Halloween 2010

Tonight was our wards Trunk-or-Treat... Yea! All of us dressed up this year. Here are the pictures of the family... I'm gonna go sneak some of my kids candy... ;)
Cor and the Boys
Ang and the Boys
Ang as a Pirate Wench
Cor as a Soccer Dude
Jovin as Woody
Mayer as Diego
Pierce as Mario
Tjay as Eeyore

Hmmmmmmmmmm, candy.... aaaggggghhh.... *drool....

First Day of School

Today is Jovin's first day of school. Oh the excitement and sadness that happened this morning.

We all got up and got ready for the day. I was highly surprised that I got everyone fed, and dressed and ready to go out the door at 8am. Not something I thought I could do. Ever. It's good to know that I can... or at least did one time. :)
We drove to Jovin's school and had to park what felt like a mile away to walk him to his classroom. Jovin had his backpack on and was so excited that he practically skipped to school. Once we got to his classroom he said good morning to his teacher and she told us to pin on his going home badge. What that is a badge in the shape of a car, with his name on it and it. This way the teachers know that he is going to be picked up at the end of the day by a car, and not be buses, or go to the after school program. He was excited to be wearing his name on him. The teacher then told us that school would start and the bell would ring in about 10 minutes so we could wait outside with the rest of the students.


Jovin went and put his backpack on the ground in line with the other backpacks and wanted to go and play with his new friends. Now I planned on staying until he walked into his classroom with the class. But, I knew that if Mayer, and Pierce saw him go and play on the playground they would want to too, and families were told to not stay and linger after school had started. So dragging two kids off a playground screaming when school was in session was not appealing. So I tried to just talk to Jovin until school started. He was very persistent to want to go and play with his new friends. So I said okay, and I asked him if I could get a hug and kiss first. He said sure and gave me a tight hug and little kiss. He then looked at me and got a little teary eyed. I just about broke down and started bawling right there. It was all I could do to NOT cry. As he blinked back the tears he smiled and asked me if I would leave. I was surprised and a little hurt by his sudden request. Since I knew I was close to losing it, it was time for me to leave my little man at school.
I told him to have a fun day and I'd be there to pick him up at the end of school. He waved to me and ran to the playground without even looking back at me and his brothers.


Well Mayer and Pierce were not too happy about leaving the school. Pierce was crying and kept looking back towards the school and saying, "Jovin, Jovin" and then looking at me like I'd done some horrible thing by leaving him behind. Then Mayer was crying and saying, "I miss Jovin!". Tjay was in the stroller kicking his fat, chubby feet and chewing on his toys. He couldn't have cared what was going on. So there we were 3 of the 4 of us walking the mile back to the van crying.
I can't believe that Jovin is in Kindergarten already. He's gone all day now too. The schools here have all day Kindergarten. So I keep looking at the clock just itching to go and pick him up and hear all about his first day at school. :)

Growing Up

Okay so I've been like the BIGGEST slacker EVER about blogging lately. So here's the latest.

4 kids under the age of 4 1/2 is really hard. I'm not gonna lie and sugar coat things. It's hard. But, it will get easier. At least that is what I tell myself about 100 times a day. Okay make that 101 for today, Mayer just dumped the goldfish crackers all over the floor and Pierce just walked in them... It will get easier, It will get easier...

Anywho, I took Pierce and Tjay in for their check-ups. Doing that with 4 kids whoa! Not fun. They both needed shots, and Jovin and Mayer kept trying to get out of the doctor's office.

Pierce is doing great. He's now 20 months old and weighs, 31 pounds (93%), and is 36 inches tall (98%)! He's is talking and doing everything he can to drive Momma up the wall by pretending to not listen to what I ask him to do. He's a cute little stinker.

Tjay is doing great. He's 3 months old now and weights, 15 pounds (90%), and is 25 1/2 inches long (90%). He loves it when his brothers talk to him and he LOVES being held. He'll snuggle with you all day if you let him. :) He has the cutest smile and laugh now. He is also sleeping a good 6 to almost 7 hours at night. (Now watch I just ruined my good luck.)

Just so you know... Mayer is turning 3 this week, and loves to play on the computer and wii. Also, along with Pierce the whole pretending to not listen. Why they think it is funny. I'll never understand.


Jovin is 4 1/2 and just got glasses. He was having a hard time seeing things and tilting his head to focus. So he has joined the club of 4 eyes. :) He can't wait to start school this August either. Like Mayer he LOVES playing the wii and computer, and helping Momma whenever she'll let him. :)

Well that's it for now... Hopefully I'll be better at this. (We'll see...)

Halloween 2009

Our new ward had their "Trunk or Treat" last night. So the boys got to wear their Halloween costumes a little early this year.


Jovin LOVES to play Mario Kart on the Wii and he is REALLY good at it. So this Halloween when I asked him what he wanted to dress up as I shouldn't have been surprised that he wanted to be Mario. He then talked Mayer into being Luigi. I know it would have been more appropriate to have Jovin as Luigi since he is taller but since he is older and actually cares about dressing up as someone for Halloween I didn't push the issue.


They were a hit at the ward party. Everyone including the other kids loved that Mario and Luigi were there. Eeyore was a hit too. Pierce was just too cute as my little Eeyore. :)

Much thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Johnson for finding overalls that will fit the boys and helping get their costumes ready. With us moving and living down here in Phoenix overalls were hard to find. :)

Jovin turns 4!!!

Well it has been a long time since I've posted anything... Well with packing and moving I finally found the camera and the cord to connect it to the laptop to download the pictures. So here we go!


Jovin had a wonderful birthday. He had been waiting for his birthday and his party for a LONG time. Ever since Mayer's birthday he's been asking when his was. He got to open some presents in the morning, then pretty much do whatever he wanted the rest of the day.

That night we went to the park to have his birthday party. He invited his favorite friends to come and play with him. The kids played on the playground while the adults sat and chitchatted. (That was nice.) :)




With everything going on with packing up the house and everything I didn't have it in me to make him the Mickey Mouse cake that he wanted. I knew that when I did a Spongebob cake last year I was only setting my self up to disappoint every year after. I'll have to really try next year. Hopefully we won't be moving and I KNOW I won't be pregnant next year. :)

Here's the cake, pretty sad huh? I doesn't help that stupid Phoenix is so hot that the frosting melted. That's why the cake looks pathetic.
Anyway, I can't believe my little Mr. Man is the big 0-4! :) He is such a big helper to me with his younger brothers. I love playing games with him and reading books. He is really smart and a joy to have in our family. We love you Jovin!! :)

Something to Share...

New Things We Learned Today

We've learned a few new things from Jovin today...

After church I asked him what he learn in Primary. Here is the following conversation:
Me: What did you learn in Primary today Jovin?
Jovin: We looked for the Holy Ghost.
Me: Where did you find the Holy Ghost?
Jovin: He was hiding behind the piano.

Lesson #1: The Holy Ghost can be found behind the piano.

We were getting ready for dinner here's a conversation between Jovin and Cory.
Jovin: I want to play hide and seek.
Cory: We'll play after dinner. Jovin, my tummy is saying it's really hungry and that it wants me to feed it. It's saying, feed me.
Jovin: Well my tummy says it wants to play hide and seek.

Lesson #2: Jovin's tummy can play hide and seek.

While we were fixing dinner Star Wars (the good episodes IV - VI) was on tv. While Cory was loading the dishwasher Jovin asked him to come sit with him. Cory went and sat next to Jovin on the couch and Jovin pointed to the tv and said, "I love this show!"

Lesson #3: Jovin really is OUR child if he can sit and watch Star Wars and know after 15 minutes that he loves the show. :)

Two Kids and the Zoo...

Last Friday I took Jovin and Mayer to the zoo. Oh, boy was that fun. :) Jovin does really well staying near me and I never have to chase after him anymore. So I put Mayer in the stroller, it was almost nap time anyway so I figured he'd sleep in the stroller. Boy was I wrong. He wanted to walk around like Jovin. So I figured if I let Mayer walk around for a while he'll get really tired and want to ride in the stroller. Wrong again! He walked the whole time we were at the zoo. :) He stayed near me and held hands with Jovin too. It was really cute.


They went and played on the little playground they had there. It was cute, I think they did that longer than the time we spend looking at animals. :)


We got to ride on the carousel too. It was pretty windy there and they closed it after our ride. I'm glad they waited until we rode, cause I promised the boys we'd ride it before we left the zoo. :)
It was fun, we missed Cor and Pierce they were spending some time at home. :) We'll take them with us next time. :)

On the way home we got stuck in traffic. It was really upsetting to Jovin. He kept telling me to go faster and move into another lane so we could go faster. I'm a little concerned about when he gets to the age to drive. I think he'll have some road rage problems. :) This is a pic of him yelling at the drivers around us to "Get out of my Momma's way!" (Isn't he sweet!)

Then the last 20 minutes home they both crashed. :) Ah, the quiet part of the trip. :)

Sunday Best

It's not that often that I can get a picture of the boys, all dressed up and cute, before we rush out the door to get to church on time. Actually, Cor took these pictures while I was trying to finish getting ready. Aren't they handsome!?! I'm not sure why Pierce is fully dressed and in the baby tub, you'll have to ask Cor about that. :)

New Things Happening

Jovin has really been into playing Mario Kart on the wii. He used to only do the battles cause you don't have to stay on a set course. He can now do the races too. He's gotten really good at it. He begs me daily and multiple times a day to play.


Pierce is doing GREAT sitting on his own. I would always start him out with the boppy around him cause he's so chunky that if he just started to lean a direction he'd fall right over. Well now he immediately rolls off the boppy and goes and sits himself up somewhere else and plays with toys. I took the hint today and not once used the boppy. He did great. Caught him self twice and once really smacked his head, but Jovin was jumping to make him laugh so he didn't cry too much. :)

Mayer got a new hair cut the other day. I miss his curls, but it was getting SO long that it was time for a trim. He looks older to me, but that could also be because he turns 2 tomorrow. :)


Pierce is pretty much crawling. More still scooting around backwards but he has made it forward a couple of times. He is all over the place and getting suck places now too. Oh the joys. It was funny the first day he figured that he could move around I had him in the boppy on the floor and I went in the kitchen to start lunch when I came back in the living room I couldn't find him. I started to panic, I know he couldn't walk out the door but how do you loose a kid in a house!?! Jovin then started laughing at me cause I was walking from room to room calling out "Chunkers where are you?" and Jovin laughed and said, "Momma he's stuck by the couch" while pointing to the spot where Pierce had wedged himself between the wall and the couch. He just BARELY fit. :) I walked past him like 3 times and didn't hear him or see him.


This really isn't a "new" thing but it was cute. I tried to get a picture of him asleep at the end of his nap but I woke him up. Oops!

Simpsonized Killpack's '09

Just thought I'd update what we'd look like in Simpson form. :)

Boys Getting Their Groove On

Oh, this is Clap Your Hands, by They Might Be Giants. :)

My Little Guys

So I'm tired of having my little gripe session about my birthday be the thing that pulls up on our blog so time for something new... so here are some pictures of the boys that I took today. Enjoy! :)

Jovin, Pierce, and Mayer actually all looking at the camera and smiling.
Mayer (hands in mouth), Pierce (hands on legs), Jovin (finger in nose)
JOVIN
MAYER
PIERCE

Rub-A-Dub-Dub....

Three boys in a tub! :)

Our Favorite Jovinisms

Here are a couple of things that Jovin has done or said that put a smile on our face and made our day, so we wanted to share them so that they may put a smile on your face too. :)

This was one morning where Jovin was the first one up and he came to Cory's side of the bed and had the following conversation.
Jovin: "Are you awake Daddy?"
Cory: "What do you think?"
Jovin: "I THINK you're awake..." :)

There was a Fast Sunday a couple of months ago where Jovin was really restless. He really wanted out of Sacrament meeting and to go to nursery and play with the toys. Well since it was Sacrament meeting on a Fast Sunday people were getting up to bear their testimonies. We were about half way through the meeting and one of the Brothers ends his testimony like everyone else "Amen" and Jovin thought it was the end of a prayer so he says "Amen, okay let's go!" and gets up to leave. We had to sit him back down and explain to him that is how people close their testimonies during Sacrament meeting on Fast Sunday and it wasn't the end of a prayer. We told him that he would have to sit down for a while longer. Jovin's response was "AWW CRAP!" really loud, and sat down hard on the bench, right during another testimony. The people that were sitting around us got a kick out of it. (btw, he learned "aww crap" from me.) :)

The following is a conversation between Cory and Jovin at Halloween.
Cory: "What does candy corn smell like?"
Jovin then takes a big sniff of the candy corn and says, "tasty!":)

One night while I was at mutual Cory was putting the boys down for bed and the lights were out. Jovin proceeds to freak out. Cory asks him what is wrong and he keeps saying that his seat belt isn't on. Cory is really confused and tells him that he doesn't have a seat belt for his bed and doesn't need one cause seat belts are only in cars. This only makes Jovin freak out more. So in the dark Cory feels around to see what Jovin could possibly be having a problem with. He notices that Jovin has his hands on his pajamas. Now these are the kind that are a one piece that have feet and you zip them up in. Jovin had his hands on the clasp that goes over the zipper at the top of his pajamas on his chest. The clasp was not fastened so Cory clasped it and Jovin immediately calmed right down. To this day he still calls it his seat belt. :)

The other day I was in the bathroom doing my hair and I could hear Mayer and Jovin doing something in the kitchen. It sounded pretty noisy so I asked Jovin what they were doing. Jovin's reply was, "something we shouldn't be doing". He was right they were both climbing on the kitchen table to stand and jump on it. At least he was honest right? Although he hasn't given me that reply since. I think he caught on that lets me know he should be in trouble for what he is doing. :)

One day Jovin was having a rough time. Mayer and Pierce were down for a nap and he was BORED! He had also been in time out a lot that day. Which means he was not a very good boy. So I was trying to get some housework done and I made some suggestions of things he could do. This was his reply...
"I don't want to play with toys, I don't want to read a book, I don't want to watch TV... I want to be naughty." :)