Friday, October 31, 2008

Kindergarten Book Character Parade

Today the Kindergarten classes at our school had a Book Character Parade. Each student picked a book and dressed up as a character in it. Amberly chose The Wizard of Oz and dressed up as Dorothy. She looked adorable! She really wanted to be Dorothy because she wanted to take her Puppy to school. Here is Ms. Ljungdahl Amberly's Kindergarten teacher dressed up as Minnie Mouse. Her class is lined up after her.
Here comes Amberly! Aren't they all cute! They invited all the parents to come up and after the children paraded the school for all the other grade levels they came out and paraded for us!

Beautiful Amberly starring as Dorothy!

Pumpkin Carving

Each year our family has fun carving pumpkins. We have always done a boys pumpkin and a girls pumpkin. It's a fun family tradition we all look forward to. With everyone's crazy schedule it's sometimes hard to accomplish, but we always do it!

I love Amberly's face in this picture as she was reaching in to pull some gooey seeds and guts out of the pumpkin. Trent and Darin hard at work on their pumpkin.
Amberly and Elizabeth working together on our masterpiece!
Love the face expression Trent!
Elizabeth getting her hands all gooey!
The Boy's Finished pumpkin!
Great job!
Introducing the girls finished pumpkin!
We call him Edward the vampire M & M pumpkin!
(Edward from the Twilight book series!)

Tricia's Birthday

We celebrated my 39Th birthday on October 23rd. My family and friends really made it a great day for me! The day started by smelling fresh homemade muffins. Elizabeth had gotten up before Seminary (by 5:00 AM) to make them to be ready when I got up. They were yummy!
When I went out to take Amberly and Trent to school we found that 3 sneaky people had painted my van! Before they left they had painted my windows with words like - Honk It's my birthday, 39 (for the first time), pictures of a cake with candles, balloons, etc. It was funny! It was kind of fun to get honked at! (I always jumped first and then laughed.) I went out to lunch with a sweet friend and was able to talk to friends on the phone throughout the day. That evening we ended up eating Subway and enjoyed yummy birthday pie. I told Darin I wanted Pie instead of a cake. It was yummy! It was a great day! Thanks everyone!

Eyn's Birthday Party

We had a fun time celebrating Eyn's Birthday! Its nice having a Sunday birthday because we could celebrate the entire day! Grandpa Bruce and Grandma Sharon came over for the day. Eyn wanted to play Monopoly so the boys had a fun time playing that. We had hamburgers and hot dogs cooked out on the grill and Eyn's favorite potato salad. It was yummy and fun!
Eyn had said several months ago that he wanted a pink chocolate cake. I'm sure it was a joke, but no one would let it be forgotten! So he had a HUGE 3 layer chocolate cake with pink and green frosting. It actually was really good!First bite of cake. (Family tradition - no hands allowed!) Eyn was excited about the new stereo he got for his room. I don't know if my ears were ready for it!
Money is always one of Eyn's favorite gifts!

We hope you had a great birthday Eyn! We're so glad your a part of our family!