Lil Gavinator!!

So i wanted to write a quick post so i don't forget about the funny things my lil gavinator says. He cracks me up! Last nigh,t i was making homemade chicken enchiladas. This recipe i have is a HUGE HIT at my house. Literally... my boys and husband request this meal at least TWICE a week!! I love it cause 1...its super easy and 2...its yumo delisho!!!! So it is a win win situation for us all. I start preparing the chicken and stirring in the re fried beans. The gavinator gets his chair to "help" me. He is right next to me asking me a million questions as to what i am doing. I tell him i am making chicken enchiladas. He says to me "Chick A LADAS" as he pronounced it! HAHAHA yes gavinator i am making Chick A LADAS!!! Thus that is the name that has stuck. So we ATE DELISH super yummy "Chick A LAdas" last night and it was YUMMO!!!

While i am preparing dinner:(side note) its 800 at night. I am just getting to dinner. Jesse and his little brother james are prepping our downstairs bathroom for a RE VAMP!! that is my term for "woohoo...we are getting this ugly downstairs bathroom remodeled!! WOOOOOT!!!" I am soo excited about this. We bought this house 21/2 years ago from a 80+ year old couple. And i tell you what, it has been been quite the working project. Everything(I MEANT EVERYTHING has had to be brought up to DATE. I cannot not even list how many things we have had to remodel and update in this house. So its finally the downstairs bathrooms turn. I realized I never really told the kids that daddy would be doing this today. I had been at work and then i took the boys swimming. While i am preparing dinner at a ridiculous hour gavinator hears some banging and pounding noises. He stops, looks at me..and then runs to investigate what on earth is happening. He runs into the bathroom. That is when i hear this:
"uhhhh ohhhh daddy. Uhhhh ohhhh.....daddy...uhhh...That is a poor choice. Dats(thats) where i go Peez(pee). Dat's naughty."

In the meantime jesse is ripping out some old molding that was in the bathroom above the toilet. Gavin is not at all happy that daddy is tearing up the bathroom. And then i hear..

"daddy...your making it hurt. Your making it hurt.uhhh oh...Daddy u are going to get a timeout.." hahahahahaha..poor kid was concerned. And even funnier that he was concerned that tearing out the molding was hurting the bathroom..hahahaha

We all laughed pretty hard..man..I love these boys...

RIP my little camera!

So Mr.C has been OBESSED with taking my camera and going around and taking pictures. This usually is ok because he has proven to me multiple times that he can be careful with it. I take that back..he has been SUPER ULTRA careful with it. He and Gavinator like to "suprise" me with the pics they take around the house,and i usually do not know what all the pics are until i upload them to my computer. Then i sit and laugh at all the things they have taken pictures of.

Mr. C is also old enough to understand that it is not a "toy". He really does a good job of holding it safely ,keeping the wrist strap on and so forth...u get what i mean...Well if only the little gavinator could understand this..He just SOOO BADLY wants to be just like his big brother. So on this lovely occasion about 3 days ago, I was busy working. I start to hear arguing and yelling...This is not an uncommon practive in my home...i am CONSTANTLY putting out "fires" between these two little boys. They are the best of friends, but i tell u what they FIGHT LIKE CRAZY!

Well i wanted to intervene and help with the situation. I could tell it was getting out of control so just as i was jumping up after almost hanging up on a customer..thats when i realized..CRAP!Mr.C has my camera!

..... well..lets just say I was a day late, and a buck short in getting in the room fast enough to see what was happening. I walk in..both boys are crying..the camera is on the floor...and lets just say i no longer have my awesome little point and shoot camera. With all the fighting over what who would take the next picture in the kitchen, and conner trying to "keep it safe", the poor camera got dropped on the floor, and now i have two very upset boys. They are upset cause they know they will get in trouble. I am upset because my camera in broken...and i was on a work call so i couldnt get out there fast enough. I get both boys in timeout..and then i go and rescue my camera...just to find, the lens that goes in and out when the power in on or off is totally jammed! I was soo bummed. And sad...Mr.C has been soo careful with this camera. The only reason he dropped it was because he was trying to keep it safe from the his little brother (whose two year old little hands do not quite understand the rules of how to handle mommys camera CAREFULLY). So i am one upset mommy..her awesome little camera she uses all the time has been destroyed. The crappy part too was that i had just figured out all the little gagets that this thing had. And if any of you know we well enough, it has only taken me 1+ years to figure out how to use it. I am soo bummed. But i must go and console my very upset little boys, and try to make things better. No need to have any more tears...it is over and done with.

I get this brilliant idea to go to Ritz Camera(camera repair) and see about how much it would be to fix it. That ended up being a worthless trip because they told me that it would cost $200 just to send the camera into the repair store. Then more money, depending on how long it would take to fix it. What in the HE*&?.... Are you kidding me... That stupid thing was only like $140 at Costco..Why in the WORLD would it cost more to have the crooked lens repaired...COME ON...SERIOUSLY????....That is soo Freakin stupid...and why the He$& would u charge me way MORE than the dang thing even was when i bought it in the first place...REALLY???

So TO my poor little camera..may you rest in peace...and the next time...i guess I need to make sure the boys are each shooting pics from their OWN DISPOSABLE cameras..SO there are no more arguments.. and so that i dont care if it gets accidently dropped and broken...

Here are some of the last pics taken on that lovely camera...and they were all taken by the lovely MR.C...enjoy

"Oh Dear...what have i done"

I know that i have not posted in a long long long time. Our computer got nailed with a horrible virus so we have had to completely re-vamp the whole dang thing. Thank goodness for smart brother-in-law who is up here helping us this summer...he is not only helping us, but he is doing a great job at it .. he has also been a life savor when it comes to the helping us fix the freakin computer! phew...thank goodness..we love you James...

So i don't have my pics up and running yet..so i am going to have a ton of posts to catch up on..but i wanted to write about my lovely evening with my two little boys.

We had a super duper fun day out with one of my old friends from high school. She was here visiting her sister from out of town. I was way excited to her. We havnt seen each other for who knows how long..it has been a LONG TIME!! So since she was in town, i could not wait to get together and see her! We had soo much to catch up on!....We had a busy busy super duper fun day. We had a blast and i loved being able to hang out with you Becca!! It was awesome...and i need a copy of those pics!:)I hope my boys didnt scare you off! hahahaha! we want you to come back! hahahaha!

When i got home this afternoon, i was trying to just take it easy and relax, since Sunday to Monday I had the worst case of the stomach flu EVER!!..I was tired..and warn out! It was a super duper fun busy day and I was ready to just relax, and count down the hours until bed time for my little munchkins.

Well the boys were trying to self entertain. I heard alot of giggling and laughing from them on the couch. As i look up, I notice Mr. C has stuffed a towel down his shirt to form a lump. I then notice the gavinator doing the same thing. They were laughing soo hard and i couldn't figure out what they were doing. Their laughter would not stop, and so i looked up to ask them what they were doing...and they told me,"look mom...we made boobs" oh dear!!...I almost died...What on earth...and Why?? ...and that was the game that entertained them for hours until bedtime...All i have to say is "oh dear...what have i done?"

ONE CRAZY FAMILY!

We have been soo absolutely crazy busy here, that i have been neglecting my lovely amazingly wonderful blog. I have had things that i have wanted to write about to remember, and then i get soo crazy that i forget to write them and then they turn into a blur with the rest of my life. Tonight my poor husband has already put in a 15 hour day and still is not going to be able to get home before 3 am. So that makes it a lovely 21 hour day! So i guess i should not be complaining since at least i am home 2night and able to be in my lovely jammies. It is already almost ten and i just got my kids to bed. I had to work and then after work i decided to take the kids swimming. My, oh my, it was fun..busy but fun! But let me tell you once we made it home and i got them ready for bed...I must say it is nice to have the peace and quiet that only bedtime can bring. So as i sit here smelling the Rank smell of Chlorine all over my body...i thought..what the heck..ill blog and at least try to catch up a little bit on our life.

A very good friend had the best idea for her boys bedroom. I loved it soo soo much and so i had to copy her. Thanks Amy..i am soo excited for the boys cute new shelves. She had the idea of putting up recycled/broken skate board decks in her little boys room and then she would use them as shelving. Well...i have been looking for shelves small enough to fit on a certain wall in my boys room, and this IDEA WAS PERFECT! They are the perfect size and once they are installed i can removed half of the clutter that is all over their dressers! And not only does it look so amazingly cute...the skateboard decks were FREE!! I repeat they were FREE!!! WOOT! The only thing i am going to have to pay for is the hardware! woohoo!It is going to look RAD! And it totally helps that Mr.C and little gavinator seriously love skateboards. They both love that the weather has been soo nice so they have been outside whenever they get the chance to practice on their skateboards! SO woohoo to great friends who have great ideas...and "woot" to free shelving for my boys room!
I will post pics once i get them mounted on the wall!

More exciting news is that So you think you can Dance has started. I haven't watched it yet..but i am soo excited to sit and watch with my boys! Jesse and i love to watch it with the boys. Conner and Gavin are both OBSESSED with break dancing. They love it! They will break dance and try to copy what they see and it is ADORABLE! WOOT for my favorite show ! That always makes coming home from an insane day worth it!

And WOOT for KRIS on American IDOL! I have loved him from the start! He is amazing and i am soo glad that he won. Thank you America for agreeing with me! He is quite frankly one of my all time favorites..truly AMAZING!! I think i may become a Kris "groupie" and and have to go to every concert he does here in Portland!:)The night he won I was soooo PUMPED!!! i was not expecting it at all..but when they announced him i literally freaked out! REally..it was SOO AWESOME!!



The weather here has been AWESOME!! I MEAN ABSOLUTELY beautiful! We have tried to spend time outside every chance i get.

well i am getting tired...it has been such a big day and i will have another huge day 2morrow, so i think i am going to hit the sack!
anyhow..i would love to write more, but i hear one child upstairs crying ,so i am off to go and see what is up. I will hopefully be able to post some pics soon..life is busy, life is good...and i hope to see my hubby b4 i forget what he looks like!

Tulip HEAVEN!!!

I love Oregon! I love all the gorgeous scenery. Everywhere you look it is just BEAUTIFUL! One of the best times to visit, is in april, when you can experience the tulip farms. It is not something you see just anywhere. And it is breathtakinly beautiful! Every year, I head down to the tulip farm, and it is just AWESOME! Their are tulips as far as you can see. Their is every color imaginable! Check it out and see...





I love IT! the pictures just do not do it justice. I love taking the kids here. They love playing on the farm and i have fun looking at the beauty! It is always a blast!





The kids loved all the activities they were able to do...







We were able to get a group shot of all the kids....







We had only one major one of these(aka tantrum)....



We had the gavinator putting the moves on his best friend (aka girlfriend)....




And finially, we had only one scare of a missing one of these(well a BIG scare actually) but we found him safe and sound!....




All in all it was a GREAT day and i cant wait for next year!

Take Me out to the Ball Game...(Sing ALONG)

......Take me out with the crowd.
Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks,
I don't care if I never get back,
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't win it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,
At the old ball game!"




The Con Man has finally become of age where he can play youth sports here in Oregon!! WOOT! ...HOORAY ...Yahoo... Clap!!! I am soo excited that he is now old enough to be able to do this. This kid has been wanting to play baseball..(this and soccer are his favorite sports) for quite some time now...Not only is he old enough now to officially play on the park and recs teams, he is thrilled it is baseball!

He has been telling me for quite some time that when he grows up, he wants to be a "Baseball player"! He really loves it. In Oregon you start playing on the parks and rec team at 5. Well conner is 5 but since his birthday is in July, he made the cut off so he plays with older kids. This means Coach pitch..as oppossed to hitting it off the tee. I was worried at first about how he would do with that..but he has done AWESOME! He can really hit that ball!

He is BY FAR the YOUNGEST!.... but i must say it is ADORABLE to watch him out there playing. Most of the boys are 6 and 7...And most of the boys are at least a head and shoulders length taller than him. Today they had their team pictures and it was adorable when they lined up biggest to smallest..and well conner was the second to smallest kid. Which is a rarety for my son. He is super tall for his age. He towers over most all of his friends, so to see him as the smallest at something is actually kinda cute!

When they got their uniforms..i laughed at how big his shirt is. It is a big kid size medium. Too cute...since he only wears XS and sometimes i will get him a small. So to look out on that field and see his over-sized shirt tucked into his baseball pants,and that cute little boy soo excited to be on the field, it just makes my day!

Just today at our game a few of the other players moms came up to me to say .."I just love looking at your son on the field...he is soo little out there and i love how is is always smiling!" ..I am soo happy conner is having fun and loves playing baseball! Go SUPER CRUSHERS!!....

The Con Man up to BAT...!












The Con Man Fielding!....







I am excited for this season! Super Crushers...you Rock!! All I need is some peanuts! well....and a nice stadium hot dog and coke would be nice too....

Move OVER SUPERMAN!!!

All i have to say is WATCH OUT SUPERMAN...The boys are trying to show you up!








this one is a little blurry...