Our Growing Boys

I know that I haven't been good about posting lately. My family keeps giving me a hard time because my dad bought me a nice new camera for my birthday back in December and I've hardly put any pictures on my blog since then. I really have no excuse. I guess I blame it on the fact that we have been been busy trying to be outside as much as possible because we know that summer is just around the corner and we are absolutely dreading it. We already reached 100 degrees last week. Hopefully we will survive another summer here. Here are a few pics of life at our house lately.

This pic was taken clear back in January, but better late than never. They looked SO CUTE at church in their matching sweaters.

Carson loves it when Tyler holds him

They couldn't get enough of playing in our empty suitcases. They spent hours pretending these suitcases were everything from rocketships to outhouses. I don't know where they come up with this stuff.

These two boys obviously have way too much fun playing the Wii.

Sometimes these two wild and crazy boys are very sweet to each other

Carson has been growing like a weed. I seriously can't believe how big he is getting. He is at such a fun stage right now! Crawling everywhere and pulling himself up and standing next to everything. That is what Carson does all day. He's pretty proud of himself too. This is his favorite place to stand. Guess he doesn't want to miss anything on TV.:)

"Give me that camera"

The boys painted some pinewood derby cars and were outside waiting for the paint to dry. Tyler came inside to tell me that they needed Popsicles because it was such hard work sitting outside waiting for the cars to dry. They live such hard lives.

When you have three boys that share the same bedroom you never know what you will find when you walk in in the morning. This is what I found a few days ago. Hopefully Carson was already awake before his big brothers came barrelling over the side of his crib.

We took a trip to the zoo. Tyler always has fun brushing the goats at the petting zoo.

Playing at a playground at the zoo.

If Carson can survive Logan than he can survive anything!

Carson was "helping" me fold laundry one day so I couldn't resist putting some of Tylers underwear on his head. I got a laugh out of it and he thought it was pretty funny too.

I think Carson looks so sweet in his little duckie jammies

Look at that crazy hair. It stands up in every direction.

Bumblebee, aka Tyler, had spiderman, aka David, over for a playdate. There was an epic battle between these two good friends and both came out conquerors.

The kid LOVES this little toy table that my good friend let us borrow. Entertains him all day long.

Disneyland

We had the best Presidents Day Weekend ever! We drove to California where we met the rest of my family and we played at Disneyland for three days. We had a blast hanging out with family, riding the rides, and meeting the different characters. We made a lot of good memories. Here are a bunch of random pictures that I took.

Here we all are at the entrance to Disneyland. We were pretty excited to be there.

Classic family shot with the big man himself.

Logi LOVES Mickey! He was quite excited, and a little shy, to finally meet him.


Autotopia was Tylers favorite ride. He kept saying he didn't need any help and that he could drive it all by himself. In reality he couldn't even reach the pedal.



Logi's favorite ride was the flying dumbos. Rick and I both rode it with him several times.





I told Tyler to give me his best knight pose so this is what he did.

The boys were so excited to see Lightning Mcqueen and Mater that we just had to get a picture with them.

We waited in a lot of lines. Here we are waiting to ride the spinning teacups.

Aunt Lisa and Tyler on the Rocketships.

Carson loved Grandpa

Logi and I were excited to meet Pluto

The boys with their souvenirs. They both wanted light sabers.

One big happy family

Sometimes my little family makes me feel I feel like I am in a cage with a bunch of wild animals!

These two little bums were worn out and tired from all the excitement

We went and saw a 4-D show starring the bugs from A Bugs Life. It was a lot of fun. The boys thought the 3-D bug eye glasses were hilarious.

Rick and Logi on the bumper cars.

Woohoo! We finally found Woody. We eventually found Buzz too but the line was way too long to get a picture. That army guy is real. He was covered from head to toe in Green!

The famous disney castle

Some of the family riding on the Mark Twain riverboat

Our family at the entrance to California Adventure

This is how the boys entertained themselves at the hotel. Jumping across the beds.

This picture was taken about 5 mins after they told me they were not tired and they were not going to sleep. :)

We played hard, laughed hard, and had a great time. Thanks dad for making it all possible.

Christmas

I am finally getting around to posting about Christmas. We had a really fun Christmas break this year. We went up to Idaho and spent the holidays with my family. The boys love going to Grandpas house. They love the snow and Tylers favorite part about being in Idaho is that he can see his breath when he is outside. Obviously he has not been around cold weather enough.:)

Anyway we played a lot outside in the snow.

We have to try and soak it all in as much as we can since we don't get that white stuff here in Phoenix.

That pretty little girl dressed in pink is actually Logan! Those were the only snow clothes that fit him at my parents house. But you can tell by the look on his face that he was actually quite excited to wear the pink outfit.

Tyler, Logan and Frosty


"What are you looking at"



Tyler and cousin Abby both smiling and getting along. Obviously this picture was taken at the beginning of our trip. They usually play well the first couple of days together and then it is all down hill from there. :)



Lisa had these cute little aprons made for the boys. My boys love to help in the kitchen so they were very excited to have their own manly aprons

We decorated gingerbread houses one night. Lots of fun but pretty messy. Plus I think more candy ended up in the boys mouths than did on their houses.

All the grandkids got matching pajamas on christmas eve. Here are my three boys.

The best shot I could get of all the grandkids.

Of course we decorated cookies for Santa.

These two were more interested in eating the cookies themselves then giving them to Santa

Christmas morning was probably the most fun we have had with the kids. The older they get the more they understand about Santa and the more excited they get. Santa really came through and brought the boys most of the things that were on their lists.

Carson with his gift from Santa

Logan posing with all of his Toy Story toys that Santa brought him

My boys have been wanting pillow pets for over a year. They finally got them for Christmas. They love their ladybug pillows and have slept with them every night since.

Carsons first Christmas

My sister Lisa gave Rick a pineapple for Christmas. It's an inside joke but the bottom line is that Rick hates pineapple. It gave us all a good laugh christmas morning.

The boys playing with their new toys

All the excitement from the holidays left these two boys worn out!