Family Pictures at Liberty Park

The Huge Group! There are 39, I think. Lucky Dad!

Ethan was saying "Cheese" all day.

I know blogs are just a forum for bragging about our adorable kids. So look what I have to brag about!

My Sweet boys! You can see Ethan is giggling. We were telling him, "Kiss mommy for a long long time." He kept kissing me quickly and we couldn't get the picture.

I am planning to use this picture for my christmas card so if you're on my list you'll be getting one. If your not on my list and you would like to be. Send me an email/comment with your address and I'll send you a christmas card. Also, If you have moved (Betsy) send me your new address.

Miriam organized a family picture day for all the Eskelsons. She wanted each family to choose a fall color for their family to wear. I had just purchased black and gold dresses for my girls from Costco so I said we will choose gold. I didn't even think about how hard it would be to find gold dress shirts for my boys.

Of course I couldn't find any toddler sized gold dress shirt. After 3.5 hrs. of torturous shopping, I had gone to every store in the Layton Hills and New Gate malls. I finally found gold shirts at Mervyn's size 4 and size 7. Ethan is not even 2 yet so I was planning to try and take in the size 4 shirt. Then Miriam told me this genius idea. She told me to buy shirts at DI and dye them gold. So I found two white dress shirts in their perfect size for $3.00 each. The dye cost $1.50. So, $7.50 later I had 2 perfect gold shirts. The Mervyn's shirts were $15.00 each. So this was a Big Savings!!!

Piano Recital

Hannah and Dave had their first piano recital, September 25, 2008

Hannah played, "The Second Star to the Right" from Peter Pan.

Dave Played "I Hope They Call Me on a Mission."

Hannah won the "Student of the Year" award.

Ethan couldn't resist playing his recital piece too.

They each played their piece perfectly. We were so proud of them. The best part was that the teacher, Amanda, only has 5 Students including our two so the whole recital lasted about 15 minutes.

Amanda gave out awards to each student. Hannah won the "Student of the Year." The prize included $20. We call that tuition reimbursement. Actually, I guess I'll start saying she is on a piano scholarship that sounds better!

Dave won the award for the most enthusiastic learner. Which he definately is. He loves piano and everything to do with music. He wants to learn to play the Indianna Jones theme song next. He's obsessed with the movies and wants to be Indianna Jones for Halloween.

Ethan absolutely loves music as well. He couldn't resist hopping up to play his recital piece. Every night we turn on Classical tunes from the Ipod for Ethan to fall asleep. The first song is "Claire De Lune" by Debussy. The other week we were at Trav's parents house for dinner and someone started playing that song on the piano. Ethan went running in and stopped dead is in his tracks. He listened, mesmerized, to the whole song.