learning is fun!

Happy late fathers day to all you fabulous Dad's out there! We all got a 24 hour bug on Father's day weekend...making for a quiet weekend at home together! What fun.

Cole and Dylan are becoming amazing readers.  Here Cole is reading a book to friends.

At the library with pals.

Mom took the boys up to Portland this week to go to OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) to go on a tour of "a real-life Navy submarine" as the boys put it.  Here Dylan is looking through the periscope.

Cole said he could see traffic on the Marquam bridge!

They like sitting in the control seats!

You are looking at the space where 12 men slept!

This sub had a brief roll in the Hunt for Red October and Hawaii 5-O.

The favorite activity, other than the sub, was operating the cranes!

They played with this and a larger crane for over an hour!

Paddle boats were fun too!

And getting to sit in a space capsule topped the day off!

Running for friends and strawberries

It's been a couple of weeks since our last post...but not due to lack of activities!

We started the month of June off with a Run for the Hills!  A benefit for the Greenbelt Land Trust (where Mom works)...and a great kids race!  Mom thought she would have been able to run along with the boys and take photos of them running and crossing the finish line.  But when the starter buzzed they were off like a bullet and Mom was left in their dust!

Victory cookies with pal Anders.

Then we had our best friends visit from CA for the weekend!  Here is Jonah and the boys...happy to be together again!  It is still quite cool here in Oregon, but not quite cold enough for the boys attire.  But they were given these winter jackets by a friend Rob works with...and they LOVED them and wouldn't take them off for several days.  Cole got in the winter coat mode and also was wearing gloves and a hat.  Perfect for a fun game of hitting the birdie!

The boys were very interested in slinkies...

Cole was giving everyone instructions on how to do this trick.

Dylan was concentrating hard on his trick.

We had a big reunion at our favorite playground...and the highlight of the day was sending all the sand trucks/toys down the slide!

The highlight for mom was to get to spend time with Nicole!  We miss you guys!!  Move back soon ok!?

This past week we celebrated the last day of school for the boys!  To celebrate a great year we went strawberry picking with some friends.

This is a picture of Cole intent on picking as many strawberries as he possibly could!

We picked over 13 pounds of strawberries!!!  We froze a bunch and made strawberry jam...enough to probably last until next strawberry picking season!

To top off our weekend we took in a Corvallis Knights baseball game!  

The summer fun begins!