Braxten: "Mom, I like your shirtlers"
Mom: (laughs) "What? Do you mean shoulders?"
Braxten: (Laughs) "Yes... Shoulders, I was just kidding!"
Ok so this was posted and I go back and read it and I think it is funny that I wrote mom for my part... Ha ha.. do you get the humor in that?
It was just 5 short years ago when we were blessed with our first little one Braxten. New parents that didn't know what to expect and who were scared and anxious and we were blessed with the most perfect first child any parent could ask for. Being the first you had to live through all our mistakes in raising you and you are able to bounce back from every one of them. As a baby you were so sweet and so happy we had no complaints and you were patient and taught us how to be parents. At 6 months, by no fault of your own (your leg) you ended up putting us through one of the most grueling tests a parents can ever face, it pushed mommy and daddy to a point where we broke and never truly recovered from it and still you were there, happy as can be, forgiving for all that you were put through and mommy and daddy couldn't have been happier to just be with and have you. You are so smart, so intelligent and so funny. You have graced us with such sayings as... sasasa say... MAONEY.... whaT?....lasterday and lasternight... and I thought I was going to puke!
You can give looks to kill and were the only baby I have ever known that could make someone feel like an idiot for trying to entertain you. You teach me just as much as I teach you... we are growing together everyday and everyday you amaze me in the wonder you find in the world and in the innocence childhood holds. Even though it may not seem like it I love spending every moment I have with you wondering, exploring, questioning, and laughing. You are the best biggest brother any child could ask for... you give the fair share of teasing but you will step up for one of your brothers in a moment. You make me laugh with your excuses and what you find as injustices of life (eating two more bites of dinner, not watching Spiderman 3 everyday, and writing your name) your quick wit and the fact that you wont let mommy and daddy slip up. You grasp concepts I didn't know a five your old could (somewhat the value of money and time, also the value of keeping your room clean and how huffy you get when others mess up your room!) You are caring and responsible beyond what I thought any five year old could be. You understand tears and mommies sadness and know when I need a hug and when I need to laugh! I have so many memories with you and I look forward to watching you grow up and learn all that you have to teach me. I look forward to every stage you will hit and I will cry as it passes, I will cry when I no longer hear you say mommy but mom, the first time you go to bed without my stories and kisses, the first day of school that is fast approaching, your first time you step out that door on your own!! You are my oldest but will always be my baby, the one who molds me as a parent and adult just as much as I mold you! I love you! I can't believe you are five!!
So I know you have all been waiting so eagerly to see this and now its going to be all blah... But here it is. The mother's day frame I made my mom. I took this pic with my phone so its not the best but ya know.
So I got this from Mistie's blog but I had to let everyone else know that I love it too!! That and it will be easier for me to watch when I know where it is on my blog. Anyway, it is a commercial for the Discovery Channel and it is by far my FAVORITE commercial EVER!!! I love the Discovery Channel and like Ice Road Truckers, Deadliest Catch, Man Vs. Wild (thanks Mistie!) and Planet Earth.... One day I will own all the Planet Earth videos. My boys and Kyle love the channel too, our problem, well my problem is I forget about it and end up watching all the sitcoms and stuff. Anyway... This is my favorite commercial and just tonight I have watched this video about 15 times. Don't believe me? Ask Kyle, he is the one banging his head on the wall! Anyway So here it is in all its glory...
Mistie and Connor said they liked the shorter version better but I like this version the best!!
So after the boys had a late night on Friday (we had some friends and their kids over). On Saturday morning. OK fine Saturday afternoon at about 10:50 our neighbor came over and asked if we would like to go outside and play in their pool with them. So we put sunscreen on our boys canceled our plans to go shopping and had some serious fun in the sun, and by serious fun in the sun I mean like 3.5 hours. We even put out our slip and slide and a sprinkler to help keep the parents cool. Till our boys let us know, by way of crying that they were done. So we brought them inside and laid them down for a much needed nap and I sent Kyle to the store to get BBQ supplies.
Here is Braxten in their pool, it had a cool slide on it too!
Nice action shots of Gannon on the slip and slide.
While he was gone my mom, dad, and cousins Kristie and Michelle that were in from North Carolina came by and hung out with us. Than at about 5 my friend Cassie and her boyfriend Joey showed up with their kids Madison and Aiden. So the boys were off again to play out back on the trampoline with the water on and also play on the slip and slide.
Madison was done playing out back by the time I took out the camera but here is a picture of her because she is just too cute not to post!!
They had a blast and we ate some wonderful BBQ (thanks Babe!) than at about 945 they FINALLY went to sleep! We have had a wonderful day and I am excited for another (I get to go shopping so of course I am excited!!) Anyway I think it is official, summer is here!!
This is just a cute picture of Jackson (I have no clue why it did that shadowy thing)! I had to dig out summer clothes for him, turns out we don't have any summer clothes for him! Nice huh!!
He looks like Kirk...
Last post tonight!! Promise... Wow a lot of posts for one day!! So Debbie I have to say THANK YOU!! You are such a sweet sweet person to think of me and my boys in all that you do!! The LOVE LOVE LOVE the snakes!!!
So our sweet Gannon... sweet, funny, loveable, odd, wonderful Gannon is OBSESSED with lawn mowers or "mowews" as he calls them (he says his r's as w's). So we are all at the park for mothers day getting ready to sing Happy Birthday to my grandma since her birthday is May 14th, Gannon was the one that insisted we sing and eat cake at that moment so we go to have Gannon start singing but where is he? We look around and he is standing outside of someones chain link fence in a trance... I walk over and say "Gannon, we are going to sing to G.G." and he says "He's mowewing" I had to PRY him away from the fence, he sang ate a half piece of cake and was right back over to watch the guy mowew. Than we went to my parents house and hung out and he kept asking my mom if she had a mower and she said yes and he says "Can I see it?" so he wouldn't believe it till he saw it... Than he asked if she would mow the lawn and she said no not on mothers day... than he asked her like every 5 min... what color is it? Can I see it? Will you mower? It was very cute... And this isn't new either! Last year for his birthday this was his birthday cake!
Everytime I mow the lawn Gannon is under me mowing along with me! Cute little things that make Gannon our wonderful sweet funloving Gannon!! And now for 2 cute pics of the boys at mothers day lunch! There are more but since I never take a camera anywhere I am waiting for Jenn to send me the pics because she is smart and takes her camera everywhere!!!
So here it is!! The pics of this great day! We met some Idaho Power people but than went off and just did the walk as a family! Here we all are before we head over to the start of the race....
Than we decided to take pics of all of us and at the start line...
Than we decided to shake it up a bit and do sets of 3!!!
From L to R: Jen, Amber and Me
From L to R: Mom, Grandma and Virna
Than there was our 2 youngest racers! Cool Jackson...
And cute little Ashlyn
The race starts with the bikers... and they play music and its seriously like heart wrenching... and than you count down and you are all pumped up to go and you stand in place for the next like 3 min till you get to finally go!!!
This is as we are walking... its seriously people as far as you can see.... down a 4 lane street, its sooo cool to see the people who are out there and how they show their support.... There was a little old lady who power walked it all by herself in memory of her daughter... so sweet!!
So this wore Jackson out (I only took Jackson with me because Gannon got sick on Friday and I didn't want him to get Jackson sick... I wasn't going to take any of them!)
Than we went to Applebees:
Ok that is just a cute picture of Jackson and I wanted to post it... And this next one of Jackson and Ashlyn is sooooo cute... And Jackson looks EXACTLY like Kirk did when he was little! (right mom?)
Ok so I am done posting about the race for the cure... but it truly was awesome!
As my husband says “this is a day to test a family!” Well ain’t that the truth!! I woke up at 3 on mother’s day to a child who wanted to make sure that I still knew he was there (Jackson, I will always know you are there! You don’t have to remind me about it at 3am… I dream about you and you are always on my mind… If only you knew : ) ) Anyway… So I was able to go right back to sleep and was woken up again at around 7 by Jackson… So I grabbed him and I started my mothers day with a wonderfully smiling baby who cooed and told me all about his wonderful night! Kyle rolled over and said “Do you want me to make you breakfast?” I said I didn’t want to do that and make a mess and all of that so we decided to head to IHOP… we are thinking IHOP at 8am we made it before all the church goers… Turns out not so much…. It was PACKED… overflowing! So we drove around and finally decided on Burger King… Not a traditional mothers day breakfast but nice! Than we were off to Wal-Mart, Kyle wasn’t able to go shopping for me because Gannon got sick on Friday and Saturday was a crazy hectic day! So he set off to get me something and I set off to get something for my mom (I procrastinated… but not on purpose… I was going to pick something up Thursday night while grocery shopping but it didn’t work out!) Anyway so we were running around Wal-Mart trying to find things.. .We finally get done and headed home… I had to make my mom her present so I made a HUGE mess of our room by taking out all my scrapbooking things and I actually am quit proud of what I made in what time I had… I will post a pic later! Anyway… I was surprised by the movie Juno, socks (of course!!) 2 shirts, 4 candles, and what sounds like it is going to be an awesome book! THANKS RICH!! (side note: Braxten told Kyle on Friday that he wanted to go shopping for me… he said he wanted to get me books and candles, does the kid know me or what?) So we took off to the park… Which we were almost an hour late for! Had a wonderful time at the park (pics to come) and than we went to my parents and watched the boys and my mom blow bubbles like madmen (and spill bubbles all over the porch!) Than we rushed home… had about 45 min before Kyle’s sister headed over and spent some time with us since we haven’t seen her for so long so it was nice. While she was there we cleaned our filthy boys (its amazing how dirty a kid can get in less than 24 hours!!) Anyway we are out visiting and all of a sudden we hear Braxten say “Smell it, Smell it, Now take it” its from a preview that was on Iron Man for Adam Sandler’s new movie ‘You don’t mess with the Zohan’ you can see it at this site:
http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/12/12/adam-sandlers-you-dont-mess-with-the-zohan-trailer/
that part is at 2:11… Anyway it cracked us up to randomly hear Braxten say that! So than Kyle’s parents came over and hung out, than I went to check my e-mail and found out I could take my exam (for those of you who don’t know about this wonderful experience you can ask because I am not writing it!) Anyway so I took that at like 730 or 8 and got done around 930 and had to go out and write 3 page instructions for my grandma on watching the boys because it was last minute (Mistie I hope your family is feeling better!!) and she knew nothing about their schedules or anything! Anyway after a very exhausting day I got in bed around 1050… heard something right before I fell asleep so I had to go look and see what it was (nothing, like always) than I lay in bed for the next like hour thinking of all the stuff I have to get done in this month!! Well it was a good mothers day!! Long and hectic but worth every minute of it to hear Gannon come up and say “Mom I just wanted to say Happy Mothers Day and I love you” Without being told to do so!! I love my boys and I love my Kyle! Thanks guys! Without you this day wouldn’t have been possible…Get it? I woulnd’t be a mother? Anyway…. That’s that!
So Saturday I went and participated in the Susan G. Komen race for the cure. I walked in celebration of our friends Robyn and Roxanne and we also walked in memory of my grandpa and my dear sweet Dani! Although they didn't die from breast cancer they did die from cancer and they were fresh on my mind! I always think to myself when my mom asks me to do this race, do I really want to? And than I remember the flood of emotion that goes through me every time I participate in this walk/run. Every time I have done this I have been brought almost to tears. Everyone wears little signs on their back that show in celebration of or in memory of and every time I see a group of children and a father that have an in memory of our mom I am brought to tears. I feel so good about being involved in this every year and I will continue to be involved and I will also get my husband and boys involved. Its a good cause. I love all the people who come out too... there are the bickers who start the race and than there is a TON of young people who come and I think that is awesome. I also love when you see the first runner come back around and than you see the next 20 to 30 and they are ALL men, I think that is awesome that they are showing their support. And people come up with these wonderful shirts. My favorite for years has been Hiken for Hooters... although there was one this year that gave it a run for its money... It was "Save Second Base" Get it? I think its funny anyway.... If anything else it was an excuse for me to get my sister in laws, my mom, aunt and grandma together and have a fun day and than go out to lunch! All in all I love the experience and while next year I will go... OH no not again... I will remember that I truly do love doing this even if I don't want to!!
Pictures are coming!!
So we are trying to get Braxten all ready for kindergarten. They sent us home a booklet of activities that we can do with the boys. So the other night we tried one by putting some ketchup and mustard in zip lock bags and having them draw on the outside of the bag. It was fun... just not as fun as it could have been... Here are some pics!!
Yes Gannon is sucking on the bag in this pic and shortly after got it taken away because he popped a hole in it. 
So I was posting my 100 things about me and Kyle was like I couldn't do that... there would only be 2 things... Well I decided that I would prove him wrong and show that he is the complex man that I love... So I set off... I did wonderful and even got some help from him... Not enough though.... So with out further ado... I present you with 58 random things about Kyle...
1. His favorite color is Purple
2. It used to drive him crazy when you would touch his chin but he really doesn’t seem to care anymore
3. His shoulder and back are in constant pain because he fell off the roof when he was younger and broke them and didn’t know it so he never went to the doctor
4. Michael Jordan is his favorite basketball player ever
5. He will forever be a Bronco fan, both BSU and
6. When he saw Michael Jordan play it almost brought him to tears
7. If his clothes don’t fit him perfectly he can’t wear them.
8. As soon as he gets out of the shower he has to cool completely down or he can’t do anything without being too hot
9. He can’t stand to be hot
10. If he is watching TV and there is a fight on, football or basketball on he watches it almost every time
11. His favorite TV show it the Ultimate Fighter series
12. His favorite rap group is Bone Thugs
13. His favorite song it the Crossroads by Bone Thugs
14. His favorite movie is the Big Lebowski
15. He absolutely LOVES the Matrix Trilogy and re-watches it all the time
16. He wishes he played football in high school but was too into basketball to realize what he was missing
17. His favorite game is Madden
18. He was Mr. Defense in basketball his freshman year
19. He doesn’t read books for fun at all… not that he can’t read
20. He loves pizza and could eat it every night
21. He would BBQ every night if he could
22. He would go shooting every day if he could
23. He would have an arsenal of guns if he could afford it
24. He has a red goatee and brown hair
25. He can repeat a rap song like right after he hears it
26. He could eat a container of cottage cheese every day if he could afford it
27. His favorite candy is Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
28. His second favorite candy is sour candies
29. He drinks A-1
30. He will eat jalapenos by the handful
31. He wants to travel to
32. He wants a roll down TV with sweet surround sound
33. He would buy a movie every time we go to the store if he could
34. He loves his sleep… He enjoys it so very much and cherishes it
35. He hates house cleaning and laundry and would avoid it if he could…but still does it
36. He hates washing silverware because growing up he had to wash it by hand
37. He has to have air conditioning set no higher than 69
38. He LOVES Mnt. Dew
39. He thinks Will Ferrell is the funniest man on earth
40. He shares his birthday with Adam Sandler
41. He loves to play chess
42. He has always wanted a boxer and finally got one this year and he is his baby!!!
43. His favorite thing to look at online is guns
44. He asks for a new gun on every holiday
45. His favorite number is 40
46. He loves steak
47. He can’t decide if he likes comedy or action better
48. He has to sleep with a box fan on high or he can’t sleep
49. He used to have to sleep in pitch dark or he couldn’t sleep
50. He wants a pet snake or a bearded dragon
51. He doesn’t like breakfast foods and would much rather eat lunch for breakfast
52. He can’t eat pancakes unless he makes them
53. He hates Italian unless it’s at Carabbas
54. Chinese is his favorite
55. He is never serious
56. He loves camping but hates the trip there
57. And he wont stop saying we should get the boys bearded dragons…
58. He has to play with peoples ears... every time the boys walk by them he has to grab their ears and play with them between his fingers
Gannon got put in time out for his 3 min. and when we went to get him out this is what we found.
Is it just me or does he look huge? My little guy is growing up so fast... tear...
Here are 100 random things about me that you probably don't know. At least not all of them. I got this idea from a random blog I read and thought I would adopt it since I can't think of anything else to blog about. Let me know if you'd like to hear more about any of them and I can gladly expound in another post. Enjoy!
100 Random Things About Me:
2. I would love to study psychology and get a degree in it but I am not a fan of psychologist
3. I want a 2 story house, For some reason I think I need to have a 2 story house to raise teenagers in because a 1 story house doesn’t seem like it will work… not sure why…
4. I do not care about punctuation or sentence structure in the least bit. I will write fragment sentences till my heart is content and it would never bother me.
5. I can’t spell and grammar is lost on me… I can’t proof read my work because I think it will sound good no matter what.
6. I can’t do math without a calculator, even small little problems that can be so easy I will use a calculator without even trying to do it in my head.
7. Baby talk drives me up the wall and I find it incredibly annoying when I hear adults talking baby talk.
8. I talk baby talk to my kids without noticing.
9. I love school and I love learning, If it weren’t for due dates in school I would probably go my whole life.
10. I am completely ignorant about politics and the economy and all of that and I don’t feel the need to learn more about any of it.
11. I love typing and the sounds of the keys while I type.
12. If there is an episode of Saved by the
13. I love kissing my children on the bridge of their noses.
14. I can’t not wear socks or I will go crazy.
15. I am obsessed with office supplies and I could spend an endless amount of money on office supplies. I would bring them home and play with them, yes play with them for hours on end.
16. My favorite game is Settlers of Catan and we can’t ever find people to play it because you can’t only play it with 2 players.
17. I LOVE scary movies even though I have dreams about them and scare myself so bad that I swear them off. As soon as another scary movie comes out I have to see it. I can't watch a scary movie unless my legs are covered.
18. I played softball, soccer, basketball, ran track, danced ballet and jazz and was on the flag team in school but I never had any desire to play volleyball like all my friends.
19. I played the clarinet in Jr. High and switched to the tuba my 9th grade year. I played it for one year.
20. I can’t play tuba… I was so horrible it wasn’t even funny… although I think some people found it very funny
21. I am incredibly shy.
22. I will never cut my fingernails… I will only bite them.
23. I am never satisfied with my hairstyle and I will constantly make changes to it.
24. If I were rich I would buy so many socks (just white cotton probably men socks) that I would never have to wear the same pair twice
25. My husband knows that every holiday where I would get a present that I want new socks
26. It makes me incredibly uncomfortable to entertain people
27. I like being alone
28. I can’t stand older people’s feet but I could play with kids feet to no end
29. I LOVE mowing he lawn
30. I want to go to a murder mystery dinner soooo bad….
31. American Pie is my favorite song in the whole world (Only as done by Don Mclean) I could listen to it over and over and never get sick of it!!
32. I love regular Pepsi and if I could survive on only that I would do it in a second
33. I want American Pie played at my funeral
34. I would watch the children’s cartoon Author over most shows on TV
35. I absolutely love to color
36. Fall is by far the best season ever
37. I am scared to death of going to
38. I hate syrup, ketchup and pepper
39. Potatoes done anyway are my favorite food
40. I like artificial crabmeat better than actual crabmeat
41. I love touch lamps and dimmers and still play with them to this day
42. I want to have EVERYTHING match all the time… from clothes to house décor to well everything
43. I love to organize things but once I start organizing something I usually get side tracked on something I come across and take forever to get everything organized
44. Dream On by Areosmith is my second favorite song
45. I dream up random happenings while I should be paying attention to something and end up laughing
46. I would rather be alone in an elevator than in it with someone I don’t know because I can’t make small talk and feel very uncomfortable in the silence
47. I could listen to Carol of Bells at Christmas over and over without ever getting sick of it
48. I hate the color gold… I think it is very ugly
49. I have to know what time it is no matter what I am doing and if I don’t know what time it is than all I think about is what time it is and I can’t concentrate on anything else
50. 17 is my favorite number…. I don’t know why
51. I was born in January and think this fits me perfectly and I have no clue why
52. If I could eat an avocado every day for the rest of my life I would
53. Baby monitors scare me because you never know what you will pick up with them
54. I still have baby monitors in my children’s rooms because we have a split floor plan and I can’t stand not hearing what is going on in their room
55. If someone runs into something I will laugh every time whether they are hurt or not…. I just can’t help myself
56. If I could plan weddings or parties for a living I would
57. I would teach kindergarten for a living
58. I hate taking naps because I feel like I am wasting time
59. I love the children’s movie the Emperor’s New Groove and I hate that my kids don’t
60. Almost every time I see pictures being shown to music it makes me want to cry… Even if I don’t know who the pictures are of
61. I don’t sleep with a top sheet, I can only sleep with a comforter
62. I hardly every wear a coat… I have to pretty much force myself to wear a coat
63. When I am bored and I have a calculator I will add the numbers 1 to 100 together and than subtract them to see if I can get it to equal 0
64. I bite my tongue when I am mad or I want to squeeze my kids
65. I am scared of the dark
66. I love jumping on trampolines
67. I love the thought of twins and always wanted to be friends with whatever twins were at my school
68. I have twin brothers and it didn’t dawn on me that they were twins till I was in high school
69. Brown is my favorite color
70. I would give anything to move my family to a really small town and live the rest of our lives there
71. I love the idea of packing up and leaving at the drop of a hat
72. I will always be spontaneous and do whatever… Like camping we always just say lets go camping one second… the next thing we are on the road to go up camping… I would go crazy if I wasn’t able to be spontaneous and my children have never hindered us from being spontaneous
73. I want to spend Christmas in
74. I want to walk across the
75. I want to go to
76. I really don’t have a desire to go to
77. Two of my favorite color combinations are Black and Pink and Brown and Pink
78. I would rather drive a manual than an automatic any day
79. I find butterflies to be incredible creepy and I usually freak out more if there is a butterfly by me than if there is like a mosquito or bee…. I don’t know why?
80. I love things that are designed with stripes or polka dots
81. I love the colors pea green and olive green and like puke green… especially with brown
82. Things have to have a pattern and if they don’t I have to figure one out… And if I can’t than I can’t concentrate on anything because I will be trying to make a pattern anyway
83. I have always wanted an easy bake oven and still do to this day
84. I have a really bad habit of taking pens because I like the way I write with them
85. I love to drive and I used to just drive around with my friends and husband before we had kids… I still would if the kids could stand being in the car
86. Me and my husband used to argue over who gets to drive because I would drive every time if I could
87. I would also get out of the car and make my husband park because I hate parking
88. One of my favorite stores is Toys R Us… I could stay there forever
89. I used to collect Band-Aids when I was younger NOT used ones… Like character ones… I even had some from
90. I used to collect soaps that are where all different shapes
91. I used to have an imaginary squirrel as my friend when I was young her name was Jenny. All my animals and dolls where named Jenny
92. I have no desire to ever take a cruise
93. When I was little I was going to grow up and change my name to Amy
94. If someone plays with my hair it puts me to sleep
95. I LOVE the smell of new tires, I would never get tired of smelling it!
96. I have always wanted a long flowing white sundress
97. I have always wanted a house with a weeping willow
98. I grind my teeth at night
99. I constantly changed my handwriting when I was younger
100. I have always wanted to have a party where a ton of balloons fall from the ceiling
So you know that commercial where the woman has the four boys and the car insurance guy is there and there is pure chaos. Well I just had one of those moments. I was on the phone with my school and Braxten runs in and is crying, I ask him what is wrong and he holds out his toy and says... 'Gannon put my toy in the toilet' So I go in to the bathroom because if Gannon is putting toys in the toilet than its probably overflowing. (side note: Braxten just came and told on Gannon... Are you ready for this? For spraying water in Pedro's WATER bowl... Funny boy!) Anyway so the toilet wasn't overflowing but it was close, so I have this lady on the phone, I am plunging the toilet that wont go down. Braxten is crying and arguing with Gannon because he is still mad about the toy, Gannon is crying because he got in trouble and he is also arguing with Braxten... Jackson is crying in the background because he is ready to eat. Pedro is barking... Rico is barking.... Why are the dogs barking? Because they have the ability, that is my guess. Than Braxten starts asking me questions that have to be answered right that second... Gannon needs to finish going potty and he can't in his bathroom... I am trying to leave the bathroom to go write down what the lady is telling me and I can't because Gannon is trying to flush the toilet and he can't because I still didn't get it to go down and the lady on the phone says "You sound busy I will let you go" Busy didn't describe it!! It is times like these that I wish I could be this carefree:
