The Basketball Team

WOW, its been over a year

2011-12-18T19:49:00.000-08:00

I need to get back into this...I have so many pictures and things to say. How am I going to make up for a years worth. I really need to get my pictures all organized by date and have a real life album with notes on the back or something. Especially if I can't keep up with this. There are so many funny things said when kids are little that you want to remember. I can't even remember after a week goes by.
This last week, before I forget, I have had some funny conversations with Diesel and Detroit. Oh and Phoenix, he is 1 1/2 today, he is walking, well running and he loves the new dog we got a couple months ago, Abby. Phoenix says "no biting" to her, a lot. That's actually all he says, he says the usual mommy, daddy, ball... and bye bye to babysitters, and attempts to say their name after bye bye but its pretty slurred! He loves when they leave and he hates when Curtis or I leave the room he's in...I don't remember how long that lasts, its cute, but also kind of annoying :/He absolutely loves to be tickled and snuggle and grab the dogs tail and lay on her. He's so funny, he makes the boys laugh, they both say that they want to keep the new baby!! -Mom, I like our baby, I want to keep him forever...so cute. Phoenix started unwrapping one of the Christmas presents under the tree yesterday. Detroit and I went to the store and Detroit wanted to pick out something for Christmas for Phoenix, since he already picked out something for Diesel and wrapped it...so I let him pick out this little transformer for him. Well we brought it home and sure enough he didnt hide it so Phoenix saw it. So Phoenix started screaming for it, and I hid it, and he followed me, and he wasn't gonna stop. So I asked Detroit if he wanted to just let Phoenix have it now and pick him something else to wrap, or wrap it up now and put it under the tree. He said he wanted him to have it now, so I opened it and gave it to Phoenix, he was stoked! After he got over playing with it for a while, I think his little brain put two and two together, and he figured out that the stuff under the tree was probably similar to this cool toy he just scored, so thats when he started unwrapping. I told him no no, and he kept going, so I took it a away and gave him a bottle, and luckily it was time to go to bed, he hasn't unwrapped one since so we will see if he can hold out til Christmas!! Little punk, he sure is funny!
Anyway, back to the conversations with Diesel and Detroit. So I just put Diesel to bed, Detroit fell asleep pretty quick which is unheard of, usually the other way around, so I stayed up and talked to Diesel a little bit. He wanted to know if Detroit was near Washington. He wants to move to Washington because Curtis has been working there this past week. So I told him about cities and states and showed him that Detroit and Washington weren't close at all. He knows it snows a lot in Detroit so he wants to live close so he can be in snow in the winter. I told him it snows in Washington too, so I think he's ok moving there if its not close to Detroit.
Diesel- So when are we gonna move to Washington then
me- well, we aren't, Ill talk to dad about it if you want, but we can't move anywhere until your school gets out in June
Diesel- well, there's a girl Maddison in my class at school, she moved, she doesn't go to my school anymore cuz she moved to a new school and a new house, so we can move now
me- We can't just pack up the house in one night and move to a whole new house tomorrow Diesel, it takes time and planning, and we have to talk to Dad about it, I don't know if he wants to live in Washington, I don't know if Detroit does either.
Diesel- oh, well I wanna move to Washington
...Last night
me-whats wrong Diesel (hes grabbing his head and crying)
Diesel-I dont want to go to bed if Detroits not going to bed
me-Detroit took a nap, you chose not to, so you have to go to bed a little earlier than him
Diesel- Remember when...(I cant remember the story)
me- geez Diesel, how do you remember that, I even forgot about that
Diesel- (kind of annoyed) cuz Im smart, I remember every thing in my brain. I am so smart, Im the smartest
me- howd you get so smart, howd you get smarter than me
Diesel- cuz I just am, and my heads really big too cuz my brain is big
me-..laughing...you think your head is big
Diesel- yeah, it is, I think its bigger than yours
me- Is it bigger than dads
Diesel- um, no, dad has a big head
me- how bout Detroit and Phoenix
Diesel- no their heads are little, and Abby's is really small cuz shes a baby
....Last night with Detroit
Detroit- I like school mom
me-why you like school so much
Detroit-cuz it has a lot of fun stuff
me-like what
Detroit-center, centers you get to do a lot of stuff, and I like our house, it has fun stuff too
me- really, you like both
Detroit- yeah I love my house and baby Phoenix and Abby and Daddy and Diesel and you, their my favorite
me- you are so cute dude (he was sitting straight up, facing me, with this big lit up face sitting indian style)
Theres so much more I am forgetting in this conversation, drives me nuts, maybe Ill add to it if I remember or we talk about it again. I swear I'm losing memory storage in my brain as I get older, sometimes I am such a space head too. Anyway, tonight we made pizza, the boys had fun spreading all the toppings on. I learned tonight a reason behind one of Detroits little picky eating things. So while we were making the pizza he and Diesel were eating the pepporoni...then we cook it and I serve it and Detroit stars picking off the pepperoni. I ask him why he is picking off the pepperoni if he likes it and was just eating it. He said "I don't like pepporoni hot" So not only is he picky with what kind of food he will eat, but the temperature of it as well! He's a funny kid, he can be such a punk, and such a sweetheart and then so dang stubborn and then so helpful and cute! He went thru a stage this past year where he used to just repeat this...I love you mom, I like you mom. me- I love you too and I like you too buddy. Detroit- I love you too mom, I like you too mom.
Also before I forget, today I was talking to the boys while I was cleaning, telling them they should help me out so that I have more time to play with them. So Diesel looks up at me and says, ok mom, Ill clean the whole house, let me do that...I was mopping cuz the tornado, aka Phoenix, spilled pineapple juice and it got sticky everywhere. So Diesel takes the mop and mops the whole downstairs floor, for a good 20 minutes. And he picked up toys and puzzle peices on his way. Then, he goes upstairs and makes the bed he and Detroit sleep in, better than I make it. Then he picked up the small playroom upstairs that Phoenix had destroyed yesterday. Then he goes downstairs and cleans his toybox up that Phoenix managed to sneak into and destroy sometime today...then he fed the dog. Sometimes, a lot of times, Diesel will do this kind of stuff and its so dang nice. He could just play with Detroit or sit there and finish his cartoon, but he helps out instead and I didn't really even ask. I didn't ask him to do anything specific, he just looked around and figured it out. So he's a little sweetheart.

I gotta go get some sleep
-TANYA

Cutey

2011-01-28T08:38:00.000-08:00

The move (two months ago)

2011-01-14T15:13:00.000-08:00

We started our move right before Curtis bday so we were staying in a hotel, searching for houses on his big 3-0 bday. My dad came to help with the move and watched the kids that night so at least he got to go out for his bday! Met some friends at benihanas, it was a lot of fun...thanks dadThe boys watchin movies in the back together on the road trip there, with their "Hogwash"A couple days later, still looking for houses, still at the hotel... Detroit and Diesel are flying around planes and dragons in the hotel room, Detroit falls out the second story window. Rushed him to the er, this pic is actually his ambulance ride to childrens hospital where they transfered him.No broken bones, no broken neck, he did have to stay the night because his spleen swelled up from impact...

Curtis spent the night with him so I could stay at the hotel with Phoenix to nurse him in the night...I came back in the morning all worried and thinking I would find him laying down in bed resting- this is what I walk in to find, hes dressed in a gown, painting, that beautiful picture he is standing by. Having a blast, melting the nurses hearts. Hes such a happy kid, nothing phases him for too long. The window on top there, is the window in my nightmares...still cant believe it happened. We are so lucky, so blessed, that absolutely nothing was wrong in the end, he came out unharmed, checked out of the hospital the next morning, spleen swelling went down in the night. His grandma said that angels broke his fall. Hopefully they stick around him for a long time, cuz he can be pretty reckless! Does not take after Diesel...maybe its from his dad!
-TANYA

Halloween!

2010-11-27T21:21:00.000-08:00

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

2010-10-11T08:29:00.001-07:00

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

2010-08-30T14:40:00.000-07:00

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

2010-08-28T21:39:00.000-07:00

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

-TANYA

...here's your answer

2010-08-28T21:22:00.000-07:00

ANSWER: Phoenix, Diesel, Detroit

Diesels teams

2010-08-27T16:40:00.000-07:00

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

2010-08-19T15:40:00.000-07:00

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

2010-07-23T20:11:00.000-07:00

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

2010-06-10T21:32:00.001-07:00

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do you see that number!

Golfin

2010-06-09T14:30:00.000-07:00

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)

2010-06-05T08:42:00.000-07:00

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

too long

2010-05-03T20:12:00.000-07:00

Its been too long, gotta get something on here...I have lots of pics to put on here but maybe will get to all of them later...since last update, we have been back to Seattle (to visit the new addition, Parker), been back to Idaho (to go to Grandpa's funeral), to Vegas (for a business/last time before baby.. trip). It snowed here for one day, went to the zoo again, Easter, Diesel's bday, and what else.. lots has happened! So I have pics I need to get on here! Here are a couple-

Hannah and her new baby brother ParkerWhile we were up there we finally went to Snoqualmie Falls, havent been there for years

too distracted for a decent pictureKelli and Curtis at their Grandpa's funeralJason and Melissa were able to come up for it so the kids got to meet them

Dinner in vegas before Phantom of the Opera

Snow in Texas! made em just in timeThe boys ugly easter eggs, no skill! maybe if we had a girl..

Zoo again, this lion paces back and forth in front of this window, kids think its cool, but he probably is just pissed he cant "play" with them...more to come, bye for now

-TANYA

more Idaho Christmas at the cabin

2010-01-22T16:47:00.000-08:00

we made a sledding slide out of the back porch stairs

hes throwing a snowball at me in this picture, the snow was so soft it made for a cool pic

grandpas professional pancakes

whatchin Gforce

Jordan throwing Diesel in the snow, Diese loves whatching this over and over, he thinks hes so funny!!

Off to Idaho Falls (2nd half of Christmas Break)

2010-01-19T20:09:00.000-08:00

Walking with dad to get on the little plane, diesel called it (We went on a big plane, now we go on a little plane) Grandma found these pilot hats at an aviation store, stewardists said they looked just like the pilots hats! They were cute, detroit liked sporting his to the side and backwards for some reason, guess it goes along with his name

Diesel wore his right, hes serious about the plane business

the first thing we did literally when we go there is went striaght to the gym for the first game of curtis and his brothers and cousins alumni tournament...boys loved it.especially half time...in between games we headed over to Sandwhich Tree where Diesel wanted to get whatever would make him bigger that he could eat so that he could get big to play basketball with daddy In between these pictures he said, Im gonna eat this all gone and get bigger like dad and play basketball with him! and then he started scarfing!...a little opening at the Taylors too...grandkids are so spoiled

--TANYA

Christmas continued...

2010-01-16T12:11:00.000-08:00

More present opening...

Donny being a punk

what a mess..
grandma and grandpaall lined up ready to get in the poolcrazyness detroit loving on grandma, and look at callie, what a cute/funny face

We took a fairy ride to the cabin, the boys loved it...as im typing this diesel is asking me if we are gonna go on the boat next year with grandpa

aww
Theres a place you can go shooting up there so grandpa brought his guns..the boys shot rifles, thought it was so cool, until i started shooting this pistol, diesel thought it was too loud.

after the pistol was brought out diesel kept telling daddy not to shoot him (dont shoot me dad) i got it on video, its pretty funny

we also went to the seattle aquarium...took diesel when he was a baby, he appreciated it much more this time, detroit like it too, he stood completely still when he was getting his face painted, then he looked in the mirror the whole time diesel was getting his painted!

had to grab some fish and ships while we were up there, fish was delicious, chip (potato wedges, not so much)--TANYA

Christmas in Seattle

2010-01-16T11:17:00.000-08:00

Off to Seattle, I left 4 days before Curtis so I took the boys on the plane myself. They were shockingly perfect going thru the airport. They held hands...the whole way to the terminal until they got on the plane...totally their idea, they did it when they got off the plane as well?! and they kept those santa hats on the whole time, I think behaving for Santa inspired them. The plane ride wasnt bad either, I was pretty scared to do it myself again now that Detroit is much more hyper and mobile and 2.. but it was good, there was only 30 mins of the 4 hours that were a little bad, and I cant even remember it. I think Detroit wanted to run the aisles or something..and Diesel has totally mellowed out, said many people on this trip, so he's way easy to travel with now. He's a pretty good little boy now, Detroit is such a hand full now that I dont remember Diesel ever being hard, but Curtis said he was the same as Detroit, I need to break out the home videos I guess.
Diesel likes to study up on this pamphlet before every take off..and talk to me about the plane in the water in it..hope it doesnt make people nervous around us (Mom, are we gonna land on the water like this one) Christmas Eve Pj's..good job grandma...

Breakfast with the whole family
Joshua eatin up
Hannah, such a littel poser, so cute..

2010-01-16T09:18:00.000-08:00

The boys were real excited about Christmas this year. They helped me decorate and wrap presents. It probably took more time with their help then it would of without, but they had fun and I thought it was cute! They were really helpful with putting presents under the tree...that they were real good at. Diesel somehow memorized the presents that I told him were to him. He studied them I guess cuz when I took them to Seattle with us and put them under Grandma and Grandpas tree, with all the tons of others, that had some of the same wrapping paper and same size boxes, he still new which ones were his. I even wrapped one the same exact way in the same exact box, one was to him and one was to Emily, he knew the difference?! So he was real into presents this year. A little help from me steps in, he had the top of the tree going as the base...

Good job my little elves!

--TANYA

Baby number 3 is...

2010-01-12T12:42:00.000-08:00

We cheated again and went to fetal photos.. we brought the boys in to watch. Diesel asked me if the guy was gonna break open my belly to look at the baby. He said he wanted a sister. Hes getting another brother! He asked me if i was gonna push it out of my stomache so he could see him tomorrow. I told him it would be a while, unfortunately!

Diesel's Mind

2009-11-16T14:04:00.000-08:00

I explained to Diesel that we were gonna make him another brother/sister. He said he wanted another Diesel. Then he said he had a Diesel in his tummy too. So the other day im driving home and diesels gasps and says, mom did you hear that..i say, hear what, what did you hear, he says...i heard the baby cry, he wants to come out and say hi, did you hear him. Then I explained to him that its gonna be a while and i was gonna get bigger first. Then he told me that he was gonna have his Diesel come out and say hi tomorrow. So i dont know if he quite gets it. im excited to see what he does when my belly starts stickin out, and i really wanna see how he is with it when it comes out to say hi. If its a girl, i wonder if he'll be disappointed?! i wonder what detroit will do too, as of now i dont know if he'll pay any attention to it, but we've got a ways to go! hopefull i can get detroit potty trained before then, thad be awesome.

I started telling Diesel about Santa Claus at bedtime a couple days ago. We put some decorations up and he's getting all excited about when Christmas is gonna open. We were at the mall saturday and i took him thru Pennys to use the bathroom, it took us 20 minutes cuz he had to analyze all the christmas decorations they had on display to and from the bathroom. Anyway, back to santa. I told him that we have to set him out cookies and milk the night before christmas so that he will come in and snack on em and then deliver the presents. I told him about how santa is fat cuz he eats all those cookies and junkfood around christmas.....so the next day he grabed a back of chips out of the pantry and asked, mom, if i eat these am i gonna get fat? Now he asks me before everything he eats.. these strawberries wont make me fat, these make my tummy feel good. these fruit roll ups junkfood? yeah.. they wont make me fat though, they make my tummy feel good, they make detroit fat. is detroit fat?.. anyway, he makes me laugh with all the stuff he says!

-TANYA

Happy Halloween

2009-11-02T17:11:00.000-08:00

Diesel was a transformer and Detroit was a skeleton for halloween. I let them pick out there own costumes. I thought they did a pretty good job. We went to Astroboy the day before halloween though and diesel wanted to switch to astroboy so he could fly! He's catching onto things now, its pretty funny. Oh and diesel picked out the pumkin goblin on the right and helped carve it, sort of!

Summer

2009-11-02T16:52:00.000-08:00

Its not hot enough to go to the pool anymore, but I wanted to put this move on here that Detroit got pretty good at this summer, he did that all the way across then he would come back, had bruises on his legs all summer, still has em, wonder when they will go away! Maybe they are from diesel and not the pool?!!

Seattle/Spokane trip

2009-10-10T12:42:00.000-07:00

We went up to Seattle and Spokane in august to visit my family and go to Matthews wedding...

I would like to know what zya and diesel are talking about hereand what diesel and brezlyn are doing here
We shared a hotel room with thomas and kelli after the wedding and the kids had a lot of fun together...

detroit and brezlyn got some good air on the bedswe spent a lot of time in airports on this trip... this was coming back from spokane to seattle, detroit found himself a nice little place on the floor to get some coloring donei thought this picture was funny, if you look at detroit and josh...they are in the same position, donny and curtis are carrying them the same way...curtis is bigger with detroit and donny is smaller with josh...they are a year and a half apart....curtis and donny are, lets see... 4 1/2 years apartthis ones funny too, 2 kids hangin in the air on both sides! im glad i got that picture, thats all the grandkidsgrandpa don was spraying everyone with the hose, they had a blastmom wanted a picture while we both were in boots...i sprained my ankle 2 weeks before this trip playing basketball, my mom had surgery on her foot to fix some bones 2 weeks 2 days before this trip...so we both had some pretty nice pain killers

-TANYA

Detroit 2

2009-10-10T12:17:00.000-07:00

These pictures were taken a second apart, i click back and forth cuz i think its funny... this was his little dance i think since it was about to be his turn to jump to curtis in the pool! He's a funny kid, he has a little mean side that is coming out just recently that i dont know about! Diesel has always been a pretty nice kid, so im in new territory. He may just be lashing out at Diesel. He just figured out he can make Diesel cry now and he got a little taste and likes it i think!

-TANYA

Detroit

2009-09-26T19:53:00.000-07:00

Football

2009-09-26T19:41:00.000-07:00

Curtis is sooo excited for football. when we moved here he made sure we got hooked up to direct tv just so that we could get nba and nfl passes to see all the games. so now football season has come and he got to see all the games that were going on last sunday, as he explains it his head was spinning, he didnt know what to do with himself. he tried to watch em all but it was hard cuz there were so many on at once. so he is in heaven on the weekends.. our friend ryan got us some box seat tickets from his friend to the byu vs osu game that was here at the dallas cowboys stadium... i had to take a picture to show the much talked about big screen, i mainly watched it the whole game cuz its hard not to.
-TANYA

Visit to Seattle

2009-09-26T19:25:00.000-07:00

My camera loads pictures that are huge, I could shrink em or i could just wait for them to load, either way it takes forever, its faster to use the pix from my phone! anyway, i just wanted to get this picture on here cuz i think its halarious of Hannah, she has the cuttest little legs, look at em, there buff... so there is a lot more where this came from that i will load tomorrow for the fam to see!

Something...

2009-09-25T15:06:00.000-07:00

I have been slacking lately. i got on and started reading some older posts...things that i have already forgotten about so i am really glad that i wrote them down! so i need to keep doing that or i will forget all these cute things my kids did growing up, and fun trips we took as a family thru the years! i really like this blog cuz there is no way i would write this stuff down in a journal, it takes way to long to write, typing is so much faster! plus i know my dad likes reading these! he hasnt bugged me lately though to update, so maybe he doesnt check anymore, ill have to remind him, and then get on here more! i guess i feel like i cant get on unless i have a picture to go with it, funner for other people to look at, but i wanna read what i had to say in the future!

anyway, diesel has a pretty full vocabulary now, hes almost 3 1/2 and detroit will be 2 next week, holy cow! what are we gonna get him. detroit is trying to talk a lot now, he jabbers away and i just agree with him. it is probably my favorite stage, when they think they are saying stuff, stories even, and they arent making any since, it is soo cute! still need to get rid of his scream though, detroit is pretty stubborn right now, he is in that stage where he knows what he wants but he doesnt know how to say it... so he makes you get up and follow him to it. then you say no when you realize what he wants (more candy usually) and he freaks out. and you say dont freak out detroit and you ve got diesel right by you saying...hey dont say that, dont say that word. you see diesel will not let us curse, i cant even say freak, i try to explain that freak out is not bad to say but he just puts it in the category with fu$# and freakin and so you cant say it around our house. so he knows all the curse words and corrects us when we try to use them. its funny, and detroit likes to mimic me, so when he gets real mad and wants to tell me off, he puts his hand in a fist and puts his pointer finger out, puts it right by his cheek and puckers his lips with a scowl on his face and starts jabberin real demanding like! i dont know where he came up with a couple details to the move cuz i dont put my hand by my face when i tell him off?! detroit also love playing pass and catch with balls, he is in the obbsessive ball stage that diesel went through, and they are both really into planes right now...point out everyone in the sky. when they wake up in the morning the first thing they want to do is go outside and look at planes together. but back to balls, detroit will just walk up to you and you dont even know hes there and boom, he drills you in the head with a ball, wanting you to catch it, and throw it back...curtis has woken up multiple mornings with a ball hitting him in the nose! they wake eachother up in the morning, diesel and detroit that is, which is kind of annoying, this is how they do it. whoever wakes up, slams their door as they are leaving the room, and if the other one hasnt woken up to the sound of the door slamming by the time they get to the top of the stairs, they go slam it again, until the other wakes up... this way they can claim it was accident i guess, cuz they have gotten in trouble for hovering over eachothers beds trying to get them to wake up... little punks. mornings start way too early for us here, especially considering that we usually are waking up once thru the night by one of them. i need to get detroit a night light i guess, curtis says he'll go up to his room cuz hes crying and he'll go in and detroit is crying in the corner or up against a wall cuz he cant find the door to come get us! its pitch black in his room cuz we blacked out their windows thinking it would help them sleep in a little longer (it helped, we probably get another hour now). anyway, kinda sad but kinda funny too! curtis feels bad for him and gets mad at me that i wont go buy him one.. i just keep forgetting, i dont know if it would do any good anyway, he ruined both of diesels so diesel just sleeps with his closet light on...hes pretty afraid of the dark, he thinks the monsters are gonna get him if no lights are on. anyway, detroit just woke up, here he comes

Lake

2009-09-01T15:34:00.000-07:00

Curtis and Detroit went surfing together the other day, it was pretty cute...when they let go of the rope they went under for a second, i guess detroit started saying mommy when they came up, kind of confused and stunned!

Buddies

2009-07-27T18:16:00.000-07:00

Nikkie Billy Ryder and Easton came down last week to visit plus do some work, we had a lot of fun with them, Diesel and Ryder especially! They get a long pretty well and Detroit and Easton I think are just happy to have a lot of kids running around them. Easton got huge and is a mini Ryder which is another mini Billy, it was really good to see them, we were missing them! I putting some pictures on here tomorrow of em!

Already!!!!

2009-06-29T15:07:00.000-07:00

The boys both got written up at the gym last week. Its their first warning, i guess if they rack up 2 more then they cant come to the gym for 2 weeks, a probation. Is it bad that I felt a sense of pride when i found out why they got in trouble.. you tell me?.... They both teamed up on two other kids, a brother and sister... apparently Diesel and Detroit were wrestling and were told to stop...and then two other kids came in the mix and Diesel took down a 6 year old girl and Detroit was on top of a 4 year old boy. They said they were beating them up... Im sure they were just play wrestling with them but it sure sounded funny! Diesel and Detroit in the gym beatin up older boys and girls... they are little monsters! I think Curtis is proud of em too...they didnt hurt anyone, dont worry, just made em cry i think...
-TANYA

New Dew.. jordan jumpman

2009-06-03T20:20:00.000-07:00

We did this a couple weeks ago...I dont know what was harder, getting them to sit still for the pictures or shaving their heads detroits looks more like a kid jumpman, which is fitting i guess, i learned on his and did way better on diesels... plus diesel sits a lot more still

when he leans his head back it looks like the little dude is doing the splits

when i was all done, i put em in their jordan gear (that curtis cant help himself from buying whenever he goes to nike online)... they wouldnt take a picture together from the back, this was the only way to get them together! letting them climb the pantry shelves, little punks, what did i expect though i guess, right?!

-TANYA

Take me out to the Ball Game

2009-06-03T19:54:00.000-07:00

The boys have been to a few baseball games in the last month... this is at the Rangers game and this is the minor league team that plays a few minutes from us.. they are the Rough Riders and their mascots are a guy and girl sloth...wierd but the kids were obsessed, we chased them around the stadium the last 10 minutes! diesel just wanted to keep touching his tail and detroit would get all excited about getting close and then the thing would try to come up to him to say hi and he would woos out and run back to me kind of stunned and scared, its was cute

virginia continued..

2009-05-26T20:00:00.000-07:00

also went to see a natural bridgeand past that maybe a half a mile the trail ends and that walls circles back around. at the end is a pretty tall drop off to the river and it leads to a beautiful waterfall...it looks more like three slides though!

so jordan and i figured if we could climb down the wall into the river and make it up there we could slide on down the thing! the only thing holding us back was we didnt wanna get caught cuz i dont think your supposed to go over the wall they built to keep you out of the water? so curtis went on up with us too, and we made it to the top and slid down all three bumpy slides,..jordan went first and told me it didnt hurt at all, cuz it looked like it would. well he had on long shorts which protected his skin...i ended up coming out with scrapes on both butt cheeks
we brave

we ended up driving over to virginia beach the last day.. curtis is body surfing this wave, looks like jordan is waiting for the next one, and i think curtis must have ended up running over that lady?.. aww
deep thought?
oh and i forgot about these toads that were in the pond at the wedding...they were everywhere! and there was a certain corner of the pond that was exclusively for humping, look at all those litte horny toads, some of em have stacks of 3, little perverts!

-TANYA

Virginia..(wedding/vacation)

2009-05-05T13:54:00.000-07:00

My nice little mother came all the way down to Texas and watched the 2 monsters while Curtis and I and his bro Jordan went out to Virginia where their parents already were to go to their brother/son Jason's wedding! It was a beautiful wedding, really cool place to have a wedding! and it was a nice change for us for a minute to be back around mountains and big trees!

we also went to some tourist spots while we were there, these are some cave pics.... curtis snuck in thru the back entrancejordan and i jumped in thru hole above ground, i didnt realize how far down it was, i diedjordan landed on his feet, he livedi came back to life as a spyand i found this guyand his brother and dad

to be continued..

-TANYA

Diesel's 3

2009-05-02T17:08:00.000-07:00

Diesel turned 3 April 22nd... I cant believe it. He loves carz the movies so we did a cars birthday for him, he loved it, then grandma came and gave him a bunch of car stuff so now he is obbsessed. and thank you brian for the ramp gift, that consumes most of his nights now, lining them up in order to go off the jump and then they get put at the end of the ramp so the next car can jump over the previous... and the mower dude from the movie has to be at the beginning of the ramp like he is chasing the car going down the ramp, he tells the story, he talks to me about it and when im not in the room i here him talking to the cars themselves. funny kid, and shi%, detroit better not get in the way or hes toast.

Carley Barley

2009-05-02T16:33:00.000-07:00

Carley came to visit which was awesome! she has some funny pictures i wanna put on here of a funny night.. nothing went right the second day she was here! woke up went to the gym, went and picked the boat up to go boating, get to the gas station by the lake to fill it up for the first outing of the summer season, battery is dead, check the back-up battery, its dead too. buy charger cords to charge them, batteries are no good "fried".. go to a car dealership since we are almost to the lake already to ask for a battery, we need a marine battery? not a regular car battery, they send us to a car shop, they sell them but techs arent there to install them, we buy 2, go back the dealership we came from, they install them, 3 hours later, we are on the lake, display screens not working, but the ipod hook up is, listen to carleys good music, curtis fixes the display screen, makes the ipod hook up stop working? no good cds, but the surfing was fun, water was cold but it felt great to be back behind the boat again! go home, get back by 730, planned to go to dinner and a movie while curtis went to a minor league game, learned babysitter had to be home by 10... curtis offers to come back at 10 for us, and to let us drive the car instead of the suv. he leaves, babysitter gets there, we start the car to leave, wont stay on, itll turn over but not stay on...i get it out on the middle of the road, battery is about dead, wait a minute, start it again..gun it, woohoo! hopefully it charges enough on the way to dinner! go to dinner, go to a movie, come out to the parking lot at midnight... car clicker battery is dead so i have to manual unlock the car, car alarm goes off...only way to get it to stop is to start the engine... start the engine, starts, dies...again starts dies! car alarm wont stop blasting, try again...theft mode kicked in, car wont let you even try to start it! we are stuck, curtis is at home asleep with the kids! anyway, then we took a series of pictures acting like we broke into the car while we waited for jordan to come pick us up. it was funny! stupid batteries...then the next morning i was vaccuuming the suv and the kids car seats from the mess they made that day being in the car so long, and the vaccuum decided to stop sucking, it works now...it was just an unlucky 24 hrs i guess!

Anyway it was fun having Carley here! I had fun...come back!

Diesel started asking me in the morning if he could go wake up Cardi, i held him off for a while so she could sleep in a little, and then finally i would say yes and he would get all excited and run up to her room, i guess he knocked first too!

I guess i got into it a little more than she did..

HAPPY EASTER

2009-04-14T16:33:00.001-07:00

First thing he did was open an egg, grab a chocolate and eat it, with the wrapper on, he got mad at me for trying to take it off in the middle of it so he ended up swalling some..Dies got some rollerblades that he was speechless about..just a bunch of giggling when he saw them!Hes not too good yet but he'll get there

Went to see monsters vs aliens for the second time, they both actually watched the whole thing this time, i was pretty amazed, detroit got mad at me for interupting right here with the flash, it was really cute seeing them both so into this movie

and diesel has a little obsession with tattoos right now, so we put them everywherei told him he was bad ass yes, everywhere..

-TANYA

Rain

2009-04-02T12:50:00.000-07:00

It rained a couple days ago... Detroit hasnt experienced rain yet. I put Diesel to bed for a nap and when I came back downstairs to put Detroit to bed next he was banging on the backdoor to see this shower outside. I think thats just what he thought it was, he went out in it and got really excited (he loves the shower) and then he kinda ran back to me with a scared/cold look on his face, then went back out, then came back in and sat on me to warm up, then went back out. I think he thought this rain was supposed to warm up like a shower does. Anyway, after about 5 minutes he gave up on it and wanted me to hug him so i put him in the shower to warm up, dried him off, and put him to bed! Its cute to see what they think of these new things!

You cant tell but he is looking outside at this rain stuff and wanting to be warm so he can play more in it! Diesel doesnt care about being cold, he loves playin in the rain!-TANYA

New addition to the Milam Family

2009-04-01T23:24:00.000-07:00

I have a new nephew, he doesnt have name yet but he sure is handsome! he was born on april fools, hope that works out for him in the future?!... Good job Marcia and Donny, but mostly good job Marcia!

Sunday Afternoon

2009-03-29T15:20:00.000-07:00

While curtis and stinky napped today, diesel and i took a bike ride to the park.. he said on his way that we were going to meet his new friends. he introduced me today to one of his new friends as tanya, so i looked like that nanny, which is fine, thats what everyone expects anyway down here...people wait to have kids i guess till they are 30 usually so i look like the babysitter (i have gotten that a lot down here)...so are you the nanny or... these arent yours are they. anyway, diesel just told me i am pissing him off, hes been sayin that lately, i dont know what to think about it, i guess he is just being honest but he needs to clean it up a little, which means i need to clean it up a little!
-TANYA

Sneak...

2009-03-25T19:42:00.000-07:00

The other night diesel snuck out of his room and tried to come downstairs to get in our bed. i was still awake on the couch and curtis had already gone to bed. i heard him comin down and said diesel get back in your bed. i didnt hear anything and kinda forgot about him... when i got up to go to bed i figured he must have made it to the bed and i missed him, hes pretty quiet when he wants to be to sneak to places...anyway, this is where i found him, asleep
i went in to get a close up of his face and i guess he didnt like the flash, so he turned away and went back to sleeping how he did when he was a baby-TANYA (just to clarify, i put him back in bed right after i took these pictures)

Daddy wrapped around D's finger

2009-03-24T00:05:00.000-07:00

diesel said to me out of the blue the other day "mommy your my friend." he said it to curtis today too but it made my day when he said it to me. he likes his dad a lot now and when i discipline he always asks for dad, so i like when he says stuff like that. sometimes he asks me for a hug and a kiss, i dont know if thats pretty normal for a boy his age but is sure is cute! i swear diesel pushes curtis just to see how much he will do for him.. ever day he makes him carry him in from the car to the gym, he doesnt ask me cuz he knows i wont, i take detroit in and he walks in with his own two feet. he also gets real picky with food.. he asks for peanut butter toast, so curtis makes him toast and puts peanut butter on it and then he points to the normal butter, makes him start over! he knows the difference, he does it on purpose, and i just watch as curtis falls for it. when i put diesel to bed and curtis isnt home, it takes less than 5 mins. if curtis is home to put him in bed it takes a few times and ends up taking an hour. i put diesels drinks in any cup, when curtis fills em, diesel will make him go back and transfer the drink into his specific car sippy cup. the list goes on...

Still the Weekend

2009-03-23T23:44:00.001-07:00

Our weekends are sunday monday, instead of saturday sunday...kind of nice cuz we dont have to fight crowds on monday, saturdays just turn into a weekday, but that fine, its too busy everywhere on saturday anyway! so, today..well yesterday now cuz i am up late, anyway, curtis took us to a motorcycle/four wheeler dealership, thinking it was a good idea. you see, diesel has been talking about going to buy a motorcycle this week, i guess he is just copying daddy, i dont really know why he keeps wanting to go get a motorcycle. curtis gets on these little motorcycle kicks where he thinks hes gonna go buy a motorcycle, he started one earlier last week. he got life insurance finally a few days ago, which was one of my requirements for ever owning a motorcycle (cuz i know the death stats), so now hes on one of those kicks again. anyway...so diesel has been saying throughout the days lately.. "we're gonna go buy a motorcyle go on a ride" and curtis has been smiling about it looking at me. i tell him no we arent diesel, you have a bike right here that does just fine.. so we are driving today and he says it in the car and i tell him no we arent and curtis says to me quietly we are and then diesel shouts from the back WE ARE. we get to the dealership and the boys faces light all up and they start climbin on all the 4 wheelers and motorcycles (im sure the stores people just loved us) and they were just loving being there with all these toys. diesel told me to get on this pink wheeler right by him, said it was girly. (he always tells me im a girly) so its time to go and diesel had just found this 4 wheeler outside that was his perfect size (so cute..3 grand!) and he wont get off it. so i left him on it and went around the corner and spyed on him, poor guy sat on it for 5 minutes trying to figure out how to get it to start, got off and pushed the thing..it just wasnt gonna start. so he finally got off and followed where we had went and i acted like i was just walking to the car still. he followed me back to the car and when curtis got out to put him in he started freaking out. crying about how we were supposed to go on a motorcycle ride.. he cried until we found a place to eat, he kept saying we go on a motorcycle ride as he was crying. so i dont know, maybe curtis learned a little lesson about egging him on to get him on his side? hopefully, i feel bad for him... actually i did feel bad for him, right now im still a little upset with him. he was being a punk later at the mall, we had a nice little scene that we made at the escalator cuz he wanted to keep pushing detroits stroller while we got on the escalator to go down it, dangerous...no diesel, he didnt understand and it was a huge upset in his world. he threw a fit and fell asleep crying on the way home. he had a rough day! me too i better go to bed.
-TANYA

Some new sentences..

2009-03-20T17:37:00.000-07:00

Detroits tryin to say airplane and i want some... his first word was snowman, hes not into starting out slow like one syllable words, he just wants to jump right to the hard stuff?! actually he really likes saying raar like a lion. i just got off the phone with carley, she is coming out here just booked her flight woohoo...anyway detroit has the phone and he still thinks she is on, she said its done i booked it yyeeahhh and he said yeeahh back into the phone, i dont know if she was listening but then he lifted up his shirt and put the phone on his belly and started jabbering at her...she just now hung up and he is still talking to her! diesel and detroit were being pretty annoying the whole time i was on the phone with her (trying to find cheap short flights). its like they know when i get on the phone that they are supposed to start fighting and banging spoons on dishes, and pulling on my pants for drinks, and destroying the place. i dont get it. i just got off and now they are being angels, whats up with that! anyway i wanted to get on here kind of like a journal entry and make sure i jot down some funny sentences that diesel has started to say. hes been watching meet the robinsons over and over (he finds a new cartoon and watches about 20 times in a row, then moves on to the next one i find and record, but only asks for one for about 2 weeks) anyway "meet the robinsons" he call "nerdboy" movien cuz the main character wears glasses and is into inventions. so hes been saying a few lines in real life that he got from this movie... when we go to te play room now he gets his t-ball stuff out and says "lets play baseball not the lazy game" the way he says lazy is so cute! he says it just randomly too, even when there is no baseball stuff around. and the movie of choice in the car that plays every morning on the way to the gym for the past 2 months is "Cars" (yes he doesnt want it switched he wants to watch it every time we get in the car) so when he plays and just when he is just sitting in his car seat, he says "cuchow cuchow." also, since he has been watching cars for a while and our charger has been in the shop for a while (the driver side window got shot out while we were gone, puting the car into theft protection mode, so it had to be towed to the dealership, gay) we just got it back a couple weeks ago and ever since we got it back... diesel has been saying "wow..thats a race car, daddy has a race car, i wanna ride in daddys race car. cooo....." sunday he came to curtis and said "um daddy, i need you to get me the keys, im gonna go drive the race car." oh and about a month ago, we all 4 were on a bike ride, diesel rides his own bike now by the way, hes getting too good on the thing... we are riding and he sees this guy in his driveway going into his garage and he shouts to him " hi im diesel, im goin on a bike ride (not shy)..and when we get to the slides he sees this boy to play with..(this should be an entry all on its own, its one of those moments you imagine happening, like your kids first steps or something, and then it happens and its so cool) anyway he meets this little boy and he says" hi im diesel, thats my mommy and my daddy right there" as he points to us. curtis just looked at me with a huge smile and said, you are just eating this up arent you, you love that. yeah he loved it too, so freakin cute. if i remember right we arent gonna be cool to him in like 10 years so im gonna eat it up while i can. anyway, what else what else,...last night diesel didnt really wanna go to bed but i put him in his bed, i came back to check on him and he was on the floor with his pillow and elephant blanket, that i have to strategically place over his pillow ever night to make an elephant pillow...well he had remade his elephant pillow on the floor and went into the playroom and got his car track rug, and was using that as his blanket.. wierd kid man. and right now detroit is in his highchair and the two are cracking up at eachother with spaghetti all over their faces playing peekaboo. .. anyway another funny thing diesel notices is the feelings that cars apparently have, when he sees a very old car, he says "mommy that cars sad" we went to go get the boat out of storage last weekend and diesel was lookin around at some rv's and boats... i asked him about what a few were... he told me that this long race boat that was a little old, it was scared, and this rv was what we should take next. i just wish i could get inside his little brain and see whats rollin around in there! hes also figured out the last couple nights that if he shits his pants he can get out of bed for a little longer.. thats awesome. but i think he is done with the nightmares, so thats good news. this was random, i need to write more often
-TANYA

What about detroit...

2009-03-10T16:14:00.000-07:00

my dad asked me what detroit was doing the whole time in that last little insert... he is still doing the parallel play i guess, he just played by them with this pink ball he saw some lady holding, he went up to her and smiled with his arms out for the ball so she let him borrow it for most of the night..oh and there was a basketball court right by the slides, he went over there when this black dude came over with a basketball. he saw detroit and thought he would be nice and let him see his basketball. detroit immediately dropped the pink soccer ball and took the guy up on his offer, took the ball and started running in the other direction with it.. it was pretty comical. i sat back and watched for a second to see what the guy would do (he didnt know whos kid it was yet). he kinda followed him and was nicely asking for it back, yeah thats not gonna work dude, so i went over and had to steal it back for him. detroit was pretty pissed at me but i got his pink ball and put it in his hands and he got over it pretty quick! so hes just kind of in his own little world, usually with his bottle, a ball, or some kind of cracker or snack in one hand, or both...

and i found the pix i took....

-TANYA

At the Park

2009-03-09T19:09:00.000-07:00

Diesel woke up from his nap today and said.. lets go on a bike ride and go find my friends. so we went on a bike ride and he went and found some friends. i took a couple pictures with my phone but i dont think they saved.. we rode to the park, the first kids he saw he jumped off his bike to go play with. they were all kind of busy (4 of em) cuz they already knew eachother and were playing tag. he said hey im diesel... but they were running everywhere. so i think he brainstormed a strategy, his mind..hmm i gotta find somthing to get their attention, somethin cool, cooler than what they are doing.... (end of his thinking) so he went to the water fountain to get a drink and found a lady bug on it. he yelled to the kids, hey ladybug look it, hey lookit, so one came over and said cool and they started playing with it. soon enough the other three were over all playing with this ladybug having a blast and it went on for like a half an hour. it might not sound cute but it just cracked me up. hes a funny kid. so then he was part of the group, they accepted him, and they kept playin til it got dark. oh, and he tried to stomp on the lady bug at one point and everyone yelled no...so now i think he might get the no stomping on live creatures thing, cuz i dont think he was gonna listen to me!

Diesels funny...

2009-03-06T13:10:00.000-08:00

He was sitting in the lawn yesterday playin with a few shreads of grass, i was up on the trampoline with detroit... and he looks up and says, mom i wanna get a dog.....
uh oh -TANYA

Fort Worth Zoo

2009-03-01T09:35:00.000-08:00

This is supposed to be the one of the top 5 zoos in the nation...I dont know, it was pretty cool. I dont know really what makes a zoo remarkable, they all seem pretty similar to me, I do remember the san diego zoo being pretty cool with a train ride or something..I may be confusing this memory with something else but I remember riding a train around seein all sorts of animals?! anyway, we went to the fort worth zoo last monday, we probably didnt see half of it cuz its huge but it was fun. the highlight was definitely this bird room they had. they had a ton of birds in this big outdoor netted room..tons of little birds. they sell sticks with bird feed on them and the birds come right up to the sticks and get on them and eat. its pretty cool for kids, I liked it too though. alright so diesel was loving it and figuring out that the birds liked the sticks for some reason... so he was getting em to land on his sticks and then he saw that he could pet em a little if he wanted. then he went on to try to grab and hold them. the birds didnt like this much and pretty soon none of the birds would come to his stick. he didnt get it and wasnt gonna give up so he started to jab his stick into groups of birds thinkin he could force them on? then he started to try to stop them with his feet? I told him to settle down and got him some new sticks cuz the food was gone on his and then took him to the other side of the cage where some new birds might not know what his plan was and might still come to his sticks. in the meantime I started showing detroit how it worked, he didnt get it for a couple minutes, he just keep trying to eat the bird food off the sticks...then all the sudden he just caught on and had 5 birds on his sticks in each hand and was walking real fast around the bridge in excitement and giggles! it was so cute i couldnt take enough pictures and get a good enough video! so all this is going on and birds are flying everywhere on my shoulders on my arms cuz I had a more new sticks for diesel and detroit in my hands I forgot about, so I had birds on me and on detroit and on my hand with the camera and I turn around and see diesel and he has a bird under his foot! I say diesel and he looks up like yeah! i caught one! with his eyes and mouth wide open, so i walk over and tell him he cant use his feet, but i dont wanna tramatize him cuz this bird looks hurt... so i help the bird get out, he was kinda wedged in between to pieces of wood of the bridge and he still just sits there on his side. diesel is all excited mommy lookit birdy i got it, grabbin at it.. im sayin diesel settle down leave him alone he looks a little sick, people are watching us... anyway 5 seconds later the birds eyes roll back into his head and close! diesel killed the poor thing! im not proud of this but i was torn between laughing and takin a picutre or running away and fleeing the scene... well not to worry curtis got like 3 pictures with his phone and I did take one real quick and then I went and told the zoo people that there was a sick/dead bird on the bridge. so we were done after that...we went on a train ride and then went home...the rest of the day diesel was saying, daddy I stomp on a bird, like this (and he shows you how with 3 stomps) so it turns out he really did kill the bird, I dont know if he knows what happened. I guess I need to have a talk with him, I didnt want to scar him though! again whaddo you do! anyway about the rest of the zoo...he talked about the tiger the whole time. wanted to go find the tiger so he could lick his boo boo and make it better. (he wanted a bandaid on the car ride to the zoo for his hurt finger? he always says somethings hurt, he just wants a bandaid he loves freakin bandaids. so on the ride over i told him that we would be at the zoo soon that I didnt have a bandaid for the last time and that the tiger would fix it.) lucky the tigers were asleep laying in the sun when we found them so i had an excuse for him why they wouldnt lick his finger? I gotta stop makin things up now I guess huh?! oh, there was a pretty cool gorilla there we ran into.. he put on a little show for diesel and detroit, he got right up to the glass and was breathing out his nose, fogging up the glass making funny faces, diesel and detroit were cracking up! i was too, he was a weird gorilla. oh and we got pulled over on the way to the zoo, got out of it, but the officer told us that there was a gorilla that escaped the dallas zoo 3 years ago and hurt a few people before they had to kill it, so i was glad this gorilla was behind some pretty thick glass, and he seemed pretty mellow! anyway ill get some pictures on here today and the videos of those birds soon! yes, thats the little yellow bird he sent to its death
im pretty sure this is when diesel stomped on the bird i think he is behind me in this picture and look, people just sat and watched?!he asked to go in there, i wanna go in with themto get these next 3 pictures i had to get in the cage with the Lions ("what are you in for..mmmaaann slaughter, i slaughter the man..rraarr" -brian reagan), it was a close call but well worth itthey loved the dip and dots...ha ha, look at detroits face, he went for that bite like 3 times! i made him wait so i could get a picture, i didnt know it was gonna look that funny though! this entry took me a while, i have a hard time picking my favorite pictures, guess ill be happy someday i took the time to put them all on here!

-TANYA

Uncle Scott, Jamison & Cali

2009-03-01T08:56:00.000-08:00

Scotty, Jamison, and Cali came to visit us right after Grandpa and Grandma did, they actually overlapped a day which was nice for a little babysitting! I havent seen Diesel ever as excited to wake up and Detroit too... They would wake up and just start at work for a hard day of play. Not the usual wake up and come bug the crap out of us crawling around and kicking us in the stomache and face in our bed. It was a nice little break. Kids entertaining themselves is nice in the morning! Diesel talks about Jamison all the time now, he talks about him for a few days when we get back from going to seattle to visit them but he really hasnt stopped since they left. They got along really well and played non stop together. "I wanna go school with Jamison" "Lets go get Jamison" Jamison comin" "whered Cali go" "Cali Jamison dance too" I dont know if Cali really has much use for Diesel. They get along for the most part but she doesnt pay much attention to him.,. Diesel gets in her face a lot trying to talk, she might not like that, it probably can get kind of annoying. She may just not like Diesel stealing Jamisons attention away, i dont know. Maybe in a year or 2 they will get a long better, for now though, Diesel just follows Jamison everywhere and copies everything he does. Diesel says to Detroit now "no stinky, i had it first" he got that from jamison saying it to Cali... anyway, Detroit just enjoyed all the noise and action i think, tried to be part of it! So, we are sad they are gone and wish we lived closer to them, to all the cousins.

-While they were here Diesel and Jamison managed to get half of the toys in the play room onto the trampoline, Diesel decided to put all the balls down his pants for some reason...

-We told the kids it was bedtime soon so Diesel said he wanted to get his jamas on... Jamison and Cali said they wanted some and they had been wearing Diesels socks, jackets, hats...on the trip so they figured hed have some jamas they could fit into too i guess. (scott tried to pack light i guess, forgetting a few things!) anyway, diesel really enjoys getting dressed in different things and giving people things they need and making sure they have what they need like shoes on and jackets on to go outside, (hes kinda controlling) so he really enjoyed this part! he went in his room with them and got down his little jamas bin and started showing them what he had that they could wear for bed...i went in and helped to make sure jamison got the biggest thing diesel had but cali picked out batman by herself. man i wish i had a video of that room scene. it was so cute them all getting excited about putting jamas on! so they put em on and then got in our bed to watch a little dinasour king scooter (its called!) before bed, and then we did a little dancing that i gotta get on here later, i got it on video.-Can you see cali's face, i think she has less use for Detroit than she has for Diesel...he gets in the way when they are trying to watch their shows! she just wanted to get him out of the way, they all were getting mad at him, i was laughing pretty hard, he cant sit still and watch a cartoon yet, bouncin around is still too fun!

Scott has taught jamison some old school moves! he also does twinkle fingers!..

-TANYA

Grandma and Grandpa

2009-03-01T08:49:00.000-08:00

Good old Ginger and Don came to visit a couple weeks ago.. they got here valentines night pretty late.. right after my diamond decided to fall out of my ring, yes on valentines day. sucks pretty bad. im just gonna get a cz to fill its place and we will probably never buy any diamonds ever again, we'll see. For now we are pretty turned off by them, understandably because we still havent found it! whatever though, whaddo you do, so grandma and grandpa came and took our minds away from it, kids loved seeing them! thank you guys for coming on your break, i know that flight hurt your back dad, but we hope youll do it again soon! i dont seem to have any pictures of when you were here so you guys need to email me some so i can put it right below this sentence! k...
-TANYA

Catch up...superbowl

2009-03-01T08:15:00.000-08:00

Our friends came and stayed for the weekend and brought their 2 kids that are almost the exact same ages as our kids.,, ava is a month older than diesel and detroit is 3 months older than aiden. needless to say they had a blast! diesel found himself a new girlfriend which is nice to see cuz he had to say goodbye to his last one in utah a couple months ago, her name was logan, he acted the same way with her... hes a little more into wrestling than dancing now with girls, which is kinda funny and scary maybe for the parents of the girly! so we all had a great time superbowl weekend, especially the kids

jacked this one from stephs page..

-TANYA

WE made It!...

2009-01-25T21:49:00.000-08:00

So we made it, we are here living in TX! It was quite a rollercoaster ride getting everybody and everything here due to a terrible moving company, a shady deal with the place we had lined up to live, and a couple flat tires..but we worked fast, dealt with it, found a different place to live and here we are finally, so glad its over! We couldnt have managed without a few good friends and family members that helped out, thank you sooo much lisa and joey, carly and james, mike and tabbie, joe, matthew, rick and jordan! if you guys ever read this thank you for all your help! so we are here and i think the kids are liking it... they love going outside in this nice weather, they dont have to put 4 layers on everytime they go outside now! even though that was fun for a minute! i have met 4 nieghbors and a few kids pretty much because of diesel! he gets me out of the house, instead of inside unpacking, and has no problem going right on up to people...asking about their dog, if he can jump on their tramp, if he can ride their scooter... he is quite the socialite, and detroit is takin after him... we just need to work on shutting down this new found grunt/scream of his, its pretty annoying! anyway, id say we like it a lot here so far and cant wait for warmer weather so we can get out on the lakes! ill get some pictures on here in the next little while!
-TANYA

New Years

2009-01-09T22:15:00.000-08:00

After their little new year party we put all of em to bed and spent the new year with Kelli and Thomas and their buddies

-TANYA

Christmas in Idaho

2009-01-09T22:13:00.000-08:00

...to come pics..but they're on the laptop..that curtis has!

...got em! -TANYA

Snow snow and more snow

2009-01-09T22:02:00.000-08:00

Playing a little catch up here but we played a little in Utah for the whole 2 days we were there between coming back from Texas and going to Idaho for Christmas....

-TANYA

Good big brother!

2008-12-31T14:01:00.001-08:00

i have pictures to put on here but i just have a funny story to tell that happened this morning...
k, so we are in idaho fall for christmas right now and we are staying with curtis parents. we came over to his sister kellis house last night after we put the kids to bed at his parents house. we ended up staying up way too late and didnt have the energy to drive home so we called his brother matthew (who is visiting as well and stays in the upstairs where we do at his parents house) to tell him that we were going to stay at kellis and to call us when our kids woke up. well apparently he hade heard diesel cry an hour before but figured we had him so he went back to sleep. so when we called him he remembered that and went to check on him... he wasnt in his bed or ours so he started getting nervous (diesel has escaped the house while everyones sleeping before in the early morning)...so he looked around and then went in the room where detroit sleeps in the crib, he looked in the closet, the beds then in detroits crib..and there he was... he woke up in the middle of the night and couldnt find us and didnt know where anyone else was i guess so he went and jumped in detroits crib and held and slept with him! how cute huh!! i wish i could have seen it but he wouldnt have done it if we were there, he would have just climbed in bed with us! so if i ever catch this i will get a picture on here of it! thank you everyone for all the awesome christmas presents! love you
-TANYA

Sweet Trampoline

2008-12-10T18:19:00.000-08:00

We stayed at curtis cousin tyler's the first few nights we got here to texas so did jordan, telaine and ryker (diesel and him are buddies)... she has a sweet trampoline in the backyard with a full net around it and we could just zip em in, it was sweet, they just jumped for hours! got all their crazy energy out... oh and there was a dog in the yard that would jump up and get their feet under the trampoline, they thought it was halarious!

-TANYA

Its off to Texas!

2008-12-05T05:28:00.000-08:00

Curtis took off driving the night before last and got there last night at 6. He drove straight thru the night, hes crazy! I chose to pass on driving with him and the kids, so we are taking off in a couple hours on a plane again by ourselves.. it should be fun, i have a connection fight so wish me luck! heres a little preview of whats to come in the next few hours...

everythings fine

Diesel hurts Detroit feelings

Hug and make upthen the process repeats itself
-TANYA

And more Thanksgiving

2008-12-04T12:49:00.000-08:00

Diesel came with us a few timesI dont know if you know this but...when it comes to his golf gamehes kind of a big dealthese bunkers sure throw him off thoughhe cant concentrate on his second hit when there is all this sand to play ini think he thought he could do the same with a sandball as a snowball cuz he tried to throw this one at me-TANYA

More Thanksgiving...

2008-12-03T08:03:00.000-08:00

Scotty ts offthen curtisthen meBrian at a different hole, getting pretty darkit was a rough dayem and i traded babysitting.. i think i got the easier shift!

-TANYA

Searchin for Golf Balls with Grandpa

2008-12-02T14:54:00.000-08:00

hmm... none up there ooo, i think i see one SCORE!!!
-TANYA

Thanksgiving

2008-12-02T11:03:00.000-08:00

All the grandkids, even the one in the womb!

-TANYA

Last Week

2008-11-26T23:00:00.000-08:00

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...

2008-11-18T19:58:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-17T22:38:00.001-08:00

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

2008-11-14T23:05:00.001-08:00

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!!!

2008-11-13T00:42:00.000-08:00

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

--CURTIS

Summer days go fast

2008-11-13T00:35:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-13T00:22:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-13T00:00:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-12T23:37:00.001-08:00

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

2008-11-12T23:28:00.000-08:00

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)

2008-11-11T17:10:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-10T08:08:00.000-08:00

Cant even take a shower

2008-11-10T07:57:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-07T19:44:00.000-08:00

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

WE MISS YOU CURTIS

2008-11-07T19:08:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-07T18:46:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-06T22:54:00.000-08:00

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..

2008-11-05T08:22:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-03T19:06:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-03T09:06:00.000-08:00

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

detroit

2008-11-03T07:10:00.001-08:00

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

Stayed up late...

2008-11-02T21:07:00.000-08:00

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

2008-11-02T02:12:00.000-08:00

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)

Monday morning

2008-10-06T11:36:00.000-07:00

Today is beautiful morning and yes we are still here in UTAH. Our usual morning consists of Daddy taking the boys and Mommy for a ride on the ranger. Diesel gets to go for a ride as long as he stays in hios bed all night without coming up? Well Diesel didnt come through on his end but Papa Rick was in town and so Diesel was able to get a ride from him and cousin Ryker was here so Papa Rick and the 2 grandsons went for a ride! Little Stinky (Detroit) stayed in with Daddy and we wrestled until he was tired and took a nap. Mommy was able to hitch a ride with Papa Rick and the boys but im sure like usual she was asked to stay on the passenger side. When it comes to the boys having fun on the toys mommy tends to get the shaft? Got to get going on work but thought I would say a freindly hello and update whats been going on.
--CURTIS

oh and Detroit had a birhtday this month, he is 1 now, wow that went fast! Oct 2

Just a tuesday night

2008-09-16T23:02:00.000-07:00

Here I am on a tuesday night just got home from playing basketball at the church!!! It actually was the worst tuesday night of ball ive been to hear in Utah? Enough about ball.. Today I went out to set up a home with a security system. The day went well I ended getting a nice family set up with the system. What makes this special is it symbolises that I will finally be making good money again!!!! I have spent the last 4 months making sure my buisness stayed on course, it was not fun and I barely managed to keep it alive!!! surprising given that number wise the last 4 months were not too bad. But keep in mind and don't trip out to much over this saying but I have come to learn that "less can be more" that rang true this year for me. Lets just say that I am happy to be able to be out in the hoods talking with people!!
On to more important things, Da boys! Diesel is potty training and walks around the house looking like a hells angel with all his Spiderman stickers stuck to every inch of his body? Tanya has figured out that Diesel will potty for a sticker!!! She tried to use candy... nice try.... Diesel would shut the door and pretend he was going potty every 3 minutes. we had to shut the candy down real quick and stick to stickers. Detroit now he is a stud he hook slides around the house looking for anything to eat. I swear the boy eats all day. He has had to learn at 11 months to defend himself against the big kid on the block which happens to be his brother Diesel.. Detroit does a good job of holding his own but If you know Diesel he usually gets what he wants and little stinky can't get in the way.. Both the boys keep Tanya and I very occupied (mostly tanya) If you were a fly on the wall you would see the 2 boys making messes and Tanya following behind with a mop or some cleaning supply all day long stopping only to keep gas in the boys tanks. Crackers hold the 2 over between meals..As for Tanya she is looking great and does such a good job with the boys and supports me as I attempt to figure this buisness world out? life is good here in Utah and we are in the middle of finalizing our plans to get down to Texas for awhile..
--CURTIS

My brother Scotts wife Jewell passed away a couple weeks ago (8/29/2008). She was diagnosed with cancer a little over a year ago. She fought it pretty hard until she no longer could. She was positive the entire time and is an example of faith and strength to all of us. We miss her...