Visit with the Rasmussens

We got to have dinner and visit with our good friends the Rasmussens.
We have known them since we lived in North Carolina over 12 years ago.

It was so fun reconnecting with them and enjoying time together.
Christine is awesome!

We went to a park near their house and the kids discovered this crazy piece of playground equipment.
We laughed a lot.








I did it as well...but I don't have a video of it.

So glad that we got to hang out with them. They are such a great family!

Provo Beach Resort

We had some family fun last night at the Provo Beach Resort.

It's a pretty cool place.

I didn't get very many pictures because we were just enjoying the fun.

Anna was actually pretty good at the basketball game.

I was lucky enough to catch one of her streaks :)

Bonus: It was free because Mike belongs to Corporate Alliance and it was an event they had for their members and their families.

Just Being Silly

I bought some hats at the thrift store recently.

Last night Anna and I had fun just being silly with them :)

The Chocolate

On September 21st (since I'm so far behind, I'm putting dates for my benefit)

Noah Dallin and Isaac went to watch a BYU football game

with a lot of the guys and some of the gals.

Mom, Marcy and I decided that while they were away the rest of us would get together.

We went for yummy dessert at The Chocolate,
a cute little dessert cafe in Orem.

Grace and I shared a delicious treat. It was a giant warm

cookie with ice cream and chocolate on it.

They had a wall of windows that looked like picture frames.

Grace, Anna and Holden had fun with that :)

 After we finished our treats we came back to my house and played some games and just had fun.

 Have I mentioned that I am enjoying living near family? 

Well I love it!

Ward Activity

We had a lot of "lasts" before we left Maryland.
Our last ward activity was fun,

but also sad to realize that it was our last with our White Plains 1 family.

Dodgeball fun

 stick-pull

I know you are wondering, no, she didn't win :)

 water relay and bean bag toss

 We are sure going to miss our church family in Maryland!

Cub Scout Day Camp 2013 - Wild West Adventure

I got to go with Isaac

(and 9 other cub scouts)

to Cub Scout Day Camp again this year.

This year the theme was Wild West.

I made shirts for our boys again, I think they liked them :)

 Here are some pictures from our fun time.

Archery

Isaac was actually more excited than he looks when he hit the yellow area!

 BB-Shooting

Fun on the lake

 Craft time

 Fishing

Isaac caught a fish all by himself...with no bait

Some might say that, by the size of the fish,

he actually caught bait :)

He was excited though!

He loved riding the horses

He and I worked on a captain america logo in the leather working area

 Fun at the Pool

and slingshots

and throwing hatchets

More fun!

Silliness in the van on the way home...

We had a lot of fun with these boys!

Isaac Reaches Double Digits!

Happy 10th Birthday Isaac!

He had fun making wishes

Breakfast in Mom and Dad's bed

He requested a cheese omelet and a blueberry pancake 

Mom bring cookies to his school class

Here he is with his great teacher

I also surprised him with some ice cream just for him!

Come home from school early

No chores

Game day

Eat some cookie dough

He requested a giant cookie instead of a cake

It was yummy!

 Just wish I would have waited on the green writing...it kind of melted :)

He got some fun cards and gifts

 He bought more nerf weapons with the birthday money he got

Get an email account

You can email him at darthisaac10@gmail.com

For his friend Andrew to come and play

Stay up late

Back scratches and snuggles from Mom

He said it was a great birthday

...but the next morning he told me he was sad and he wished 

it could be his birthday every day. 

I told him that wouldn't be as special :)

A Cheesy Birthday Party!

Since Anna turned 8 this year,

that meant she got to have a birthday party with friends.

She decided that going along with her request for her birthday cake (cheese)

she would have a cheesy birthday party :)

We had a great time coming up with ideas and I think the

party turned out to be a lot of fun.

The invitation

We had several cheesy activities

hot potato...or I guess it should be called hot cheese, 
since we played it with cheese instead of a potato!

sneak past sleeping cats to steal and eat cheese

Grace and Hannah

Our two cute cats!

how many cheeseballs can you stuff into your mouth
Anna went first

 

pin the cheese on Anna's mouth

Grace got the closest

(with a little help from Mom!)

 break the cheesy piñata
I found a post online about making your own piñata
I hate spending so much money on something for kids to break
...not to mention spending more money on candy to fill it with.
So I decided to make the piñata.
I think it turned out ok, none of the kids made fun of it
(at least not to my face)
and the candy came out of it, so I think it was a success!

 eat mini cheesecakes

My number 8 candle was missing in action so I had
to just use a regular candle for her...
I found it not 5 minutes later, ha ha! 
The kids could choose either a cheesecake topped with strawberries
or one topped with caramel.
I used the cookie part of an Oreo as the crust.
I just scraped out the cream and then put one wafer in the bottom
of each foil cupcake liner.
...every kid ate their whole cheesecake too!
...that's not something that usually happens with cupcakes, just sayin'

I didn't get a picture of what I put inside the treat bags for the kids to take home, but they were definitely cheesy treatbags...

Here's what we filled them with

a pull back toy mouse
a cheese wedge pencil topper
a cheese stick
baby belle cheese
cowtail (cows help make cheese, right?)
a bag of cheez-its
some of Anna's favorite candies
and these little hershey kisses mice

Anna had such a great time with so many friends
who came to celebrate with her!