Water's Family

Soccer time!!!!

2011-10-13T14:06:00.001-07:00

Chase is finally old enough to be in soccer and he loves it! We have practice every week and his first game is this Saturday and we.... I can't wait!

Park day!

2011-10-12T08:48:00.001-07:00

With the weather being amazing we have spent a lot of time at different parks. The boys love being outside so we are there for hours no joke.

Bath time

2011-10-05T19:10:00.001-07:00

So I love pinterest! I am always looking for new ideas on what to do with the boys. Here are some of the bath time things we have done.... Paint with waters colors and glow sticks in the dark. Everything i needed was all at the dollar store. The boys had a lot of fun!!!

Phone pictures

2011-10-01T11:13:00.001-07:00

So I was going through my phone pictures and found all these pics of chase that he took of himself. There were 16 total but here are just 3.

Diamond Backs game

2011-09-29T11:23:00.001-07:00

I have a ton of pics on my phone and I just realized I can blog from my phone so I hope this turns out okay. We went with Curtis family last week to the diamond backs game and to the spaghetti factory. We had a lot of fun before we....the boys.... Got really bored.

Dinner With the Girls!

2011-09-26T14:21:00.000-07:00

Jessica and Amy came into town a couple of weeks ago...and I am just now getting around to blogging it. One of the nights all of us girls got together at Olive Garden to have dinner to celebrate Selena's pregnancy and my birthday. It is so fun to hang out with these girls!

Amy had to leave before we took these pictures...

Selena told us to lean in and put our hands on our waist to make us look skinnier.

We are trying to show Selena what it is like to have a baby....Jessica must have very happy births....Becky is catching her kid....Selena is realizing she just gave birth to a bunny....and Allison has C-Sections so she is ripping her stomach open.

What was I thinking...

2011-09-23T13:51:00.000-07:00

I decided while Chase worked on his letters I would give Ethan a little bucket of uncooked rice he could play with and bury his cars in and scoop in...he was doing so good with it and keeping it in the little container. Then Chase noticed what he was doing and an all out rice fight started...I had rice all over the kitchen. The boys had it in their hair, they tracked it all over the house. It made a mess.

So I let them move it out side....and it again got everywhere....you think I would learn my lesson.

This is Chase when I said I was going to have to clean up all the rice and they had to be done with it.

Now I have birds all over my front yard eating the rice I blew into the grass.

6 years!

2011-09-23T13:35:00.000-07:00

Curtis and I had our six year wedding anniversary this past August. This year Curtis did this whole surprise get away for us. I really had no idea! I woke up that morning to flowers, a necklace, and a note folded up as a heart saying to have some clothes packed for him and I and to be at his parents house by 3. So when I got to his parents house I noticed a second surprise...more for Curtis not me...he rented a 2012 Mustang GT, we left the kids at my in-laws and the third surprise was an over nighter in Sedona. When we got to Sedona there was one more surprise, at the restaurant Curtis had reserved the one and only special booth. It was a little nook off to the side with a curtain around you so you are all by yourself and rose peddles all over the table and candle light. It was great and the food was amazing...we are going to go back there!

MY SIDE OF THE STORY.

2011-09-22T16:01:00.001-07:00

So I thought I would clear up this video that is going around that I know some people have seen. Well, the other day when I was putting toys away I happen to notice a huge roach next to my front door, on its back...now I HATE HATE roaches. So I called my mom to see if she can come and get it, of course she told me no. So I called Curtis but he was at work, so I called my father in law and he was at his house and I just felt bad making him come over and get it. Now roaches do not make me cry, but this week for "some reason" I am a wreck and very emotional and I just had enough of this stupid thing and I just could not get the guts to do anything to it and the whole situation was so stressful that I broke down. Have you ever had such a big fear of something so little that it just annoys you? Probably not, but I do and it is roaches. So I brought in the shop vac from the garage and tried to get the hose as close as I could to the gross thing that was moving all over on its back...but then I realized that I would have to hear the roach bang back and forth in side the hose as it got sucked up. I called Curtis again and he thought I was joking, so I decided to show him this was no joke... I HATE ROACHES....and sent him this little video that is now all over facebook and you tube thanks to my amazing husband, brothers, and sister in law. And during the video the freaking roach flipped over and I freaked. He started crawling around....it WAS GROSS!!! So roaches are not something I generally flip out about to this extent but just being this week it hit me a little harder than it normally would....and now I am embarrassed as it is being looked at by people I don't know and they think I am a psycho. Well if you want to know what happened to that gross roach I opened the front door and it crawled out and I sprayed....I drenched the stupid thing in bug spray. Then that night my great friend Becky kicked it out of my front entry way because there is no way I was touching that thing even with a broom. And if you know Curtis he is just as grossed out by those things as I am, if not more.

CHASER CURTIS WATERS

2011-09-14T13:17:00.000-07:00

Chase is getting so dang big. We put him in preschool this year and he LOVES IT!!!! He is learning so much and doing so well....at least I think he is, the teachers have said anything bad yet....

So at work they do not have any boy toys....so this is what Chase decided to do one day because he was so bored. It did not last very long but it was funny while it lasted.

SUMMER FUN!!!

2011-09-14T13:10:00.000-07:00

This summer we have spend a lot of our time in the water. We love water....especially me

because it makes the boys tired and ready for an early bed time.

IS THIS WEIRD...

2011-09-13T21:55:00.000-07:00

This is Ethan...My little funny boy. Well as long as I can remember Ethan has loved hair...my hair. When he was an infant he was one of those babies that would pull on hair. You would see his little hand sticking out of the breast feeding cover reaching for my hair while he was eating. At first he would pull on my hair and I would be in pain, then went to playing with my hair and running his fingers through it....Now this was only when he was tired, playing with my hair was like a comforting thing and would put him to sleep. Then some how it went from playing with my hair to sticking it in his ear....Yeah... At first it was funny "Ha Ha Ethan sticks moms hair in his ear ha ha". Whatever not a big deal. Then it got a little more often like I was his "security blanket", when he was tired, when he was sad, when he wanted to....Anyways so this when the weird stuff comes in...as if this whole thing isn't weird....so lately he has been sticking anything and everything in his ear. I walked by and he was laying on the shag rug digging his little ear in to see if the carpet would get in there. The other day he was putting batman's foot in his ear, and the tip of the play sword...anything and everything he can think of. Then scary things like a golf tee and a pencil....So I looked on the internet and nothing really like this comes up. I was thinking of calling the doctor but I think they will just tell me to keep things out of his ear that would hurt him, and I would feel like an idiot. So has anyone ever heard of something like this? Does sticking things in your ear feel good? He puts things in both ears so he does not favor one more than the other. Just not sure what to do....

My Pizza Man

2011-07-07T10:08:00.000-07:00

So since we have been home from New York Curtis has been all about building a brick oven pizza. And if you know Curtis, when he gets something into his head it stays. So he started doing research (like he does on every thing he wants...I think all boys do that), then went to his parents house and started building. His hope was to have it all finished by fathers day so we could have some brick oven pizza on Fathers day. So here we are one week before...all bricked up and clay all over. They were pretty impressed with them selves.

Curtis Brick Oven...it still has the sand inside because that is what is holding the clay mold up till it drys then they scoop and vacuum it all out.

We came by a few day later to see the clay cracked all over...Curtis was pretty bummed.

This is the back part where the fire goes in at.

Curtis decided to try in anyway and made the boys a cheese quesadilla it in.

They were excited...and it turned out really good. We loved it!

Saturday...a day before Fathers day we decided to go over and make a pizza just to see how it was going to taste, we were cooking for all curtis's family so it had to be good. Curtis started the charcoal and it got hot and the clay started popping off...

Then it started to cave in on the fire...

Then in blew up/collapsed and here is curtis putting it out. Sad.

Chase was watching from the pool and he was not very happy about it the whole thing breaking.

So what does Curtis do...he tries to build another one out of things he can find at his parents house...He does not give up. Like I said when he has something in his head it does not get out.

Here we are Fathers Day making Brick Oven Pizza and it was so dang good not going to lie. It was not the prettiest thing and was kind of white trash looking but it worked!

Chase waiting for his pizza to be done.

Curtis taking out someone's pizza...he was pretty proud of himself.

GOOD JOB CURTIS IT WAS VERY GOOD!

Sahuaro Ranch Park with Allison

2011-06-14T21:45:00.000-07:00

Right before we left for New York we met up with Allison at the park for some fun. We had a picnic and chased the birds around and played on the playground...it was fun.

Here is little Sam making his "ROAR" sound at Chase...and Chase seems to be a little taken back

The boys contemplating whether to jump or not.

Chase loves babies...here he is trying to make cute little Mollie laugh

The boys after a peacock

Alright...I love this picture. I feel really bad putting it on though. one day this picture is going to be so embarrassing for my Chaser. This will be the picture I will show to girls he brings home. But I think this picture is too funny not to post. Here is Chaser on his "phone" (it is one of Curtis's old phones and it still works but does not get service but he carries it everywhere and pretends to email his girlfriend Emma...well he thinks he is actually emailing her...) but he is wearing his soccer cleats we got from the people I nanny, with black church socks and his undies. Plus we have all had bad head colds for the past week so he looks sick with buggers all over his face. One day he will hate me for this...but I love you!

New York & Washington D.C. Trip With The Husband

2011-06-07T13:09:00.000-07:00

It has been THREE and a half years since Curtis and I have gone on any type of vacation with zero kids. And it was about that time we go some where. So we have been planning this trip for 5 months and I could not wait for it. So me, Curtis, and his parents went to New York and then over Washington D.C. I was the only one who had never been so it was pretty exciting. First we spent some days in New York then went down to D.C.

This is the view outside out hotel...this is Time Square. I have decided that I dont ever want to live here. Too many people and the honking and sirens all night would drive me nuts. But definitly a cool place to visit. I learned I had to walk fast and to ignore peoples rude remarks...and if you know me I get my feelings hurt easily so this was hard.

This is us outside of this beautiful Cathedral...It was huge inside.

The amazing building...

Us hanging out in the hotel

Again at the cathedral...the doors were so cool every picture was different in every little square.

Yankees game

The Lion King Play was great

The Statue of Liberty

Curtis and I with New York in the background

Us and her

Paul and Carol and Liberty

Here we are on the top of the Empire State Building

Curtis on top looking down

These pictures were taken at the wax museum...and mainly taken for Chase...he is so into Superhero stuff right now.

The Guggenheim Museum

Walking around Central Park...Polish pride here...this is for my Dad. Walking around Central Park there are people every where, randomly taking naps and people touching other people very inappropriately like they are the only people around...It was gross...But a beautiful park

We went and saw Spider Man as well...way good!!! I loved this play! I would love to see it again. It was way cool. I got yelled at in the Lion King for taking a picture so I knew better here not to take this picture but I did anyway...and got yelled out. I recommend this play!

Curtis's brother is doing this trip across country with his friend Ben. They got grey hound bus pass for a month and are doing this thing called couch surfing (you should check out their blog pretty cool stuff escapethedoldrums.tumblr.com ) any who they met up with us in new york on our last day so it was cool to see them

On our way to Washington D.C. we stopped through new jersey to see curtis's mission. We went to a couple of his favorite areas. This salvation army was a place they volunteered at so of course we went in there and did some shopping.

And of course the Waters all had to get their taste of their favorite place White Castle. I personally find that place to be gross but they love it.

Here we are in Pennsylvania

The Liberty Bell

If you ever watch Man vs. Food you will know about these places...They are two food joints that are located directly across the street from each other and both claim to have originated the cheese steak...so we got one from each and tried them both...I liked Pat's better Curtis liked Geno's.

We hung out in Baltimore for a layover on our way to New York...and I decided I loved it there and would move there. Maryland is beautiful!!!

Washington D.C. temple doors...way cool!

This temple was gorgeous .

We went to a couple of Smithsonian's but it was so crowded (being memorial day weekend) and it was so hard to read and enjoy what you were looking at so I did not get to much out of it. But I really like this statue of George Washington and how they depicted him as a god.

If you know me you know I love the Wizard of Oz...so this was cool

Me and the white house...bunch of psycho people doing and saying a bunch of psycho things...i feel for the security guards that have to hang out with nut bags day in and day out.

White house at night...weird they let you get all the way up to the back gate there but you are like a mile away from the front gate.

Curtis's favorite memorial

My favorite memorial

Arlington Cemetery was my favorite thing in Washington D.C. it was such a neat thing to be at. We watched the changing of the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers that was way neat. Definitely a somber place but it sure makes you proud

JFK's grave along with some family, and the fire that never goes out...

The best part of my whole trip was coming home to my crazy boys though. They were so glad to have us back...they difenitly enjoyed their "vacation" at grandma and grandpa's but when we picked them up that night and brought them home then woke them up to show them we were there and at home chaser starting crying. He was so happy. And told us we could never go away for that long again...8 days was a long trip even for me. But we had a lot of fun!

Encanto Park

2011-05-17T23:34:00.001-07:00

First I wanted to show this...Curtis got Chase a 100 piece set of army guys. It came with tanks, army guys, bridges, jets...everything you can think of...well out of all 75 guys in there this one came already blown up. He is the only one in the whole set that looks like this. It is kinda funny, I dont think it was suppose to look like this but it makes the army guys that much cooler. Every time Chase drops a bomb or something he throws this guy down and says "oh we got em'". Just thought it was funny...

So this past weekend we went to Encanto Park with our friends the Reed's. They have two way cute kids and our kids just get along so dang well. It is so funny to watch them. Chase loves Emma he calls her his girl friend (right now I am okay with that but I think I might be one of those psycho moms that have to know everything about my boys lives and the girls in their life will hate me). But Chase and Emma held hands and went on every ride together it was like they were on a little date. It was so cute! I took a million picture of the two so I had to choose just some to put up.

Chase and Ethan on a little ride.

So as I go through my pictures all the time I realize there are very few ones with me and the boys it is all curtis and the boys or just the boys. And I was trying so hard for them to sit with me for just a second so curtis could take a picture of us but I was having no luck. So I made them sit in the photo booth with me and I got pictures that way...not what I wanted but it is the best I could do.

Here they are with dad on the "tea cups" getting sick

Here are all the kids holding hands walking. I love them!

All four on a car ride...

Another thing I realized is we don't really have any updated family pictures so I made everyone sit down to get one...

Daddy and Ethan...dont they look alike? I figured it out...Chase looks just like my side of the fam but has Curtis's red hair, and Ethan looks like Curtis's side of the fam but has my hair color.

Here is the cute little couple holding hands

Here they are going on a ride

The kids had a lot of fun! And we had a lot of fun watching them.

Easter and Becky.

2011-04-28T22:33:00.001-07:00

Easter was a lot of fun. With the boys getting older holidays are becoming more exciting!

Here is Chaser and Daddy finding easter eggs. That basket Chase has was Curtis's when he was little. So Chase loved to use daddies basket.

Dying Easter Eggs

Curtis decided to start a new tradition. After we were done doing the eggs he decided to make us all put our hands in a color and dye our hands...Ethan (you can tell by his face) did not like this idea...but he had orange so it was hard to tell on him...and yes we all went to church with colored hands.

The Easter eggs we colored

Ethan at my parents house...

Ethan and Brendon "sharing"

Chase showing us all the eggs the Easter bunny hid at our house

Well it was Becky's 27th birthday so we went out to eat...technically it is Friday the 29 but I could not go out that night so we changed it to today. We went to Macayo's and listened to some guy serenade us all night. It was lovely. And I decided to make these photos in black and white for two reasons. one being Becky said she feels she is photographed so much in that shirt...but now you dont know what shirt it is because it is not colored...two well that is for me to know and you not to know

Look at all those glasses we drank...how come our waitress never took them away when she brought us new ones? And thank you allison for letting the whole patio know we were Mormon and that is why we dont drink.

This is the picture that we self timed...and this picture is the other reason why I decided to make it black and white again I don't want to tell why...But isnt allison getting so dang skinny She is LOOKING GOOD...I think it is because of walking group and Selena we hope you join when you move here! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BECKY!!!

Ethan's Birthday and Stuff

2011-04-14T14:43:00.001-07:00

Ethan Turned TWO!!! My April fools baby. He is so old! This little boy is so dang funny. He has such a strong little personality. He is definitely my little bully, he is the happiest little boy always laughing, and he talks amazing for his age. This kids vocab is out of control. And I am not saying that because he is my kid just ask anyone who knows him. We had two family parties for this kid (one Sunday dinner party with my folks and one with Curtis's) then we did a little thing with just the four of us. I love this first picture because Curtis looks really weird trying to show Ethan how to blow those candles out. For our little family thing we took Ethan to Savers and let him pick any toy. It was cheap and the boys had fun going through all those toys just sitting out. Then we came home and had birthday cake.

Here we are with Erin blowing out the candles for Curtis's little family party.

Here is Ethan's Easter bunny birthday cake my mother in law made

Now here is my little guy two weeks after his birthday with strep throat. He has been miserable the past few days throwing up constantly and just being so tired so I took him to the doc today to find out we have strep. He really has not eaten anything for the past 3 days (everything he has eaten or drank he has thrown up) so today after he had some Zofran I gave him a piece of bread and he was shaking so much he kept missing his mouth. I felt so bad for the little guy. Funny side story really has no point just love how cute my little guy is...The other night Curtis, Ethan and I were laying on the couch. He had just finished puking and was totally out of it laying on my lap. It was dead silent in the room and Curtis tooted. Right away Ethan started laughing (the best he could because he was so sick) and said "Daddy tooted mom". This little boy pale with droopy eyes thought he was the funniest little kid calling dad out.

I love this picture of Chase. He looks so funny here. His pants are all getting a little snug so his little belly is hanging down over his pants and he is picking his nose. What gets better than this?

And yes I have started school back up. This past Monday my classes started and I am already hating it. 4 classes and two labs. kill me now.

I think this year our little family has seen the doctor more than the whole six years we have been married. Chase had to go for the whole seizure thing (that was a few appointments) and then a ear infection, Curtis had really bad eczema and had to go in for that, I had shingles (which was miserable...I was going to post a picture of it but it was really gross), and Ethan's strep. This does not count me and the boys yearly checkups we have gone too either. It has been one thing after another. Hopefully this is not a sign on how the rest of the year is going to go.

Air Show

2011-03-21T21:27:00.001-07:00

Saturday we went to Luke Days. It was alot of fun! A long day but a fun day! Since we seem to live in a flying path (not sure if that is what it is called but you know what I mean) for jets to return back to Luke Air Force base we are always running outside to see them zoom past so to actually go and see them up close the boys loved it!

Here we are at the beginning of the day.

Here we are walking around...I dont know how we did not loose a kid but we managed to keep everyone together.

Sitting by a jet.

Love Ethan in this picture...I cropped everyone out and left him because he looked so dang cute!

Kaden and Chase admiring.

Towards the end of the day we are getting tired...

Waiting for things to start...this is when their was not a whole lot of people there...but within like a hour the place was so dang crowded!

Ethan just chillin

Sam and his ear covers

Airplanes....

They Love Their Dad!!!

2011-03-21T21:14:00.001-07:00

These boys love their father. Curtis is such a great dad. When they wake up in the morning the first thing they ask is "Where is daddy" or sometimes they will call him Curtis. But he is the best play mate ever! They adore him! If you ask Chase who is favorite is he will always say dad but soon after says "I love you too though mom"...he does not like to hurt my feelings.

One day we decided to bomb bared Curtis with water balloons when he got home from work. We called him outside and the boys attacked...they thought it was so funny and of course dad makes it even more exciting.

This is the boys reading books with their dad. One day I am going to have to video tape it. Curtis does all these random voices (the kids favorite voice is when he try's to act like Goofy...he thinks he does a good impression because the boys love it but he really doesn't) and likes to randomly freak out about something on a page. They laugh the whole time. I am just not as cool when it comes to reading books.

I HATE COMPUTERS!!!

2011-03-11T14:00:00.000-08:00

Our laptop decided to go out on us. I took it to the computer place yesterday and they have decided that my hard drive is going out. It was going to cost a lot of money so we told them just to try to get all the info off of our hard drive. The phone call I got today was they cant get any memory off the hard drive it is dead. That means all my pics from chase being a new born are all gone...all me and Curtis's first years of marriage gone...I WANT TO CRY...oh wait I already have. I so hope they are wrong about it being dead and I am going to take it somewhere else to see if some one else can help me. Curtis has been telling me forever I that I need to backup all those pictures and videos but I never did, now I am so regretting it. I can not believe this. Does any one know a computer person that might be able to help me that is not going to cost me a fortune...? i am sad.

Really Don't Have a Title Here...

2011-03-10T14:09:00.000-08:00

This is Ethan...how do I explain Ethan. Well he is a funny little boy. Ethan can be the cutest little kid and he can be the biggest bully. He will just come up to you and punch you then right before he gets in trouble gives you a big hug and kiss and says "love you". We love this kid...lately since Chase has been wearing underwear Ethan feels the need to wear some as well. Everyday this is what he looks like when we are home. He rips his clothes off and comes to me with a pair of undies "on mom on". If I try to put a shirt on him he flips out, if I take the undies off he flips out, right after bath time they go back on. He is so dang cute...sometimes. We love you E.

Here they are in their underwear eating the candy bar dad bought them...They live in underwear.

I love this picture of Chase I know it is blurry I just think it is funny. Our new favorite thing is to turn on the sprinklers and the boys jump on the tramp. They love it!!!

Chase fell asleep eating his candy he got for going potty on the toilet. He has been doing awesome. We started potty training last Tuesday, had a couple accidents Tuesday and Wednesday, then no accidents all week until this Monday hit and it was like he had no idea what to do when he had to go pee. He did not go in the toilet once that day. But the next day was great and everyday since then he has done very well! The only thing about this potty thing is it really stinks when we go out, always having to find a toilet if he goes. Well today we were at the store and he starts doing the potty dance and says he has to go...so I take him and Ethan to the bathroom as fast as I can...lock us all in the stall and I pull Chasers pants down just a tad to late and he starts peeing all over the ground all over my legs and and feet by the time I tried to get him on the toilet it was all over me. While I am doing this and trying to clean everything up Ethan is getting into every toilet, flushing them and banging the seats up and down (toilets are his new favorite thing, he loves to put stuff in them and flush it...like toys...). It was gross we all came home and took showers.

Here we are at the park, feeding and chasing the ducks.

Curtis looks like a little boy here I think. Daddy and Chaser.

birthday, potty training, oh man oh man

2011-03-03T17:26:00.000-08:00

So Chase turned three! It is so weird to think I have a three year old. I know it is not that old, but it is just weird to think I am a mom. So on this great day we woke Chase up and took him to IHop, then over to Wal Mart and then home to play with his new cool toy he chose. We were going to take him to a movie but Chase is such a home body that he would rather stay home and play. Then that night we went to red robin and had dinner. After dinner we had some family over and had cake and ice cream! It was a great day!

BIRTHDAY BOY!!

Sharing his new toy.

His birthday cake...pops made it.

Ethan eating cake...oh what a mess that was to clean up.

So I have had two little boys in diapers for the past two years (well Ethan will be two in April so close enough) and $80 a month for diapers is not so much fun anymore (not that it ever was but...I am tired of diapers). So this week we started potty training. This was the poster I made for him. Every time he went potty on the toilet he got a piece of candy and when he went so many times he was able to go to wal mart and get a small toy. Every time he messed up he got candy put back on the poster. So far we have received one toy from walmart (we are talking little $2 toys). Today we did really good with no accidents. But potty training is stressful!

This is the only shot with out his dinker.

So right now I am doing the HCG diet and this right here is what is killing me. I love these things and it is such a temptation but I have been strong and have limited myself to two a day. I am trying to get the boys to eat them so I dont just go crazy and eat the whole box. I have zero self control!

So this jacket chase is wearing was Curtis's when he was 4. My mother in law dropped it off the other day and I love it! She even has a picture with Curtis in it so I had to do the same with Chase. She got it from Good Will way back then, so I got the shirt underneath at DI. Got to go with the whole second hand store theme here. Plus I love DI now....Alicia lets plan another trip here soon!

My Boys!!! Chase is making him stand still so I could get their picture.

Last one?!

2011-02-08T21:03:00.001-08:00

Well, I was thinking about being done with blogger for a while. With school, kids, and the little jobs I have it is hard to get around to doing this. But Selena told me I needed to do some updating so I decided to give it one more go around....this probably wont be my last blog but definitely wont happen on a bi weekly or monthly basis...So...I am going to school trying to get my Bachelors in Psychology to become a child life specialist. I am pretty excited about it, I hate school and the time it takes up but cant wait to be finished and get into a career. The boys are just being boys. Chase right now is into the whole super hero theme. Everything is Batman or Iron Man. Chaser will be three in just a 2 more weeks (Feb 19)...it is crazy how fast time has gone by. And Ethan is just in love with his big brother. He does and says anything Chase does. This little boy can say anything you want him to say. He is such a good little talker for his age. Sometimes it is weird that I am having a conversation with a one year old, like with actual sentences and stuff. He is one smart little boy. Nothing knew has been happening really...here are some pictures.

We bought the boys a tramp for Christmas (well we got it in November and let them have it early so they can enjoy it...actually we were to excited to wait for Christmas)

Me and Chase

My boys racing at the park...love this picture

So Curtis family has this tradition that on New Years Day Santa is going back home to the North Pole and on his way back he will stop by the house and leave whatever left over presents he had in his sleigh, only if you leave your shoes by the front door...so we started this tradition at our house and this is chase running out of his room to see what he got that morning. PURE JOY!!

My little Ethan...love him!!

My happy Chaser on Christmas Eve

Ethan's Christmas gift from Grandma and Grandpa (my parents)

Love this picture...Chase and Dad

Me and Curtis

Christmas Morning

Chaser and his Christmas gifts

So I took Chase into the doctor because he was doing all these weird things....They thought he was having seizures...so we had to do an EEG and this is Chase all hooked up and just waking up. He was so good this day. I thought he would be terrified but he let them hook him all up and took a nap for them and let them run some tests and never complained once. Well after 3 different doctor visits and $600 later he ends up only having a tick disorder... and it is hereditary so he takes after his uncle nick and uncle greg...thanks guys. (and you owe me $300 each)

DIsney Land, Beach, Dinosaurs

2010-09-29T14:38:00.000-07:00

We went on a family trip with all Curtis's family to California this past weekend, and had a lot of fun! We spent one day at Disney Land, one day at Venice Beach, and on the way home made a stop at the random Dinosaur place. We had a lot of fun and loved being with our cousins. I think it was a little too much for the boys to take in but they were good troopers the whole time. We cant wait to go back and take the kids again (but not until they are old enough to remember...right now they are free so we don't care but I refuse to pay $65 for a 3 year old...at Disney land).

Here we are at the Dinosaur place...I never thought my kids looked alike but in this picture they really look like brothers.

Chase is really into army guys right now so he was excited to see this...plus the long army convoy we passed going home...he was so giddy

I wanted to get a family picture at Disney Land but that never happened...then I wanted to get a family picture at the beach and that never happened...so I settled for the Dino place...and the picture isn't even good...sad.

Three Generations of waters...Pops, Daddy, and Chase

Chase loved this little guy holding the door...

Venice Beach...The boys loved the Water. They just ran right into it. We weren't expecting to get all wet just because the water was so dang cold but the kids seemed to care less. They were so mad when we had to leave.

Chase and cousin Ty surfing

So for those who have been to Venice Beach you know it is a lot of odd people...People everywhere doing the weirdest things for money...so we had Chase dance for money. He didn't make any...

Here is Disney Land. This is the boys at the end of the night. They were dead tired...another picture that makes my kids look like brothers...

Here we are at the tea cups....daddy made us really dizzy

Here is our big family picture

Ethan hated waiting in line...once we got close enough to see what ride it was he would flip out and try getting between the bars

But once he was on he loved it and did not want to get off

middle of the day nap

Going through the Haunted Mansion...

E and me on a ride...

The only Character we saw...at least it was one the boys loved

Family....daddy, e, uncle Greg, Erin (Greg's girl friend), and Chaser

Our fun summer!

2010-09-12T23:17:00.000-07:00

Well here are some pictures from our fun filled summer. To start the wonderful summer off....

Chase busted his lip up pretty bad and hit his head pretty hard. My poor "big boy" (he wont let me call him a baby he gets upset and says he is a big boy).

My parents decided to take us all on a family vacation to Utah. We rented a condo in Park City and stayed for the week and did lots of fun things.

Here we are at the alpine slides and I am chasing Ethan around all the shops...we actually did the alpine slides earlier then went back to eat some Mexican food.

Chase showing us where the Ninja Turtles live.

Chase being a "Big boy"

Climbing...

Laughing...

Just being cute...

Now here we are at Lagoon. I have tons and tons of pictures here but I love Chase's Picture smile here...

He finally just passed out at the end of the day...

Everyone exhausted after a long day.

On Sunday we decided to spend the day at Temple Square...

Here we are playing dress up. We were trying to be a Shepard but he just wanted to be a ninja turtle...

Here we are at the Family reunion. Again Chase just falling asleep wherever he gets tired.

The boys having fun...

Down at the little lake watching everyone fish...Chase looks like a nerd here.

Here we are with cousins playing outside in the HOT weather after playing in the water

And my favorite part of Arizona the monsoon weather.

I let the boys play in the rain before it go to crazy...

Lets see...I have decided to go back to school and finish my teaching degree...hopefully get done when the boys start school and teach while they are in school. Chase is getting to be my big boy. He is getting so smart and funny. Ethan is getting to be a crazy kid. He is going to be my wild boy. Him and Chase are funny together. I will admit at first I thought they were going to hate each other. Once E started walking and moving he wanted everything Chaser had so we were always fighting but now they are learning to play with one another and are having more fun with each other. Ethan will repeat anything you say to him. He is such a good little talker. Curtis is working for my dad and enjoying it. He has started on all these projects around the house so I feel like I am living in a construction zone always but its exciting that things are finally getting done and our house looking pretty after two years of living here. That's about all. Next is Disney Land with Curtis family and we are all so excited! I haven't been there since I was a baby and cant wait...and Chase everyday wakes up and asks if it is time to go. He is so pumped. He is always asking to watch Disney land videos on you tube or on disneyland.com. So that is our next adventure!

What's new in the Waters family?

2010-06-23T12:51:00.001-07:00

JUST HAVING A LOT OF FUN!

Here we are at the park snapping some quick photos for my mother in law's mothers day gift

Chase learning how to ride our bike. Safety First!

Me and Curtis at my in laws stake prom. We just stopped by to see all the decorations that's why we are not dressed up.

Here we are playing at the water park

I thought I would see how Chase would do with potty training so we got big boy under ware...it didn't last long. I don't think he likes the way they feel on his bum

My boys swimming at Granny and Pops house! Chase looks like a chunker in this picture

Swimming with Pops!

Chase and Ethan having fun!

My little guys showing off there battle wounds. Cant really see them but Chase has a big bump on his head and Ethan's lip got cut and his eye lid is all black. They were not fighting eachother...just over the day we seem to have had a lot of bumps and bruises

Watching Shrek 4 in 3D. Not a very good movie...kind of boring.

Chase getting his first haircut. He was so excited to go but as soon as he sat down he went into shock mode. He did not move a muscle the whole time. Wouldn't even look over at me. It was very funny!

Notice the drool (on the cape and coming off his lip). With being in a total shock state he didn't even swallow. GROSS! And even with it all over and done with he still will not give me a smile so I can take a good picture.

Having Daddy time and building a fort in my living room. Guess who had to clean it all up...?

This is the best way to watch children...stick them in a dog cage and lock it.

Flying the Kite

2010-04-21T14:39:00.000-07:00

For family night we decided to go to wal mart and get a kite. So we spent a whole dollar on this Buzz kite...and how about 10 min of fun till it got stuck. But the kids (and curtis) loved it while it lasted.

Chase and Daddy getting it ready.

Chase trying to throw it in the air to get it started.

and the kite stuck....and it is still up there. a week and a half later.

Also...I finally cleaned my house! Just turned up some music and got to work. Chase helped clean all the toys and Ethan helped clean the Legos...next thing I know we had everything cleaned. And a clean house makes for a happy mommy.

Thanks everyone for your ideas. I thought about having a party but that made me even be more lazy...just thinking about throwing a little get together seemed to make me even more lazy. Thank you!

dirty dirty...just pure lazyness

2010-04-15T09:50:00.001-07:00

Man I have been so lazy lately. I tend to try really hard to keep my house picked up...maybe not always vacuumed of moped but picked up. But as you can tell I have failed. Now this lazy spell has just not been going on for a day or a week...try 3 weeks. I feel so gross. I have no desire to do anything!! Curtis had to go out of town last week for work so I thought I would surprise him and have the house all cleaned and perfect when he got home...I got about half way done and just stopped. Instead I painted my bedroom...and again got about half way done and stopped. I am just so lazy lately. I just do not feel like exercising or even feeding my own kids...I do but I just don't feel like it so settle down. So does anyone have any way to help me out of this little phase and get me going again?! Because as much as I hate it I still don't feel like doing anything...

TOYS EVERYWHERE!!! and laundry on the couch that needs to be put away...

Oh the play room. you would think that all the toys would stay in here but as you can tell from all the other pics I have just as many toys out of this room than in it.

more laundry...toys everywhere and that other couch still not put in my bedroom...

I need someone to just come over and kick my bum. Curtis says I will not be able to handle the house looking like this for much longer and I will get out of this little thing I am in and clean again...but I do not know when that will happen....This is kind of an embarrassing post because I hate when people see my house a mess but here I am showing it to everyone...huh...

Friends, Ethan turns ONE!!!, and the ZOO

2010-04-13T14:26:00.000-07:00

This first picture is from when Jessica was in town and we all went to Chino Bandito's. It was a crazy time with all of our kids but it was a lot of fun. Then we went back to my house and hung out...but I do not have any pics of that. But it was so great to see Jessica and her beautiful girls. It is so fun to hang out with high school friends again and look at pictures and remember how much fun we had!! oh the days...

Ethan turned ONE!!! He is getting so big and I love it! sad...but I love it. Lets see he weighs 20 pounds (so 20th percentile) and has a big head (80th percentile) and is average in his height. Lets see...he still is not walking (he will around furniture and stand up on his own but still is not walking on his own), and he loves Chase. They are best buddies and it is a lot of fun. Just like Chase besides"dada" his first word was "ball". He loves balls. Well here are some pics from dinner at granny and pops house.

The birthday boy and Erin

The "Dirtday" Cake that pops made

Looking at his candle...Curtis helped blow it out.

Me and my Two boys!

Ethan's favorite gift...his ball. He held on to it on the way home.

Now here we are at the zoo. It was a great day outside and was nice to spend time as a family. Chase looooved it especially the lions. Thanks to Josh and Poiette for the invite!!

Chase watching the elephants.

Chase "milking" the cow. Water really comes out of those.

Our little family

The boys looking at the turkeys. I was so scared it was going to eat Ethan's fingers...I worry about the stupidest stuff.

And Curtis acting like he was going to throw Chase in the Otter cage. He flipped out..."Mean daddy"

Mr. and Mrs.Brandon Kurzawski

2010-03-09T11:14:00.000-08:00

My little brother got married on February 26th, 2010 (the weird thing is that me and Curtis got married on the 26th of Aug. and Aaron and Alicia got married on the 26th of Sept. ...so we are all on the 26th...not planned either!). Jen looked beautiful in her dress...and Brandon looked nice too. But it was a great fun day! We had family and some friends come into town so it was great to see everyone! I did not get any pictures from the reception but it was a lot of fun! Chase loved the dance floor! I didn't know he was such a crazy dancer...it was very funny! But congrats guys and we love that Jen is now part of our big loud family!

Walking out of the temple as Brandon and Jennifer Kurzawski.

Stopping for pics

All the nephews with the newly married couple.

Both Jen and our family...plus Jaron Janson he is technically a Kurzawski too

I HATE this picture of me...but included it anyway...it was cold outside and all the boys have runny noses...Chase's is really red

Chase standing with the beautiful flowers

Kaden and Chase outside the temple.

I do not know why but I love this picture of these boys.

At the lunch in Nick and Chase were twins...Nick must shop at Wal Mart too...

Chase and Ethan wrestling at the temple.

Chaser turns two!

2010-03-03T11:34:00.000-08:00

So Chaser turned two! He is getting to be such a big boy! He has learned to count to four, he can sing many songs one of his favorites is "Once there was a snowman". He can tell you how old he is and he knows the colors blue, red, green, white, and black. So Chase had three birthday parties!

Party One: Was at Granny and Pops house (curtis's mom and dad). They through him a little sponge bob party and he loved it!

This was him getting ready to blow out the candles. My father in law does the cutest cakes.

Ethan wearing the party hat. He is always such a mes!!

Chaser opening his gifts.

Birthday #2: This was the actual day of his birthday. And we had Kaden and Brendon over so he loved just playing all day! Then that night he wanted McDonald's (I think we have gone there twice in his whole little life but he still remembers and every time we drive by one he freaks out) and got him a happy meal. However the party did not last long due to the very immature brother and husband I have. They had a food fight and Ketchup and soda was everywhere. I should have got a pic of it but I was too embarrassed.

Chase eating his b day breakfast. I hated that he was eating donuts (no nutritional value at all) so I made him drink an instant breakfast too. I am weird!

His McDonald's Happy meal (before the food fight)

Birthday #3: We through Chase a little party at the house. We had cake, ice cream, pinata, and presents. It was a lot of fun!

Mommy and the b day boy!

Daddy and the b day boy

Chasers cake. he calls clowns "funny guys" so he wanted a "funny guy" cake.

All the boys helping open presents.

Am I the only one who has...

2010-03-01T22:42:00.000-08:00

locked their kids in the car?! So we went to the store today and I must have had something on my mind because I totally went out of my little routine of getting the kids and diaper bag out of the car. And stupid me put everything in the diaper bag (phone and keys) locked my door (I think I pushed the button with my elbow as I was getting out of the car or something) and shut my door. Instantly I realized "Shoot I am an idiot I locked my kids in the car". So I got the cart boys attention he let me borrow his cell phone and I called my mother in law. I knew she had triple A and that would help me out. She called them and they said they would be 30 min. So my mother in law decided to call the police. While this is going on Ethan has fallen asleep in his car seat and Chase is so sad crying "help me please mommy...out" I was trying so hard not to cry to his little helpless pleads. People were staring at me while I was talking to my tinted windows trying to calm him down. My mother in law calls my cart boy back and tells him she has called the police and they will be there in a little bit. Next thing I know I hear sirens...hoping and praying that they were not for me. The sirens get closer and closer...next thing I know the big fire truck with its loud sirens blaring were right behind my car. They turn off their sirens and get out and rush over to the car and start trying to pry the door open. Now I have everyone's attention in the parking lot and people stepping out of the store to see what is going on. Chase has now stopped crying and is totally focused on these 5 firemen trying to get him out. Finally the doors open the kids are checked out and then the police come...if things couldn't get any worse...they do a report. I first asked the fireman if the sirens were really necessary...now I am asking the police man if I am getting CPS called out on me. Man what a day. Finally when everyone left and the fire men gave Chase a fire man hat, I cried. I was so embarrassed. I left the store and did not do my shopping. I called Curtis and being the great husband he is told me not to worry about it everyone is safe and all good and lucky for me it was only 70 degrees outside. I felt like a horrible mother as these people were coming up to me and asking me what I did. But Curtis reassured me that I am not THAT bad of a mother...ha ha. So that is my horrible story of the day. lesson learned...keep keys in hand at all time when kids in car...

Having fun in the water!

2010-02-18T19:25:00.001-08:00

The other day I was out doing my yard work (don't mind the mess in the background I hadn't thrown away the leaves bag yet) and it was beautiful outside. After I was done mowing I turned the sprinklers on and let the boys run/crawl through them. Ethan was hesitant at first but soon loved it.

The boys are debating whether to go out or not.

Chaser getting wet...Chase hates getting dirty so he is always very careful when playing in things. Weird boy!

Ethan coming to get it.

Ethan crawling away from it.

Laying on the love sac outside in the beautiful Arizona weather! I love my Family!!!

Jen's Bridals Shower

2010-02-18T13:28:00.001-08:00

Alicia, my mom, Kilee, Kendyl, and I through Jen (Brandon's soon to be wife) a bridal shower. It was a lot of fun...I thought. Hope you had fun Jen!

My soon to be sister in law...what a nerd! I actually had to take this picture 4 times bc my camera was being stupid. Alicia looks like she is looking at Jen's bum...

Chaser hugging the balloons.

Jen in the nightie Alicia and I got her.

All the Kurzawski girls! Welcome Jen!

Chaser on top of the bike debating whether to jump or not.

Jen and Grandma Love

I was trying to give Ethan as a gift...

Oh Jen.

HHHHMMMM....

These are the cake pops we (well Alicia and her mom did most of the work) made for the shower. They turned out great!

random stuff...

2010-02-12T19:40:00.000-08:00

Here are some random pics of stuff. See I lost my camera for the longest time so I was taking pics with my video camera and just decided to upload them now. The first two are actually from this past Sunday. We were coming out to go to church and Curtis said "holy cow I think someone pooped all over our cars". However it was not, we had a big storm the other night and my neighbor has a tree that has these stupid little leaves that stick to you and during the storm a TON of them blew all over our cars. And also Chase didn't wear his motorcycle shirt to church, he just wore it till we got in the parking lot.

Chase saying "Gross Mom"

I don't believe you can really tell in this pic how bad it really was.

I love this picture of Ethan in his Ducky towel. I took a million pictures that night of him in it.

Chaser and his big grin!

The boys in the wagon eating their Popsicles

Alicia and Brendon...I do not know what is in his mouth but it looks gross!

Brandon and Jen (his fiance)

I found this picture of Brendon to be very funny. He is a cute kid

Chaser sharing is sucker with Brendon. What a nice boy I have...

Now it is aunt Jen's turn...she actually licked it...GROSS!

Now Chaser's turn. We are a very sharing family!

Chaser being a stunt devil.

That was just a whole bunch of random pictures on my video camera I figured I could post.

Stinky! Stinky!

2010-02-09T14:08:00.000-08:00

I know this is gross and all but I thought I would show everyone how many POOPY diapers I have changed in a matter of 6 hours. These kids are going crazy! This does not include just the pee pee diapers just poopy. I feel like this is all I have been doing today is changing diapers. And also this does not include the two I threw away this morning. So my count is ELEVEN poopy diapers. GROSS!

MONSTER JAM!!!!!!!!!!!!

2010-02-02T09:50:00.001-08:00

Curtis has been so busy with school and work. He is taking eight classes and working full time plus on Saturdays so we hardly get to see him. I hate it!!! So I planned a trip for the boys to go to MONSTER JAM (imagine me saying that in the deep announcers scary voice....that is how we say it around here and I keep saying it like that in my head as I type it.) Anyways. Chase had a blast!!!! Curtis said he was amazed and screaming the whole time in excitement. He came home so excited to tell me all about it and his favorite monster truck GRAVE DIGGER (another manly deep announcer voice). I gave my camera to the boys to take pics and that is why they do not look so good and blurry. They don't seem to know how to change the settings or something! But they all had fun!!

Chase and Pops

Daddy and Chaser (when I got my camera back there were like five pics taken like this...this one was the most decent out of all of them)

I guess these are the trucks getting ready to race....

Uncle Chris and cousin Ty...again sorry about the blurriness

Chase was amazed by them Curtis said

Chase is always looking at these pics and getting so excited, Him and Curtis are always on You Tube now looking at GRAVE DIGGER (manly voice) now. Is this going to be our next phase of life...sponge bob, lightning McQueen...now monster trucks....? Oh boy!!!

We love playing outside!

2010-02-01T13:54:00.000-08:00

Ethan and Chase are just now really getting to the point where they really play with one another. It is so cute. Before the interacted and whatever...but now they crawl around the house and backyard chasing each other and laughing. That is the best part of my day, is sitting back and just watching and listing to them play and laugh. I love it!!!

Here is Ethan just playing underneath the "boat" (that is what chaser calls it)

The boys playing on the soccer net.

Crawling through the tunnel. This is E's favorite toy!

Chaser wearing the tunnel. He puts it on and chases after Ethan then falls on his face.

This picture of me is gross. But mommy and Ethan.

Ethan at the end of the tunnel. Like my "home editing"?

Chaser's cool dance moves!

Chaser at the end of the tunnel

When Chase is outside he is the happiest little boy.

Ethan looks like a complete nerd with his cheesy smile here.

My Mexican wrestler slash fire fighter.

Chaser is growling just like the monster in his shirt would.
This is the first time I have ever put the boys in matching clothes and I think they look dang cute. However it does not make them look like brothers still. To me my kids do not look like they are related.

bath time

2009-12-03T18:05:00.000-08:00

So I just wanted to show everyone what it is like to give Chase a bath. He is so stinkin' ticklish that every time you try to scrub his body he just laughs. And it is the same with putting lotion on him. I promise I am not secretly tickling him somehow...if you do not believe ask my brother. He watched Chase the other night while we went to Bri and Ryan Reed's shin dig the other night and he said Chaser goes nuts. So I decided to share with everyone his bath time.

And P.S. I know my white legs are sexy and all...but lets not focus on them too much. I have to roll up my pj pants or they get all wet!

This is Chase and Ethan after bath time hanging out in Chase's bed. Chase looks like a chunky monkey here.

This is Chase's "what are you talking about?" look. Lately he has had a lot of funny faces.

Now the video. All of these pics and the video were done with my cell phone so they stink in quality.

Ethan is 8 months old!...and our first garage sale!

2009-12-01T14:28:00.000-08:00

So Ethan Cole Waters is eight months old today! He is so much fun and so dang cute! I feel like with Ethan time has gone by so fast! Maybe because having two kids keeps me so busy verses just having one. So Ethan has two teeth that are coming in so he is drooling everywhere so in some of these pics he is a mess!

Ethan sitting in the high chair waiting to be fed!

He loves Chaser. They were both looking and smiling but Kaden was yelling Airplane in the background so they both looked then Chase ran away so I could not get another one.

He loves playing with his toys. Don't look at the slobber all over his shirt I try to keep bibs on him but I failed today.

We are trying to crawl. He rolls and can pull up pretty well but still is not crawling.

Then when he gets frustrated with not crawling he just lays there like this and waits for someone to get him.

My first yard sale!

Last Saturday we had a yard sale, and it was a lot more work than what i thought it would be! I didn't think about tables, or starting out with money to give cash back...so we had a rough start, but thanks to my grandparents and father in law it was a success. THANK YOU!!!

The yard sale! We are still in the process of setting up here.

Grandma got the boys these cars from the yard sale across the street

Alicia, Brendon, and Grandpa collecting money!

Curtis and Kendyl just chillin.

At about 11 am Chase was worn out!

Cousins Kaden and Brendon's Birthday Party

2009-11-24T14:00:00.000-08:00

Our (Chase and Ethan's) cousins Kaden and Brendon just had their birthdays, well kind of I am just a little late on posting this. Kaden's birthday was October 25th (I am almost positive on that...) and he just turned four! Kaden is so much fun! He can be a handful but he tells some pretty dang funny stories, we love having Kaden come and play. Chase thinks he is the best thing ever. Brendon just turned 1 on November first! Brendon is a cute little boy. He gets into everything and puts everything in his mouth! He is a great little dancer and makes the cutest little faces! Here is some birthday party pictures.

Brendon eating his birthday cake. He would not dig in it, just one finger lick at a time.

Kaden standing by all his gifts. He was so excited he started opening them a little to early, if you look closely you can tell that red one is ripped.

Kaden whacking the pinata.

Chaser whacking the pinata

It was Brandon's birthday too so they let him hit it.

Chase does not understand that these were not his gifts to open.

Alicia got to open up Brendon's gifts. She was way excited about this one.

Alicia and Brendon

I got caught

2009-11-24T11:34:00.000-08:00

Chase seems to go in phases of things he likes (like all kids). First it was Sponge Bob. He LOVED Sponge Bob. He watched it at my parents house and next thing I knew...he just wanted everything Sponge Bob. He would see a yellow jeep and call it Sponge Bob jeep...when we moved him to a big boy bed so Ethan could have the crib, and we went to pick out his sheets he wanted the sponge bob sheets, and then he got the sponge bob pajamas and then the sponge bob doll, so when he went to bed at night it was Chase covered in Sponge Bob.

Then I got tired of that and watching the same episodes over and over. So I tried getting him into other things. Now it is Lightning McQueen from CARS. So the other day we were at the store and we always have to go get a hot wheel car...oh man we have a ton of those...daddy got us in the habit of that. So we went over to the car area and he wanted the Lightning car and i saw it but i did not want to pay the money for it ($3...i am cheap) so i got the little hot wheel car that was red...he wouldn't know the difference and he didn't for a whole three days. He carried that little 97 cent car with him everywhere! Then we went to the mall to play. And across the play area is the Disney store...and what do they have a huge display of? CARS. so he runs in there so excited looking at all the cars and backpacks and everything else they freaking make, then it was time to go. And he flipped. So i pull out his little "Lightning McQueen" car out of the diaper bag, he looks at it, then looks at the real Lightning McQueen car, throws his down and says "NO!!" He then realized mom has been lying to him this whole time. I felt so bad. So with him kicking and screaming the whole way out of the mall I call Curtis and have him pick up the real Lightning McQueen car at the store. He was so sad he threw his fake lightning car down and would not play with it at all. Finally when we got home I put the movie in and that settled him down somewhat. But when dad got home from work that day with the real car he was so excited!!! Now he will not let this one go. And at night time if you try to take it out of his grip while he is sleeping he wakes up. Oh boy! What will be next!?

watching cars, he gets so excited at the beginning

sleeping with his car

Chaser's First Haircut

2009-11-04T13:13:00.001-08:00

So Chaser has not had to get his hair cut yet. He is 21 months old and still no hair cut. Well uncle Brandon has been making some comments lately that it is time, that his hair is gross. I have to admit Chase did need the back trimmed. His hair is straight all over his head except for the back...it is curly and coarse...it is so weird. The rest of his hair is so nice and red and soft...then there is the back. So we got the clippers out at dinner on Sunday and Brandon and Curtis buzzed his hair. I thought it would be a good idea to give him that sucker to keep him calm but in the end it was covered in hair and the hair was all in his mouth, it was gross. So here is how it went... (sorry the picture quality is not so good they were taken with my cell phone)

Playing with Chaser's hair and deciding what they want to do to it. Chase has no idea what is going on, he is just enjoying his sucker and the relaxtion of people rubbing his scalp.

This is when they started the buzzers...my poor baby!

And the finished product...there are some definite spots where they messed up...but not so bad for the first time. I should have took a picture of his mouth and sucker with all the hair in it...it was really gross!

Now my little boy looks like a big boy, oh what a hair cut will do.

Brandons B day dinner and Our little FHE

2009-10-22T18:08:00.000-07:00

Here are some random pictures.

Chase cuddeling up to Curtis and watching some t.v.

Chase would not get off uncle Aaron's dirt bike. he loves sitting on motorcycles and making the engine noise...it is funny, he even pretends too be a bike and race around the house.

This is Brandons Birthday dinner at Chevy's. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRANDON the big 22

Ethan sporting the Chevy's sumbrero

He did not like it when they sang happy birthday

Brandons birthday dessert

Here is our little Family home evening. With kids we usually go on a walk or something, but this evening we played in the backyard, colored our pumpkin and decorated cup cakes.

Chase making a mess with his cup cake

The boys coloring the pumpkin.

Ethan playing on the blanket in the backyard

Chaser giving E kisses because he was sad. I love my boys!!!

Chaser is showing you his brother...as you can tell Chase does not like to get dressed so in a lot of my pics he is usually wearing slim to no clothes.

Oh boys!!! One of many more posts with our cousins

2009-10-22T17:45:00.000-07:00

Like I said in my last post I have Kaden and Brendon a couple of days a week and I seem to take a lot of pics when they are here. So here is one post of many more to come!

Brendon seems to do this stand a lot lately. Ethan is looking at him like he is crazy

The boys pretending to take a nap ...Pretending is the key word here...very rarely do they get good naps, we have too much fun!

Ethan and Kaden hanging out

"What's gonna work? Team work!" Kaden is a big helper with the other little ones

You can not really tell but Chase is shooting his water gun here...he is really into getting the bad guys I have to keep telling him mommy is not a bad guy.

Having fun!

2009-10-20T14:59:00.000-07:00

I am not very good at this whole blog thing and I keep saying that I am going to get better at updating it and keep failing to do so. But while the babies are sleeping I am going to do a real quick post. Just an update on our little family...Curtis is staying busy with school, work and scouts. Next semester is even going to be worse just because he is taking five classes (not looking forward to that at all)! Me and the boys just hang out during the day and play! A couple days a week I get to watch Kaden and Brendon (my nephews) and that is always fun. We have our stressed out moments (four boys all under 4 gets kind of crazy) but it is fun having the boys be close cousins, and now that Aaron and Alicia live a mile away we get to see them a lot more! Chase is 20 months (when I say that the people with out kids always say the same remark "Why is it that everyone with kids do the whole month thing why can't you just say he is almost two?") and he is learning to put little sentences together. It is funny to hear his chopped up sentences. He is such a little boy, totally into motorcycles and getting the bad guys, I guess it helps too that we have all boy cousins (on both sides of the family). But he so fun! Ethan is almost seven months! He is getting big so fast! I can not believe it! He is sitting up and rolls every where. He is a cute baby (of course I am going to say that I am his mom, but really he is!) he is a little high maintenance always wants to be played with, he is getting a little bit easier everday! Chase and E are funny with each other. They are starting to interact with each other and laugh with one another so it is cute! Well the boys are starting to wake so I better end this before it is too late. Here are just a few pics.

Me and the boys...not a very attractive picture

Kaden and Chase at the Worlds Biggest Family Fair (biggest rip ever do not go!)

My Boys sleeping ...Chase always likes to cuddle

Ethan wondering what this stuff he is sitting on is

Fun night with the Waters Family

2009-07-14T15:16:00.000-07:00

The other night Curtis had some family in town so we all went to the Spaghetti Factory (which is so freaking good) then we went on the light rail. Curtis and I have never been on it so it was exciting. I think all the people on the light rail that ride in everyday probably thought I was nuts taking all these pictures, oh well. It was a lot of fun, but being on it for two hours when you have a child who wants some milk and go to bed and your other baby is hungry for some boob, it got kind of chaotic. I felt bad for all the people sitting around us. But thanks for the fun night!!

waiting to get on the train...Curtis does not know how to take pics... he needed to bend down

getting on the light rail

Uncle Greg and Chaser looking outside

Enjoying the ride

Granny and Ethan...he is my chunky monkey

Chaser having fun...he looks really hot in this picture

Curtis can never take happy pictures

Fourth of July

2009-07-14T14:50:00.000-07:00

To start our wonderful fourth of July day off, I was doing my hair and in walks Chaser, well I put my straightener down and Chase grabbed it and burned his two fingers. He cried for a hour and a half. He was crying so hard that he would pass our for a second and then the pain would come back and he would flip out again. It was so sad. Finally after trying forever to keep it in some water we had the brilliant idea to run over to Aaron and Alicia's house and put him in the pool. Finally he stopped crying and felt a little better, since his hand was always in water. That night we had a little get together with Curtis brother and brother in law at our house. Since we can see the Peoria Sports Complex fire works from our house we did not have to go any where, so that was nice. We had a fun night!

Chase's finger blistered up the pic does not do justice on how yucky it looked

Curtis showing Chaser what a fire work does

Cousin Ty could not wait he was getting excited

Uncle Chris showing Chase how to ride the scooter

Daddy and the boys

Over the past few months

2009-07-03T12:35:00.000-07:00

Ethan is getting so big. He has now turned three months and is smiling up a storm. He will coo and try to talk to you and he is even starting to do little chuckles. He is so cute. Chase loves him, he cant say Ethan so his new name has been changed to "E". Over Memorial Day Weekend we went to the water park where they have water shooting out of the ground and things to crawl all over while the water shoots out...Chase had a blast. Next, we went to Duncan Arizona because Curtis aunt was getting married. We love Don and Sterling so the 5 hour drive was worth it. It was at Curtis uncles house and he kind of lives on a farm with some really cool animals so Chase was all over the place, he loved chasing chickens. A couple days ago Chase starting getting all these spots on him, I thought it was just bug bites, but the next day he woke up with them all over his body, it was really ugly looking. Then the day after that they were worse and his eyes were all swollen, so I took him to the doctor and they said they were hives. So Chaser is allergic to something but we had nothing out of the ordinary so we have to be careful and watch him now. Last weekend we went to Lake Padagona with all Curtis family. We had to take the boat out to where we were camping and Chase hated the boat. He would flip out when you would put him in it. Camping is no longer very fun and relaxing when you have two babies to take care of and watch out for. Maybe since it was a lake so I had to watch Chaser at all times, but it was a stressful trip. What else...I quit my job being a nanny and I now watch my nephews a couple of days a week. Curtis is getting ready to start a new project at work and is really excited. We have been in our home for a year now this month and we are just now painting and getting pictures up. So our home is starting to look like an actual home. I have been doing this blog since Friday morning...and it is now Saturday morning, I have had to stop so many times, so before I get interrupted again I am going to finish.

Always so happy

Ethan is such a smiley boy

We went to the water park on Memorial Day and had a blast

The water would shoot up when he was sitting on it and he loved it

He was cold

Curtis way cool aunt getting married...Congrats Don and Sterling!

He loved chasing the chickens around

The chicken ran behind the fence and he was upset

Chase loved the animals that were there

Our little family of four

Pops, Daddy, Chase, and Ethan in Duncan

Uncle Greg holding Chaser and cousin Ty in Duncan

His eyes were really swollen and the hives starting getting on his face

Chase's hives...this was not the worst of them either they got really bad

Chase and daddy throwing rocks in the lake...like Curtis's cool hat!?

Pops and Chaser on the boat...it is docked so don't freak out that he does not have a life jacket on

It is so hard to get a one year old to take pics

2009-05-11T23:43:00.001-07:00

My sister in law wanted to get all the grand kids together and take a picture for my mother in law. Lets just say that those 3o min were out of control! trying to get a two and one year old to take some pictures and cooperate with one another is so hard. when one is smiling the other one is mad or not looking at the camera...it was tough. but we managed. Then I had the lady take some of just my boys and that was just as hard. Ethan just sits there he is easy but Chase...they should not put all those toys in the room where they are taking pictures, he just wanted to play. It was tough and something I am not looking forward to again. I love the one of Ethan smiling. He slept the whole time just sitting in that chair... she just happen to get one of him smiling, in all the other ones he looks like a blob or something.

I feel like having two kids is completely different than having one...I feel different. I really do not know how to put it...and maybe it is just the stage Ethan is in right now. I feel like I am totally a different person, I do not know how to explain it...but I love my kids! They are the best. When ever I am having a bad day or feeling stressed out Chase just seems to know and does something silly to make me smile, or holding Ethan makes me really think how lucky I am. I love them, they are amazing and so much fun! Having two babies is definitely trying at times but I really would not have it any other way, Chase is in such a fun stage and Ethan is starting to smile at you and give you some sort of sense that he knows who we are. These kids have definitly changed me and made me realize the important things in life. We could not be more happy here!

Ethan Cole Waters is here!

2009-04-08T12:11:00.000-07:00

No it was not an April fools joke for all of you who kept asking, I had my baby! He could not wait to come out so he was four weeks early, he was a "late pre-term" baby but his weight was still good. He was 6 pounds 14 oz. and 18 in. long. The only thing we had to worry about was his lungs. He had a hard time breathing on his own so he had to go on oxygen, so they took him from me right away and finally five hours later I was able to see him and finally hold him. He looks exactly like Chase did but has some hair and it is brownish red. In the hospital we had some problems. First was his breathing, we had to really watch him after they took him off the oxygen, then it was his temperature we had to wrap him in two blankets at all times and he had to wear that funny hat they give you and he still had a low temp. so he spent some time under the warming lights, next was his jaundice. The nurses said said he was fine and his tests came back low, but now that we are home they are high so now we are doing photo therapy. And going back to the pediatrician everyday because he does not want to eat and his blood sugar levels are getting to low so we have to go get weighed everyday and blood taken everyday for our jaundice. But on the bright side things seem to be looking up. We are starting to gain a little bit of weight and our billirubin tests are getting lower every day. Chase loves him! He always wants to be holding him or laying next to him seeing if he has teeth yet. It is way cute. I was really worried about how Chase was going to react with this new "thing" at home but he loves having him. Every morning when i get back from the doctors with Ethan, Chase runs over to the baby car seat and says "HI!" and he makes me get him out so he can see him. Right now we are managing. All Ethan wants to do is sleep, he never wakes up I maybe see his eyes 15 min out of the whole day so it is easy to play with Chase and still give him all the attention but as soon as Ethan comes more alert to the world I know things might be a little tougher. But until then we are happy and every thing is going well! I am only going to put up a few pics right now so I can have time to take a nap while Chase is.

Here we are doing our photo therapy glowing away.

Chase loves giving him kisses, I had to keep pulling his away

That was my first time leaving Chase over night and i was so excited to see him!

My two boys!!!

Chaser's One Year Pics

2009-03-13T09:37:00.000-07:00

We went and got Chase's one year pictures taken and it was horrible. The kid did not do a good job at all! The only thing he did to try to get Chase's attention was say his name. So me and Curtis were acting like the biggest idiots to get Chase to look at the camera and smile. After 10 pictures I could not stand it anymore. This kid (the one taking the pictures) was driving me nuts and doing a horrible job that I decided to stop and deal with what we took. So out of the ten pictures here are some of the decent ones.

Chase is obsessed with balls when he wakes up the first thing he says is ball so it was only fitting to get a picture with him and his favorite thing

Alone time, YES!!! But i am bored

2009-03-05T20:31:00.000-08:00

Every night this week Chase has been going to sleep around 10:3o. I do not really know what our deal is but that's what has been happening. Well tonight I was thinking about everything that I have to do and how nice it would be if he went to sleep on time. And amazingly he did. He was out by nine as was Curtis. I was so excited to have time to myself and get stuff done. And here it is one hour later and I have done nothing and nor do I feel like it. I have been sitting here on the computer looking at basically nothing and thinking how i need to get up and pick up the house. However I do not feel like it and am very bored. I usually crave my alone time, but for some reason right now i am not enjoying it too much. I was debating whether or not i just go to bed but then i just sit there even more bored in the dark. Now I am here rambling on. Wow I am weird! Does this ever happen to any one else?! By the way, Selena I know I am huge and look like I am going to pop but i still have another month (my due date is April 25th). Next week i go in to schedule my induce date! I can not wait! Can you tell I am bored?

Brandon is home!

2009-03-03T21:34:00.000-08:00

My brother Brandon came home from his mission this past week. He has been serving in the Salta Argentina mission for the past two years. While he was gone two new nephews were born, Chase and Brendon (Aaron's baby), and Kaden had two birthday's so he is like a big boy now. So we are all excited he is home. He is the same old Brandon, he has taught Chaser how to spit which I am not so happy about, he is still goofy. His home coming is March 15th at eleven o'clock if any one is interested!

For some reason none of us but Chase is looking at the camera. The family behind us went all out for there missionary.

The big family picture.

Brandon walking out with the other elders. See he is still goofy

Waiting for Brandon. They stood there forever waiting and watching for him

This is a random photo. Just wanted to show every one I am getting huge! This picture is awkward me and chase's leg area look long and huge...lets not look at that!

Shoe Question!?

2009-03-03T21:29:00.000-08:00

I can not get Chase to wear shoes! He screams and cries until i take them off! And now that he is walking everywhere he has to wear shoes. I would just put socks on him but he keeps putting holes in them. So then i bought those training shoes that are really flimsy to see if that would work and he still did not like that. So do i just let him wear socks and this shoes hating phase will pass or do I put shoes on him and let him scream and just make him deal with it? Any one know?!

Chase Turns ONE!!!

2009-03-03T20:59:00.000-08:00

My baby turned one! He is getting so big so fast! But he is tons of fun! He has been walking but I feel like the past week he has been doing so much better with it and is able to stay up on his feet better! So for his first party we went to Peter Piper Pizza and watched daddy and uncle Greg play games. Chase could really care less about everything...but he enjoyed watching all the crazy kids there run around. Then next we had a Sunday dinner with my family and Chase got a wagon and Grandma Love gave us money to start a little savings account for him. Then the next Sunday we went to Granny and Pops house (Curtis's mom and dad) and had a little party there. My mother in law made the cutest cake ever!! Chase is so weird though...is this normal?!...So my child does not like to get dirty! He does not like to get his hands dirty, he won't feed himself if it is like spaghetti or sticky. He also hates bubble baths! He freaks out! What kid hates bubble baths?! Anyways so my mother in law makes this cool little cake for chase and he will not dig in to it. He waits for me to give him a freaking spoon! He tries to touch it but once he gets his fingers in it he is done and wants me to wash them off. Is that normal?! So he had lots of fun with all these little parties!

Chase would not touch it! He had to have a spoon!

This is the cake my mother in law made! I thought it was so dang cute!

He loves his wagon Grandma and Grandpa bought him

My father in law had to walk around and around the mary go around so Chase could ride it.

Watching dad and uncle Greg playing

Grocery Shopping

2009-02-11T21:48:00.001-08:00

The other night all the boys got together and watched the UFC fight. So Alicia and I decided to take the kids out of the house and go grocery shopping. They have this cool shopping carts with cars on the front of them so we put the boys in them and they looked so cute. Chase and Kaden look like they could be brothers especially now that Kaden shaved all his hair. They are fun!

Learning to ride the tractor

2009-02-11T21:33:00.000-08:00

My mom bought the grand kids a tractor...one of those ones they sit in and drive....well I went to the movie one night with my sister in law Alicia so Curtis had Chase. They were playing at my mom's house and I guess he has learned to ride the tractor. It is so funny to watch. He really has no idea what he is doing but he loves it! Chase just stands in it and Curtis puts his foot on the pedal and he just goes. He has no idea how to turn so he just goes around in circles and if he heads for the fence we have to run after him and steer the other way. He is obsessed with it! He screams if you take him out.

Kaden holding on for his life!

He loves it!

Chase was heading towards the wall so Curtis was running after him.

It's been a while...

2009-02-11T21:07:00.000-08:00

Well it's been a while since i have posted anything so here is a little update. Chase is getting so big. He is walking...falling...walking and he is definitely getting a little personality. He will let you know what he wants. Curtis has a new job! He has joined the family business. That's right he is working for my father now. He is really enjoying it! I really hope he does not get fired...that would be awkward. I am 30 weeks pregnant now and I am huge! Well I feel huge, and when other people tell me that it just confirms that I am huge! It's funny the things strangers will say not thinking about how you might feel (like telling me I am big). The next couple of weeks will be fun. Chase turns one on the 19th! I can't believe how fast it has gone by. Then my brother Brandon comes home from his mission on the 25th! We are all very excited about that! Well here are some pics of the holidays and stuff.

Chase got a lot of toys for Christmas but he is obsessed with this tractor he just sits on it until someone will push him

Christmas night getting ready to go home. Curtis was very excited!

We went to the Zoo Lights with Aaron and Alicia and Chase rode on his first carousel ride. Him and Curtis are back behind Aaron and Kaden.

Chase and crazy cousin Kaden. It was freezing out there!

Our first home disaster...kind of

2008-12-17T22:42:00.000-08:00

The other day we came home and water was seeping out of our grass and going down the street. Next thing i know the grass starts to bubble up because of all the water and then a fountain shot up out of the ground...we had a pipe brake in our front lawn. My wonderful father in law and husband worked all night to fix it and finished the job in the morning. Now my grass is all torn up and my lawn looks horrible but at least I saved some money by not having to call a plumber! It is great having a handy father in law!

Chase was chearing pops and daddy on!

Curtis was working hard, he got his hands muddy

Santa Clause

2008-12-17T22:12:00.000-08:00

Well my aunt teaches pre school and she had this little show that her kids put on then Santa came and all the little kids sat on his lap. I wanted to see how Chase would do since he generally will go to anyone...well it did not go so well. I felt so bad torturing my son.

My baby is growing up

2008-12-16T22:04:00.000-08:00

I feel like just in the past week Chase has gotten so old. All of a sudden he is a little boy and not my little baby. He is starting to climb up on things and walk along tables and couches. With the words "ma ma" , "da da" , and "nigh nigh da da" to his vocab he is getting so cute! Always wanting to see what is going on and wanting to get involved, like the other day i was making cookies and he had to help, then he helped me eat them, but he is just getting so old, and getting more and more fun everyday! I love him!

helping make sure my cookies don't burn

he is always wanting to share whatever he has!

Our first Thanksgiving!

2008-12-02T20:58:00.000-08:00

Chase had his first Thanksgiving and had a Blast! It was a lot of fun hanging out with family and eating!

Halloween

2008-12-02T20:43:00.000-08:00

We decided to carve pumpkins and see who had the best one. Well Curtis's pumpkin rotted all over my kitchen counter and it was disgusting and mine was amazing! however i did not get a picture of it. But Chase was really excited until he put his hand in and realized how disgusting the inside was, it was pretty funny. He would not put his hand in it or get close to it. He was so cute in his little skunk outfit that night!

Halloween

2008-11-25T22:17:00.001-08:00

We could not find a pumpkin patch to go to and take pictures so we went to the grocery store and stuck Chase in the box with all the pumpkins and took pictures. He loved it!

2008-11-25T22:15:00.000-08:00

Here we are in front of our new house!

Starting out

2008-11-25T22:07:00.000-08:00

I am slowly trying to start our little family a blog. I really am not sure what i am doing but hopefully this will all turn out. Anyways, well we just moved into our new house (well new to us) a couple of months ago and are still getting things put away. Moving in takes forever! We also just found out we are pregnant again! I am 20 weeks pregnant with another boy and we are excited! Chase just turned 9 months and he is going to be a big brother. Crazy!!! It will be tough but fun!