3 Men & A Little Lady: December 2009

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Memories made.

More than anything I wanted for Christmas was to be with my family. I wanted to be in my home, singing Christmas songs around the piano while my mom played the piano, making myself sick on fudge, reading my dad's creative poems to find my gift, and to be around the ones I love most in the world. I got to do all of those things and more and I feel like my cup has been filled and is running over!

Ge down on the floor playing with the kiddos!

Decorating sugar cookies with the aunties!

Cousins meeting for the first time!

A whole lotta Laughter, Love, & Craziness!

Silly boys!

Warming up in the hot tub!

The children's Christmas wishes came true too!

Drew got more train tracks.

Ian got a new blankie, just like his old one he lost, made by our Christmas Angel Aunt Marilyn. He was so excited to find it stuffed down in the bottom of his stocking. It is the ONLY thing he asked for.

Owen received not only a Thomas the train set, but he also can now be Thomas!

Grandma made Mya a beautiful picture to hang in her room with all the information on it from when she was born. I treasure this too!

It was a wonderful Christmas spent making memories with family and remembering the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ.

Monday, December 28, 2009

A White Christmas

Kenny's Christmas wish was for a white Christmas, not only for him, but for our boys. He wanted them to be able to experience all the fun of SNOW!!! We couldn't have his Christmas wish come true if we were in California, so we packed up our bags and started in on a two week vacation to Colorado and Kansas! We decided to drive instead of fly so we could spend time with both families. I was very nervous to be in the car with our kids for four long 10-12 hr. days, but they all did marvelous. We only watched one movie each day and the rest of the time was spent playing new games like mile marker and the alphabet game. It was a trip Kenny, the kids, and I will always treasure.

Sledding down a hill on top of dad was a blast!

Finding a mule deer in the pasture was....interesting. The head traveled with us to KS for Uncle Ty!

Digging tunnels in the snow with cousins burnt lots of energy!

Snow, kinda bland, but still devoured by Drew!

Skating around on Ice with Grandad!

We had so much fun experiencing a white Christmas, but I sure was happy to return to sunny California.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

We wish you a Merry Christmas!

In between buying presents, wrapping, making yummy treats, decorating the house,and attending several parties, there is the task of sending out the Christmas letter. Since I have started blogging, I have put Kenny in charge of the letter. Of course this is one of the last things to be checked off our "to-do" list for the holidays. A picture needed to be included this year since we didn't have one last year due to running out of time. Luckily, thanks to a last minute request (BEG) to my ever so talented friend Darcy, we have some amazing pictures! Huge thanks to Darcy for squeezing us in between all your photo shoots this weekend.

*There are more photos of Mya, not because she is the most adorable, because she's not (hehe), but Darcy took them for her 3 month pics.

These big boys sure do love their little sister!

Our letter will be sent out soon!

HO, HO, HO

On Friday night we had our annual church Christmas party. The boys were excited because they knew Santa would be coming. I was a little nervous of how Owen would react to Santa, but to my surprise he LOVED him. He went right up to Santa, climbed in his lap, and said, "Thomas." After his turn he kept going in the "exit" door and walking up to Santa and just staring at him. He was mesmerized by his countenance, or maybe he was just trying to figure out why Santa sounded and kinda looked like one of our good friends Mason! Drew asked for more train tracks because I guess our huge tub of train stuff isn't enough. He said he wants a million pieces so he can make a ginormous train. Ian asked for his blankie, which has been missing now for three weeks! He has prayed for it and now has only one request for Christmas, his blue and white cloud blanket he's had since he was a baby. I'm really hoping his Christmas wish comes true, or we are going to have one really sad little boy on Christmas morning.

Owen just looking sooo cute!

Santa and the boys! After I got this picture someone asked me where Mya was and I am sad to say this, but I completely forgot about her! So I then felt guilty and woke Mya up so she too got her turn to meet Santa for her 1st Christmas.

Isn't she just so precious!

As we left the church that night we looked on the roof for Santa's reindeer, but it was too dark to see them. Maybe next time.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Let the Games Begin!

Drew running in the light blue shirt and Ian standing in the far back just watching!

Today marks the boys first day of playing a real basketball game! It wasn't as fast paced and it didn't come to them as naturally as soccer, but fun nonetheless. The team ages range from 5-7. Luckily we were able to sign Ian up even though he is still four, since he will be turning five during the season. However, maybe not such a good idea. We missed the one and only practice because we had a Christmas party, so as we arrived for our first game today I was a little nervous for Ian. He hasn't really ever played before and doesn't have the interest for the game like Drew does. I was hoping his height would make up for his skills, but much to my surprise Ian and Drew were the shortest kids on the team! Drew loves basketball and was running up and down the court, dribbling, shooting almost every time he was given the ball (we will work on that), and made two baskets. Ian....lets just say he needs ALOT of practice. The coach had to constantly tell him where to go, to watch the ball, to dribble the ball, to put his hands up....etc. The coach at one point told Ian as he demonstrated, "To dribble you have to bounce the ball up and down!" Every time Ian put his hands up in the air he did wiggle his little fingers, which coming from a mother who was a cheerleader, he did have great spirit fingers! They were both fun to watch and I look forward to seeing their progress over the season. Practices twice a week will surely help. I hope!

They say the cutest things.....

Mya, my little girl, said in her prayers last night, "Please help us to be strong and healthy like the Hulk!"

Owen almost ran straight into a woman as we entered a dark parking garage. As I told him to watch out, he quickly yelled, "Well she's all black!" Coincidentally she was African American! She was wearing a black dress, which is what he was referring too!

Owen told me today, "You are the best mom I ever had! I love you all the way up to Jesus!" He also loves kissing and told Kenny, "I just want to stay home from school and kiss mom all day!"

Drew lost a tooth at school when he bit into his apple. He felt the tooth inside his mouth as he was chewing and when I asked him about it, he said, "I didn't realize it was mine and I wondered if it was one of the workers!"

While at church, a teacher asked the kids what happened to Jesus right after he was baptized and brought up from the water. Ian enthusiastically raised his hand and said, "He asked for a towel!"

After a long struggle with my boys, to get them inside, bathed, and into bed, I yelled, "I am done, go to sleep!" Owen looked up at me and said, "Mommy I'm sorry you're sad, but the problem is that you don't beat up Drew and Ian. Just beat them up and I will be on your team!"

We are not a family who eats beans, so when Drew went to a friends house to play and eat dinner, he was hesitant to eat the burrito that had refried beans in it. When I picked him up he said to me, "Mom she put mud inside the burrito!"

Aunt Connie pleaded with Owen to shoot his daddy with the gun instead of her and his response, "No, he's the best daddy i've ever had!"

I begged the boys to quit fighting and Drew looked at me and said, "Its not Mothers Day anymore mom!"

Owen got kicked in his "man hood" and said, "Oh, I hurt my Tenders!"

Drew asked this morning, "Mom in 2011 can we get a cat?"

Everytime I feed Mya prunes, Owen comes up to me and says, "Me like chocolate mom!" I give him a bite and his face turns to total disgust.

Owen ran up to me after wrestling the dogs and said, "Me see Cassie's boobies!"

While I was nursing Mya, Drew walked in and said, "Is she done drinking from your boob?" I replied, "No and it is called a breast, thats the proper way to say it." He looked at me puzzled and said, "No thats the Spanish word for it."

Kenny opened the fridge and said, "Something in here stinks." Ian looked at him and said, "Dad, sometimes I toot over there!"

Last night as the boys were saying good night to Mya, Drew looked up at me and said, "Mom, Mya has a boy haircut!"

Drew was reminding me about how when we saw macaws in Hawaii, that one of the macaws was chewing on a woman's hair. He said, about the macaw, "Thats not very nice, it's not choosing the right."

My favorite word Drew and Ian used to say when they were toddlers was, Laddie- for water. I thought it was such a cute word. Owen comes to the fridge and points his little finger and says, "Wa-Wa" for water. So cute!

Last night Kenny went in on a call to deliver a goat and Ian came into our bed. He climbed in and snuggled up beside me, he usually snuggles into Kenny. I asked him why he was snuggling with me and he said, "I can snuggle you because daddy isn't here mom!" He is such a daddy's boy.

Ian is such a daddy's boy. The other night Kenny had to go to the clinic and Ian was sobbing for him for a good twenty minutes because he wanted to go too. When I asked him why he was so upset he replied, "I just want my daddy, he is my favorite boy!"

Birthday parties celebrated in California are usually BIG! There is always a huge jumper, pinata, food for the whole family, and tons of presents. Well we went to a party last night and the boys spent 2 hrs. jumping in a big jumper. On our way home we saw another party going on that had an even bigger jumper with a slide attached. Ian asked, "Can we go to that party too?" I replied, "We don't even know who those people are. " His response, "Well lets just go ask them their names."

As we prepared to go to the Glenwood Springs pool in Colorado with Kenny's four sisters Drew impatiently said, "Come on girls, you're taking too long!" Kenny told him, "Get used to it, this is what men do, wait for girls to get ready."

Much to my dismay I found black ink all over our white sheets on our bed. I of course went straight to Ian and asked very sternly, "Did you write on my sheets with a pen?" With an innocent look he replied, "I was just trying to write my name."

Drew was watching me as I divided my hair into sections with clips to straighten it. He looked up at me and said, "Wow, you look beautiful!" Then when I was completely done with my hair he said, "You're a cute little mommy!"

Ian was dipping his finger in Kenny's contact solution and then touching his eye. I asked him what he was doing and he replied, "Just putting my eyes in mom!"