November...

 

The last day of Soccer!  Both our boys love soccer.  They both grew so much this season.  We are happy and sad that it is over.

Rachel is making a place setting for Thanksgiving.  It is an oreo trukey. 

 

 

Below are pictures of the Ridgecrest Ward's Turkey Bowl.  Scott and Eric loved it.  They had a fun time.  Scott ended up getting hurt.  He thinks he may have torn his miniscus...Ouch.  Hey, if you're not going to play hard, don't play at all, right! 



Brian's Is 7 year old...

 Brian is 7 years old...

Our favorite Brian quotes from the last year:

1.(At the dinner table) If you throw up in your mouth, just swallow it.  It tastes like chili.

2.(While playing a board game) Move your arm pit!

3. (Just lost a tooth)  Was I supposed to loose that tooth?

4. (in the bathroom) Oh!  It smells so bad in here, I can taste it!

5.(While reading his reading homework with mom...)

The sharks are mean.

Mark sees the sharks.

Mark wants to swim with the sharks.

(pauses)

"Mom, mark isn't too smart is he?"

 

 

 Heavy, Heavy hangover thy poor head...

What'cha gunna do with it?

Play with it, work with it, sleep with it, or eat it?

 Play with it!!!

 Scott made a Frankenstein cake for Brian!!

He cheated a little and used a mold.

 For Brian's party, we played charades. Eric's word was Jar...???

After the time ran out, and he was asked about it, he said, "I was in a jar"

 We also did dounuts on a string...

October Fun

 For Halloween, Eric was a Star Trek captain.  He even has a phaser.

Rachel was a Raccoon.   

Andrew was a Tron Guy 

Brian was a ghost 

 At Ferrucci Jr. High, because they cannot celebrate Halloween, they have a spirit day called "Fake injury day", so she really went all out, and Scott taped an i.v. to her arm, and put make-up all over her and this is how she went to school that day.

 Her injury was a raccoon attack.

Pumkin carving at the Nelsons 

 

 Wendy's Birthday...Look at that cake.  Scott did a great job!!

 

We have also been doing lots of Soccer with the two younger boys. This is Brian scoring!! 

 

He is hard to see, but his hands are up in victory! 

We "got our happy on" and did the Puyallup Fair

We always go for the food...

This year Grandpa treated the kids to their fried fantasies.

Fried Snickers

Fried Rice Krispy Treat 

 

 We had a Russian perogi, corndogs, earthquake burgers, Curry food, and a Turkey Leg. 

 

Fun Hats 

Took Pictures at the antique picture studio... 

I'm sure that I am biased, but they have got to be the cutest children I know, inside and out. 

 You just gotta love 'em!

Played 4 carnival games, won 4 small stuffies 

 We shot archery

 got forearm face painting

At the end of the day, we had a strawberry funnel cake.

Now we are broke, and have lots of working out to do. 

 Fairs are Fun!

2012 First Day of School

First Day of High School Eric 10th grade, Puyallup High School

 Rachel, first day of Jr. High School.  7th grade.  Ferrucci Jr. High. 

Andrew Rachel and Brian looking happy.

Brian, 1st grade, and Andrew, 4th grade, right before leaving for school.

Brian and Andrew in their new Elementry School, Wildwood Elementry.  They get to walk to school every morning.  Brian is in Mrs. Stasak's class, and Andrew is in Mrs. Wolcott.  We love their teachers.  We also really love the school.

Fishing at Bradley Lake

So, we can walk to Bradley Lake Park from our house.  So the other day the boys and Rachel decided they wanted to go fishing.  It was a fun day of casting.  The only thing they caught was lake scum.  we thought they would only last about an hour, but they loved it.  We had to tear them from the lake.  I am going to miss summer.

August Fun

 Brian with his best friend Sam at Andrew's Cub Scout Camp

 We got to go to a Rainier Baseball game, paid for by Key Bank!  We got to watch the game from Key Bank's box, and they fed us!  It was so fun.  To top it off, before the game we got to go down on the field and in the dugout.  The kids loved it. 

 Holly and Dan's family came and we took them to Seattle.  That is Meg, Andrew, David and Brian playing on the Fremont Bridge Troll.  We took them to Pikes Market, but it was so crazy crowded!  We had fun sticking gum to the wall, and taking pics next to some of our favorite celebrities.  In the end we went home, took them to Menchies and Sushi.  They liked that the best!

 Knee Surgery.  Scott took good care of me!!

 FHE.  Had to go get a new Monopoly game our friends told us about.  It is now one of our favorite games.  Mega Monopoly.  Super fun.

Also had fun on the boat. This is my job, holding up the flag.  I have amazing flag holding muscles.