Nathan's Birthday Chuck E Cheese

All Nathan wanted to do for his Birthday was go to Chuck E CHeese with his friend Dillon. So we went along with Ben and he had a great time!

Nathan's Birthday Chuck E Cheese

Nathan's Family Birthday Party

We Also had a Fmaily Birthday Party with just us. Nathan asked for a Chocolate cake. He got 4 more Spiderman figures, 2 from Ben & 2 from us. He had a great day.

Taking Pictures

Nathan recieved money from both Grandmas and so he picked out an Incredible Hulk costume & figure.

He kept on asking us to take pictures of him.

Ben gave a talk last week in Primary. This is that morning.

Charlotte's Other Christmas Gift

Christmas Day Charlotte found something else under the tree. She came down with a viral infection in her leg called Celulitis which is only now clearing up. She's been on bed rest, but luckily she hasn't had to miss a lot of work. These are older pictures that she gave me permission to post.

Ward Christmas Party

Our church had its annual Breakfast with Santa. The Primary children sang, we had breakfast and the kids sat on Santa.

Christmas Eve & Day

Christmas Eve we all recieved new pajamas, which is one of Charlotte's family traditions. Charlotte made cheese fondue for which the boys screemed about not having any. Brats. But they liked the Chocolate fondue. We acted out the nativity story and read Christmas books. For Christmas Santa brought Nathan a bunch of Spiderman figures, Ben Transformers & Legos, Charlotte books & DVD's and I recieved DVD's.

Ones of our other traditions was to eat ribs for Christmas dinner.

Christmas Day

Kung-Fu Fighting

One of Ben & Nathans Christmas gifts was the Kung-Fu Panda DVD. After watching Nathan started running around with these light up toys and landing in Kung-FU stances. I guess its time to enroll him in Martial Arts.

Disneyland Birthday: Day 1

This is our tram ride from the parking lot to the park to start our day!
Nathan threw such a fit when he didn't get the blue Dumbo, he screemed the whole ride. So I ended up going with him again, luckly we got one without haven't to puch to many elderly ladies & kids into the water.

Disneyland Birthday: Day 1

Disneyland Birthday: Day 1

We tried to get Ben picked for the Jedi Academy on the first day, but were unsucessful.

In the hotel that night we gave Ben his Birthday presents. Nathan gave him 2 Transformers and we gave him 2 Transformers.

Birthday at Disneyland Day 2

The second day at Disneyland we divided our time between California Adventure & Disneyland. Most notably and my favorite was the new Toy Story ride in California Adventure. You get in a car with back to back seats and a gun for each person with this weird ball on a string that you pull and push in & out to shoot targets. you put on 3D glasses and the cars stop in front of different video game screens and shoot as many targets as you can in the allotted time. then the car moves on to the next screen. Since the cars are back to back there are screens on both walls in a hallway/track.

This is another favorate ride that the line because the line is short.

Disneyland A Bugs Land

We always like making a stop at the area A Bugs Land in California Adventure because it has rides just for Ben & Nathans level and theres hardly any lines.

Nearby there was an Imagineering room that showcased all of the major changes that are in the works for California Adventure. A new land themed after the movie Cars, a Little Mermaid ride, the swings re-themed after the Silly Symphanies and the entrance re-themed to reflect what Burbank/LA looked like when Walt Disney first moved to California. Im excited for these new changes, California Adventure is in definate need for a retool.