Halloween-Trunk or Treat

Nate the bug super sleuth and Ellie the pink kitty.


Nate and Ellie with Vicky and Kaley.


Ellie, Kaley, and Zach by the pretend farm.


Ellie with John. She wouldn't talk to him until he took the wig off. After that, she wasn't scared of him anymore and thought his hair was funny.


Nate hanging out by the farm.

Pumpkin Carving

Carving the pumpkins. After we were all done Nate's dump truck came to clean up the guts.


Stormy even joined in, he enjoyed eating a pumpkin seed.


Our finished pumpkins. Ellie wanted a kitty and Nate wanted a smiley face. Nate was upset that his pumpkin didn't look just like his smiling face.

Changing colors in Prescott

Went for a hike in Prescott around Granite Dells and these are some of the photos I took.

Paul

Last Saturday

We walked from our house to the Via Colori street painting festival last Saturday. The festival did not turn out to be as big as the media made it sound. We were done there in about 15 minutes. The artists were drawing very beautiful drawings on the parking lot with chalk. We didn't think about that we could have just walked to a trolley stop and then rode to the festival so on the way back we rode the trolley. (See picture.) The trolley took us to the library. We read some books and then checked out some books and then walked home.

Burrito!

One of the kids favorite things to do at Grandma and Grandpa's house is to wrap up in this comforter and become a burrito.

Rail Fair

We went to Rail Fair 2008 at the McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park.


Riding the train.


Riding the carousel. Ellie assured us she would be fine before we got on the carousel but if you look at her face you can tell she was not enjoying it.


Nate enjoying the inflatable obstacle course and slide. Last year Nate could barely get through the obstacle course with help and this year it was no problem. Ellie wanted to go on the slide but she wouldn't climb the ladder.


Ellie and Nate bouncing around.


Nate always loves the train. He especially liked that the train had American flags on the front of it.



Playground time!

Uh Oh!

Nate and Daddy went to the new Krispy Kreme. It is way too convenient because it is on the way to Church. Along with the hat they also got a small piggy bank, notepad, and pencil.

Friday through Sunday-Camping

We didn't take many pictures while camping because we still were not feeling well (this seems to be the never ending cold). We probably should have stayed home. Maybe we are crazy.


Trying out the new fishing poles.


Nate was cold when it rained. We even had some hail.


All the kids. Alex, Brandon, Ellie, Vanessa, Avery, Addy, Kaley, and Nate.


The camping rigs.

Wednesday-Sea World Again

Wild Arctic exhibit. White Beluga Whales and a sleeping polar bear. Of course our own animals were there too.


The dolphin show. There were no clouds this day so it was much warmer than when we were here on Sunday.


Pets Rule! show. The picture on the left-the black dog set up a romantic dinner for the white dog. The picture on the right-the dog in the middle is jump roping while the other dog is holding the other end of the jump rope. The show also included ducks, cats, potbellied pigs, and doves.


Play time


Flamingos. Nate's reaction was "what's that smell?" It smelled like fish.


Clyde and Seamore's risky rescue show. We all got some good laughs from this show.


Shamu show-second time.

Tuesday-Oceanside Beach II

We weren't feeling very good so we decided to go to the beach and hang out again. Ellie didn't like going in the ocean so she just played in the sand.