TMNT

I have to put a blog about our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle phase right now.  The boys love watching the newer cartoon and pretend to be the different turtles.  We even went onto the web to find the lyrics of the song; we have all learned it and can rap the song quite well -myself included :)

Here are the lyrics:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Heroes in a half shell

Turtle power!

Here we go! It's the lean, green, ninja team

On the scene, cool teens doing ninja things

So extreme, out the sewers like laser beams

Get rocked with the shell-shocked pizza kings

Can't stop these radical dudes

The secret of the ooze made the chosen few

Emerge from the shadows to make their move

The good guys win and the bad guys lose

Leonardo's the leader in blue,

Does anything it takes to get his ninjas through

Donatello is a fellow, has a way with machines

Raphael has the most attitude on the team

Michelangelo, he's one of a kind,

And you know just where to find him when it's party time

Master Splinter taught them every single skill they need

To be one lean, mean, green incredible team

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Heroes in a half shell

Turtle power!

So to add a picture, Tyler had an assignment to dress this turkey to be a part of our family, well you can see what he came up with.  It was pretty fun to help him and make him look so cool:

Toy Room

 So I wanted to turn our office/guest room into a toy room/office.  We moved the bed downstairs - we don't get many visitors so I don't think it will be missed much.  Then I found this entertainment center/shelving unit on craigslist.  I really wanted to find something that could hold all of our games and puzzles and entertainment centers are deeper than book shelves, so it worked really well.  I also found this toy box on craigslist.  It was painted a bright aqua green and teal - which was fun and playful, but I wanted something more simple - and it was scratched up a bunch and needed a new paint job anyway.  So this project was a bit more time consuming than I thought.  I had to paint the white 3 times and I sanded in between each layer (just lightly).  I had a hard time decided on what accent color to choose, it was between this blue, a burgundy red, or a yellow.  I like how the blue turned out.  You can't really see it, but there is an indentation around the fake blue drawers and I painted a darker blue in the groove, it adds some depth.  So now we have a nice place to put those random toys that don't fit on a shelf very well.  I had bought these metal cube things in Vernal at the D.I. I had them separated and in the boys' closets.  So I rearranged their closets and brought most of the toys down here, so now their rooms don't get as messy.  We just left the train table and the animals in Tyler and Chris's room.  Yea for organization - and making room for more toys come Christmas time.

Last assignment for my photo class

 So my photo class has gone well and it makes me get out and take pictures.  So here are some of the ones I took for this week.

Yes the girls can climb the playground now - not too excited about that.

Jenna

Kaylee

Halloween

 I couldn't decide on which pictures, so you get a bunch.  Some fun ones in the leaves:

Kaylee

Jenna

 We decorated pumkins for FHE.  My mom sent us a new Halloween book that came with this pumpkin named Spookly.  Damon liked it so much he wanted to carve his pumpkin like it.  He even slept with it that night.  I have to remember he is still a little boy sometimes.

 Tyler is smiling weird to try and show his vampire teeth.

 I was able to help at Tyler's Halloween party.  They do a breakfast which I think is a great idea.  It was fun to see all the costumes and help out.  This is his friend Jacob.

 Tyler's 1st grade class:

 Damon as Obi Won Kanobi and his friend Dalton.

 I couldn't get a very good picture of the girls, Jenna never holds still - ever.  Note the cute butterfly hair-bows that I made.

 They didn't like having wings on.

 Robin, Batman, and Obi Won - in case you couldn't tell.   Damon was going to be Batman as well, but then changed his mind.  He was Obi Wan two year ago, but I'm glad that it still fit pretty well.

 The red in Kaylee's mouth is a piece of candy, not blood - Tyler was concerned.

I handed out candy with the girls and Doug took the boys around.  They didn't stay out too long, back in time to help put everyone to bed.  Thankfully Chris took a nap earlier so he was pretty happy while trick -or-treating.  It was really cold and windy, so that probably made their outing shorter.  Jenna was excited to answer the door with me.  She would run over every time the doorbell rang.  Then she would be sad when I closed the door and she couldn't go out.  They both started saying bye-bye at the end of the night when the kids would leave.  It was pretty cute.  

Our ward had their Chili Cook-off the day after Halloween. I didn't take any pictures.  It was pretty chaotic.  The girls were good to stay in the stroller while we ate then we let them wander the halls for a bit.  Then it was time to Trunk or Treat.  Doug handed out candy.  Damon and Tyler were good to follow the line on their own.  I was trying to chase both girls who wanted to just run everywhere.  A brother in the ward was good to ask if I needed help.  He carried Jenna and I held Kaylee so I could follow Chris around the sidewalk.  As soon as Chris was done we buckled up the girls and high-tailed it out of there.  The girls were very done and had not slept well the previous night (neither had we :) ).  Doug and I sometimes wonder why we go to these activities.  The kids don't eat the food well and it seems like more effort than reward.  But I guess it is good to support the ward and the kids did seem to have a pretty good time.  I'm just glad that Halloween is once a year.