Rough Housing with Katie

When Katie comes over the boys always have a good time. Usually it goes like this. Ding Dong -"Katie is here!!!" then she comes in and puts her stuff down says hi to me and then they are off to the races teasing each other, rolling around wrestling, chasing each other and they all have a great time and are totally worn out by the time she leaves. We love our Aunt Katie.

This kid loves to color!

Please don't forget to note the iron man glove and green boots :)

First Day of School

Christian started his second year of preschool with Miss Cathy. About the middle of July he would say "Mom, I bet Miss Cathy is missing me!" He has loved all the summer fun, but he really does love school and his teacher. After I picked him up from preschool he got mad at me because I guess some of the mom's stayed and took pictures of the kids in the classroom where we just took first day school pics at our house. I told him I was sorry I didn't take pictures of him at school and we could do it next class time. And he just said "no mom, just remember for next year." Ha ha this is a good kid.

He wanted to do a silly face first


And after much coaxing a normal Christian smile. I cannot believe how fast he is growing up!!!

Sweet Pretzel Muffins

A favorite snack of mine and Christian's lately has been cheese and pretzels. While having this yummy snack Christian got an idea to make "Sweet Pretzels Muffins!" He said to me "All you have to do is get a plate and put some pretzels on it and pour water on it, stick in the fridge so they will get nice and cold and sweet!" He was so excited I could dampen his creative spirit even though it sounded disgusting. So he made the pretzels and he and Evan thought they were the best thing ever. They ate the entire plate and made some more... this time Christian was saving them for dinner. At dinner time he insisted that me and Dan try some of these delightful creations. Trying to be good parents we took a small piece and ate it. Soggy, slightly salt, mushy cold pretzel, um, yeah- it really was disgusting. All through dinner Christian wanted to discuss his new creation until Dan said "Hey buddy lets talk about something else now" because after tasting this little nugget of mushiness, discussing it made us both feel nauseous and our appetites were quickly slipping away. But Evan happily volunteered to help Christian eat the rest. The next day he made ANOTHER batch and saved them for Dan until he got home from work, then Dan told him even though he had tried them he didn't really care for them, and since then Christian has decided he does not like sweet pretzel muffins. This kid kills me :)



I mean come on, even though they were gross look how proud he was at what he came up with. So cute.

One more thing...

While I am posting things I don't want to forget, here is a conversation Dan had with Christian one night before prayers.

Christian: "I wish Jesus could live here"
Dan: "Why?"
Christian: "So Evan can get over his allergies."

What a sweet tender boy I have- love all three of my boys oh so very much.

Play Mates

My boys are so fun to watch playing these days. They are really good buddies and play well together most of the time. I have a few random things about each of them I wanted to write down before I forgot or they stopped doing them.
Christian: "20 hundred" This is the main phrase of Christian he uses it like "Mommy as soon as Evan is done having his turn with that I get it for 20 hundred minutes, okay?" or when he is saying his prayers he will pray "And please bless that Ashlynn and Haley will come over for 20 hundred days." or if I tell him that it's time to go in 10 minutes he will say "how about 20 hundred more minutes" Christian's turning into a little boy, he loves all thins super hero. And he is smart and catches on fast. He is sweet and will tell us all the time that he loves us and gives us kisses and hugs. And he loves to learn and can't wait for preschool to start back up again. Sometimes, when he sneezes or farts he will say "Mom I excused me!" or if he sneezes a lot "Mom I blessed you a lot!"
Evan: He is the ultimate little brother. He loves to do whatever Christian is doing- this is a good thing and a bad thing. It does well when Christian is leading them through some elaborate imaginary adventure, it does not well when we are trying to get them to eat their food because the second Christian gets up from his chair, so does Evan. Evan LOVES to read! He will sit and read with me for easily 30 minutes, which has been good to because Christian will sit with us. It's fun to go to the library and get new books every week or so with them. Evan loves his blankie and all animals. He loves to color and play with play dough. He also has quite the imagination and I will find him playing by himself quietly all the time. Sometimes he will point his finger at you and make a firing sound and say "I Iron Man" in the manliest voice he can. If you ask him a question he will most likely answer like this "mmmhmmm" or "yup" with an emphasis on the "p."
Love my boys :)

Family Reunion Craziness

I have given up trying to load pictures in the correct order so here is our family reunion in no particular order :)
Our family goes to a cabin called The Pinnacles, it's past Strawberry and we have a blast up there every year.

We always launch balloons and this year I got to be part of the crew filling up the balloons and it was quite the wet and funny experience. If you notice Dan's hat, my parents all gave us red,white, and blue hats to wear to help us remember my bro-in-law Sam who is serving in Afghanistan right now. We really did miss him a lot, and can't wait for him to come home soon.


Evan in Davy's Mexican wrestling mask... yes my brother is werid, but it's okay, I like him that way- most of the time ;)


Christmas in "July" even though this year it was in August. We wait to exchange family presents when we are all together instead of shipping them off during Christmas time. It is always funner to watch someone open the present you gave them.


My mom had these cute little foam animal hats the kids just loved. They would trade all the time and play like they were the animal.


More balloon launching (one again, blogger picture upload-not a fan)


We made marshmallow guns! It was so fun, here is Christian sweet gun


The pipe waiting to be cut.


We also played kick ball where the bases are chairs and you have to sit in each one before you can run to the next base. It was so fun


Dave and Lara brought stuff to make hemp bracelets/anklets/necklaces. Of course the ladies loved this :)


More marshmallow guns. For reals if you want to see grown men run around and laugh like kids, make marshmallow guns. They split off into teams and shot each other till every one was feeling light head from blowing so many marshmallows. It was quite the clean up but worth it, so fun!


There is a little stream in front of the cabin and the kids imaginations went wild. This year they all found poles and tied on long leaves to them to make fishing poles. They would fish for hours.


And if the marshmallow guns were not enough.... we also made a potato gun which made a nice resounding Boom every time we fired it.



And of course we can't forget the tire swing. Evan loved it but I have to say the kid who loved it the most this year was Little Kirk, he could have swang the whole time and it still wouldn't have been enough.


Christian loves all of his cousins, but Ty and him are two peas in a pod. They were hardly every without each other the whole time, and we are really missing him and the rest of his family right now.