Ben's Lego Cake that Charlotte made

Charlotte made a Lego cake. She made a rectangle and square cake and stacked them and then 6 cupcakes for the Lego pegs. Then since Ben wanted a red and a blue brick she bought white frosting and dyed them with food coloring. Then Ben added his touch by adding legos figures.

Eatting Cake & Presents

As you can see they all enjoyed eatting the cake.
Since Charlotte used Blue and Red food coloring they ended up with blue and red mouths.

After they left Ben opened presents, he recieved two Lego Space Ploice sets from Georgy, A big Lego Power Miners Drill from Jonney and three Bakugan balls from Shaun.

Nathan's Pre-K Christmas Party

Nathan's Pre-K class had a Holiday party with food and a singing performance. I posted a small video last week after all the Spokane pictures.

Nathan's teachers Mrs Cotty and Laurie

Nathan's new hobby

Im not quite sure why, But one of Nathan's newest favorate things to do is to tie himself up and act like he can't get free.

Spokane Trip: Bing Crosby

Im putting this out of order, but I forgot to post it after the Friday pictures. Friday Evening Michelle and I went to a screening of White Christmas and this was my experience.


My Evening with Bing Crosby

I forgot that I have something in common with Bing Crosby, we both grew up in Spokane Washington. Im here visiting family in Spokane and my older Sister took me to an awesome screening of White Christmas in the Bing Crosby Theater. Before the movie Bing's Niece Carolyn Schneider (who has written two books on Bing) and Howard Crosby, one of Bings Nephews along with another lady spoke about their memories of their Uncle. Bing wasn't one of those stars that was full of himself, he very much just wanted to be part of the guys. Howard told us about how he was on a road trip with Bing and he asked him what his most difficult moment was (thinking that his Uncle would say that it was trying to memorize a part or dealing with a tough director) But he said that it was singing "I'll be Home for Christmas" to a bunch of troops overseas and not breaking down himself to cry.

He started out singing and whistling all of the time, but actually started out wanting to be a lawyer. After High School some friends formed a band and then later he and another member took a job at the very theater that had the screening to perform before all of the movies back when they did that. This lead him to decide to pursue singing in Hollywood.

He's actually had more #1 hit songs then any performer. Bing Crosby 38, Beatles 24, Elvis Presley 18, Michael Jackson (17 I believe)

The best part of the evening was the first part of the movie and just hearing Bing's "I'll Be Home For Christmas" overpower you on the big screen. I love his deep voice.

Spokane Trip: Ride to the Airport

This is Ben and Nathan on the car ride to the airport Thursday Morning.

Riverpark Square

Friday Afternoon we met Michelle at a shopping center downtown and had lunch and looked at a book and toystore.

Riverfront Park Merry-Go Round

We walked across the street to Riverfront Park. They have an old Merry-Go Round thats over a hundred years old.

Ben and I started out sitting on a bench, but we talked him into sitting on an animal.
Charlotte even got on one

Michelle

The Sucking Goat

After the Merry-Go-Round we took the boys to this metal Goat where you pushed a button and it would suck and garbage out of your hand.

The best part was watching how much my Mom got into it!

There was a small trolly that we took pictures in.

Spokane Trip: Chuck E Cheese

After going to Riverfront Park we all went with Michelle to take the boys to Chuck E Cheese.

Spokane Trip: Birthday Party at Dave's House

Saturday we visited my Brother Dave and his wife Tina's house. It was Ben's Birthday, and since Nathan's will be on the 30th my Mom brought a cake and celebrated both of their birthdays and had sandwiches and soda for lunch. Ben got a Lego construction set since Dave works in construction and Nathan also got a construction set that makes a Police station, they love both their presents!

Spokane Trip: A Walk Around Hagadon's Resort

Years ago Couer D Alene used to be this little beach town, then Hagadon moved in and put up a huge hotel by the beach and a dog track and the city grew over night. His Hotel is a nice place to go to see Christmas lights and decorations.

Michelle's House Sunday Dinner

Sunday Evening we visited Michelle's house for Dinner. We had a great time with her and Heather, Logan, his girlfriend and Michelle's dogs. From right to left Heather, Logan and his girlfriend Ari.
Michelle and the boys

Bed arangements and Toys R Us

The Boys slept on the floor at the foot of our bed. We thought that it was cute with Nathans hand on Ben's head.
Tuesday Morning we went to Toys R Us and the Mall to let the boys run off energy before the flight.

Spokane Trip Final Pictures

We did a lot more also, I hung out with my friend Mark on Monday, we dropped off a present to my Brother Jim who was celebrating his anniversary and not home, Michelle came over for a girls movie night. along with a lot of other things.

These are the last Pictures that we took before we flew home. So now the Gauntlet is thrown down. Those Utah people have 2 weeks to try and top the fun factor that we had during our trip to Spokane. If they don't we'll never visit Utah again, Just kidding Charlotte. LOL Next Stop Provo, Utah.

(Video) Nathan's Holiday Pre-K Party and Ben's Lego Birthday Party

Heres some video of Nathan singing during his holiday party and of Ben's Lego Birthday Party. Check out the awesome Birthday cake that Charlotte made!
I'll post pictures of both parties next Sunday when I have time.