Nathan's Kindergarten Graduation

I wasn't sure if Nathan was going to have a Kindergarten graduation or not just because I hadn't heard about it until the very end of the year. Personally I think that they are kind of silly, but after actually having a child graduate from Kindergarten, I think that they can be kind of great. Here is our boy waiting in line. I thought that it was interesting that while many of the girls were in very fancy dresses, Nathan was the only boy in his class with a tie.





Still waiting in line but now not quite so well behaved.




Josh sitting on Daddy's shoulders, trying to get a better view.

Fishy lips!!!!

One of the songs that the Kindergarten classes had been working on for a while. I love how Nathan is doing the movements but still not really paying attention. I guess he is not a performer.

Nathan with Mr. Vogel, the principal. He posed with every single student which was nice but took awhile. Although when I saw a little of the 8th grade graduation latter, it seemed as if he was saying something personal about each of the graduates. Impressive.

No, they aren't moving their tassels from one side to the other. It's just a bunch of kids bored and playing with the handiest thing available. I do love how so many of them are playing with their tassel. I think that I count about six.

And one final picture of Nathan with his teacher Ms. Ruth Marooka. She was a great teacher and was very patient and wonderful to Nathan. He really loved her and will miss her.

Happy 6th Birthday Nathan!

For Nathan's birthday this year, we decided to skip the friend party but we still did a lot of partying. It started on Friday, his birthday, when I brought cupcakes to share with his class.

Everyone enjoying their sugar rush.

Nathan, his teacher,Ms. Marooka, and one of his best school friends, Jacob.

We then headed over to Disneyland to celebrate there.

Playing on the old firetruck at Disneyland fire station.

Enjoying a birthday treat after dinner.

Waiting for the train (look at how tired they are).

The next day we went to Legoland. It was our first time and we went quite sure what to expect. We had a really good time although next time we will do a few things differently.

We dug for "dinosaur bones" in a sand pit.

Got road rage in a giant Lego car.
As a side note, Nathan is now being more creative with his poses. With this photo he was looking more down which was more realistic for what he was pretending but made for a horrible photo. I just think that it's funny that he doesn't want to simply smile for photos and is using "motivation."

Playing in the pirate water area. We were not prepared for this but it was the last thing we did before the park closed so the boys were only wet and cold for a little while. Luckily we did have more clothes in the car.

Battling Darth Vadar (while trying not to shiver too much).

We finished up our crazy weekend with family dinner at our house where we had most of the cousins and aunts and uncles over to help celebrate. It was a lot of fun but we were all glad for it to end also.

Happy Birthday Jessica!

A few months ago my sister was commenting on how she wanted to go to Disneyland without her children (they were fighting or driving her crazy in some other way at the time). I have a pass and Disney is doing a promotion right now where you can get in free on your birthday so I said that I would take her. My lovely sister in law Staci took care of Nathan and Joshua while Richard was at work and Jessica left her kids with Jon and we ran away to Disneyland.

Here we are for lunch at the Blue Bayou, Disneyland's best restaurant (excluding the ultra exclusive Club 33 which I'm still trying to find a connection on how to get in). Jessica had the Monte Cristo and I had the beef short ribs. Both were good, especially the the beef. We decided that the Monte Cristo was like a ham sandwich doughnut.

The rest of the time we just walked around riding what ever ride looked good and enjoying how many people wished Jessica a happy birthday. We rode all of the major rides except Splash Mountain (it was too cool and rainy) and no baby rides. Well, unless you count Buzz Light Year, but I don't.

We had a really good time. Jessica said that it was the most self indulgent birthday that she had ever had. I think that she deserved it.