Easter Basket, Egg Hunt & Mr. Quail

I'm so glad that Kiley is getting to that age where she can kind of comprehend the idea of a holiday such as Easter. She was enthralled with the idea of the Easter Bunny and was excited that he was going to visit out house and Grandma's house. My mom spoils her rotten, but isn't that what Grandmas are supposed to do? She loved her Easter Baskets (yes, she got more than one!) and the egg hunt later on. Here's a few pics from earlier today:

Then, later on, I was able to snap a few shots of the male quail of a pair that lives in my parents' front yard. I had to sneak up on him, but I got a few shots before he got spooked:

Happy Easter!

Here's a picture of Kiley with the Easter Bunny a couple of weeks ago when the weather was a lot nicer!

Daffodil Hill

We drove over to Daffodil Hill in Amador County this last week, and I wanted to share the pictures with everyone. Enjoy!

We are officially potty training!!!

After our last post and receiving a free DVD from Huggies about potty training, we (or more like I) decided it was time to start. So, Kiley has been diaper free since the evening of Thursday, February 26th. We've had 2 successful potties and 1 successful poop in 3 days. It's taking a little bit of time for Kiley to get use to sitting on the potty chair without pants or a diaper, but she's coming along. Our little girl is growing up so fast!

I WANT TO POTTY TRAIN KILEY, BUT...

she is being sooooo stubborn about it!!! She is interested in all things potty and poo-poo, but whenever Ryan or I ask her if she wants to go potty on the "big girl" toilet, she cries out a big defiant, "NO!" If she was potty trained, it would make for situations like what just happened a lot easier to deal with. I was sitting in the bathroom doing my latest cross-stitch project and supervising Kiley's bathtime antics. Next thing I know, she's saying, " Eew, gross poop! Bubbles poop!" Sure enough, Kiley had gone Number 2 in the bath. Luckily, our guest bathroom has a separate bathtub and shower! So, I throw her in the shower to get the gross water off, and drain the tub to collect her toys, which need to be sanitized now! When I'm trying to clean out the tub, all Kiley wants to do is check out the mess and cry out, "See big poop, Mommy?" Yeah, I see it all right! I just wish it were sooner instead of later!

Happy Late V-day!

I've been kinda slacking in the blog department, huh? I guess better late than never, right? We've been busy living our lives, keeping up with our eBay store (people gotta have their geocaches and travel bugs!), etc. etc. etc. We had a nice Valentine's Day together this year. We went to a late breakfast, and ran a few errands. One of which I've been nagging Ryan to have done since our external hard drive on our computer stopped working in August! We took it into Best Buy to have them look at it. It couldn't even be detected on their computers there, like at home. The member of the "Geek Squad" that helped us said most likely it was the communication link inside the hard drive that talks to the computer that had failed. So, when we got back home Ryan took the hard drive apart, and connected it into our computer. Sure enough, there were all of our (1000+) pictures and other files. I jumped up and down and breathed a BIG sigh of relief! I would have been devastated if I had lost all those pictures! Especially the ones from Kiley's birth and our wedding! Later Ryan picked up our "gourmet" Valentine's Day dinner for two, and we watched Kiley's new movie, Madagascar 2. A nice and quiet evening at home, just like we 'em.

We hope everyone had a nice Valentine's Day, and were able to spend it with those you love!

Happy 2009!!!