Halloween!

The kids had a lot of fun with Halloween this year. They went "trunk or treating" twice and really "trick or treating" Halloween night. And every time they dressed up as something different. Unfortunately I don't have a picture of the first costumes, Coral was a 50's poodle skirt girl and Peter was a ninja type character (some costume with a mask, cape and sword.

Tinkerbell & Darth Vadar were the second trunk or treaters.


And a Ballerina & Pirate went Trick or Treating Halloween night. Aren't their expressions great, the door bell had just rung with our first trick or treat vistors and they were so excited, but I made them pause for a pictures and this is what we got! =) If you look close you'll notice Peter has a beard. Which he was very excited about. He would point it out at each house he went to.

Okay...We're ALMOST back! =)

So much for the "We're back!" =) I am trying to get back though. Hopefully this week! (Cross your fingers)

I'm Back!

I've been horrible about updating our blog. We took a wonderful trip to New York in August and I took ALOT of pictures with my family. I wanted to post them before I continued but.....it's not happening. SO, I will have to go back and update those when I can but, for now here are some of the latest happenings here in the Rasmussen home.

Our Baseball Star!

Yes, we are working on creating a baseball super star! J/K
Peter did enjoy hitting the ball with Uncle Ray though.

Trampoline fun with Grandma!

The kids loved being able to jump on the trampoline. And having Grandma join them made it even more fun!

Weston & William

We were so excited to finally meet Ray and Molly's "little" boy William. I worked hard to become buds with both their boys. I think William and I eventually connected, but Weston never was quite sure what he thought of me! =)

Weston

Are they not two of the cutest little boys?

William

A Lego Lesson from a Pro!

Peter was so excited to be able to play legos with Uncle Kendall. I had told Peter how good Kendall was at building things and it didn't take long for him to decide Uncle Kendall was the ultimate lego pro (sorry dad!=)

Leap Frog!

Coral had fun playing leap frog with Uncle Kendall and Uncle Kyle while in New York.

Going to New York!

Both the kids were very excited to be able to have their own backpacks with wheels to pull in the airports. Of course by the time I was able to take a picture (after racing to get on planes etc.) Peter was not in a cooperating mood! But..here is Coral pulling her backpack!

Love the hat!

Coral decided she wanted to wear a hat to school today. I thought she looked too adorable with it not to grab the camera.


I just loved this profile shot I got while she was watching tv.

Coral's Videos!

Coral had fun playing with my camera today taking videos of herself. Here are a few of them. They are all pretty short and pretty funny! =)

Like Father, Like Son!

Peter just adores his dad! Sometimes we will catch him mimicking what Ryan does. In these pictures Peter was trying to lay on the floor the same way his dad was (lying on his side, resting on his arm) while they were playing legos together.

A Happy Little Working Song!

I caught Peter singing while cleaning his room a few weeks ago. I set the camera on the banister outside his room so he wouldn't know I was recording him. The quality of the video didn't turn out very good, but it's still fun to watch/hear him sing while cleaning. Notice his cleaning technique too. I think most of it ended up on his bed. But, I'm easily pleased, it makes me feel better just to have the floor clean and that he did it without me getting after him. =)

Our Creative Boy!

The other day Peter decided he wanted to make a Peter Pan costume. The first thing he figured he would need was a hat, which had to be green of course. Not finding any green paper, he started coloring a piece of paper green! =) Fortunately we found a piece and I made him a hat. Then he needed the red feather in the hat, which I made but you can't see in this picture. Finally he thought we could make the clothes out of green paper too! I convinced him that he could just wear all green clothes. So here is our very own "Peter Pan!"


This one's my personal favorite. Peter asked me this morning if we had a jet pack like astronauts wear. I told him we didn't not. With in a minute he had pulled a big plastic pitcher out of the cupboard and said, "Yes, we do. See?!", as he held it to his back. All we had to do now was "tape" it to his back (tape is always his solution)! =) Well, I tied it on as best I could and he immediately went to jump, I mean, blast off, of the couch!


I asked him to do an astronaut pose and this is what he came up with. Pretty good impression of using a jet pack I would say. What a creative kid!

Singing While Playing!

For some reason Coral and Peter were singing everything they were saying while they were playing together.

It's fun to hear their different voices, Coral's high sweet voice and Peter's low boy voice! =)

Peter eventually got tired of singing everything he wanted to say, as you can see in this next video!