Crew is 2!

We had a great Labor Day last Monday. It was Crew's 2nd birthday. We just hung out and celebrated and enjoyed him all day. It was great he loved it!

These pics are of him next to his birthday banner.

Trying out his new scooter.

Tom asked Crew what he wanted to do for his birthday and he said, "ride quad." So he got an extra long ride. He loves to just sit on the quad in the garage while the other kids ride their bikes.
Crew was making sure Kya and I were making his cakes properly. A few weeks before his birthday I asked him what he wanted his cake to have on it. He said, "two cakes!" I was like ok you want two cakes but what do you want on them? All I could get out of him was, "two cakes." On the morning of his birthday Tom got him out of bed and said, "happy birthday Crew!" Crew imediately responded, "two cakes."


So that is exactly what he got!




He was one happy dude with his two cakes.

Cute Crew quotes:

-If we get hurt he'll come up to us and say, "hurt?....bandaid?.....kiss it?"

-I had a cold sore and Crew got in my face and was like, "oooh owey" he offered me a bandaid and wanted to kiss it better. He was insisting and attacking me trying to kiss it. Gross but sweet!

-Lately when I do something for Crew he says, "cank oou welcome mama"

-If we're in his way he'll say,"coo me Kya"(excuse me)....or mama, daddy or Bubu.

-He'll randomly come up to us and say, "I lu you mama(or daddy)."

-When I say, "no, no Crew don't do that." He'll say, "sawee mama"(this melts my heart and I instantly forgive him).

-If we ask him what a train says he says,"choo, choo." If we point to a train and ask him what it is he says, "car cha-choo."

-He says his prayer exactly the same each time and whenever we say, "who wants to say the prayer?" he raises his hand and says, "MEEEE!" This is how his prayer goes, "Fadder, day, safe, car, Jesus ...Christ, men! If someone else says the prayer when he thinks it should be his turn he glares at them and says, "hey!"

Things we love about Crew:

* He loves to talk on the phone.

* He loves for Tom or I to rock him and sing to him, his favorite songs are, I love you a bushel and a peck, Rock a bye baby, All around the mulberry bush, Hot dog, hot dog and Once there was an airplane(I had to make up words for this one because he kept requesting an airplane song). He also loves the awesome songs I make up for him as I go.

* We call him our vegetarian because he always eats all of his fruits and veggies and begs for more while his meat and pasta type things are still on his plate. Funny boy!

*He loves balls and playing catch and batting and golfing.

* He loves to wrestle with Conor and Kya. He puts his hand up in a Karate type pose and slowly walks towards them and then suddenly attacks.

* Crew is very social and will go up to anyone and want them to hold him and then he'll start telling them all about something.


Life is so sweet with our little Crew in it. He has brought joy too our lives for 2 years now and we're loving it! Happy Birthday sweet boy! we love you!

Sleepovers

We had our ward campout which was so fun except for the part when I had to take Crew home at midnight because he would not lay down and go to sleep. Luckily it was only like 5 minutes from our house so we went back the next morning to help clean up and pick up Tom, Conor and Kya.

Roasting marshmallows.

Catching TONS of frogs (that's whats in her bag). Kids would flock around her and she'd give them turns holding a frog.
I didn't do a very good job taking pictures. There were a lot of people there. It was a perfect campsite for a ward party. We had a blast! Can't wait for next year.


The next night Briley came to have a sleepover while her parents had an anniversary get a way.

We got happy meals to celebrate Briley's 1st sleepover.

Bedtime story from Kya. Kya would say, "come on Briley, let's go play in our room." She crys almost every night because she wants someone to share a room with. So this was her dream come true for a day.

3 little monkey's jumpin on the bed!

Tom and Conor went to a Broncos preseason game that night. Conor wasn't sure he wanted to go but we convinced him to and now he keeps talking about wanting to go again. (Sorry about the tiny cell phone pics. I don't know how to make them bigger).

Ready for church the next morning. Crew got to take Briley to nursery class with him.

We loved having Briley stay with us. She was so much fun and by the end she was calling me mama since that's what everyone else around here calls me. So sweet! We love you Bri-Bri!!

Wish me luck!

Today I'll be tryin to can peaches and blanch and freeze corn all while trying to keep an eye on my busy little mister Crew, who likes to pick and eat my cherry tomatoes as soon as they are ready (or sometimes when they're not), and flush things down the toilet and cut his clothes with scissors and color on himself, and doesn't like to watch TV. I'll also be watching the door since he knows how to unlock it and let himself out. I love love love that he's so active, but today, not so much.


p.s. while I'm typing this he's in the kitchen eating my produce. Little stinker!

Rockies Game!

We had great seats! Check out my view, it doesn't get any better than that.

The Saturday before school started we went to a Rockies game. It was way fun. I'm thinkin' if we go again though Crew will be staying with Auntie Kindy. He's pretty exhausting at places like that. Tom and I took turns taking him for walks. I promised Tom if he'd change his stinky bum that I'd let him watch the 9th inning uninterupted, when the 10th inning came around we couldn't agree who would have the privilege of Crew duty. Also Crew was bummin' food off of everyone even though we bought plenty of snacks. The people behind us gave him some fruit snacks, the kid in front of us gave him a french fry and the guy next to us gave him peanuts, sunflower seeds and half of his ice cream cone! We should have set him on the street corner with a sign and a cup and seen how much money he could have made.

Estes Park

A couple of weeks ago Kort, Pratt and Jhett came to play. We had a picnic and swam at Auntie Kindy's pool but I forgot my camera that day. Hopefully I can get some pics from my sisters. Then a couple days later we all met at Estes Park. It was beautiful. We saw chipmunks, elk and a deer crossing the road with her fawn. It was fun to get to hang out with the Aunties and their families.

Briley and Crew were being so sweet that I had too hurry and snap a pic because it wouldn't last long. No matter how much you love your cousin, when you're almost 2 everything is ,"mine" and "no" and "NO, MINE!" I love their love/hate relationship. That day Crew made Briley cry so I told him to tell her sorry and give her a hug. He did and she laid her head on his shoulder and hugged him back. SO SWEET!

Almost everytime Conor is in a picture it's because I forced him to be. Because when your 8 you do not have time for pictures. That's why he looks like he's about to walk away in all of them.

Cool cave!


"Conor, stay!"


My sweet little girly on the other hand kept posing and asking me to take her picture. Sometimes they reverse rolls but seldom are they both feeling cooperative. Then you throw Crew into the mix and we're lucky to get a pic with everyone in it.

The dads and Conor wanted to go on a harder hike up hill somewhere, so us women and smaller kids stayed on the nice path around the lake. I'm glad Conor was with the guys because they got to see a big bull elk up close. They even chased it a little.

We drove up really high, to about 15,000. feet. It got pretty cold up that high.

Notice the snow on the mountains behind us.

Notice the lake behind the goofy guys.

Had to get a little climbing in with Uncle Pratt.

All the kids. Now Conor's cooperating but Crew and Briley aren't. Nice. At least they are all in it, barely. Gotta love it.

Sisters pic. Love these two!

On the way back down one of the paths, Kya started racing with her Auntie and Uncle and fell. Poor girl!

The kids filled out little adventure booklets during the day and told a ranger about their day and got Junior Ranger badges.

This is what happened when Kindy and I left for 2 minutes to get us a table at a restaurant. This river runs right through the town. Fortunately the restaurant could get us right in. Unfortunately the dads were being fun and the restaurant had to wait on us. I guess we should have had the guys go get the table.

We sat outside and the view was awesome. It was a great day. We had a blast and we were totally exhausted by the end. I'm the only one who made it to church at 9 the next morning. Tom always says he feels closest to God when he's enjoying the outdoors. So basically he was at church all day on Saturday, so no need for church on Sunday right?

I sent two of my favorite people off to school this morning. My cute little 1st and 3rd graders. Crew and I will miss them tons. Kya was SUPER excited and Conor was only a little excited. I guess the older you get the less fun school seems. I actually made Kya's outfit and I was so happy that she chose to wear it the first day of school. I made the skirt out of a t-shirt of mine. I didn't like the way it fit me. I found online how to make skirts out of t-shirts. I sewed the little hearts on the skirt and added a big one to a plain white shirt that Kya already had and...voila a cute little matching outfit! I love having a girl to sew for and I love that she loves for me to sew for her.

Kya wanted to hold up 6 fingers because she is 6 years old.

Enough pictures already mom!

Waiting for school to start!

Conor trys tennis

Conor decided a while ago that he wanted to try tennis but it took me forever to sign him up. I kept missing the deadlines. Finally I got him signed up for the very last week until next summer. I know I'm awesome. Oh well he doesn't seem to mind. He had fun and it was actually kind of nice that it was only 1 week long.