Family Reading Time

We are in love with our fireplace, and it has created a new tradition of family reading time.

Mama and Tony snuggled under a blanket reading.

Cady trying not to smile for the camera.

 Papa and Randy snuggling on the couch reading. 

Now this is a tradition worth having!

Naegle Halloween Fun

Starting November 1, Scott got a job working Part-Time at the School District.  They wanted him to start on Halloween, but he was already dedicated to helpingin Tony's classroom:

Tony's way too cool to have his dad in class.

Tony's bobbing for apples.

Tony is ready to be a husband!  He's holding Sofia's hair back as she bobs for apples.  What a little gentleman!

Clad in his army gear, ready to be a plastic army guy.

Painting Cady's face as she prepares to be Smurfette.

 Randy was Percy Jackson (way easier than Cady's and Tony's costumes), and our Smurfette and Army Guy.

Tony's pig-face army guy face says Happy Halloween!

A year and a half in a nutshell

Yes, it's true, it's been well over a year since I've blogged, and I've got a lot to catch up on!  Well, blogging is very similar to journaling, in that if you try to catch up in detail, it will never work, and you'll just get farther and farther behind.  So I'll give you highlights of the past 1.5 years!

We played some football and were cheerleaders.

We Halloweened as angels and vampire ninjas...

... and plain ninjas.

We got lost hiking in the mountains.

We did some reading.

We ate some pizza.

We walked on the ice in the shadow of a glacier.

We listened to the judge as he signed the paper allowing the kids to be adopted!!!

We are now legally a family!!

We built snow caves in the back yard.

We played a little cello.

We made snow angels on the frozen lake.

We were the shortest person on our basketball team.

We loved playing goalie!

We got some bloody noses.

We got baptized!

We ran and played.

We went bike riding in the snow.

We wrestled with cousin Korban.

We fed the seagulls some fries from Ivar's.

We added our gum to the gum wall.

We had some fun with Grandma Layne and Aunt Lori.

We drove Aunt Lori and Grandma Layne CRAZY!!!

We were sealed as a forever family in the temple.

We made fuzzy beards in the hot tub.

We did make-overs with cousin Mallorie.

We tried to go bowling.

We met cousin Jacob and fell in love with Aunt Peggy.

We strengthened friendships.

We played with fire.

We gathered easter eggs OUTSIDE!!

We dressed in drag.

We made our theatrical debuts.

We got mohawks.

Then we shaved our heads.

We went fishing.

We went all gangster on this place.

We dressed a little more in drag.

We bought a new house and ripped down the wallpaper.

That's it in a nutshell!  I'm gonna work on blogging more, but I can't make any promises.

Hawaii - Day Six: North Shore 7/25/2011

Monday morning we all packed into the car and wound our way up to North Shore.  That's where all the surfing and waves are.  It's about a 45 minute drive, and we were very impressed with how well the kids enteretained themselves.  About this moment they were also singing an impromptu song of "My Favorite Things."  Somehow that has become a favorite of Randy's.

One of our stops was at the Dole pineapple plantation.  We kept missing the train that takes us around the plantation, which we were bummed about...

But instead, we had this monster of an ice cream sundae.  For breakfast, I am ashamed to admit.

We also ran off a bunch of energy playing tag in the cool rainbow trees.

Another stop was at Turtle Beach!  We all got to go swimming with the turtles (despite the assigned environmentalists telling us to stop it).  It was so cool!

Apparently this particular beach always has turtles because this is one of the few places that grows this green moss that the turtles enjoy eating.

As we were planning the Hawaii trip, Scott kept promising the kids that we'd stop by a coconut shack and get some fresh coconut, and our time was running out!  Finally we ran across this cute little shack with an adorable man who kept feeding us coconut and mango and star fruit and I don't know what else, but he was so cool!

Coconut juice from a straw right out of the coconut!

Randy about to slurp it all up!

The kids loved it!

We finally found a beach with bigger waves, but not too big!  The kids had fun running and splashing in the bigger waves.  There were some other kids there at the beach with body boards, and the kids got to try that out, though apparently it was the wrong season and the waves weren't very good for it.

The kids were all tuckered out on the ride home...

But not too tired to shop!  I'm ashamed to admit I'm turning Cady into a shopper.  We had so much fun at the mall!  It makes a difference when there is something more than a Fred Meyer to shop at!