Sweet Boy

I posted earlier (from my phone) about visiting my brother's grave. This is a picture I took with my real camera that is sweet {It was the first time I have used this camera since my brother died}. This visit helped Krew remember Uncle Garrett & how much fun he was.

Mustache

My brother thought it would be funny to glue a fake mustache on Krew's face. It was creepy seeing my 4 yr. old with the mustache. Garrett had just gone to the DMV wearing this mustache for his new motorcycle license . . . a few days earlier he had just renewed his other license sans mustache. The picture lady was quite confused at his ability to grow a mustache so fast.

Slip & Slide

This is our family birthday celebration for Nixon

California!

We decided to go to the beach this weekend

In-N-Out

As out farewell to California we stopped at In-N-Out for lunch on our way to Vegas

Matix has his hat on upside down!

Hibatchi & Fire

My boys love to each at Sushi Fever! They are always entertained during dinner

First 4 Wheeler Ride

Matix was napping, Krew was driving his 4-Wheeler and Nixon was crawling around ... so I thought. I had the front door propped open while I was unloading groceries in & out of the house. Then I panicked. Where was Nixon?! I run outside (just a Nate was pulling up- perfect timing) only to see Krew driving up the street with Nix on the ride. No complaints from Nixon- he was loving it.

Golf Party

Krew was invited to a friend's golf themed birthday party. It was adorable...

Fathers & Sons

I was determined to not let Nate lose our boys this year at the camp out

tWo for TwO

Krew has been hilarious today:

#1. This morning I was getting the boys ready so that we could go to the gym. Krew hates the gym until we get there. I was trying to get him excited by telling him we were going to a new gym (LVAC just opened by us). Here is how the conversation continued...
Me: It's so fun Krew, you have never been there. Let's go see what fun new toys they have.
K: Dad has already taken me there.
Me: No, he hasn't. (thinking- how to explained Nate hasn't and can't because he doesn't have a membership to that gym). He's not allowed to.
K: That's why you don't know about it.

All I could do was laugh and call Nate. I can't believe he thought of that response.

(p.s.the play area at the new LVAC wasn't open yet- opens Tuesday the 27th)

#2. We were driving home from the car wash later this morning. I had an air freshener. I usually open the whole smelly tree and stick it halfway in an air vent to get my car smelling good fast. Today I tried to hang it from the little string of the tree on my air vent. Krew complained that he could not smell it and wanted it stuck in the vent.

Conversation:

Me: Okay, sorry. I thought it would work.

K: That's okay. When you can say sorry, it still doesn't work out. But that's okay.

Wow, He's stating things as he genuinely sees them!

Spiderman

So, a while back I went to the Grand Opening of my Dad's new housing development Cascade in Mountain's Edge. There was a face painter there and my boys of course wanted their faces painted. Both became Spiderman. I did not take into account what else I had going on that day... a baptism! So I went to a baptism with Spiderman #1 and #2. It was funny and a little distracting.

Mani + Pedi

I wanted to get my nails done really badly a little while ago, so I took my 3 boys with me! Not my brightest moment but I did get a unrelaxing pedicure and my boys were good.

St. George Triathlon

The weather was really rough this Saturday. The wind was blowing fast. Officials let the first group of people start the swim, but they brought so many people back to shore by boat because of how choppy the water got that the swim was cancelled.

It's funny to see all the athletes walking back to their bikes without having swam. To make it fair they had everyone line up at the end of the bike transition and anounced what 'wave' got to run to their bikes and get ready to start that leg of the race. It was chaos getting hundreds of bikes out of transition! Usually it's a lot less congested because only a few people are jumping on their bikes at the same time after running in from the swim.

This is Nate saying hi to his boys after his bike ride when he is heading out for the run.

The boys always get excited to run through the finish line with Nate.

Tuesday Night

We're off to T-Ball! I have so much catching up to do from trips and chaos. I will get updating soon.

Happy Mother's Day

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

Cardinal Mermillod

My Mom with Krew

Nap Time

My boys have fallen asleep in some crazy positions. When they are tired they are tired!

District Shopping

I took my boys to The District the other day to get some window shopping in. They were pretty well behaved!

Nixon was entertained with water in the tray of his stroller. He has such a goofy smile- He usually clenches his gums and closes his eyes.

All the shopping and running around wore my three monkies out!

RAGE Triathlon

Nate and our friend, Jeremy did the RAGE triathlon, sprint distance, on Saturday out at Lake Mead.

Nate recruited Jeremy the night before to be his race buddy. They had fun and did well- just over 2 hours.

After race group shot

Super Large Pizza

Friday night we went out to Pizza with Jeremy & Meg Neff for a pre race carb load up. Since Nate and Jeremy were the racers they got dibs the food choice after we picked up race packets.

Nate & I thought it would be fun to order the largest pizza Metro Pizza made to suprise the Neffs. I ordered it on our way there to get it cooking. When we got there Meg was looking at the menu wondering if I had ordered enough pizza. I told her I had ordered one large cheese pizza. She was still concerned I had miscalculated their amount of hunger. I hadn't told her it was a 30'' large pizza. The pizza had a table of its own next to us!

Stomp Out Loud

We took Krew & Matix to Stomp on Thursday Night and they enjoyed it, especially Matix. Krew complained that it was too loud. But he was also tired.