Christmas 2010

Christmas was awesome this year as we got to spend it in sunny California, although to be honest it rained quite a bit. It was still way better than freezing cold Utah. We made it to California on Christmas Eve after splitting the drive up into 2 days. Tucker loved helping everyone open their presents. My favorite part was after Tucker had opened a box or two of clothes, he would say, "clothes," in this disgusted voice and quickly move onto the next present. He is a true boy, not interested in clothes at all.

He has started to say "Cheese" when we take pictures of him and he makes a pretty funny face.

We had lots of fun getting together with all the family that was there for my cousin's wedding. Of course, many fun games were played.

We made an awesome gingerbread house, but somehow I forgot to take a picture of the finished project.

Sheldon and I brought down some funny little Christmas games to play, we called it the Christmas Olympics. My favorite was this one where you had to tear a Christmas Tree out of a piece a paper behind your back, without looking. Most of ours were barely in the shape of a tree and then Sheldon pulls his out, and it was this completely perfect tree. Somehow Sheldon is just amazing like that.

Blowing up plastic bubbles, very fun if you have never tried it before. Tucker and his serious 'Cheese' face.

Lots of good food and fun at the different wedding events. Sheldon is holding my cousin's little girl, I love her face in this picture. Apparently she is not a big fan of Sheldon.

Happy New Year!

We had too much fun just enjoying the great weather and spending time with family. It was so hard to come back. Now we are just counting down to the arrival of Baby Girl, only 4 more weeks!

what we've been up to...

This is what we've been up to this past week, potty training! Tucker loves to sit on his potty and read books. Hopefully sometime soon I can go back and post about all the Christmas fun we had. Progress is being made with the potty training, so we are going to stick with it. I really do not want to have 2 kids in diapers. I am also thinking about doing cloth diapers with our next baby, am I totally crazy? I just feel like we would save so much money. I am sure we have spent at least $1000.00 on diapers for Tucker. So much money that literally just goes in the garbage.

I am so open to any tips on potty training. I'm just letting Tucker run around naked, because he thinks underwear is a diaper. He will go on the potty without any problems if he is not wearing underwear, but as soon I put underwear on him he will pee his pants. So my strategy is to get used to going on the potty and then we will introduce underwear once he is used to it. Slightly crazy, but it seems to be working so far!

The First Snow

I think it was about 2 weeks ago we had our first big snowstorm of the season. I put off buying snow clothes for Tucker hoping we would have a nice warm winter, but it wasn't meant to be. So Tucker was unfortunately unprepared for the weather but he still had fun playing in the snow with Sheldon.

Tucker was very sad when he fell down in the snow and got a little wet and cold.

After his tumble in the snow, he would only walk in paths that Sheldon had cleared.

Avery was a little more prepared for the snow with her snowsuit. I love that it is so big on her and she looks like a pink marshmallow.

They even made a little slide in the snow.

A cute moment today that made me smile: Tucker was reading his Friend magazine to himself and looking at a picture of Jesus. He started singing 'Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam' to himself. I love hearing him talk and sing to himself.

Thanksgiving

I can't believe it's been almost a month since I lasted posted. But life has definitely been busy with lots of holiday parties. I also started babysitting a 10-month old boy two days a week. Even though it is only two days a week, I feel a lot busier.

This is Tucker and Lincoln and they actually get a long really well and have a lot of fun together. I think it has been good preparation for Tucker and me for when we have another little baby around the house.

We spent Thanksgiving with Sheldon's parents . We ate lots of great food, did some black Friday shopping, and checked out the Hill Air Force Base. It was really cool and I hope to be able to go back again sometime. If you are ever in the area it is definitely worth checking out.

They had a really fun kids/hands-on area. You could climb inside the cockpit of a plane and try out all these science experiments.

Taking a little break to watch a movie.

It was a great Thanksgiving, now we are just counting down until Christmas!

Misc. Updates

Pictures of Tucker and Avery having fun one morning in Tucker's car seat. Not too much happening in the Mills family right now, just counting down until the holidays and our baby girl arrives. We still don't have any good names picked out so suggestions are definitely welcome.

Tucker Updates:

He has started saying prayers on his own, which is the cutest and my favorite thing he does right now. He is also going through a phase where he prefers me sometimes slightly over Sheldon, which is kind of nice since he has always been such a Daddy's boy :)

Elaine Updates:

I got a coupon in the mail from our local grocery store for a free turkey up to 24 lbs!! That's right totally free! Sheldon and I bought it last weekend and it would have cost $20. It's huge, I'm hoping it will fit in my roaster I have. You can tell my life isn't very exciting when I update about good deals I get.

Sheldon Updates:

Still playing soccer lots, working hard at work setting up an American Marketing Association chapter in Utah. I'm very excited that Wednesday has now become his night to cook dinner, so guess who's not cooking dinner tonight!

And just to round out this post, a cute video of Tucker jumping, one of his favorite things to do. I love how he tries to copy Sheldon's somersault, he still needs a little practice.