Monday, October 31, 2011

Catching up on September

 I wanted to catch up on some of the things our family has been doing the past couple of months.  I realized I haven't posted any pictures from Darcy's birthday.  She turned 3 years old on August 21st, which happened to be the day we were driving home from California.  I didn't think sitting in a car for 11 hours would be a very fun birthday memory, so we pretended her birthday was a few days later.  She was super excited about her presents and thought it was her birthday every day that week because we spread out the fun over a couple of days.  One day we opened presents, another day we went to Jump-on-it.  She loved it all.   Here are some pictures of her opening her presents and blowing out the candles on her cupcakes. 
Back to school was extra fun this year because all four kids got to participate.  Darcy was so excited to be able to go to school with Cody.  Almost every night she remembers to be thankful for going to school when she says her prayers.  Sometimes that is the only thing she talks about in her prayers, so we know she really loves it.  Here are some pictures of the first day of school. 
Dallin and Shelby's school has a really fun Fall Festival that we go to every year.  This year was a cowboy theme.  We decorated soda pop bottles and Shelby's was picked as one of the most creative ones. 

They also had Crazy Hair Day at school which prompted some really crazy hair for my kids.  Dallin decided to let his hair grow long until crazy hair day, then we cut half of his hair really short and left the rest long.  It looked really awesome.  I think Dallin's hair would be as curly as mine if he grew it out a little longer.  Too bad my girls didn't get his hair!    Shelby wanted to be a unicorn, so we gave her a horn and mane.  Cody and Darcy couldn't be left out so we sprayed their hair too.  It was fun to see the kids creativity. 


 The Fathers' and Sons' campout was in September this year.  James and the boys went camping and had a fun time.  The girls in the cul-de-sac decided to start a new tradition of a girls night sleep over party at Grandma's house.  We set up all the girls in the bonus room and they slept there together.  I slept in one of the extra bedrooms and Julie and Kelli slept at their own houses.  It was a fun night.  We had dinner together and watched movies.  Then we had french toast for breakfast the next day.  It was super fun and I'm excited to do it again next year!

Dallin finished his soccer season.  His team was undefeated for the entire season of play and made it to the playoffs.  They made it all the way to the championship game and then lost in overtime by one point.  It was a pretty intense game.  Dallin's coach told me that he thinks Dallin is the best right defender in the entire league.  So that was nice to hear.  It was a change for me to go from having him be on offense the last few years to defence this year.  But he really is a natural defender and does a great job at that position.  Very rarely does a player get past him to take a shot at the goal.  Here are some shots I took of him throughout the season. 

And that about covers September.    The October update will be coming soon! 

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2 comments:

Sandra Nixon said...

Love it all!! the Crazy hair day pics did not disappoint! What a cool mom you are to do that for your kids. I love how involved you are with them and help them make everything special. (the pop bottles were great.)

I love the pics of Dallin's soccor. I can't believe how pro he looks, amazing.
love you!

November 1, 2011 at 7:52 AM
Sandra Nixon said...

P.s. we HAVE to move there...the father and sons and grandma sleep over sounds so fun!!

November 1, 2011 at 7:52 AM

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Funny Quotes

  • Darcy came up to me the other day with a permanent marker and said, "Mom, is it okay if I use this pregnant marker to draw a picture?" January 2012
  • Darcy was in a bubble bath the other day having a great time. She made a beard out of bubbles and put bubbles on her head to make herself look like Santa. When it was time to clean off the bubbles I parted the bubbles to get down to the clear water and she said, "Oh, I didn't know there was water down there!" December 2011
  • Darcy calls hangnails or snags on her nails "Pinchies". She says "Mom, can you get this pinchie off my toe?"
  • Whenever we do something fun Darcy always says, "Lets to dat adain." I love her little voice when she says it.
  • Every morning Cody comes into my room while I'm still in bed and tells me, "Mom, it's light outside. It's time to get up." To which I reply, "Okay, let me get dressed." So now when Cody is getting dressed and I call to him his response is, "I'm getting my dressed on!" I love it. No more getting dressed at our house...its now know as "getting our dressed on".
  • I like to make fruit smoothies for breakfast sometimes. Cody calls them Smoot Moolies, so that has become the name for them at our house. The other day when I was making a smoot moolie Cody asked if he could help me make it. I said he could so he jumped up on the counter and picked up a banana. He proceed to peel it and then handed me the peel and said,"Here's the armpit mom." I wasn't sure if I heard him right so I asked him what it was called. He said, "The armpit...you know the thing that the banana is in." November 2009
  • This afternoon when we were driving to the store I had a funny conversation with Cody. “Does Matt have a house?” Cody asked. “Well, Matt is here to buy a new house.” I replied. “Ooooo, that sounds fun!”Cody said. About a minute passes and then he says “How is he going to carry it?” I’m trying my hardest not to laugh. “I think he needs a big rope.” Cody said, happy that he figured out a good solution to the problem. I just love Cody…he keeps me laughing all the time. January 21, 2010
  • I was really tired one afternoon so I flopped down on the couch and said, "I'm pooped out!" Cody came over and snuggled up to me on the couch and said, "I'm having poop time too!" July 2009
  • When I told the kids that James was going to be going to California, Cody sat up straight and excitedly said, "Like Lightening McQueen! He went to California!" October 2009
  • The other day James said to Cody, "How's my buddy?" Cody got a very serious look on his face and said, "Name's Tody!" (He still can't pronounce C's very well.) The only things he will let us call him, other than his name, is big boy or funny kid.
  • When we were first potty training Cody he said he needed to go to the bathroom during sacrament meeting at church. So I took him to the bathroom and sure enough he did his business in the toilet. This was one of the first times he ever did poops in the toilet so he was really excited. When we walked back into sacrament meeting (we were sitting near the front of the chapel) he loudly proclamed "Daddy, I did giant poops in the toilet!" December 2008
  • Cody comes up with cute names for things. Mostly because he has troubles prononcing some of his letters. Some of my favorite names are "Daddy's Toke-Toke" for Coke, "Dr. Seuse" for Dr. Pepper, the "lurnal" for urinal, and "peanutbutter jam" for peanutbutter mixed with honey in a bowl.
  • Shelby had a hard time saying her G's when she was little. So we were working with her on how to say Grandma. She could make a growling sound pretty well, so we we had her growl then say grandma, so she used her best growling voice to say "GRRRR AMA"
  • The sun was shining in Cody's eyes the other day and he pointed at it and said, "Mommy, that circle is burnin' my eyes!" January 2009
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  • When we were building our house Shelby and Dallin spent a lot of time here with me working on it. One day when I was putting up the finish trim I couldn't find the hammer. I was looking all over for it and just didn't have any luck finding it. Shelby (2 yrs old) made two fists with her little hands and said, "It's okay Mommy, you can use my bammers!" November 2005
  • When Dallin was 1 yr old, he used to love making car noises. His favorite noise to make was the sound of tires screeching and then a crash. So EVERY time we would apply the brakes in the car we would hear his little voice from the back seat..."errrr kshhhh"
  • When Dallin was about 3 years old, he always liked to sit between James and I on the couch. But his way of saying it was cute. He would say "Can I sit in the tween of you?"
  • When Dallin was about 4 years old, I let him and Shelby skip naps because we needed to go somewhere. As we were driving on the road Dallin said, "Wow, look at all these people who are skipping naps too!" I guess he thought everyone had naps during the afternoon! Summer 2005