3 Men & A Little Lady

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

"These are COOL!"

Ian, Owen, and Drew....future police men...

ONLY, if they get to ride around on these bad boys!!!!

Monday, December 20, 2010

The Lord of the Rings...Legolas, Gimli, Aragorn, and Frodo in their armor and weapons!

Kenny recently celebrated his 35th birthday. His favorite gift he received was the Lord of the Rings Trilogy in Blue Ray. He and the boys have re watched the movies several times and each of them like to pretend they are one of the characters in the movie. Owen is the hobbit Frodo, Ian is Aragorn, Drew is the elf Legolas, Kenny is the wizard Gandalf, Mya is Arwen, and they joke that I am the hairy, fat, dwarf Gimli!

The boys spent the morning playing Lord of the Rings. Unfortunately Kenny was at work, or I'm sure he would have let me wrap him in foil too!!!!

Crazies!!!

Kenny says Ian gets his craziness from me!

I Beg to Differ.....

Not sure who took this pic. Found it on the camera. Sure Kenny will not appreciate this post, but I thought it was funny.

Preschool days

Owen is in preschool this year and loves it! There are 6 kids who participate and each mom takes a turn teaching for 6 weeks. It is my turn to teach and I am also loving it. I remember now why I chose to get my degree in Early Childhood Education. I love watching a child learn through play. To experience their excitement and joy of learning something new is always so rewarding for me. We celebrated Christmas with a little party. They decorated cookies, exchanged gifts, and decorated stockings. It was a fun way to end out the year.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Family Traditions

When I was a little girl, I received a blanket from my Grandma Elliott with my name on it. It was a tradition for her to make one for each of her grandchildren. When her great grandchildren started arriving, she made them one too. Unfortunately she passed away several years ago, but her tradition lives on thanks to my Aunt Shirley and cousin Jamie. They have continued on my grandmother's wonderful tradition and have spent hours making each great grandchild a name blanket. I still have my blanket, my boys all have theirs, and now Mya has her own. I will cherish them forever and be reminded of my loving grandmother. Thank you so much for continuing on this family tradition Aunt Shirley and Jamie!

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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

How to win over a 1yr old....

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving! My parents decided to drive to CA to spend Thanksgiving week with us, which made the holiday so much more exciting! I love being around my parents and am so thankful for their sacrifice to come and see us. We hadn't seen them since June, so my mom (aka Ge/Coleen) had to win over the heart of Mya Coleen in a short amount of time. Well of course she knew just the way to any girls heart....FUDGE!!!!

Mya knows sign language for "more" and she energetically signed it after every bite of fudge Ge offered her. She was attached to her from that point on!

My mom wanted to have a pre Christmas celebration with us, since we would not be seeing them this year, so we spent hours shopping for gifts. My parents gift to Kenny & I was the purchase and grueling hours of installing gas fire logs. I love the finished product and Kenny & I have already enjoyed cuddling up next to the fire!!!

This picture was taken at 5:30 am! My mom wanted to let the kids open their gifts from them while they were here, so we wrapped them up in one big pile and left them in the middle of the living room floor. I swear my kids can sense when there are presents in the air! All of them were awake and in my bed by 5am, and since Ge and Grandad were still on KS time, I was sure they were already awake. I told the kids that there was a surprise down in the living room and they all bolted down the stairs. Unfortunately, this was the first morning my parents were actually still asleep. They were quickly awoken by 4 children bouncing up and down, eager to know what was in the big red pile.

What fun to celebrate Christmas morning in November. I could really get used to having 2 Christmas mornings! Thanks Grandad and Ge for the fun times. We Love You!!!

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!"