Adventures of the Cutter Family

My division at work, MCD, hosted our annual Open House.  All 28 NATO member nations and the 30-plus NATO partner countries put out their best traditional food and refreshments.  Very fun afternoon for everyone.

Happy Birthday, Jordan.

The boys passed their dive physiology examination.  Now they are NAUI certified!

Jordan has spent the week at The Hague, Netherlands with her Model United Nations team from SHAPE American High School.  Their team is representing the Uruguay delegation.

Lots of pictures, videos and other stuff on the event’s website here:

Model United Nations 2010

The SHAPE varsity and JV cheerleader squads hosted a Cheer Camp this week.  Lots of work, but lots of fun also.  The kids performed on Saturday during the boys/girls basketball games.

Coach Justin

Jordan and Melissa

Nate decided to expand the movie he filmed yesterday.

Starting with a storyboard to get the scenes sequenced correctly, he took about 400 still shots to create the stop-motion portion of the movie.

Soundtrack is from the German techno band, Kraftwerk ca. 1975.

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We hit our favorite Belgian Friterie for lunch.  Nate likes ketchup while Sam likes his frites plain.  Jordan prefers pita sauce, Jillian likes diablo, Zach loves curry and Dave likes them all, except mayonnaise.  Nate opened his presents after lunch.

The boys are “helping” Nate assemble his Lego bullet train.  Nate says “Thanks” to Grandma and Grandpa Cutter for the dice game.  We will be playing it this afternoon!

CORRECTION:  Jillian’s favorite frite sauce is samurai.

Troop 325 conducted a candle-lighting ceremony in the SHAPE ceremonial entrance. General Karl-Heinz Lather officiated while the portrait of General Ike Eisenhower looked on.

Jack Frost is nipping at our noses.