tyler and jeff

Sleeping Sienna

2011-11-06T08:00:00.000-08:00

And I thought I could sleep anywhere

halloween

2011-11-04T19:02:00.001-07:00

ethan as indiana jones
Sienna the unicorn

marcus the dragon
cambria the devil

Summer fun in the back yard

2011-08-06T20:42:00.000-07:00

These are a few pictures that i thought turned out so cute of Marcus

best looking allen

2011-06-30T08:37:00.000-07:00

When we were at Oceanside , my cousin told me this funny story that happen between her and Ethan. We were in her hotel room and every day Ethan would spot her candy. One night he wanted a pack of nerds so he asked her and she said she would give him one when we left. When Ethan wants something he wont let it go , so he keep asking and telling me we had to go so he could get his treat. So I told Ethan why dont you tell Katie something nice. So he goes in her room and says "Kati I like you, now can I have the nerds." She gave them to him , he thought he was pretty smart and told her son "hey I told your mom I like you and she gave me nerds".
Later that night he really wanted to play with her phone, here's their conversation
Ethan-can I play on your phone
Katie- not now Im playing a game
Ethan -Katie I like you
Katie-maybe later
Ethan-Katie I love you
Katie_Ethan thanks but Im playing a game
Ethan-Katie you are the best looking Allen
guess who got the phone after that

Time to Brag!!!!

2011-05-26T07:21:00.000-07:00

Dont worry Im not going to brag about my kids, this post is all about me and how awsome i am. I mean I could brag about my kids... For example Seinna is so advance I mean she is only 31/2 and she says like 30 words, amazing she even gets to go to early preschool because she needs to be challenged more. Then there is Cambria , she is the most amazing actress, she can cry over a drop of a hat, and real tears and her drama is amazing, she hasnt even had acting lessons. Ethan , I cant say enough about his social skills, he has so many friends, he cant even decide who to play with at school, and i mean ever, I think he doesnt want to leave anyone out so he plays with no one so he doesn't hurt anyones fellings, how sweet is he. Now enough about them, heres what i did, all by myself, no help from the husband, I made these from scratch, they were just flat pieces of wood, I even made the drawers.

marcus

2011-05-09T20:40:00.000-07:00

I love how marcus only had one front tooth forever

Mothers day

2011-05-09T20:31:00.000-07:00

The kids filled out a thing for mothers day about me. A few of the answers made me laugh,
the question asked what does your mother say alot......
Cambria- "clean up the house"
Ethan "i love you"
Sienna "daddy"
So cams thinks im bossy and ethan thinks im sweet
The last question was what does your mom like to do
Cambria"nap"
Ethan"walk"
Seinnas was the best thou when asked what does mommy like to do........daddy!

honesty

2011-05-01T19:30:00.000-07:00

Ethan has a hard time lying, if he starts laughing and says i dont know why i laugh uncontrolable, that means he is lying. Jeff decided to go see a movie with Ethan ,they stop at the dollar store to get candy and soda. While buying the tickets jeff hides the candy and soda in Ethans jacket, and zips it up. Then Jeff hears Ethan talking very loudly to him self " Something does not seem quite right about this situation, this is really strange hiding stuff in my jacket" THen while Jeff is talking to the ticket person Ethan again loudly to Jeff "Dad this does not feel right, I dont think
I should hide candy in my coat." This happen right after he was baptized maybe he was trying to be good.
On the other hand Cambria has no problem lying in fact she comes up with great stories without any problems. One example was ,we were getting a manicure, and then someone called and I relized i was suppose to be somewhere now I couldnt leave for 45 minutes so I tell cambria we cant wait for your nails to dry we have to leave here fast. She then says mom dont tell them we were getting manicures just lie and say we had to go to aunt kimmies house because she really needed our help. Again not sure if kids can be quite, she said this so loud all the other ladies in the salon started to laugh

Cambrias Diary

2011-04-07T20:22:00.000-07:00

Cams got a diary and loves filling in all the blanks there were a few funny things she wrote that i want to remember
So the diary will show a sentence and then cams fills in the rest
all i know is.....Will is so into me. (wow shes full of her self)
my biggest problem today is...... i cant find the seeds i planted.( shes lucky if thats her biggest problem)
things me and my friends laugh about......boys they are so funny
who im crushing on right now.....fuzzy i love to touch his soft hair
I think its so funny how she talks like a teenager

going green

2011-03-24T19:38:00.000-07:00

In the morning before school Jeff starts the car for it to warm up then goes back into the house. When he comes out he asked the kids who turned the car off. Ethan says dad I did you are polluting the ozone layer, and how many times do I have to tell you Im going Green.

lipstick!!!

2011-03-14T14:53:00.000-07:00

Sienna just makes me laugh, a girl with few words, but with lots of personality. Every few days i will find her with lip gloss falling off her face.

High school musical

2011-03-09T21:29:00.000-08:00

cambria just told me she is sharpay and not gabriella because gab. only has one boyfriend and sharpay has like a ton of fans and is fabulous, just like her "my shoes are fabulous, my hair is fabulous, my shirt is fabulous, my toys are fabulous" and so on. wow shes got great self esteem

Stop reading!!!!!

2011-03-07T07:06:00.000-08:00

One of our biggest struggles with Ethan is to get him to play at recess time, Ive bribed him and that works for a little bit, Ive talked with his teacher to assign him a friend, that doesnt seem to work. And now Im threatening him
Me -Ethan If you dont play with anyone today Im going to just have you come home from school at lunch
Ethan- but mom math is after lunch and i love math
me- Ethan if you dont play with someone, i wont let you stay at school for math!!!
Another time at a play ground Ethan was reading a book instead of playing and i yelled for all the moms around me to hear "Ethan stop reading and go play"
I know a little backwards, but thats what you get with ethan, and if thats the worst then im ok with it. We keep working on it last night i role played with him how to go up to a friend and and talk and play with them. He is pretty good with the role play we just need to get better with the follow through.

Literally

2011-03-05T12:00:00.000-08:00

With Aspergers you take things literally ,there has been a few times Ethan has taken things literally and they make me laugh

one time Ethan was telling me something really cool and i say "shutup!"
Ethan stops talking and says mom why did you tell me to shut up, I to him I thought what he was saying was really cool.

Another time we were at the beach and Ethan started shaking the sand off his towel and it was right by everyone. My mom says Ethan take your towel down to the water away from us.
Ethan takes the towel and gets it soaked in the water, as we yell Ethan stop no.... He comes back up to us and we say Ethan why would you put the towel in the water
Ethan says grandma told me to take it to the water.

This story is my fAVORITE example.......

then had to explain Im in the car with the kids and they start playing the game raise your hand if...This is how it goes

Cambria: Raise your hand if you think dads funny

Ethan: Raise your hand if you think Siennas a chubbers

This goes back and forth a few more times then

Ethan:Raise your hand if you think mom has a hot body

Now Im thinking ok cool my son thinks i have a good body

Tyler: Ethan I have a hot body, really?

Ethan: ya mom Your bodies super hot. Thats why i come in your room at night and cuddle with you, you keep me so warm because you bodies so hot.

Oh man, is that what he means, I was feeling all good about myself.

The Middle

2011-03-04T20:56:00.000-08:00

Tonights conversation about the show the middle went like this
Ethan-Mom I love watching the middle with you because I love you ,Mom why does the little boy whisper
Mom- Will Ethan you know how you squeeze your face,and you say you cant control it, will thats how he is, it soothes him like squeezing your face soothes you.
Ethan- Mom we are meant to be, if he was real we would be best friends, he does things uncontrollable same as me, we are both eight, and we both love books.
It was cute because the little boy on the show has Aspergers and is really similar to Ethan.

silly bands

2011-03-03T21:23:00.000-08:00

cambria shows me a silly band and says mom its a bitch, me: what? Cambria : its a bitch ,its shaped like a half bat half witch so i call it a bitch. .

Titanic

2011-03-02T21:27:00.000-08:00

Im sure there will be lots of stories about the Titanic, since with Aspergers one of the characteristics is you can obsess about topics. Im not sure where the fascination with the titanic started but its been a fascination for about two years now. I never knew there were so many books for kids out there. So here are just a few stories....

Last night at dinner Ethan says lets play a game.....

Ethan"where did captain Edward john smith die?"
US"the titanic"
Ethan "no where on the titanic"
Cambria got it right with, in the room where you drive the ship.
Ethan" next question, where on the titanic would cambria like her room?"
Everyone that knows cams, knows the answer is.... 1st class.
Ethan" ok , where did the titanic get hit, and and did the bolts pop out, or did the bottom get cut?"
Us " ????"
Ethan" on the sides the bolts popped out, and on the bottom it was cut open"
Will, this game went on for 20 Questions.
If you ever need to know anything about the titanic call Ethan.

One more story about the titanic....

Ethan was reading a book about what came from america and after every date I would hear 1920 the year a blender was made only12 yr after the titanic sailed , oh good kids had Teddy bears on the titanic because they came 10 yrs before the titanic, pilgrims came312 yrs before the titanic,people sang happy birthday on the titanic because it was written 22yrs before the titanic left from south Hampton England.

Ethan only dates girls with freckles

2011-03-01T21:22:00.000-08:00

ethan "mom im in love with page from the first moment i saw her." Me " does she have freckles." ethan "not sure i havent really seen her face, mom i dont know why but all the girls i date, since preschool have freckles." Me"what happen to jada?' ethan " oh i broke up with her because she brook my heart. mom all the girls i date i kiss too." so my 8 year old, dates , kisses and breaks up with girls.

One of my favorite stories

2011-02-28T21:04:00.000-08:00

The first day of 2ed grade i drove Ethan to school, the whole morning Ethan was so excited to see his girlfriend Jada(she doesnt know they are girlfriend, boyfriend).
Ethan "mom i am so handsome, Jada is going to think i am so goodlooking."
Me " Ethan you cant tell jada you love her, you need to leave her alone."
We get to school and guess whos right in front of Ethan, yep Jada, he doesnt waste anytime
Ethan " oh well hello Jada my love......., Dont you look beautiful........do you think i look handsome."
she was very nice and giggles, and so does every other 2ed grader within ear shot.
what happen to our conversation 30 seconds earlier when i said lets leave Jada alone.

The things my kids say or do

2011-02-27T20:33:00.000-08:00

Every day , at least once a day , funny things will come out of our mouths, Then you forget about them. Will, I thought of restarting my blog to post everyday things that make me laugh, so if im having a bad moment i can come read my blog. Hopefully others will get a kick out of my life too. Lots of my post will be about Ethan, Because of his Asperger syndrome, the cutest most funny stuff happens because of him. Dont get me wrong there is negative things that come with it, but i also think everyone has issues that can not be the normal. So i am greatful he is this way because if he didnt have aspergers lots of these stories would not happen.
So heres my first story......
Today we celebrated my father in laws birthday he turned 66. This conversation was between grandpa and ethan.
Ethan"Grandpa how old are you"
Grandpa"39"
Ethan pauses for a minute......"Grandpa, I have a problem with that, 39 is still quite young"
Grandpa" yes Ethan im not old"
Ethan" will if you were 39 you would still have hair on your head, and you would not need glasses."

check out cozy bands blog

2009-11-12T17:32:00.000-08:00

i just got some new pics look how cute here

all you people at south town mall can shut up!

2009-11-07T10:30:00.000-08:00

So the other day i was at the mall with the three kids, and we went into Claires, Cambria sees the earings and says i want my ears pierced . I dont really care so i say ok. so we picked out the ones she wants, and she gets so excited, then the lady wants to see my id, i dont know maybe i dont look 18 yet. Well i dont have it, so we leave. Cams gets sad, so we see one more place, and they will do it, so i pay and cams starts freaking out, i already payed so after15 minutes she say ok i want to. so we do the one ear and she freaks out kicking and screaming, people are looking at me like why are you making you daughter do this and i explain to people she begged me. People are telling me she can start a trend with one earing, others say maybe its already infected, really after a minute, i dont think so. People are stopped and telling her its ok while giving me the evil eye, and saying they fell so bad for her, so im trying to talk her down for about 25 minutes, so finally she wont i tell the guy ill hold her just do the other ear. she started screaming bloody murder but we get it done. she stops crying and says ok lets go to the hello kitty store,shes totaly fine. Drama queen!!!!

halloween

2009-11-03T07:37:00.000-08:00

cozy bands

2009-10-01T18:23:00.000-07:00

im going to start posting my headbands on cozybands.blogspot.com so check it out

sienna should be asleep....

2009-09-19T21:11:00.000-07:00

but instead found her sisters dress up and put this outfit together at 1130 pm and those are jonas brother jelly shoes

first day of school

2009-09-09T20:23:00.000-07:00

yes more head bands

2009-08-15T00:26:00.000-07:00

cambria turns five

2009-08-05T19:35:00.000-07:00

she was so excited to get the jonas brother nightgown and dvd, even though she has never heard of their songs now she wants a backpack.

more head bands

2009-07-08T11:32:00.000-07:00

everyones fav i had people stop me to order

chairs for sale

2009-07-04T14:01:00.000-07:00

i bought these chairs and they dont fit where i bought them for , they are pretty wide, they retailed at 800 a piece and i will sale them for 250 a piece they are really nice come see them if you are interested. dark wood and wicker with leather

head bands for sell

2009-06-27T18:02:00.000-07:00

so somepeople have asked if im going to sell these head bands. yes the head bands are 14$ the flowers are6$ the speacial head band with pearls and no flower attach 16$ and if you buy two headbands and two flowers for24$ also i will take speacial orders i have 3 different patterns for flowers and three different head band patterns beside the pink one with pearls. i will post close ups soon

head bands

2009-06-26T22:19:00.001-07:00

so im making these cute head bands, head warmers for my girls . i think they turned out super cute

my little model

2009-05-03T17:55:00.000-07:00

im taking easter pics and when its cams turn she full on models for me

just like her mom

2009-05-01T17:48:00.000-07:00

anyone who knows me knows i love brownies, im thinking sienna does too

Our favorite store

2009-04-03T15:44:00.000-07:00

we saw this store in st george and just had to take a picture, im still trying to figure out how the three items relate.

jeffs logo

2009-03-26T07:41:00.000-07:00

jeff asked me to create a logo for his mulch company. I love photoshop iI think it looks pretty cool(if you ask me) so if anyone needs mulch this year give us a call

OH SHI!!!!!!!

2009-03-16T10:42:00.000-07:00

last night i was so tired and just wanted to go to bed at 9:30, well Sienna had other plans. She must have not felt good because she was on and off crying till midnight, those of you who know how lucky ive been know my babies dont cry ever. We gave her some medicine, and turned out the light, she insisted on keeping me up by trying to pull my body up in standing position for the next hour. I was half asleep around 1 in the morning , because she was all over the bed rolling and playing . I woke up to her rubbing a poo diaper in my face, her covered in poo , our bed covered in poo , jeff covered in poo, and my face covered in poo!!!!!! I screamed JEFF THERE IS POO EVERYWHERE. I hear Ethan wake up laughing hysterically . At two in the morn ing we had to clean our bed, bath Sienna, Put pajammas on her so that would never happen again, and shower. Boy what a fun night!

2009-03-14T13:59:00.000-07:00

Im down stairs at my moms house ,and i hear sienna screaming(as in baby talk, not crying)and i coundn't resist taking these pictures

of what i saw.

manual antonio

2009-03-02T18:40:00.000-08:00

this is one of costa ricas parks we hiked for about an hour to a private beach seeing monkeys, sloths, and racoons along the way

the canopy tour

2009-03-02T18:36:00.001-08:00

this was in the rain forest doing the zipline,i thought i would be scared, but you fell so safe and you dont go too fast

costa rica

2009-03-02T18:07:00.000-08:00

just wanted to post this amazing resturant we went to ,its called villa caletos, it over looks the country and has the most perfect spot to watch the sun set. also the food is amazing.

car for sale

2009-02-16T18:19:00.000-08:00

so i finally broke down and got a van, because a three seater is just too tight with three car seats, but now i have a car for sale . infiniti qx4 four wheel drive( boy do i miss that in the winter), leather seats , automatic windows locks, had it for six years never had one problem with it of course i do every thing the manual says to do for example at 100,000 miles change the timing belt, i did it. new tires six months old. 1998 model with 115,000 miles. for sale for 5.500 . If you know anyone looking for a new car let me know, it really is a good car.

some of my favorite things

2008-12-29T19:39:00.000-08:00

every year the girls in jeffs family takes turn giving their favorite things to the others. so this was my year, i made them my favorite soup, then feed them my favorite dessert from fridays and here are some of my favorite things.
1.i tunes
2.pebbles-scrape book store
3. rod works the store
4.clinic mascara
5. fiber 1 bars
6. oxy clean stain remover
7. a day at the spa-(the nail stuff)
8. better homes and gardens scrap book mag.

siennas one

2008-12-27T20:13:00.000-08:00

tenth % for height
50% weight
shes our chubbers

yellow belts

2008-12-25T20:04:00.000-08:00

the kids getting tested to receive yellow belts

I P L treatment

2008-12-23T16:59:00.000-08:00

so i got this treatment to my face that gets rid of your sun spots wrinkles and sun damage look at the before and afters. i have no makeup on my face so you can see the difference

so what

2008-12-21T19:06:00.000-08:00

this is cambria singing a song she says is about her because it says im a rock star

tutus

2008-12-16T22:28:00.001-08:00

if you want to make way cute tutus click here http://studio5.ksl.com/?nid=58&sid=5084744 to watch me, cambria and sienna on tv. i made these way cute tutus and then show you how on this show

more hats for sienna

2008-12-12T13:38:00.000-08:00

fall pics

2008-12-11T13:16:00.000-08:00

Great Christmas gift idea

2008-12-10T11:24:00.000-08:00

My friend Emilie Decker is a photographer & is selling these super cool Temple pictures. I'm buying a big one of the doors for a wall in my living room. They come mounted on Mat Board, pressed with a linen texture, & designed with a white boarder. You can purchase them on her blog www.photobyemilie.blogspot.com or you can ring me & I'll get you in touch with her. 5x7 's are $12, 8x10's are $24, 11x14's are $36 & you can get larger too.

butterscotch

2008-12-09T12:57:00.000-08:00

so last christmas cambria wanted butterscotch a 280$ horse that she could sit on and he would move. and for only thirty dollars more she could feed him a carrot and comb his hair so a total of 310$ plus tax. will cams would not let the damn horse thing go, so finally i had to brake the news that butterscotch was to big to fit in santas sleigh,but he could bring a baby butterscotch. cambria said ok but he had to look the same and have a comb and carrots. so i finally found one for a rip off 80$.so over the year we thought she lose her interest. oh no. the horse goes everywhere with her. to the park, down the slide on the swings. on family trips, she dresses him everyday, she ask me butterscotch stayed in bed does he get a surprise. should i curl or straighten butterscotches hair, butterscotch needs hair spray. i need to bath butterscotch, you get the point.
this year there is no butterscotch but there is a smores, so what does my girls want you guessed it smores. so i found smores at costco for 170 with the carrots and comb. do i spoil my daughter and have santa give it to her? if she treats smores the way she takes care of baby butterscotch it is so worth the 170$ plus tax

the thinking room

2008-11-09T21:06:00.000-08:00

the other day i asked cambria for a bite of her treat. and she gave me a little bite, tyler: give me more
cambria: no.you get what you get and you dont throw a fit.
tyler: what!
cambria: ya mom thats what my teachers tell me at school.
Then the other day she tells me at school she had to go to the thinking room.
tyler: cambria whats the thinking room
cambria:its aroom where you sit by yourself and think
tyler:why did you go there
cambria: my teacher sent me there
tyler: why
Cambria: well i stayed outside and played with a friend in the sandbox while everyone lined up and went back to class, so a teacher came out and got me and put me in the thinking room.
tyler:did you get in trouble
Cambria: no i just had to think
Tyler:about what
cambria:i just had to think
tyler :did you cry
cambria:no mom i was just thinking
tyler:ok!
those who know cambria wont be suprizes she gets told not to throw fits , or gets sent to thinking rooms.

tu-tu-cute

2008-11-05T17:37:00.000-08:00

so i saw a tu tu like this for sale for 60 bucks, i made it for 10 bucks.She didnt want a shirt on so thats her covering herself up.

halloween

2008-11-05T17:27:00.000-08:00

I made siennas costume, i thought i did a good job, ethan wanted to be a golfer like daddy, and cambria snow white

more hats for cambria

2008-10-26T11:50:00.000-07:00

sienna 9 months

2008-10-17T14:48:00.000-07:00

we got sienna 9 month pics taken they are so cute

hats , hats , hats

2008-10-17T14:39:00.000-07:00

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so my mom came into town for a week and we learned to knit hats, so surprise everyones getting a hat for christmas, joking. but they do look pretty cute on the kids. also we went to the scarecrow festival at thanksgiving point, the kids loved that.

pretty pretty princess

2008-08-29T19:41:00.000-07:00

Cambrias favorite show is mighty bee on nick. this is her favorite song from the showThis last week we went to new port that was nice and relaxing. Ethans really into i spy computer game but we couldnt run it on jeffs computer, ethan asked jeff if dreams come true because if they did he would wish jeffs computer would have access to i spythis is the song cambria is singing the words are pretty funny

south carolina

2008-07-11T14:34:00.000-07:00

my new favorite place, loved the beach

siennas blessing

2008-06-20T18:47:00.000-07:00

heres a few pics of siennas blessing. i loved her dress!

cambria cuts her hair

2008-05-31T12:07:00.000-07:00

so i was upstairs feeding sienna, and cams comes in and says will you finish cutting my hair like ethans. i look and see chunks of hair falling out. what you cant see in these pictures is bald spots in the back and sides of her hair. So i panic and thought ok ether cut it all off or extentions. well im not sure about extentions on a 3 year old so she got ethans short hair.

cambrias hair

2008-05-22T16:36:00.000-07:00

so your not supposed to perm little kids hair but oh well i wanted cams to have a little curl, I told her i was putting magic potion in her hair to make it curl.

photo shop

2008-05-05T17:22:00.000-07:00

i love photo shop, here are a few pictures i have changed using photoshop

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2008-05-05T16:19:00.000-07:00