Lesson Learned

So I went to get Kira out of bed on Mon or Tues and stubbed my toe. I really thought I broke it, but yester day it felt a lot better. My second toe is bruised from the top of my toe for about four inches down onto my foot.

Kira sits on the toilet about once or twice everyday for several minutes but has yet to go potty. She has been doing this for a couple of weeks. She thinks it's pretty cool. The same day a stubbed my toe, Kira decided that she had to go poop - only she didn't decide this until right after she was off the toilet. I am sure you can imagine. I was only gone about one or two minutes finding a diaper for the little toad. When I came back she was squating on my bedroom floor. I gave a quick scream of "NNOOO" and hauled her into the bathtub and in the bathroom on the floor was another 'pile'. The bummer part is that it was hard in the bathroom on the tile and soft on the carpet, which was tons of fun to clean up. Like I hadn't learned my lesson enough, as soon as she got off the toilet yesterday she went and pee'd on my closet floor, and I was pretty much right behind her all along. All the while Cooper pee's his pants about 2-3 times a day and yesterday he only made it to the toilet once. But I will NOT give up. It's too much work to start again. hopefully if all goes well my kids will be potty-trained(daytime) before the baby. Cooper will but we'll see about Kira.

WED/THURS - FEB 13TH AND 14TH - 6 YRS AGO

So I bet you thought that was it for Reggie's journal, but he actually has two more and that's it. Sorry I was slacking - been a crazy week.

Wed, Feb 13th:

I was a wreck all day at work. I decided that I was going to ask Jenny to Marry me. So I got a dozen roses and had Brian Reed make me a metal rose and bend a horseshoe nail into a ring. I gave her the dozen roses right when I got to her place for an early Valentines at 9:00pm. Later that night at 12:15am (I waited for Valentine's Day early morning) I gave her the metal rose symbolizing that it would last forever. Then I asked her to marry me and she said "of course". I then gave her the ring.

Funny huh - This is what he actually said, "Do you remember the roses I gave you earlier, well they are going to wilt and die, but like this rose my love for you will last forever. Will you marry me?"

Thurs, Feb 14th:

So I proposed this morning! Two weeks from when I first really talked to her. The Lord sure moves fast. When something is right, its right, and we're not supposed to wait around on the feeling.

Well that's it for the journal episodes. And Reggie has yet to write in his journal since that day. Happy Late Valentines Day Everyone.

SUN/MON/TUES - FEB 12TH - 6 YRS AGO

Well Reggie didn't write in his journal Sunday or Monday.
I imagine Sunday we went to a fireside together and maybe church.

Here's Tues the 12th for Reggie's journal entry - this is my favorite one:

I rode with Jenny to Globe to meet her mom and cousin Paul to go up to Snowflake to see the Temple. When we finally got up there, we saw my family eating at the Mexican restraunt, so we all stopped in and ate with them. Then me, Jenny and her mom and Paul went to Grandma Brinkerhoff's place to change for the Temple open house. The open house was awesome. I got a confirmation in the sealing room that Jenny was the ONE. That scared me to death. Well, Jenny's mom dropped us off in Globe and Jenny got a wild hair to go home. So we dorve to Pima. Of course she had to introduce everyone to me. That was a litle nerve racking. I was fixing a plumbing leak in Jenny's house when her Dad came home. So that scored points right off. Her family was really cool. On our way home, we pulled over and talked about what we felt in the Temple. That was hard. I'm not good at those heavy duty talks. We both sort of knew we were going to get married. I got home at 4:30am.

That really was an amazing experience at the Temple open house. On our way home we had pulled over on the side of the road because I got tired and wanted Reggie to drive. A cop kept driving by us making sure everything was ok. It was pretty funny. I told Reggie that I was afraid of THAT question. He wanted me to tell him which question but I wouldn't say- so we both knew but neither of us was going to say. He kept saying things like "You're afraid I'm going to ask you to rub my feet" and things like that. He was driving me crazy. He finally did say "You're afraid I'm going to ask you to marry me."

I just remembered that sometime that night Reggie and I said 'I Love You'. And just now when I asked Reggie about it he says he remembers saying 'I Love You' and he just told me that I said I couldn't say(even if I felt it - I always hated when high school kids would date all these people and always say I Love You). But I did eventually say 'I Love You' to Reggie that night. I remember when I got back to my apartment and one of my roommates was like "What is wrong with you - are you in love or getting married or something" I didn't want to actually say anything yet but I couldn't hold it in.

SAT - FEB 9TH - 6 YRS AGO

Here it is for Reg's journal:

Me and Dad went shooting today but the wind was blowing too hard. So we only shot a little bit. When we got home, I had Jen come over and we went and rode the horses. Then we hung out at our place until Madison, Justin and Ginger showed up. We went and got ice cream at Neilsons and then Justin went home. We dropped Madison off at the dance and we went to Shirines to hang out.