Veteran's Day Program

 LeAnn Haven the kids amazing music teacher arranged
this awesome line up of 11-11-11. Picture from Dan Seabrook of the Wenatchee World paper.

Jeremy was featured on the front page of the Wenatchee World.

http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2011/nov/11/honoring-service/

  

            Brooklyn was invited to participate in Music Mondays. As part of this Program they did a special program for Veteran's Day.  Jeremy was also invited to come. Brooklyn, was so excited!  

 Here is the photographer Dan Seabrook from The Wenatchee World Paper getting their names.

Here they are walking onto the field. This is one of those moments many people teared up. 

 I love this picture.

Jer soluting the flag as we sang, The National Anthem

The Star Spangled Banner.

Here is Brooklyn doing her part in the program.  They sang 9-11

and Brooklyn marched and moved her flag.  Very cool.  I thought I recorded it but I didn't.  I need to work on that.  Very sad.  But I got some pictures.

One of the cool things about living in Wenatchee WA is they love to see Soldiers.  Because Wenatchee is not by a base there are not a lot of Soldiers here.  So many people stopped to say thanks to Jeremy, and classes lined up to shake his  hand.  What a special "Moment."

Our Hero!!! 

Happy Veteren's Day Jeremy!  We love you.

Happy Halloween 2011

 

Bastianclan Halloween 2011

 

The kids ready to go Trunk-or-Treating

  

 Awee we are so cute in our Army shirts.

Chandler wanted to be Thor. Why? because of the Hammer. Oh boy!

 Chandler looks so big here.  Wow!

Brooklyn Wanted to be "Poison Ivy" I wasn't even sure who Poision Ivy was.
So I googled it.  For those of you who do not know.  She is a Batman Villain.
I had to find a green outfit and I had to sew over 50 leaves onto her costume.
Doing Brooklyn's make-up was fun.  I took a couple tutorial online and this is what it looked like.

 Kayden, Wanted to be a Hobo.  This was an easy costume
and look, he makes a super cute Hobo.  Love it!

I did Kayden's make-up for his School Halloween Party.

But for the trunk or treat he did his own.  Very Cool!

Brooklyn and her Friends, 

Jessica,Brooklyn, Kyia, and Carlyn

Here is the group of kids Kayden and Chandler hung out with.
Chandler, Josh, Hunter, Tanner, Logan, Lena, Brooklyn and Kayden.

Happy 12th B-day Kayden

This year for Kayden's 12th Birthday he got to go on a Weekend adventure to Salt Lake City, Utah with his Dad and some other friends from the ward. Jer didn't take a camera so no pictures. :-( They left Thursday night drove to ID. Then got up early Friday morning and went to Provo for a BYU Football game. Kayden loved it. He almost lost his voice from all the yelling he did. It was a very close game. BYU Won. Kayden was so excited he called me after the game while everyone was still cheering to tell me a play by play of the game. Awesome! Jeremy got Kayden a BYU t-shirt and of course a BYU football. Then on Sat they were able to attend General Conference at Temple Square. Sat night they went to the Conference Center to watch the Priesthood session. Kayden has some great stories from this event. His favorite part was when the Prophet, Thomas S.Monsen, came out and was in awe that every single seat was filled with men. Kayden's testimony definitely grew from this experience. And how cool to have his Dad all to himself for some much needed bonding time. What a great present. They came home Sunday Night.

Kayden Requested Breakfast in bed for his Birthday.

He wanted his Dad to make biscuits and gravy. Yummy!

Here is Kayden opening some of his gifts. I love

his facial expressions. Too funny!

Aweee, see I can keep a secret! Out of all of Kayden's

present the one he loved the most was his laser

pointer. Now I got this pointer at the pet store; it's for cats.

But Kayden Loves it and takes it everywhere.

Another present Kayden wanted on his Birthday was to receive the

Priesthood. So we talked with the Bishop and set up a time on Sat for

Kayden to recive the priesthood and be ordained to the office of a Deacon.

Here he is after his ordination. What a handsome boy! Kayden also worked

very hard and recieved his Faith in God Sunday Oct 23rd. Way to go buddy!!

Wow! Our Amazing Kayden

Kayden had his last Court of Honor as an 11 yr old Scout Oct 26th.

Kayden, has done so well in the scouting program. He loves everything associated with

Boy scouts: camping, hiking, Swimming, knots, and first aid. To name a few of his favorites.

This is the Tower of Babel. All of these sticks are held

together with different types of knots. The boys in Troop 138

built this Tower. How awesome!

Here is Troop 138.

Kayden received a couple awards tonight. He is now

a First Class scout. Soon to be a Star. He also received

7 merit badges tonight. Kayden is on fire. Good Job Buddy!

Monte Merrill has been an awesome advisor and leader for Kayden

He is so fun and so on top of everything. I know that Kayden

has learned alot from Monte and made a lot of memories we will

never forget. Thanks for all your hard work Monte Merrill

Our "Baby Girl" is another year older!

Here she is with the Special Birthday Hat.
Her cupcake flavor this year was Chocolate with Sprinkles.
Wait that is what she had last year. Can't go wrong with Chocolate!

Brooklyn, just couldn't wait any longer.
She had to open her first gift at 7:30am.

This year Brooklyn wanted to have a movie party.
She wanted to take all her friends to the Movies.
Umm that was not in the Dave Ramsey plan. So we
decided we could have a fun Movie party at our house.
We made super cute Ticket invitations.

Here is our table with all our yummy food.

We also made individual home made pizza. YUMMYHere is our "Snack" table for our movie. We made
Marshmallow Popcorn and lots of candy!

While our pizza's cooked we danced to Kid Bop.
The girls even taught me some new moves.

Here are all the kids at the party!
Kyia,Annie, Jessica,Brooklyn,Chyenne,Carylyn, Mckenzie
Kayden, Tevyn, and Chandler

This is what they looked like after all that Candy!!!

Jessica & Brooklyn

Waiting for the Movie to start.

So comfy watching Spooky Budies.

I was super excited to make Brooklyn's Popcorn cake.
It turned out super cute!

So excited for Cake!
I love this picture. The kids are so cute.

Ever since I got my Army purse for Christmas last
year Brooklyn has wanted one. So we talked
to Gina at Pink Beret and she made one just
for Brooklyn.Aweee a super happy Girl.

Brooklyn,still loves animals. She loves her new Dog.
She wishes it was a real dog. :-(
Brooklyn, We love you so much and we are so very blessed
that you are in our family. Happy Happy Birthday Sweetie!