Sammy's Spring Concert

Sammy had his spring concert on Tuesday night at Higley High School Performing Arts Center. He was did a great job and looked adorable too! :)

**** I have been working on getting the video up from the concert but it is so large and something keeps happening everytime I try. I will have to break it up and put in on later, but I wanted to get his out to you for now. ************

He had a new outfit for the concert right down to his new red converse sneakers. He looked very cool. In fact, a woman stopped us as we were going in to say how cute he looked!!

JT also had a new pair of converse sneakers on. He really likes them. He had to have them all day the next day and carry them if he wasn't wearing them. Too cute!

Sam and his buddy, Trevor, before the concert.

JT waiting for his big brother to get on stage. He really enjoyed the music and has been singing the songs ever since. He did fall asleep at the end though and ended up staying awake until 11! ugh!

Sammy on Stage.

Sam sang 4 songs at his concert - I'm a Good Ship Lollipop, Take me Out to the Ball Game, Its a Brazzle Dazzle Day, and he sang and signed Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

After the concert, we told Sam we would take him out to dinner. He chose McDonalds and take it home???? They have Spiderman toys right now! :) They look happy.

The pictures do not do it justice. He was adorable. I wish you could have seen it!
I cried. (I am a little hormonal, though)

Star Student

Sam is the star student at school this week. That means the week is all about him! He made a poster with things about himself on it. On Wednesday, the class with interview him and ask questions about his favorite things and on Friday he will bring in an estimation bag with goodies the kids can count and he can share with the rest of class. He also will bring home Tommy the Turtle to stay with us. He is very excited!!!

This is a picture of him with the poster after we finished it last night.

The Poster up close.
If you click on it, it will get bigger. You should be able to see the pictures and read the captions. Sam told me what to write. All the captions on there are from him. If you can't see/read it, let me know and I will post what he wrote. It is really sweet. :)

This was him before school this morning. He has also hit a growth spurt, so he has grown out of all his shorts that fit him in the fall! Sam and I had a "Mommy and Sammy" day yesterday and we went shopping. He picked out a few things. This is what he wanted to wear to school today. He is very cool.

Of course, JT is right there by his side!

Tomorrow we have Sam's Spring Concert for School. I will post what I can from that too.

Catching up on the week

We have not been doing anything really exciting, but I do have somethings from the past week to post.
First, I never posted my flowers from Valentine's Day from my boys.... they really are beautiful and still going strong! I am truly loved by all of my boys... thank you.

JT.
The boys have really been lovin' the dogs lately. Here is JT laying with them. :)On our day off on Monday, the boys and I decided to make a bird feeder (We got the idea from Curious George) and so we set out making this beautiful hand-carved bird feeder you see below... Ok, so it is an OJ carton with construction paper and packing tape, but the boys love it! It took a few days, but finally the birds realized it was there and now, they frequent our feeder! The boys are so excited everytime they see the birds eating. The problem is the birds are a bit skidish and don't stay around long after you open the sliding glass door. (that is why the picture is so far away) I can't really say that I blame them!!

The boys LOVE visitors and on Thursday, Uncle Ted made a trip into Phoenix for a conference. We got to catch up with him a bit and the boys were very excited to show him around our house! Thanks for stopping by, Uncle Ted!

Well, it won't be long.... the boys love to help and with this photo I might see the light at the end of the tunnel of having them do some things around here!! They have always enjoyed mowing the lawn with Daddy, but this is the first time they actually got to hold the reigns!

Sam.
I have said before how they want to be like Dad. Well, Sam came out in one of Matt's work outfits - shoes and all! Look at that smile! :)Jackson's birthday party. We spent the afternoon on Sunday bouncing our hearts out! The boys really enjoyed the giant slide. They kept going down together. I love those kids! Look how much fun they are having here...

I made the cake for Jackson, too. Here are a couple pics...

The weekend.

Valentine's day!
A little late, but there are some cute shots of the boys (as usual)! First, Sam had his first official Valentine Party at school where he had to pass out his valentines to his friends. I was so proud of him... he wrote all the names himself. He worked really hard on them!!

And of course, if Sam is doing it... JT has to. He enjoyed coloring his valentines. And yes, (Linda) that is something around his face again.... I think? It could be his bruise from hitting his face though... I know it is bad, but I kinda hope it is the bruise!

Love this!

Finally, Sammy took a break to give the camera a smile. :)

This is a picture of Sam leaving his Valentine Party at school. He made me a bouquet of kisses. He told me I was his Valentine! I will hold on to that forever!

The boys got a little something from Mommy and Daddy for Valentines day. The boys got me a beautiful bouquet of flowers from my 3 valentines. I am very lucky.

Yesterday we had Owen's Birthday party. We had a blast! We were at the park from 11 - 3:30!! We had a lot of fun with our friends. The boys were excited to go celebrate with him and I made the cake... here are some shots from the day:

Monster Truck Cake...

Last is a picture of JT blowing out the candle on Owen's birthday cake!
His motto: You snooze.. you lose! I love that kid!

Monkey See, Monkey Do!

We have always known that JT idolizes Sam. Well, now we have more evidence of it. As you know, the boys have been into a lot the last week or so and today, while Sam was at school, JT showed me just how much he pays attention to his big brother.

First, he insisted on wearing the singlet :)

Then he looked at me and said, "Mom, Lets Wrestle!"

Here is the video of him saying it.... It is a little dark but he wouldn't do it again for me in the light. Really, it is how he says it that is the funniest!



Then we were getting our shoes on and we were counting together when all of a sudden he started saying the 222. o - ee - o. He was mimicking how Sam says his phone number. (If you don't remember Sam -Click here.) It was so cute... I had to get it on video too!


Finally, we ended the day with Sam and JT riding their bikes on our street. JT tries to keep up with speed-racer Sam. It has really motivated him to use his bike and he pedaled the whole way down the street! Sam is still doing amazing!! He is learning how to "be a real bike rider" and start all by himself. He is getting the hang of it!! Of course I can not get any pics/videos of that because it is too hands on when I am by myself! Wait until the weekend. :)
Right now they are both outside with Daddy while he is cooking dinner. Sam is crushin' the baseball. I guess that will be JT's next feat!

In Arizona, When it Rains... It Pours!! And then it stops!

The weatherman has been calling for rain. So we were not surprised to wake up to a cloudy Arizona day, even though there is usually not a cloud in the sky! In fact, we kinda like the clouds! But we were surprised to see hail coming down! Of course the boys had to get their umbrellas out and use them since there are very few opportunities for them to do so!

Singin' in the Rain
For those of you who are consistent followers of this blog... another chocolate face JT!Love this pic of Sammy. :)
HAIL!
We were outside playing in the novelty of the rain when all of a sudden, down came hail to which Matt immediately got nervous and thought we should bring the boys in the house because..."That can get as big as golf balls, Missy!" Needless to say, it didn't and we played until our heart was content!
video of it really coming down!




So, like the post says, the rain stopped rather quickly and we were outside again riding our bikes (our absolute fav thing to do right now). JT gained some inspiration from his big bro and decided to give his big boy bike a try. He is really getting the hang of it now, too, Thank you Sam!

I love this shot, you can almost see his determination. :)
The video...


Last night....
Ok, this will need some background information/images. Many of you probably remember the baby wrestling singlet that Sam got from Rob when he was born.
For those of you who need a memory jog/introduction ...

Wrestler Sam 2004
He looks really happy, doesn't he?
This is Sammy at 1 month old. I think the singlet says up to 11 lbs or starting at 11? Either way, If I remember correctly, he fit the criteria in these photos.

Next, we have Sammy at 13 months. Still fits! 2005

Still not exactly happy to be in this thing!

He does looked pretty ripped for a 13 month old, though!

Enter 4 year old Sam. Still fits! 2009

Look at that cute little behind!

These boys are too much!!

Videos of Things we learned this week.

Matt went away and the boys have been working hard on little feats. Here are a few of the things they picked up...
Sam has practiced throwing the football...

Catching the football...

A long throw...

And how to get hit in the face...

JT has been busy learning how to snap! Turn your volume up really loud! :)

Sam has learned his phone number...

And he practiced with me while Daddy was gone, but it wasn't until Daddy got home that he did this... ( you probably want to turn down the volume for this one... it was pretty windy. But if you could have heard him, you would hear him humming the entire way down and back! :) )