Day with grandma nance

Today Grandma had kyla and quincy so we decided to go to Discovery Gateway. They had so much fun....i think i lost my camera i can't find it anywhere....UGH!! I haven't been there for awhile and they have lots of new stuff to do upstairs. We were there for so long. I couldn't get them to leave. There favorite part is still the water zone and the construction zone. By the end of the day my mom was so done. Its so funny she can't really handle four kids all day. I just laugh she's like i don't know how you have the patience because i don't. He he. I just thought to myself it's because you are getting older grandmas aren't supposed to have patience with four little kids all day long. The next day she slept all day long. Ha ha. Days like this i wish my dad was still around to see all the grandkids he has. I could picture him now playing with them at the lego part at the museum building the biggest lego statue. Oh dad how we miss you and how Aiden talks about grandpa kerry everytime he sees a big semi....he always says "thats what grandpa Kerry drove".

Things that i remember about my dad....

- always reading or watching some kind of western or scary movie on tv
- always thinking he is the most old fashion person there is...but really he wasn't i think all kids think there parents are old fashion.
- buying me the most updated cell phone.
- looking at cars and buying one even though my mom had no idea and she always got mad when he did it. he he.
- Home town buffet ---yuck! but it was his favorite place to go out to eat when we did go out.
- ordering take out at the chinese place in Riverton and ordering beef and pea pods.
- sending me to go get him a banana shake, chicken cordon blue at the river queen.
- his yummy dinners, he made up his own recipes I would ask him for the recipe and he'd say a little of this a little of that.....why didn't i write them down. Dang! I miss his chicken enchilada recipe.
- just giving me money with out my mom knowing when i was a poor college student.
- lecturing me about always driving on E ( empty gas)
- my close friends teasing him and vice versa and new friends being scared of him because he always looked so grumpy but really was just a big tender heart.
- Always giving when we had nothing to give, yep my mom got mad at him a few times for that
- Motorcycles. He loved driving his harley motorcycle until he wrecked it.
- Fishing...he always took me fishing for the day....i remember always complaining that I was too hot or bored and wanted to go home.
- Going on road trips with him ( he drove truck) it was fun especially when we went to washington D.C that was my last trip with him until i thought i was too old to go with him.
- Always asking me how to spell something( it was so annoying)
- He always bought new clothes for him and then not ever wearing them. His closet was full of new clothes with tags on them.
- Thinking I was done with my Christmas shopping until Christmas eve when he said "lets go". We spent all day at the crazy mall shopping for my mom when i already told him i finished her for the both of us...but it was never enough for him he had to get her more. ..so cute and expensive!!!!
- Paying me a dollar to make his bed he knew it had to be made before mom got home.
- Showing me how to vaccuum so you wouldn't see foot steps and only seeing vaccuum lines.
- Always having a trucking dog. I think he went through 2 shebas, 5 shorty's and 3 ikes before he finally kept one that didn't get stolen, ran over or sick. His name was Ike too, his best friend, oh were they a pair. I don't know why he named all his dogs the same name...probably because he knew how to spell those names and pronounce them.
- Always giving me a hug...when i thought that was so childish ---yep me being a stupid teenager, I wish i could get one of those hugs now.
- He always would say I hope i die before ike which he did and ike died a couple years later. Probably from a broken heart he missed my dad.


I can't believe it will be five years in just a few weeks. How the time goes by and I still miss him just as much. I wish my boys new him they would have had so much fun with him. I am so thankful for the plan of salvation and the knowledge of the gospel knowing that we will see him again.

Aiden's thought of the day

He always has these crazy questions and I'm always like uh....I don't know maybe we should ask dad. But anyway on the way home from preschool out of the blue he said "mom how does santa gets the stuff off the roof" stunned by the question I was like what stuff? He said the toys how does he get them off the roof. I said he puts them down the chimney. Then hes like well howd he get my mustang ( his powerwheel car that he got two christmas ago) off the roof. It's so funny the things he thinks of and the things he remembers from so long ago. For example when we went to the polar express he's like hey this is the way to Thomas ....he remembered that from two years ago going to A day out with Thomas.

Trip to the ZOO

Surprise surprise they found the water.

Finally a bit of nice weather except for the crappy wind. We decided to enjoy it and go to the zoo. Mason's favorites ...the monkeys butt. The ones that look like they have a big bubble gum bum. He kept saying more more bum. Ha ha. After we saw the monkeys every other animal he wanted to see there bums. Oh it made me laugh. Aidens favorites.....he said he liked it all. I think he liked the train ride the best. We didn't have time to play in the kid play area or else that probably would have been his fav.

Waiting to get on the train.

Bowling

We have been bored all day this stupid weather why can't it be warm already. Ugh! When micah got home we decided to go bowling. It is so embarassing to say that i was ever on a bowling league. I am so crappy at least i broke a 100. Aiden got his first spare all by himself. He didn't even use the bumpers, After that he thought he was all pro. He was giving Dad instructions on how to bowl. Mason thought it was fun to roll the ball at first he thought it was a soccer ball kicking it down the aisle. He learned how to give high fives after a strike.
After Aiden bowled Aiden did a spin dance on the floor it was hilarious soon after Mason joined him...Mason was more interested in the nachos. But soon got the hang of bowling. "more more" he would say after each turn. Aiden loved his bowling shoes he cried when he had to return them. He said " see you shouldn't have given me these because i wouldn't have had a fit to keep them" man how old is he 12. my goodness.

what a helper

I was putting mason down for a nap today and i thought aiden was in his room but nope. the last couple of days he has just been leaving the house without telling me. The next thing i knew he came strolling in the house and said brendan wasnt home im like ya he's at school and why did you leave without telling me. Apparently he was bored then he looked out the window, ran outside and got his shovel and said I'm going go help sammy's mom in the yard. He saw from like seven houses down that sammy and his mom were doing yard work. He wanted to help his mom. He loves helping in the yard i hope he still likes it when he gets older.

OH NO!!!

Oh my crap! so i let my boys go out back to play with there tractors and seriously i left them out there for two minutes alone just to find my shoes and go out. What a surprise I saw ....two little boys that are in deep trouble, they were covered in mud from head to toe well mostly Mason since Aiden helped cover mud on him. They were such a mess. I can't believe they found the smallest little water puddle and stirred in dirt. To make walla mud! THE JOYS OF BOYS!!!! bathing them five times a day. Man did they have fun.

guess what today is?

So this morning Aiden jumps out of bed which he never does and runs to me and says " mom mom guess what today is" uh school day. Hes like no SOCCER DAY!!! he remembered from a few days ago that he starts his soccer practise today. I couldn't believe he remembered I have never seen him so excited before other than getting a new toy tractor. We went to practise oh my gosh so freakin cold, but he didn't care he got his orange soccer ball and started joining in with the others. It was a clinic so there were some real players there showing the kids some tricks. It made me laugh to see him trying to bump it with his head. Of course mason kept stealing everyones soccer balls. I hope everyone found there missing soccer balls because i just left them i didn't know where he took them from. He loved it as much as Aiden and he was pretty good at it he kicked the ball just like the others. My only concern is when Aiden starts his game how in the heck am i going to get mason to stay off the field..EEK!

EEK! I finally cut my hair

Oh boy, after years of saying i want to cut my hair i finally did it. It brings back memories before i was married i had the same hair cut. It feels so much better it was in need of a major cut. I kept telling micah what if i cut my hair and the usual micah response is ok. Not the one i was hoping for. For example " ya that would be cute, or no i like your hair." ugh! so i did it and he said was "do you like it". WOW! i took it as a why'd you do that. Oh well too late now. But the next morning Aiden says, "mom i really like your hair" That did it for me. It was so cute the way he said it.

911 call oops!

Okay so the other day. I called micah on his cell phone and for some weird reason it called 911 at the same time but yet it went to micahs cell. So i didn't know i even called 911. his first numbers are 915. anyways it did this last summer like 4 times and they would call back and confirm that i could speak at my own free will and blah blah!!! but this time apparently they called back but i was in the shower so i didn't get it the next thing i knew was police man were trying to get into my house. I hurried and threw my dumb dog in the bedroom he was the one scaring them from entering the house and ran and got dressed and when i looked they were entering the back door. I was like hi. They said uhm we got a 911 call are you okay and i confirmed ya. They asked if aiden was playing on the phone and told them what probably happened. Then they went on to lecture me about leaving all my doors open. but then i thought well you werent able to get in because of my dog. But ya it was really embarassing