Tugger

The picture if Roscoe sitting on the fireplace mantle reminded us of Tugger.

Halloween fun

Sphinx on the fireplace.

Aden and Adalin ready for Grace and Grant's Halloween Party!

Halloween song

Music and lyrics by Aden Anderson. Singers Adalin and Kendall and Aden on piano. Rock on!!!

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Concert in the playroom at 3:30pm

The kids had a half day today so Kendall, Cathy, and Preston came to visit! Then their rock band put on a performance for us!

Check out her form!

She is definetely the best in the class, but maybe we are biased :)

Adalin's tap class

Here is a link to her doing tap...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFFC6ebW6Dw

Adalin ballet

Adalin's ballet class had an open house last week and here is her doing ballet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDSPXCTHcEI

Courtney's wedding

Last weekend we got to celebrate Courtney and Josh's wedding in Lakewood, WI. We all had a blast!
Pic 1 - Adalin's first set of high heels, she is very proud of them!
Pic 2 - Great Grandma Darlene and her grand kids
Pic 3 - Aden and Arjen on the dance floor
Pic 4 - Arden and Grandma Darlene dancing
Pic 5 - Aden and Addie in front of the lake before we headed home

Supply and demand

The kids both had a field trip to a farm for school today. Tracy went
along as a chaperone.

One of the activities was a hay ride around the property and the
driver would stop to point out several things during the ride. He
showed trees they tap for syrup and talked about how the early and hot
spring resulted in not as much syrup this year.

At the end of the ride he asked if the kids had any questions, and the
syrup thing must have stuck with Aden. He asked if the price of syrup
was going to go up because of the lower production this year. The
teachers and parents were impressed by his question.

History

Aden has been reading a lot about Presidents lately. Somehow
conversation at dinner last night turned into a history lesson
starting with George Washington and the Revolutionary War, on to the
Civil War, statehood and presidential elections. The Gulf War came up
somewhere along the line and I used Saddam Hussein as an example of a
dictator that opposed democracy. Aden was interested in all if this
and kept asking questions, and Adalin definitely thinks naughty
dictators should go to jail.

So tonight Aden is getting ready for bed and asks me, "Dad, what was
that guys name from Iraq? Was it Saddam Ha-sein or Saddam Hu-sein?"

I replied, "Hu."

Aden shot back, "That guy from Iraq that we talked about last night."

Addie can ride a bike

Addie asked to have her training wheels taken off this afternoon. Away she goes!

http://youtu.be/QVQ1oPMGcI8

YMCA dance

We went to our Courtney's wedding this weekend and had a lot of fun.
Gma Darlene was wearing another one of her famous sparkly dresses and
was showing Aden how to dance.

http://youtu.be/n-RPguabyXg

Front Page

Windpower Championships got some coverage on the front page of the
local newspaper.