Halloween!

We went up to Utah for Halloween this year. Our friends Kevin and Emily let us stay with them and trick or treat with their cute little girls. We happened to have 3 kids each, all the same ages within a month of eachother...they have 3 girls, we have 3 boys, who knows, maybe someday they will all go on a triple date, if Kevin would let them. So, Diesel and Detroit had a blast at their house. At one point Diesel had on one of Brooklyn's pink fairy dresses, it wasnt funny, it was disturbing. He looked really wierd in a girls dress, I didnt like it!...anyway I will have to get some of the pictures of us all in costume on here, gotta go find em!

Beautiful Washington/ Detroit's Bday

Curtis came up with the idea to take a little trip last month...it was all his idea so I had to take him up on it. He suggested he take Diesel and Detroit on a road trip with him up to Idaho, in the car...while I fly to Seattle with baby Phoenix and then they could fly over to Seattle and meet up with us there for a few days and then we could all fly back together to texas. So, he drove with his brother Jordan to Utah where they worked and visited some friends for a few days. Curtis parents came down to Utah to play with the kids (thank you) and take them back to Idaho(thank you) so he could go to the BYU vs. UW game. He also got to sneek a quick Windover trip in! Then he went up and met back up with the boys in Idaho where he worked and the boys got to play with there cousins, uncles, and grandparents for a week.....all this time Phoenix and I were in Seattle just enjoying the peace together and visiting friends, brothers and grandparents. It even happened that I was in town for Jocelyn's wedding so I got to go see her in her beautiful dress on her day! It was sooo pretty, need to get some pictures on here from my phone. She got married on pier 66 overlooking the ocean, and her reception was at Salty's also on the ocean..so that was cool and she looked very happy! Anyway, so I got a break from the crazies for about 10 days..I missed them abunch but it was really nice to hang out with Phoenix and see some friends. So then Curtis, Diesel and Detroit flew over and met up with us in Seattle. We went straight to the cabin, Scott and his kids went with us too, then grandma and grandpa made it out. We also got to go to a seahawks game with Donny and Emily (Scott watched the kids for us..thank you, and grandma and grandpa played with Phoenix..thank you)...so that was really fun! also got to golf Washington National on a nice perfect, sunny day! So our two weeks was up and we flew home, Jordan had been making his way back to texas from idaho with our car while we were in seattle so he picked us up at the airport and it worked out perfect! Very very fun, much needed trip for me, Curtis said he had fun with the boys too, so all around, nice little trip!

Seahawks game

see the space needleMason Lake..so pretty, but a little cold this yearHm..maybe I'll get to drive myself Cali and Detroit playin...she looks too pretty for her own good
Uncle Scott took us on our first rideWe love the old school super nintendoDetroit asked for a purple dragon cake this year, this is all I could come up with..turned out ok...the claws fell off when I tried to do them with cake and black icing, so I brainstormed a little and used a few hershey bars (with almonds). They loved eating the claws!

That dragon tries to bite you if you touch his nose, prr's when you touch his back, and spits water at you when you touch his teeth, so Detroit thought it was a pretty cool cake cuz he got to have the dragon...Diesel asked me to make him a dragon cake for his next birthday with"Toothless" so I will be keeping my eye out for a Toothless toy!

-TANYA

a little yoga

I popped in a yoga video yesterday morning...boys decided they wanted to do it with me, i thought it was halariousand then diesel started showin me up, hes pretty goodnamaste He woke up this morning and went to turn on the xbox to play a little how to train your dragon before school, and yoga was still in, so he did that instead!
-TANYA

Who's who

3 different boys, can you tell which one is which?....

-TANYA

...here's your answer

ANSWER: Phoenix, Diesel, Detroit

Diesels teams

Diesel had his first basketball and indoor soccer season this summer. We kind of had to say he was born a year earlier, but he fit in just fine! There basketball team won all but one game I think soccer was maybe 50 50. Anyway, it was the cuttest/funniest thing I've seen in a while. He started getting the concept during the middle of the season. He didnt really understand taking the ball from someone else at first. We spend so much time telling them to share on not steal toys out of other kids hands..and then they start sports and you tell them the opposite. So it was probably pretty confusing at first. Anyway, during his last games of soccer, he was stealing from his own teammates! Funny! We need to work with him a little I guess. Basketball is way funnier than soccer. Its more complicated I think so it just makes it funnier. He and Detroit practice at home before the games, he tries to teach Detroit to get in his stance and gaurd him. Then he switches him places, its so funny, he wants to coach him. Taking Detroits to the games is always interesting. The first soccer game I took him to he cried pretty hard that he couldnt go in and play too. It was sad. We will get him his own team soon, I think I heard about a 3 year old team. In basketball he wants to go sit on the team bench. They had a few practices during the beginning of the season that Detroit participated in, I couldnt keep him off the court, he actually keeps up. That team picture down there, Detroit was in a few of those taken. He thought it was his team too. He's a pretty good dribbler. Diesels defense is pretty good, we need to work on his offense though! He picked number 11, which was my number, but he picked it on his own!Most of the teamTakin the ball up the court -TANYA

Family of 5 now

A little photo shoot, never can get everyone to look at the same time!

Diesel thinks its so funny when I let him hold Phoenix, he gets all giddy! Wow, do we look a like much....Come on Phoenix, get with the program

Detroit just loves to pet and kiss Phoenix, this is at the hospital when he was just a day old. He loves his new brotherSadie loves him too!

-TANYA

NUMBER 3 IS HERE

Thank you for all the help to our parents and friends and families! Phoenix is 5 weeks today and he already weighs a healthy 12 1/2 lbs. We grow em fat and fast around here. My neighbor said she has never seen a newborn with a double chin!? I thought they all had no neck but who knows. Im goin to bed but thought I should write some stuff down before I forget. Phoenix has just started to wake up this last week, pretty much slept for a whole month, well, woke up to eat ever two hours, but slept the rest. So now we are starting to see his eyes and funny expressions. He is pretty gasy so he grunts a ton. Sometimes at night he will sleep for 3 hours straight and let me get some sleep, but thats about as long as he can go without eating, he might be reaching 4 hours, it all gets blurred together-I wake up with him on me sometimes in the middle of the night and cant remember what happened, of course i fell asleep feeding him but I just don't remember so its weird waking up with him half on me. He sleeps in his bassinet in our bathroom for the most part now, he grunts so loud that I had to move him in there and we keep the bathroom fan on to drowned out the noise. I will get some pictures on here soon...he sure is cute. Detroit loves getting in his face and petting his head. Diesel likes when he is awake and he looks at him. he says look mom hes lookin at me, hes makin a funny face! It will just get more fun and interesting... cant wait for more sleep!....

HOLY CRAP

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do you see that number!

Golfin

Here are some pictures of the boys at the range, this was a really pretty day

This was the ladder that the boys tried to build to get up to the roof..to get to a bird that was up there in his nest. I just watched out my bedroom window in the background there, I thought it was funny, when they broke the chips out and gave up we put everything back!Thought Id sneak this in...Scott mentioned that he hasnt seen any pregnant pictures of me, yeah for good reason, but this one is pretty funny and embarassing, but I'll laugh when I see it again in 10 years so what the heck! (no i didnt buy the suit, put it on cuz I thought it'd be funny)
This is from last fall I think, they love going to Market Street with the little carts, I did too until we got to the check out line!...

Summer (birthday/school)

So I only have two weeks left before this little baby comes...I have been trying to get things ready and things I have wanted done before he comes. I shaped up his room, Detroit got kicked out of it a few months back and is now in the guest bedroom, but I shaped that room up now too, so its Detroits room now, not a guest room. He just sleeps on a huge bed, and takes up a little corner over it, kinda funny. The crib is back to being a crip, not a toddler bed, and its got a temporary name hanging above it, it may change, we'll see. Diesel's room even got a little better. His dressers has been broken for a while now, it was a piece, so he got a new one. HE LOVES it. I had his clothes in bins, now that they are in drawers he loves to pack them away. He goes into the dryer before I get to it and takes his things out and goes upstairs and folds them and puts them in there little spots. It is cute, it also worries me. He is a little obsessive. It has to be just so or we cant leave or go anywhere, we have to wait for him, I bought him a shoe holder too so now every pair of shoes has to be in there, not at the front door, not one pair, they all have to be in the shoe holder. He is very particular. About what he wears too and his shoelaces have to be a certain way?!... Anyway, so they all have their own special rooms now, I try to keep the boys out of the baby room cuz they like to go in there and play in the crib, but they have brought stuff in there for him.. I found a little backpack in there yesterday, diesel gave him detroits old mini-backpack now that they both have big ones for school. And detroit brought him in a couple little balls...very cute. found them in the swing and he told me about them. Also trying to get the trampoline net up before he gets here but its on backorder for the 15th so I dont know if that will happen. Id like to know the boys are zipped in a net out there if I cant be paying attention. They like to jump with the hose now so it gets pretty slippery, detroit has caused a few scares, he is one crazy kid, diesel is much more cautious, its funny seeing their differences now that detroit is getting older. They both love going to the movie theater, more than my mom, and thats saying a lot. We saw how to train your dragon 3 times, and we just saw shrek in 3d, they kept there glasses on maybe half the time. which reminds me, i didnt get diesels bday on here, he wanted astroboy and how to train your dragon for his bday, so i mixed it...he was sure he wanted an astroboy cake so that made it easier since there is no astroboy bday decorations, its even hard to find astroboy toys. but there was dragon decorations so it worked good! We blew out his cake and opened presents in the morning...diesel and detroit each ate a cloud..saved astroboy for when his friends came over...

..i made 2 more round chocolate cakes in case there wasnt enough, i didnt really need to but some people wanted chocolate so it worked out good cuz astroboy was vanilla. Everyone brought presents which I was hoping they wouldn't cuz he ended up literally opening presents all day long...he woke up in the morning to our presents, then Curtis took him to a golf shop to grab some new, slightly bigger clubs (ended up getting a great deal on tiger woods clubs, they are pretty sweet, so is the bag) since detroit has taken over his old ones and they fight over them. Then when we got home, grandma and grandpa milams package arrived ups so he opened that, then he napped and when he woke up grandma and grandpa taylors package arrived us postal so he opened that. Then all his friends showed up and brought presents so he opened those! I said come over for cake and ice cream and they all bring presents. Thank you guys for the present diesel loved them, Im just afraid he might be disappointed next bday when that doesnt happen again...hopefully he forgets! or maybe we will wait til night to open everything at one time, i dont know, whaddo you do?! then he got some gifts the following couple days from aunt/uncles/cousins. Most of them are all in his closet still in a special bag that detroit isnt allowed to touch. poor guy, he doesnt understand why he doesnt get any astroboy toys, i better go get him some! he does still have the one from mcdonalds he got a while back but diesel trys to sneak off with it when detroit isnt paying attention to go hide it and keep it, little punk.

anyway..

the newest thing is the boys started school this past week, we decided diesel needed to start school, hes been begging to for a long time now. figured it be good to get him out of detroits hair too, hes so controlling with him, detroit needs a life. so we went school hunting a couple weeks ago and curtis thought detroit would be sad if he didnt get to go to school too. so we found a montessori school that we liked and they are in different classes so they will have some time away from eachother. turns out diesel loves that part, detroit-not so much. he wants to go to diesels class! hes never been without diesel when he has been left without curtis and i...so he is adjusting, but i think it will be good for him, he needs to find his own identity. curtis let him stay home friday cuz he didnt want to go so he got to hang out here with me and no diesel...HE HAD a blast! he played and played making sound affects and playing with the toys the way he wanted to not the way diesel wanted him to! it was cute, he went into diesels room and got out that special bag i talked about that detroit isnt aloud to touch, brought it by me and started playing with all of it, lovin it! we cleaned it up and put it back before we picked diesel up at 3 so he wont ever know! diesel just loves his school, he doesnt wanna leave when i go get him, and detroit is so excited to see me and go home! they do a cute little swim thing on fridays so detroit missed out, but diesel loved it and told us about it! they blow up a bunch of raft pools and slip and slides and let em all go nuts i guess. i love when he comes home and his lunch that i made is eaten, hes been saving the fruit snacks for when he gets home, which i think is kinda funny. detroit eats most of his, he does a pretty good job. i must say it has been i nice little break for me. i get to have some alone time before this baby comes, this week i pretty much chilled out at home, enjoying the peace and quite in my own home...different cuz when a sitter comes you go out to crowds or whatever...so it was a nice little week for me, next week i might try to get a few more things done before the baby gets here, and before you know it, he'll be here and then ill get to spend some time with just him while D and d are at school. it'll be nice, especially if Detroit starts liking school more. If he doesnt i might just take him out and he can hang out with me and the baby. we will see!

Our first day of school, bag and lunch is packed and we are ready to go!

this is where Detroit parked himself friday morning sayin he didnt want to go to school...so he layed there for a half hour while curtis took diesel to school and i showered and got ready for the day...

-TANYA