Saturday, March 29, 2014
Inappropriate
Friday night when Chet got home from work, we were snuggling on the couch. He had not yet changed, and we were just talking about the day. The schedule on Friday night is that as soon as I get home from getting the kids, I start getting ready for date night. Most nights I doll up, like to wear high heels, have my makeup a little fresher, etc. The boys often help me out with what jewelry looks best and what shoes to wear. It's kinda fun. And soon after Chet gets home, we leave for our date. The kids just know that's how it's going to be most Friday nights. This Friday, Chet was having "Man Night" at a friends house, a yearly occurrence. The boys came in from outside and asked if we were going out on date night. I said that Dad was going to Tony's tonight so we wouldn't be going out (Chet took me out to dinner on Thursday knowing we wouldn't get a date this weekend, LOVE that man! The boys were at a school party so they didn't even know we went out to dinner) Caden gets this disgusted look on his face and goes, "Uh!!!!!!!!!!! That is so inappropriate! You don't leave Mom on Friday night to go out with your friends!" I smiled at Chet so happy that the boys know how important date night is to me and us. Luckily Chet had so kind and sweetly asked me if that was ok, so we had to explain to Caden that it was ok. Sometimes, very rarely, we will miss date night for something. I love my little family and dating husband!
Friday, March 28, 2014
Double Digits - The BIG 10!!!
My little boys are growing up. Carter & Carson turned 10 this month!!! How and when did this happen. I remember when they were babies, and the minutes seemed to just inch by. Now they are flying by at mock speed. I've always spoiled my boys on their bdays. They haven't realized it, but they really get everything that they want. We make a list of things they want, food for all 3 meals, and snacks for school. Also, what cake and ice cream they want, if they want a get together, etc. In the past I have bought everything that they have put on their list. Well... until this year.
Carter is really good to take care his stuff, for the most part. He wanted a new bike. We found him a really nice bike perfect for his size. It is a mountain Trayl bike. Bright orange. He loves it! He also got goalie gloves, new shoes, money, soccer ball, and ping pong paddles and balls. Together they got a nice ping pong table. He did not get real soccer goals or a Payton jersey. This town was COMPLETELY sold out of Payton jersies! For school he wanted to take snickers ice cream bars. Instead of a cake, he wanted to have ice cream sundaes!
Carson got a bike (a really nice one that was my sister Charity's. She HAD to have it and never rode it, its a boys "trick" bike I think, and Carson ALWAYS wanted to ride it at my parents, so we took it! Thanks Mom and Dad!!! That saved us about $200), new shoes, his IPOD for the 3rd time (Chet was asking if there was a limit to the amount of times we can regift it to him. He pushes the limits with it, and we keep taking it away. So he has gotten it for Christmas and two bdays. He is as excited as he was the first time each time he gets it back!) While at Office Depot he spotted an IHOME and said that he would trade his entire list if we would buy that! So we did. And a basketball. The things that we didn't get were a bball banker and dirt bike. He also wanted to go rock climbing, but we are having a climbing party this weekend! For school he wanted to take banana bread (he says my bread is famous. He trades it at school at lunch for some pretty good stuff!). For his cake he wanted peanut butter rice crispies with chocolate frosting. (total weirdo! I love it though!!!)
Carter told Carson he would celebrate his bday on Friday so they could have their own days. That way they could have 2 nights to eat out, and two different activity nights in a row. After choosing different days, and 6 eat outs in 2 days, I told them they could choose 2, lunch being one of them. So, they both chose Papas sausage (Schwans, they only get it at Papas because mom is too cheap to buy it, except on birthdays!) bacon, Nana's orange juice (Simply Orange, same as the sausage deal), and then I made cinnamon rolls too. For lunch they chose Subway, with a cookie. And for dinner they chose separate places. So we decided to go out on Wednesday night for one of them. Carson had decided earlier that night that he wanted to go to Prime Rib and asked if he could change his to there. I said sure. On the way to dinner Carter asked if we could change his place to Prime Rib. I said sure! So then I told them that's where they both picked and that would be their dinner. They were all bummed out! We let them each pick an appetizer. That was something new. Wings and guacolmole. When it was time for Carter to choose a drink he was mumbling and saying ask Dad. I was getting bugged because when you are ordering for 7 people, they have to speak up or lose their turn and take what I order them (we have them trained pretty well!) I said hurry Carter, order a drink. He again mumbled to ask Dad. I looked at Chet and Chet said an adult Dr Pepper please. Then he looked at Carter and winked, and I don't think Carter could have smiled any bigger. He had asked dad privately about that one! So then Carson ordered an adult Cherry Pepsi. (Caden threw the biggest temper tantrum at that. He still had a "baby cup with a lid, and no caffeine! poor boy, NOT!!!) First time ever for the boys to get to order a caffeine drink (and that will be a bday treat!) We then went out to get Carters ice cream sundaes. It was a fun family night.
Then Cars asked if he could go to scouts with dad. He felt pretty cool going and "hangin" with the priests as they made hatchets and snow shoes, not to mention he didn't have to go to bed until 9 because they get home so late. Also, Chet was going on a campout that weekend, so he invited the boys to come along for the first time ever. They were ecstatic about that!!! Cart got sick and as soon as the tent was set up, he crawled into bed and slept the whole night. One of Chets boys brought rice and chicken boullion for dinner and planned to hunt a rabbit for dinner. He took Cars along, and he retold me every.single.detail of their hunt about 5 times. Jackson is now a ROCK STAR to Cars. How nice of the boys to include them. One of the GREAT perks to your husband being in the young mens. The boys are sooooo good to mine. They have great boys to watch what a good teenager should be! Someone shared their ribs with Cars (unknown to Chet) and others gave him treats. They spoiled him!!! And I love it!
Both Carter and Carson ended up sick on their birthdays. Cart came home early from school the day before, and Cars came home at about 11:30 on his bday. He laid in bed in terrible pain all day long. Carter just followed me around talking NON STOP!!! He is my son after all. I frequently tell Chet that I don't know how he ever wanted to marry me! He just smiles and hugs me. Whoa, it's exhausting!!! But I love my little boys. Carter is almost as tall as me now. He is about mid neck on me. Cars is about 3-1/2 inches shorter than that. They both weigh about 72 lbs. They are growing into young men. Their hormones are already starting, and I have to remind myself to just laugh, because they are so irrational sometimes!!! I know it's just part of being a mom to boys. CrAzY!!!
Carter is very smart. He loves to read and be the smartest. He is very good at reading and math. He loves science too. They just really started that this year. They are doing the Oregon Trail this month in school and he also LOVES that. They make a little game out of it and you have money and trials and he could talk about their game ALL night long. He tells us about the entire class and he just laughs and laughs at everybodies circumstances. He is one year into braces and ready to get them off. He still has until next December. He is still actively "collecting" information ALL the time. I have to tell him often, "Adult conversation!" and he mopes away. He would rather sit and listen to all the gossip than to go play. He is VERY competitive! He loves to play soccer, and learned in the fall that he is actually a very good goalie! He LOVES it! He is always begging a brother to come play in the backyard, rain or shine, with him. He has a huge temper, and is always working at keeping it under control. I think it will be a life long learning experience for him. We call him the Hulk. He loves to play card games, and is really good at them. He is very thoughtful and serious about his games.
Carson is very adventurous! He loves to be outside, and he loves to be helping neighbors. He makes a ton of money. He is very motivated that way. Which is really funny because then he just gives it away or spends it foolishly. But he has a heart the size of Texas. He is always thinking that he could help someone. I have no question he would literally give the shirt off his back to anyone in need. He tells me often about feeling the spirit. But he is also quick to get into trouble. He is VERY aware that something is wrong, but has no self control when it comes to fun. He loves to jump and do tricks on his bike, and has mastered the art of wrecking and not getting hurt. He is loving to cook, and often wants to. He loves to do laundry, mostly because he thinks that I do it too slow, and then he gets out of most other chores. He is a hard worker and fabulous with littler kids. Carter won't even play cards with him because he cannot focus long enough to play. He is exact opposite of Carter in that way. He is really good at math and science. He loves his teacher this year, and would do just about ANYTHING to make her happy, so he is a good student and rarely gets into any trouble. He is very serious about his hair and pants. He has his favorite pair that he would wear every day if I let him so I have just bought him 3 pair of the exact same. His hair is long and looks like a shag dog, but he loves it. Him and Chet have always seemed to clash in many circumstances, but as of the last about 6 months, they are super good friends. Cars has an attitude the size of Texas as well (which just makes me laugh) and they are learning to get along quite well. I told Cars that as soon as he matured a little him and his dad would be the best of friends. Something changed in him that day, and it has been great since. He has always been a mommas boy, so this has been a great change this year!!!
I love to see that love that both boys have for their dad. They respect and look up to him. They are going to be great husbands and dads just like him!! I love the way that they help me out too. I am such a lucky mom! Boys really do love their mommas, and I couldn't love them any more than I do!!! (Until tomorrow I am sure, when I will somehow love them even more!!!)
Carter is really good to take care his stuff, for the most part. He wanted a new bike. We found him a really nice bike perfect for his size. It is a mountain Trayl bike. Bright orange. He loves it! He also got goalie gloves, new shoes, money, soccer ball, and ping pong paddles and balls. Together they got a nice ping pong table. He did not get real soccer goals or a Payton jersey. This town was COMPLETELY sold out of Payton jersies! For school he wanted to take snickers ice cream bars. Instead of a cake, he wanted to have ice cream sundaes!
Carson got a bike (a really nice one that was my sister Charity's. She HAD to have it and never rode it, its a boys "trick" bike I think, and Carson ALWAYS wanted to ride it at my parents, so we took it! Thanks Mom and Dad!!! That saved us about $200), new shoes, his IPOD for the 3rd time (Chet was asking if there was a limit to the amount of times we can regift it to him. He pushes the limits with it, and we keep taking it away. So he has gotten it for Christmas and two bdays. He is as excited as he was the first time each time he gets it back!) While at Office Depot he spotted an IHOME and said that he would trade his entire list if we would buy that! So we did. And a basketball. The things that we didn't get were a bball banker and dirt bike. He also wanted to go rock climbing, but we are having a climbing party this weekend! For school he wanted to take banana bread (he says my bread is famous. He trades it at school at lunch for some pretty good stuff!). For his cake he wanted peanut butter rice crispies with chocolate frosting. (total weirdo! I love it though!!!)
Carter told Carson he would celebrate his bday on Friday so they could have their own days. That way they could have 2 nights to eat out, and two different activity nights in a row. After choosing different days, and 6 eat outs in 2 days, I told them they could choose 2, lunch being one of them. So, they both chose Papas sausage (Schwans, they only get it at Papas because mom is too cheap to buy it, except on birthdays!) bacon, Nana's orange juice (Simply Orange, same as the sausage deal), and then I made cinnamon rolls too. For lunch they chose Subway, with a cookie. And for dinner they chose separate places. So we decided to go out on Wednesday night for one of them. Carson had decided earlier that night that he wanted to go to Prime Rib and asked if he could change his to there. I said sure. On the way to dinner Carter asked if we could change his place to Prime Rib. I said sure! So then I told them that's where they both picked and that would be their dinner. They were all bummed out! We let them each pick an appetizer. That was something new. Wings and guacolmole. When it was time for Carter to choose a drink he was mumbling and saying ask Dad. I was getting bugged because when you are ordering for 7 people, they have to speak up or lose their turn and take what I order them (we have them trained pretty well!) I said hurry Carter, order a drink. He again mumbled to ask Dad. I looked at Chet and Chet said an adult Dr Pepper please. Then he looked at Carter and winked, and I don't think Carter could have smiled any bigger. He had asked dad privately about that one! So then Carson ordered an adult Cherry Pepsi. (Caden threw the biggest temper tantrum at that. He still had a "baby cup with a lid, and no caffeine! poor boy, NOT!!!) First time ever for the boys to get to order a caffeine drink (and that will be a bday treat!) We then went out to get Carters ice cream sundaes. It was a fun family night.
Then Cars asked if he could go to scouts with dad. He felt pretty cool going and "hangin" with the priests as they made hatchets and snow shoes, not to mention he didn't have to go to bed until 9 because they get home so late. Also, Chet was going on a campout that weekend, so he invited the boys to come along for the first time ever. They were ecstatic about that!!! Cart got sick and as soon as the tent was set up, he crawled into bed and slept the whole night. One of Chets boys brought rice and chicken boullion for dinner and planned to hunt a rabbit for dinner. He took Cars along, and he retold me every.single.detail of their hunt about 5 times. Jackson is now a ROCK STAR to Cars. How nice of the boys to include them. One of the GREAT perks to your husband being in the young mens. The boys are sooooo good to mine. They have great boys to watch what a good teenager should be! Someone shared their ribs with Cars (unknown to Chet) and others gave him treats. They spoiled him!!! And I love it!
Both Carter and Carson ended up sick on their birthdays. Cart came home early from school the day before, and Cars came home at about 11:30 on his bday. He laid in bed in terrible pain all day long. Carter just followed me around talking NON STOP!!! He is my son after all. I frequently tell Chet that I don't know how he ever wanted to marry me! He just smiles and hugs me. Whoa, it's exhausting!!! But I love my little boys. Carter is almost as tall as me now. He is about mid neck on me. Cars is about 3-1/2 inches shorter than that. They both weigh about 72 lbs. They are growing into young men. Their hormones are already starting, and I have to remind myself to just laugh, because they are so irrational sometimes!!! I know it's just part of being a mom to boys. CrAzY!!!
Carter is very smart. He loves to read and be the smartest. He is very good at reading and math. He loves science too. They just really started that this year. They are doing the Oregon Trail this month in school and he also LOVES that. They make a little game out of it and you have money and trials and he could talk about their game ALL night long. He tells us about the entire class and he just laughs and laughs at everybodies circumstances. He is one year into braces and ready to get them off. He still has until next December. He is still actively "collecting" information ALL the time. I have to tell him often, "Adult conversation!" and he mopes away. He would rather sit and listen to all the gossip than to go play. He is VERY competitive! He loves to play soccer, and learned in the fall that he is actually a very good goalie! He LOVES it! He is always begging a brother to come play in the backyard, rain or shine, with him. He has a huge temper, and is always working at keeping it under control. I think it will be a life long learning experience for him. We call him the Hulk. He loves to play card games, and is really good at them. He is very thoughtful and serious about his games.
Carson is very adventurous! He loves to be outside, and he loves to be helping neighbors. He makes a ton of money. He is very motivated that way. Which is really funny because then he just gives it away or spends it foolishly. But he has a heart the size of Texas. He is always thinking that he could help someone. I have no question he would literally give the shirt off his back to anyone in need. He tells me often about feeling the spirit. But he is also quick to get into trouble. He is VERY aware that something is wrong, but has no self control when it comes to fun. He loves to jump and do tricks on his bike, and has mastered the art of wrecking and not getting hurt. He is loving to cook, and often wants to. He loves to do laundry, mostly because he thinks that I do it too slow, and then he gets out of most other chores. He is a hard worker and fabulous with littler kids. Carter won't even play cards with him because he cannot focus long enough to play. He is exact opposite of Carter in that way. He is really good at math and science. He loves his teacher this year, and would do just about ANYTHING to make her happy, so he is a good student and rarely gets into any trouble. He is very serious about his hair and pants. He has his favorite pair that he would wear every day if I let him so I have just bought him 3 pair of the exact same. His hair is long and looks like a shag dog, but he loves it. Him and Chet have always seemed to clash in many circumstances, but as of the last about 6 months, they are super good friends. Cars has an attitude the size of Texas as well (which just makes me laugh) and they are learning to get along quite well. I told Cars that as soon as he matured a little him and his dad would be the best of friends. Something changed in him that day, and it has been great since. He has always been a mommas boy, so this has been a great change this year!!!
I love to see that love that both boys have for their dad. They respect and look up to him. They are going to be great husbands and dads just like him!! I love the way that they help me out too. I am such a lucky mom! Boys really do love their mommas, and I couldn't love them any more than I do!!! (Until tomorrow I am sure, when I will somehow love them even more!!!)
Baking
Cars has become quite the cook! He has always loved to cook, but I have so much going on at dinner time, it's near impossible to let him help me with the whole meal. He has almost forever cooked the tortillas, and he will chop anything in the food processor, but as far as cutting and adding ingredients to the meal, not so much. He started about a month ago making cakes. He started with a chocolate sheet cake with chocolate frosting. He finds something in my cook book (homemade so it has all my recipes in it) that he wants to make, gets out all the ingredients, and puts it together. He wants to make a dessert every night. He has started helping make dinner, which is super impressive. He will line a cookie sheet with tenfoil and broil asparagas drizzled in olive oil and kosher salt (he has watched me and knows exactly what stuff to use). He will chop up other veggies and put them in bowls for dinner. He will cook the meat. He is even getting where he will read the dinner recipe and get the beans or chilis or whatever else is needed and add it to the pot. He still cannot do things like cilantro or make enchiladas. Mostly he can do soups and side dishes and always does a dessert. He can make the french bread (cut it and butter it and broil it (I still garlic salt it, but he wants to!) Just today he wanted me to make banana bread so he got out every measuring cup/spoon and ingredient I needed. He will grade cheese and on and on. I am so impressed with him. He LOVES it. He always says very proudly as we are wrapping up dinner, "I cooked it, you clean it!" to his brothers and dad. It brings him happiness! I am curious to see if he sticks with it. If so, he will surely make a wife super happy!
Side note: Our neighbor came in the house with Carter the other night close to dinner time. She comes into the kitchen where Cars and I were finishing up making homemade pizza (he read the recipe and made the dough, spread corn meal on the cookie sheet without any prompting and then asked me to roll out the dough, then was putting the garlic butter sauce and cheese and dill and veggies on top. He even cooked up 5 slices of bacon and chopped it into small pieces and was adding it to the top) She smelled the pizza and said, "I wish my mom baked like you. She never cooks anything" (which is pretty true. They eat out about 18 meals a week!) Cars, oblivious to the fact that a lot of families don't have a homecooked meal every night, says "Cook it yourself. It's super easy!" As much as I was happy that he has seen it so much it's just normal for him and almost easy to just take over for me, I was super sad that she did not. She told him that they don't have anything in the house to make anything. I hope that all my boys marry girls that think it's a priority to eat dinner as a family every night. I hope they (my boys) all know how to cook, and appreciate their wives when they do. We do our share of eating out too, but even when we grab a pizza or tacos, we eat it at the table as a family after a blessing on the food. I have a feeling that we will look back on this time every night and cherish it. Right now I cannot even hear myself think during dinner for the volume, but I know when I get Momma amnesia and only remember the good times and tell all the moms in Walmart that have small children and look like they might have a breakdown right then and there how fabulous the times were for me and just a complete joy all the time (no sarcasm there!), this will be one of them!!!
Side note: Our neighbor came in the house with Carter the other night close to dinner time. She comes into the kitchen where Cars and I were finishing up making homemade pizza (he read the recipe and made the dough, spread corn meal on the cookie sheet without any prompting and then asked me to roll out the dough, then was putting the garlic butter sauce and cheese and dill and veggies on top. He even cooked up 5 slices of bacon and chopped it into small pieces and was adding it to the top) She smelled the pizza and said, "I wish my mom baked like you. She never cooks anything" (which is pretty true. They eat out about 18 meals a week!) Cars, oblivious to the fact that a lot of families don't have a homecooked meal every night, says "Cook it yourself. It's super easy!" As much as I was happy that he has seen it so much it's just normal for him and almost easy to just take over for me, I was super sad that she did not. She told him that they don't have anything in the house to make anything. I hope that all my boys marry girls that think it's a priority to eat dinner as a family every night. I hope they (my boys) all know how to cook, and appreciate their wives when they do. We do our share of eating out too, but even when we grab a pizza or tacos, we eat it at the table as a family after a blessing on the food. I have a feeling that we will look back on this time every night and cherish it. Right now I cannot even hear myself think during dinner for the volume, but I know when I get Momma amnesia and only remember the good times and tell all the moms in Walmart that have small children and look like they might have a breakdown right then and there how fabulous the times were for me and just a complete joy all the time (no sarcasm there!), this will be one of them!!!
Cars
Cars was home sick from school the other day. He just likes to follow me around talking. (I have no idea where they get that from!) He was asking me if I could get him another savings acct because he would like to start saving half of his half of money he gets ($20 total for papers: $2 tithing $8 mission savings $10 for him to spend as he wishes) He said at $5 a month, he needs to start saving now for a car. (Which is funny because that kid is a money making fool. He is on call for the entire neighborhood, he thinks he needs a phone for his business! He helps the neighbor entertain her 4 yr old because her husband is ALWAYS out of town and she needs a break, he mows everyones lawns, he snow shovels for the whole cul-de-sac, he feeds dogs when people go out of town, he said he was going to hire Carter to help him with all his business, haha!) That right there already made me happy. We have so many youth in our ward who don't drive or drive there moms car, leaving her car-less, so they have something to drive. It drives me CRAZY!!! Get a job and buy yourself a car!!! I'm adamant that my kids work and buy their own things. That's called life kids!!! So the fact that he is already thinking about buying himself a car makes me happy. Then he tells me that he wants to buy a car just like Cassy, our awesome neighbor. Just the other day she was telling me that she drives a grandma car and everyone in her family, sister mom husband, makes fun of her but it's paid for and gets good gas mileage (a really old style toyota camry, early 1990's I would guess) So him wanting that kind of car made me doubly happy. Wants to save for a car AND is thinking practical. He tells me that her car is really nice inside and probably gets way better gas mileage than mine and should be "cheap to buy with all cash, every single bit of it with cash!" I couldn't have been prouder. How many 10 year old boys think that they are going to drive a mustang or camaro or escalade or something like that?!? Not mine. Nope. They know better. I told Cassy about it in front of Cars and he was just shaking his head about everything I was saying. She told him he could probably buy it from her for next to nothing in 5 years. He was all for that! Carter will get to buy Chet's 1995 Ford Ranger, and Cars will buy Cassy's 1990 something Camry. Now that's awesome!!! Oh how I love my boys. Even if I could, I would never want to buy them anything more than they have. I love that they appreciate almost everything they have (most of the time) and appreciate the small things, like good gas mileage. They are mine for sure, and I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world!!
Muscles
The other day I asked Cael to unload the silverware from the dishwasher. To do so he has to get a chair to stand on. So he was carrying a chair into the kitchen and says, "I'm convinced! My muscles are awesome!!!" Oh my goodness Chet and I laughed so hard. He was so proud of himself that he could carry, not scoot, the chair all the way from the dining room to the kitchen, a whole about 6 ft. It was awesome!
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Peanut Butter Sandwich
I made Cael and Colby a little homemade pizza for lunch. They are SOOOOO good, and I even put their favorite toppings on them. When I was finished making them, Colby said he didn't want one. He just wanted his box of girl scout cookies. He was whining and being a punk, so I told him I was going to shower and he could find his own lunch. So he came to the bathroom door and asked if he could have a peanut butter sandwich. He can make his own, there's just usually a big mess, but I said sure. So when I get out of the shower I see that half his cookies are gone. I looked at him really stern (he is very sensitive to me getting stern with him, he is usually pretty good anymore to follow what I say) and asked where all his cookies were. He gets all pouty and dead serious says, "you told me I could have a peanut butter sandwich, so see"... as he proceeds to put two peanut butter tagalong girl scout cookies together and makes a "sandwich" out of his "peanut butter" cookie. He looks at me with puppy eyes, and says, "You said I could make a pb sandwich, and I did." How can you argue with that. I just gave him mad eyes and said that he knew that was not what I was thinking! He said, "But I loved my lunch!" and clicked his mouth. Little stinker!!!
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