5 little monkeys: January 2010

Friday, January 8, 2010

See what I have to put up with...

It's hard being me sometimes. While my oldest two are at school filling there brains with smarts I get to stay home and watch princess movies, button up princess dresses, dance to princess music all day long. It's tough being me.

Monday, January 4, 2010

Jr. Jazz Basketball

Is this not the cutest picture ever (thanks Rae for letting me steal it!) My sweet Tyler and his best bud/cousin Troy Jr.! They were on the same city basket ball team together. These two boys were made from the same mold and will be best buds forever.

My little Tyler is quite the basketball star (I'd like to believe he gets his athletic abilities from me...a girl can wish, can't she??) He was so fun to watch and I can't wait until next year!

Friday, January 1, 2010

2010!!!!!!!!!!!

A New Year (insert HUGE sigh of relief here)...I woke up this morning with a very peaceful feeling. I have often thought that our society puts too much emphasis on New Years and resolutions. We should be trying to do our best and be better every day, right, not just at the beginning of a new year? But I must say that this year is a little different for me. With all the trials we have faced this year, we have also been blessed more than I could say. We have learned a lot about patience, obedience and faith. I feel like James and I are being given a second chance to LOVE more, be better parents, and spouses. We are going to try to use our time and money wiser. We will try to take every moment to remember how important our children are and how fast they grow. I feel like I have been given a second chance to show my Savior that I can live up to the potential he sees in me.

I am excited for 2010! It is going to be a good year!

Here are some fun pictures of our New Years Eve party. My sister, Tara and her family-My bro Troy and his family-My Mom and Dad were all there (we missed you Tami and Nate and baby Spencer! Get feeling better!)

Playing Games (Me, Troy, Brother-in-law Chris, and my Dad)

Rockin' out to Lego Rock Band! Notice who is at the Drums....My Mom! Rock on! (Nephew Dillon, Niece Ariel, My mom, Kylee and James)

My sister-in-law RaeLynne! She was jammin'!

Malia fell asleep with her face in the couch before the party even started =)

When James got home from work we realized we were matching on not-purpose ( I know that non-purpose isn't a word, but it is now.) How can you not take a picture of that!

My Kids Say the Dardnest Things

5-13-14 Dalin (3): " Mommy Willey (the cat) bit me. I think he's a vampire.'
11-1-10
Tyler was talking on the phone to his cousin Austin and Austin made a really loud noise and Tyler said,
"Whatever noise you just made was SO loud it sounded like you sent little men with sticks into my ears to bang on my ear drums!"
7-14-2010
Tyler: "Do you know you're cute?"
Malia: "Ya!"
Tyler: "Do you know I love you?"
Malia: "Ya!"
6-27-2010
I have been crocheting a blanket for the new baby and Baily was watching me one day, and this conversation happened.
"Mom, you crochet faster than a chicken!"
"Really!? I have never seen a chicken crochet before Baily, have you?"
"Yes! Once, when I was at the Zoo and I was lost all by myself I saw a chicken crocheting."
"Oh really, and he was crocheting with his feet?"
"Ya, He was crocheting with all of his feet! But he wasn't as fast as you Mom!"
5-2-09
Baily- "How old will I be when I get baptized?"
Me- "Eight."
Baily- "Are you 8?"
Me- "No, I am 29."
Baily- "Wow! I will never be that old!"
5-1-09
I was explaning to Baily how to say her personal prayers. I told her she gets to talk to and tell Heavenly Father anything she wants. Then she said,
Baily- "I can't talk to Him, He isn't here!"
Me- "Just try to picture him in your head as you are talking to him."
Baily- "I just can't do it Mom, Heavenly Father is just too far up there."
We where discussing what everyone wanted to be for halloween, when we got to Baily I said, "And you get to be a tinker! (tinker belle)
Baily- "No...I don't want to be a tinker toy!"
Baily- "Mommy, I want a fruit number" (she meant fruit leather...it took me a while to figure that one out)
Mom -"Tyler, I can't believe you are old enough to start Kindergarten!"
Tyler- "I know! I just learned and learned and learned and learned...it took a long time for it!"
We saw Horton Hears a Who for the first time yesterday and this is what I over heard today as Kylee and Tyler were playing...
Kylee- "Let's play Horton Hears a Who. I get to be Horton." and without even stopping to think Tyler quickwittedly responds,
Tyler-"I get to be 'hears a who'"
We were at the zoo the other day and my sweet, curious Tyler says,
"I always wondered what it would be like to lick a zebra, but remember that time that I licked Alley (our cat)...It was not fun."
It's true...we were getting cat hair off his tongue for days!
Baily and I were sitting on the couch and she looks up at me with her big green eyes and says, "Mom, guess what...Jesus died for us!" Talk about an unbelievable parent moment!
We went to the fish farm and let the kids catch some trout. Kylee caught her first fish and was freaking out as it was wiggling on the line. She was screaming, "It wont stop vibrating!"
Tyler picked his fish up and looked it in the eye and said, "Good bye fish...we will see you at dinner!"
The tooth fairy was 2 days late to pick up Kylee's tooth (oops!) and when she woke up the second morning and there was still a tooth under her bed and no money she said,
Kylee- "Maybe she was arrested from breaking into all of those kids houses."
I put Kylee's plate of food in front of her tonight and after seeing what it was (spaghetti with meat and zucchini in the sauce) she said, "Is that all you can do is make me sicker and sicker!" Guess who had to eat an extra serving of zucchini! I know, I'm mean! Can you say, "Attitude!"
I walked into the living room when I heard Malia hysterically laughing and I said,
"Baily, why is Malia laughing so hard?"
Baily- "I'm sitting on her."
Me- "No Baily! We don't sit on babies!"
Baily- "But she likes it!"
Tyler- "Mommy, how many days are in a week?"
Me- "7"
Tyler- "How many weeks in a year?"
Me-"52"
Tyler "Good Job Mom!"
Tyler- "I was in a play today at Primary, and I got to be Nehi...I mean Lephi..."
Daddy- "If a snake has round eyes it is NOT posionous, and if it has slit eyes like a cat it IS poisonous." Kylee- "So if I see a snake I will pick it up, check its eyes, and if they are slits I will drop it and run!"
Baily- "Mommy, I am so happy now, 'cause I am bigger and I get the potty train!"
Baily (3) - "I'm Big now mommy, remember. I'm 4!"