Friendship feast

Before thanksgiving break Ben's class had a cute little feast with their third grade buddies. They seemed to have tons of fun. They sang three cute little songs all about mr. Turkey and thanksgiving. (sometimes I wish I was in kindergarten it looks like so much fun).

(since these video's are from my camera the uploaded sideways I have NO idea how to turn them if anyone does let me know)

Halloween

Halloween is such a fun time when kids are little. There is much debate among the church weather it is a good holiday to celebrate or not. In my opinion I think that it is lots of fun. I do have a rule that the kids may not dress up as anything evil however. I think that it is great for kids to be able to dress as something and pretend to be something for a night. (more on the origin of Halloween later)

Anyway, the boys (well Ben and Jake) were pretty excited about Halloween this year. It was nice that it was on a Saturday but at the same time I think that we heard about 5000 times throughout the day "is it time to go yet?".

Anyway here are some pictures of our darling Luke Skywalker (in the x wing fighter costume), Elephant, and Pumpkin

Have you ever heard of the Halloween fairy? No? Oh let me tell you she is an amazing person. She comes in the evening a few days after halloween with both children and parents concent, swoops up almost all the candy and leaves gifts in its place. The boys were completely fine with this idea and love the gifts that were left and have not thought about the loss of candy once. Ben was given Kung Fu Panda and Jake was given a trip to target to pick out a new car, train or airplane. He picked out a micky mouse matchbox ramp and has been playing with it for hours.

So, here is something interesting I found when researching halloween: Halloween, which comes from the word All Hallows Eve is tied directly to All Saints Day celebrated on November 1 of each year to commemorate the old saints who have past on. These “saints” were heroes and martyrs for the Christian Faith.

leaf piles

The joy of living in a house with LOTS of trees is jumping in the leaves in the fall. At least that is what they boys think. We are 12 bages down at least 12 more to go. The front is raked and cleand up but the back has not been touched. There are lots of leaves left to fall so that will have to wait for another weekend. Look at the action shots!!

yes those are ben's hands. His head is somewhere in there and no jake did not step on it :)
I must get into that cool pile

oh so fun!

Ready set Jump!

Halloween Party

We had our first school halloween party and it was lots of fun. Jake was excited that he would be able to go to school with Ben and Ben was super excited to be able to dress up. Caleb was not a huge fan of the whole ordeal because it meant being in his carseat longer but he put up with it.

The party was a huge success. Ben was the cuttest Luke Skywalker (in the x-wing fighter costume becuase he is the #1 Jedi). It was cute to see Ben with all of his classmates and to realize that even the simplest things like playing pass the spider make kindergarteners so happy.

The party started by lots of mom's helping kindergartners put on costumes. The kids were then picked up by Dr. VanDenBerg the principal and were off on their journey. Ben's class was able to stop by every class in thes school to pick them up for the parade. The kids then made their way ouside where they then circled the circle drive 3 times. Lot's of cameras were flashing and the kids and teachers all looked like they were having lots of fun. It was then off the the classrooms for the big party.

Here is Ben's class such cute kids huh?

BOTTOM ROW starting left: Hannah (cowgirl), Jack (knight in shing armor) Maddauh (Princess), Navah (princess), Alan (Pirate)

MIDDLE ROW starting left: Kenneth (Ninga), Ben (luke Skywalker), Kristen (Vampire), Jacob (Transformer), Kian (Transformer), Hibbah (Spanish Princess) Andrew (Astronaut),

TOP ROW starting left: Sydney (witch), Shahab (Ninga),Dylan (Dragan), Matthew (Black Spider Man), Kevin (firefighter)

VERY TOP: Mrs. Gadladge (black kitty cat with a tail)

fyi I totallt butchered most of those names I dont have a class list to go off of