St. Patty's Day 2011

This morning when making breakfast, we discovered those tricky leprechauns had turned our eggs green! The boys enjoyed eating their gold and green shamrock eggs. After breakfast Devan asked, "where are the leprechauns hiding mom?" So I the boys out back to find them. They didn't find any leprechauns, but they did find some treasure that had been left behind :)

Happy St. Patty's Day!

What's St. Patrick's Day?

Devan- Leprechauns come to our houses and like give us new bikes. And they tip toe. That would be nice of them.

Tristan- We get some like money to people and buy a toy or something, like some of this money, the Leprechauns give us

What do we do on St. Patrick's Day?

Devan- We wear green and look for a treasure chest.

Tristan- We feed our fish, or like wear green shirts, like I wear a green shirt like you

What is a Leprechaun?

Devan-It's something that tries to eat us.... Leprechauns don't eat people... I don't like stepping on Leprechauns.

Tristan- I don't know what he doooos

Tristan turns 3

We didn't do to much for Tristan's birthday since he had a party the day before and it was on a Sunday, and the same day as Brenan's birthday. He did open a couple of gifts from Chad and I though, and Chad got him a yummy cake!

Tristan's 3 year old survey

What is your favorite color? a train, actually an airplane
What is your favorite food? oatmeal
Favorite animal? elephant and a giraffe... some elephants not nice mom
What is your favorite TV show? probably mickey mouse clubhouse
What kind of music do you like? cars
What are you really good at? playing at the park by the houses
What are you not so good at? breaking my toys

Who are your best friends? My friend Dev
What is the best thing about having a brother? I like Devan to be happy with me and not say potty talk mom
How are you different from brother? sometimes I like to bring a lunch bag to my house
What do you want to do when you grow up? eat icecream and cake
If you had a lot of money, what do you think you would buy? a toy, a train
What is the best thing about your mom? I don't even know yet
What is the best thing about your dad? I don't even know yet either
Tell me something that is really funny... A book in a puzzle
What is your favorite thing to wear? My gap shirt
What does love mean? I don't even know
What does it mean to be a good friend? I don't even know yet either

If you could fly somewhere where would you go? to target

Brenan's Blessing

Sunday Brenan was blessed. It was nice that we had family here to share the special day with us.

Birthday Party 2011

I've combined the boys birthday parties every year, 2009 was Thomas the tank engine, 2010 was pirates, and this year was a medieval knight theme. We had it at a park this year and it was a lot of fun. Iwalani and Bruce were able to be here as well which made it pretty special for the boys ( the extra help was awesome too!)

The kids went on a knights quest.

(Bruce Reading the quest from the King)

First they found a horse and trained it (They made stick horses and rode them around the track)

Next they had a jousting tournament ( I had balloon targets with faces on them that they jabbed with pool noodles

After that they defeated the Giant (Bruce was a good sport and took on the part of the giant, the kids threw balloon boulders at him and fought him with their pool noodles)

And last their last step in the quest was to slay the dragon. (I had a dragon pinata for this)

Their reward for the quest was the dragon's treasure.

(Amanda showing off her dragon treasure)

After that the kids had lunchables and we sang and had birthday cake. The boys got alot of fun new gifts as well.

I was pretty happy how everything turned out. The weather was beautiful, all the parents were super helpful, and best of all the boys (and hopefully all the other kids had a great time!)

Devan turns 5

Devan's birthday was a lot of fun. We all woke up early so he could open presents before dad went to work. He got a batman cave (that he's wanted since before Christmas), and a batman lego game for the wii (that he LOVES, and is quite good at). For breakfast he had German pancakes, with strawberries and whip cream. He went to preschool in the morning and brought cake pops to share with his friends. Before picking him up I loaded up the boys bikes and we went for a bike ride at the park and played on the toys. I let Devan pick the next activity and he chose to go to the zoo to see the snakes. Both boys were exhausted by the time we finished at the zoo and pretty much passed out with in minutes of leaving the zoo. We had Devan's favorite for dinner, Big Shrimp, and he also requested to have mango. Later in the evening we sang to him and had a spiderman cake. It was a wonderful day and I can't believe my little guy is not so little anymore. 5 seems so grown up!

A little bit about Devan...

Here is Devan's 5 year old survey

What is your favorite color? Black and red and brown
What is your favorite food? Shrimp and Fish
Favorite animal? Dinosaurs
What is your favorite TV show? Batman
What kind of music do you like? some fun and silly music
What are you really good at? playing games like batman and star wars
What are you not so good at? at reading stuff cuz I'm tired at night time
Who are your best friends? Abby and Stewart and Alexander
What is your favorite thing to do at school? I like learning and playing games
What is the best thing about having a brother? going to the zoo and seeing the snakes
How are you different from brother? probably I'm kind of inceptive
What do you want to do when you grow up? I want to cook some food in me from my kitchen for me to eat and for you to eat cause food can strengthen our bodies
If you had a lot of money, what do you think you would buy? nothing, I can just buy toys with Tristan when he's being good
What is the best thing about your mom? playing games with you
What is the best thing about your dad? I like playing games with him
Tell me something that is really funny... Making silly faces is funny, well, I don't like being funny
What is your favorite thing to wear? My skateboard shirt
What does love mean? That means I like eachother and being nice, but not being mean
What does it mean to be a good friend? being nice to eachother and playing with eachother

If you could fly somewhere where would you go? To India with Dad

I built a little patio in our back yard over the past couple of days. It was a fun project and it will be fun to expand it when I get another "project craving"

Some things I want to remember

If it were up to Tristan the people he loves would never leave his side.

When we leave to take Devan to preschool Tristan says, "I miss you Devan, I'm gonna really miss you".

Almost on a daily basis, "Mom, I really miss Grandma Sherry".

When Daddy was gone to Idaho, departing the airport... "I really miss daddy" 1 minute later "Mom.... I really miss dad" 5 minutes later "When's daddy coming home, I really miss dad" and it continued like this the next 5 days :) When I told the boys I was going to have a babysitter watch them for a couple hours "I miss you mom" me, "I'm not gone yet Tristan" Tristan, "I know, but I miss you mom". When we took our awesome babysitter home, "Aubrey...Aubrey...AUBREY....I gonna miss you Aubrey.

Devan said to me the other day, "Mom, when it's night and it's dark, and you get scared, you can come in my bed and sleep by me."