Qwirky

Good Ole' Ethan. We have found that he has a very qwirky personality, thats all his own :)

You're probably wondering what he's doing in these pictures.  Well, he puts his shirt over his head and goes around saying " I a hot dog, I a hot dog" 

I'm not sure where he got this from but it's pretty hilarious!!

And this is where he INSISTED that he put these packaging stickers on his face and then continued to where them for half the day until they fell off and weren't sticky anymore.

Ethan LOVES cars.  He loves to watch cars, read about cars, play cars and especially pretend he's a car!!  Before he'll go anywhere, even if its just to the next room, he's got to sit and rev up his engine and he waits for me to say "Ready, Set, Go" before races off to his destination. 

Here he is driving around the popper toy in Grandma's Yard

Thanks for all the laughs Befan, Love Mom & Dad

The Big Apple

Our first ever trip to the Big Apple!!

Unfortunately it all started off as a big disaster :)  Here's how it all began.  We got up early since we had to be at the airport by 7am.  I go downstairs to look for a book to take with me to the airport and I notice there is a funny smell and as I'm looking for the source of the smell I find mold on the carpet and the bookshelf in the corner of the room.  So I hurry and get Spencer so he can look at it, and what does he do, he starts ripping down the sheet rock, 10 minutes before we're supposed to leave!! AAAHHHH!!  Well he can't find where the water is coming from, so he calls his dad and the neighbor who's a contractor at 6 in the morning to come take a look while we're gone. 

Then the shuttle comes to pick us up to take us to the airport and they only bring a small mini-van and there's 8 of us, so obviously that didn't work out for us either and we had to hurry and call our other neighbor to take a few of us to the airport.  Then we get to the airport and Spencer left our back pack in the neighbor's van which had all our tickets and apt. info in it.  Luckily, we were able to call him on his cell and he hurried back to the airport!! 

The entire morning we were rushing and stressing because we were afraid of being late for our flight, and what happens next, our flight gets delayed for 4 hours and then cancelled.  So they try and put us on another flight but no other flight has room for all 8 of us. So, we end up having to split up and take two different flights to NYC.

By the time we fly into New York, all I can think is "Wow, what a day!!"

Luckily, The trip got a whole better,

We had a great apartment which was only 2 blocks from Times Square, we learned the ins & outs of the Subway system, we saw a Broadway Show "Wicked" (which, surprisingly, was Spencer's favorite activity in NY!!), we ate a real chinese meal in a sketchy basement restaurant in China Town and it was Delish!! and we got to see and do sooooo much more. 

The first day in New York we went downtown to see the 9/11 Memorial.  It was a lot bigger than I thought.  This is a picture of one of two of the fountains they made.  They are in the exact spot where the twin towers stood.  There's names engraved all around both fountains of the people who died on 9/11.  It's very cool to see.

The first day in NY it rained ALOT!!  So after getting completely soaked at the 9/11 memorial we tried to stay inside as much as possible because we were wet and cold.  So we went to the famous toy store FAO Schwarz.  Tamra and Kurt danced on the giant piano.  And we got see life size LEGO creations, here's the boys with Indiana Jones.

 The Statue of Liberty

 The 2nd day we took a ferry to see the Statue of Liberty

 Spencer and I outside Rockefeller Center

 The Giant Reese's Peanut Butter Cup - 1/2 pound of goodness

 Central Park was amazing, it was so much bigger than I expected, and very pretty :)

 This is the view from the Empire State Building.  It gives you a small taste of how big the city really is.

It was a wonderful trip and we saw some amazing things and made some awesome memories.

Random Pictures

Some random pics of the boys, enjoy!!!

This is Eli watching the Hot Air Balloons.  His coolest aunt Tamra took him and his cousins to a Hot Air Balloon Festival. 

Ethan LOVES his cars!! 

At school, Eli was learning about nursery rhymes, and one day they got to go to school dressed up as a nursery rhyme character.  Here he is as Old King Cole. 

Eli and Bronson hanging out 

Eli really is a good big brother, most of the time :)

Bronson 1 Year Old

I can't believe our Baby is 1 year old already, he's grown up so fast.  Bronson or Bronster, as Spencer likes to call him, is now 23 lbs and 30 inches tall.  He feels more like 40 lbs when I'm carrying him around.  He's a little chunk!!  Probably because he LOVES to eat, everything, he out eats both of his brothers.  He isn't walking yet, just speed crawling everywhere :)  He's got 4 little teeth, 2 bottom and 2 top and when he smiles it's so darn cute!!  Bronson loves to play with his two brothers, he also loves to cuddle and take naps.

 

Bronson's cute caterpillar cake

"It's my birthday and I'll cry if I want to, cry if I want to!!" 

HELLLLLOOOOOOO cake 

 

Yummy!! 

We gave him a huge piece of cake, but all he ate was the frosting, as you can probably tell from the picture 

Birthday kisses from aunt Sara 

Happy Birthday Bronson - We Love You

Happy Halloween

Halloween was exciting this year and a lot busier than the past years.  Probably because Eli had a Halloween parade and party at school on top of everything else we do: pumpkin carving, trunk-or-treat at Grandma's church and the neighborhood trick-or-treat.  For his school parade, they have all the parents sit in the gym and class by class the kids wind their way thru the gym and then go back to their classes for their Halloween Parties.  I got to help in Eli's class party.  That was exciting and chaotic all at the same time, 20 kindergartners all dressed up and full of sugar. Eli had lots of fun though,  playing games and sharing treats with his friends.

This year Ethan was super excited about going out trick-or-treating, because everyone knows how much he loves candy!!!  He kept trying to open every piece of candy as soon as people would give it to him!!!

This year Eli dressed up as Captain America, Ethan was the BumbleBee and Bronson was a furry blue monster - the Bronster :)

We grew pumpkins in our garden this year and they did really well, we ended up with 6 good size pumpkins by the end of the season.   

This is Eli's pumpkin, but like every year Eli loses interest quickly, and Spencer ends up doing it all, thanks honey, it looks great :)

Here's Ethan our chubby cheeked little bumblebee.  Surprisingly, he did really well about keeping his antennae hood on   

 Here's the 2 little boys out trick-or-treating.  Everytime we would stop at a house Ethan would jump out of his seat and run up to the door.  By the end of the night he was asking Spencer and I to hold his bag because it was getting too heavy :)

 Bronson loved going for a walk around the neighborhood and he stayed snugly warm in his costume

I thought this was a cool, creepy Halloween picture of Eli, it looks like he has a ghost behind him, BOO!!

This is our neighbors pumpkin, super cool, it was massive!!! 

 Baby Bronster and his 1st Halloween

Birthday Boys

Ok, so I know the boys' birthdays were 3 months ago, and I'm just now getting around to posting about it, LAME, huh?  Well, life with 3 little boys is crazy!!! 

We had the boys' traditional birthday party, pinata and all.  Spencer was disappointed that we didn't get to do the slip-n-slide this year, but hopefully next year.    At least we had the pinata, which  is always the boys' favorite part anyway, what boy doesn't like to hit things and then gobble up tons of candy!!  

    

Ethan did his best, trying to hit the pinata, but it's kinda hard when the bat is as big as he is!! 

 The neighbor boys came over to party too :)

 Eli had a little harder time since he had to wear a blindfold, he got hit in the head a few times with the pinata - thanks to his dad.

Ethan and his buddy Tanner 

 All the boys waiting anxiously for the pinata to break open

 When the pinata finally did break - it was a mad dash to the treats, CHAOS!!!

 Bronson and Uncle Kyle

 Eli is always so excited to get presents

Ethan getting his new Cars potty - now only if he would use it :(

 Smile for the camera :)

 I love this picture of Eli.  He had to blow alot harder than Ethan because he had 5 candles and Ethan only had 2

Happy Birthday Boys.  I'm so very sad to see how fast you both are growing up, but everyday is an adventure and we love you both very much!!!