Sunday, April 21, 2013

Nathan's 11th Birthday



The night before Nathan's birthday we ate hamburgers and drank rootbeer floats as his requested birthday dinner.
Nathan wanted his party at Xtreme Air. They play a lot of dodge ball and had a great time.
Preston came for the party and the boys chose to play a round of all 8 boys against Nathan's Dad.  I came in and helped at the end. 
Nathan's friends. This is a good group of boys. Nathan kept mentioning how great it was that everyone at the party was Mormon. I will have to agree with that greatness.


 Nathan doesn't like cake so I baked chocolate chip cookies for dessert. We put a candle on top of the stack of cookies.

For his actual birthday dinenr he chose to go to Texas Roadhouse with just Mom and Dad.
 The balloon man made him a special birthday hat.
 Amanda wanted to share in the birthday spotlight.
 Amanda was very intrigued by Nathan's cool balloon hat. 
 We had Brownies and ice cream for dessert.  (Brownies make a great substitute for a non cake eater)

Some of the family that came to help celebrate.

Still in shock that we have a son that is 11.  He is a great young man and we love him.



March 2013

Nathan particpated in his final pinewood derby as a scout in March.  He chose to make his car the Batmobile.

 
These are the refreshments I made for the scouts. They were kind of a lot of work to be honest.
Nathan's end of the soccer season party. Coach was impressed with how hard Nathan worked and how much he improved throughout the season. 

During Spring Break we spent a few days in Eagar.  One of the days we all went shooting.
Look Mom I can shoot without looking. This was Nathan's airsoft gun.

The men scoping in the guns.

 It was quite cold and a bit windy so the girls spent a lot of time inside Grandpa's truck with Nana.
 Natalie and Aunt Andrea.
 Amanda is ready to drive a big rig.
 Hanging out in the back of Grandpa's truck. The truck was treated like a big playset.
 Me trying out the gun that Preston HAD to buy there because it was such a great deal. :-)
 Nathan's turn to try it out.
 Yes that is a patch of snow behind them.  Natalie had just ate some of it and assured me the part she ate was white.

 The girls after church one Sunday in March.
 
During spring break some young women in our ward put on a mini dance camp to raise money for girl's camp. Taylor particpated and enjoyed it.







 

During the last week of March the Pena cousins were on spring break so they came and played with us.  The only drawback was our kids went back to school the day after they came. So we played a little hookie to play more. We went swimming a couple of times.

One afternoon we went to a new place near our home called Flipside. They have arcades , bumper cars, big jungle gym, laser tag bowling etc. We didn't do everything but had a blast with what we did.











Another day we spent at the Phoenix Childrens Museum and had a great time.




 




 

 














  We saw the movie The Croods and played on the toys outside the theater.
 In March Nathan received his Arrow Of Light Scout Award. We were very proud of him. I think he looks very sharp in his uniform.
 Because Nathan turned 11 he was able to crossover from Cubscouts to Boy Scouts.  This was the part of the ceremony where he crossed over the bridge.