Sparks Family

Spring Break in D.C.

2011-04-02T10:17:00.000-07:00

This year for Spring Break we went to Washington D.C. to stay with Aunt Jocie, Uncle Zack and Baby Millie. We had the best trip ever! The boys kept saying that D.C. was better than Disneyland!

Aunt Jocie arranged a ton of fun tours and things for us to see. We went to the White House, Supreme Court and the Capitol for tours and then saw the Smithsonians, and went to Amish country and the Hershey factory in Pennsylvania. Ethan's favorite thing was Ford's Theater (he is a serious Presidential history nut!). Kaden loved the Air and Space Smithsonian, Linc. loved Bebe Mimi (cousin Millie), Miah enjoyed watching the boys play around the Lincoln memorial and I loved everything!!

Disneyworld

2010-10-26T07:58:00.001-07:00

5K Run with my Love

2010-09-26T09:54:00.000-07:00

This Saturday Eth and I woke up early and headed out for Keller Town Hall to run in a 1 mile fun run. When we got there we found that all of the spots were gone for the 1 mile but there were spots open in the 5K. I wasn't sure that it was the best idea for my buddy's first run, but he covinced me he could do it so we went for it. It was raining and kind of miserable, but my little man hung in there. He was by far the youngest child in the 5K and so that helped us develop quite a fan base. At every water stop or road block people cheered him on and he ate it up! It was a great experience, I am so proud of him!

1st day of school and Linc. turns 1!

2010-08-30T07:47:00.000-07:00

Funny boys

2010-08-30T07:42:00.000-07:00

My boys, as all parents must say, are constantly making us laugh and smile. But, Kaden takes the cake. He is such a funny little man, who has a knack for putting his clothes on backwards and his shoes on the wrong feet, sunglasses upside down etc. He's not doing it to be funny, the man just happens to get things on backwards, you would think 50% of the time they would be on correctly but nope, it must be about 80% backward, and that is better than it was a few months ago. When he does it, he insists on keeping them that way, he says they look better, so, my 4 year old goes around town with his clothes on backwards and he likes it. Probably once a month I hear a loud crash and it is Kade running into a wall because he likes to walk around with his eyes closed or with a paper bag or pillow case on his head. He has an imaginary pet Hamster named "Scooby Ham" who is always talking to him, singing with him etc. He also once a day asks "Whoa, did you see that? I just won Indiana Jones Wii in my head!" or "Do you hear that? That song that is singing in my head?" About a month ago he looked at me with a big sigh and then said "Mom, I lost a life today. I was walking down the street and it jumped in the trash can." I guess he thinks he is like a cat and has a few lives to spare. He thinks that Jesus is made of marshmallows, because he is "really white and fluffy". The man lives in his own reality and it is a funny world. I adore my little boyfriend!

Ethan Swim team

2010-07-23T06:41:00.000-07:00

This summer Eth has been competing on our community swim team the Heritage Hurricanes. These are 2 of his favorite coaches. He practiced everyday of the week except Mondays which were meet days. They worked the kids really hard, and I thought he would get burned out, but he loved it.

Family

2010-07-09T20:23:00.001-07:00

Grandma and Grandpa Urish and my gorgeous niece Ki came out to stay with us for a couple of weeks while Mi and I went on a trip to Curacao in April. We spent a few days before we left having fun at the Great Wolf Lodge which is about 20 mins. from our house. The boys loved having them here, and almost didn't seem to want us to come home.

Branson Trip

2010-07-09T20:12:00.000-07:00

A few months ago the boys and I took a LONG road trip to Branson Missouri to meet our good friends the Sneddons. We had so much fun, staying in a cabin, making smores, playing in the hot tub and doing a "Ride the Ducks" boat/road tour. It was so heart breaking to say goodbye to our friends, wow we miss them! I wish that I could have taken a picture of Ethan and his girlfriend Kate with her head on his shoulder, holding hands, watching a movie together. It was cute, he adores her, and swears she is the only girl for him. She is wonderful and beautiful, and has the greatest parents on the planet, so I am on board!

Linc.

2010-06-17T18:57:00.000-07:00

Linc. is a sweet, easy going little lover. For a long time he just had one little tooth, it was so cute, he now has another right next to it and it seems a lot more soon to come.

We call him the puppy because he likes to lick everything. We have been told that the muscle under Kade's tongue is too short so it causes him to struggle with some words. Somehow I don't think Linc. will have that problem.

Happy National Wacky Hat Day!!

2010-03-15T13:15:00.001-07:00

So, a while ago it was National Wacky Hat Day. The boys thought that would be a great time for Mom to show how creative she is. Those who know me know that I am painfully un-crafty, but I was pretty proud of myself with Kade's rabbit hat and Ethan's crazy graduation hat. Obviously, I ran out of steam by the time it came to Lincoln, the poor little man got a plastic cup tied to his head and Ethan taped a sign on top of it which read "kiss me naw" (kiss me now). The boys wanted to parade all around town wearing their hats for about a week straight, until tragedy struck and Kade's was sat on and Ethan's eaten by the dog.

My cute boys

2010-03-15T13:06:00.000-07:00

The boys have been begging to ride this train since we moved here. It rides under an over pass and through a kind of ghetto park in downtown, so I kept evading their requests, but I finally gave in. It was actually fun... I like seeing people warm their hands over a fire in a trash can how about you?

Wow I am stupid! or... The Boys Christmas Present

2010-01-10T19:06:00.001-08:00

Something is wrong with me. This November I asked the boys to write a Christmas list, and both boys returned with only one thing on both lists. A dog. So, I tried for weeks to show them ads and commercials to get them interested in anything else, but to no avail. Ethan has been putting money in a piggy bank for about two years now and saving for a dog- since we used the expense as our excuse for not getting one. I realized after I saw their lists that I was done for, so we drove out to a farm and picked up this cute little lab. Her name is Cali and she is a good dog, but I am still the world's biggest idiot, not only am I changing diapers, but I am also cleaning up after a dog and trying to stop her from destroying our fairly new house. I'm a sucker, what can I say.

Lincoln

2010-01-09T20:29:00.000-08:00

This is what our sweet little Linc looks like all the time. He is the easiest, smiliest little person on the planet. He loves going to movies with us, he'll just sit in his car seat or on my lap and watch quietly, and always with that perfect little smile on his face.

I know that we are doomed, since we have the world's easiest babies doesn't that mean we have to have trouble from these kids sometime? Maybe the teenage years?!?

Big Damage

2010-01-09T20:26:00.000-08:00

So, I had to post this up because this picture is just so classic of what happens in our house on a daily basis.

Ethan is so sweet and sensitive, always trying to love his brothers, and Kade, well...

Kaden has been aptly named "Big Damage" by Uncle Mark.

When we told Ethan that we were pregnant with Linc he said "oh great, another one to beat up on me". Yep, Big Damage sure does live up to his name.

AND TWO BOYS BECOME THREE...

2009-04-21T12:30:00.000-07:00

Yikes! We found out that our #3 little person due in August is another boy. I am terrified. Actually, I would probably be more terrified at the thought of having a girl. Makeup, hair, hormones, yep I would definitely be more scared for a girl, but the chaos that another little man will bring is also pretty terrifying. I guess I just need to face it, being a parent is just scary to me. Should I get help for this issue??

Monkey's throwing poo

2008-11-10T14:53:00.000-08:00

Wow, look at me go with this blogging thing. Is this what happens? You start and then can't stop. No, sorry, I think I will still be lame and have big pauses in between each post.

A few days ago we went to the zoo in Ft. Worth (the boys and I). Kaden loves the monkeys, especially the Chimpanzees, we have spent hours watching them play, waiting for the baby Chimp to be born, giving them our own names and making up stories about them as though they are really people etc. This visit we noticed some excrement on the window and I had to explain how monkeys are unlike people in that they do things that we would consider gross, ie. playing with their poop. This seemed to rock Kaden's world, he couldn't believe that his beloved friends would do something like this. While the poor boy was trying to deal with this shift in reality, our favorite Chimp 'Maynard' decided to hurl some poop right at the window where it splatted right at Kade's face. Kade let out a high pitched shriek and then ran to hide near the gorillas, and then thought they might throw poop at him as well and insisted upon leaving the Monkey house immediately. We ran out with him shaking and shouting "that is not nice Maynard! I not throw poop at you! I never coming back!" Ever since then, a few times a day, he'll turn to me with a confused look on his face and say "Mom monkey's throw poo.". Anyway, here is a photo of him feeding birds (my attempt to get his mind off Maynard's betrayal).

California

2008-11-10T14:31:00.001-08:00

Grandma and Kade with their Halloween masks

Grandpa and Eth had vampire teeth

At the museum in St. George with Grandma

california pictures

2008-11-10T14:21:00.000-08:00

Trip to Ca.

2008-11-07T20:36:00.001-08:00

Okay, so I have received way too many comments that you can't have a blog and not update it. So, I am going to try.

Last week we got home from a 2 week vacation to California. It was good, we saw a lot of family and friends, went to Disneyland, went to St. George to see my parents new place and most importantly spent some quality time at the hospital with Nate. For those of you who don't know, Jeremiah's younger brother Nate who is 17 has a very aggressive form of Leukemia and is currently undergoing chemo. He, is doing really well this round and so it was fun for the boys to have some time with him and reassuring for them to see him so up. He even has the energy for wheelchair tricks. He and Miah were having fun until he tipped over. The boys were traumatized and for the rest of the evening Kade wouldn't stop saying "Daddy don't tip Nate" or "Not so fast with my Nate Daddy". They both absolutely adore Nate and hate living so far from him now. It was obvious he misses them too.

Overall it was a great trip but it is nice to be back in our own beds.

Little Men

2008-04-02T08:30:00.000-07:00

Sparks Boys

2008-04-02T08:23:00.000-07:00