Happy Birthday Ronan

I can't believe my baby is three. He is the most athletic, funny, wild, long haired boy. We are always laughing at his silly antics or cursing him for his craziness. Underneath all that I just adore him and cant wait to see how he turns out as a grown up. I am sure some sports are in his future. Dave and I are counting down the days until we can watch him play in a soccer game.
All he wanted to do for his birthday was go to Chucky Cheese.

The girls bought him a remote control car. Davy and I got him a bike. Which only took him a few days to figure out and now he is all over the place. Nana & Papa got him his own Zhu Zhu pet with a hamster wheel.

One happy boy with his Spiderman cake. The kids were dyed with red and blue frosting, perhaps Sams Club should cut down on the amount of food coloring they are using.

How do the Irish Celebrate the day

We hosted our first ever Annual St. Patrick's day party. Every year Patrick's day comes and goes and we think. We should have thrown a party. So this year we did it. Invited a group of friends from our neighborhood and had a blast. Dave came up with a gigantic list of games all having to do with the phrase ____ like an Irishman. Here is Dave and Jordan showing us how to Dance Like An Irishman.

Fight Like An Irishman. Behind the hair is me throwing a pretty good punch. The boys had to stand still and not fight back as us girls got to have 30 seconds of punching. It was very fun.


Kiss Like An Irishman. Body trying to kiss the Blarney Stone. The real one is a lot bigger and at the top of a castle. But it was the best recreation we could come up with for our family room.

Drink Like An Irishman. Kyle downing a glass of chocolate milk.

Shannon taking a good shot at Dave.

Eat Like An Irishman. We had an awesome pot luck of amazing food. Dave's mom came down and made a traditional Irish trifle for us. It was so good I ate it for days.

Me, Shannon, and Amanda all have birthdays the same week. It makes for some great celebrating.

The kids dressed in all their holiday gear. Never mind the fact that Ronan looks like a little girl in his headband.

The Leprechaun came to our house and made a huge mess. He left the kids a note say, "Better luck next time I was too tricky for you. Tell your dad hi from Shamus." Dave meet Shamus while living in Ireland so he likes to come visit on St. Paddy's Day. We had green pancakes for breakfast. Then the girls made a booth to invite all the neighbor kids to come meet a real leprechaun which was them.

Preacher Boy

Outside yesterday getting ready to go run errands. Ronan looks up at the sky arms reaching upward. He yells at the top of his lungs, "JESUS CHRIST ARE YOU UP THERE?" He said it 3 times so yes I am sure that is what he said.

Eva Turns 5

My beautiful sweet Eva is 5. I can hardly believe it. She is such a darling girl. We are so blessed to have her in our family. This year we are celebrating with family parties. We had cake and presents on Sunday. Then on her birthday we went to Boondocks, her favorite place.

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Leah and Ronan bought her Barbie Potty Training Pups. It was a big hit.

Davy and I bought her a new bike. It is a big improvement from her barbie one that constantly felt like the brakes were on. No wonder she couldn't ride further than a block last year.

Hope all your wishes come true sweet girl.

A Telephone Call to Ethan

Putting Ronan to bed the other night. I put him in his room then sit against the inside of door so he can't get out. He is very upset by the thought of having to fall asleep. Ronan finds his play phone or in his words a real cell phone that really works. This is the conversation, "Ethan come and get me my mom is trying to put me to bed. Get on your bike, go on the secret path, you see my house, then you bust me out." Ethan is really Ronan's favorite person in the world. He says Ethan is soooo coooool. Anytime he talks about a friend it is Ethan. I wish we could just adopt Ethan to come stay at our house but I don't think his mom would go for it.

Kids They Say the Darndest Things

First of all sorry for the no posts for awhile. Reason being there has been nothing good to post. I feel like I have spun into a deep hole called January. Where the weather stinks and then we try and do all our New Years resolutions. January should be the month to start more bad habits not get rid of the ones you like. All the kids all had croup. We were home from everything for 2 weeks. I nearly lost my mind. But now we are back to the land of the living and feeling much better. I just really need a vacation somewhere with sun and a beach.

So moving on. Driving home from school the other day I overhead the funniest conversation. We car pool and had neighbor A. who is very sensitive. Leah asks, "who here like Barbies." Neighbor A responds, "I do." Leah says, " I don't I am a bobby boy (her way of saying a tom boy). I am a lot like my mom she was a bobby boy not a girly girl when she was little." Neighbor adds in, " I am a lot like my dad." Eva chirps in, "You mean your dad is a girly girl." We all are in stitches laughing while poor neighbor A is in tears in the back seat. I try to compose myself to not hurt her feelings. But then Ronan continues with his Simpson laugh ahhhhaaa haaa. And I just give in to the giggles.

Update from the Halls of Terror

Please read my previous post if you haven't. Then let me tell you that we went to bed only to find poop wiped on both Dave and I pillow cases. Good thing we looked before we settled down for a long winters nap.

Ronan MIGHT be a Terrorist

Can I even say that on a blog. Probably when I am referring to a 2 1/2 year old. Let me set the scene up for the day. Trying to clean up from a trip and Christmas. From the cleaning downstairs I smell something poopy. Humm I better check Ronan who is potty trained and much to independent for his own good. Sure enough. Bathroom is covered in half a roll of toilet paper and poop smeared on the floor. Where is the child who did this? On my bed still covered in the stuff. I drag him like a roped calf into the bathroom and wipe him down. Then this evening kitchen is looking pretty good until after dinner when I have to go run an errand. Come back to water and yogurt all over my newly moped floor. Do you know how hard it is to clean up dried yogurt. After a wipe down and a mop it is still murky on my floor. Then just 10 minutes after the yogurt there is a minor incident of butter wiped all over the counter. And to top it all off it is 9:47 at night and the terrorist doesn't rest. He spends his time trying to keep his sister from going to sleep. All I can say is there is a cute and charming boy for sale at my house.

All I Want For Christmas

Leah's gifts inclued; a DS, a few games, Guess Who, Bendaroos, and Paperoni's.

Eva got Sorry Sliders, her Zhu Zhu pets, Bendaroos and Paperonis, Walkie Talkies, and a Light Bright.

This guy was the perfect age for Christmas. Every present got an ohhh and an ahhhh. Even the smallest of things he loved it. Ronan got a basketball hoop, soccer net, Batman car, and Fisher Price car garage.

Is a DS. She said, "I am not very greedy because I only asked Santa for 2 things. A DS and Petz Nursery." And she hasn't stopped playing them yet.

The much anticipated Zhu Zhu pet which actually lives up to all the hype.


Ronan with his large dump truck

Christmas Eve Festivities

Christmas started off with a bang this year. We usually stay home and have all evening for the traditional Christmas Eve. This year we amped it up stopping 3 different places in 1 day. It was a little crazy but so fun.

We went to Auntie Pauline's for dinner. She always spoils us all with nice presents.

Wednesday we went to my mom and dads until Christmas Eva afternoon.

Nana Clause as we like to call her pulled through. Nana and Papa got the kids a Wii which has been a huge hit.


We were lucky enough to see our good friends the Kanigan's while they were in town. It had been a long time since the kids had seen each other. We visited and let the kids run around.

Here they all are. The first 3 of each of our kids are all the same ages. Then I woos ed out on a fourth and Becki had cute Ellie. Weird to think I would have a 1 year old.

Logan and Leah have wedding plans still. They spent their time having "private talks" in my dads office. They told each other what they have been up to since the last time they saw each other. Logan was embarrassed by all of Leah's hugging.