Dad should have been a dentist

J.D. lost another tooth tonight. Okay, well he didn't exactly lose it. Josh pulled it out. He has been milking this tooth for about a week now. Today, he was driving Josh crazy by playing with it. So he told him, he was going to pull it when we got home.

J.D. screamed!! He doesn't do blood or pain well, and dad's just aren't as kind as mom's. I've tried pulling the dang tooth out several times this week, but I just can't do it!

Piper was sure intrigued. Tyson and I were both cringing and covering our ears.

Of course, Piper wanted to have a tooth pulled too.

Josh obliged. Look at his face. He was hamming it up for Piper. She thought it was great fun!

Tyson was giggling the whole time. The kids had just ate popcorn, so Josh picked up a little piece and handed it to Tyson. He really thought Josh had pulled out a tooth. He started to laugh when he realized it was popcorn, although for a minute he looked concerned and was touching all of his teeth. It was pretty funny.

Blessings

Photo taken by J.D.

I am so blessed

A Memory.........

Today Josh and I were in Gospel Principles. Brother Proffit asked us to each pick out a picture from the life of the Savior and to share with the class what it meant to us. This is the picture that I picked. It has a spiritual meaning to me, but it also reminds of one of my very favorite memories of J.D.

J.D. was about 3 years old and he was being super naughty one day in sacrament. I took him into the hall and we were walking around and looking at the pictures. I was showing J.D. this picture and telling him the story, when all of the sudden he says, "WOW Mom!! I didn't know Jesus was a cowboy!" It is one of my very favorite memories. Every time I see this picture it makes me smile!

J.D. in Disneyland

J.D. had a blast! He spent a lot of quality time with Josh. He rode all the fun rides, that mommy wouldn't ride! He went on Space Mountian, Tower of Terror, and Splash Mountain. He also went on the roller coaster at Stateline. BRAVE LITTLE GUY! J.D. said that his favorite ride was Space Mountain, Soarin over California and he loved the Tarzan Tree. Dang tree! It's a lot of stairs to climb! J.D. was so excited to do the Jedi training, but when we got there, he teared up and didn't want to do it, because I think there was to many people watching. He loved getting to drive the Mark Twain River Boat and he also got to talk to Crush at Turtle Talk. During the Pixar Play Parade, he turns to me and say's, "I want a job here." So cute! It would be the greates place to work, wouldn't it? J.D. was hungry the entire trip. Five minutes after we'd eat, he'd ask, when we were going to eat agian! A growing boy! It was so much fun to see it through J.D.'s eyes and to watch him and Josh spend time together.

My Son, The Vampire

For those of you who don't know it, I am a tad bit obsessed with the Twilight series. Okay, not just a tad, but alot. I tend to get hooked on something and I jump on the bandwagon! I also have a crush on a fictional vampire, by the name of Edward, but it's okay, because he's fictional right??

So I went to Walmart at 12:00 a.m. this morning to get my copy of Twilight. I went with Mandee, Kris, Maggie, and Kim. We had a blast!! I'll try to post some of those pictures tomorrow, if I remember.

Anyway, J.D. know's about Twilight. He's seen my books around and every time the commercial comes on, I all but have a heart attack. I finally sat down to watch the movie, this afternoon as I folded the million batches of laundry that have piled up on my couch. J.D. had a friend over and they were in and out of the house and J.D., being the curious child that he is, started asking me questions about vampires. The first thing he said, was that vampires drink blood. So he and his friend start chasing Tyson around, trying to suck his blood. Imagine if you will, the squealing of a 4-year-old boy in my tiny little house. So in an effort to put an end to that little game, I told J.D. that the vampires on Twilight only drank animal blood. "Okay," they said, and disappeared outside to play. Tyson, meanwhile is standing at the screen door yelling, "hey, come suck my blood!" He thinks this is a great game. So, J.D. and his friend come back in about 10 minutes later and tell me that they sucked the blood out of a rabbit. NICE! They then proceeded to get a box, some string and some carrots from the fridge. They built a trap in the driveway, trying to catch a rabbit. About 30 minutes later, they came in and told me that they had sucked the blood out of a mountain lion. Now what?

J.D. had to tell Josh all about it and he told Nicole, my neighbor all about it! I'm betting money, that he is going to tell his primary teacher tomorrow!! That will make for some interesting conversation when I go to visit teach her this month. My son, the vegetarian vampire!!

Then tonight, I could hear Tyson mumbling in his sleep. So I went in and he was mumbling the word "vampire". GOOD GRIEF! They've never even seen the movie!! People are going to think that my child is going to grow up to be like a serial killer or something. Well, good night everyone. I'm off to devampire my house.

Feeding The Ducks

For the first day of spring break, we headed out to Bloomington to feed the ducks! Always a blast and the kids love it! Grandpa came with us and had fun watching the kids. Tyson thought that since Piper was throwing rocks into the water, he could throw them. I had to keep getting after him. There are also tons of coy in the pond and once the ducks swam away they would surface for the left overs. It was a lot of fun!

Puddle Jumpin'

We got a small reprieve from the rain for a few hours this afternoon and it was brisk, but nice outside and the sun was shining so we went for a walk! I let the kids jump in the puddles (aka a muddy river) and they had so much fun. Tyson and Piper were both soaked and J.D. had mud everywhere from where his bike tires were flipping it. I love moments like this that are simple and fun. I gave Tyson a piggy back and we were chasing each other the whole time. Piper just wandered and did her own thing, climbing on and off of the sidewalk and J.D. just rode his bike and chased Piper around.

Everyone enjoy the weekend and have a great Valentines day! We are off to Marysvale and I won't be back until Monday night, so I will post pictures of our fun weekend, when we get home!

Brannigan & Hot Fudge Sundeas

See that kid who's kind of in the center. The one with the big green eye's. That's my nephew Brannigan. For you fellow Piute people, that is Sherry and Austin's oldest boy. He's spending the weekend with us. Brannigan and J.D. are 7 day's apart in age. They are the best of friends and love to be together. They secretly plot way's to get us to move to Marysvale so they can hang out together all the time. Keep plotting boys!!! Maybe someday it could happen.

I told the kids that if they could help me pick up the house we would go to McDonalds for sundaes. And they jumped right in and helped. Bribery works, I tell ya. I let them run their energy out in the play place for an hour and they are all crashed out on my living room floor right now. Amidst the piles of popcorn that they spilled, while watching Kung Fu Panda. I'm working on being his favorite Aunt. Lot's of pictures of Piper, because she was the only one who stuck around long enough for me to get a picture of. She's stinkin' cute.

J.D. the Superhero

I had the chance to talk to Tyson's preschool teacher today. She told me the cutest story about Tyson. I had to document it so that I could always remember this.

Marnie asked Tyson who his favorite super hero was. He said it was, "J.D.". Now Marnie was J.D.'s preschool teacher also. So she asked him, "Is J.D. a super hero?" "Yep," said Tyson. Marnie asked him if he could fly and Tyson said, "yep". Brenden was arguing with Tyson and telling him that J.D. wasn't a superhero that he was a human and Tyson got really upset and kept arguing that J.D. was a super hero.

I told J.D. about it tonight at dinner and I told him that he had a big responsibility to be a superhero to his big brother!!! It is one of the sweetest things I have ever heard!!

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve!! What an eventful night for our little family. Every year we have the Doty family Christmas party. This year we went to Maggie and Erics house. It's alway's a lot of commotion and chaos when you have all the kids together, but it's fun. Here are a few pictures from our night.

Every year the entire Doty clan goes to Forgotten Carols. It's a tradition that we love. Well, my in-laws made each family their own set of Forgotton Carol Ornamnets. My father-in-law carved each of the ornaments. Seriously, the best gift ever. I ran right home and put them on me tree. What a keepsake to have. J.D. in his new jammies and his cowboy hat.

Tootie trying on Grandpa's glasses.

Poor Wendy has no dignity left.

It is a tradition in our family that the kids get new pajama's every Christmas Eve. Here is Tyson holding up his new Wall E pajama's. He was so excited.

J.D. the toothless holding up his new Star Wars the Clone War's P.J.'s.

Piper, just being cute. I loved this picture of her with her hand on her hip and that cute little smirk on her cute little face.!!

Josh and Piper hanging out and watching Rudolph before the party started.

Me and my hubby! I love him.

Photo Shoot

I'm know it's Halloween and everyone is expecting Halloween pictures, but I don't have them uploaded yet, so you get my photo shoot that I did with my kids today. The weather was perfect for taking pictures, nice and overcast, so I took advantage of J.D.'s half day of school to go and take a few pictures. I wanted to do more, but Tyson and Piper both fell asleep on our way to our second location. So I will be trying to do more tomorrow or Sunday evening. I will post Halloween pictures tomorrow.

I like taking my own photo's because I'm not much on posed photography and I prefer outdoor pictures as oppossed to studio. I love doing it, even thoug it's frustrating. Piper was not cooperating with me for our group photo's. I'll have to retry those one's next time. I didn't get one good shot of all of them looking at me. I am going to do them in the Peach Orchard just up the street and possibly the Opera House or at the Tabernacle. It's been a very long day. Good night everyone, sleep tight!

More conversations with J.D.

I just had to write this down for journaling purposes. J.D. really does say the funniest things. Every morning I ask my kids what they dreamed about. This is my conversation with J.D. this morning. The kid is cracking me up lately. I need to write it down in a regular journal, but in a sense this is my journal. You'll have to endure my J.D. conversations phase for a while.

Me: What did you dream about J.D.?

J.D.: Holly.

Me: Your girl crazy J.D. But it's okay mom and dad used to play kiss tag when they were in school.

J.D.: Did my dad kiss you?

Me: No I grew up in Marysvale and he grew up in Santa Clara, so we went to different schools.

J.D.: Did any boys kiss you?

Me: We used to run really fast to get away, but I did get caught once by Micheal Allan.

J.D.: If he kissed you, then why did you marry my dad?

Me:Because I loved him.

J.D.: Because he was lookin' good!!

5 minutes later~~~~~~

J.D.: We change rows today and guess who I get to sit by? Holly!!!

Me: That will be fun but J.D. you need to make sure... (going to say the word quite, but interrupted by a jubilant and beaming 6-year-old.)

J.D.: I know, I don't kiss her!!

How is my child so girl crazy? I then had to explain that he needs to be quite, because J.D. is a talker and he really is infatuated with Holly. This could be bad. Stay tuned for the conclusion to our saga........