3 Men & A Little Lady

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

{Ian's Baptism Day}

This last weekend we had a great celebration as we watched Ian make a life decision and enter into the water of baptism! He decided to follow in the Lord's footsteps and be baptized to wash away his sins. He made a special covenant that I hope he honors for the rest of his life.

Ian - 8 is GREAT!!!

Ian's close friends came to support him!

Max, Ian, & Tristan

Kenny and I are very blessed to have Ian as our son!

Ian was very excited that his daddy could baptize him!

Ian planned the program for his baptism. He asked his Aunt Carol and Aunt Kim to give talks. They both did a great job! Aunt Connie played the piano and Aunt Catherine lead the music. Ian didn't think Catherine should have to give a talk because she was pregnant! He did think it would be cool for her and Gabi to sing a special musical number, but they declined! Grandma Summers and Misty gave the prayers. We sang Ian's favorite hymns, "I am a Child of God," "I Love to see the Temple," and "Families Can Be Together Forever." Ian thought his baptism was very cool! He felt the spirit and was very happy!!!

No celebration is complete without cupcakes!

I am so grateful for our wonderful family!

Grandma and Grandpa Summers and Ian

Super Aunties!!! Yes, Gabi is included as an Auntie :)

We played hard while the Aunties were here!

Long walks...

Lots of games....

Four Square, Tether Ball, Street Hockey, and Ladder Ball!!!

I am so grateful for the warm weather we had to play in all weekend. We had a fabulous time with family and I am so glad that they were able to come out and be with us for Ian's special day!!!

Monday, January 14, 2013

{Love Letters}

I love receiving letters from my children! Drew wrote this for Kenny and I and gave it to us for Christmas. Best gift ever!!!!

I'm glad he doesn't think we are weird! It will be interesting to see if his ideas change when he is a teenager!

Sunday, January 13, 2013

{Flour}

We tried a new game tonight for Family Home Evening that was a winner! We are calling it Flour! The object of the game is to cut off a piece of flour from the mound without having the lifesaver drop. When the lifesaver does fall, it has to be retrieved using only your mouth!

Messy, yes of course, but fun!

Monday, January 7, 2013

{Happy 8th Ian}

Ian celebrated his 8th birthday surrounded by his best friends! Pizza, games, dancing, a movie, and a slumber party were his requests!

Ian is a goofball and it shows in all his pictures!

I had the boys play, "Minute to Win It" games!

"Noodling Around"

Owen totally cheated and used his hands, but was still pretty proud of himself!

Looks like he might puke on his candle!

" Just Dance" is quickly becoming one of Ian's favorite Wii games!

I am grateful that Ian has such great friends! He loved his low key party and couldn't have been happier!

His actual birthday morning we celebrated with cinnamon rolls and presents!

Ian is still very much in love with Ninjago and his new Wii he got for Christmas. He was excited to play "Wipe Out" and to set up his new game.

Ian is such a great kid and I am so grateful to have him as my son. I love him dearly and love his enthusiasm for life! He is a protector to his siblings, a good friend, and always willing to help a stranger. He is almost as tall as me, but will forever by my little boy! I love you son!!!!

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

{Rollin' Good Times}

This was my kids first time to go to a roller skating rink! They all had so much fun with their friends and skated until they were sweaty and exhausted!

Mya using her skate mate!

Mya loved skating and didn't want to leave the rink.

Owen on the other hand thought it was pure punishment!

Even with a Skate Mate he probably fell 100 times!

He did enjoy all the arcade games!

Ian zooming on by!

Landon Westbrook, Anderson Headley, Owen and Mya

Drew and Chandler

My boys preferred their in-line skates to the old school kind.

Mya loved skating in the dark! She kept wanting to "dance" on the circles!

The best part of skating was twirling Sunny around the skating rink and her graceful fall!

Skating brought back so many good memories! I loved spending my Friday nights at the roller skating rink in Russell! I'm glad I am able to make new special "skating" memories with my kids!

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

{Ringing in a New Year}

We had a New Years Eve Party that ROCKED!!! We rung in 2013 with friends, food, and a lot of laughter! We played "Minute to Win It" games that were competitive and hysterical!!!

"Elephant March"
Object: Knock over bottles with a baseball hanging from panty hose worn on the head

"Face the Cookie"
Object: Using only the face, move cookies from the forehead to the mouth

"Noodling Around"

Object: Pick up six penne noodles placed around the perimeter of a table using only a piece of uncooked spaghetti in your mouth

"Hanky Panky"
Object: Using only 1 hand, pull all tissues out of a tissue box

The kleenex went to good use! Pam's New Year's wish comes true!

"Chocolate Unicorn"
Object: to stack 7 chocolate donuts on your forehead

Junk in the trunk!

This one was difficult, but Amber surprised us all and got the job done quickly!!!

"Karaoke"
The Final Countdown, should be sung only by Europe!

Girlfriends!!! I was sad that we took this at the end of the evening and not at the beginning. We had some families leave early because of tired kids. This is the group that lasted until midnight.

The kids stormed the streets and let off fireworks after counting down to the New Year 2013! Kisses were made and then everyone quickly left to go to bed! I love our California friends and hope to have many more fun nights in 2013 with them!

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!"