3 Men & A Little Lady

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Christmas Cheer

Ian had his Christmas party for preschool yesterday. They celebrated by going to a retirement home to sing and then back to preschool to decorate cookies and exchange gifts. I was very proud of Ian for how well he did singing "I wish you a Merry Christmas." After he sang he took a Christmas tree that he had made and gave it to an elderly gentleman, he then saw a lady next to him and gave her his little jingle bell. He wished them both a Merry Christmas and gave them a high five.

Here's Ian being silly with his friend Breckyn.

Out of all the children, Ian spent the most time and detail on his cookie. Are you really surprised? The finished product.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

7 Blissful Years

Kenny and I got married 7 years ago today in the Manti, UT temple. It was a magical day that I will never forget. I feel so blessed to have such an amazing husband and friend. I look forward to the many more years we have to be together.

So yesterday Kenny surprised me with tickets to the play Wicked! He had babysitters lined up for the whole day and lunch and dinner planned. We went to the Pantages Theatre (Broadway in LA) on Hollywood Blvd. The play was fantastic!!!! We had lunch at Olive Garden and dinner at Outback Steak house. It was the perfect day. He did so well....

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Who needs an MD when you have a Doggy Dr.?

On Monday night Kenny and I went down to Palm Springs for dinner with some friends. Just as they brought the food out, I got a frantic call from our babysitter saying there was an accident. My heart started racing as the babysitter told us that Drew had blood all over his hands and that he had a big cut on the back of his head. Kenny and I got our food to go and rushed home. Turns out he was playing on a bed and hit his head on the windowsill. He had missed the pillow. We came home and Kenny assessed the situation and thought Drew needed stitches. He didn't want to wait for hours at Urgent Care or have to hold Drew down while they deadened the area, so he decided to call our other "family" doctor....Dr. Westbrook, from Banning Veterinary Hospital! Mart met Kenny at the clinic, shaved Drew's hair, and glued up the cut while Kenny held Drew. Drew was appreciative of Mart's help and glad he didn't need stitches.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

I'm going CRAZY!

I love Owen dearly and I love his curiosity, but he is about to do me in! I can not keep up with this kid and he is destroying my efforts of keeping a nice tidy house. He loves to push the chairs around the kitchen and climb up on everything, the desk, the sink, the counter tops...no height is too high for him to climb and he has no fear. He believes the table is his stage and that everything goes into the trash. Today I caught him taking out the silverware out of the drawer and throwing them away! I'm a little worried because I can not find the remote to run our DVD player and we took the trash out yesterday to the curb. I try to use my stern voice with him, but its hard when he just looks at me and giggles. I love you Owen, but please don't you think momma needs a break?

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Check this out....

Our inspiration for next year's light endeavor!

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

My Chef & My Artist!

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!

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!"