Hot and Cold

We started this week off with warm weather, mid week it was very hot, and then by Friday we needed to wear coats! Crazy weather.

A very happy Cole playing with his truck in the front yard.

The boys love pretending to be 'working men' as they say it. They wear all the safety gear including gloves (and their normal clothes, shoes and hats turn into working men outfits) to get the job done. Can you say BOYS?

Mid-week when it was very hot we headed to the coast to cool off. We took our friends Lynn and her girls Mei Zhen and Shan Li to our new favorite beach. It was another beautiful day at the ocean. The boys found a star fish and were asking lots of questions about it.

Dylan took a break from playing in and rolling around in the sand to check out the big waves.

By the end of the week it was actually chilly in the morning...but the boys still wanted to eat their breakfast on the front step while reading the newspaper.
Then we headed out to pick some of the seasons last blueberries.
They stopped using buckets when they realized it was faster to just go straight from hand to mouth.
We should have weighed them when we first got there and then again once we left so I could pay for how many they ate! I did leave a few extra dollars because they were eating them by the handful.
They were even feeding them to each other!

picnic dinner

Last night we headed to downtown Corvallis for a picnic dinner. We picked up dinner at our favorite Japanese restaurant and ate along our downtown riverfront park.

Here the boys are watching our shadows eat dinner!

We ate yummy edamame, tempura veggies, chicken shish-kabobs, and sushi!!

Yum.

Sports weekend

So far we have had a sports filled weekend and it's only Saturday afternoon! Last night we went to watch a baseball game...the Corvallis Knights. The boys really enjoyed themselves and didn't want to leave at the 7th inning...but it was already past their bedtime so the game was officially over for us.

It wasn't too crowded and we had great seats!

The best part of the whole evening was when Daddy took the boys to buy a snack and they came back with popcorn. Dylan was so amazed that the popcorn came in a bucket. He kept saying to me 'Mom it comes in a bucket!'. (Dylan is determined to call Rob and I, Mom and Dad, no matter how many times we say 'no it's Mommy and Daddy'.) As you can tell, they love popcorn!

This morning we went and watched a friend play soccer and then headed to the skate park to eat a picnic lunch and watch a skate board competition. For some reason both boys wanted to take off their shirts while we were watching the skateboarders. So we sat there, shirtless, eating lunch, watching skaters, all while listening to the skaters Beastie Boys music. Sweet.

My boys.

They can be sweet, even though right now they are little monkeys bound and determined to not take a nap!

Nana Suzanna & Heat Wave

We were so lucky to have Nana Suzanna visiting us this week. Unfortunately we also had a record breaking heat wave this week that set all time high temperature records...one day was 108!! We decided to head to the coast where the high was about 80. And since it was supposed to be super hot all week we booked a hotel and stayed over a night. That was a very wise decision since we managed to miss the 108 and 105 degree days.

It was the most perfect day at the beach! And the very best day we have EVER had on an Oregon beach. It was warm, but not hot and there was a slight breeze and it was sunny!

The boys were so happy and entertained that Mommy even got to lay down on the beach blanket and read her book! Wow.

There was this nice small creek running down the beach that we played in with all our trucks and shovels.

The next day we went to the aquarium and met up with our friends Mei Zhen and her little sister Shan Li. We all enjoyed the sea creatures and loved getting to touch the anemones.

Mei and Dylan were hugging and kissing this sea turtle sculpture.
After the aquarium we headed out to another beach. We loaded the big kids up in the wagon to get out to the sand. Dylan was telling us to get a move on it.
It was foggy all day, but a comfortable temperature and not windy. Nana and Dylan enjoying a walk on the beach together.The guys started 'sand-diving' and were having a blast...and we were having a blast watching them!


Nana brought the boys a surprise dog/cow costume to play with...so they also wanted to get last years Halloween costumes out. Here is Cole's creature which was a combination of a lion head a dog/cow body and doggie slippers.

And of course the boys got Nana involved in their favorite past time...

Thanks for a fabulous visit Nana we can't wait to see you again!!