Gray is 2!!!

Yes I know its been a while since Gray actually turned 2 but lets just pretend for a second that I'm not a slacker.........

Happy Birthday Grazer Blazer!! I can't believe you are already 2 we are so blessed to have you in our family!! You are such an amazing little kid. You are so loving and sweet!! You are constantly singing and dancing around the house and it always makes me smile, you are also shy about your great talent for singing and dancing. once someone complements you or even if you notice some one is looking at you (even daddy and I) you freeze up and refuse to keep going unless someone is singing with you.....remind you of anyone.....that is totally me yes I am sorry you are like your mom!! You still love to follow Krew around, where ever he goes you want to be, you are his little shadow and I love it.

A few things that you love:

*Your best friend is Grant curtis

*You love the color blue (well at least to you every color is blue)

*You have a lot of favorite songs and they change quite often but right now you love:

• Buzz Buzz Buzz - a song daddy wrote for you boys
• Happy birthday and twinkle twinkle (you sing these a lot around the house)
• Krews song (dynamite by tao cruz)
• The button song (Miss Mary Mack)
• Daddy likes (Keep your head up by Andy Grammar)
• La la la ( Tonight Tonight by Hot Chelle Ray)

See you sure love music, I'm sure there is more but I can't think of them right now

*You love to run around out side, you would rather be playing and running around than watch TV

*You love to help me out around the house, You are a very good helper especially in the kitchen you love to help me cook.

*You love food, almost all food, you don't like carrots or lettuce but I have a feeling it might be because Krew freaks out every time he sees carrots or lettuce in anything. And you like to copy Krew. Sometimes even if I ask "what do you guys want  for _____ "you just copy what ever Krew says it sometimes feels like an echo  I (I) Want (Want) Umm (Umm) I think it's funny.

You are  28 lbs  and 35 1/2 in Tall and such an independent boy you want to do everything by yourself, Wich is good and bad at the same time. You are officially potty trained and I LOVE IT!!! I know I started potty training you a little young but it worked out for the best and I'm so glad!

You are also a shadow to your dad. Everyday that he goes to school you want to run out side as he's driving away just so you can blow him kisses one more time. And if you ever have the option to do anything with mommy or anything with daddy you will always choose Daddy hands down. It comes in handy a lot.

Example:

Gray "I need to go potty"

Mommy "do you want mommy to take you or Daddy"

Gray "Daddy"

Gray I love you so much!! You are such an amazing Kid and I feel so blessed to be your mother. I'm so glad that you are in our family and that I get to spend everyday with you. I cherish each moment I spend with you. You bring so much joy into my life and I thank Heavenly father EVERYDAY that he blessed me with you! 

Here's the birthday boy!!

On his birthday with all his presents

Baseball and bat from uncle Barton and Aunt "Emy"

Look at him even excited about shoes such a sweet boy

Thomas the train puzzle and stuffed toy (not shown) from Oma and Opa 

Flip the bounce back racer, remote control car from mommy and daddy

The birthday party!!

He had a combined Cars birthday party with his best friend Grant they are 3 weeks apart in age (when they are together Gray just follows Grant around doing everything he does. His little shadow He certainly in a follower. ) Grants mother and I planned the whole thing together. It was so much fun to plan and put together. Thanks Amy for all that you did. Also a special thanks to Aunt Emily My wonderful sister in-law who helped me put up all the decorations the night before. 

Decorations:

Mater cupcake ( Amy did an amazing job making these)

Games:

Leaning tower of tires whoever could build their "tires" highest would get a prize and they all did so great everyone was a winner!!

Mater fishing 

My amazing helpers Thank you boys!

Tire Toss

All the birthday boys wanted to do was climb in the tires 

They sure are cute birthday boys!

Piston Cup Race

Worlds best backward drivers here 

Cake time:

We sure love our stink'n cute birthday boy!!

We had such an amazing time. Thanks again to all who helped out and made this party a success!!

Date Night!!

Brandon and I went out on a date!! It was so much fun. We did a trade of with our good friends the Watts. I went to their house and watched their kids while they went on a date and then Ashley came here and watched our kids while we went on a date. It was nice to be able to get out just the two of us. Usually when we do get out of the house just the two of us we do the same thing, Dinner (Olive Garden) and a movie. We decided to be adventurous and not do the same thing and went out to a restaurant we had never been to called la delicious. It was yummy!! Then we played miniature golf! We had such a good time with each other, with Brandon "teaching" me how to swing the ball and me letting him win so he would feel manly. I sure do love this man and so grateful that he his my husband! He makes me laugh so hard and makes me feel so special and loved. Thanks for taking me out baby I'm glad we could get a little more spark back!

Today and the past week!

TODAY

I went on my last first date 6 years ago today!! It wasn't intended to be a first date, Brandon and I were in a dance class together and to get extra credit ( That was our excuse but really Brandon and I just really wanted to hangout with each other. I mean, come on, who really needs extra credit for a dance class? definitely an easy A) we decided to get a group together to watch "swing kids". We invited quite a few people from our class but no one else showed up to watch the movie.(Really I paid them not to come j/k) I'm glad they didn't show because that was the night that Brandon and I became a couple! Brandon and I have now been together for 6 years I can't believe how fast the time has flown by! I love him more and more every day. We have done some amazing things together and I wouldn't change anything!! Thanks for the best 6 years of my life babe I LOVE YOU!!

This is us 6 years ago!

LAST WEEK

The boys have all been sick this past week and our cars brakes have been making some sounds, we got it all fixed now butBrandon didn't want me driving it till we got it fixed and there was no way I was going to be at the mechanic by myself with 3 kids for who knows how long so I was with out a car for a whole week! Sick kids and no car means we were stuck in this house!! So I thought what better time to potty train Gray, I know he's only 22 months but, he has been really curious about the toilet and for the past like 3 weeks he has gone #2 in the toilet every day. So far it has been going fairly well. The first couple of days was a little rough pee on the floor a lot. It seemed like a lot of times he would sit on the toilet pee a little bit and then I would get him off and he would pee on the floor, Just a little frustrating!! But I think he is starting to understand a little more now, Yesterday he actually told me he had to pee and went went to the toilet and he did pee. It was awesome!! I hope it just continues to get better!! We will see how today goes. so far no accidents.

Here he is in his new big boy pants!!

So with us being stuck in the house, I decided I should try to get a little bit of cleaning done. Krew really wanted to help so I gave him a spray bottle with water in it and a rag and had him wash windows he thought that was the most awesome thing and has been asking me almost every day if he can use the spray bottle again.

Here he is wash'n windows

2 weeks ago Brandon dropped his phone and it shattered into a million pieces, it was going to cost him $250 to get the glass replaced by apple, but then he found a guy on ebay that fixed iPhones glass for $35. but he had to mail it to the guy which meant he would be away from his phone for 6 days. Brandon is very dependent on his phone so he was having a really hard time with having it gone for 6 days.

I have been taking pictures of Bennett each month but I keep not posting the pictures. And since he just turned 3 months old this week I thought I would share how much he has been growing. I can't believe it has already been 3 month since he was born. He is such a smilie kid. He's starting to laugh too with is so much fun! He is such an amazing baby! I feel so blessed to have him as my child! He is very go with the flow baby. Gray LOVES him so much, sometimes maybe a little too much if you know what I mean. He is constantly wanting to give him hugs and hold him and show me that he has EYES!! Poking him all the time. And it seems like Bennett doesn't even mind.

1 Month

2 Months

3 months

I love my boys so much!! I feel like the luckiest mom in he world!! I saw a quote the other day that said something like....Out of all of the kids in the world how did I end up with the best ones! That is certainly how I feel! But I'm sure every mom feels that same way about their kids! Now we just need to shake off this sickness so we can get out of this house!!

EyeBall

Brandon and I got to go on an actual date, with no kids!! This doesn't happen very often people! We went to the SCO dance called the EyeBall (I know we are really witty here!!) It was so much fun! It was so nice to get out of the house and do something with just Brand and I! We met in a dance class and our real first date was at a dance and we hadn't been to a dance since until now 6 years later, almost to date. Brand and I were on the dance floor almost non stop from 8:30 to 10:30. We went with a big group of people from our ward. The best thing was is our group had the dance floor all to ourselves for probably about an hour and a half. Everyone else had to "have a few drinks" before they could start dancing. we knew it was about time for us to go when we started getting beer spilt on us and noticed that someone had puked on the floor. Thats one of the many reasons I don't drink. It was pretty much perfect!

Here we are dropping off our kids to our wonderful friends! Thanks again Mark and Amy! But you better be coming with us next year!

At dinner Mongolian BBQ mmmm it was super good.

With our wonderful Friends at dinner!

At the dance.....Lets PARTAY

Me with an amazing group of girls, We had so much fun dancing together. They got to see my crazy side...not many people get to see my crazy side.

See there I am going crazy!!

Our good friends Ashley and Todd

Yep.....I think I was a little too excited to be out dancing with my man with out kids!! 6 years and 3 kids later..... we still know how to have fun!

Christmas

Christmas was a BLAST!!! Krew is at such a fun age!! He was able to tell us exactly what he wanted, witch was a robot and a computer, that's all he wanted. It started out just a robot that could swim (I don't know where he got the idea of a swimming robot, he had a really hard time explaining to me) He ended up just saying he wanted a robot and a computer, I found This little guy and showed him to Krew to kind of coax him into wanting him instead of a robot and a computer how about a robot that is a computer (well sort of). anyway, long story short it was fun to talk to him about christmas, telling him about why we celebrate Christmas and trying to be more like Jesus everyday. I tried something that was pretty fun it will be more fun once Gray understands and not just Krew. Every night we would go around and say a good deed that we noticed someone else had done and they would get a piece of candy if they did a good deed that day. It was fun to hear the things Krew would think about like.... "Gray played with his toys with me" ...."daddy played with me"....and "Mommy made dinner" That's pretty much what he said every night, I tried to get him to branch out and think of other things that happened through out the day but he insisted on using those same good deeds. We definitely had a blast bringing the Christmas spirit into our home!

Here we are making cookies! The boys had a lot of fun, I think their daddy had more fun than they did he was the one throwing flour around!! The boys thought it was pretty funny!

The boys and I went to a little christmas party with some other mothers and their kids and Santa showed up Krew was ECSTATIC!!

This is the moment that he saw santa. Santa walked in and Krew Yelled it's Santa and ran up to him (of course as he was looking at me grinning as if to say can you believe that Santa is here) And shook his hand.

Here is Krew telling Santa "Yep, I want 2 presents, a robot and a computer!!"Gray was a little more hesitant but because he saw Krew so excited he went along with it all and sat on Santa's Lap.
Bennett Just sleep'n a way didn't even notice I passed him off to Santa.

Christmas Eve we had a bunch of friends come over for dinner and it was a lot of fun. The adults Laughed and Cried together ( well I cried) while the kids played together, We all had this idea to have the kids dress up and "act" out the manger scene but most of the kids didn't want to do it, My kids thought it was awesome and got dressed up so here we have Joseph Chill'n with a shepherd. Aren't they so cute! Oh I love my boys!!!Our little Family Christmas eve in front of our tree!

The kiddos in their Christmas eve Jammies!! Oh we sure love our friends here! We had a Blast! Thanks Cheryl for putting it all together for us!
My 3 boys in their Christmas Jammies!! I love matching my boys ( I match them as much as I can because I think it's so fun even though I get the comment all the time "Oh what cute twins"... or " Oh wow you have twins and another little boy" Maybe I shouldn't dress them a like so much, But I think it's super cute!!)
Our living room Christmas morning!!

Lights off and on:

(The Candy Cane Wrapping Paper is Santa's Gifts that He Brought)

I told the boys to give me their excited face....I think they were still a little tired ( and yes we did wake them up, it was a lot of fun!! plus we had church at 9 and we wanted to have the boys open at least one gift before we left)
Krew and Grey with their stocking loot!
Bennett with his stocking and present from Santa!
Bennett with his gifts
Gray with his gifts
Krew with his gifts
Me with my gifts
And Brandon with his gifts
Every year we get a family gift that is a puzzle, Brandon and I put our puzzle together in 3 hours the next night it was so much fun!After that we had the puzzle itch and the next couple of nights we did 2 more puzzles here are our masterpieces!
All in all we had a fantastic Christmas!! And hope you all had a Fantastic Christmas as well!!