The Kerr Family

Profiles....

2011-03-31T23:09:00.000-07:00

I have been wanting to do these profiles ever since i saw my friend Jenny do them, like 3 years ago...

It's so Sense and Sensibility! I totally planned to do them the old fashion way. Then last year at preschool I got some instructions and I thought, this will be easier. but always on the back burner. Seriously, i have so many things i want to do...

Then as i was reading one of my favorite crafting blogs and someone shared how to do this in photoshop! it was so easy. I thought, that's it! i am doing this tomorrow! So here they are. I wouldn't mind trying Garren's without his glasses. I just adore Greyson's. He looks so innocent!

Hope you like them, i might try to do them annually....

http://http://thecraftingchicks.com/2010/04/silhouettes-for-mothers-day.html

Check it out and see how easy it it....

life right now...

2011-03-31T21:09:00.001-07:00

Guess who started rice cereal? I love these faces!

He was happy here because i was playing peek a boo!

Yummy!

Trying to feed himself...

I promise the reason he is so messy is because he tried feeding himself.

I promise i have better aim..

Today I picked up the boys from OCMCO practice and we decided to take a walk on the temple grounds. This was Gavin's first time at the Newport Beach Temple. Now he has seen 10 temples! Garren took this picture. I am so proud!

Me and my handsome boy!

Greyson REFUSED to be in any of the pictures. It doesn't count if he did know i took this one, right? I love when they hold hands....

Super Greyson. This was what he wanted to wear for scripture reading. He was spinning around trying to not let me get a picture. I missed the one of him on his potty with his cape on.

Next time....

2011-03-27T21:19:00.000-07:00

Garren and Josh, who appears to be singing his heart out. Me and the boys, cheering for Garren!

Garren and his teacher!!!

We love her!

This week has been busy! Grady and I spent Saturday cleaning our garage and it feels great to be more organized. I have so many projects and things i wanted to do, and there doesn't seem to be anytime to get them all done. I love creating things and finding joy in improving my talents.

I can't believe it's almost April! Where did the time go?

We are approaching the month of birthdays. Grady, Garren, Greyson, my mom, my best friends Jayne, Shari, and Sheryl, my best friends son Rj, and more! I have to get going on the boys parties, plus Easter and General Conference. It's going to be a great month!

Here is a little update on the boys:

Grady has been awesome!!! I have been so busy serving in YW's, with youth conferences, road shows, and helping with other events, like doing hair for Edison's Drama Departments' production, and women's conference, and on and on. Grady has stepped up and really helped. He has watched the boys, sometimes for the whole weekend while i worked and served. He even encouraged me to go to Girls Camp and just pump there so I can be there for my girls. If he is willing to watch 3 boys, one of them a baby, for a week, I am all over it! I appreciate his support and taking care of the home front by himself so I can serve.

Garren is doing great! he is in his routine of school, lunch, homework, piano, and playing. If i am feeding Gavin in the other room, he will start and do his piano practicing by himself. He is doing well and I am so proud. Last weekend, Garren wanted to know if it was Saturday (his only day to play Lego Star Wars) I reminded him our new deal, Room cleaned first. He asked for mercy to which Grady replied, Mercy is so one sided. It just so happens this months New Era (our church magazine for our youth) first message was Boyd K Packers talk, The Great Mediator Jesus Christ. Today Garren asked for mercy again today and we were able to read and share that parable with him. you can read about it here:

http://http://lds.org/general-conference/1977/04/the-mediator?lang=eng&query=great+mediator+jesus+christ

I love his thirst and desire to learn about the gospel. I am thankful for opportunities to bear testimony and teach my son about our Savior.

Greyson is seriously......so much fun!

He is such a character, and i love it!!! He yells at me all the time. I love it when he doesn't like what he is hearing so he tells me, "Hey! stop yelling! Whisper!" and when I say tells me, i mean yells at me. He loves praying, and prays for every member in our family, only he calls us by our star wars name. I am sure Heavenly Father doesn't mind and know who Greyson is talking about. He loves to yell at me to stop when he sees a red light, whether the red light is for me or someone else. He loves taking Garren to school, but hates having to wear clothes. He loves playing with his friends and coming into the kitchen when i am cooking and saying, "oh mom, what you baking?"He is so happy and sweet, unless things are going his way. His favorite leader was called to YW's, which is awesome for me because Melanie and I are going to be cabin buddies, but he is really missing her in nursery. Both boys LOVE when our elders come over!

Gavin is such a sweetheart. Can i be more in love? He is so gorgeous! and so happy. He is super social and loves being played with and talk to. He loves it when i sing to him, (unlike Greyson) and peek a boo is his favorite game. He loves being in his bouncer jumper thing (thanks again Sarah!) and is quite a jumper. He desperately wants to eat food, so i think we may start that this week. He adores his brothers! and is really loving daddy now!!! He has always been a mommy's boy. But lately he has realized how funny daddy is. He is always cracking up at him. He has been busy going to road show practices and other activities with me. I will put up pictures soon. He is a joy and great baby boy and I am so thankful for him.

Life is busy, but wonderful! i love my family so much!!!! I am so blessed! I am looking forward to our General Conference Cinnamon rolls and hearing the words of our prophet. I have so much to learn and i love this time of year! Hope everyone is doing great!

2011-03-24T22:29:00.000-07:00

I can't belive this little angel is almost 6 months.....?

I love my Boys

2011-02-14T11:28:00.000-08:00

I was laying in bed with Gavin and Greyson, when Greyson squeezed his baby brothers hand (with his eyebrows skewed in concentration) . I told him he needed to be nice and to say sorry and give Gavin a hug and kiss. He came over and apologized and gave him a kiss. Then he went to give him a hug and it happened....

Gavin burped and spit up....

on Greyson's arm.

Greyson looked at it and only in a dramatic Greyson way, started to cry and freak out. Grady and I just crack up. We love the theatrics's Greyson provides. I could tell he felt violated, and expected justice. But i told told him, Spit Happens.

I love all my boys. Happy Valentines Day!

What's New...

2011-02-04T09:52:00.000-08:00

I am been trying to blog forever!!! Here are some pictures of the past two weeks.... Gavin and his bud Treven
My little Valentine!
I did a photoshoot with my friend Julie and her little girl, who I call Prom Date. She is such a doll!

Julie said, Oh, he is kissing her hand.

Which is better than what i thought, that he was eating her hand ;)

Batman, a cute int eruption from our photoshoot

Little Valentines

I put Gavin in his jumper for the first time and he loved it! Not really jumping, yet. But loves being with the family.

For our YW new Beginnings we made mini covered books of mormon.

Here are the class posters i created in photoshop. I had fun doing it!

Astronomy night at garrens school. we were excited to find our friends the Matthews there!

Gavin sleeping with the monkey toy his Auntie Pam got him!

Loving bathtime!

The boys sleeping together on their sleeping bag. Greyson wasnt really asleep, he was pretending to. But it wasn't long. I loved how much he loves Garren!

Getting strong

Garren found out that Sister Parker had a turtle and kept asking when we could go meet him. He brought his fun with nature book and got to feed him dandy lions. We had a blast. Garren read Sister Parker facts about her Dessert Tortoise from his book. Here he is with Kirby.

Garren giving Kirby a snack

Kirby Loved it!

Here is be and my stunning niece

Garren was able to spend the night at his cousins house. He loves sleepovers!!!

here is the after

Here is the before.

At bunco we had a cupcake challenge. I made flourless chocolate topped with ice cream.

The winner was Hedi's banana cupcakes. They were delish!!!!! the runner ups were my sister's peanut butter chocolate followed by my best bud Julies triple chocolate! they were all fab, which you can tell from the first photo.

2011-01-25T08:28:00.000-08:00

So I looked at my last post and realized that my goal of weekly postings so did not happen. January has flown!

Here is a little update on each of my treasures.

Garren is doing great at school. We finally got his new glasses. Today we are heading over to visit Kirby, our friends turtle. Greyson got to meet him last week and Garren keeps asking me when it's his turn. We are bringing our camera and his book Fun with Nature. (this is a book my friend Sofia gave me and he LOVES it. It is filled with facts about bugs, birds, trees, and such. And it really blows his mind that I don't want to hear every fact every minute of the day.) Garren gets to feed his dandelions. He also lately got to have another sleepover at his cousins house. They are great friends.

Last week during our scripture study, Garren told us they can't talk about Jesus at school. I guess some girl motioned it and his teacher said We can talk about God on Sunday, but not at school. Grady asked Garren what he thought about this and he told us, "I think we should talk about God everyday." We are going to try and be better about learning the primary scripture each month. I love seeing his testimony grow.

Greyson's exciting news is that he is potty trained!!!

We started last Monday, and i seriously can't believe it! He would yell at you if you even suggested sitting on a potty. He was scarred of them. But with the help of Buzz and Woody, we were able to work on it. He got to drink Root Beer for even sitting on the potty. By Wednesday he was going on his own, emptying his pot in the big potty, and not even asking for a treat. For those of you who know of his stubborn nature, this is kinda surprising. But I am grateful!

Greyson's amazing dramatic role playing skills are still at play. My favorite one is when he is Bullseye and crawls around on his knees and overs me, Jesse, a ride. And I do what any mature mom would do, and climb on his back, keeping my weight on my knees, and we ride around the house. Toy Story is still his favorite. But he gets upset if i put on the wrong Toy Story movie. Last Sunday he went in our fridge, got out the eggs, cracked them and mixed them about. I am guess because i wouldn't let him crack one the night before? These are the fun things that happen when I nurse the baby in the other room. Greyson LOVES to play outside, esp baseball. We are thankful for our awesome new backyard that makes life easier for everyone.

Gavin is doing great. He smiles and coo's and is a great 3rd child. He adores his brothers. And has the mind to know that i am reprimanding the other boys, my tone is not directed at him. He just smiles. He loves music and peek a boo. He also loves me. I am pretty much the favorite, and i don't mind.

Grady is doing awesome at coupon shopping and is getting our Food Storage caught up. He got at least 12 bags of pasta for free and we are getting more tonight. He is super helpful and still super handsome.

I am super busy with my 3 boys. I got to scrapbook with a friend yesterday and that was great. I am so blessed. And I should stop blogging because it's time for me to help out in Garren's class. pictures to come later today, (hopefully)

2010-12-19T23:07:00.000-08:00

This is my Husband, and i love him dearly. And i love his love for music. I have seen such in change in him since he has joined Orange County Mormon Choir Organization. His love for music, and good music has increased. He sings in our ward choir, and in stake choirs whenever he gets a chance. And it's so important to him. He will listen to classical music with me in the car and not complain anymore when i listen to church music.

He is such a great father. He loves to tell stories, and playing with our our boys. He loves to share things he cares about with his boys. He has such a great heart.I love how he puts his whole heart into in his calling. And he honors his Priesthood. And he is so much fun. And i love his laugh! And so handsome.

And he loves me. Today he was singing in ward choir. They sounded beautiful. And he looked at me. The way he always does when he's singing. He loves to know where is sit so he can see me watch him, smiling and clapping for him. It made me love him more. Here 8 1/2 years later he still wants me to look at him. It still means alot to him. And i still, after 8 1/2 years, watch him with love. I am so proud of him, for working on his talents. And using them to help build up the kingdom. And i love him so much. And i am thankful that he still loves me. And he still wants me to adore him.

life right now....

2010-12-15T21:58:00.000-08:00

My dear friend reminded me (nicely) i should try to update my blog more often. I have been trying. So let me give you an update. Life is crazy. And i am letting go, and it's okay. I ALWAYS decorate for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving. Confession: I still haven't. And it's okay. Because i have 3 kids now, and one of them is 2 months. I will get it together next year, it's okay to take a year off. I am getting closer to organizing my home. And that's great.

Gavin is doing awesome. Seriously, i think he has been the easiest! (blessing from the Trek!) He is super happy and sleeps well. I am super in love and he get more handsome every day.

Garren is doing great! He loves nature. And bugs. and trees. And telling me all kinds of facts he reads about. Today he lectured me on wearing my purse on my shoulder. He wanted to know why i was "twisting my spine". I left him in the car for a minute, and when i came back he was crying, "Mom! Never leave a child in a car, even for a minute. It is very dangerous and against California law". I love him dearly!

Greyson is going thru a phase on dressing up ALL THE TIME. and only answering to the name that he is dressing up and pretending to be. Whether it's Woody, Buzz, SuperGreyson, Darth Vader, or such.

Best Buds

Cute Christmas Outfit

Greyson cried when Santa entered

Gavin's First Picture with Santa

Doesn't that look delish?

One of my Best friends with Gavin's best friend

Santa with all 4 babies

Tonight, we finally decorated our tree

And that is my life right now....

Gavin Riley's Blessing

2010-11-28T22:42:00.000-08:00

Gavin Riley Kerr

Greyson Richard Kerr

Garren Russell Kerr

Today we blessed our third son. I haven't blogged in forever! Life has been crazy! We moved to a new home in September and had Gavin a month later. Just last Wednesday was my Grandma's 80th birthday party, only to have Thanksgiving the next day. I am glad those things are over, as fun as they were, because i am hoping to get things back to normal.

I am so thankful for everyone who came to Gavin's blessing. Our dear friend Riley, Gavin's namesake, came from Utah. And he had to leave to go back and we weren't able to get a picture of them together. (I am hoping to get to church early one of these blessings to get some pictures)

We did manage to get a picture of of Gavin with his grandparents.

Our happy little pumpkin!

I got him to smile by singing him his special song

So handsome in his blessing best!

sweet stretches

Best Brothers!

Greyson hugged him unprompted!

Then we added Gavin, and suddenly Greyson didn't want to have anything to do with being there. Life is hard with a new brother.

2010-10-18T21:11:00.000-07:00

I know i haven't blogged in FOREVER!!!

We have moved, Garren started school, and we had a baby. I just haven't been using our computer think i did at the old place. So... I promise to start. My little Gavin Riley needs his own post.

But i wanted to share my sneak peak. I took maternity pictures with Shari! For those of you who haven't heard me talk about how amazing she it, let me just tell you! She is the best. Always amazing pictures!!! We just took some of Gavin and I can't wait to see them. Because she is amazing and he is such a looker!
Check out my mamasita pictures....

http://http://sharihanson-photography.blogspot.com/

Thanks Shari! i love you, you are the best!!!

Star Wars Pancakes!

2010-07-21T20:32:00.000-07:00

We finally made it over to william sonoma to get their awesome new pancake molds. I just love pancake molds!!! They also have cookie cutters which Garren got for Calvin for his birthday. Garren really wants them so maybe for Christmas if he's a good boy...

( i love how Greyson would hold yoda's ears and take a bite!)

Greyson and Garren loved them, even though i need to get better. they still tasted yummy. I think i wanna get a squeeze bottle so i can quickly get the batter in all the right spots, and before it sticks to the mold. They turned out okay. But i think we can step it up a notch...

Garren & yoda

A storm trooper, dark vader, & yoda.

Check out their site

http://http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/2242261/?catalogId=93&bnrid=3180501&cm_ven=Shopping&cm_cat=Froogle&cm_pla=default&cm_ite=default

I know these will get used plenty in our family with these molds. My boys love pancakes and LOVE star wars. Grady even tried to make a egg one with yoda.

2010-07-05T22:21:00.000-07:00

I was just trying to be a good homemaker. I need to clean and organized my life and/or house, especially before the baby gets here. I put Greyson down for his nap and i try to pick up our crazy house.
Garren is helping me and doing more chores because he stepped on his new glasses, so he is doing extra "chores" to pay for a new pair. The downstairs was close to being done. I was steam mopping when Grady comes home and tells me to come outside and he points to the second story. This is what i find...
Greyson.
He is smiling and waving, and saying "hi mom!".
He climbed out of his crib onto the dresser, found a crayon, and decorated his window.

Garren's Preschool Graduation

2010-06-11T11:04:00.001-07:00

Garren & Mommy!
Best Brothers!

Preschool Class of 2010

my little smartie

Garren told us his name and said he wants to be an "olympic" when he grows up.

Mrs Chen and Garren!

Mrs Chen is our Favorite teacher. We just adore her to no end. Greyson can't wait to be in her class. I am so proud of Garren for being a good boy in preschool. He has learned so much and we can't wait for kinder garden. this was a fun milestone, but now we are ready for summer!

sleeping in, reading all day, crafts, sewing, scrap booking, swimming, and playing outside. here is to our last bit of freedom!

This is what i came home to...

2010-06-02T21:00:00.000-07:00

Greyson LOVES Darth Vader! It's his favorite character. He'll bring me a blanket to put around his head, but apparently he found our mask. He was so proud of himself and he would even do the deep breathing, and then laugh.
It is so fun to see this little one love Darth Vader, because Garren would never be anyone who was on the dark side. Truth be told he was kinda upset tonight, he kept telling me it wasn't real, and that it was just Greyson.
So really... my boys are perfect for each other! How boring would life be if i just had jedi's?
Can't wait to see who Gavin likes the most!

Angel Game!

2010-06-01T22:14:00.000-07:00

First angel game of the season!
Grady took this picture and i love it!

Garren having a great time!

My handsome boys

2010-05-19T21:09:00.000-07:00

I am in the process of registering Garren for Kindergarten. We went to get the paper work and he is sooo excited. We get in the office and he starts talking to the receptionist non stop. He sees flower art work on the wall, labeled with it's different parts, and proceeds to tell her all about plants. And that he already learned about them in preschool. He cut it out and colored it yellow and put yarn and seeds all over it. I think she is only half listening because she is telling me all about the forms.
As we leave he wants to know every one's name. and where is his friend Ethan? He can't wait!

I get home and start on the paper work and i ask him some questions. One of them is "if mother is a woman then father is a ______" Garrens answers, Gentlemen. I like that more than man. I ask him why a 'coat, hat and sock' are similar? He tells me they were 'all made by a machine from cloth.'

I love his mind and how it works. He is such a sweet boy. One of the last questions was if he pretends to read. I marked yes and crossed out 'pretends to' . He is such a smartie! And more importantly he loves to learn. And I am learning he gets frustrated with things he is not great at right away.(which is good for him to not be great at everything) like writing his letters and cutting and doing snaps.
I am kinda scarred for some frustrations and hard times he might face. But i know he is going to love to learn. He is so excited! I just hope he makes some great friends. He has such a big heart. There is a boy at preschool who tells him he is not his friend. It just breaks garren's heart and he doesn't understand it. And he wants even more to be friends with this boy. They use to be friends, i just think this boy think he can only have 1 friend.

I am glad he is excited about this new experence in life. I know he is just ready to soak up all the things they will teach him. I love my sweet son so much!

Gavin Riley Kerr

2010-04-21T21:43:00.000-07:00

Meet my newest little stud, Isn't he adorable. That is right. Heavenly Father has blessed me again with another sweet little boy. And i wasn't even sad about not having a daughter. I was watching him on the screen and i all i could feel was love.

love for this choice little spirit who is joining our family. I fell for him. My heart melted. And i can't wait to meet him.

So my sweet little Gavin, enjoy the days when you can flip around in my tummy, because i know you are going to keep on growing. Thank you for taking it easy on me these days. And know i am going to be dreaming about you. And what you'll look like? and your hair color? and your voice? will i have yet another tenor? and will i ever have a child that looks like my side of the family?

I love you my sweet little boy! And i am glad you picked our family...

We Decided to go Private

2010-04-10T21:21:00.000-07:00

With all those crazy people on the internets we decided to make our blog private in a few days. So if you want to be on the access list send us an email, text, facebook message, or comment and we will add you to the list.

-Grady

April 8th ONE Day without Shoes...

2010-04-07T20:49:00.000-07:00

My friend Shari let me know about TOMS One Day without Shoes day tomorrow. It's a day to go barefoot and remember those who don't have shoes. I was pretty impressed. Although i work tomorrow and i am pretty sure state board would kill me if i seriously went barefoot, i wanted to share the message.
And after learning more, i realized i can go barefoot before i get to work. And tomorrow just so happens to be Garren's birthday. I think i know our party theme for next year...

But seriously, check out the site HERE and spread the word...

This one is for Alex....

2010-04-01T22:33:00.000-07:00

Tonight on the way home Garrens asks, " the people in England are trying to take our money, right mom?"

I am like, what are you talking about...?

G:"England had some money, but they wanted all the money, right?"

what?

G:"In America, the colonies didn't want to... and so we fought, and we won, and the colonies became states, isn't that right mom...?"

I don't know where he got this from.....

Garren's Enlightenments this week...

2010-03-27T21:02:00.000-07:00

Earlier this week Garren has made some interesting comments:

1. "Hey mom, your arms are kinda flabby." (nice, thanks garren. I think he has seen that commerical for that exercising thing, you know the shake weight)

2. me "was there a new elder at dinner tonight?"
Garren "yeah"
me " was he nice?"
Garren "he was nice lookin'..."

(and my favorite!)

3. We are on the tram, going to Disneyland and garren is staring at a girl drinking an iced coffee. She tells him it's "coffee"

Garren says, "are you sure it's not chocolate milk?"
She says, "no, it's coffee."
Garren says, "if you listen to the word of wisdom, you will live longer."

Happy Valentines Day!

2010-02-13T19:36:00.000-08:00

love the kerr's

Secret Valentine!!!!

2010-02-10T21:48:00.000-08:00

Look what our babysitter Kassy found on Tuesday Night while we were getting sushi. This adorable surprise. I just love the box and cute ribbon.
My favorite part- cake pops and pretzels dipped in carmel and chocolate! yummy. Before i could get a picture Grady had already eaten a white chocolate one. Our box also had candles, valentine airplanes (perfect for our boys!) cute notepad, and a fun activity with pigs on skateboards (pictures to follow)

Garren enjoying a treat!

Our sweet Babysitter! (i curled her hair the day before and it still looks great!)

Garren scoping out the goods. He took the sign and had a parade where he marched around the house. Our friends proably didn't realize how much we loved the sign.

Little Greyson

Thank you so much secret Valentine!

love the Kerr Family

2010-02-06T23:07:00.001-08:00

some of Greyson's lastest fashions