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.

Halloween costumes continued

Alaina was a scarecrow this year. She loved it, especially getting candy.





















Gavin was a scary Ninja.





















Hunter was a warewolf. He came up with the costume himself. Pretty clever.




















Mason was phantom.




















Aiden was a different kind of scary ninja.

Grandma Hogman's Halloween Party

Mom had a lot of fun different activities to do this year. The older boys competed in a dart game, there was eating doughnuts off of a string, painting pumpkins, bobbing for apples, pie eating contest, finding things with a bag over your head on the lawn, searching for worms and grapes in speghetti while blindfolded, dropping candy corn into a cup, and last but not least the the mummy wrap.








































I can't remember who won, I know it wasn't me.















Aiden and Kai competing in the bob for apple game.




















Alaina in her first bob for apples experience. I thought she did pretty good.

With the economy the way it is and money getting tight it's nice to know our men aren't too proud to do what they must to provide for their families.
















Today's dumpster diving yielded 1 gallon of apple cider and two pumpkins.




















Actually the dumpster diving was spurred on by the fact that on halloween Goran threw away his fermented apple juice which Todd thought would be perfect to shoot and watch explode. While they were looking for apple juice they discovered the pumpkins which would also make for a great target.















For Kristoffers birthday we said we would take him up to shoot some of Todd's guns. Andreas also came up to shoot. Ingela got to shoot her black powder pistol for the first time as well. We spent about three hours up there and had a lot of fun.















If you have never shot black powder guns you should give it a try it's a blast! I prefer black powder pistols of course. You can't really see the smoke in this picture but in case your wondering that is what we are blowing.

Going on a walk

Alaina has brothers who would all rather climb the fence then walk another 30 feet to go around. So Alaina thinks it is a feat she must accomplish as well. The funny thing is it freaks her out the whole time but she is determined to do it.





















she can get to this point on her own but doesn't know how to go over the top.

Preparing baby for the walk.

The Fish

Todd got up early and went with his brother Andy fishing.





















As you can imagine he was pretty excited about his catch! I must say I was thrilled as well, this will make a couple of dinners for our family. Yum Yum!

Kestner boy camp

Todd and the boys in the parking lot before they head out on their four mile hike to Blue Lake.















Todd at Blue Lake with his backpack on his back and Mason and Gavin's backpack over his shoulders. Thats my buff man.
















Blue Lake! Isn't it beautiful!!

Keaton's blessing day

Todd took some fun angles while everyone was getting ready for pictures.
















If you look to the far left of the next picture you can see by Todds mouth how hard he is concentrating on this picture.
















Dad working oh so hard to get the perfect picture.





















Not sure why Hunter is hiding. Probably too many cameras. Everyone looks like they are looking in different directions.

The Slide

Here Alaina try this it will be fun! You get to do the coolest stuff with brothers.
















Weeeee!!
















To think she used to be scared to go down regualr slides.

First day of school

Dallin and Hunter before school started. Hunter was very excited to be in middle school and Dallin was psyched to be a big 8th grader. Yes, Dallin is taller then his brother by a 1/4 of and inch when they are barefoot.



















Mason and Aiden. Mason has an old neighbor of ours for a teacher. He thought that was cool. She told the class stories of him when he was little. Aiden was excited because he got to have his cousin, Jayden, in class with him this year.
















Gavin looking like such a little man. Of course he has been waiting years to be able to go to school with his brothers. The boys went to school on Wednesday but Gavin had to wait until Friday because of a new thing they were doing this year. It was a long wait for him.





















It is a little blurry but I still thought it was cute. We were waiting for AM kindergarten to get done and he decided to play hopscotch while waiting.

The Beaver Patrol

Todd was a part of beaver patrol at wood badge, these are the men in his patrol. They are all wearing their beaver teeth.

Bottle Rocket launch

Woodbadge

Todd went to woodbadge one weekend in August and this last weekend and had a lot of fun! He loved it. This picture is from the weekend in August. They built rockets and Todds group rocket went the highest.





















Here is a close up picture. Theres is the black one on the left.
















Todd looking hot in his uniform and sunglasses.