Funny boys

So last night Tyler was asking questions (surprise! that so rarely happens :) ) and he asked me about chicken enchiladas (also known as sloppyladas by Carson) his first question was whether or not they were called 'chicken' enchiladas because there is chicken in them.
I said, yes.
Then he asked if they were called 'inchaladas' cause they are about an inch thick :)
He cracks me up.

Q just got out of the tub and was drying his hair (ish) and stuck his head in my face and said 'does my hair look wrinkled?'

Where do these kids get this?

Seriously?

More snow?

I realize it's spring and that last year we didn't ever really get a summer (scattered warm days don't count) but come on.

It's almost baseball season and I really want to go to more than two games without winter coats!

*And PSA for any one with kids playing in Little League this year, tryouts for 8-9 year olds is Saturday April 11 at 1:00 pm, Eagle Point ball diamond...I am not sure if you can still register, but I think you can. Games begin (for the majors, not sure of minors, but I know we will be at games Monday-Thursday for baseball for Hunter and Carson, Saturdays for Ty's football...anyone doing t-ball for Q's age? is he still too young?) April 27...I guess that could be a Monday, I honestly haven't checked.

More posts later...probably :)

More wedding pictures

Since the others got such rave reviews ;) I thought I would post more. Some of these I didn't post initially because I wanted to surprise Troy and Jenny with a couple framed when they got home.

As you will notice, I can't get my kids to look happy about pictures...this is the best one I could find, and it had to be B&W because little Ellie's bum was in it :)

And my family...I know I need to figure out something with the chairs in front. They bug me. This is my mom and dad, grandpa, sister and her family and brothers and their families. You will notice there are only three boys there that don't belong to me...one of them is Hunter's 'not twin' who one of my nieces refers to as 'the other you' when she is talking to Hunter :)

Seriously, I loved taking these pictures and since they didn't take any bad pictures, it is really hard to choose which to put up.

Rough, isn't it :)

The Wedding

So, as many of you know, my brother got married last Saturday.

It was gorgeous.

They held the ceremony and reception at the Shelton out by Rigby/Ririe and it was so much fun...the best part, I got to take the pictures.

Here are a few of my favorites...and yes, my brother is a dork.

He gets it from my other brother. :)

EDIT- per Desi's request :)

The family is all Jenny's. We have been having issues in emailing photos and so I uploaded a few of them here so they can print them off while they are on their honeymoon. I will probably add more when they get home since I may have a surprise or two for them when they get home and it is a secret :)

Top Pic: Jan and Tom (her parents)

Her whole family (brother, sil, niece and kids and her parents)

Troy, Jen and the kids with her brothers family

the rest are all various pictures of them messing around.

*back to the regularly scheduled spring break plan of screaming and threatening the boys...

Ty-Guy

This bundle of nonstop energy was born a week before I turned 30. He was actually due on my birthday, however due to immense size (yes. I know Q was bigger, but have you seen this kid?) and the fact that I could no longer move (remember, Joy?) they induced me early.

Thank goodness.

Ty is my little leprechaun. He, being a leprechaun, was given the gift of Gab...and he's full of Blarney...Great Grandma said so :)

He NEVER stops talking. I honestly think it surprises people at the amount of non stop energy and vocality in the child. I know it surprises me.

He loves sports and will try everything once or twice...

He loves to tell stories. Most preferably 20 minutes after bedtime. These stories can last for hours.

He has the BEST freckles ever.

And the bluest eyes. I could honestly take pictures of him forever, but I always get these weird faces...what's up with that?

I can not believe he is eight. He will forever be seven to me.

He is really strong. REALLY. Strong.

He is extremely sensitive to what is going on around him. He sometimes gets in trouble for paying too much attention to what is happening around him and not so much what he should be doing.

He would rather let a smaller kid pick on him than hurt the smaller kid...although to be honest, there are times we would like him to hurt the smaller kids so they quit picking on him. It kind of ticks me off. A lot.

He gives the best hugs. Ever.

He wears a size 5.5 shoe, 10 pants and 10-12 shirt. Yes, he is big...did I mention that at 2 months old he weighed in at 17.11 pounds? Yeah, he's about 76 now. (for proportion, Hunter is in a 7 shoe and weighs 85 pounds and is 5'2")

They forgot to give him a volume control in Heaven.

He never stops eating. I think there are times his brain gets confused as to whether it should be talking or eating :)

He is EXTREMELY smart. You can actually see the cogs turning in his brain as he muddles something through.

He would do anything to make someone happy. Include be silly. Or give them stuff he shouldn't. We are worried.

He likes Twilight :)

He is a burst of sunshine and I am so glad that we have him to light up our lives.

For his birthday we had a few of his neighborhood friends come over (we had a small family gathering on Sunday night. Where he refused to let me make a cake and insisted on Albertson's...after his birthday and the wedding, I am about non homemade caked out!) They ate pizza, had a cupcake contest and played for a while. One of the hardest thing for my boys with us having the store, was not being able to hang out with friends, so this was especially fun for Tyler.

Thanks to all the neighbors who got their invites so very late. It has been a crazy month for me trying to get back into things and so far, I have a lot to get worked out.

The Q-man

I have to apologize to this boy. Because of Grandma's death and funeral, his birthday was kind of put on the back burner...oddly, her birthday would actually have been the day after his. She would have been 80.

However, we made him a little cake (he wanted nothing but green apples for his birthday, so I tried my best to create a green apple cake :) ) and had just a little family party until the Sunday after his birthday. I don't think he minded at all :)

A few facts about Q.

1. We call him many things...most often Q, Quin. Quinny, TinTin, Tin Tin Fabioso and lately Tins, at his request....we all call him demon child and sometimes his middle name ends in 'it' as opposed to 'le' although the beginning letter is the same.

2. His dimples pretty much let him get away with anything. Sometimes this is bad.

3. He has been attached at my hip since sometime before birth.

4. He is a GREAT hand holder. And he has big hands so it makes me feel indestructable when I hold his.

5. He wears a size 1 shoe, size 5-6 pants and 6-8 shirts.

6. He is 46" tall and weighs 46 pounds. He is what they call square. This is good.

7. He makes us laugh.

8. We are so blessed to have this little guy in our lives. He makes my days brighter.

9. He begins his prayers 'in the name of Jesus Christ, memaw comes tonight.' We have no idea what he means. He ends it the same way.

10. He was my biggest baby at 9.11 and 22 1/2" 3 pounds up from my first boy. That's a BIG jump, friends.

11. He thinks the Holy Ghost lives under his bed...sometimes this is good. He also wants to know when HE gets to be baptized...I think this is because of all of the talk of Tyler getting baptized.

12. I love my Quinny...and he has the cutest little bum ever :)

He's on a roll

So Q just comes running in...
"Mom! Did you hear what just came out of my ears?!"
Me, laughing, 'no, honey, I didn't. what came ot of your ears?'
He makes a yawning face 'This...did you hear it this time?"

He completely cracks me up.


*PS I have a TON of updates to do and now that my pictures are downloaded on my computer downstairs, I will be doing so. I do have to get wedding pictures off my card and onto the computer...I am so excited about these! I hope they turn out as well as I think they did. Plus, a couple of birthdays, spring, a few other things as I find the images...
And yes, if anyone is wondering, we did get Twilight Friday night (not planned, Q had a fever, the tylenol wasn't working so Jeff ran to Walmart at 12:15...yes we have watched...the boys have too...about 7 times.