Owens Family

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Canyon Lake

My nieces have been coming out for 4 years now and I have always wanted to take them out on the boat but we have never been able to get it done. Well this year we finally got it accomplished. We had a full boat. Mom and dad, all 5 of us and my 2 nieces.

Me water skiing, the water was so choppie. I felt like the boat was going to rip my arms off.

The kids watching me ski

Ryan water skiing

What a cute boy

Our captain

Cyndi trying to ski

Shell trying to ski.

We bought this special kid ski to teach Hailey to ski. She refused to even try last year. and this year she tried begrudgingly. but I forgot to tell her to let go if her feet didn't stay in the ski's so they just pulled her behind the boat for a while.

We made Jacob get in the water. He wasn't to happy with us and didn't get in again.

Ben wasn't real happy to be in the water either but he got use to it. and enjoyed getting in with us.

Cyndi, me, and Mom. We had trouble getting back to the boat. Were not the best life jacket swimmers. So they laughed at us took pictures of our suffering.

Jacob was content to be the flag holders. Since he didn't want to get in the water. Shell and Ben hangin out on the boat.

Hailey and Cyndi. Cute girls.

We went sight seeing through the canyon. And when we got to the end there was this little Beach area so we stopped and let the little kids out to play for a little while.

The beach was the highlight of the boys day they got to play in the sand and they loved it.

Cyndi was Joe Cool. Cute baby Ben

Hailey and Pappy Hanging out in the boat.

Me and Hay in the tube. We made Daddy promise to not go to fast.

Cyndi tubing. I'm not sure if she's enjoying herself or scared.

Jacob's not much of a boater. He got sick and threw up in the boat. So when we stopped for lunch I bought some Dramamine but it made him sleepy. As we got back in the boat he stepped on a Bee that was on the floor of the boat. He had a rough day, and then slept for the last 1/2 of the boat trip.

Shell tubing. She really enjoyed it.

Me getting ready to tube. I made the mistake of sitting in the tube instead of laying on it. I thought it was going to rip my legs off.

Me and big Ben going for a ride.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Ice skating

For the past 4 years my brothers two girls have come out to stay with us for a week or more. I try to find new fun stuff for us to do. So this year we went ice skating. No one but Ryan had ever been before so It was a new experience for most of us.

Hailey and Shell & Cyndi.

Ryan skating circle around us.

Jacob hated it. He either cried or sat on the side line most of the time. We tried to help him as much as possible. Sometimes he would let us help.

Shell and Ryan trying to help Jacob.

Hailey and Daddy.

She's such a cute girl. Once she got the hang of it she had a lot of fun. She didn't even mind falling down.

towards the end Jacob got where he would at least try to skate. He would skate around the rink but he wouldn't let go of the wall.

Ryan and Shell and me and shell. Aren't we cute!!!

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Crazy People

I'm not really sure what they were all doing but they were all acting so crazy so I snapped a bunch of pictures. May be I'll use them as black mail later in life.

Bear is the only normal member of our family.

My Funny Kids

My kids say the funniest things and I never write them down so I'm going to try to write them down here

Tuesday April 19th 2011,
Me- Ben can I help you?,
Ben-NO,
Me- Ben do you know you have you underwear on insideout and backwards?
Ben-it's ok! I guess he likes it that way silly baby

Tursday April 14th 2011
It also makes me laugh that
Ben calls salt-sauce, and Pepper- Dr. Pepper.
He's so funny!!

Thursday April 14th 2011
Were in walmart and I told Ben we had to go look at Pyrex because Ryan broke mine last night Ben tells me I'm a big boy I can fix your "pirate"

Monday April 4,2011
My homework conversation with Jacob.
Jacob-“My eraser so short I can't bite it!”
Me-“Well your not suppose to be chewing on your pencil anyway!”
Jacob-“Well I know but it's so short I can't get it!”

Sunday January 2, 2011
Ben was evaluating peoples owies this morning
Ben-"where's your owie"
Me-"my nose
Ben- I don't see it
Me-it's was in my nose
Ben-he proceeded to try to look up my nose and told my the batteries must be dead he can't see

Saturday January 1, 2011
Ben-"absolutely" & "absolutely not"

Saturday December 4th, 2010
Hailey and Ryan--"Ben are you 3?"
Ben--screaming "NO I"m 2"

Tuesday November 30th, 2010
Jacob--"I wish Daddy was on field trip so I could sleep with you tonight"

Saturday November 27th, 2010
As we're driving home from tangled Jacob is planning out there future playing of "Tangled"
Jacob--"I'm going to be Flynn Ryder, Hailey's going to be Rapunzel, Ben who are you going to be?"
Ben--"I want to be Woody"

Tuesday November 9th, 2010
Hailey was telling me about her dream
Hailey-"and this part this concerned me" what 8 year old talks this way

Friday November 5th, 2010
woke up to coughing
Me--whose coughing and of course it was Hay great another sick kid. She crawled in Bed with me
Hailey-- "mom do I have to go to school"
Me-- "I will have to talk to Daddy when he gets out of the shower"
Hailey-- "well if you had to make a Hypothesis" and then starts to explain to me what a hypothesis is.
Little smarty pants

Thursday November 4th, 2010
Got home and Ryan had got the kids in bed already so I went in to kiss them goodnight
Ben--Mommy you came to get me to watch a show with you
Me--No it's time for bed
Ben--but I want to be with you
little conartist

Monday October 25th, 2010
Ben took a REALY late nap, so I let him stay up after the big kids went to bed, and for a while he watched TV with Ryan and then he came and sat and watched TV with me. About 11
Ben-I go to bed
Me-OK
and he started that way he got to the end of my desk he said.
Ben-I go to bed, you come help
he reminded me of royalty that was summoning his help.

Friday October 22nd, 2010
If I tell my kids to do something, and they say they don't want to I say "well I'm sorry but it's not a choice”
Ben says to me today at lunch mommy I want..
Me-we don't have any
Ben-sorry mommy but it's not a choice

Sunday October 10th, 2010
Jacob elected Ryan to pick the movie.
Ryan was flipping through the movie book and
Jacob-You have 5 minutes to pick a movie or I'm choosing someone else

Wednesday October 6th, 2010
Jacob Enters room-Mom do you always have to dig in your purse for your phone when it rings?
Me-Well sometimes
Jacob-Well you need to get the Kangaroo keeper, it keeps all your stuff organized.
He's like a walking, talking 5 year old infomercial

Wednesdy Sept 8th, 2010
The dog walked over to Ben and I for some loves
Me-that's my Bear
Ben-no that's my Bear bear
this goes back and forth until he crosses his arms over his chest and says
Ben-you crazy that my bear bear"

Sunday Aug. 29th, 2010
Jacob and I were watching Iron chef america,
Jacob-Mommy you should be on TV
Me-ok sure bubbi
Jacob-You could do a Gluten Free cooking show
My 5 year old gets this concept come on food network get on the ball.

Saturday Aug 28th, 2010
My porr Hailey girl got stung by a bee for the first time today. She cried and screamed and said "why, why would it sting me I didin't do anything to it??

Monday Aug 23rd, 2010
Bens new favorite sentence is "I need that" we walked by the little decrotive fake Hay bails in Walmart and he tells me "I need that horsey food"

Friday July 16th, 2010
Me-Hailey to stop being Smart with me
Hailey-I can't stop being Smart because I'm too Smart.
Little Smart Alec.

Saturday July 10th, 2010
Ben--Stuppy doo, Stuppy doo daddy
Ryan--Ben we don't say that word that's not nice
Me-What's the problem that's how he says Scooby doo
Ryan-Blushing-Oh I thought He was calling me Stupid
I laugh at Ryan, he's so funny he really doesn't understand anything that baby says.

Wednesday June 16th, 2010
Hailey informed me tonight that she could not eat her Potatoes and Corn because she was a carnivore not a herbivore. So I told her she had to eat both. She tells me that would make me a omnivore, and I’m notan omnivore, I’m a Hailey-sauris-Rex and that means I’m a Carnivore

Wednesday May 5th, 2010
from the toy room I heard
Hailey--"Mom Ben's squirting Pee every where" and sure enough he was peeing all over the floor.

Wednesday May 5th, 2010
At sweet tomatoe with Hay & I let her go back up for more ranch dressing by herself & she came back and announced Hailey--"I can't believe i'm old enough to go to the bar by myself"
I got a good laugh

Wednesday April 28th, 2010
When Ben gets excited he calls Hailey "Hissy" a combo of Hailey and Sissy.

Wednesday April 21st, 2010
Ben's new favorite word is Frog but he can't say the "R" and he says the "G" as a "CK"

Wednesday April 14th, 2010
Hailey--Hey dad, watch how far I can jump...naked

Thursday April 8th, 2010
Jacob couldn't reach the sink faucet so he told Ryan
Jacob--Hey I can't reach the handle
...See?
...I'm just a little kid ya know?

Monday March 8th, 2010
Ben is convinced that cows and horses are Moo's and nothing I can do can convince him otherwise. We were watching a movie Ben--"Mommy see the Moo"
Me--"No Ben that's a horse they go Neigh"
Ben--"Mommy see the Moo"
Me--"No Ben it's a horse they say Neigh"
This went back and forth several more times with Ben getting louder and louder with every turn until finally I said
Me--"Yes Ben I see the Moo
and then he was fine and quit arguing with me

Wednesday March 3rd, 2010
We were driving through the gateway airport on our way back to Ryan's office and Ben Saw the aiplanes and he starts screaming
Ben--"Mommy see the flies"
Me--"Yes Ben"
Ryan--"Ben those are airplanes can you say airplane"
Ben puts his finger up to his mouth and goes "hmmmm"
Ben--"No that a fly"

February sometime, 2010
I was asleep and I was awakened to a little voice saying "Mommy"
I open my eye and realize it's pitch black and 6:00am in the morning. I look and Ben is standing next to my bed with two great big suckers in his mouth with one in each cheek.
Ben--"Mommy, I got candy"

Wednesday Febraury 24, 2010
I was in the kitchen and I hear the big kids screaming there's a bug.
Me--"I'll come kill it in a minute"
I hear wack, wack,
Hailey--"It's not dieing"

Friday February 19th, 2010
I got an Iphone and Ben is so smart that he can use it and play games on it. and win he looses and the screen flashes. he waves his hand in the air and says "I won, I won"

Tuesday February 9th, 2010
The Kids were watching a movie about a little boy entering his dad in a "My dad's the best dad in the world contest" so I said to Jacob
Me--"My dad's the best dad in the world"
Jacob--"No he's not He's old"

Monday January 25th, 2010
We had left overs for dinner and
Hailey--"I want manimicotti"
Me--"Chuckle and do you mean manicotti
as hard as she tried she couldn't get it to come out anyother way but manimicotti

Sunday January 24th, 2010
Me--"Jacob get your elbow out of my ribs"
Jacob--"Get your ribs out of my elbow"

Wednesday January 20th, 2010
It has been raining for 3 days and the parks are all full of water, so as we passed one on the way home from Preschool
Jacob--"Mommy look a river"
Thursday January 14th
Jacob--"Mommy is this the Desert?"
Me--"Yes"
Jacob--"Well then where's the Camels?"
At this point my friend Rachel tried to explain that there are two different kind of deserts. But he was having no part of it. If There's no Camels it's not the desert,

Wednesday Dec 23rd, 2009
Jacob--"Mommy You want to see my mad face?"
me--"yes"
insert him showing me
Me--"Jacob, thats a great face. Do you want to see my mad face"
Jacob--"Sure"
insert me showing him my mad face
Jacob--"yep that's it i've seen your mad face lots before"

Wednesday Dec 23rd, 2009
Hailey and Jacob were haveing a conversation in the back seat, I really wasn't paying attention. but I hear
hailey--"it's a Cinnamon"
Jacob--"it's a what?
Ryan--"No honey it's a synonym. Cinnamon's what we put on our toast"

Wednesday Dec 2nd, 2009
Jacob-I'm hard at this game!!
Me-"What"?
this went back and forth sevarl times until I said
me- "Jacob do you mean This games hard for me?"
Jacob-"Yes that's what I said."

Thursday November 12th
Hailey was in our bed reading
Ryan--"come give me a hug"
Hailey--"NO"
Ryan--pretends to cry
Hailey--"Well all right but I'm gonna loose my spot"
Ryan--"what's more important me or your book"
Hailey--"my book"

Friday October 30th, 2009
I was sitting on the couch checking my email & Ben is sitting next to me playing quietly & all of a sudden I get this sharp pain in my hip and I look down & he's taken a pin out of my pin cushion and is stabbing me with it.

Monday October 23rd, 2009
Hailey: "Daddy, you're just crazy...in a special kind of way."
Jacob: you know Dad, your gettin older a little, a little bit wrinklier too!

I am so sad. When I updated my background it deleted 3 months worth of my funny stuff I'd written about the kids. =(

August, 2009
I was reading to the kids and I was being silly and replaced a word with pumpkins and Hailey says to me
Hailey--"you know mommy if you sounded it out you wouldn't get the words wrong"

July, 2009
This one's not on my kids it's on my niece
She asked for a jar to put bugs in. When my sister looked in the jar all the bugs were smooshed and dead. Valerie had one in her hand it was smooshed and Sam said "why did you do that" and Valerie said "if you smoosh them they don't get away." And when it started to wiggle, she said "wait I've gotta squish it more"

Monday June 15th, 2009
I went to start my car so we could go to lunch with Ryan and my battery was dead. So my neighbor tried to help me jump start it, but no luck. I told the kids the car battery was dead so we had to go back in the house we couldn't go to lunch with daddy
Jacob--"Well mommy just put new batteries in you car."
Me--"We don't have the kind of batteries my car needs"
Jacob-"Sure we do the batteries are in daddy's desk drawer."
I guess when your 4 a "AA" battery will fix anything

Fri. May 15th, 2009
Mandy, Ryan, & I were discussing King Henrey the 8th
Hailey--"Mommy did King Henery the "EGG" really cut his wifes heads off?"
After we got done laughing our heads off we explained to her that it was "King Henery the 8th"

Wed. April 29th, 2009
Jacob--"Mommy what kind of place is this?"
I say--"It's a bank"
Jacob asks--"Do they have an aligator?"
I say--"um no" I'm very confused at this point to why my son thinks the bank would have an aligator
Jacob says--"well do they have stairs"
I say--"um I don't think so, Bubbi why do you want to know if the bank has an aligator?"
Jacob says--"because I want to go up and down"
at this point I realize he means and "Elevator"

Sund. March 29th, 2009
we went away for the weekend and the big Kids stayed with Ryan's dad and his wife. When it was time to leave to come back he told Tasha
Jacob--"I don't want to go home I want to stay here."
Tasha--"what about Mommy and Daddy"
Jacob--"They can come visit me here"
it's nice to know were so loved

Sunday March 15th, 2009
We stayed the night at my moms so we could spend more time with my brother and
Hailey-- "I want to sleep with Uncle Bubbi"
Vicki--"no thats not such a good idea remember uncle Bubbi snores really load remember he snores like a frieght train"
The next morning the kids got up really early and we could hear jim snoring in the living room.
Hailey--"wow mommy your right Uncle Bubbi does snore like a Freak Train"
after I stopped laughing I explained to her that it was a freight train, not a freak train.

Fri. Feb 27th, 2009
Jacob--"Mommy I go to big boy school tomorrow?"
I say-- "No Jacob next year when Hay goes to 2nd grade you'll go to big boy school, but I decided not to let you go I will miss you to much"
Jacob-- "Don't worry mommy I will come back"

Wed. Feb 25th, 2009
Hailey--"when I grow up I'm going to be a Beterinarian (I think she meant veterinarian), but only for dogs"
I say-- "why only dogs?"
Hailey--"cuz I'm allergic to cats, and people would bring me there cats, and i'd be like achoo all the time and that would be very distracting for me."

Vicki & Ryan

We got married in 1998. This means we’re officially an old married couple we just celebrated 10 years. Ryan went to ASU and got his degree in Aviation. He worked for sky harbor for a little while and then in May of 2006 he and a friend from school started an aviation business together, and they are loving it. I have been working in the dental field for 10 years now it started that I was just helping Ryan's dad in his office and it blossomed from there into a career. I managed my friend’s office for a year until we got busy enough to need another gal, so now I do the billing from home. Which works out well, I can still work and be home with the kids who are the light of my life.