3 Men & A Little Lady

Thursday, January 27, 2011

1st Haircut

I am terrified of first haircuts, especially after Drew's first experience. He screamed the whole time and the lady stopped after cutting one side of his hair, and said, "I just can't do this, you need to find someone else!" I was horrified. So I was a little apprehensive as I took Mya for her first real hair cut today. I figured I would be holding her on my lap, with a drape covering us both, and holding her head in my hands so that she wouldn't move. The complete opposite scenario took place. She sat up in the chair the whole time and barely moved. She was content to look at herself in the mirror and eat a snack. I couldn't be more pleased with the end result!

Mya and Terrie Before....

And After!!! I think she is the most adorable thing in the whole world!

Caught in the Act!

In the amount of time it took me to run up and grab a bow for Mya's hair, she decided to get her own snack, & give mommy a new mess to clean!

I grabbed my camera and she automatically said, "Teese!"

Threw the bow in so I could see her stuffing her face!

Then the throwing of the cereal began. I swear the majority of my day is spent cleaning up everybody else's messes!

New Puppies!

Kenny called me and asked if we wanted to watch an emergency Yorkie c-section and the kids and I jumped at the chance. We rushed to the clinic and arrived just as the two puppies were being pulled from their mom's uterus. As Kenny spayed the animal, and after the puppies had been resuscitated, Owen and Mya loved on the puppies. So happy the puppies lived, so we could hold a living puppy! Owen named them Shelby and Cassie, even though they were boy puppies. He kept saying, "No they not, they gills (girls)!"

They were very tiny and looked like little rats! Mya would touch them with her finger and then pull it back very quickly.

I am just so thankful that these puppies belonged to somebody or else my kids would have loved to bring them home with us....NO THANK YOU!!!

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Sisterhood!!!

This is a really old picture of my sisters & I, but the first one I pulled out of my album. Today is my oldest sister Holly's 35th birthday!!! I called her this morning to wish her a happy birthday, and my 8 yr old niece Kendra got on the phone and asked me to blog about her birthday! I thought it was a perfect time to let my sisters know just how much they mean to me....

My two older sisters: Carmin, Holly, & myself with some short hair!

I LOVE having sisters! They are the ones i've known forever. Our relationship started with barbies and the Brady Bunch and grew to cheerleading, make-up, and boys! I was the little sis, who followed the both of them around and was always hoping to be just like them when I grew up. Today we all live far away from eachother, but a day never passes without us talking. I call them for honest advice, to laugh or cry or complain to. I love my sisters dearly and am so grateful to have them as my Best Friends! So Happy Birthday Holly! I Love You!!! ~Jo

This is for my niece Kendra! This was the day she was born and I was the proudest Auntie ever to have such an adorable and fun niece! Thanks for making me an Auntie!!!

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

The BEE Party!

I was so excited to throw Ian a birthday party after we went to a mansion overlooking the city for a work Christmas party. The theatre room inside the mansion inspired me and right when I saw it, I knew this would be a great location for a party.

The kids filled up on popcorn!

The Fun Group!

Enthralled in the "BEE" Movie.

Gotta Love...Cupcakes!

Ian loves guns and I think told everyone because he received 14!!!!

Of course he LOVED it and we have had some nice family battles!

The best gift of all though.....

AUNT CONNIE!!!!

She came to help celebrate and did what the boys love most, she let them wrestle with her.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Happy Birthday Ian!!!

Ian turned 6 years old today! It amazes me how quickly my little boy has grown. He started his morning with presents before leaving for school.

He was excited about all his gifts, especially the watch and his Captain Crunch cereal!

He realized quickly that a lot of practice will be needed before he can jump down the street on his pogo stick, so he thought it might be better suited as......

A GUN!

Ian can turn anything into a weapon.

Ian Facts at 6!

He is very social & loves to be with friends all day long.

He initiates conversations with complete strangers.

He has energy, that keeps going...and going...and going...

He scored his first basket in a basketball game.

He thinks his dad is the Best!

He loves going on dates with his mom.

He has no fear and will try anything daring.

He is very protective of his brothers and Mya.

He is always out in the culd-e-sac with the neighbor boys shooting guns.

He likes to clean toilets :)

He talks about tooting a lot.

He doesn't always listen that well, but he is a kind and loving little boy!

I Love you Ian more than you will ever know & I am so grateful to have you as my son. I look forward to this next year. Love, Mom

Friday, December 31, 2010

Holiday Dresses!

One of my favorite things to do this past 2010 was to dress Mya for church every Sunday! I spend more time on her 1 dress and shoes than all the boys combined. She got some pretty adorable dresses from Aunt Carol and Aunt Kim that I will be posting in 2011!

Hope everyone has a Happy New Year!

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!"