The Adventures of Ben and Nathan!

Monday, July 15, 2013

Scout Camp

Ben and Nathan had Scout Camp right after school got out, this was Nathan's skit. Their favorite activities were the rifles and archery.

Max & Me

We drove to David's in Danville last month for Mark's Wedding Party/Reception and Amy's son Max toke a liking to me. Olivia and Eli were a little less shy with me also.

Autry Museum

I toke the boys to the Gene Autry California history museum since Ben had studied California history this last school year. The boy's favorite part was this fake jail cell and the gun room.

Our usual trip to Utah was filled with sleeping out on the street (for me) for the Provo parade, The Stadium of Fire concert with Cirque Du Soliel, Carlie Rae Jepsen And Kelly Clarkston, Seeing the Lone Ranger with Chris, Austin and the last time that I'll see Jordan before he went on his mission this week. There was also a huge Booth family Reunion that was held at their old (refurbished) farm and a church building. Made me wish that my side of the family was cohesive enough for something like that. We also went to Adam and Rachael's baby Monet's blessing.

Booth Farm

Reading to Dogs

Charlotte had a program where she had some dog handlers bring in their dogs so that kids could read to them, Nathan really enjoyed it.

Sunday, June 9, 2013

California History Play

All of the fourth grade classes study California history all year and at the end they do a play about it, at one point they came out to the asles and did a square dance.

Monday, May 27, 2013

Pinwood Derby 2013

Ben and Nathan made their cars with my help, its was Nathan's first Derby and Ben's 3rd. Nathan got 13th out of 27 and Ben 15th both got 5th in the den's out of 9/10 kids. So a respectable average score. More importantly they had a lot of fun. We had one issue with Ben's car since the glue that was holding Ben's metal exasts on came off (stupid hot glue gun) so we got duct tape for a quick fix.

Sunday, May 26, 2013

The Garden Show

Nathan had a speaking part is his class play called The Garden Show, he was a gardener what met with aliens that were looking for fuel for their spaceship which happened to be compost. There were also bees, reporters compost and a few other characters. The blond kid is his friend Andy next to him.

Webelos Park and Rec tour

Ben's Webelos Den went on a tour of the city of Thousand Oaks Park and Rec Center this week. Nathan and I came along.

Nathan in Ben's Bed

Nathan's like this weird little squirrel when he sleeps, I'll come upstairs after working on stuff and look in on them and he'll have his body contorted in some weird pose or something and be dead asleep. Well one night I came in and he was actually in Ben's bed with his head opposite of Ben's and neither of them had noticed. I thought that was really funny.

Fathers and Sons Fireside

So we were supposed to go on a ward Fathers and Sons campout a few weeks ago in the Castaic Mountains, but there was a fire so it turned into a swimming party/fireside with an inspirational thought about the Priesthood. After swimming for awhile Ben got board and begged me for my Nintendo 3DS so eventually I gave it to him. I found this funny though both him and another adult member sitting there playing with their devices while everything else was going on.