Preschool Advancement !!!

Nate is done with his first year of preschool. Mrs Alby made sure that we called it "advancement" and not "graduation" Nate did so good in preschool. At first he was having trouble because he would get upset when the other kids wouldn't do what Mrs Alby said and he would cry. We made him and chart and everyday that he didn't cry he got a sticker and when he got 10 stickers he got to buy a prize. After we started that he was good to go. Here is Nate with his friend Micah.
This is Nate's buddy Camden. He was afraid of Camden for a while because he was a little wild. He actually broke a toy that Nate brought for show and tell and the next day his grandma and him gave Nate and "e-mail" with some money in it to pay for the toy he broke. He told his grandma that he was really sorry and he wanted to give Nathan an e-mail. How cute :)
Mrs. Alby said in the program that Nate was the boy in the class that makes sure everyone is following the rules. I think he might get that from me. whoops sorry tator :(
This is Nate on the Last day of preschool.
Nate on the first day of preschool. He looks bigger don't you think ??? We are so proud of you Nathan Cole Gibson. I don't know what we would do without you.

Who would have thought???

So as most of the people that read my blog know my dad passed away almost seven years ago. It's strange to me how he keeps showing up. Not his influence because even though he is gone he is still a big influence in pretty much everything. But his actual face and this time even his voice. Here is a youtube video that none of us even knew existed that my brother-in-law found the other day. Even though he was just talking about stuff I didn't really understand or care about it was awesome to hear his voice. I love you and miss you dad :) My dad shows up about minute 1:38.

Christmas

Christmas was so fun this year. We went to Wyoming to spent it with my mom, Jana, and Melanie. Nate was really excited and that made Ben really excited even though he didn't really know what was going on. Here is the living room at my mom's house on Christmas eve.
Here is the best picture I could get of the boys on Christmas eve in their Christmas jammies :)
Christmas morning the boys slept in we woke up to Melanie pounding on the floor at about 8. All Nate wanted this year was a sonic gumball machine. On Christmas Eve Nate decided to change the gumball machine to number 3 and a DS to number 1. Nate likes to prioritize everything so this means he now wants a DS instead. Luckily Santa found one at Walmart on the way to grandma's house :)
Nate and his games. Hopefully he doesn't turn into one of those guys that lives with his mom until he is forty because all he does is play video games.
Santa brought this awesome car ramp for Ben. He loves it. He plays with it for hours.
Here is Ben testing out some of his play food he got. He loves the corn :) Later on that day most of my sisters and brother came and we play some Minute to Win it games. We didn't get any pics or videos but we totally should have it was a blast. I think my Brother in law Bren was the all time winner. He got all twelve bells out of the kleenex box in less than 3 seconds. Now that's some bootie shaking.

Disneyland!!!

We finally made it to the Happiest Place on Earth!!! A year ago we told Nate when he turned 4 we could go to Disneyland. We took just Nate with us and had a blast!!!
Here we are on the train. This was actually the last night we were there and we were riding the train around the park to avoid the crowds and rest or poor feet.
How many people can you fit in a tea cup??? The answer is 7. Kevin not pictured because he can't do spinny rides.
Nate with Sully. He wasn't so sure about it but he humored us :) The picture doesn't show it real well but he backed up right under sully belly and was leaning forward.
Some of us girls took the little ones back to the hotel and the boys went crazy. So crazy they broke splash mountain. They were acting like the bobsled team and busted the ride on their fourth time around. Here they are sitting on the ride with the lights on while they tried to repair it but they ended up having to walk out. Way to go guys.
This is Toy Story Midway Mania. This was one of Nate's favorite rides. We went on it about a million times good thing it was my favorite also.
Nate with Mickey!!!
Nate with Mcqueen.
Everyone in line for Toy Story Mania. (kevin is taking the pic)
Nate and mom on the jungle ride.
Buzz and Woody I mean Nate and Dillon.
This is Dad and Nate on the Buzz ride. After this one Nate said "Buzz is so happy we helped him get Zurg".

The Beach

We had a pre-vacation vacation. We got to Cali a day before we were going to disneyland so we went to the beach. While we were there we saw a ton of bird flying around and Kevin yells "look a whale" It wasn't a whale but there must have been about 40 dolphins. It was hard to get pictures but here is the best we have :)
We found a hula hoop so here is Bronwyn showing us how it's done.
Dad and Tator looking at some very interesting. It was a seashell I asked Nate if he wanted to keep and he took it from me and said "no mom it belongs in the ocean" and threw it back.
Lifeguard on Duty!!!

Here is Nates baywatch run. Look at that little wetsuit :)

Halloween fun!!!

Here are some pictures from our Halloween Festivities!!!
The Payne Family at our 2010 Halloween Par tay!! Woot Woot
Me and Beans at our friend Halloween party.
The super cute mug I painted. It looked like it would be the easy choice but it sucked to paint.
This is what Nate did to Ben when I asked him to get Ben to look at the camera.
Most of the kids at the pumpkin carving party we had in the garage. Ben and Noah don't like the whole picture thing so this is the best we could get.
The Jensen Family.
The Hardy family.
Everyone at the Par tay!!!
Jana and Melanie.

The Gibson Family (Stop sign, Lady Bug, Alien, and Buzz)

Ben and Nate in the maze!
Ben found some old corn on the ground and picked it up and started chewing on it. Oh well I'm sure he has eaten grosser things.
This is at Dad's work. Ben was trying to steal Noah's sucker and Noah was very mad.
Cute little Beans.
Nate Dog and his buddy Ashton. Or should I say Dragon and Buzz.

We had so much fun this year. The pumpkin patch, the friend party, the family party, going to dad's work but we found out that we went a little overboard when Nate wouldn't go trick or treating cause he was sick of it. Oh well live and learn. I hope everyone had a exciting and safe halloween.

Pics of the boys

Here are some of the pictures we had taken of the boys. They turned out good but how could they not look at those cute little boogers.