Red Ribbon Week & Random Videos

Red Ribbon Week at school is no fun for parents!! With every day having a new theme and way for the kids to dress up, it gets annoying. We got 4 of the 5 days so I figured that was a success with 3 different kids to dress up. Superhero day I didn't get pictures because they didn't all wear costumes all day. I also didn't get pictures for Rocket Red Friday, but I did get the first two days.

Pirate Day, something about Pirates ARRR against drugs I think.

Neon/Sunglasses day, Skyrockets are too bright for drugs.

Bentley and Radley racing one another outside one day. Bentley's clothes of a swimsuit, a huge skirt, and her little heels are just too much! She has quite the fashion gene!!

This video is a little old, but it should have given me enough since to not let Damon go rock climbing.  He couldn't get down from the tree he climbed and was throwing a huge fit about it.  So Kenned decided to record him!!

I keep trying to get videos of Bentley just talking because the things she says these days can be pretty funny.  We have a lot of videos of Damon saying the most random stuff.  Here she is talking to Kenney while he works on the front door.

Lubbock Shopping

We went to Lubbock for Stake Temple Day. As usual we had some errands to run which meant taking 4 kids shopping, Yay!!!! NOT!!! These are a few of our adventures.

A quick visit to Pet's Mart to see some animals.

The annual stop at the Halloween store.

We have been coming to the Halloween store in Lubbock every year since we lived there. Kenney loves it and loves watching the kids get scared with the decorations. Over the years the decorations have become less and less, but there were still a few this year. This is their reaction to a few of them. The best reaction we got from Bentley was of course not recorded, but she was terrified at one point!

Target... no further explanation needed.

They found the most random stuff in the Target Halloween section. Radley's dance was pretty funny!

Kenney keeping the boys entertained while Bentley and I were getting her cleaned up from peeing in the middle of the store!!

Radley Can Ride A Bike

We knew for a while that we needed to teach Radley how to ride a bike.  We also knew it probably wouldn't take him long once he decided to try.  We made a couple trips to the parking lot at the clinic and let Radley go.  He didn't have much interest because he couldn't go as fast as his scooter.  Then he fell off his scooter and scraped up his leg.  So it put us back, but it only took him about 2 actual attempts for him to get his balance and pedal.  He is pretty amazing!!

He's doing it!!!

Here's a little bit of everyone riding around.

Typewriter & More

Kenney found a project to work on while listening to General Conference. He saw an old typewriter in a shed at a friend's house while he was there with the boys cleaning up his yard. The man told Kenney he could have it if he would mow his yard. Kenney mowed the yard and still tried to pay for the typewriter, but the man wouldn't let him. So Kenney brought it home and decided to see if he could clean it up and get it to work again. He wants to put it in Bentley's room for decoration.

He spent a few hours taking it apart and giving it a good cleaning.  In the middle of cleaning it, Papa came by the house because he had shot a deer with his bow and couldn't find it.  Kenney and the boys went out with him and found the deer.

On Nana's birthday Kenney took her out to dinner with Kevin and Cary Shane, so she could spend some time with just her sons.  Then we all met up together for cake and ice cream.


Before Pictures

The biggest deer Papa has shot with a bow.

After

The kids' faces are too funny sometimes.  Damon didn't want to be part of the picture.

Silly Bentley & Rock Climbing

This girl cracks us up! Everything she does is so different than the boys; maybe that's why it seems so silly to us. She does everything with a feminine flair.

Riding around while Daddy hung up the Halloween witches with her crazy hair, but she wanted her picture taken.

I asked her to move her hair and this is what I got.

Dancing around at the pep rally.

I'm not sure what move this is, but she was watching the cheerleaders and doing whatever they were doing.

Some ballet moves got thrown in the mix too!

Here's some video of her dancing as the cheerleaders were warming up and getting ready to start.

Rock Climbing


At the WAC (the local public gym) there is a rock climbing wall.  One day the kids and I were there without Kenney.  I assumed they all knew how to do the wall.  I knew Damon had problems coming down, but he went up so quickly and easily that I thought he would be ok.  Well, he was stuck up there for about 15 mins until someone had to climb up there to pull him off the wall to get him down.  Lesson learned: don't let him get high until he practices repelling down first!

Radley is a speed demon getting up the wall and is amazing repelling down!

Kyler is great at it too!

Damon had some struggles coming down, to say the least.