Christmas Pictures

Here are the boys in their Christmas outfits. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Lines for the outfits. They were adorable and it was nice not having to worry about it.

Peyton

Quick story on Peyton..He has always been right there watching very closely to everything we do. Whether it is changing a light bulb or a tire, mopping, or on the computer, he is always asking questions trying to figure out why or what you are doing. Well Tuesday I was wrapping presents and the boys were supposed to be playing trains. Sweet little Peyton came in and was watching each step I was doing. I was wrapping a shirt for Grandpa Ron. This was our conversation.

P: mom what you doing

Me: wrapping a present for grandpa

P: grandma cindy's grandpa

Me: yes, grandpa ron

P: why you do his laundry

It was too cute I couldn't help but laugh. We love Peyton and are so glad he is here with us to keep us on our toes. He is so sweet.

Carson

Carson makes us laugh alot lately.  He attends preschool with Mrs. Bryce and Mrs. Crockett.  I went to pick him up on Thursday and they handed him a book called Preschool Quotes Christmas 2008.  I started laughing before I ever opened it up.  Last year he got a similar book.  They ask the kids throughout the semester questions and then write down the answers just as the children say.  We are proud of Carson for being so willing to learn from his teachers. I am going to write down his questions and answers to remind me what exactly I need to be teaching him.  J/K.  We think he is very cute and we are proud of him.

1- What is your favorite thing to do in the summer?  I like to go swimming.  I go with Kyia.  I like to ride the kicking boards.  I like to play with my trains.

2- If you could buy anything in the whole world, what would it be? A Thomas carnival.

3- What does your mom do all day? She makes food for us.  She makes yummy cinnamon rolls.  They have frosting on them.  She losted her phone.  She was mad.  Parker had it and he might have put it somewhere but he can't tell us where.

4- What does Dad do all day? He gotted a new dump truck.  It's yellow.  They drive around his work.  They go in front of my dad's truck.  He has to stop.  Then he goes.

5- How old is your mom/dad?  I think my dad is 60.  My mom is 11.

6-  What are your chores?  I help her make some food.  Whenever my dad gets home from work I pick up the toys.  That's just it.

7-  What is a rainbow and how is it made?  It's made of colors.  I would make one out of dirt.  I would wave on the ground to make a rainbow.  When it stops raining a rainbow comes out of a cloud and goes to another cloud.  That is "clifting" and that starts with c-c-c. (don't really know what clifting is)

8- What is a veteran?  Thomas the train.  He's blue!

9- Who is your favorite person in the whole world? Why? It's Justin.  He lives by my house because he has legos and trains.

10- Who is the Great Pumpkin?  The big one.  He comes for Halloween and he says, "Oh my, it's getting late."

11- Why do we have Thanksgiving?  My mom doesn't tell me about things like that.  (This question shows I don't tell him about the important stuff)

12- What did you have for Thanksgiving? It was marshmallows and meat, a roll and cookies.  the cookies were my favorite.  My mom gave me new coaches for my train!

13- Tell me about Santa?  Where does he live?  Way up in the sky, because we can't see him.  He lives by where the jets go, but they don't hit his house.  When it is Christmas he gives us presents.  He's happy.

14-  What do you want for Christmas?  Thomas action Canyon--you can break down bridges and go down waterfalls.

15-  And his preschool cookbook entry is Cereal.  You need some cereal and some milk.  I eat crunch berries.  Fill it all the way to the top.  Add one handful of mild.  I like crunch berries, but parker likes fruit loops.  

Parker--the accident prone

Chad called me on Saturday while I was working and said we have a problem.  I asked him what was wrong.  He told me that Parker is limping.  I asked what he did and all he will tell us is, "Carson stepped on me."  I talked to Dr. Bryce yesterday while at work in the ER and he told me to just take him to his office today and he would take an x-ray.  So I loaded up the kids and went to see Carol Sue McNamara P.A. cuz Dr. Bryce was in surgery.  She poked on his foot and right above his 2nd toe Parker pushed her hand away.  So they took the x-rays and Sue ran them over to Dr. Bryce in the O.R. at the time to see what he thought.  She shows back up and asks, "what color  blue, green, red, yellow."  I looked at her and said you are joking.  Nope she wasn't.

I guess right above the toes is a growth plate and they are worried about that being injured.  So we get to sport a nice blue cast for the next 2 weeks.  I just have to keep him off of it for 2 days till the cast completely dries. That will be fun.  He is going to work real hard and show Gunner how to crawl.  I put him down in the play room next to the Thomas track and I was in the living room talking to my mom on the phone.  Next thing I know is Parker is crawling around the recliner on his hands and knees.  This ought to be fun.  

GUNNER

The older 3 boys love to make Gunner laugh. We were down at Ami's and she has a big love sac bean bag thing. Peyton was standing at the top and would fall and Gunner would just laugh. So Peyton kept doing this and Gunner was laughing so hard I had to film it.

Family Vacation

NASCAR AND POLAR EXPRESS

Tony Stewart Kyle Busch


Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jeff Gordon

Sunday we loaded up at 7:00am and left after I got home from work at 6:00am. We went to Mesa and dropped the boys off with Aunt Mame (Ami). They had fun with her, I am just not so sure she had as much fun with them. She is awesome and I want to thank her for watching her for such a long period of time. Thank You Mame. Chad and I headed to pick up Stacie (aka J.P.M.) and Danny at their hotel so we could go to the NASCAR races. On the way out Danny swore Stacie drives just like J.P.M. almost putting a car in the wall the night before. It was a blast.

Stacie and I were dressed in our bright orange Tony Stewart shirts to support Chad's driver. He didn't win but was involved in 2 pretty good accidents. As we were sitting there in the sun, all of the sudden it started to rain. Here is a picture of us after the rainstorm. Stacie and I were glad it was rain and not some druck person spitting on us. The red flag went up and the drivers were stopped for 22 minutes. We just sat there in the rain and enjoyed it for the time being. Soon the sun came out and dried up all the rain and the race got underway again. It was crazy. PIR turns into it's own little city out there with all the redneck NASCAR fans. It even has its own tent city Bashes. The hill was covered with people and lots of fun drunk people you get to see.

Jimmie Johnson won the race and this is him doing his victory burn out down the track.

We got back to Ami's about 8pm and the boys were exhausted. We crashed at Ami's house for the night to get rested for the next day.

We went down to Cyndi's so she could cut my hair and we let the boys play with all the girly toys. They loved the kitchen, shopping cart, and all the other toys girls play with that we don't have at our house. Thank you Cyndi for the much needed haircut. We then got back in the car and drove to Williams to ride the Polar Express Train.

We had so much fun. We boarded at 6:30 and took off for the North Pole. They served us cookies and hot chocolate read the story polar express to us and sang christmas songs. We arrived at the North Pole and saw Santa and his elf. Santa boarded the train and walked through each car and handed each child a silver jingle bell like in the movie.

It was really cute and the boys had a blast. We got back to the station at about 8:10pm.

After we got loaded we then headed on our way to Snowflake to see my parents and stay the night with them. Thank you Mom & Dad for the place to crash, pizza and ice cream. The boys love going to grandma and grandpa's cuz they have a cool wooden train tracks and of course it is the home of Smoochie. We had a lot of fun on our fast and furious vacation.

Duck ponds and Halloween

Here are some pictures of the boys.  The day before Halloween we drove by Mike Grauer's house and saw his duck pond (he has quite a few ducks there).  Carson asked, "mom, what do ducks eat?"  I said bread.  He then asked, "what else?"  I replied I have no idea.  Then the little smart boy said, "well then we will have to go to the library, check out a book on ducks and see what ducks like to eat so we can feed them.  I told him Dad might have to look on the internet and we might be able to arrange to go feed the ducks.  Chad had halloween day off so I text him and told him we were going to the duck ponds out at the fairgrounds. It was actually lots of fun.  Next time we will have to take the boys bikes.  I forgot about all the cement out there they could ride on.

  

We also went trick or treating for the 1st time.  The kids, especially Carson has never been interested.  But this year, he was so excited to go.  They had a party at school on Thursday and he got to wear his costume.  Since Carson had his on Peyton & Parker demanded they get to were their's also.  So we practiced on Thursday for the big day of Halloween. They were so excited to get all the candy in their buckets.  They all went as Nascar drivers.  Carson was his dad's favorite Tony Stewart, Peyton was Dale Earnhardt Jr. (the amp energy sponsorship fit him to a T), Parker was the blue Jeff Gordon (as opposed to his green and yellow car he sometimes drives) and Gunner was Kyle Busch (the m&m boy).  It was fun to see their excitement that night.  I think I like my childhood tradition of going out to eat for Halloween instead but it was fun.