Sea World

We decided to spend Saturday at Sea World as a family. Right now Sea World is doing a Christmas theme so all the shows were done with Christmas music and the people would wear Santa hats. It was a lot of fun. Reagan enjoyed seeing all the characters dressed up and sitting on Santa's lap. Reagan has grown a couple inches since we went last time. So not only does this mean Reagan needs new pants. It also means that Reagan is now tall enough to ride on the Shamu roller coaster. He loved it. After making it halfway through the line Reagan started to cry and said "I want to ride on the Shamu train." He stopped crying as soon as I explained to him that we were in line to get on the train.

Reagan sitting on Santa's lap.


Reagan hugging the Penguin. He loved this character.


Our whole family at Sea World

Mason's Bad Day

Mason has had a rough day. He missed his end of the year soccer party while he was in Utah with Jill. He cried and cried because he wanted to go to his party. He finally cheered up a little bit when we told him his coach still got him a trophy. So Jill took him to his coaches house to pick up the trophy. Mason got home and was so proud. He was carrying the trophy all over the place, dancing in that way that only Mason can. Then the trophy slipped out of his hands, fell on the hardwood floor, and shattered into pieces . . . . Mason is one sad little boy . . .

Photoshop

I've been having fun making things with photoshop lately. I made these and printed them as 8x10's to hang in Reagan's room.

FHE

We had a fun Family home evening. We started out at our Grandma Shaffers house and raked her leaves. It was a good service project for the Boys! We got to end the day by making and eating DOUGHNUTS. The boys had a lot of fun making the doughnuts, but even more eating them.

Fantastic Runners

Ian and John ran a 5K this past weekend. It was Ian's first 3 mile race. He was very excited and could hardly hold still before the race. He was quite tired after the race, but he has a good excuse. I don't know many 8 year olds that can run a 5K in 27 min. He was 18th place over all. John was 3rd place over all. There were a little more than 200 people who participated in the race. I am very proud of my Boys. They did AWESOME!

All is well at our house

The shooting at Fort Hood was contained on Fort Hood and we are home safe and sound. We had an early release and the shooting occurred about the same time that we got out of school. Still awaiting any news from our friends, neighbors, and members of our ward. This is making things quite interesting here in Killeen....

All 9 of the Killeen Independent School District schools on post were on lockdown until 8pm. Boy I am glad that I am not at one of those campuses with those little kids. I can only imagine the excitement from the teachers to stay with the kids for an extra 6.5 hours.

Shooter is alive and in stable condition.....

Benson

I brought Benson in to get his picture taken a few weeks ago. These are the pictures that I ordered.

Our Halloween

We had a fun Halloween at our place. Friday night we went to our ward Trunk or Treat and Saturday we took the boys Trick or Treating. Reagan thought Trick or Treating was the coolest thing ever. He wouldn't let us take him home. He loved that every house he went to people gave him candy. There was tons of kids trick or treating in our neighborhood that made it fun. At most of the houses people sat in lawn chairs in their drive way and handed out candy. It was a neat way to see all the neighbors. People were so generous with their candy they would give Reagan a handful of candy bars. At one house the people put the bowl in front of Reagan and told him to grab as much as he wanted. The bowl was mainly full of chocolate. Reagan looked in the bowl for awhile and then decided to take one dum dum. The man looked at him laughed and threw some more candy in his pumpkin. He got way too much candy. His pumpkin was completely full and he wanted us to help him hold his pumpkin.

Here is a picture of our cute banana.


Reagan had to sneak in this picture.


A picture of our cute little monkey.


The monkey and his banana.


Reagan was one silly monkey.


Abe said this is the only banana worth having.


Reagan sorted out all his candy into categories. Now I have to figure out how to keep Reagan out of all the candy.