potty

BROOKLYN PEED ALL BY HERSELF IN HER POTTY!!! i'm kinda freaking out right now because this is so so so exciting. I never thought I would be so excited about PEE! haha So we have had this little sit down potty for a while that she has used a few times. It's a princess potty and it plays songs when you pee haha but we decided to get one for the actual toilet too since that is what she is going to be using eventually. Anyways today she took a bath and we put the cushion thing on the toilet and she loved it. She sat for like 15 min and she NEVER sits still for any period of time so that was super exciting. After 15 min she decided she was done but i decided to put panties on her for some reason? I dunno... anyways I brought out the princess potty in our living room and figured she could get used to both of them and if she ever used it then great!!! After about a half hour of asking her if she needed to go and her saying no constantly I decided to do some dishes- i figured if she went then I could explain where she needed to go. I gave her some milk and started doing the dishes. I heard her opening and closing the potty seat and the music going off but it some times does it if she's playing with it so I didn't even go check. A couple minutes later she brought me her sipi cup lid and said mess. So she took me to show me she had spilt milk on the floor she pointed and said mess , uh oh. I said its Ok and THEN I SAW IT! there was PEE IN THE POTTY!!! i said BROOKLYN DID YOU GO PEE PEE IN THE POTTY! and she looked and said uh oh mess. and i had to tell her good job like 30 times before she realized what she did was good!! haha then she got excited!! I took a picture and sent it to ammon and then called my parents to tell them. I'm just impressed that she went and sat down by herself to go to the bathroom!! YAY!! so maybe its time to start potty training?!?!? who knows but that was pretty much awesome and made my day! Sorry this is so long about pee but i'm sure parents that have kids potty trained understand how amazing this is :) and she's only 18 months!!!

chicken pillows

A new favorite at my house! and SO SO Easy!!!!! if you are the worst cook in the world you can make these :)
Ingredients: 2 chicken breasts cooked and chopped up, 8 ounces of cream cheese, 1-2 cans Pillsbury Croissants, 1 cup bread crumbs, 3 TBS melted butter

in a bowl combine cream cheese and cooked chicken and beat with a mixer until mixed up. unroll croissants and spoon some into it and roll it up.. dip in butter on one side and then dip in the bread crumbs and face that up on a cookie sheet. bake at 350 for 13-16 min or until golden brown

pour gravy over top! we use a can of cream of chicken with a little milk. SO SO SO good!

Better than Sex Cake

OH MY GOSH this recipe is amazing! My friend Amber and her husband Tyler made this for us a few weeks ago and it was my first time trying it and it became a favorite after the first bite. I made it a little different last night and its amazing! So.. if you have never tried better than sex cake please try this! Its SOO Good! you will not be disappointed.

Ingredients: 1 pkg Devils food cake
1/2 can of sweetened condensed milk
6 ounces of caramel ice cream topping
skor bars or heath bars crushed up
frozen whipped cream thawed

Directions: make the cake according to directions. when finished poke holes or slits into the cake but not all the way through.. in a medium sauce pan combine condensed milk and caramel until its mixed and warm. pour over cake and into slits or holes. pour candy all over top and right before eating put whipped cream on. Its amazing and so so easy!!! let me know how you like it!!!

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We went down to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving. It was a lot of fun and nice to get out of the snow!

We went black friday shopping and got some stuff for brooklyn and some clothes for me. I desperately needed them!

we also bought a bedding set and a camera! yay :)

Nursery

Brooklyn went to nursery yesterday!! No, she isn't 18 months yet but she is a super hyper crazy girl who wants to run run run and I am sick of playing musical chairs and chasing her all throughout church so we got permission to let her in nursery so we didn't end up going home after sacrament meeting.
Brooklyn can't hold still for 2 seconds. she can't sit still when she eats, or drinks out of a sippy. she has to be walking around or moving in some sort of form. Getting through sacrament meeting is still hard and i'm just ready to leave by the end of it.
I look around at all of the other kids and they all sit calm and quietly and color or read books and brooklyn is jumping up and down and talking to everyone and climbing up and down on everything and its so embarassing. it makes me feel like i'm a bad mom cuz i can't control my own kid. i dont know why she is so hyper but when ever she is around lots of people she gets so excited and jsut runs and screams and its exhausting.
Our relief society president told me that brooklyn can stay in nursery and i wanted to cry and tell her thankyou. she has no idea how much i appreciate it. Our ward is awesome and they know brooklyn is a good girl. she just needs space to run around and play with toys.- thats all she wants to do.
So we opened the door to nursery and she just walks in and starts playing with the toys. she is very independent and could care less if we were there.. as long as she has someone to play with and feed her she doesn't care who it is.
I went and checked on her a couple times and she was doing so good! no crying, no beating up other kids. just playing and talking to everyone. When we went and picked her up she was sitting at the table eating a snack. she said thank you and said bye to everyone in there.
She is all grown up and is so cute. I love nursery. its the best thing ever! it was so nice to be able to sit and actually listen to a lesson- its been about a year since i've been able to do that.
So brooklyn is happy in nursery and ammon and i are happy to have a short break and to be able to pay attention in church.
I love nursery. So thank you everyone who has that calling in their ward- it means alot to us parents :)

Salsa

Alot of People have been asking me for this recipe! I"ve made it a few times when I've had people come over and its been a huge hit! My sister actually got the recipe at Lakeridge Junior High when she was in 7th grade foods class haha. we make it quite often when ever we have alot of people come over. Its amazing and SOO easy to make!

Ingredients:

1 can black beans (rinsed)
1 can white beans (rinsed)
1 can sweet corn (drained)
3-4 medium tomatoes
1 large onion
1 bunch of cilantro
BIG squirt of Italian dressing
salt and pepper

just dump everything in a bowl and thats its. super easy. super amazing. super healthy. let me know if you like it!

Halloween

I'm not huge into halloween. Its never been a favorite holiday.. but I do enjoy it. We went up to Orem for the weekend. We left Thursday and skipped classes on friday to go spend more time with our family.

Thursday night we went to the nightmare express in Lindon. It was free and it was AWESOME! i was So impressed! if its still light outside it is kid friendly and then once its dark it gets haunted.. we arrived when it was light outside but by the time it was our turn it was dark so it was haunted. Brooklyn wasn't scared at all. She just kept saying hi to everything that wasdressed up scary. My sister Amy was more scared than her haha

Friday we went trick or treating at my dads work. It was nice to just walk around inside and gets lots of candy. Brookyln caught on really quick that she needed to take some of their candy and put it in her bucket. she woudln't let ANYONE touch it or the candy. It was hilarious.

That night we went to my families ward halloween party. They had alot of games for kids and a haunted bus. Brooykln was OBSESSED with the bus. She would stay in there forever and just say hi and stare at everyone in masks. she would scream when we woul pull her out.

That night we also went to Nightmare on 13th. Last year we went to a haunted houses in vegas and it was terrible so i really wanted to take ammon to a good one this year. It was SO Fun and SO GOOD! it took almost an hour to get through the whole thing. we got free fast pases for buying online so we didn't wait at all! it was great

Sat we went to the pumpkin patch in orem and then trick or treating a little around the block and then to my grandmas for chile, timales, and lots more food. It was so fun to see family!