Sunday, November 8, 2009

New Camera

Yeah-it's here! We've been waiting for our new camera to arrive and it did...just in time for our trip to Disney this week. So this weekend we've been getting familiar with all of it's fun features.

Here are two shots of the boys-just for fun!




I'm hoping my blog photos will be much crisper and cleaner now. But most of all I'm excited to catch those extra special moments with my kids.

Friday, November 6, 2009

Floor Driving

This morning E asked if we could make another road on our floor. Some of you may remember how we did it last year. I didn't have the same tape this time, but the tape I had still worked well.

And this year K wanted to participate too!




This is a great activity to do when it's cold outside or rainy-which happens often in Seattle!

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Thankful Wreath

Today we made a thankful wreath!


After tracing E's hands he thought of things that he was thankful for and then we put it all together.

For our list of Thanksgiving books, check out the list to the left.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Happy Birthday Dad!

Happy Birthday Dad! I'm so lucky to have a Dad like you.

In honor of my dad's special day, here are a few photos I thought were fun!


My parents in Palm Springs a few years ago.



This is my family back in the 80's when we lived in So. California. (dad, me, mom)

My parents with their cruising buddies. They are going on their next cruise together in a few weeks. I think they have all been friends for about 35 years!

Oh Dad!


Such a great Grandpa!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Family Theme

In honor Thanksgiving this month, we are incorporating a family theme into our homeschooling. Here is a picture of a family photo collection that I put together for E and K to look at. Right now it just includes: Great Grandparents, Grandparents, Aunt & Uncle and Cousins, and immediate family. We may add more people later, but I wanted to focus on these connections for now.



Also in our plans is to make our own family tree.

And we are reading lots of fun family books (see our list on the left hand side).

Monday, November 2, 2009

A Few Halloween Highlights

Our Halloween tradition is to attend the carnival event at our church. It is FABULOUS! This is our third year and we have yet to be disappointed. I think what I really love, is that E does not associate Halloween with Trick or Treating or scary events. He only thinks of a fun filled family night at church.

This year E wanted to be a Transformer. It's kind of funny because he doesn't really know anything about them. He's not old enough to watch the movie or cartoons, so his only experience is with a few Transformer toys that he received for his birthday. Somehow (a.k.a Dad/Brian) he has learned the characters names and knew that he wanted to be BumbleBee for Halloween.



Sadly our friends were unable to join us this year, but we were delighted that Grandma and Grandpa wanted in on the fun! Here E and Grandma are decorating cookies.

Grandpa helping K scoop up ducks. If you scoop up the "right" duck then you get a prize. K didn't care about the ducks, as much as he enjoyed splashing around.

The Bean Bag Toss with Mrs. Halverson. We love Mrs. Halverson-she's E's Cubbies Teacher!

Sitting on the stage waiting for E and Daddy to go down the BIG jumpy slide.

E went down the slide once and that was enough. K had daddy go down the slide with him at least 5 times! He laughed the whole way down.

Both boys enjoyed the jumpy house.

And a little Trunk or Treating from Peter Pan & Tinker Bell.
There were about 30 cars this year and each car gave out an average of 2 pieces of candy. I let the boys have 1 piece a day. So we will be eating candy for a very very long time.


This was really K's first year to Trunk or Treat and after the first few cars he finally realized that people were giving him chocolate!


My favorite part is the hay ride. We did it twice this year.
Such a fun time!!

On another note: K fell in the bath tub over the weekend and chipped his front tooth. I'm just sick about it. We are in the process of finding out from the dentist what we need to do. Oh my little K! He's going to be the boy I constantly worry about! Bruises, Broken Bones, Stitches.....that will be my boy.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Happy Halloween