1.4.10

An Evening at the Zamora's

What do the following two pictures have in common?



Give up?

Hiding spots for the kids!


We LOVE playing hide and seek! You'd think after playing so many times on the same floor of the house (upstairs) that we'd run out of places to hide... nope. Tonight Bec helped the kids find spots, helping them get in, and out.

Love this game.

30.3.10

Picasso who?

Who needs expensive art work hanging on their walls when they have a five and six year old who leave notes and art work like these all around the house???

Dallin and Kailee love drawing and coloring. Especially lately, it seems Bec and I turn the corner to find some note or drawing taped on the wall, hidden beneath our pillows, on our night-stands, or any other location they find clever at the moment...

I'll decipher and translate as needed, seeing how they're still learning how to spell:

(D's a BIG BYU fan...)

D: " I love my dad. He is nice. My dad loves me."
"My mom is nice"
"I know that my mom will give me a kiss."

"My mom loves me and I love my mom."
(inside the envelope taped to the paper was another note: "I love you mom.")
"This is me. I am making my mom and dad's bed"
(he even drew the vaulted ceiling, ceiling mounted light, attempted to paint the walls, AND drew the light in the room below us)

"I have been playing with my dad."
"I love you mom and dad."
"Ella can come to my birthday. From Kailee"
(Ella-on the back side of the note above)

I, Dallin Zamora,
Do not want to drive
a car until I am
18 years old.
signed: Dallin Zamora"
(This one is definitely going in the ZamFam's archive under "D Blackmail". Of course, by the time he's old enough to drive we'll have two-almost three-teenagers and will most likely be relieved he can do some of the driving... Still, it may come in handy one day.)

25.3.10

Potty Training...

Yes, that's right... we're venturing into that phase once again.

I received a phone call from Becky yesterday afternoon letting me know that Tylie went "pee-pee on the potty" before nap-time, woke up with a dry diaper, and then went on the toilet again right after waking up! SO exciting! Yet, odd to think that our little girl (who-I might add is still small enough to fully fall through the toilet seat if she isn't careful) is starting to potty train. We know there's still a long road ahead of us, and it won't happen overnight. But still!

One of the hard things, for me at least, is that she's at that age where many of her words sound the same. Just after we tucked the kids in to bed last night, Ty started saying "Pee-pee! Pee-pee!" So I went into the girls' room, asked if she had to go pee-pee (which she said yes) and then took her to the bathroom. I sat there on the bathroom floor for a few minutes, all the while Ty sat there giving me the cutest little grins and caressing my cheek as if she were trying to get out of a punishment, looking all around the bathroom, then reaching for toilet paper when NOTHING had even come out yet! Bec walked in and said, "She wasn't saying 'pee-pee', she was saying 'SIPPY'!" (figures.) Got her diaper back on, tucked her back into bed, and gave her her sippy cup-which was all she wanted...

Regardless, she's been successful at going in the potty, and we're excited at the thought of having three potty trained kids AND only needing diapers at night!

5.3.10

Date Night...

I love Date Night...
A night Bec and I have to ourselves.
Occasional double dates are fun and enjoyable.
But I truly enjoy our one-on-one time; out of the house; without the kids.

The kids are getting their pj's on as we speak.
Bec's in the bathroom putting on her make-up.
I'm anxiously waiting.


27.2.10

Family Pictures

Is it just me, or is taking family pictures a pretty daunting task? There's choosing and coordinating the right outfits, finding the right location at the right time of day, getting the kids to smile, getting the kids to smile while looking at the camera, getting the kids to smile while looking at the camera all at the same time... funny, but I am now realizing why family pictures from the Pioneer era seldom included smiling faces! Thank goodness for digital cameras that allow for hundreds of pictures that yield at least a few noteworthy shots (and let us not forget Photoshop)!

Seeing how we didn't make it out to take pictures during the summer (or even fall) before winter came, we decided to take some inside shots of the kids and us all together. Here are some of my favorites:

Us
Dallin
Kailee
Tylie


24.1.10

"The Shicken's Dead"

On the weekends I make a warm breakfast for the kids. Nothing huge or grand... Usually just scrambled eggs & cheese for Ty, and eggs-over-easy for D & K. This morning I took out three eggs to get started. While I was mixing the first two eggs and getting ready to scramble them, Kailee came over to the stove and asked: "Dad, did you kill a chicken?" I giggled and said, "No sweetie. There wasn't a chicken in the egg. The egg came from the chicken and that's what we're eating."

I proceeded to cook the eggs and served them on the plate for Ty. When I went to get the other egg, it was missing. My first thought was perhaps I had dropped it on the floor and somehow didn't notice it.

Nope.

I then started looking on the counter to see if it rolled away (you know-since eggs always do that...) when I noticed K laying on the sofa in a somewhat-fetal position looking sad. I said, "K K? Are you alright?" She got up and walked over to me with her hands bundled up in her shirt and in quite a sad voice said, "I don't want the chicken to die! I'm trying to warm it up!" I tried not laughing, but how could you not when history almost repeats itself??? (for those of you not familiar-Bec had a similar experience with her mom when she was little) Kailee took the egg off the stove when I wasn't looking and wrapped it up in her pj shirt! She was trying to revive it back to life! She looked so heart broken when I asked her to give it back to me. I had to go into some serious details on the gestation of an egg (and with my last biology class YEARS ago-I couldn't remember any details...) and how we're NOT killing a chicken when we eat eggs. She felt better (or as she says, "Bether") and was perfectly fine eating her eggs-over-easy after-all.

The funny thing was, Dallin listened intently to the entire conversation as if these were thoughts he had thought before, just never asked. Guess this morning was their Intro to Biology lesson!

21.1.10

Step One... change background = CHECK!

You'd think that by now I would've learned how to change the background on our blog! But no...

I can't tell you how many man hours I've spent trying to get it figured out. I came up with this design in Photoshop that I wanted to use as the background-nothing spectacular or anything. Just something to get rid of our Christmas background! Also, something to get the ball rolling with us blogging again... but I just couldn't for the life of me get it to work coming from photobucket.

Then I thought, Alright. I'll just use one of the "cutestblogsontheblock" templates... And still-it took me forever to get that to work... sheesh... you'd think I'd never used a computer before.

Finally. I am here. On the other end of the first hurdle looking forward to more to come. I guess I shouldn't take too long of a break, since we have yet many pictures and stories to catch you all up on!