Catching up on December

Yesterday we went up to see the lights at temple square before they take them down.  They were pretty as usual, but Oliver thought they were way sub par since there were no inflatable Christmas decorations. He has come to believe that the best deviates houses have inflatables and laser lights. 

 I asked Oliver to take a belly shot for me.  500 pictures later and I hope this looks good. It is too small on my phone to tell.  I need to take my phone off of the burst shot function when I hand it to Oliver to take pictures.  He thinks it is too cool to see it say that it just took 100 pictures.  I always think he is just getting a good shot, then realize that he is holding the shutter button down until it reads 100. I'm at 25 weeks now.

 Happy 75th birthday to my mom.  Funny story,  every time we go to Eric's moms house since being back from Florida,  as we pull into the drive way,  Teddy says something along the lines of "aw,I thought we were going to the Other grandma's house" or with a little crying "not this grandma!" He now is the one to every day ask to go to Stephen's house or to go to Florida grandma's house. Poor kid, doesn't understand distance and got pretty attached to my mom while we were there.

 The day after Christmas we did a little sledding. We can not see snow without Oliver eating it.

 I didn't really get any good Christmas pictures.  Oliver didn't feel great that morning and because of it we all woke up at 6. so the lighting was bad and all the pictures were blurry. But Teddy finally got his own Giraffa, which he carried around for the first few days after Christmas,  but I'm not sure where it is now...

 On Christmas eve the boys played with transformers and we opened a cool package from Kim's travels to New Zealand.

 We also walked around Ogden Christmas village.  It was Freezing cold,  but we were well bundled.

 At church i tried to take some pictures of teddy for a Christmas ornament for nursery,  but then I had such a hard tome choosing since they all show a different part of his personality.  I chose the top left one.

 Teddy with his cousin and best friend,  Kallie.

Baby Cosette

Here is a recent picture of baby girl due on April 15, 2018. Flexing her arm. 

Toilet Miracle

Ok, so have you ever gone to scrub your toilet and realized that it has a hard water line that just won't budge? Well, I have. I've tried using special cleaners, soaking toilet paper with vinegar and setting it on there, adding vinegar to the water, scrubbing with a green scrubby pad, using dawn dish soap. NOTHING EVER WORKS! Especially not without a TON of elbow grease. So, since I have been so frustrated with these water lines lately, I decided it was finally time to find another way.

I did a search on Pinterest. I have done this same search before, but it usually says something about using a scrub brush, vinegar and not scrubbing too hard or I'll hurt the toilet. But today, the first thing that popped up was this pumice stone that is made for getting rid of these tough stains! I read the review and then decided to give it a try.

First off, these stones are sold in the toilet cleaning section at Wal-Mart and only cost $1.88! I made my boys hop in the car (We stopped to get popsicles as bribery) and we ran over (after I checked that my Wal-Mart carried them, which it did) and grabbed one from Wal-Mart.

Then I decided to take some before pictures. Here is the upstairs toilet. You can see the gunk that I just can't get off of the upper rim, and the gray streaks from a lot of time scrubbing around the water.

 And here is the downstairs toilet. This water line went all the way around.

 Here is what to buy from the store. It is a pumice stone. You get it wet and then scrub. That's it.

As you scrub, little pieces of the stone fall down to the bottom of the toilet. Then you flush it away. Scrub a bit more if needed.

 Then voila! It is clean! The stains are gone, and you only need a little bit of the stone, so you have it for later when that stubborn stain returns.

So here are some before and after pics just to re-emphasize how much you need this.

Oh, and a picture of me in case you forgot what I look like.

You are welcome.

Picture practice

Sometimes I just like to try to take nice pictures. I would like to have to option to take family pictures for people and have them look nice.

This was just a cute picture from the dentist office. Which, Teddy did absolutely amazing at. His first time cooperating there.

Briana Rae's wedding reception was a Wheeler Farm, which has a ton of animals, but the most amazing backgrounds for pictures. So after the reception we walked around and took some nice pictures. 8 pm was perfect for picture taking. Oliver took this one.

I printed some of these off to go around our house.