious. The first night we just swam and got settled into the house.
Friday morning we headed to "The Cut" Here is most of the group that went. I didn't get to go through this year because of my pregnant belly, I was so sad. We did this all my life growing up whenever we would go to St. George. Its a crack in some rocks that you have to squeeze through, but its actually kind of long and a little freaky.
A view from on top of the cut.
Some of the peeps (Audrey, Linz and Bird) coming out near the end.
This is a view looking down into the cut. This is Zach and my sister Linz's boyfriend Josh. In some parts of it, Josh had to get down on the ground and slide sideways through it. You have to go sideways the whole time, but some parts are a little narrower than others and Josh has a big chest, so he had to get down on the ground to get through.
My sister Ang planned a treasure hunt for all the kids. One for the older grandkids, and one for the younger ones. Saylor loved this and thought it was awesome and still talks about it now.
Finding the treasure at the end. They were so excited, presents.
The pool. We spent a lot of time in the pools. It was so hot, so we went swimming all day everyday.
Saylor loved this fish and got to be so brave in the water (if she had a ring or her fish on). There was a step that went out for about 5 feet and Saylor would jump off that and then kick out into the pool a ways and then turn herself around and kick back. She got pretty good at it and started doing it when no one was watching her because she is "big and can do it by herself" she kept telling us.
We had a family Birthday Party after lunch on Friday. All the girls brought a $5 gift and all the boys brought a $5 gift and we played a game exchanging them. The party was a "pool" themed party, so after gifts we headed out to the pool. Zach and I planned a relay race and this is Zach telling everyone the events. (all of the names were sweet, but none of the stuff we did was inappropiate because all the kids played with us, that is just Zach for ya:)
The little kids opening their presents, they all drew names and had someone to give their gift too.
My sister Erin put out jars of M&M's and you had to guess how many were in them. On Friday night, we had a game about the in-laws and then my parents did a game for us about their childhood and growing up years.
This got put in the wrong order, its supposed to be down by the others but I forgot and I had to add it because I needed to show everyone Zach's sweet shorts. A few weeks ago we were cleaning out our closet and we threw out a whole bunch of Zach's old work pants. Well he decided to cut a pair of them off and bring them to Fuller Fest as swim shorts. It was super funny and disgusting at the same time. He even had me wash them before we went so they would be frayed at the bottoms. This is Josh, Zach, Dustin Caleb and Bud.
Saturday night my sister Casey and her husband planned a bunch of games. We played Minute to Win it and it was so much fun. I didn't post all the pics of the events but some of them were: getting a cookie into your mouth from your forehead, without it falling, getting 6 penne noodles onto a spaghetti noodle, this kleenex game, blowing up a balloon and trying to knock off 16 cups with the air from the balloon, and there were more, but I can't remember them all now. We had around 2000 kleenexes all over the place when we got done, so then we started having a fight with them. It was hilarious but we got dust all over in our eyes.
One of the other events was getting 8 ping pong balls out of these boxes by shaking it. You need to go to my brother and sister in laws blog (Bud and Audrey) and watch a video of LInz and Josh shakin theirs. It is hilarious.
After the Minute to Win it game, all the adults headed out to the pool for a "Pool Party". My sister Ang had brought 100 glow sticks for night volleyball, which we never did, so be busted out the glow sticks for the "Pool Party" and accessorized ourselves.
All of us girls, (minus Alissa) being nerdy and posing. We had to check out Sunday morning after breakfast, Zach got sick that morning so I had to pack us up along with everyone else helping me out. We had a blast and wished we would have had one more day there. Saylor absolutely loved Fuller Fest and talks about it all the time and how she is going to go back to Fuller Fest and swim and play with her cousins. She loves being around family.
The day before Fuller Fest we went camping in Spanish Fork with Ang and Josh, Bird, and Bud and Audrey. We had a great time, minus the no sleeping part :) Saylor LOVED going for rides on the 4wheeler and asked to go the whole time. She also loved playing in the dirt, the fire, her glowstick she got at night, and playing with her cousin Mag.
The tents.
Doing a little shooting.
Josh, Ang, me and Bird just chillin.
Zach, my nephews and Bud decided to go climb this really steep mountainside. The boys (my nephews) loved it and started "surfing" down it.
Saylor and Mag eating their lunch.
Last week I potty trained Saylor. I would say we, but I am taking full credit for this one. Zach was gone all day at work and it was me cleaning up the accidents :) She did really well with it. I did a 3 day training program thing that my sister told me about and it worked. We are now out of diapers all the time, nights and naps. The first day she did pretty good, she had a few accidents at the beginning of the day and by the afternoon she was telling me when she had to go, and no more accidents. Day 2 she did really well in the morning and afternoon and then that evening, she had a few accidents. Day 3, I thought I was going to die and she was going to be beaten. She decided for whatever reason, that she didn't want to go in the toilet or didn't care too or something and kept going in her panties and on the floor. It was very frusturating because I knew she knew she wasn't supposed to be doing that. That night I told her she couldn't have any more wet panties and she wasn't allowed to go in them anymore and she hasn't since. She woke up dry the next morning and has stayed dry since. I was SO glad to be done with scrubbing the floor and doing laundry.
We played a lot of Pretty Pretty Princess over those 3 days. I had played it about 8 times this day, so whe Zach got home from work, it was his turn. He loved it as you can tell. And just ignore Saylor's sweet hairdo. I was experimenting with French Braiding for the 1st time in about 13 years or so and decided to try it after I had already done the one in front. 
We had our family reunion this year with just my family (Mom, Dad, brothers and sisters), but we call it Fuller Fest. We do this every other year and this year it was in St. George and it was the last few days of July, a Thursday through Sunday. It was super hot, but super fun. We stayed at a house that had 10 bedrooms and an indoor and outdoor pool. We missed 2 of my sisters and their families, Cin and Had and Holl and Jeff, but we still had a total of 27 us there. (and I stole a bunch of these pics off my sister in law Audrey's blog because I didn't take very many, thanks Audrey:) 
Here we are all out front, the first day getting ready to go inside and play a game that had our names (above) on our backs and we had to guess who we all were, the boys in one room and the girls in the other. 
The theme this year was Hollywood "Fuller" style. The house was all decorated with cute Hollywood things.
Bird's person was Lady Gaga, and Linz decided to make a costume for her. It was hilarious. The first night we just swam and got settled into the house.
Friday morning we headed to "The Cut" Here is most of the group that went. I didn't get to go through this year because of my pregnant belly, I was so sad. We did this all my life growing up whenever we would go to St. George. Its a crack in some rocks that you have to squeeze through, but its actually kind of long and a little freaky. 
A view from on top of the cut. 
Some of the peeps (Audrey, Linz and Bird) coming out near the end. 
This is a view looking down into the cut. This is Zach and my sister Linz's boyfriend Josh. In some parts of it, Josh had to get down on the ground and slide sideways through it. You have to go sideways the whole time, but some parts are a little narrower than others and Josh has a big chest, so he had to get down on the ground to get through.
My sister Ang planned a treasure hunt for all the kids. One for the older grandkids, and one for the younger ones. Saylor loved this and thought it was awesome and still talks about it now.
Finding the treasure at the end. They were so excited, presents.
The pool. We spent a lot of time in the pools. It was so hot, so we went swimming all day everyday. 
Saylor loved this fish and got to be so brave in the water (if she had a ring or her fish on). There was a step that went out for about 5 feet and Saylor would jump off that and then kick out into the pool a ways and then turn herself around and kick back. She got pretty good at it and started doing it when no one was watching her because she is "big and can do it by herself" she kept telling us. 
We had a family Birthday Party after lunch on Friday. All the girls brought a $5 gift and all the boys brought a $5 gift and we played a game exchanging them. The party was a "pool" themed party, so after gifts we headed out to the pool. Zach and I planned a relay race and this is Zach telling everyone the events. (all of the names were sweet, but none of the stuff we did was inappropiate because all the kids played with us, that is just Zach for ya:)
The little kids opening their presents, they all drew names and had someone to give their gift too.
My sister Erin put out jars of M&M's and you had to guess how many were in them. On Friday night, we had a game about the in-laws and then my parents did a game for us about their childhood and growing up years.
This got put in the wrong order, its supposed to be down by the others but I forgot and I had to add it because I needed to show everyone Zach's sweet shorts. A few weeks ago we were cleaning out our closet and we threw out a whole bunch of Zach's old work pants. Well he decided to cut a pair of them off and bring them to Fuller Fest as swim shorts. It was super funny and disgusting at the same time. He even had me wash them before we went so they would be frayed at the bottoms. This is Josh, Zach, Dustin Caleb and Bud.
Saturday night my sister Casey and her husband planned a bunch of games. We played Minute to Win it and it was so much fun. I didn't post all the pics of the events but some of them were: getting a cookie into your mouth from your forehead, without it falling, getting 6 penne noodles onto a spaghetti noodle, this kleenex game, blowing up a balloon and trying to knock off 16 cups with the air from the balloon, and there were more, but I can't remember them all now. We had around 2000 kleenexes all over the place when we got done, so then we started having a fight with them. It was hilarious but we got dust all over in our eyes. 
One of the other events was getting 8 ping pong balls out of these boxes by shaking it. You need to go to my brother and sister in laws blog (Bud and Audrey) and watch a video of LInz and Josh shakin theirs. It is hilarious. 
After the Minute to Win it game, all the adults headed out to the pool for a "Pool Party". My sister Ang had brought 100 glow sticks for night volleyball, which we never did, so be busted out the glow sticks for the "Pool Party" and accessorized ourselves. 
All of us girls, (minus Alissa) being nerdy and posing. We had to check out Sunday morning after breakfast, Zach got sick that morning so I had to pack us up along with everyone else helping me out. We had a blast and wished we would have had one more day there. Saylor absolutely loved Fuller Fest and talks about it all the time and how she is going to go back to Fuller Fest and swim and play with her cousins. She loves being around family. 
The day before Fuller Fest we went camping in Spanish Fork with Ang and Josh, Bird, and Bud and Audrey. We had a great time, minus the no sleeping part :) Saylor LOVED going for rides on the 4wheeler and asked to go the whole time. She also loved playing in the dirt, the fire, her glowstick she got at night, and playing with her cousin Mag.
The tents.
Doing a little shooting.
Josh, Ang, me and Bird just chillin.
Zach, my nephews and Bud decided to go climb this really steep mountainside. The boys (my nephews) loved it and started "surfing" down it.
Saylor and Mag eating their lunch.
That is awesome about the potty training. I also potty training on my own and want to know the name of the program you used. Lydia hasn't stayed try yet for naps and bedtime and she has been potty trained since May.
ReplyDeleteYAY for Pretty Pretty Princess!! :-)
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh!! You guys look like you are all having so much fun!! We had a Pretty Pretty Princess game when Lydia was littler. It was the Cinderella version. All the jewelry became part of the girls' dress up clothes. No more game. Darn!! :) Yay for Say being potty trained!! Gosh! I just wanna hug her and give her some lovin'!! Miss you guys. Wish I was coming out in Oct. with mom and dad to see you and the new baby girl!! Love you guys!!
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