Great job, Kevan...

So when we were leaving Colton's room tonight after putting him to bed, Kevan said:

"Goodnight boogs, I love you. Now catch some z's"

Colton then bounded out of bed and ran out of the room in a panic because he's now scared of z's and doesn't like them.

Great.

Just a Regular Morning

So I haven't blogged in almost a year... been a little busy.

But my mornings have been just too good to not blog about.

Take for instance this very morning, when after getting myself all ready I moved on to Colton. Got him all dressed, stood up and realized that my butt was soaking wet.. Yup... I had taken off his pee filled pull up and sat on it while getting him dressed. Awesome. "I'm still wearing my pee pants..."

I couldn't quite pull the same trick as Texas Ranger, so I had to change clothes but it was sure interesting while it lasted.

At least Colton wasn't hung over this morning. Lately he's been giving me a taste of what life is going to be like when he's a teenager. He wakes up and grunts at me for about 5 minutes before he'll start talking. One morning he grunted and handed me a slice of pizza that he had swiped from the kitchen the night before and hidden in his room. So that morning I got to see what a stoner teenager would be like as he grunted and handed me his crust.

Another morning he broke the routine and growled at me to leave him alone. Yet another morning he grumbled that he had to go lay down. This was of course after he had stripped naked. At least when he is a teenager I wont have to change my sheets in the morning because he's wiped his pee covered butt all over my bed while he went to lay down.

One of my favorites has to be what happened about a minute before I picked up the computer to write about it. I'm sick. The kids are sick. And their school didn't understand that if I wanted to stay home with sick kids while I'm sick I would have kept them home this morning... So Lillian is napping, Colton was supposed to be napping but he has a super human toddler strength of not napping. So he came downstairs and started eating my lunch (the leftover absolutely delicious ranch pizza that I made for dinner last night) and asked if Daddy was home yet. it went something like this:

Colton: "Oooh ooooh ooooh... Daddy home yet??"

Wise sniffling Mommy: "Nope. He's the lucky one who is still at work. He'll be home later..."

Needs-No-Sleep Colton: "Oh, he be home for dinner Mommy?? You better go to the kitchen and make dinner. Daddy coming home for dinner and he like yummy food. You go cook."

Shocked sneezing Mommy: "You little shit!!!!!!!" wait... maybe that was in my head... actual response: "Nope... Apparently Daddy needs to cook more often so that you know that he knows how to..."

Because Colton has figured out how the world works in our house.... If Kevan drives the car, Colton lets him know that he's in "Mommy's Seat" and he wants to know what I'm doing in "Daddy's seat. And now he wants me to go cook dinner... little slave driver.

Kid, you're lucky you're too little for me to throw a pillow at because in a couple of years you'll have a lot of pillows thrown at you if you keep that up.

Now don't think that because I'm not blogging all about Lillian that isn't a little pisser. That little girl has developed an attitude lately that has to be one of the cutest things in the world. But one day it won't be and that day we're screwed.

But she's learned how to stay STOP and she says it all of the time. She is just the sweetest little girl in the world and I'm just so lucky to have her. She's still an absolute Momma's girl and it's so nice because Colton was always Daddys little boy...

Our trip to Wyoming

So we went to Wyoming this past weekend to visit our friends Joey (NOT Joe... very adamantly NOT called Joe) and his fabulous girlfriend Erin. As expected it was a fabulous weekend.

complete with chokecherry wine...

Oh, I guess we should start in order.. these were before we left




Alright, back to Wyoming... so we went to deadwood and had lunch at Kevin Costner's Casino/restaurant and they had a bunch of his costumes hanging around on display.

Here is Desperado


For the Love of the Game


Robin Hood


Lillian at lunch


Giving Joey hugs


Downtown Deadwood


Erin wanted to wear Lillian


Tatonka


I have no clue why Joey must make absurd faces in all of his pictures... but he apparently must




All three boys watched Madagascar on the way home


All cuddled up


Joey


Kevan


Kevan and Joey had a photoshoot using both Erin's camera and my camera










These pictures were mid chokecherry wine consumption


"Watch... Mickey Mouse.... Watch... Pooh Bear... watch.... zebra..." all we hear anymore


Upset about something to do with football


Well, he's got the man pose down... I think that he just needs one hand down his pants and he'll be set


Kevan played photographer on the way home...




This was really cool


a big buffalo on the mountainside


Lillian was obviously happy on the ride... she's always happy. 7.5 hours to get there... 5.5 hours to get home and the child never made a peep.



Colton whined enough for both of them.... And dumped a bag of goldfish over himself... that was fun


More playing at home. I took these yesterday










This is Colton's "tough" face.... while eating ice cream. Or is the ice cream eating him. It's hard to tell






These were from last night on my way home from work. It was one of the most beautiful sunsets so (while I was stopped in traffic) I took these pictures.

Halloween is for adults also you know...

It's not just about the kids...

Grab a glass of wine and get comfy... this is going to be a long one...

So I got my dream camera as an early Christmas/Birthday/everyholidayfortherestofmylife gift and I've taken a lot of pictures that I want to share!!!

So get comfy because this is going to be an overload of extreme proportions...




So I haven't gotten a good picture of Colton in about a year and within the first 5 minutes of having the new camera out, I got this shot that I absolutely love...


This picture just makes my heart melt...


Lillian's favorite thing to do is to pucker up her lips and breathe in and out super fast and loud. It is absolutely adorable...


HALLOWEEN...
Colton was the cowboy and Lillian was the cow...





He finally agreed to put the horse on...


"Mommy..... CAAAANNNDDYYY!!!" Colton thought that Trick-r-treating was the cats meow... You knock on doors (one of his favorite things to do), flirt with people and they actually give you CANDY!!!!! He was dragging us from house to house almost faster than his little legs could get him there....

Yes, that is a beer in Kevan's hand.. because you can't go TRT'ing without an adult beverage.... Lillian was not very interested, but she went along with it...






Playing is rough.. sometimes you just need to take a break and lie down...


At Chuck E Cheeses


Photoshoot in Lillian's bedroom




I love this picture! It so captures her! Hopefully I can photoshop out the outlet in the background..


How cute is she!!


Starting to get frustrated...


Full blown frustration...


So in between these pictures, our oven lit on fire and Kevan turned our kitchen into a cloud of fire extinguisher crap... Lillian was ready to pose again...


So Kevan is in the process of laying hardwood floors in our Formal Living Room and Dining Room and Colton wanted to get in on the action and help out...




Alright... I think that is it for now.... Hope that you enjoyed the pictures of the last week in the Gerber house!!!