Ben's School Picture 2009

Parktime on our 9th Anniversary

Since both Ben & Nathan were out of school on our Anniversary (Veterans day0 and all babysitters were busy we went to the park for our Anniversary and then the Cheesecake Factory for a family dinner.

I took Charlotte out for a nice date dinner and to our churche's Temple on friday night for our own Anniversary time.

Parktime on our 9th Anniversary

Nathan at Park Day

Ben's School Costume Parade (Video)

THIS IS A VIDEO, to play click on the arrow on the bottom left side.

Charlotte's Halloween Storytime

Nathan riding on his big ball
Tuesday I took Nathan to Charlotte's Halloween Storytime. Theres a short video of her doing Five Little Pumpkins after all the Halloween pictures.

Ben's School Costume Parade

Ben went as a Skeleton this year.
Ben and Lucas (His Study Buddy)

Mrs Berg, Ben's 1st grade teacher

Parade

Nathan at Pumpkin Patch

For Halloween Nathans Pre-K class went to a pumpkin patch with rides. First thing that Nathan wanted to do was to ride on the swing ride. Then after some free play on the bounce house and blow-up slide they got together and sang Halloween songs. They got to pick out a small pumpkin.

Nathan at Pumpkin Patch: Blow-Up Slide and Bounce House

Nathan Climbing up slide ladder
Sliding down

Bounce House

Nathan at Pumpkin Patch: Blow-Up climbing fort & Petting Zoo

They had this cool Blow-Up obsticle course/Fort thing that Nathan and his Pre-K friends enjoyed hiding out in there.

Nathan at Pumpkin Patch: Petting Zoo

Trick or Treating at Jans Marketplace

Every year we go to Jans Marketplace to Trick or Treat. This year it was from 3 - 5pm which worked out since the ward party was at 5pm.

Church Halloween Party

This year our church had a Halloween party with a Chili feed, a carnival and trunk or treat. Nathan wearing Charlotte's witch hat.
Charlotte and Nathan

Ben

Ben & Nathan

Ben and I

Church Halloween Party

Nathan and I (Im dressed as a member of the Dharma Initiative from the TV show Lost).
Charlotte went as a Witch, Ben, Nathan and I

They had a carnival with bean bag toss, mini golf and lots of other things. Then Trunk or Treating.

Charlotte's Storytime: Five Little Pumpkins

This is VIDEO not a picture, click on the arrow on the bottom left.

Ben's 1st Grade School Picture

Ben & his friend Georgy decided that it would be funny to make faces during the photo shoot. I thought that it was hilarious. Charlotte was horrified. Click on the image to for a bigger image to see their faces better.

I am a Builder

Nathan has been singing the Primary song "I Am A Builder" a lot lately. He usually only gets the first few verses. Oh yeah, we just got a new camera since we lost the last one and it also does short video recording.

Movie Night and Nathan's Show & Tell

Last Friday evening Acacia Elementary had a movie night out on their playground with a blow up movie screen. The movie was Bedtime Stories which was better then I expected. Ben and I had fun eatting pizza and treats while watching.

Nathan went to one of Charlotte's Storytimes this week and checked out a furry dog puppet. He loves the thing, I wonder what will happen in a month when he has to return it. Friday was his Show and Tell for Pre-K, this is afterwards.

Cookie Caterpiller

I found a recipe in a halloween cookbook from Target for a Cookie Caterpiller. It didn't look as good as the picture in the book, but they had fun making it, so thats what's important.

This is what it was supposed to look like.

Nathan's Teachers Note

Nathan recieved this note from his teacher praising him on his cutting skills.


On another note I started volunteering in Ben's class again this year to teach cartooning.