A rare primary moment

The primary president called me today to share a story about Spencer today during shring time.
She said they were haveing a lesson on The Holy Ghost and what it was and how it helps our lives. She said that before she realized what she had asked to a group of junior primary kids who probably had no idea what to answer the question came out; Have any of you felt the Holy Ghost in your life? Spencer raised his hand enthusiastically, she said he was just bright eyed and could hardly sit still waiting to be called on. So she called on him. His response was "Well last week my dad wanted to teach me how to ride a two wheeler with out my training wheels on. It was really hard at first but then I got it and  (giggle giggle) now I am riding my BIG Brothers old bike...with two wheels. My dad helped me do that." Then she said they all cheered for him and gave him a "mommy"  chuckle and she went on to try to show how this story could  tie back into the discussion and Spencer blurted out " The Holy Ghost guided my dad to help me learn to ride with two wheels. She was so impressed by his little spirit and his intelligent answer, it floored her and she never imagined such a concept would come from a little five yr old boy. He taught her something today about how much Heavenly Father loves his children.

I am so proud of my boys!!! They teach me so much about the Gospel, he was a little stinker all morning and throughout sacrament meeting. I wonder sometimes if anything gets into his little brain besides how to plot his next naughty move. Then this story and well I am still bawling about it. I love this kid so much and I wouldn't change a thing about him.

This picture was taken the night of his kindergarten concert but I thought it was appropriate for this story. He does not like to get this dressed up on Sundays at all. He prefers play clothes.

Tristan and the hairy dinner conversation.

Tristan came down to dinner tonight after barging into the bathroom while daddy was in the shower.

He sits down next to Chase and says..... "Chase... guess what dad just told me..... he said that when we are teenagers we are going to have hair all over our bodies!!!"

Chase laughing says...." yeah I know "

Tristan's response was  "ugggh I don't want to be hairy..."

Chase says " yeah dad is a hairy guy."

I almost spewed food across the table.  This is what dinner conversation is like when you live with boys.  I love it !!!!!!!

Kids in Motion

The boys had a chance to participate in a free afterschool program at the Y . The program taught them about healthy choices for our bodies and our tummies. The boys were able to exercise for an hour and then sit down to a healthy snack and learn about how healthy it is and why the body needs healthy food. It was a great program and they all came home tired but full. They tried all kinds of new foods they would never try with me so I loved that part of the program. They loved wall climing the best. I took way more videos than pictures

catching up

It has been a while since my last post, life got in the way of my plan to blog every day. SO I have added quite a few tonight and I will try again to be better at blogging at least once a week for now. I have decided that I need to set smaller goals for myself so I don't get discouraged quite so easily with myself. I love reading all of your blogs and catching up with your families. Thank you for being my friends and I love you all. Here is what's been going on in My Life With Boys lately. Enjoy!!!!

And now introducing "Battle Scars" Nuttall

Attention friends and family, we have a new member to tell you about. Spencer would like all to know that he is officially changing his name to "Battle Scars" Nuttall!!
We took the boys sledding on Saturday after the big storm the day before, The Union street  hill was pretty icy but it is not steep and the boys didn't care about the ice they could not wait to go sledding. Spencer has no fear and he only goes one speed "Fast" no matter what he is doing. So the three boys hop on one slide and race down the hill. We had many tumbles when they all three rode together. Tristan had just recently fell off his sled and he hit the ground so hard his hat flew off, but he got up and ran up the hill screaming with delight mom did you see that did you see that??  Tristan came out with a red road rash over his left eye and a grin from ear to ear. After that incident I moved them over to a milder slope. Once again the three of them hopped on a sled and raced down the hill. They hit a patch of ice and all three tumbled off. Spencer hit face first on the ice. He wasn't crying but he was not laughing either. His brothers helped him up the hill and he was bleeding from his lip. Of course I figured he had broken something again and we were off to get more stitches. Luckily it was just scratches and in my delight I made him laugh!!!

 We were driving to Church the next day and Spencer says to me in a pathetic sad voice " Mom I don't want to be called Stinky Pete any more" I said ok well if you don't want us to call you that we will call you Spencer, He replied "No Mom I want to be called Battle Scars!!!!!" the way he said it was hilarious I laughed so hard I almost veered off the road. He had been thinking about what daddy and I had told him about those battle scars to calm him down, and then the boys were talking about telling everyone at church what happened to Spencer and Tristan's face and he decided he was proud of his new stardom as an injured sledder, I think daddy said something to him about shredding the hill and how cool his face looked, I don't remember, they went to the car to take care of his face while I stayed with the other two boys on the hill. He loves saying his new name and he adds flair to it every time he says it, his voice gets deep like a tv announcer it is a riot!!

This was taken the day after! The right side had a few cuts on it as well but they healed over night. In short it looked alot worse on Sat.

Tristan's Camera

Tristan got a real camera for Christmas. He is always taking pictures with my ipod and he is getting really good so we decided he was ready for his first camera. He takes some great pictures of his brothers and family. Here is a shot of the artist himself showing off his new favorite hat. Then  a few shots he took on his new camera.

         
                                               Super Tristan

He wanted a picture of his family on Christmas day

Self portrait or silliness with a camera???

Proud cub scout

 Chase worked hard in Cubscouts and earned his wolf badge this year. We are so proud of him. He has a small pack with only one other cubscout but that does not stop them from doing great things.
In December we took them to the Maine Veterans Home and gave the residents home made Christmas Cards and said Merry Christmas and thank you for seving our country. I forgot the camera that night but the images of those boys, Tristan and Spencer got to be honorary cub scouts that night just made me cry as they shook hands and gave thanks to those wonderful retired vets. I am so proud of them for not fooling around, they took it seriously and sincerely thanked them, it was a sweet moment and I will never forget it.

After the award ceremony we partied it up with pumkin carving and chocolate treats YUMMY!

Spencer's laundry experience

Once upon a time three little boys were sent to clean their room and put away laundry. The youngest of the three was not too happy about the task at hand. Instead he decided to play tag with his brothers. While playing tag he jumped off his toy box and landed nose first onto a wooden

dresser drawer. Downstairs mom heard the laughter of three naughty boys, then a huge thud,and screaming followed by the running of little feet. With the running of feet and screaming came  frantic calls of mom mom Spencer is hurt bad mixed in with Spencer's screams.

To my horror Spencer was holding a bloody nose and his whole arm was dripping with blood.

I yelled for dad and we assessed the damage. Yep he split his nose right at the tip and slightly to the left.......stitches!!!

We piled into the car and headed to quick care. We were told at quick care that there was too much damage for them to repair it there and we really needed to go to the hospital.

We called a friend to take the boys home and stay with them and daddy and mommy and Spencer headed to the ER.

When we arrived they were not ready for us like the quick care people said they would be, what that meant was we had to start all over again with registration and waiting; lots and lots of waiting and very little information. The nurse gave him some gauze with lidocaine on it to numb the pain and we were sent to the kids area to wait our turn.

With out thinking  I bought us all sandwiches to eat while we waited. After 2 hours of waiting we finally saw a doctor and she called in an ear nose and throat specialist. He was going to need stitches and putting him under would be the best choice because of where the cut was. Oh and by the way when did he eat last?????  I humbly said 2 hours ago,

In order to have surgery and not get sick from the anaesthesia he had to have nothing in his stomach for 6 hours. SO we were in for a very long night. They got him a bed in pediatrics and we were scheduled for surgery at 1 am.

He ended up with 6 stitches, four inside his nose to sew up the cartalage he tore and 2 outside to stich the skin.

He was a trooper and only cried when they put in the I.V. at around 10 p.m. He loved being the center of attention and showing off his nose bandage in the ER.

According to his report he saw 12 ambulances 4 firetrucks,and  three construction trucks while waiting in the ER. The highlight of his night though was when he got back to his room after they put his IV in; a life flight helicopter landed on the helipad right outside his window. He went to sleep a happy boy and slept through the entire surgery.

When asked if he was going to do that again, he said I will make sure the drawer is always closed.

That is our life with Spencer!!!

Halloween 2011

We did a Star Wars theme this year. I was not able to go to the trunk or treat with them as I had to take a group of youth to the temple. The boys had a great time and I had a fun safe trip to the temple which I will need to blog about later.

Welcome home Jonathan

Jonathan came home from Afghanistan and just happened to have a layover in Bangor ME, so we packed up the camera and got the kids from school and headed to the airport to see him for a while before he headed on to his mom and sister !! The boys loved seeing all the soldiers and talking with Jonathan but i think the best part for them was riding up and down an escalator about 15 times. Jonathan was super patient and got a kick out of going up and down it with them. My boys can find just about anything to entertain themselves with.

I love them so much.

frogs and boys

Well frogs and boys go hand in hand. We tried to raise our own frogs over the summer after Tristan's
Kindergarten teacher gave us her tadpoles at the end of the school year. The boys were very excited and we trudged down the street to a river near our house every other day to get them fresh pond water.
We actually had one with legs that we affectionately named "big guy". One day daddy decided it would be better if the froglets lived in the garage instead of the counter, after only one day in the garage they all died. It was a sad day. We are not sure why they did, Well it turns out a week later Daddy was taking the boys to mud pond and on the way stopped by a friends house after spotting her outside in her yard, she was trying to clean her pool out and it was infested with none other than frogs tons of frogs. So we got frogs after all and they were much easier to take care of.

After a few days we decided to release them into a more natural habitat so we set off to mud pond to release the frogs.

                                                     


                                                       Run away little froggy run away!

After all the hard work of watching dad release the frogs the boys were ready to go swimming, But mom didn't pack the swim suits...............

That didn't stop them

They stripped to their undies and jumped in.