Budding Artists

Apparently our twins have found their artistic abilities, on the floor and wall.  Ashton has a set of dry eraser markers to use on the easel Grandma Terrie bought them for Christmas.  Instead of putting the markers away like Cortney asked him this morning, he hide them out of Cortney’s sight.  Caitlin and Cayden found the marker and proceeded to write three places on the carpet in the basement and the yellow couch.  Then while I was getting breakfast ready they found the crayons in the diaper bag we take to church and drew us a lovely mural on the kitchen wall and the door frame to the bathroom.  I guess instead of spring/summer deep cleaning I will just paint the walls.  Hopefully the marker comes out of the new carpet in the basement and Cortney’s grandma’s yellow couch.(Sorry to the Hirschi family)

  

Finally…….A (working)motorcycle

For those of you that may not know my husband has wanted a motorcycle for many years, maybe decades.  A little over a year ago he bought a motorcycle.  It was actually the first thing we bought when we got our home equity loan.  He rode the motorcycle for about a month off and on.  We went to the movies on it and he rode it in the Ed Roth Rat Fink parade down main street in Manti June 2007.  Then it started leaking gas and dying on his way to work in Manti.  He was afraid that the gas leak would cause a fire and that would be very bad.  So into the garage it went to be worked on when he could find time.  He rarely found the time unless he heard of other family members riding their motorcycles or buying new scooters.  My little brother has a very similar motorcycle that has been out of commission for about 2 years so Cortney was ahead of him.  Well about two weeks ago, Matthew got his working and we paid for another year of insurance, so this spurred Cortney into working on his until it was working.  He started, or tried to start last night but the guy at the parts store gave him the wrong parts even after Cortney told him that they were wrong.  He got up earlier this morning(saturday) and started on it and by dinnertime had it running.  All the kids were so excited to finally have the “Cycle” running that we all went out to take videos and pictures of them riding with dad…..WARNING FOR ALL THE GRANDMAS(especially Terrie and Jelean), YOU MIGHT NOT WANT TO VIEW THE PICS.:Ashton The other kids waiting for their turns :Caitlin :Cayden:Dylan

Extraordinarily Crazy!

Not sure if the title is grammatically correct but it describes our week, last week.  My little sister, Sarah is building her house in Panaca, NV.  The week before father’s day her young women president(she is in the presidency) told her that they needed her to go to girls camp.  That left her 2 year old son alone with her husband who was tyring to finish things up on their new house so we could move them in the weekend of June 20th.  Sarah called my mom, Emily and I and asked if we would watch Ethan for the week while she was gone so Jake(her husband) could concentrate on the new house.  We said sure that would be great.  The plan was to have Ethan play at my house during the morning, Emily to watch him in the afternoon and mom to have him at night and drop him off at my house in the morning.  I got to thinking that this was sounded like to big of a hassle and we would just keep him here with us the whole time.  REALLY, WHAT COULD ONE MORE KID MEAN?? Oh boy was I wrong?  Ethan isn’t a bad kid, he is just an only child, whose daddy’s world revolves around him, so to come here where we have so many kids and still try to get a lot of one on one attention all the time was difficult for him.  Luckily we still had Aunt Emmy”The Great” and Grandma so Ethan could get some one on one attention and some downtime from the craziness.  Here are some pictures of the kids running through the sprinklers. The boys enjoyed the sprinklers but Caitlin seemed to like the ”laying out” part better.    Ashton, Ethan, Caitlin, Cayden 

 (L-R)Ashton, Caitlin and Ethan  

 (L-R)Ethan, Caitlin and Cayden

In closing thanks to Sarah for letting me see what it would have been like if the twins had been triplets.  (Ethan is only 6 months and one day older than the twins.) 

Below is a video of the kids room with an extra bed in it. Ethan slept in the first bed with winnie the pooh on it.

Kids Bedroom

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Picture of boxes from an earlier post.

Here is a picture of the boxes I packed up that were all over Dylan’s room in baskets and piles.  Keep in mind these are the boxes that my kids just grew out of and into.  We still have more in the basement of different sizes. 

Two new teeth

Just wanted to quickly jot down some news.  Dylan’s top two teeth came through this morning.  Didn’t even attempt a pic because you can barely see them in person and I don’t think it would work with a camera.  I will post more later this week because we are watching the only nephew on my side of the family until Friday so Sarah and Jake can get their new house finished enough so we can move them in this weekend.  The kids are having a blast so I will post about the crazy week later.

Another semi-productive Saturday.

Today we got a little done.  Cortney in the yard and I worked on about 12 boxes of clothes that needed to be sorted through, sized and put away for the next kid.  I had these boxes piling up in poor Dylan’s room and I was having trouble getting to the crib, so I decided that it needed to be done today.  Cortney is working on our side yard clearing weeds and preparing it for grass.  My brother the “grass guru” said that as long as the night time temps are still relatively low that the grass will grow so we are going to try and plant the side yard too.  We have half of the backyard done with grass and it only took about two and half weeks.  

Caitlin woke up from nap earlier than the boys so she went out to help dad with the yard work.  We then ate dinner and everyone decided to pitch and “help”. 

Apparently Cayden got tired soon after and got his feet dirty.  He is so funny about his feet.  He can’t stand to walk in the grass in barefeet and can’t have his feet dirty.

     I think that we have a tom boy on our hands.  She did more work than Ashton and Cayden combined. 

  

T-Ball

During the summer here everyone plays baseball or softball and this year they decided to let four year olds play t-ball. They play t-ball for three years, 4 yr old, 5 yr old, and 6 yr old. We only have 10 games every Monday and Wednesday this month. I decided to take some pictures of Ashton playing. He really seems to like it and actually plays instead of doing airplanes in the outfield, like his dad use to do. The first couple of pics he is playing short stop   and then he was the last one on his team to bat so he got to run around all the bases like a home run. He even slide into home with his shorts on because his dad told him to as he rounded third(Cortney was the third base coach).
  The last pic is of him the next inning playing first base. He didn’t quite get the concept of not going after the ball but going to his base and waiting for people to throw the ball to him. But he does have a couple of more years to perfect his t-ball game. About our second game with the twins running wild, I realized that in about 3 years Dylan and the Twins will be playing t-ball and Ashton will be on coach pitch and then the next year. I think Ashton will be in the league where the players pitch, the twins will both be on different coach pitch teams and Dylan will still be in t-ball. I guess I will camp out at the park all summer long every night.

Princess…….

So I took the quiz off of my sister in-laws blog about which Disney Princess you are more like and I turned out to be………..

You Are Belle!

Intelligent and kind. Your beauty goes much further than your apperance. Also, you make judgements of people based on their personality and not their looks. Attaining all the knowledge that you can is one of your major goals in life, but you are also a person who can make things happen.
Which Disney Princess Are You?

 

So my next question is if I am Belle doesn’t that make Cortney the beast??? 

A better pic of preschool

So I was surfing around from my class of ‘94 new blog www.mhsclassof94.blogspot.com and found a link on a classmates page to a family that lives down the street from my mom and who Cortney bought his motorcycle from.  On their blog was a better picture of Ashton’s preschool program so I copied onto mine.  I am sure that you can tell that the kid with the cheesy smile is the one whose mom took the pic and the blog owner but oh well.  They were on the front row in the center.