Halloween, Birthday, and Other Fun

Halloween was a blast! David, Sherrie, and Nathan were pirates, Clara a princess (we forgot to put on her crown), and Christian a bear cub. The kids got a ton of candy and stuffed their faces when we got home. Clara ate so much that she threw up in the middle of the night. Gotta love those midnight clean-up parties.
Sherrie is our resident artist and has been taking an evening watercolor class through Utah Valley University. She painted this scene of a cat playing with a ball of yarn. Her goal is to get some art up on the walls of our house.

Nathan turned five last week! We can't believe that we have a five year old. Nathan and Clara helped make the ghosts on the cake. Nathan was really excited to get a tool set, two broken VCR's to take apart, a box of life cereal, and telescopic fishing pole. He and Sherrie took apart a VCR the next day and Nathan said that it was the best day ever.

Carving pumpkins and summer squash is a fun activity.

Sherrie and Nathan at the elementary school skate night. Nathan was not very fond of skating. He became quite angry at the skates and we eventually took them off. He walked around the rink with Sherrie. Sherrie had her skates on and Nathan walked with his shoes. Clara had no fear with the skates and didn't want to leave when it was time to go. She fell a lot, but was having the time of her life. Christian was very handsome in the stroller.

For some reason Clara got the idea that princesses put a lot of lotion in their hair. She came downstairs with oodles of lotion caked in her hair and on her face, declaring to all the world, "I have princess hair." Maybe she'll start a new style.

Clara is our dancing princess. She particularly likes this dress because it's pretty when it twirls.

Nathan is a little monkey. We weren't huge believers in evolution, but after watching our kids, we're starting to have second thoughts. They seem to be evolving backwards, from humans to monkeys. Christian is not quite sure what to think about this whole thing. He'll probably evolve into a monkey too.


Here's our other little monkey. Our little monkey princess loves to hang upside down. Maybe she was a bat in a former life.