Just for fun. And no he will not be dressing up as frankenstein......

Pumpkins

For family home evening we carved ourselves some pumpkins. Max was super excited to get started but once he put his hand in the big orange ball for those seeds he was not as excited anymore. It seems like we forget all the fun details of carving pumpkins. He drew the face he wanted on it and with the help of mom and dad he cut out the pieces. He also wanted it to have a super hero mask!

Brandon did a thunder cats emblem on his. It turned out looking awesome!

Camille did a silly face and the dad of the group thought she had messed up and felt bad for her until she let him know that it was on purpose :-)

We did have a good time. The first thing Max said the next morning was "The pumpkins are all ready for Halloween!" He must have dreamed about them all night.

Summer Fun

Summer time is over but we had a great one. We went camping, swimming, horse-back riding, parade watching, we had water balloon fights and ran through the sprinklers. We also spent lots of time with friends and family. There were many family reunions and bbq's with friends.

This is a snake that was painted onto Max's face when we were at family camp this year. He thought it was so cool. We had a fun time camping. Brandon went river rafting, repelling, and enjoyed other fun activities. Camille hung out with the 3 and 4 year olds and got to make lots of crafts, nature walks, blow bubbles, play on the slides, and went to the nature lodge where they got to pet a bunny. Max learned all kinds of new things like swordplay with wooden swords, made a rocket and got to blast it off, learned about the food pyramid and first aid stuff, he also got to go swimming and went in a row boat. Lots of great fun.

Dentist visit

A visit to the dentist can be so fun! ;) Max needed some teeth pulled out so his adult teeth could grow in more evenly spaced. He was a good sport but mostly because he got to watch a movie.
He also wanted a mo-hawk and this is the best we could do. We are still waiting for some of the teeth to start showing themselves. Max says that right now he looks like Spongebob, and to him that is pretty cool.

Mmmmm brownies

This is Max helping make brownies! He gets the fun part and all the good stuff. Being a kid is the best......especially when you can eat as much of this stuff you want......of course after a good meal.

Horses are cool (May 22)

We decided to go horseback riding and Max was not very excited about this. He is really scared of them. They are too big. This horse in this picture is named Goliath. So of course he did not want to get on. (He has a hard time trying new things like: four wheelers, tractors, no training wheels, etc.) Camille is the same way, so he must have gotten it from her. Well we finally got him up on the horse in front of Camille and we started off on a slow walk. After about 2 seconds he was saying he wanted off! This went on for about 15 minutes and then we put him on the other horse with Brandon. This lasted about 15 minutes with him saying he wanted off as well. When we were putting the horses away Max got stung by a wasp, what a day he was having.

A few days ago Brandon mentioned that we were going to go riding again and Max said "I like riding horses they are fun!"

We shall see if this is true. :)

No training wheels

Max learned to ride his bike without training wheels recently and he gets better all the time. He was really scared at first but with dad helping him and mom cheering him on he soon got the hang of it. He loves to go on bike rides any time it is sunny outside. He was riding it around the house today while his cousin Conner was over. Max is getting better at getting on it and started out by himself.

Conner and Max played transformers, swung on the swings, and with the water guns. Conner lives in Alaska and is visiting for only a few weeks; we are glad that he was able to come over and play even for just a short time.