3 Men & A Little Lady: March 2014

Friday, March 28, 2014

{Spring Break}

Ian was thrilled when he received a letter in the mail, from his friend Max Newman, in California. In the letter he was surprised to find Flat Stanley. Flat Stanley is a character from a book where Stanley has a cork board fall on him and he gets flattened. He then gets to go in the mail and travel around the world to visit different areas. Max wanted his Flat Stanley to come to Colorado to visit Ian!

Ian shows Stanley a great time!

The best part about when we received Flat Stanley was because he got to go on vacation with us to California to visit Max!!!

Road Trip....with a wild group...

the Hulk

and Spiderman!!!

We arrived in California just in time to party with our old neighbors at Tristan's birthday party.

Duck Dynasty Party!!

Luke and Mya reunited!!!

It was so good to see Yarnida! She was the best neighbor ever!! She even made ceviche for me!!!

Ian was so excited to see Max and tell him all about his adventures with Stanley!

Drew with his buddies Tanner and Robbie!

Mya with Bella and Grace!

I love my California Friends!

Pamela

Crissa

Darcy and baby Audrey

Melina

Betsy and Nia

We played hard, ate well, and talked late into the night! It was a great reunion and we were sad when it was time to leave.

The kids were exhausted from their fun week with friends and the ride home was much quieter than on the way there.

Good bye California...Until we come again!

Thursday, March 13, 2014

{Crazy Hair}

The first graders celebrated crazy hair day and Owen requested a "Shark fin!" I tried my best to please him!

Good look for him!

Aunt Connie also came to visit us this week and Owen begged her to come eat lunch with him! We enjoyed pizza and Wendy's frosty's together! He showed off his mad jump roping skills at recess. We love having aunties around!

Thursday, March 6, 2014

{Teacher Work Day}

Teacher work day, means play day for us! I love the little days off here and there from school. No homework to do, sack lunches to pack, or projects due. We relax and play the whole time!

We went to the Lego movie, which the kids loved! I slept through it and do not feel like I missed out on much! Do you see Owen's little face as lego Man?!!! We also brought along Drew's friend Cale.

The theme of the movie, or what I got out of the last ten minutes of what I saw, is that the Lego's should be played with and not just left on a shelf to be looked at. One should use their imagination and creativity to build and rebuild their Lego's. Owen obviously missed the point! He came straight home and made signs, "Do NOT play with Lego's!" I guess he needs to rewatch the movie....with daddy!

After the movie we burned some energy at mushroom rocks.

We played "Hunger Games" with marshmallow guns and the last man standing was the winner! So glad the Cooks introduced us to this game!

Mya and Russell White

Day 2 of the teacher work day consisted of a nice long hike!

Kenny had to work, so I took the kids along with the Cooks and Jones. I was not prepared for this hike at ALL! We hiked a trail called No Thoughrofare where at the end of the hike we saw a frozen water fall. The sun felt warm and wonderful, until we were walking in the shade, snow, and crossing the frozen ice! I didn't even have jackets for my kids and thought the hike was going to take an hour. It lasted almost 3 1/2hours!!!

We borrowed what jackets we could from friends and off we went! Mya's legs got tired so sweet, buff Gina took Mya for a ride!

The red pants at the top of the rocks belong to Drew. He loves to hike, but not on a trail! He likes going straight up the rocks, which is great when he is with his dad, not so much with moms and lots of younger kids, who want to follow him.

We made it to our fist water fall and I thought that was it....Oh was I wrong!

We just kept walking and walking and walking!!!! Mya and Owen were crying from breaking through the ice and walking with wet shoes, but we just kept going! I was promised an even more amazing water fall was still ahead and the older boys were anxious to see it!

Gina, Brandy, and Coleman :)

Awesome, Adventerous, Friends of Mine!

If you can't tell, Drew is rolling his eyes and so annoyed at me! They were miserably cold and tired and not wanting to take a picture. At that point though I was not going to come all this way and not document it!

I was losing my patience and pleaded with them just to smile and act like they were happy, no such luck!

The waterfall was amazing!!!

We had to look quick because the sun was going to go down in an hour and we still had to hike back out. I thought it would never end!!! It was a hike I would like to do again sometime, but with Kenny, coats, and summer time!

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!"