The Adventures of Ben and Nathan!

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Acacia Night at Chuck E Cheese

Acacia had a fundraiser night at Chuck E Cheese last Thursday night.

Nerf Gun War

Today was a beautiful day so I toke the boys to a park and we rode bikes and had a Nerf Gun War.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Out with the Old, In with the New

So for those that don't know yet I was in a hit and run a week and a half ago, I was driving down the road and an SUV pulls out of the Spanish market parking lot and while I slammed on the breaks I wasn't fast enough. (Nathan and I were OK) I tried to pull into a parking lot and it looked like they were going to pull over, but then they just took off, leaving me to deal with everything. Heres our poor car up on the tow truck before it was taken away, I was sad about this, not only for the inconvenience, but because it was a good car, plus the debt of a new car since we've been somewhat debt free since we paid off my school loans.

But we were blessed with family members who circled around us with both advice and financial solutions along with a good payout from Progressive since I was 0% at fault. We went car shopping and Paul Larsen gave us great advice on car bartering along with my Trump quote about how in any deal you need to be willing to walk away, I kept Charlotte from caving and we walked out with a really good deal on a new car. We decided to get another Toyota, Corolla like our last one since we find them reliable. This one is a used 2010 and its in great condition, its my first car with a CD player so its luxury for me.

Drinking Bobcat Blood

Pack meeting started out with Ben's Den doing a skit

And the usual awards

Then they brought up the new Cub Scouts and had them drink Bobcat blood (Kool-Aid) before receiving their Bobcat badges.

Nathan's been loving Cub Scouts

Monday, February 4, 2013

Nathan's Baptism and Confirmation Certificate

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Charlotte's Birthday

Today was Charlotte's Birthday so we gave her Breakfast in bed ( I was willing to do more, but this was all she wanted).

Last night after she went to bed I taped ribbons over her Bathroom and made a sign that said Happy Birthday! Please don't open this gift until we are awake.

We got her a new bathroom shelf system that she had wanted along with Bath and Body stuff.

Monday, January 21, 2013

Crazy Cousins

Ben and Nathan's Cousin Zach came for Nathan's Baptism

Nathan's Lego Birthday Party

Nathan wanted a Lego themed birthday party "just like Ben's" so we invited a bunch of his friends (man it was crazy, but fun!) and we played Lego board games.

We also played a game where everyone ads a brick to the platform to create something as a group.

We played Nintendo Wii

And had pizza, cake and ice cream, I forgot to get a candle, but luckily we had an unused Spiderman one and Charlotte wrote an 8 on a piece of paper.

Charlottes Primary Class Party

Charlotte likes to have a class party for her church Primary class about twice a year, this was her last one since she got released with the new year since she's now the ward choir director.