Hard on equipment!

The boys were riding around on their bikes in the front.  Nathan apparently decided to run in to a wall.  He managed to take the wheel off his training wheels.  This means he hit hard enough to break a washer out and cause the wheel to run away.  I had to take it apart, find a new washer and put it back together as they boys really wanted to go for a ride.  Thankfully I was able to find all that we needed and off we went.

You scratch me..

It's hard to see entirely here, but Nathan was scratching Lady's belly.  In return, he got the 'magic spot'        and she was using her back leg to scratch his back.  He thought it was the best deal, ever!  

Nathan likes to put shopping bags on his shoulders to make a cape and then if he runs around fast enough, it fills up and and makes lots of noise.   

Face Painting and Spruce Meadows

The boys of course love to have their faces painted.  At the ward picnic at the beginning of September the girls from YW were painting faces.  Jay wanted a snake and this was his face.  He was ecstatic!

Two days after the picnic I took the boys to Calgary with me for some meetings.  On the Friday, we went out to Spruce Meadows.  They were doing face painting.  Jay wanted another snake, just like the one he had had on Tuesday night.  I said that was fine and he told the lady painting faces that he wanted a green snake.  Following are the step by step of his snake.

How crazy!!

People all through Spruce Meadows kept stopping Jay to take his picture and to make comments.  He would then close his eyes and show how much crazier it was with the eyelids painted.  If he had been collecting a $1 for each time he had to stop to show off his face, he could pay for our trip this fall!

 The boys wanted pictures taken on top of the statues of the horses.  They were a little hot with the sun that day.  Jay didn't last long enough to take the picture from the heat.

They had pony rides for free for the kids as well.  The boys wanted to go on and were fighting over with horse they wanted.  Carson ended up with the smallest pony and Nathan was sad he didn't get the biggest.   If you look closely, you can see that Nathan and Carson have small horses painted on their faces.