3 Men & A Little Lady: January 2012

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

{Family Photos}

We recently had our family photos taken by Darcy Patterson. I always find it a little stressful finding the coordinating clothes, trying to have everyone look their best, & encouraging "best smiles" during the actual photo shoot. Kenny and Drew both HATE taking pictures, so that makes it even more difficult. Lucky for us, Darcy is super talented and knows how to deal with our family!

Kenny + I = 10 years Happily Married

Our Greatest Blessings:

Drew age 8

Ian age 7

Owen age 4

Mya age 2

"The Best Place To Be Is TOGETHER"

I was so pleased with how the photos turned out. I love them and will always cherish them. Thanks Darcy for capturing my family in our lives right now. I wish I could keep my kids this age forever!

Sunday, January 22, 2012

{Scissors}

Unfortunately, Mya has learned how to use scissors and decided to cut up Drew's homework. I am relieved she didn't try to cut her hair!

Where was I you ask? Reading Face Book.....I really should not be looking at it while my kids are awake, total distraction!

{Henna}

I have a friend that I met here in Cali., who is from India. She and I really get along great & always have fun. We set up a play date for our kids & while they were over, she painted a henna design on my hands! It was really cold, but lots of fun!

I am grateful for Rezwana's friendship and love listening to her stories!

Thursday, January 12, 2012

{Angry Birds Party}

Ian requested to have an Angry Birds birthday party and the minute he asked the ideas started forming! I love to throw a party & I knew there were tons of cute ideas out in the cyber world to help. Of course I couldn't have done it without my party planner extraordinaire, Darcy Patterson, who is ever so talented, helping me out!

The boys received for Christmas from Auntie Carmin stuffed angry birds, which added a lot of pizazz to the head table.

I Love my cupcake holder, so I use it for all birthday parties. Cupcakes are so easy and perfect for little hands!

In the Angry Birds game, the pigs steal the birds eggs. Luckily they didn't get a hold of these ones! The kids took home eggs filled with candy.

We received a volleyball net for Christmas from Ge and Grandad, which the boys have been playing with constantly. Ian's second request for his party was to play volleyball. So our first activity was to play volleyball, Angry Birds style! The kids had a blast "Flying" the birds across the net.

Mese & Ian both got an awesome hit!

Unfortunately, our blue bird bit the dust by the end of the party!

The kids had a blast creating their own Life Size Angry Bird game!

They especially loved knocking it down and killing the pigs!

Noah is Ian's school friend. Noah had a blast! (written by Ian)

Next the kids used a sling shot to knock over the pigs.

The last game of the day, was Angry Birds Darts!

All the balloons were filled with candy! Yes, more sugar!

Kenny served snow cones, happily!

The kids devoured nachos & snow cones!

And last, but not least Ian blew out his candles and wished for $100!

Ian is blessed to have so many friends that came to help him celebrate his birthday. Thank you to all those who attended and for the gifts. He told me his party was a blast and that he wished it could have lasted 30 hours! I am glad he enjoyed his special day and hope he always knows how much he means to me! I love you Ian ~Mom

Saturday, January 7, 2012

{Happy Happy Birthday}

Today Ian turned 7 years old! He is growing up way too fast and he swears he will be as tall as I am by the time he turns ten. Ian is my most animated child and always keeps Kenny and I on our toes! He is full of personality and can be very sweet. This morning we opened family presents before breakfast. The boys had their good friend Mese spend the night, so it was fun to have him their to celebrate with us too!

Ian's favorite team...his dad brainwashes him!

Ian is obsessed with Angry Birds! He received this, so he would have something to wear to his party! More about that to come....

This was his favorite gift, a hoodie from Old Navy. The sunglasses on the skull light up. He picked it out himself online when he was composing his Christmas list. I am NOT in love with it and was hoping he would forget about it, but unfortunately he didn't, & said when he didn't receive it for Christmas, "I must be getting it for my birthday." Kenny convinced me just to get it. Note to self...don't let kids look at clothes online!

Things that make Ian, Ian right now!

~ What he loves more than anything, is to be outside in the culd-e-sac playing guns with the neighbor boys Tristan & Logan.

~ He does very well in school, but did receive a detention for talking too much to his friends. He is very social and his teacher told me that everyone is always wanting to know what Ian is doing or saying. He is a leader, we just need to make sure he leads in a positive direction!

~His favorite tv show is 'The Avengers.'

~He is obsessed with Angry Birds.

~He still likes to dress up as a Super Hero's. Favorites right now are Captain America and Thor.

~His favorite colors are blue and red.

~He wants to be a Vet. He loves to go and watch Kenny do surgeries, the bloodier the better!

~His favorite season is winter because he gets to celebrate Christmas and his birthday.

~ His loves to eat rainbow sherbet and pepperoni pizza.

~His top 5 presents for his birthday: Skull Hoodie, Star Wars Clone Gun, Walkie Talkies, Captain America Combat Vehicle, & Angry Bird game.

~ Soccer and Basketball are his favorite sports to play.

~ His birthday wish for this year is $100.00!

I love you Ian so much and am so grateful for such a 'spirited' child! You make me laugh everyday & pull my hair out, but I wouldn't want it any other way. My prayer for you is for you to be happy, healthy, and to make good choices! Your dad & I think you are pretty spectacular! Enjoy being 7! xoxo ~Mom

Friday, January 6, 2012

{Yum Yum Donuts}

Ian will be turning 7 on Saturday, so we celebrated at his school today with his 1st grade class! He requested donuts as a treat to share and the kids were all very excited.

Ian and his teacher Miss. Swope

Classsmates

Mya and Owen enjoyed tagging along!

Ian liked his school party, but is really looking forward to his Angry Birds party tomorrow!

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!"