Little Hoopsters 09

With the start of Miles' Little Hoopsters season, basketball reclaimed the number 1 favorite sport again.  It was baseball.....I am sure once baseball season starts up, number 1 will change again.  Miles LOVED playing basketball, especially because they didn't just do drills.  He loved scrimmaging.  The program is for 1st and 2nd graders, so Miles is one of the smaller kids, but boy can that boy shoot!  What a ball boy! 

Way to go buddy boy!

Thanksgiving 2009

Here is the crew we had at our house for Thanksgiving this year!  We loved having all of the family come and stay....thank you everyone for traveling so far so we could all be together.  We had lots of fun!  The house seemed kind of small with that many people, but it didn't feel cramped.  It was a lot of fun, for us and the boys, who love to play with cousins.

Here is Allen with his parents and siblings, minus Tom and his fam.  We missed you guys!

Here are the cousins!  Adara is the only girl!  

Miles and Drevan

Our bowl headed babies, Porter and Adara...I guess they really are toddlers now!

Adara is super cuddly, and Porter did not like it one bit when I would hold her.  But Mom, I am your baby!  

Quincy and Jax

We even got to see our wonderful friend, Darla!!  What a great Thanksgiving weekend!  

Thanks again everyone for coming!  We are so thankful for you all!  See you all at our first family reunion next summer, RIGHT Lyn??? :) Everyone better feel obligated to be there...sorry Jeff, couldn't resist!

Pirate Island

Quincy had to wait ALL day long to open presents.  When dad got home in the afternoon, he got to open presents!

Dad made a HUGE card. (with Cheetos and Skittles attached, of course)

He wanted a firestation lego set, so all of the grandparents chipped in to buy it for him.  He got collage paper/colored pencils/coloring books and Book of Mormon Hero action figures from mom and dad.  He got an awesome Joker van from Aunt Brenda and family. He got 4 dollars from his cousin Drevan.  He was shaking with excitement as he opened.  So fun!

Batman Cake!  yummy!

He wanted to go to Pirate Island for dinner and playing!  It's a really fun place.  Dinner, arcade kind of games, pirates, oh my!  

Porter stayed entertained as long as he was on the Choo Choo train, or stealing balls from the basketball game.  Miles played basketball almost the whole time.  Quincy loved the Batman game the best.  Mom liked air hockey and shooting the targets the best.  It was super fun.  Our waitress even talked to us in pirate language.  They had a balloon guy making swords for the kids, and there is even a play land with slides and such.  

Happy Birthday Quincy!

Quincy Bradford

My baby boy, Kiki turned 4 yesterday.  One of my favorite things about the boys' birthdays is going through all of the old photo files and remembering.  I can't believe it's been 4 years since Q was born.  He was by FAR my easiest baby but boy has he made up for that!  He is such a joy or terror depending on the moment.  I have been putting 2009 into our family book and I decided to do a page for each of the boys with just 4 words that describe each of them.  Quincy's are

SMILEY PHYSICAL TENDER COLLECTOR

That's him for sure.  What a smile!  He can tackle kids or adults to the ground.  He is a tender hearted little guy.  and he loves to collect.  He would sleep with 50 toys around his head if I'd let him.  He cuts and glues into his collage book all the time and carries it around.  He sometimes puts on a back pack and carries around his prized possessions.  He is so much fun. 

WE LOVE YOU, KIKI BUG!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

WHAT A BIG BOY YOU ARE!

The "Force" was with us: Halloween 2009

The boys had such fun for Halloween!  We had a Star Wars theme going on this year at our house.  

Here they are...

Miles as Obi Wan

(Thanks to Aunt Brenda for making the robe!)

Quincy as Darth Vader. 

Porter as R2-D2....

isn't he cute?

Here's our 2 scary bad guys....Darth and our porch scary man that talked to our trick or treaters.  BOOOOO!

We had LOTS of Star Wars friends....

Porter's buddy from across the street was Yoda.  Cute little guys!

I think I am going to make these a yearly tradition.  We love Oreo truffles at our house, but i've never thought of making them into bloody eyeballs.  Thanks Allen for the wonderful idea for the faculty party.  Fun fun.  We also made mummy dogs for dinner with pear spiders!  

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Carving our Pumpkins

Miles was so excited to carve pumpkins.  I picked him up from school and that's the first thing he said. " I am so excited that we are carving pumpkins for FHE." 

Okay, so none of the boys wanted to touch the "guts".  Miles used a spoon the whole time.

Quincy was our "courageous" boy this time.  He wanted to wash hands as soon as it was done!

And Porter would have nothing to do with the "Ewwwww..."

Here are the boys in front of the finished products!  Miles did the smiley face, Quincy did the scary face (he will be the head of our scary man to sit on the porch on Halloween), I did stars, and Allen did the Jordan logo.  Of course we had to have that one!

Courage Month: missionary week

We are still on our "courage" month and I am really proud of all that has happened.  The boys are learning a lot and we have lots of talks about what they did that day that was courageous.  We have talked to Daniel and Moses (visits to our house....lucky aren't we)heehee and this week we focused on being missionaries and how that takes courage.  We talked about Ammon and Samuel and how they were courageous.  We talked about how the boys can be missionaries now and also prepare for their future missions.  They loved getting their very own pretend missionary name tags.  Quincy already has his on his shirt for church on Sunday.  He is really soaking in these values we have been working on.  I am really pleased, and the boys are having fun and learning!  Yipee!

I want to be a missionary now, mom!