Muddy Aftermath

Dive rights, some jukes, pump fakes & touchdowns!

These guys are HARD CORE...

and Tyce wants a piece of 'em!

Longing for H2O...

When you don't live close enough to the water (freezing, butt cold water doesn't count) to teach your kids to surf, you fake it!  We love that when we walk in our house the first, ginormous thing we see is this wave.  Serenity now.  Feel the stoke!

I'm smitten

Kai @ 3 months

Festival of the Grapes

I love that we live in a small town that has its own fair.  Its not too big and they always fill up the Grape Bowl Gym with tons of art work made all of Grapes.  We live near a "few" vineyards :)  The boys are all about the rides.  It doesn't take much to satisfy them and its almost as fun being on the side watching their faces. 

Freshly shaven, ready for a good time, and the beginning of Tyce's sugar high.

1st stop: Race cars

Oshyn riding the bull this year took the cake--for sure!  He was determined NOT to let go!

Ski-do's for Cruz & Tyce

He waved to us almost every time around 

Too LOUD for Little man!!  He's not much of a crier, so we thought it was pretty cute :)

Mark it in the books...1st Grape Festival--check! All is well when Kai's with Daddy.

Free-spirited, early shower taker

Tyce makes a lot of his own decisions without thinking twice or wondering about the consequence.  He giggles about it and has a smile that makes putting up with his chaos doable.  Life with this kid is like running a blender with the lid off...but he gives the best cuddles and kisses.

Kai

Wait for it...

Wait for it...

BAM!  I'm so happy I can hardly contain myself.

Quick-isms

I feel as though I just had an -isms post...yet the days/months are flying by, so here's another--some quick-isms...

What am I in for today?!?

Kai is still as precious and sweet as can be.  He has found his voice and at times when dinner (or life) is loud, if we can get everyone else to be quiet, we can all hear him cooing away.  He is ticklish and now instead of uhhh-ing when I go for his sides, he squeals and giggles.  I love it.  The big boys talk all kinds of baby-gibberish to him and light up when he smiles at them.

Crazy baby rolled over from his back to his belly @ 2 months!  He looked pretty happy about it!

Pretty big shoes to fill

Cheese for lolli's!

Tyce is full of energy and spunk, but is also very thoughtful and concerned for others.  When he goes to get a snack, he'll show up with two.  My first thought is--he's trying to have more, but when I ask him, he hands it over--"I got it for you".  When we ask all of the kids 'highs' and 'lows' for the day, Tyce makes sure to ask Beau and I what our 'highs' and 'lows' are.  He'll ask how our day went and is a  'please' and 'thank you' guy--without being prompted.  When he wants to find his baby, he often says, "Where's baby Kai..............noa?"  with a ginormous pause between syllables.

Mr. Studious

Funny/ugly face

Dancing machines

Cruz is all about school, learning and tae kwon do (free karate gets him pumped).  He loves to teach me stretches--my little yogi son :) and tells me cool things. As we're driving...Cruz: "Mom did you know there's a subway under our car?" Me: "Really?" Cruz: "Yeah, subways are underground".  He's also been into his watch and tells us what time it is...5:51 (for 2:12), 12:91, seven hundred for 7:00, 7 o 40 (just a few examples I wrote down one day).  After a few of these, Oshyn tells him, "I hate to tell you but you're watch has got to be upside down!"

Oshyn is big.  Not really, he's only 8, but compared to the rest of the littles, he seems so old.  He's a conversationalist.  He asks me just about everyday what my favorite sport is, what I would want to compete in the olympics, if I think he has at least a 4-pack (if not a 6-pack), and on & on.  Oshyn says "pacific" for "specific" and the words "literally" and "seriously?!?" in every other sentence.  He is an animal at every sport he plays.  Oshyn gives 150% at every practice, game and every time he wrestles his little brothers down to the ground. I love that even though he is getting older and wants to have friends over every week, he still thinks we're pretty cool.

Soccer animal

Space Derby

We are workin' scouts! (and will be for the next 18+ years!?! Wowza!)
Oshyn had his first Space Derby with scouts.  He glued, sanded, and painted a striped speedster.  His rocket went up against some serious stuff and turned out pretty good for a first time rocketeer.  Oshyn was a great sport and had fun twisting the bands to let 'er rip.  Cruz, on the other hand, scratched out his "Go Oshyn" sign and started crying because Oshyn didn't get first.  Talk about brotherly love!

Here's to the 1st Space Derby of many!  

Sweet Baby Blue

I'm soaking up every minute with you.

5 minutes

of relaxation...football practice, park, and a sleeping baby.

A Decade

4 kids, 10 years later & we still got it!

Cleats

I love how hard O works at practice.  It makes his purple cleats a little more manly. :)

Tough guys

Give these guys some new tanks and muscles come flying out of the woodwork!

Generations

This little outfit was worn by my dad, my brother and now my little boy.  I'm almost 99% sure that my Grammie Herzog made it with a plethora of TLC for her first son.  I'd love to find a picture of the other two in the same outfit...

First

Handsome guys
(the one day of the school year that they don't wear basketball shorts--sans picture day :)

Mr. Funny Face himself

Ready to go!

Because this is cool to do

The first day of school came quickly this year. As long as the boys start in July, I might always feel this way.  The boys asked me if I thought it was fun to have my birthday on the second day of school when I was a kid.  They were blown away when I told them I NEVER had school on my birthday.

Almost there! I love living close enough to run/ride.

Locking up with the other 10 bikes (I swear there were hundreds of bikes when I went to elementary school!  Ten is a good day here.)

Oshyn started 3rd grade, so he knew the drill.  We briefly met his teacher and said goodbye to him on the blacktop.  Then we were off to the BIG K!!

We took some pictures and then realized that a kid that we see at the park often was in his class and "my friend" Leilani from our old house was also in his class.  Cruz was pumped to know a few kids since no one from preschool was going to Woodbridge. (He has always been really concerned about the friend thing & was distraught when he found out none of his preschool friends would be going to kindergarten with him).   For the first week or two he would point to kids around school in the morning (or when school got out) and tell me, "See that boy/girl?  He's/She's my friend" or after saying hello to someone, "I just made a new friend".

Big Kindergardener and the brother that wants to be one!

He is so cute.  I want to eat him up.  Oh....and he can't WAIT to have homework!! (Don't worry we documented that for sure!)