Grandpa and Grammy Visit

We just had a fun visit with Grandpa and Grammy.  The boys LOVED roughhousing with Grandpa and snuggling with Grammy.  I think J purposefully woke up from his naps early to get some one-on-one snuggle and more zzzzs in with Grammy:

We rented a pontoon boat one day.  It was fun...until the storms blew in and forced us to rush home with lightning, thunder, and HAIL all around us.  Yes, hail.  WHEN does it hail here ever? The boys fell asleep as we were scurrying back to the beach and they stayed asleep until we stopped.  But it was fun until the storms forced us out of the water.  It is so nice to be so close to the beach though.  Geoff got the boat and drove it around to the beach close to our house and we just walked down and got in.  The boys were very excited to see the boat and loved being out on the water. 

J and W with Geoff on their first boat ride:

J ready to go:

W playing "baboo" with daddy:

Can you believe they actually have ice cream "boats"?  There is a restaurant that even delivers pizza to your boat...

Here is our friend Suzanne holding a sleeping J in her lap during the rainstorm:

We also went to the beach.  Who can resist a beach that has sugar sand?  No kidding, it is like you are playing in brown sugar.  So pretty.  

W playing in the sand:

The boys playing while we were still setting up (we hadn't even got them all dressed yet):

We went to a downtown park by the water:

   

We saw squirrels, crabs, fish, and ducks:

And lots of playing and relaxing.   Not a lot of sleeping though.  The boys are worrying me. They are only sleeping for about one or two of their seven naps a week.  Grandpa installed some nice locks on their closets so they can't empty out the entire closet into their cribs during their naptime anymore.  Now they have moved onto their dresser drawers.  They never even noticed them before.  So I need to go out this afternoon and get hooks to lock those too.  They are crying and banging on their bedroom door as we speak.  I really hope they are not done with naptime yet.  I certainly still need it!

Here is J in front of his crib filled with his closet bins:

What their closet looks like by the end of naptime:

At the airplane getting ready to go home...

W sticking his head out the little window saying "hellloo!"

Saying bye bye:

I now have a MOM car....

We are (almost) the proud owners of a new Honda Odyssey.  Yes yes a MINIVAN!  It has 24 miles on it...so yes, it is as new as can be.  I am not sure Geoff has gotten over the sticker shock...although we saved a BUNDLE and got a great deal on a Touring model.  I won't actually get to see the car until the end of August and can't wait!  

I started thinking about a newer car when the boys were infants and they would burn up in the back of my car in the summer.  Their car seats were backwards and there was no rear AC so it would take awhile for them to get any air.  Well, no more...the Odyssey has rear AC, it also has side airbags (something I have really wanted), the parking mechanism that beeps when you back up, a DVD player (this will be very handy in a few years), a rear camera, power doors and trunk, and on and on...............

We also just need more space.  If anyone visits, we have one extra seat so we either have to put someone in the very back with no seatbelt (dangerous/illegal) or drive two cars.  

So lots of reasons for the upgrade.  =)  

Sunset Fun...

Some pictures from playing in the driveway early evening on Sunday.  The lighting was perfect for pictures and the boys were giving some big smiles.  

W loving fast rides in his wagon...down a steep driveway...

A very happy W...

J loving being pushed on his Radio Flyer...

Happy 4th of July!*

J loving staying up late:

I took this as a gigantic firework flashed, but mysteriously, there is no firework in the pic:

Hope everyone had a good 4th of July.  It seemed strange that it was on a Friday.  No build- up...or time to prepare...just bam...a holiday.  We went to the beach with the crowds and then went to a neighbors for BBQ and to watch fireworks.  We let the boys stay up to see them...I think W was more interested in "baboo"-ing over all of the lawn chairs.  (Baboo is his word for crawling)...and J was not quite sure what to think of the fireworks.  The fireworks were pretty far from us so there wasn't too much noise to keep their attention.  A fun day nonetheless-and early naptimes today.  

W at the beach earlier in the day:

The boys had some seriously curly hair at the beach:

Before the BBQ:

All Done....

And another video...

He looks grumpy bc he had already said "all done" about six times before I grabbed the camera to get a video of him saying it. It is funny to us to actually hear him say it since he has been signing "all done" for so long...

Timber!

Wyatt's new favorite game. He pulls off our chair cushion, places it just right next to the sofa, climbs up, and:

Snoop Froggy Frog and 2 Doggy Dogs

Here is our new house guest. Snoop Froggy Frog resides just outside our front door on top of our house light. We may have a Snoop Froggy Frog Jr. residing next to our carport house light as well.

Such a happy green frog.

I can't believe it is 1 July. June really went by fast for me. We had big storms yesterday so it was nice and cool out this morning. The boys, dogs, and I went on a jog to the park and could actually stay and play for a good hour without getting too hot.
Speaking of the dogs, Katy and Bear are very different in regards to doing their "business." Katy NEVER poops when we go on walks or runs. Ever. Bear does 98.9% of the time. And at the worst possible moments. You know, just when a car (or two) will actually stop at an intersection to let us cross the street....and Bear decides (right in the middle of the crosswalk and with a full audience) to poop.

And I am pretty sure she has almost crashed Geoff on his bike a couple of times going to a dead stop to poop while he is riding fast on his bike with the dogs sprinting on either side of him. Or when I walk an entire very long street with not one person in site...she will stop right in front of the one person on the whole street...to poop in their yard or on the sidewalk in front of their yard. This creates quite a logistical challenge for me. I have a dog leash wrapped around each hand and I am pushing the stroller. So I park the stroller, get a bag out and as I am taking care of the poop....Katy will inevitably see a squirrel and dash away from me while she knows my guard is down. Silly, crazy wonderful dogs.