Last Week

Curtis met me here in Washington off his trip to spend thansgiving with the family... I left last wednesday, taking both kids with me on the airplane by myself, it wasnt too bad, ive done it before but not when Detroit was so mobile. Good thing the flight was pretty empty cuz the boys cruised the aisles and we changed seats, well rows, like 4 times. It was good to get here just in time for naps. Anyway, this pic is diesel the morning we left... he came up and got in bed with me at who knows what time. but i do remember getting mad at him somwhere thru the night for moving around too much so i told him to go back to his own bed.. i remember him leaving and wondered what he would do before i fell back asleep mid-thought (his bed is all the way back downstairs). i figured i would just wake up to him in bed with me again, but this is where i found him in the morning! poor guy didnt even put a blanket on.

-TANYA

Girls Football Game...

http://secure.smilebox.com/ecom/openTheBox?sendevent=4e5449324e4467314f413d3d0d0a&campaign=blog_playback_link&blogview=true

So a girls game of football was put together between a couple neighborhoods here and a few of the husbands took some pictures, this one took pictures of the whole game, so i got on their blog and copied the "smilebox" slideshow url from it! So click on the link above and it will take you to a slideshow of our football game, it was a blast!
notice the background, fall here is beautiful
oh and in case you were wondering, we won (yellow flags team)
--TANYA

Playtime

papa don came to visit on his birthday so diesel helped him blow out his birthday cake
later on we all went to the park

hmmmm

i need to go to bed but i thought i would say that today sucked balls! my kids were terrible today.. i dont know what it is or why it happens but when they both decide they are gonna have a bad day it sucks not twice as bad for me and us all, but ten times as bad! diesel must have felt bad by the end cuz when i said its bedtime he paused a minute to think about doing the usual, getting mad or pulling out whatever comes to mind that might keep him from going to bed, and he said "put jamas on." so that was the easiest part of my day, putting diesel to bed. but detroit didnt go down as easy, too bad for him cuz i let him cry it out! usually he is happy to go to bed but he cried tonight! so now they are asleep and i am happily enjoying a quiet house. my delima now is i need to go to sleep cuz i only will get seven hours if i fall asleep right now.. but i dont want to cuz i want to soak this in, the no interuptions when reading or watching a movie...what to do....... miss you curtis
--TANYA

Gotta love those Mow Hawks!!!

Watchout for these dudes they are Punks!!!!!!

--CURTIS

Summer days go fast

Man I miss the summer we would hit the lake at any chance Diesel loved riding on my lap and together we would drive and drive and drive. Cant wait to be in Texas and surf all year round!!
--CURTIS

This was a beautiful summer evening tanya and I would take the boys to the golf course and hack away. Both the boys love being on the course as does dad and mom and since we have no family around to watch the boys they come w us. It doesnt help us play well but I really enjoy being on the course as a family. Tanya really improved her game this year she is alot of fun to golf with cause she can hit the ball far!! Dad thinks hes good but reality is he should stick to contact sports!!

--CURTIS

Tucson at Night

This is a picture of Tucson at night. Today was usual we made sells and then went to LA fitness to work on the BOD!! At 28yrs old ive managed to keep my weight around 240 pounds i left on my mission in 2000 at 238 pounds with 5 percent body fat now 8 yrs later I have gained 2 pounds but my body fat is atleast 15 percent. Not to mention I find it pointless anymore to use my testosterone to grow hair? Thanks Grandpa!! Needless to say I have alot of work to do to make sure I keep my youth. It seems at 25 your body starts working against you instead of for you. I can't stop eating Big Burgers mostly cause they taste so good so I guess I have no hope. by the way there is an IN N OUT burger accross the street!! it calls my name every day. also i look out my window and see the golden arches (love the hot fudge sundae) and then my mouth continues to hit the floor cause the Craker Barrel is in the same parking lot as my hotel!! I promise ill eat enough in these 3weeks for everyone especially those of you who are on a diet so let me know what your missing out on and Ill tell you how good it tastes. Hope I live to be 40? -CURTIS

Jump on it

Diesel is really starting to like this place, he talks about it the next day now. we go jump on it...

Detroit doesnt really get it yet but he crawls all around the place This last time, I guess he found a girl that he thought was cute and preceded to crawl over to her, use her shoulder to stand up... then put his leg over her and sat down in her lap, and made her pay attention to him... i just let it happen cuz it was so funny! Our boys are pretty social, not too shy around anyone! Diesel likes to go sit with other families even when we go out to eat, we already arent cool enough, I thought that didnt happen until the teenage years..

yeah, I dont know that person...guess Detroit does

--TANYA

Curtis must have taught him this

This is for Curtis...whats that move he does at the end there, did you teach him to bully little girls!... her mom is watchin him too...

Playin in the Leaves (before it snows again)

Its harder than it looks getting them to look at the stinkin camera at the same time

I cant not laugh out loud evertime I look at this one2 seconds earlier
3 seconds earlier, wondered what he was doin..

--TANYA

Diesel playin in the Snow

Cant even take a shower

This is what happens when I leave the room for 5 minutes, they team up!
Detroit just thinks he's so funny

--TANYA

When Diesel saw that last post with Curtis picture

Diesel.."Daddys froggy" "Daddy froggy jump" "dats cute" "jump" "JUMP"

WE MISS YOU CURTIS

Diesel.."we go find daddy work" "where daddy go" "daddy say prers" "daddy come home tomorrow" "hhuuuhh"

Detroit.."da dada da da" "da dad dad my teeth hurt waa wa da da dad" "da da i crapped my pants mom wa wa wa ooo thats better dad da da da da da"

Me.."remember daddy went on a work trip, he'll be back soon dont worry" "daddy say prayers when he gets back" "i know detroit let me give you some more teething tablets" "dude how many times can you shit in one day, thats like the 10th nugget and quit thinkin it ok to poop in the shower"
--TANYA

Jazz Game

Nikki and I went to a Jazz game a couple weeks ago and got to cheese with the bear.. we went to another game last night and he came by and did a double take and recognized us so he sprawled out on our laps like he was gonna take a nap, wonder if he is cute, or maybe its even a girl?! who knows, but the things crazy. At this last game in the fourth quarter some dude poored his cup of beer on the bears head and the bear came back with a bucket full and drenched him. The entire stadium watched it on the big screen, definitely got everyone on there feet cuz the guy had a Trail Blazers jersey on (the opposing team). We dont know if it was a set up or not but it may have just worked cuz we were down fourth quarter and came back to win! Good game!In the meantime Diesel and Ryder were busy having a sleep over, I dont know how they finally fell asleep in the same bed together cuz they are both pretty full of energy, but I had to take a picture of it.. Ryders resting his little head on Diesels stomache! --TANYA

Days Inn Tucson

It is bed time for me here in Tucson and I cant get to sleep cause I havent said my prayers and sang Ba BA Black sheep followed up w Twinkle Twinkle then the ABC's and polished off with I am a child of GOD...I hope Tanya remembers diesels bed time order back at home so that Diesel is able to get to sleep.. Maybe Jordan will let me kneel at his bed and sing and pray w him? I have been in Arizona for 4 days now and I am glad to be here working and grateful for the opportunity but I am hating being away from my boys and my beautiful wife.. I really feel for the families in the military where the father goes away for such along time. I am grateful for those families who make that sacrifice and just wanted to point that out. Tucson has been boring, but warm!! I wake up and have the free breakfast down stairs and then get ready to go out and sell. This first week I am trying to get familiar with the area and really get in the mode of seling everyday. I love being a sales rep so I am enjoying the work I just miss my family. The crazy thing about Arizona and especially Tucson is all the border patrol cars you see driving around? I guess mexico is only 1 hour away but living in the northwest you rarely see this. Jordan and I went to the GYM in Flagstaff 2 days ago and lifted weights (ITs been a long time). Well it was a bad idea neither one of us can move our arms. I will write again and maybe havesome good action to talk about but probably not this trip is straight business and the good news is business is good!!!!! peace, Curtis love you guys!!!
--CURTIS

It Snowed..

Diesel usually wakes up too early for me so I try to go back to sleep after I get him some breakfast and turn on some toons. This morning I woke up and he had gotten breakfast on his own and ate it in a little different place (yes thats an entire bag of cereal dumped out on the floor)... He set up shop in front of the slider door so he could watch it snow!



I don't know about this, I think we need to get down to Texas, I don't want to be cold all the time!
--TANYA

HALLOWEEN

Diesel and Detroit went trick or treating together as spiderman and batman, detroit actually grabbed the candy for himself and put it in his bucket, it was cute. Diesel had to check out each houses decorations (roar at any kind of monster shaped face, showing it he was tougher) before he would knock on the door, so trick or treating took a long time for us... good thing it was raining

workin on their candy together









and diesel wont pay attention to anything when he has candy



his first tastes of candy



I guess he thought that was the face your supposed to make when you eat candy...or he is just as big a poser as diesel!



and again



little hannah spent halloween with us, she was pretty cute, someone snuck her a chocolate candy later that night... i dont know if it was detroit or diesel but by the time brian and emily caught it she had already tasted her first licks of chocolate (they were trying to keep her from any sugar for most of her childhood life, oops)


--TANYA

Pineview Lake this Summer

Curtis got pretty good at wakesurfing this summer, this is just some of his many moves!
--TANYA

detroit

I just wanna say that detroit takes really cute pictures...
--TANYA

Stayed up late...

Curtis went out of town earlier today... I got kinda bored after my friend Nikki and her kids went home so I decided to put Detroit to bed but let Diesel stay up late with me. He has gotten pretty good at posing for me so we had a little fun at the computer with the camera! About 5 minutes after these he actually asked me if he could go to bed, that never happens! It was pretty cute
--TANYA

Modifications

Hey guys,

I took the liberty of fixing your blog up a little bit. I finished making a blog for Mom & Dad. I also fixed up Brian & Em's too. Hopefully we can all actually use these. I'll have to show you some tricks on how to use this sometime. You need to send me a list of better songs because I just used what I thought you and curtis would like. Hopefully you like the new look. Sort of girly, sorry curtis.
--SCOTT (TANYAS BRO)