Random Pictures

Jason holding Joey. This is the first time he ever wanted to hold Joey. He was very proud of himself.

Joey riding a toy truck. I always thought he looked like a doll. Here Jeff's playing with him like he is.

A few months ago Jeff set up a game computer just for Jason (well, and the other kids) in the toy room so I could get on my computer some of the time. Jason was sooooo excited. He had to have puppy watch him play, so he brought in a separate chair just for puppy. He looks pretty happy here.

More to come soon. (I hope!)

Joey

It's been almost a year since I've updated my blog. Being pregnant and having a new baby on top of three other kids will do that. So here I've dedicated a post to each kid. Let's start with Joey.

I think the little guy put on a ton of weight over night. Suddenly one day he was chubby (at least for one of my babies.) For the first time I have a baby in the 50th percentile. Here's some evidence.

Here's a before shot.

OK. You can't really tell anything from this before shot, but I loved it.

These were taken five days later.

And these a week after the first shot. He really doesn't look very chubby in these pictures, but if you look carefully, you can see some rolls on his legs and arms. :)

He was done with pictures by this time and kind of cranky. But I was able to get one more good shot.

He's very serious. Right after a bath and ready for a nap.

Jason

Jason was in dire need of some new chuch clothes. This little outfit was on sale, so I bought it. He'll agree that he is so handsome in his new outfit.

Katie

Last Saturday I took Katie out to buy some new shoes and I decided to get her ears pierced while we were out. She was sooooooo excited! Here's the earrings and the shoes.

Nathan

A couple of weeks ago I went to the school to pick up the kids from school. I saw Nathan coming from a distance and I wondered what was on his face. As he got closer I wondered what had happened to him. Luckily, I remembered that during school that day they had artists from all around the area come to show the kids their craft. Among the group was a face painter.

Nathan was chosen as the only boy from his class to get his face painted. He chose to become a zombie. It looked really scary from a distance. When Jeff came home from work, Nathan was on the computer and Jeff was talking to him. I asked him if he noticed anything different about Nathan. Jeff's first thought was that Nathan had gotten in a fight.

I found the whole image so disturbing that at dinner I couldn't look at him or I'd lose my appetite. I couldn't even look at the kid while I was talking to him.

He of course loved it and was not happy when I made him wash it off before bed. At least we have the picture!

Fun with the Buttars

A few years ago, our really good friends the Buttars moved away. We were so excited they came back to visit us a few months back. Here are a few pictures from their trip. There will be more coming.

They came over General Conference weekend. We had some friends, the Byes, come over too. All the kids were outside playing between sessions and they congregated on the bench in our back yard. We had to take a picture. This is all the kids but the oldest two Nathan and Alex who we couldn't tear away from the Wii.

The next day we went to the arboretum at the University of Washington. All the cherry blossoms were out and it was a beautiful day. This is how the kids entertained themselves while we got everything out of the cars.

Here are some of the cherry blossom trees.

There were lots of sticks and kids love to play with sticks. Here they all have their favorites.

Katie with her best buddy Brooke Buttars

Me, Tiernae Buttars, and Heidi Bye

Jeff's Birthday

I haven't been very good at updating my blog lately. I'm painfully behind on the books I've read and I may never be able to remember everything I've read. Oh well. Here's some pictures from Jeff's birthday.

Notice the 3 1/2 candles. (One is pushed half way down.) That's one for every decade.

Basketball

Nathan played his first year of basketball this year. Jeff and I being the wonderful parents that we are, once again forgot to take our camera to any of the games. So instead we took pictures of him after the last game with a basketball. That's close enough to same thing don't you think?

Isn't he a good looking kid?

Christmas card?

This picture was meant to be our Christmas card this year, but I never got it sent out. So for those of you that are mad at me because you didn't get a card, you can take comfort in knowing that you aren't the only ones mad at me. :)

Anyway, I thought I'd post it here for any of you who are interested. I'd hate for all that work to go in vain. Now you can print this out and have your very own Christmas card from the Beans!

Random pictures that I never posted

These are quite old, but they're cute enough to put out there.

These are back from soccer season. My least favorite part about my kids in sports is what to do with the other kids while the one is playing. I want to watch the one play, but the other two usually don't cooperate. This day I took a break from watching Nathan play soccer to take Jason and Katie to the nearby playground.

Here's Jason getting some Halloween candy. He had to store his sword someplace!

As most of you know, Jason has a stuffed puppy that he must have with him at all times. He LOVES puppy! One day he brought me a blanket and told me that puppy was cold. So I wrapped up puppy and Jason held him tight to keep him warm. He takes very good care of puppy.

And finally, I found Jason like this one day watching TV. He could be the poster child for gluttony with these pictures. He loves Cheetos!

Don't miss the cheetos all over his face!

Flooding in Duvall

There are basically only four roads in and out of Duvall. Duvall is kind of built in the valley of a mountain so all the snow melt and rain rushes down into our valley. That along with the rivers in the valley means that there is a potential for flooding. We have one road that is flooded every year. The reason they don't raise the roads? Salmon. Or something important like that. Anyway. Twice in the last 3 years, Duvall has become it's own island. All four roads flooded. It happened again this January. Luckily we've all been home together so it hasn't been a huge deal. I didn't get any pictures on the first day of flooding when all the roads were closed, but here are a couple pictures from the day after.

This is the main road in and out of town. It wasn't flooded anymore when I took the picture, but it was still closed because of damage from the water. That's water all around it.

These pictures are taken from my neighborhood.

Here's a picture of the damage on the road. I didn't take this one. It was emailed to me from a neighbor.

Fun With Extended Family

While the whole Bean clan was here for Kirk's wedding, we went out and did some fun things. As is typical for me, I didn't take many pictures, but here are a few.

We went to a place called Jump Planet where there were lots of inflatables for the kids to play on. I think Jeff had as much fun as the kids. I took mostly video here.

We also went to the reptile zoo. Yes, that is a snake Katie is holding.

There was a lot of snow at this time, and one day I must have left my boots out, because Jason came around the corner wearing them. He cracks me up.

And finally, our yearly trip to Benihana for lunch. For some reason the only pictures I took were of Jason eating ice cream. Probably because everyone else there was taking so many pictures I didn't feel like I needed to.

You can't really tell from this picture, but his face is covered in ice cream. He sure did enjoy it!