Botox???

The picture that made Ryan and I want a botox party :)...  Gotta love the sun in the eyes, 1/2 smile just take the darn picture look. 

Easter Sunday.

Josh helped me make these cute bunny treats for my primary class.

Handsome Trevor.  

Little man wouldn't hold still or stay tucked in.  Not to mention his hair wont stay combed no matter how  much gel I put in it.  :)..  It's a good thing he so stinking cute.





You don't even want to know what Easter morning was like at our house.  Lets just say these are not Joshua's Easter clothes. 

And his picture was taken 3 hrs after the other two.  That's why there isn't one of all 3 together.

But I sure love this kid meltdowns and all.

Hoppy Easter

Yesterday a wild bunny came into our back yard as we were playing out side.  I had fun convinceing the boys it was the Easter Bunny's helper here to make sure they were being good, so the real Easter bunny could come visit them today.  I had the younger two kids so excited they could barley get to sleep.  As for Trevor he just thought I was absolutely CRAZY!!! 

Josh woke up at 5:00.  I made him go back to bed until Gavin woke up at 6:00.  Grump slept in until 9:00.  He never sleeps in and I couldn't keep the younger two waiting anymore.

Josh was so happy to get his Happy napper.  That's what he a Gavin have been begging for.

Gavin asked if was Christmas.  He was so confused it was pretty funny.

I made them bunny pancakes for Breakfast.  The nose was kinda big and well the whiskers were not to great but they all loved them and were so excited to eat Bunny's.

Our backyard is covered in foam.  They went through two huge thing of bubbles.  The foam gun was a success.

Grump finally woke up.  Of course he went straight for the candy and then later noticed his basket ball and base ball bat.

I made him eat his pancake before he got the candy.  Bribery works for smile with this kid :)...

Then we made confetti eggs.  Josh loved blowing out the egg snot as he called it.  Just watching him made me gag.



Getting everything ready. Grump wouldn't decorate eggs with us.



The finished eggs. 

Later that day we went and got frozen custard and then swimming.  Trevor finally snapped out of his Grumpy mood it was nice to have him back.  We missed the egg hunt (oops) but  the boys didn't seem to mind.   Tomorrow we can celebrate the true meaning of Easter and get in our nice new Easter duds. 

Gavins easter egg hunt.

We were to fill 12 eggs up for Gavins little hunt.  He picked basketball shaped eggs and we put crabby pattys in them.  It was so funny as they told the kids to go and get 12 eggs Gavin went only for the basketball eggs. He was getting very frustrated with all the kids when they would pick them up.   I guess I should of explained he gets new eggs and those particular eggs were not his.  It was pretty funny to watch.  At least this year he wanted to touch the eggs and understood the concept of the whole egg hunt thing.  I love this age.   Why can't they stay 4 Forever?

Gavins cute little class.  I didn't realize I was so far away as I took the picture.

All the kids hunting for eggs.

Gavin getting mad these are not the eggs he brought and didn't want to put it in his bucket.

Once I explained all the eggs have candy in them not just the ones we brought he was feeling a little better about the whole hunt thing.

Trevors last

I got kinda emotional bringing in Donuts for Trevor  early birthday class treat.  I just realized this will be the last time I bring in treats for him.  Unless they allow it in 6th grade but with all the classes I'm not  sure how they would do that.

He's such stickler for the things he likes.  He always wants the same thing every time.  So he got Round Rock donuts.  The class was all very respectful and  not nearly as wild as Joshua's but they all still went crazy over Gavin.  All the girls especially.  Oh how I wish I had a older daughter to help me out with these boys.

Trevor is such a interesting kid.  Always keeping me on my toes.  But he's such a great kid as well.  I love him with all my heart.  He and I are like oil and water and he would fight me the sky is purple just to fight.  But I'm always impressed when I see him with others. He always is the 1st to say please and thank you, and he treats others with such respect. (just not his brothers or Mom boo)   He's doing so well in school this year and has lots of friends who love being around him.    I'm so not ready for him to grow up so much and go to middle school.  I remember when he started Kindergarten it was just yesterday.

Happy Early birthday Trevor.  I sure love you and am very proud to be your Mom.

I love how gavin just sat right up to the desk and made him self at home.  These kids were so cute with him.

Happy Early Birthday

Man I'm the least photogenic person ever!!!

  

Gavin would not hold still to save his life.

I'm super proud of Joshua.   While I went in to his class to give him a little early b-day treat his teacher pulled me aside to tell me that he got 100% on his bench marks.  And he is such a sweet kid.  He has a little girl  who wont leave him alone.  She has special needs and Mrs. Collins said Josh is so super sweet and patient with her.  He's very matter of fact but very loving in way he deals with her.   That made me so proud. 

  When I first came into the class room Josh's desk was off to the side of the room all by himself.  My initial instinct was to think he was in trouble.  But his teacher reassured me he was not.  He moves his desk there on purpose when it's reading time so he can concentrate and not be distracted.  (he gets distracted EASILY)  and he felt this was the best way to avoid the temptation..  His teacher was very proud that he made this decision on his own after she had talked to him on being silly during quite time.

 This little guy melts my heart I just love being his mom.  

  He requested Red Velvet cupcakes this year.  We were going to do the hamburger cupcakes again but they have food allergies in his class so no homemade treats.  (bummer)  so I searched the best red velvet cupcakes and found our favorite donut place makes them.  They were a hit (well with the kids that dared try them) I was surprised not many kids had ever had red velvet it's a staple in my house.  But Josh was super happy so that's all that mattered.

  I love the younger grades.  All the kids come and give me a big hug and they all LOVE LOVE LOVE Gavin to come into the class.  They take him around and show him all the fun stuff it's really cute but very disruptive. I feel so bad.

I can't believe he will be 8 this year.  He can't wait and our summer will be full of activities now.  I hope 8 is just as great at 7 has been.

I'm bummed I didn't take many pictures I was too busy passing out cupcakes and chasing Gavin.

Spring has sprung

Growing up my Mom always had a huge Garden and beautiful Flowers all over our yard.   And my Mother in law has a amazing green thumb..  Her yard is always covered in beautiful flowers and she has the most amazing gardens *yes plural she has gardens*.

  I drive around our neighborhood and see all these amazing flowers EVERYWHERE. And the bluebonnets are starting to bloom everywhere so I was determined  I was going to have some beautiful flowers in my little pathetic flower beds. 

   I wrote on my facebook a few weeks ago about my lack of talents.  And let me tell you Gardening is another  talent I do not have.  I can't even keep the stinking plants in my house alive.

 Not to mention my Allergies that I had to deal with my whole stinking life.  I go out side and break out in hives and can't breath it's so delightful.

But Gavin's pre-school was having a flower fundraiser and like I said I wanted some flowers this year so out I went today to plant them. 

I put them in our dead tree bed.   Well it's only 1/2 dead I guess.  That's a whole other story.
So so sad.

 Last Saturday we had to pull up a bunch of dead plants so I decided to fill the hole with the flowers for now.  Oh the pretty purple ones.  They were planted when we moved here.  I'm not sure what they are and luckily we haven't killed them yet..

From a far they look great.  But I killed at least 8 if not more and I'm sure they wont last long.  I know the construction workers across the street who were eating lunch all got a kick out of watching me. I so wish I spoke Spanish.  And even though I don't understand the language laughter is something everyone understands, and I heard a lot of that.   When I dug up a giant worm and threw the shovel and started screaming.  Then when I got attacked by a lizard and jumped around making sure it wasn't on me.  Luckily I didn't see any giant spiders this year.  Why do we have to have bugs.  WHY???



Gavin was my helper.  His job was to fill the water bucket and bring it to me.  He got a little distracted.



Now everything in the garage got a good bath today and so did Gavin , the house, our driveway, and Mom.  Everything got watered but the flowers.

But at least we got to go out side and enjoy some sunshine.  If the flower last a week I'll be proud. 
Too bad my Mom and Mother in law wont be able to see them.

Blue and gold

Another blue and gold has come and gone.  Next year it will be Trevor's cross over from cub scouts to boys scouts and Josh will be starting Cubs in June.  They are getting so so big. This year I volunteered again to do the whole Navajo Taco thing.  It was just easier to do and I had some amazing help.(thanks again Ryan)  Also my sweetest friend who did almost everything and has 5 kids.   Talk about WONDER WOMEN Caroline. Helped make 1/2 the scones and lined up all the other food for people to bring.   I only had to cook 80 or so scones and I kept saying to Ryan it doesn't seem like enough.  Maybe because last time I made 200 so 80 looks like NOTHING.  The night was crazy like all church events.  All  the kids go nuts and use the church as a playground. So I spend my time telling them over and over again to STOP RUNNING. (yes I'm the mean mom.)    And I was so busy helping out I didn't even eat nor did I get to take any pictures.  But that's OK Trevor found the camera and documented this special day for me.  Here is his view of the event.  I can't post more then  1/2 of the pictures because they are of other people and they will KILL me.

Great documentation huh.  Can  you tell how much I LOVE the Blue and Gold.

On a happier note isn't this little girl just the most darling thing ever.  I would steal her in a heart beat.  For the 10 min. program I got to sit down  she came and joined me.    She just sat in my lap the whole time and played with the stars.  I was amazed my kids NEVER just sit EVER.  She was so sweet.

The cast is off

That was the LONGEST 3 weeks.  I sure hope this is the last time any of my kids have to have a cast.  Trevor scratched up all the tables, having a shower was a nightmare, and it's starting to get hot so he was all sweaty and the cast started to STINK. (not to mention all the stuff he decided to stick down his cast.)   I could only imagine what a foot in a cast for over a month smells like.  YUCK!!!  Please no broken leggs boys.

I took all 3 boys to get the cast off.  Gavin was so concerned they were going to cut off Trevor's arm it was pretty sweet that he was so caring about his big bro. They all thought it was pretty cool.   Now to keep Trevor from playing to hard.  No sports for him for a while and the dr. said nothing with wheels.  I've already caught him twice trying to go on his skate board and bike.  

 I swear this boy is going to be the death of me!!!

Spring BREAK!!!

Josh and Gavin on a motion picture ride at Main Event. 

They can't be Ryan's boys and not like shooting. 

Trevor and Josh's 2nd Favorite ride.

Gavin REFUSED to look at the camera.

Josh got some funky glasses as a prize.

When ever I say look at the camera this is what my boys do.

Trevor in the glasses.

This year spring break was the WORST.  It started off with Trevor's broken arm and having to change our plans that involved any water. Saturday we went to Lano to go to the Original Coopers BBQ.  Ryan's gotta try them all.  He's obsessed. While we were driving back Gavin started screaming in the car saying his ears hurt.  When we got home he had a high fever so I took him to the Dr.  Low and behold another double ear infections for the poor little guy.  So we got him on some antibiotics and hoped that we could go somewhere and do something fun on Wed, Thur and Friday.  But on  Sunday Josh woke up with a fever and off to the Dr. I went with him on Monday finding out he had Strep.   So we spent Mon, Tue, and Wed. home with two sick boys and one CRANKY 10 year old. Ryan still had to work these days and I think I was going to go CRAZY!!!  When they boys started feeling better we decided to move Gavin upstairs.  Which was a HUGE JOB!!!  Not my idea by the way. Yes I''m a little bitter about it, but I know it's for the best. So we moved Trevor into the guest room and Gavin into Trevor's old room to where he and Josh have the Jack and Jill bathroom then moved the Guest room and our exercise room downstairs.  It took  two LONG STINKING DAY.  And then Gavin was so scared to stay in his room I've slept on his floor for days now.  But he is adjusting and it will get better.  Finally Friday the kids were feeling better and I needed to GET OUT OF THE HOUSE.  So we took them to Austin park and play.  Only to see when we got there was a 2 hr. wait just to get into the park.  So we ditched that idea and headed to the Main event.  It was so hard to find something for all the boys seeing how Trevor can't rock climb, swim ect.  They had a good time here just playing arcade games and miniature golfing.  Finally Saturday we really went out and went to the RODEO.  It was so fun.  We went early in the morning and there was zero lines to the rides.  The kids jumped from one to another.  They loved that stupid one that was called the graviton when I was little I think this time it's the star ship.  It makes you float as it just spins around and around.  Trevor and Josh went on it 7 times.  These are the same kids that puke on a tire swing but could handle that ride go figure.  They also had a BBQ sampling day where all these restaurants came in and had booths to try out the BBQ  Ryan was in HEAVEN.  We stayed long enough to see some mutton busting and then left when the big crowds came.   We all came home exhausted and happy.I was so glad we got to do something for spring break. But  I will say it was the LONGEST week ever and I 'm so glad school is back in session.