Princess Potty

This is her Princess Potty except that it's pink and not blue
Well to those of you who read this blog I need some advice. First of all Allison has been telling us for a few weeks now when she's stinky or wet and needs to be changed. Yesterday morning she pointed to her diaper and said stinky, but she wasn't stinky. But what she was telling me was that she needed to go to the bathroom before she went to the bathroom. She went peepee right after she told me she needed to. So I figured that was enough signs for me to get her a potty. So when I was at Target I got her a Princess Potty, that plays music when you go to the bathroom and you can use it as a step stool and move it to the regular toliet. So here's my question, to those of you with girls. How do I start teaching her how to go to the bathroom on the potty?? I do not know what to do. My mother in law told me to put her on the potty when she's about ready to poop because that is the easiest sign to recognise first. But how do you get them to start going potty in it?? Right now I take off her diaper and sit her on it and ask her to potty if she needs to. I've also been putting her on the potty with the diaper off when I go to the bathroom. I've heard that doing this helps them understand because mommy is doing it. But I do not know if she knows that that is what I am doing. Now she is only 22 months old. So if anyone has any advice please feel free to write it on here or call me to talk to me about it!

My last month

Hello to all who look to see if I've added a new page in my blog. Well, it's been a long time. I lose track of time. I've had a very busy month of June. But what a wonderful month it was. We visiting my family and on the way back home we picked up our neice Taylor (Jason's family) to come and visit with us for two weeks. We had such a wonderful time with her. The about pictures have Taylor and Brayden in them. Father's Day weekend was very fun, Taylor's parents came up and brought their youngest 3 1/2 year old Brayden! He stayed with us for the folling week as well. Brayden is so full of life, like the energizer bunny he keeps on going. I joke about he was such great birth control for me because as of now I have no interest in having another child. My little Allison is such a sweet girl and he is a little of the opposite. I do not know how anyone can handle more children!!! But I hear once you get to number three it's no big deal. What do I say to that, yeah right.
The weekend after Fathers Day was our Fun Run! We left little Brayden home with Aunt Csasi and took Allison and Taylor with us. Taylor decided to run ahead of us while we walked since we were strolling Allison and we were OUT OF SHAPE! Well, when we finally got finished we realized Taylor was MISSING!!!!! And she was ahead of US! Well, we found out the Bishops Wife and their newest grandchild was also missing. But they were finally found a big 10 minutes later. They had taken a wrong path together, thank goodness and all was well.
Allison had so much fun with Brayden. She calls him BeBe! Every morning while he was here instead of asking me where's dada, she would ask where's BeBe. When grandma and grandpa came home she ran up to them and asked where's BeBe? He's at home was out response for the next week. So BeBe please come back and visit!
Though I say Brayden was a handful he was also lots of fun. Every night at dinner he was given a knife at his place setting to which he would hand the knife to grandpa and say "Papa, mama tells me I not allowed to have knives". How wonderful was that? And every night grandpa would forget and so every time he'd give the knife to papa and tell him the same thing.
That sums up my last month in a nut shell. I have many more stories but I should write them in another post. Good Night to all!

Our little bunnies and other things

Sadly we heard from the Willowbrook Wildlife Center that one of the three bunnies we saved had to be euthenized. They said that the damage from the dog was too bad to help the ppo bunny and didn't want it to suffer any longer. But we don't know about the other two bunnies. We assume they only put one down, but we don't know.

This weekend we are taking a 4 and 1/2 hour drive down to Alton Illinois to visit my parents:) We will only be there for the weekend but I'm glad I get to see my dad again, since they can not afford to take off work to come up and visit us. Allison just needs to spend time with her other grandparents as well. She is lucky to be able to have two sets of grandparents and two sets of great grandparents still alive.

Jason, cassidy and I have all decided to start exercisinf again. Jason and I exercised 4 days a week a few months ago and then stopped. And once you stop it's hard to start up again. Well, we're starting up again. So far Jason has been jogging/walking for the last 3 days one mile at a time. I went yesterday and I am going to go again today. We want to loose weight and eat healthier so we can be in good shape for the Cruise that we are hoping to take in March of next year!

Poor Peter Cottontail:(

Ok First off, this is the third post I have posted tonight. I wanted to get everything on while I had time to. So the two other posts are pictures from the wedding cake I made and from my cake class.

This is Peter, or as Cassidy calls him Petey. A few days ago Sammy (our dog) found a cottontail bunny nest and decided to bring a few bunnies into the house. He killed four of the seven bunnies. Not intentionally we think, when you disturb baby bunnies they go into shock easily and die. Well we thought Petey was dead. My father in law went out to gather the poor bunnies and Petey screamed and if you have never heard a newborn bunny scream they are loud and high pitched squeelers. Scared the poo out of us! But we took the poor little guy in and got him into a box on top of a heating pad.


The next morning Sammy brought another baby bunny to the back door. This one was also alive. So we put him with his brother and then Cassidy and I took them to the Willowbrooke Wildlife Center. We're hoping they made it. Well, little did we know that at three in the morning (after we brought Petey and his brother in) Sammy had managed to bring in another bunny. Sammy had been by our bedroom door all day and I finally asked Sammy what he was doing. Mind you this was after we brought the other bunnies to the center. Well, we moved the shelf and low and behold there was another baby bunny!!!! This one had it's eyes open but was the same size. So we figure Sammy brought this one upstairs and dropped it at 3am and the baby bunny ran and hid under and behind our shelf. So we got him and put him in another box and brought him to the Wildlife Center after lunch. I really wished we could have kept them but it's against the law and I didn't know how to take care of newborn bunnies. We couldn't put them back outside since the nest was destroyed and some of them had been hurt. That was our Tuesday and Wednesday adventures. We're just hoping another bunny doesn't have their babies in the yard and Sammy does not bring them into the house!

Cake from my last cake class

Ok here's another cake that I just made from my final cake class. I had fun making all the flowers for this cake. The flowers on this cake is edible. All of it, well except for the stamins. It took me three hours to make all those flowers, but it only took my two hours to completely decorate this small little cake! I had soo much fun with these classes and I believe I have found my calling. So anyone who would like a cake made (you pay for cost of ingredients and how long it would take me to make the cake hourly-which I haven't decided on how much an hour I should charge) call me. I make all kinds of cakes, not just wedding cakes:)

As Promised!

Well it took long enough but I am now posting the wedding cake pictures from the cake I made from Heather Haskins (now Caufield-wrong spelling) wedding. I enjoyed making this cake and I'm more then willing to make any type of cake for anyone. Whether it be a birthday cake, annivarsary cake, or an event cake. If any of you have a facebook I have tons and tons of cake pictures from the different cakes I've made. Check them out on my facebook!




And this is what the cake looked like from the inside! It was a deliciuos fluffy yellow cake (i made it from scratch no box) with a raspberry filling (also from scratch) and a buttercream icing (from scratch) with fondant covering the outside of the cake. The flowers were made my Addraine McCowan (she did all the flowers for Heathers wedding)

Been awhile

Well well....it's been quite awhile since I've last posted anything. Heather Haskin, now Caufield (i think that's how you spell it) had her wedding last week and it was beautiful. I love the cake. Then again I'm biased since I made it. I will have to post a picture on here, I have pictures as I think Heather does as well, I have just been a little busy or lazy to get them on the computer.
Memorial Day was fun for us. Jason, Allison, and I went to the zoo again, except this time it was just the three of us. That was a first, and Allison was a good little girl. She's starting to become much more of a well behaved little girl now. She is funny though, when we were passing by the camels she pointed to one that was lying down and she said "night, night". She loves to point out the obvious which is adorable!!
Yesterday I took her to Petland, since we haven't been there in a long time and she had a ball. She loves to see the puppies more through the window then play with them. Although she desperately wants a puppy to play with. there is a dog in the house but he's getting old and he doesn't play anymore. When we were there she even wanted to see the birds and hampsters, which was nice. I attempted to pick up a hamster and the little sucker bit me!! so after that little Allison would go up to them and say "no bite (while shaking her finger at them)". Then it was time to leave, and she did well (as no fit throwing). She noticed that they were napping so once again she would point to each and every one we passed and said "night, night".
She's growing up to be sch a big girl. She talks in complete sentences now and we understand her. Today when it was time for a nap she said no, but I preceded to go upstairs anyways and told her to follow as my hands were full of things. And you know what, she was such a good girl, she came up the stairs right after me!! What a big girl!!! Now don't tell her daddy that I let her climb the stairs whenever she wants. He would have a hayday. But he doesn't understand that Allison can get up and down the stairs all by herself no problem and I trust her. He doesn't, then again he is not around her as much as I am. We've got to let our little baby grow up:(