3 Men & A Little Lady: July 2010

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Happy Birthday Carol!

Carol celebrated her birthday on June 17 & I am just now getting around to blogging about it. We were lucky to have her, Cat, and Grandma at our house on her birthday so we planned a fun day for her.

It started with Cat's yummy breakfast burritos....MMMM....I could eat one of those now!

We spent the day at the beach!

Owen can do without the water, but he loves to build sand castles.

Mya was most happy in grandma's arms.

After the beach we went for a drive:) and then took her to Rubio's for fish taco's. For dessert we had strawberry shortcake. It was a fun day and we love having family around to play with.

Monday, July 5, 2010

Happy 4th of July!

We had a great 4th of July! I love being able to celebrate the country we live in and the freedoms we are so lucky to have. We had a yummy bbq with friends and then watched the city fireworks.

Mya's 1st 4th of July! This has been a big month for her. She is 9 months old and has two new teeth and is crawling/scooting! She crawls like Drew, leaving her right leg bent in front of her dragging it along. We call it the Gollum crawl!

Owen trying the Indo board! Good thing he had a helmet it was difficult.

Ian is now asking for one of these. I'm sure he'd break his arm or legs if he got one. It won't be happening!

Drew spent the whole time on his bike, unfortunately I didn't get a pic. of him , but he did have a great time too.

These were my contribution for the bbq. Lil' Cheesecakes....YUMMY!

Very festive I think

Thursday, July 1, 2010

White Water

We purchased a new tent that would fit our family comfortably, so we decided to try it out. We went camping at White Water and had a great time. It was hot there so we cooled off by playing in the river.

We went hiking at night and saw tons of baby frogs.

It was a beautiful campsite!

The boys love their new sleeping bags.

Mya woke up to the birds singing at 5:30 in the morning & would not go back to sleep. She did sleep all night long though so I can't complain.

Our friends Darcy & Shawn surprised us and came up for dinner.

Orin & Owen

Not appropriate, but too cute not to post!

So besides the early morning we all had a wonderful time and can't wait to go again with friends!

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!"