Pee Pee on the Pot-tee!

Yay, Rian went pee on the potty for the first time tonight! We have been putting her on the potty before each time we give her a bath for the last month or so. But tonight was a little different. It wasn't bath time yet, but we were in the bathroom cleaning up. She grabbed her little seat and kept saying 'pee pee, pee pee', so I decided to put her on it. I knew the first time she would actually go, it would just be a good timing thing, and I guess tonight was the night! Too bad Matt is at the priesthood session and missed this momentous occasion. The best part was the look on her face while she was peeing. She was so proud of herself! So of course afterwards we had to do the "pee pee on the pot-tee" dance (for those of you who know what I am talking about)! Kudos to Rian!!!

PS Sorry if this was a little too much info for some of you....it's just a big thing for us :)

18 Month Memories

So my amazing friend Val took these pictures of Rian back in February (when Rian actually turned 18 months). I have finally taken some "me" time and spent it making a slideshow. I would've preferred not making it into a slideshow, but there were so many cute pictures, I couldn't narrow it down anymore.

Val really captured all of Rian's personality in these pics. It will be so fun to look back at these years from now and say remember when Rian used to make that face and so on.

Rian brings happiness to our lives everyday! We love her so much!

Easter '08

I know this post is a little late, but it's better late than never right!?! We had such a fun Easter this year. Rian looked adorable in her Easter dress and we were able to spend the day with Matt's extended family. It was a (much needed) nice and relaxing day for us!

Thanks for my cute dress Grandma Lois :)

Mug shot! Rian's third egg hunt at her great-grandparent's house.

Finding more eggs!

The fam and all the kids.

What a Mess!

So Miss Independence wants to feed herself all the time. But she isn't so good with the fork or spoon yet, so we usually have a huge mess to clean up afterwards. Last night she said enough of this using a utensil, and just went straight for the bowl instead! We thought it was pretty cute!

What a great picture!

Practice Run

For midweek, we had a little Easter Egg Hunt for the kids. Rian really liked finding the eggs, but liked finding the candy inside even better! It's her first experience with chocolate eggs and she is in heaven!

Counting the eggs....one...two...three....

Here is one under the piano.....and a few in the bookshelves.

Any on the window seal? (I love that one!)....ooohhh, fruit snacks inside, yum!

A Love/Hate Relationship

We think that maybe Rian and Kaiya have a love/hate relationship. In the first two pictures, Rian and Kaiya are giving each other lots of lovin'! Then the next day, guess where I found Kaiya.....under the computer desk, hiding from Rian. I guess Rian wanted to play and apparently Kaiya was not in the mood that day. Kaiya was giving me a look like 'get her away from me please'!

And the WINNER is....

We are so proud of Matt and his teammates, Eric and Chris! They competed in a robot sumo competition for engineering week at school and WON FIRST PLACE!!!! They built and programmed this robot to scan for and push other robots out of the ring. The robots have all sorts of sensors and stuff too. There are absolutely NO remote controls, the team built a program for it. It thinks it's pretty amazing! I don't really know much about it, but that much I do know!

They spent hours and hours working on this and I am so proud that all their hard work paid off! They were so confident they would win and they did....a cash prize even! And did I mention made the front page of the newspaper!?! We are SO proud of you guys!!!

Fun with Great-Grandma!

We went for a little visit to Matt's grandparents house last Sunday. Here are a few pictures of Rian having fun with her Great-Grandma. They were heading downstairs to visit Rian's Great-Great-Grandma and decided to let Rian take a ride on the chair lift. I especially love the last picture of Rian and her Great-Grandma looking at each other!

Climbing Everywhere

Rian has absolutely no fear these days. She is constantly attempting to climb up, in or out of any place she might find herself in. She even likes to climb into her crib....that is of course as long as it is NOT nap time or night time! Here she is climbing onto our bed. It's a pretty tall bed so I was really impressed with her success!

Here I go Mommy, watch me! Just put one leg up and I'm half way there!

Both knees up and ta da, here I am! Whoa, am I exhausted or what!!!

Go Giants!!!

This superbowl is HUGE for me and my family! My dad, growing up in NJ, has always loved the NY Giants, therefore passing that tradition onto my brothers. They are DIE HARD fans, no joke. And actually an outcast in San Diego being that every San Diegan loves their Chargers. Each season I think to myself, I hope NY makes it this year and lately they have been letting my dad and brothers down, but this year THEY DID IT! We are really excited to cheer their team on this Sunday and hope that they beat those darn Patriots. Being undeafeted, the Patriots are a really good team and I know the Giants have to bring their best game, but it is about time the Patriots lose and the Giants did give them a pretty good run during the regular season....so there is HOPE!!! Although Matt and I were really disappointed when our San Diego Chargers lost their ticket to the superbowl to the Patriots, looking back at it, it is definitely better that the Chargers aren't playing the Giants this Sunday. If any of you know my dad, cheering against the Giants would be incredibily insulting. I am happy for my dad and my brothers to have this glory, and hope that the Giants beat some Patriots booty! It's REALLY exciting to be actually cheering on a team for once and not just watching it cuz it's the superbowl. And YES we do have some martinelli's on ice, for a toast when they win of course!!!