Nate turns 8!!

Great Nate turns 8! 

He's chosen to be baptized.

We had a celebration at the house with lots of friends, 

family and food. 

Nathan likes LEGOS, video games, Minecraft, 

riding his bike and played soccer this year. 

Soccer and Karate Camp

The boys have been doing Shou Shu Karate for three years. 

They love learning how to protect themselves. 

Also how to control. 

Nate was our energetic little guy. 

When he started karate, he really changed. 

Instead of the constant crazy running around, 

he started being able to choose when he wanted play or be calm. 

I loved this transition. 

Karate has been a great outlet for the boys. 

We were able participate in karate camp September 2014. 

It's a weekend of karate all day long with some demos at night.

 It was just me and the boys in a tent. 

It was very hot with a loud train at night.

 But a great experience. 

The boys both earned their high purple belts. 

Nate played soccer this year. 

He was on the Decepticons team and had a blast running around 

with boys his age. 

Coaches Micah, Jesse and Mike

First Day of School 2014

School is in!

Nate goes to second grade with Mrs. Lemos

Charlotte has Mrs. Ellefsen for Kinder. 

She is super excited to be leaving pre school to learn more. 

She loves school. 

 Elliott gets to start pre school! 

She is so excited to get to go to school like the others. 

Mommy is also excited for her. 

Elliott will get to use her energy and meet new people. 

Here's to the new school year!

Last day of school 2014

 Nate received straight A's. Way to go!!!

 So close to perfect attendance. 

 Ms. Mary and Charlotte.

 Graduating preschool! 

Excited for Kindergarten. 

Nate Turns 7!!

Nate has finally had his 7th birthday! 

He has been waiting an awful long time for it. 

 He received a DS (another story behind this) and a game. 

He loves it. 

He wanted a Pokemom cake. 

I can't do fancy cakes. Period. 

But was able to do a Pokeball. 

He liked it. That's all that counts. 

Some things about Nate at this age:

He loves to be active. Sports, bounce house, 

running, scooters, bikes, karate.

 He is a very social person. 

Won't take 1 minute for him to make a friend on a playground 

and they're off running and screaming together. 

He has been improving his reading skills 

and therefore picking up the Barlow reading habit. 

He can build anything from LEGOS.

Or make anything into an awesome weapon of some sort.  

Even though his favorite things to read are comics, he's reading and loving it. 

Here's to another great year!!

Great Nate turns 6!!

My Nate has turned 6 years old.

I don't know what else to say. 

I feel like my babies are getting too big. 

On the up side, they can do things like unload the dishwasher, pick up a room, do their own homework, wash my car, dust, fold/put away their laundry w/o help, wash windows, make popcorn & toast, sweep, etc.

When are they able to start mowing the lawn????

Some things Nate is about around this time:

Pokemon, Skylanders, drawing anything that has to do with airplanes-bombs-people dying, not staying still for a minute, eats more than I do, helps his classmates, and basically being such a sweetheart. 

First Days of School

It's been busy around the Hasleton household! School has started!

Homework, flyers, PTG meetings, what not to wear, schedules, etc.

Here are the boys on their first day. 9-4-12

Grant to Second, Nate to Kinder

Charlotte one week later 9-10-12 to preschool. 

She has a carrot in her mouth. Wouldn't swallow it for anything.

And Grant gets his first pair of glasses. 

I'm so nervous for them. Not the cheapest things around. 

But it's fun watching him be able to see. 

He keeps moving them up & down at things & saying, "wow, it's blurry, then it's not." 

It's so hilarious & sad at the same time. 

I'm waiting to see what gets better for him with good vision. 

The poor kid has been walking around with a worse vision than me. And I can't see squat. 

Hey you bloggers. Update your blogs with awesome pics of what you're doing would ya!

Nate Birthday Party

Nate's 5th birthday party was so much fun!!!

We had delicious cake that turned everyone's mouths blue.

(Um, & turned their BM green. TMI I know)

We had the biggest Pinata I've ever seen. Thanks to Jimmy & Rene.

Every kid got a shot, then Jared pulverized it.

The war was the best!

Everyone had a gun, bullets, eye protection & fear of being shot at!

There were sand bag walls to hide behind.

Adult men to run from. I think some of them had more fun than the kids.

Pink goggles for the girls. Thanks to Nana.

Awesome hiding spaces.

Bows & arrows.

Balloons for Elles to play with. But for others to pop.

More hiding spots.

Lots of smiles.

And lots of rope climbing. The kids loved climbing up & swinging.

Unfortunately, I was coerced into buying Cheetos, my nemesis.

But the birthday boy insisted.

But they did keep others occupied for several moments.

Happy Birthday Nate. I hope you enjoyed yourself.

I'm glad your father has an awesome gym to do these kind of things in.

Nate's favorite things about this day was the Pinata, his friends, & all the guns.