Happy Birthday Nathan!

Nathan turned 6 on Tuesday, November 6th.  We had a week long celebration.

On the Saturday before his birthday we went to see Wreck-it-Ralph.  It was a cute movie and a fun way to kick off the festivities.

On Tuesday we went to a family dinner at Red Robin before going to meet our friends for small group and the kids got to play.

They sang to him and he didn't know quite how to act but he liked that they brought him a sundae.

Saturday was the Chuck-E-Cheese family party.  

Nathan's Grandma M and Grandpa Gerbrandt

Nathan's cousin, Grayson

Lauren and Ethan

Nathan was so excited about his cake!

When we left Chuck-E-Cheese in Gilroy we went by the Target so Nathan could spend his gift card and then on the way home we made a few stops...

I found a Hobby Lobby in Morgan Hill so we had to stop.  For a few minutes I felt like we were in Texas.  I will have to go back. 

We had to stop at the two story Chuck-E-Cheese in San Jose to spend the rest of our tokens.  

This little sweet girl missed her nap and fell asleep on the way home. 

Happy Birthday Nathan!  We love you so much!

Holiday

Nathan had Monday off because of Veteran's day so we headed to San Francisco for the afternoon.  We went to the mall downtown that has 8 floors.  The kids were so excited when we walked in!

We had fun riding the escalators.  We rode all the way to the top.

and then back down.

This is at the top.

This is the view from the top down.

We headed outside and then went to a few other places and had to stop by the Disney store and then ended up at Macy's.  Holiday Lane was on the 7th floor so we went up to the top to see the Christmas decorations.  When we got to the top we found an ice skating rink and the big Christmas Tree in the view from the big window.

It wasn't cold but Anistyn wanted to wear her coat.

The pictures are a little gray because they had a big scrim hanging down with Brad Pitts face on it.  This is funny because Nathan has started saying, "Hey look.  It's the boring guy from the TV." every time he sees the new Chanel ads.

 

We took a little break here before we were off to find the car. (The girl never stops moving!)

It was a fun afternoon in the city!!

Potty Training

We have been talking about going to the potty and being a big girl.  She goes and sits but not much else.  We picked up some Dora panties this weekend.  Hopefully they will help her get the hang of it.

Handmade

When we were little my Great-Grandma, we called her Othermama, and my Grandma would make dresses and coats for me and Stephanie.  Some have been lost but we were lucky enough to hang on to a few of them.  Anistyn was able to wear one of our coats to church this morning.  I have a few more in her closet we are hoping she will be able to wear.

Leslie