Playing in the surf

Aiden, Gavin and Nathan were the only ones that braved the cold and got wet.










The real miracle was Alaina got close to the surf. She usually keep as far away as possible.













she thought the bubbles were fun.












See how close she got. I thought she was quite brave considering her fear.

Fun in the sand

Todd, Goran, Kristoffer and Andreas had a scouting Order of the Arrow thing at the beach this last weekend so we went with them and enjoyed the time at the beach. Saturday was beatiful we played in the sand for three hours.













Horizen is a little crooked but I loved this picture. It looks like he's playing football.













They each made their own sand castles.













Actually I take that back. Aiden, Nathan and Gavin worked together on theirs.

Winter Wonderland

Christmas Vacation was great.










The boys played for two weeks in the snow. The third week wasn't as new and exciting so they didn't spend as much time outside.










Chunks of ice on top of the snow due to the freezing rain. They were breaking them on their heads.

Alaina with her own chunk of Ice.

Multnomah falls

Poses of the boys climbing multnomah falls.














Gavin













Aiden and Alaina













Mason

Hunter

Todds Surprise

Todd knew how much I liked the band One Republic so he surprised me and bought tickets to their concert in Seattle. We had a great time and lots of fun.
















Thanks to Ingela and Susie who watched our kids on this little getaway.

Nativity

This years family nativity reenactment.
















We had some really hot looking wise men this year.

Halloween fun

I love carving pumpkins especially since the boys draw their own patterns and cut them out. They are each so different. Alaina wasn't really in to cleaning hers out but she was very interested in what I was doing to her pumpkin I had to get her approval with everything. When it was done and I put the light in it she said, "scary mom scary."
















Each of the kids are standing behind the pumpkin they designed and carved.















This is what they looked like lit up.















Here we all are, minus Todd who was at work, in our costumes. This was the day before halloween at mom's party.















Here is Dallin in his costume. He loves capes and had me spray paint his hair black.