Three Little Monkeys

Friday, December 05, 2008

Flashback Friday- December 2006

Earlier this week, I came upon a disk of pictures from about 2 years ago and I thought that they would be perfect for this weeks flashback friday.

Two years ago would put Hyrum at two and Ben and Emily at 6 weeks old. Life was crazy. I was getting no sleep. Hyrum and I were sick. I am glad some pictures were taken to help me remember.
Hyrum is holding beloved Lighting McQueen. Hyrum has been in love with CARS from the moment he saw the movie. Ben is on the left and Emmy is on the right.

These next pictures are also from the same time period. My grandparents, on my mother's side, and my Uncle Nate came to visit.
I am so grateful for my grandparents. I love the fact that you can still tell that they are so much in love and that they want to be together even when they have been together for so long.

I also love the fact that they tease each other. You never quite know what one will say about the other. My grandpa is always teasing my grandma about how many birdhouses she has. I think in their two bedroom condo they have at least 20...maybe grandpa has a point.
It is always fun to hear stories from grandpa about sports and other events in his life. No one can quite tell a story like grandpa with a twinkle in his eye.

I am so grateful for the love that they openly show my family and I. I was blessed to have such grandparents.Uncle Nate is great too. Hyrum loves it when he comes and really enjoys playing with him.

Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Emmy's First Haircut!

What goes around comes around! One of the stories that is forever told by family is a time when I cut another child's hair. I was about five at the time. My mom ran an in home day care. She babysat my second cousin. One day I decided that I didn't like her hair, so I cut it. SHORT. We are talking boy length.

The day before Thanksgiving, I was making preparations for the feast. While something was cooking, I thought that I would take a few minutes and do a brief, quick clean-up. While I was picking up things, I noticed that there were chunks of hair on the floor; curly chunks of hair.

I wish I could say that I handled the situation calmly, but that was not the case. I screamed! I knew which child had had their hair cut. It was Emmy! The child who has had the least amount of hair, the child who you want to have the most hair, the child who it has taken so stinking long to grow any hair at all. Here is a link to a picture of what here hair looked like a few days before he cut it.Emmy had two pony tails that day. Hyrum cut them both off about where the elastic would have been (she took the elastics out during her nap). When I asked him why he cut her hair he said that he didn't like pigtails. When I asked him if he cut Ben's hair he told me "no, Ben's hair is just right!" (I did notice a few pieces in Ben's hair that were cut a couple of days later.)

Hyrum claimed responsibility for the awful deed and went to timeout while I called my friend. I knew my friend was going out of town the next day and I was calling to find the soonest time I could get Emmy in for a hair cut after she got back in to town. Bless her heart, she said Emmy could come over that night.

When we got to the house, Emmy was telling all the kids what happened. It was so funny she was jibbering to the kids and pointing to her hair and calling it an owie. It was so cute! She was really stressed and worried about her curly locks!

Whitney was so sweet with Emmy. She found a show she would like, gave her a Vanilla Wafer and went to work. Whitney was going to wash Emmy's hair first since she had food in her hair (she plays with hair all the time and so there is always left overs in her hair after she eats) but Emmy started to get really nervous, so it was decided that spraying it down would do just fine.

Emmy calmed down after she realized she didn't need to get her hair washed. She sat pretty still during her hair cut and was happy with her cookie and Clifford on TV. She already knows at a young age that beauty is pain.
It was decided that the best thing to do would be to cut off her remaining curls and shape her hair into a sweet bob hair cut and hopefully hide the really small pieces at top.

Emmy even got her hair blown dry for the first time.
I think it turned out pretty cute. I have to comb her hair just right, otherwise you see the very thin and short hair on top. I am so grateful that Whitney took time from her busy night to cut her hair.Thanks again Whitney!

Monday, December 01, 2008

Party Time!

On November 15th we had Hyrum's big birthday party with his friends.

He had been looking forward to this day for a long time. Every day he would wake-up and ask me if it was the day for his party.

Brandon and I put a lot of work into the party and we were very pleased with how it turned out.

As you can tell by the pictures, he has a CARS theme for his birthday party.For decorations, we had streamers and balloons. On the fron door we had a sign that said, "Welcome to Radiator Springs, a Happy Place."

I also made a variety of signs that we put through out the house. Some of the signs were road signs(55 mph, route 66). I also made signs that a person would see if they went to Radiator Springs (Flo's V8 Cafe, Luigi's Casa Della Tires etc.)

To start off, when the kids arrived, we had them decorate their driver's tag.

While the kids were finishing up their tags, we played Duck, Duck, Goose, but in the form of McQueen, McQueen, Chick Hicks! The kids loved it!

Next, we divided up in to two groups since we had a amount of kids. The first group played Don't Eat the Car! Also known as Don't Eat Pete. The second group played Luigi's Tire Toss. Brandon cut a whole in a box and decorated the outside like a tire. Then the kids threw our homemade bean bags (ziplock bags with beans) in the whole. After awhile, we had the kids switch so everyone got a chance to do both activities.

In line for turn at Luigi's Tire Toss

We then played Sarge Says, also known as Simon Says.

Next, we played Red Light, Green Light. All the kids laughed and laughed as they played this.

Last and our climax activity we had the kids race in cardboard cars. We were going to do this activity outside, but it rained the day before the party. Brandon made race cars out of boxes for the kids to use.

Then two at a time, the kids would get in the car boxes and Brandon would have them start their engines and then say, "On your mark, get set, go!"

I think that this last activity was everyone's favorite. The kids would yell and cheer for the kids who were in the cars racing. Usually, the boys were cheering for the boys and the girls were cheering for the girls. Here, Hyrum is racing with his cute friend Delanie.

Next, everyone sang Happy Birthday to Hyrum and we had cake and ice cream. Brandon spent many hours putting together the amazing car cake...too bad it turned out pink! I think Brandon did a fantastic job on the cake! The hot item was having a wheel part of the cake.