just some funny words

i always want to remember funny things that my kids say. so i thought i would just post a couple from yesterday so that i would not forget.

Cullan, after wrestling with Kael and getting a bloody nose was sitting on my lap. He had been sitting there for a few minutes and the bleeding had pretty much stopped. Cullan looked up at me and said:

cullan: mom i think the bleeding contest is over.
me: did you win?
cullan: yes

later that same night i had been promising the boys for a while that we would make something fun after dinner some night. so last night we made brownies. as we were finishing up this was the conversation we had in the kitchen.
kael: mom you are awesome for making these brownies!
cullan: (with a hug) yep mom, you are the best mom.
me: wow! if i knew i would these kinds of compliments we would make brownies more often.
kael: you are really cool mom.
cullan: yep mom your the best!!

out

while i was at the store, garran was cleaning up the kitchen. i guess he decided to let B have a snack while he mopped the floor. he said he came back around the corner and found her like this. out like a light!! he took a picture so i would not miss the cuteness.

love this!!

i hope i can be like my grandmother at her age. this is my 90 year old grandmother and my cousin on mother's day. she asked David to take her for a ride on his new Harley. I love that she is so adventurous. she always has been. I am sad we were not there to see it in person!!

weekend visits

This weekend my parents came to see our new place and visit. We had a fun time going to IKEA and just hanging out. The kids loved the fact that my parents hotel had a pool. So you can guess what we did for two nights in a row!! I thought i would post some videos. One is of Kael jumping off the side of the pool and the other is of little miss priss strutting her stuff around the pool!

make up

today on the way to church, i was putting on some make up in the car. Kael asked me what I was doing. I told him I was putting make up on so that I would not scare anyone away. (it was pretty light hearted)
then Kael says the following:
mom, if all those people ran away and were screaming, i would just say "just stop, don't run, its just my mom".
oh from the mouth of babes

Happy Mothers Day!!

I was going to post something sweet but decided to go with a laugh instead. Hope everyone including my mom has a great mother's day!!

polka dots

for some reason polka dots are comforting to me. i never wear them but i love them. so today i decided to go with polka dots on my blog. enjoy!

our bags are packed, were ready to go....

well we got everything ready and on Thursday morning this great group of guys showed up and had all of our stuff loaded in about an hour and a half. it went so smoothly i could not believe it. we really appreciated all of their help. it would have been much harder with out their help. thanks so much to the following fellas!!
mike j.
anthony n.
derek j.
phil c.
carl h.
elders
mike L.

Goodbye Parties!

some of our church friends decided to throw a farewell party for us at church the night before we left. it was hard to say goodbye to everyone. we have lived there for almost 10 years. that's a lot of fun and memories!stacy, briea, me and jenelle posing real quick. i am not sure what jenelle's husband is doing back there ;0)krista giving us a side view of her baby bump. she had her son the exact same time i had kael. so we were pregnant together and used to work out at the Y together during our pregnancy. her son is exactly one month older than kael!
these are just party goers...moana, joan, jean, jamie, melissa, baby hartson and josh!these are my friend jamie's children and my children. we wanted to get a group shot of them together. jamie and i have a history. i met her when i first moved to iowa. she was recently engaged and living in a house with three other girls. well when she moved out, i took her spot in the house and we have been friends ever since. of course we did a silly one too. please excuse Kael's gym shorts and Garran calls them. he had a small accident!

small world

this was cullans last day at his preschool. he really loved it there. he had some great friends and really enjoyed his teachers Mrs. Marston and Mrs. Kutz. He wanted me to take his picture with them, even though he does not look overly excited about it. I hope he has such fun teachers this next year.

ladies night

before i left, i got to go out to dinner with some great friends to relax and have a little fun. we went to Tony's. i have some wonderful and hilarious memories here with some of my friends and so we decided this was the place to go for our little farewell dinner. it was so much fun. i really appreciated these ladies coming out to have dinner and say goodbye. i will miss all the laughter and fun times i have had with these women, but I am sure to keep in touch!
(women in attendance: niki j, heidi c, jenelle s, stacy p, jen b, amy b, annie w, lindsey e, susie j)

last day at mom school

kael had his last day of mom school last Tuesday. it was fun and sad at the same time. he has really enjoyed mom school this year and the friends that he has made. he still talks about them since we have moved and asks when they will be coming over to play. i just wanted to post a few pictures from the day.

the kids played a life size version of candy land. it was really fun and then they got to color some pictures. kael wanted to bring cupcakes for the last day, so we did. Briea got to eat a turkey sandwich instead. oh well, she is still super cute doing it.

so long!

we are unplugging tonight...but don't forget to check back in a little while. hopefully our internet will be up and working at the new place sooner than later!! wish us luck. I am hoping the move goes well!

b

just sharing some cuteness.

young love

(bug getting caught giving kisses)

well at this age it is rare to get the kiddos to sit still for long, so my friend Erica and I often find ourselves hanging out at church chasing these to little cuties. poor Jackson has been roughed up on more than one occasion by my little briea bug. i feel horrible about it but she literally loves him to death. she can be so rough with him when he does not want a hug or something like that. today she was trying to kiss him and pinched his cheek. the poor guy had two little red marks. i know that briea will miss Jackson when we move, but i am sure he might just take a big sigh of relief!!! ;0)

surprise charity!!

the other day we attended a surprise birthday party for a friend of mine Charity. her family decided to have a surprise party for her. it was a lot of fun and the kids had a great time!

here is charity getting ready to cut the cake!

after everyone ate the kids just played at the park while the parents got a chance to hang out and chat. it was a nice afternoon. we will miss all of our friends here and having the opportunity to do fun things like this with them.briea trying to get daddy.cutie cullan on the slide.spider man kael, running wild at the park.
ps. my boys are obsessed with spider man right now!!

Triumph!!

haircuts or "shortcuts" as the boys call them are usually a MISERABLE thing. i don't know why but they are terrified of it. we have tried all sorts of things to get them to not be scared. however, today we tried again, something i might add that we have tried before, but today something clicked!
cullan really needed a haircut and so we were bracing ourselves for the worst. cullan was starting to go into melt down mode and garran said, "why don't you cut it". for some reason this time the suggestion worked. Cullan was laughing and saying how cool it was to cut his own hair. daddy had to help with some touch up work, but i will take a so/so haircut with no screaming any day!!

Garden Buddies

the boys have recently taken an interest in being outside and enjoying the weather. these pictures are from a while back and I have just not gotten around to blogging about them. One day we were out at Garran's parents house and Garran's mom was working in her flower bed. The boys were very anxious to help.here they are getting started. they were sort of tilling the dirt i believe to get it ready to plant some seeds.grandma showing them how to get things ready and i am pretty sure Kael was just playing in the dirt at this point.time to plant. i am not sure what they were planting, but the boys were having some fun. i am pretty sure that we are going to have to do some gardening once we get settled at our new place!these were just some pretty tulips that were already in the garden. it is so nice to see flowers and to have some warm weather finally!!

cullan

Great!

i don't know where he comes up with this sutff, but it is a great way to start my friday morning!

i love my funny boy!