Keenan funnies:)

Starting a movie the other night, the "dream works" moon comes up. Elek says, "there's the man in the moon." Keenan says, "That's not the man in the moon. That's Heavenly Father fishing!!"

Driving home at night. The kids are tiered and quiet. Suddenly Keenan SHOUTS "ARE YOU CRAZY!?!!" It was the funniest thing! Shaun and I burst out laughing! Then Keenan says, "it's not day time it's night." Apparently there was a song on talking about day time and keenan had something to say about that!

Happy Birthday Keenan

Keenan has been a lucky boy this year! In years past he hasn't had birthday parties. He has never been "into" anything to build a party theme around. But this year he is so "into" dirt, worms, outside stuff and bubbles that a theme started coming out. I had an idea of having dirt delivered to our backyard and having a dirt cake with worms in it that we decided to through a party for him! The lucky part for him is that we were traveling on his birthday and so he had little parties everywhere.

It started out in Missouri. Keenan had a brownie cake with his Haney cousins.

Then dinner at Red Robins with Grandma and Grandpa and Aunt Alaina. The waiter made him a balloon hat that hung around his ears and floated up. When the waiter brought out Keenan's birthday ice cream he was so excited his mouth went into a big "O" shape with his eye brows at the top of his head. At the same time he couldn't stop smiling so the "O" shape turned into a oval shape:-)

Then on our way home we stopped in Ohio. We stayed an extra day to visit. My sister made Keenan a reverse lady bug cake(brown instead of red). Thanks Aunt Rissa! The boys had a great time having another party and more cousins to play with! Even Camden had figured out how to blow out Keenan candles! hehe:)

So that brings us to Keenan's final birthday party at home. Many, many Thanks to Aunt Lisa for saving the day and coming over early and staying the whole time to help me(shaun had to work last minute)!! I let Keenan open one of his presents-a bubble machine - before the party so we could use it. Keenan opened it and in a voice of awe says, "Mom, I just love you so much!!!" What a sweet heart! He is *crazy* about bubbles and to have a bubble machine was a dream come true! We also made a sand box (big tupperware) and put regular sand with purple sand in it. Oh the joy of colored sand for a kid! Then I made a "dirt cake" out of chocolate pudding and oreos and put gummy worms in it. Keenan was in heaven! On a funny note: one of keenan' s little friends doesn't like getting dirty and when I mentioned a dirt cake with worms - he wanted NOTHING to do with it. Not one taste not a gummy worm nothing! No amount of children asking for more would get that boy to try it!! So funny:)

The kids were so good at opening presents. I was surprised at how giving a bunch of four year old were. They were so excited to give their gift and to see what someone elts had brought. They were so sweet! Thanks to all the friends that came to celebrate with us!

Well, Happy Birthday Keenan Myster:)

A little of this and a little of that from Mo

The boys are loving the outside time at their Grandparents house.

While Keenan and Elek were doing this.....

Poor frog - totally getting smashed then streched!

Camden was doing this.....

Then they all "helped" plant a garden and of course there was plenty of this....

If I only had a picture of what they all looked like when they came in....just think MUD!

Heavenly Fathers creations

I didn't get a picture,but I wanted to remember....
I dropped my boys off at their Grandparents the other day. Before I left I went outside to say good buy to them. They were running Grandpa all over the back yard. Then Keenan told me he found baby mice. Grandpa holds up a container with four or five very new baby mice. He tells me he can't let them stay by the house and that he didn't want to get rid off them, but just couldn't let them stay. Well, Keenan caught on real quick what this meant! Keenan says, "Grandpa, You can't kill Heavenly Fathers creations!!! He will be so sad!!!" I quickly tell them that they can go find a new home for the mice at the bottom of the hill. But they can't go check on the mice because they will have to crawl to a new place so they can be protected. Then all were happy and the boys trotted down the hill to find the baby mice a new home.
This just cracked me up 1) you can tell what the sunbeam class has been talking about and 2) I just got this very same lecture because many poor unfortunate bugs found their resting place on my window during our 12 hour drive. Elek had asked why there was so much bird poop on the window and when I told him it was bugs not poop the discussion went further...Keenan asked me what I will do with all these bugs. I told him I'll just wash them off at the gas station. He very sadly asked me how they would ever be resurrected if I washed them off the window. I said "It a good thing Heavenly Father makes so many bugs." Then that got us on a totally different topic about bugs....

What do six boy cousins look like?

I love this picture. I always end up liking the ones were no one is looking. Five of the six boys are here and there is constant boy motion going on! -Climbing up the slide, running up the steps climbing on some thing your not supposed to be on and checking each other out! Just boy fun:)

The weekend before my sister came with her youngest three boys I was telling the kids different things about their cousins. This one likes batman; the two of you played together as babies... My sister and I are good at seeing each other once a year or so, but it is usually just us and which ever baby has to come. The boys haven't all been together. After one of our "who like this..." moments Keenan turns to me(with hand on hip and crazy face) and says, "I've never even met them before!" I just love how he said this! It was so funny to see his almost four year old logic make sense of these soon to be visitors.

When the big day came that they were finally here the boys all pretended to be shy. After a brief introduction all the kids were playing together and happy! I got a few photos of the baby-what a cutie. I tried to get some pictures of the other two, but man they are fast. Never a still moment with these two :)

Here's a few pictures of the boys at the park:

Camden found this bench to check out the bubbles all by himself. I think he thought he was being sneaky :)



Kristopher is such a little monkey! When ever he get the chance, he will flip himself backwards!

I could only get Ryan to hold still if he was blowing bubbles, but it was never for too long!



Very mischievous. Hanging out at the top of the slide with his brothers bubbles!



Kristopher usually hangs out with Mama in a wrap.



Tanya didn't have any pictures with these three! The two on the right are watching bubbles.



Charlie and Elek



Ryan ever on the move :)



Elek posing. This reminds me of some certain little, girl friends that he has....

Harpers Ferry '09

So once again we had company and we were looking for something to do...a drive up to Harper's Ferry it is! :) Here's some pictures from the day.

My sister and the kids are in the window. Elek would not deviate from the path so he came back down.

Elek not being happy. He wanted to have permission from someone who worked here to go into the building. I do like this picture:)

"Jefferson's Rock"

Boys favorite train tunnel from "Upper" Harper's Ferry

The crazy flood measuring stick. I couldn't believe how high it flooded in '96 -that wasn't very long ago!

Camden finally got his turn in the boys' favorite window spot.

Natural History Museum

T-Rex(its pretty dark, but the best I could do while being herded through the line)

Favorite quotes from my kids today.

Keenan running up to display box-
keenan: what is this?
Me: Teeth
Keenan: I love them!!

Cousin: these are crocodiles.
Elek: That's amazing!!

It was so funny to hear so much enthusiasm in their little voices:)
One of my sisters is in town. Her boys had a list of things they wanted to do on vacation. One of the things was to see a t-rex. So we headed to the natural history museum. There was three mommys(my sister in law came too) seven boys and one girl. Yes, we did have a lot of curious people saying weird things about our boys: Here's the boy barricade; Have you started drinking yet? I have three boys and I drink all the time! Funny people :)