3 Men & A Little Lady

Thursday, December 11, 2008

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Our inspiration for next year's light endeavor!

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Drew came home from school talking about the Gingerbread Man story and asked if we could decorate gingerbread cookies. I got a great recipe from my mom that was yummy and super easy. Ian, my lil' chef, was giddy through the whole experience and put much time and detail into his cookies. He also used almost a whole bag of M&M's and finished off a new container of sprinkles. Drew decorated one cookie and proceeded to sit at the table and draw, color, and cut out gingerbread men out of paper. It was a fun and messy afternoon in our house.

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

The boy's favorite part about Christmas isn't the presents or seeing Santa, but the lights. As Drew prays, he often blesses the lights! We first took Drew around to look at lights when we were visiting Kenny's side of the family in Colorado in 2005. We all piled into a car and drove all over Grand Junction looking at the Christmas lights. Drew kept repeating at every house in a Gollum (Lord of the Rings character) voice, "Look at the lights." His excitement for lights today is just as high as it was back then as we drive around town almost every night looking at Christmas lights. As we drive, we roll down the windows, let the boys get out of their seat belts and sit in the front seat, and listen to Christmas carols. Drew keeps repeating, "That house is sooo Awesome!" and questions why we do not have every blown up Christmas figure in our yard. Ian is usually more excited about Kenny letting him sit on his lap and steer and Owen in his shrill little voice, continuously yells, "Wo!"

Well we decided since we were going to be staying around for the holidays we too should put up our own lights.

The prep work...

Gotta love Christmas in CA...boys can continue to only be half dressed!

The finished product!

Friday, November 28, 2008

Thanksgiving

Its always hard not to be around family for the holidays, so luckily we have the best of friends to celebrate Thanksgiving with instead. We spent the morning at the park watching the boys play soccer and football. Kenny was ecstatic to have his two buddies from his high school soccer "glory days", Kyle and Erik Dunn here to play with. He even dug out his old soccer jersey to get him psyched for the game. All the Banning boys came out to play too and by the looks from the sidelines they all had a good time.

For dinner Shawn and Darcy invited us out to the Wilson's home for Thanksgiving dinner. The food was fabulous and the company was superb! The boys had a great time riding around on a train that Pat and Hershel ordered in for the kids to play on. After dinner we went to play games and have a second helping of dessert at the Dunn's home. We had fun playing the Newlywed game even though Kenny and I took last place. Way to go Steph and Erik on the big win!

We love our dear friends and are so thankful for their love and friendship. Thank you to all that included us in on your Thanksgiving Holiday.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Twilight

So do you remember when I neglected my family for two weeks to read the Stephenie Meyer, "Twilight" series? Well I went last night with several girl friends to the movie of the first book and fell even more in love with the vampires. Edward was definitely a hottie but so was Jasper! I knew Edward was going to be good looking, but that is not what I was anticipating Jasper to look like. I loved the movie and can't wait for it to come out on DVD. I hope I don't have to wait several years to see the other books made into movies because that is all I can think about right now. If you haven't seen the movie, go see it! If you haven't read the books, go watch the movie, and then read them so you too can have lovely day dreams about the steamy vampires!

Would you like a snack?

Today Drew participated in his first Primary program. Since we had missed several Sundays in a row from traveling, we never received a slip of paper informing us of what Drew was supposed to say during the program. The Sunday before he was able to practice in the chapel, but he wanted nothing to do with saying anything into the microphone and I decided not to push him. I knew we would be lucky to even get him to sit up in the stand on the actual day of the program.

As they called the children up Drew sunk into the pew and said he didn't want to go sit up front. I started in on the bribes, candy, toy, popsicle, nothing was working. Kenny then asked him if he wanted to take a snack up to the stand with him?! Drew of course said Yes and Kenny proceeded to pour goldfish into a tupperware container. I quickly told him that I didn't think snacks up on the stand during a primary program was a good idea, but he only said, "He's going up there." So off Drew went, snacks in hand to sit on the stand in front of all the congregation. He did a great job singing the songs and kept his snack well hidden. When it was his classes turn to say why they were thankful for their families he rose and stood in line, snacks in hand. I figured he would not want to speak into the microphone because of the stage fright from his practice, but he came to the step stool climbed up and said, "Oh wait." He jumped off the step stool and walked his tupperware bowl of goldfish back to his chair. He then went and stood back in line behind the other children in his class. As he came back to the front of the line he climbed back up on the step stool, leaned into the mic., and before his teacher could whisper something in his ear to say, he blurted out, "If you don't have a snack, you can go home now!" He jumped down and went back to his snack that sat nicely waiting for him on his chair. Everyone was laughing and Tommy, who sat behind me, started to stand up and said I'm going home to get my snack!

So he didn't stand up and say why he was thankful for us, but Kenny and I were both very proud of him for sitting up on the stand, for singing, and for speaking about what was on his mind. I figure we won't have to worry about a bigger speaking part next year!

The Letter "Pp"

Friday Night we celebrated the letter "Pp"! Drew has been learning about the letter "P" in school, so we figured why not have a party around the letter. Kenny wanted to make home made pizza and Drew wanted to have a picnic, which he didn't inform us of until it was already dark, so we had a pizza, picnic, movie night in the living room while we watched Kung Fu Panda. It was a fun, stay at home evening!

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!"