Thanksgiving and other stuff

Thanksgiving was a great success! We now have all our Christmas stuff up and counting down.

I didn't take pictures of Nicholas' and Derek's fingers. Nicholas broke his first and there was a possibility of surgery. But, thank goodness no. Then Derek broke his and we just babied it. They are out playing ball again every night, so they must be ok.

Halloween 2010

Guess Who! We were trying to be original.
Our ward did trunk or treat on Saturday and then we didn't turn on our front lights Sunday, so no one came to the door.

She's suppose to be Hannah Montana, but not the best wig.

This is just to show that I don't feed our kids at all. Poor Nicholas has to take everybody else's plate and lick them clean.

And yes, Kade did it AGAIN! We treated his sunburn right off, so it came close to blistering but peeled a lot. Hopefully three times in one summer will teach him a lesson.

School Sports

Ok, so you can't tell who they are, but these are some good pictures of Nicholas swimming.

And Derek playing soccer

There he is, #14

They keep us busy

Birthday Boy

He's pretty happy with his birthday. He loves guns (as he has gotten some kind of gun every year) This year was the air soft gun and, yes, another Nerf gun!
Like we don't have enough of these already.

And a cookie cake.

It looks like only 2 candles, but they are side by side for 11, and they sing.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KADE

Back to School

I don't think he wanted to go. He wouldn't smile. (But he had a great day)
Samantha, on the other hand, was so excited.

Derek was just his goofy self and his homeroom teacher likes the Steelers, so of course, he had to wear his jersey the first day.

And our freshman--scary. He was fine. The hard part is going to be swim team.

I just know that when they came home, the noise was driving me crazy! I am just so proud of all of them.

Summer Fun

We've tried to have some fun this summer. The kids decided to have a campout in the backyard. We made smores over the bbq.

Surprisingly, they stayed in the tent all night.

Jeff's birthday, but since he doesn't like cake, his candles were in his ice cream.

Here is our 8 year old going on 16. She decided to take over the bathroom with all her make-up. Don't worry, she still can't wear it out of the house.

And, Sea World

This is under the killer whale, if you can see it.

These were some acrabats on poles. They were good. There are a lot of Sea World, but I didn't want to put them all.

The highlight was probably the roller coaster ride for the kids. Nicholas is the only one that has ever been on a roller coaster before. They loved it!

And the beach was awesome.

Jeff's highlight was seeing this air craft carrier come into port.

School starts in 2 weeks. Hopefully the kids are all partied out.

You can tell school's out when....

So, after strict instructions to not call me every 10 minutes just to say someone was bothering them, they only called me 3 or 4 times and Jeff twice. And, all afternoon I don't hear from them and think Jeff got home early. Well, not the case. You can tell school is out when you find this...

and this, including the poor boy that is going to be hurting big time from using sunscreen while his shirt was still on

and this,

and this (after effects of a Nerf gun war)

and my favorite was this gift I found on the porch. "I love you Derek Austill. Will you marry me? From your secret admirerer." But then she gave her name.

I told him not to date until 16!

Birthday Boy

14 Wow! And he starts to dress up for occasions like this! He wanted an ice cream cake, so needless to say, I didn't make it.

He actually opened his presents a couple of days early

(What a mistake we made giving him a Touch)

He had 8th grade Promotion the night of his birthday. Here he is and Jeff yelled out happy birthday to him, but he didn't hear. Darn, we wanted to embarass him.

He was the second one to walk in.

They started this cool 8th grade wall. His is the bottom one with the sports ball face.

And here he is with most of the guys he hangs out with. They are a good bunch of kids.