Thursday, October 28, 2010

Working on the orange belt

Here's a couple videos of Kevin practicing--working towards his orange belt in karate. I think my video camera is horrible, and I need a new one.

Dragons Kata


Karate creed

Ethan's first day of school

No, I'm not behind at all. Why do you ask? Just because Ethan's first day of school (and the day this picture was taken) was a couple months ago doesn't mean I'm not right on target with my posting. Ethan started preschool this year. His teachers name is Miss Megan, and he loves it.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Funnies

We were looking at pictures, and we saw one with Ethan as a baby (his eyes are red in the photo), and I said "that's Ethan", and Kevin said, "Really? I had red eyes when I was puny."

The rest of these are things Ethan said (he's at a good age):

"I'm going to spank your bum in the face."

"I'm the best E-bear in the galaxy."

"I'm a kid because I have a penis."

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Bee's Game

Last night we went to a Bee's game with Geoff, Felicia, and their boys. We love spending time with them, and had a great time. Here are a few pictures:






Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Kaitlyn's first day of school

Kaitlyn started 8th grade this year, which is totally unacceptable, but I can't seem to figure out how to stop time. I'm so thankful for by sweet, beautiful daughter.

Ethan's Birthday

Ethan just celebrated his 4th birthday, and we had some family and friends over to help us celebrate.

He wanted a dinosaur theme, and since we waited until the last minute to look for a cake, we couldn't find a dinosaur one, so I had to just buy a regular frosted cake and decorate it with dinosaurs myself.Ethan was really excited about some of his presents. He'd say, "awesome!" when he really liked something. Here's a little dog he got from Grandma Howell.
We got little pill-type things that you put in water and they grow into dinosaurs. It was the one activity I did.

Here's Allston taking a swing at the pinata. I think it was after this picture that I realized I needed to go to the other side to take pictures so I could get faces. I'm a little slow sometimes.And here's Ethan (he actually went first, before Allston). He's got some good form here.
And that's pretty much it. Thanks to our family and friends who came to help us celebrate. We love you!

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Dinosaur Park

This is the last blog post of the day, I promise. And then you probably won't hear from me again for a few months. That's how I roll.

Today we went with Geoff, Felicia, their boys, and Danay to the Dinosaur Park in Ogden. I can't remember if I've ever been there, but if I had, it's been a long time. The kids really loved it. Too bad it's so far away. There are a ton of pictures here. I just liked them all too much.

Here are my very dangerous children. I think the sign in baby colors really adds to the element of danger.
The boys played in the dirt here for awhile. Allston was so funny--he was holding a paintbrush in one hand, and clearing the dirt off the stuff with his other.Thank goodness for Geoff. Who else could I get to break the rules so I can get fun pictures.
Although I guess breaking the rules wasn't that scary, since Kaitlyn is holding this dinosaurs hand (you weren't supposed to go off the path, but come on, how fun is that?).
Felicia is good for fun pictures too. I sure love these guys!
I thought this dinosaur was kind of cool looking.
Kaitlyn looks as tall as Geoff here.

Here's a group picture. We should have had someone take it, so we could have gotten everybody, instead of having the men take the pictures. It's impossible to get everybody looking at the camera. This is the best we can do.
They were supposed to be looking scared here. I'm not sure if I believe it.
This bear . . . there are just no words.
I love this one of all the kids (except Jake). It's one of my favorites of the day.
Here's Kevin with his favorite dinosaur.
The bones of this dinosaur look really cool. But when we saw the "real thing" outside, we really really disappointed. It could never have picked Geoff's nose.
Wooly rhino. Has anyone ever heard of one? I never had before today.

You can never accuse any of us of being normal, that's for sure.