Hooray for Chores!!

With Jack starting preschool next week (yesssssssssss!) I thought he needed some responsibilty (as much as you can give a 3 yr old) and a little more routine. We were at the Widners yesterday playing and Ambra had made the boys the cutest chore charts with dry erase posterboard and foam board. I loved them and she said the boys were diggin it. So she gave me a few of the materials then Luke and I went to Michaels last night on the way to see Superbad (hilarious by the way! Thanks again Kel for watching the boys!). We picked up some stickers and pens and what not. So when we got home from the movie I got to work. It turned out so cute and Jack was really excited. Hopefully he starts getting the hang of it and understanding how it works. As of now he has gotten one sticker today for brushing his teeth. If he gets all six stickers in one day he gets a piece of candy after dinner (which wont happen tonight becuase he cant figure out how to leave his brother alone today!). If he gets five stickers in a day he can have dessert after dinner. And if he gets at least 40 stickers in one week he gets a treat, this weeks is a motorcycle from target (his choice for that, go figure)! Kind of a fun new thing for him. Ill keep ya posted though!

Wyatt is cracking me up today. He was sitting by Jenna and trying to give her kisses, she wasnt really havin it. So he got embarrassed! Then he started making faces at her. I was dying! Its funny that he just feeds off people laughing at him. He knows he is funny and just runs with it. I need to figure out how to get videos on here cuz you would die laughing at him!

And then jack had to join in on being funny so he thought muscle man would do! Just a boring HOT day here... so we had to entertain ourselves one way or another!

Wild Rivers Trip

Well Wild Rivers keeps saying its going to close its gates and become a condo complex... i swear they will be there forever! And im really happy about this! So funnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My brother and Jenny were taking Parker there today so we joined them (I dont know what I was thinking when I didnt get a season pass this year!). We went later in the afternoon too so Luke met us there after he was off work. The kids LOVED it.

Wyatt had a great time splashing everyone, climbing out of the pool over and over, swingin in the swings, and trying to get up the slide before Mommy caught him. So different from when I took Jackson there at that age. Jack spent most of his summer there when he was a year old... so scared of everything. Not Wyatt!!!

Jack of course was off doing big boy stuff... Him and his dad had a great time on the slides. I dont know whats funnier- Lukes legs in the air like this, or the giant tidal wave he created for his son, or the fact that he is enjoying it WAY more than Jackson! Heres the play by play (HILARIOUS by the way!).....

At one point jack was so cold he couldnt move so Luke wrapped him like a burrito in three towels, we couldnt even see him or his blue little chattering lips....
Wyatt still tried to sneak a peek...

..... Then his dad tried to feed him to the elephants.....

After Luke and Ryan hit up some Bombay Blasters (wish I had a camera for that because apparentely the ladies in the bleachers said they were the biggest splash they had seen all day!) we said Goodbye to Parker and packed up our stuff and headed out....
I forgot how much I love Wild Rivers! Season Pass again next year for sure!!!!

A Good Weekend....

Well its Sunday... and the weekend is over BOOOO!!!! But it was a nice one. Friday night we did nothing so it was really nice. However, Jackson did entertain us to some extent... he wanted something and Luke told him no so he started fake crying and Luke said "Do you wanna go to your room?" and still whining Jackson says "NO...." and Luke answered "Ok then stop acting like that..." and with his fake cry and his hands in the air he says "I just wanna cry for a minute dad!" We were rolling.... So of course he started laughing, but knew he was funny so kept trying to fake cry.

Saturday we got up and went to the Fitch's for a BBQ and swimming. Jenny and Shawn were in town with the new baby Shane too so we got to see him (I hogged him most the time!). And Jackson got to play with Taylor. All the other kids were there too, McKenna, Radyn and Boston, Dylan and Mason. Wish I would have brought my camera with me... But they had a good time, despite him being really tired and getting a fever last night out of nowhere. When we got home they both had naps (short ones might I add) and when they got up Jack seemed fine, just groggy. We put some clothes on them and headed down the street to Jeff and Lindsays for dinner and the Angel game. The kids were awesome, played the whole time, ate dinner. Then I put Wyatt down in their bedroom and we sat down to play Scene It (we are into games lately.... ps My team won!). Jack watched Finding Nemo in the other room and walked out at one point and had a fever. So weird. When he woke up this morning though he was fine again. So i dunno. Hoping he doesnt get sick.

Today was reallllly weird. It rained, and thundered and lightning-ed ALL day, but its still in the upper 80's. So gross. Luke kept saying he felt like he was on the east coast (for all you out there :) We had breakfast and hung out for awhile... Which leads me to another funny story for you.... Wyatt was laying on the floor and Jack sits down with him and starts playing, tickling him and playing with his feet, then he looks at his toe and says "O Wy your nail..." and starts biting his toenails off HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA so gross! But so funny, Luke and I could not stop laughing!!! Anywho .... We were going to take the kids to the beach club but instead we went and looked at motorcycles. Jackson DID NOT want to leave. Then Luke thought it would be fun to take the kids through a drive thru car wash hahaha (what we do for amusement huh)! Wyatt I think shit his pants, Jackson thought it was awesome haha! We went and got Wyatt a new stroller cuz my dad ran over the last one! And even better we went to Sport Chalet and luke found a mister for the backyard, 10 bucks! Soooo excited to use it! Hopefully for ten bucks it works!! We had a late lunch at Pick up Stix and by then both the kids were pooped (mission accomplished) so we went home and put them down for naps.

So Luke just went to his fantasy football draft and we are just hanging out.Me and the kids are going to take baths, get in our pjs and watch a movie. Perfect ending to a relaxing weekend. And then Monday comes........

Diet Killed

Thats right... Luke broke the diet tonite! haha He decided he wanted Claim Jumper. I ordered a bowl of soup and salad bar. He ordered a bowl of french onion soup and onion rings hahahaha I knew it wouldnt last long! However, he said he just needed a day of real food haha. I love it! Lets pray that I can eat normal next week!

Today was a a funny day. Jacksons buddy Hayden came over so they got to play for awhile. Chaotic but it gives Jack something to do. They finally play really well together for the most part. They used to fight NON stop. And Hayden (who outweighs Jack by probably ten pounds and is 6 months younger than him) used to beat on him. Now they actually get along and are nice.

Wyatt was really excited because he spent most of the day wacking Hayden in the head with a plastic hammer. I was dying laughing. He would walk right up to Hayden when he wasnt looking and crack the thing over his head. At first Hayden didnt think it was very funny. But after 6 or 8 times and he saw me and Jack laughing he thought it was funny. Then he started getting his brother which frankly he probably deserved. Lucky for me I had just had the camera out cuz i wanted a good picture of Jack and Hayden so I got some HILARIOUS pictures of it! Just another typical Wyatt thing! He is such a bully....

He loves to play with the buttons on the Tivo cuz he knows exactly what they do. Well today after about 5 times in 10 minutes of him turning the TV off when Jack and Hayden were watching a movie I pushed him away and he fell on the floor and he got yelled at. Wyatt DID NOT like that.... He looked at me, stuck out his bottom lip and started wailing. He picked his blanket up off the floor and crawled into a little corner and pouted for like 5 minutes. RIDICULOUS!!! I didnt give in tho, usually my little Mamas boy gets picked up when he wails like that (for some reason I am a sucker for his crying... as he is standing here whining with one arm in my lap trying to make me pick him up! ).

After Luke got home he was wrestling with the boys on the floor and Wyatt went to smack him in the face and sort of missed and Luke has a big scratch on his forehead to prove it. Haha Even daddy got a little trouble from him today!

What a Day!!

And I dont mean that in a good way!!

No pictures today folks.. I havent had time! I have three little monsters here today! The day started off okay. Then everything was a battle. Jack peed his pants. Wyatt was crying over everything. Jenna is here today and pushes Jackson's buttons like you wouldnt believe! Anything she could do to make him mad, she did it. Turning off the TV, taking his juice, taking his Mimi, playing with his favorite motorcycles right in front of him, knocking down Wyatt (which Jackson HATES!!!) so Jackson was a constant pain this morning. FINALLY after not being able to handle Wyatts crying anymore I put him down for a nap and put Jack in his room to watch a movie and Jenna played quietly by herself. I sat down for about fifteen minutes to compose myself again before I started to have a nervous breakdown! So the next hour wasnt so bad, nice actually. Jenna fell asleep on the floor. Then Jackson was ready for lunch and right before I started to make his sandwich Wyatt woke up and was crying so I went to get him. WELLLLLLLLLL (this is my day) he had decided to not only take his diaper off (before he fell asleep Im assuming) and pee all over his bed, himself, his blanket and his stuffed animals but he also managed to break the railing on his crib! Again, Jack never did anything CLOSE to this. AHHHHHHH! So im cleaning up this mess and Jackson is yelling at me to feed him, then Jenna wakes up and is crying cuz shes sees Jack at the table ready to eat so she wants to eat. Well in the meantime Im battling with Wyatt cuz he wont give up his pee drenched blanket so I can wash it. So im pulling apart his bed and stuffing it in the wash (which was filled with the rest of the laundry Ive been doing that seems to never end) and I have three crying screaming kids wanting to eat lunch. Finally I got lunch made.... Jack had a PB&J. Well in case you didnt know Wyatt is HIGHLY allergic to peanut butter (found that out one day while we were at the pool eating sandwiches and he broke out and had to be rushed to the DR). I brought a load of laundry in to my room to fold it and left the kids for probably a minute and a half. Well jack had decided to share his sandwich with the babies. Wyatt had peanut butter on his hands and I started freaking out, didnt know if he had ingested it or was just squishing it in his fingers. Luckily there was none on his face so I assumed he was just playing with it. The next 30 minutes I watched him like a hawk with my EPI PEN ready. Never broke out, THANK GOD! So i finally just put all three down for a nap. And I am going to sit my butt on my couch and watch Days of Our Lives without one single person bothering me. I just need one hour to myself right now before I go nuts... WELCOME TO MY DAY! Is it over yet????????????????????

Balls to the Wall

So I have this kid, Wyatt is his name.... and he scares the you know what outta me. Lately he has been attempting EVERYTHING that is not normal (or should i just say safe!)... His new favorite thing is standing on everything! He climbs on to his brothers train table and stands up then goes right to the edge like hes going to jump off. My hands start sweating and of course i yell at him (it starts with asking nicely but Im starting to believe that this kid likes to watch me squirm!) so i yell "Wyatt sit on your butt!" Well he squats down like he is about to sit then SHOOTS back up again with a grin the size of the Nile. Then i say again "Wyatt on your butt!" He squats for a second then shoots back up again, this time cracking up. This can go on forever! Til i finally give up and either get him down myself (which afterwards he climbs right back up) or I walk outta the room so I dont have to watch him fall when he finally does (lesson learned is what I keep telling myself!) He did the same thing to his dad last night in the bathtub (I thought Luke was going to go crazy haha). Well now he has started to climb into this dumptruck and stand in the back of it and DANCE!!! Yes dance, the truck even moves while he does it! I am just waiting for the day he falls on his head and Im flying to the ER to get it stitched up. AHHHH! He drives me nuts. Most of you are probably thinking "Amy, this is normal, he is one!" But you have to understand, Jackson was the worlds biggest wuss. Still is actually. I'm not use to this balls to the wall attitude! Its scary!

On a happier note, the Angels are 2-0 in the series versus the Yankees! That has made my week. And they stomped them last night!(Sorry Kel) Now they have to keep it going to keep the Mariners out of their number one position. Cant wait for tonights game!! Maybe I'll beat Luke in cribbage again while we watch it HAHA! Yes i killed him last nite!

On a not so happy note, Luke is on a diet :( which means I have to be also. SOOOOO not fun. He got health mex burritos from Rubios the other night. He brought them home and I was so bummed that it wasnt my fatty chicken tacos from there (my fave!). It was empty and boring. I hate diets. However last night we made corn and back bean salad with shrimp and avocado. DELICIOUS! I think I am actually going to use the same marinade/dressing for fish tacos tonight. Thats how good it was. Ill let ya know how they turn out :)

Angels vs Yankees Game #1

GO ANGELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


We are on our way to go root for the Angels. They will cream the Yankees.... Wyatt knows it! Thats why hes all decked out. GO ANGELS!!!!

Cousinly Love

The busy, yet not so busy weekend has come to an end.... I feel like we ran around all weekend! Yet we didnt. Friday we had some friends over to BBQ (delicious food by the way!) and we played cranium (boys won, LUCK!). Saturday morning we got up and Wyatt and I picked up Brandi and went to the swap meet. It was so hot, we had never flown thru the swap meet in less than two hours, we managed. Even our beers couldnt keep us cool. Daddy and Jack went to the beach with Bmoe and Scott Carr and by the time we all got home the kids were passed out! Which was nice cuz Luke and I had about 45 minutes to get ready for my aunts wedding. Kelly came and watched the kids and we were out the door by 445. The wedding was fun... and my aunt looked great! Most of the fam was there so we got to hang out with the cousins (even those we havent seen in a long time!) So it was really fun...

Sunday was great though. We were going to head down to the beach after Wyatts nap but we decided we were too lazy. Wyatt slept for 3 and a half hours (CRAZY) and Luke crashed on the couch for two hours as well. I watched the Angel game and read my book (finished it finally, I love James Patterson!) and Jack watched a movie in his room. It was sooooo nice. We havent had a day like that in FOREVER! We finally headed to my parents around 4 to celebrate my dads bday (the big 60!!!!). So the cousins got to play and the rest of us played cribbage ( i got beat 4 times in a row... I swear Ryan and Luke cheat!). Sophia is HUGE and absolutely beautiful. Happy happy girl. And Parker is so funny now, coming into his own little personality and army crawling all across the room. So cute. Its fun having all them so close in age now and of course their big cousins to look after them. They all adore Hunter and Ky. Dunno what we would do without them. In fact I brought Kylee home with me. So her and Jack are watching Madagascar now in their beds. So all and all it was a nice weekend, especially today. But now the week starts, or should i say back to reality.....

Just another day...

... in the hot hot house! We finally went outside to play for a little bit... so hot! HOwever its only 89 today, a little cooler than it has been. Jack jumped on the trampoline for like 30 seconds and got off. The black bottom of that thing makes it 120 degrees. Wyatt is becoming a pro at shooting hoops (I think its time to put the net up higher!). Now he is trying to master hitting the ball off the tee. If he didnt spend all that time trying to get the ball to stay on the tee, he may be a little better at it by now, o well, his time will come! It is a little harder than it looks for a one year old! Of course Jack has also had his pro moments! The kid HAULS BUTT on his razor. He is so fast now i get scared. We got him a helmet finally so i dont crap my pants everytime I see him riding it. Only half the time :) We came in after about 30 minutes cuz i was being a baby and couldnt stand it anymore and they were dripping sweat.

Then they threw fits cuz i made them come in. So we took a cool bath instead to shut them up!! And what do you know... I let Wyatt outta his bath seat for the first time and sure enough he just caused trouble! Picking up every toy and throwing it outta the tub, trying to swim like the Little mermaid, pushing his brother over, standing up and squirting soap. Sometimes I dont know what to do with him, im in big trouble for sure.... the kid is balls out all the time! Im hoping to get him to the river one time at the end of the summer but honestly I think i'm too scared to take him.

After their bath I was getting them dressed and ready for their naps and Wyatt decided to put on the Eagles helmet off Jacks build a bear. HILARIOUS! He left it on while doing his regular activities for like 20 minutes. I was dying. He knew he was funny, so he loved the attention. TYPICAL Wyatt! Everyone is asleep now which means I should quit this and go clean (this is way more fun!). We are gonna have a mellow nite in with a few friends and throw some shrimp on the barbie! Probably play a little boys versus girls Cranium (best game ever!)... Wish us luck!

My little fish!

So Jackson had his last "official" swim lesson today! Aunt Lari has been teaching him to swim this summer and he went from a crying, blubbering mess to a little fish.... He HATED going to swim lessons in the beginning, he would cry and make excuses for not going in the water (One time he actually told me he had to go potty first, keep in mind we had just gone to the bathroom, he sat on the toilet for like three minutes and NOTHING! I made him get down finally and go swim... EXCUSES!!!) Lari was afraid he was going to hate her guts after all of it! But now he LOVES it. He blows bubbles, scoop and reaches (for ice cream they say), kicks, floats and will even go under without crying now! Lari is done with lessons for the summer but wants to keep going with Jack cuz he is doing so well! Thank goodness for Lari! He got special toys when he was done today too that he still hasn't put down! Last nite I took Jack with me to the Chicks tent sale to see if i could find him some school clothes and shoes... (not much for toddlers, i found him 3 Volcom shirts for a good deal but thats about it...) well we were inside and i was at the cash register paying, talking to a girl i knew way back when, who was working there and Jackson is standing next to a ping pong table and says to me "Hey mom look at the cool BEER PONG table. " Her and both the people next to me were cracking up. My 3 yr old calls it a beer pong table! I guess ours is only used for one thing hahah so embarrassing!

Wyatt stuck to the bathtub today (after another cool down popsicle!)... I have a feeling he wont be anything like Jack when he starts swim lessons, this kid is fearless. I cant take him out of his bath seat cuz i have a feeling he will be trying to swim himself. Scares the hell outta me!!! So for now he thinks its funny to just splash every bit of water out of the bathtub. Takes me longer to clean up then to actually bathe him...

Luke is excited cuz he gets to use his new BBQ tonight. We got a new one two weekends ago and we have been so busy we havent even cooked at home lately. We kept meaning to get the propane filled so we could use it and we haven't. So we decided tonite was perfect. I think we will throw some fish and chicken and some veggies on there and enjoy the nice weather, what i really mean is have a margarita, jump on the trampoline with the kids and watch the angel game on the patio (since by 6 it isnt nearly as hot as it is right now-90 degrees UGH!) However, we went for a walk last nite at 730 and we were still sweating! I think the sun forgot this was southern california....

UGhhh!

So the temperature here in OC today is only 94 degrees! WHAT???!! Ewww... it is sooo hot! And our stupid air conditioner is STILL broken, yes STILL! I have been telling Luke to call someone for weeks now to come fix it, apparentely Im better off calling myself! For some reason it only works for about an hour then starts spitting out hot air, NOT fun! And it is so hot outside I have no desire whatsoever to be outside... so the boys and I are trying our best to stay cool. We went from wife beaters to no shirts to diapers/underwear (the boys of course, not me!) They both had popsicles to cool down too, that worked for about five minutes... I have two fans blowing in the family room and i have turned the ac on every hour for about a half hour, is it working? Not so much.... What do you do? Jackson told me it was hot like the river! Haha he is so right! I wish I were there, at least there would be a body of water to soak in... Ughhhhh I usually LOVE summer but right now I just want the heat to go away, or at least my ac to work!

BOYS!!

So Ill start this whole blog thing with my recent funny story for all those of you who havent heard it...

In fact let me tell you first the latest with Jackson. He starts preschool in less than a month (scary I know!) and of course I had to haul butt with the potty training. So almost two weeks ago i started putting him in underwear ALL day. He has done GREAT! He is now to the point where he doesnt even tell us anymore, he just goes by himself! So here is my story...

Two days after i started the underwear deal he had just had an accident (poop) so i was a bit anal for the next few hours. I had been leaving him in only underwear, no shorts or anything in case he had an accident (less laundry for me!) and he was sitting on his bedroom floor, back to me, digging in his underwear! I freak out thinking he has pooped again! I yell "JACK what are u doing!" and in his cute little innocent voice he says "Look mom, its like a ball!" The child is pinching ONE ball back and forth in between his little fingers! "I have a ball mom!" And trying not to laugh I say "Yes Jack, those are your balls..." Im just thinking "o crap, it begins!" This coming from a mom who only wants boys! Well for the next twenty minutes he running through the house playing with himself yelling "Im playing with my balls, IM playing with my balls!" It made for some intersting phone coversations, lemme tell ya! Well now all i can say is, Thank heaven for little boys, cuz I dont know what I would do if I had to explain a second hole!

Totally new at this!

Ok so i had to do it... after seeing some of my old friends on here and how nice it was for them to fill everyone in on their day to day life made me do it! With Lukes family so far away and not able to see the kids all the time or even get the scoop on a weekly basis with our crazy schedules, I thought this was perfect! So bare with me while I try to figure this thing out! Posts and pics to come shortly tho!