3 Men & A Little Lady: {Family Photos}

Thursday, December 20, 2012

{Family Photos}

Its that time of year again to take our family photos. I have a love/hate relationship with them! Every year I tell myself I will do better next year and will start deciding on outfits earlier than the week before we plan to take them. I also tell myself I will get them done in October, rather than procrastinating until the 2nd week of December and rushing to get cards made and worrying about the colder weather. And then I always tell myself, to just relax, that taking pictures is fun, and to not nag at the children and Kenny to smile! I have a picture in my head how I want them to turn out, thanks to pinterest, but some how our family never quite fits that mold!

Well I did it again! We just took our pictures last week and thankfully it was still warm, but I was definitely stressed out about it again this year. An hour and a half before we were to meet with Darcy to take our pictures, I realized as I was ironing clothes, and before I had even started getting my hair or make-up done, that I completely forgot to find clothes for Drew! How does a mother forget her first born child....I blame it on lack of sleep, due to these four children! I immediately started to panic and started texting friends to see if they had anything for Drew to wear! Luckily, my friends Crissa and Sandra came to my rescue! Not only did they find something for Drew, they revamped all of my outfits! I was pleased with the changes and am so grateful for amazing friends, who know just how to help!

Drew HATES taking pictures and complains about it the whole time, Kenny is not much better about it than Drew! I bribe them through the whole photo session! Ian on the other hand is a ham and lives for the camera!

This boy loves to give kisses right now and requests to kiss me 100 times a day! He's so sweet how could I ever turn down his request!

Andrew - 9

Ian - 7

Owen - 5

Mya - 3

Johanna (mom) - 32 & Kenny (dad) - 37

The boys were done by this picture, but Mya still needed her individual pictures. So we sent the boys on their way home. Darcy spent some time taking some pictures of Mya and I, which I love!

My little girl is growing up way to fast! I wish I could stop time and keep her this age forever!

Even though I find the whole picture taking experience stressful, I always LOVE the finished product! We might not be like the "model" families on pinterest, but I love us just the way we are, with all of our foibles! I am the luckiest woman to have such a beautiful and loving family! I will always treasure these photos as long as I live! A huge thanks to my dear friend/photographer Darcy, for capturing this special time in our lives!

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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!"