the happenings

(Sorry about these pictures all being blurry. I don't understand it at all. They're not blurry when you click on them to see them big.)

Thanksgiving was at our house this year. We of course had way to much food for the amount of people who were here. Which was good because both my bro in law and husband LOVE turkey sandwiches. It was very simple and nice. My Mom in law made most of the big stuff, like the turkey, stuffing and jello salad, where as I made all of the littler things, like, yams, mashed potatoes, green beans and apple pie. Dinner was delicious to say the least.

The little boys are not so little anymore. They had their 3rd birthday the beginning of December and it ended up being a big hit! We "kinda" know some of our neighbors but not very well and all of us seem to have kids around the same age so we invited all those who live near us to come celebrate in the birth of our little twinners. There ended up being 7 kids and 10 adults, which made for a full house! I really wanted everyone to have a good time so we bought little gingerbread houses for each family to make, we had a penguin pinata and pizza. Everyone really seemed to enjoy themselves and we got to know some of the neighbors a little better because of it. After it was all over, Joaquin and I were both really happy we threw them a party.

One of our more exciting events that has happened in the last 2 months is that the boys are potty trained! I am so glad we did it too! I kept putting it off because I just didn't want to deal with it. Well, our house now smells of pee and we still have accidents almost every other day, (when I don't MAKE them go to the bathroom.) but I'm glad they are mostly potty trained. :) Haha! No one ever really explained to me that potty training was a long term thing. I figured you do some potty training and then you're done. Wa-la! Well spoiler alert for any of you who haven't tackled this feat yet! It's not so simple. It took the boys about 4 days to go with out any accidents. But the reason they had no accidents was because I was on them every 20 minutes, making them go and bribing them with jelly beans. (1 jelly bean for doing #1 and 2 jelly beans for doing #2.) Then I started to get lazy with asking them all of the time and then we were back on with them wetting in their undies. But it's been a few weeks now and they seem to be doing really well now.

Things are going so fast that I don't even believe it's almost Christmas! What's even more unbelievable to me is that I have lived in Idaho almost 6 months. And a great 6 months it has been.