Memorial Weekend

The boys and I spent Memorial Weekend at the lake with Grandma Yvonne and my brother!  We had a great weekend despite the rain and storms!  I will let the pictures do the talking for this post....

 Colton spent many hours collecting these little guys - he had two buckets full of Army Worms by the time he was done!  He thought they were cool.  I was completely disgusted with them, it was a full invasion of these things - they were on EVERYTHING!!

 Colton learn to finally ride his bike without a training wheel..... all last summer he rode with just one training wheel but finally he is riding like a big boy!  I took it off while he was playing at the park and when came back he just hopped on and started riding without even noticing it was gone!

 Colton and Sashe cuddled up watching a movie while it was raining outside!

 We woke up Saturday morning to the campground pretty much under water.  We were considering building an ark as we knew more rain/storms were expected!

 Mason loved all the water puddles... and being as we really couldn't find much dry land I had no choice but to let him play in the puddles!

 Mason and Mommy enjoying a smore.... he still doesn't know what to think about marshmallows!

 Mason and Uncle Brad.

 Finally we decided to take a dip in the water, which was freezing!  Mason and I stayed on the beach will Colton and his buddy dove right in!

 Colton was teasing Uncle Brad cause he said it was too cold to jump in.  Colton showed him how TOUGH he was to be in the water so Brad had no choice, he dove in as well!

 Mason enjoying some beach time!

 Going for a nice little walk along the water!

 Time to build a sand castle!

 Mason was covered in sand - we went from the beach straight to the showers!

 Mommy and Colton enjoying a snack!  He is all about his fruit... he wanted strawberries over smores (not sure whose kid he is)!!

 Naptime for Mason - playing at the beach is very tiring!

 Colton playing outside with Uncle Brad!

 We arrived back home in the afternoon on Memorial Day and decided we hadn't had enough time outdoors.... time for my boys to make a few laps around the yard!  Mason LOVES riding with his big brother and if the battery lasted longer I am sure they would ride for hours!

Sneak Peak!

Here are just a couple photos from our mini photo session with Kari Layland Photography!  I am still waiting to receive the entire gallery from her but from the looks of these she caught some great pictures of my "four favorites"!

Four Favorites!

I spend my entire Saturday with my four favorite boys and we had a great time!  My nephews arrived at 9am and the fun began!  We made pancakes for breakfast and then got all cleaned up for our mini photo session with Kari Layland Photography... I had won a free session for promoting her business for her on facebook and I figured I would give her a little challenge (and believe me she got it with 4 boys ages 15 months, 3.5, 5 and 5.5)!!  After our photo shoot we went back home and enjoy some tacos for lunch and some playing out in the backyard while Mason took a quick little cat nap!  Before we knew it we were loaded up into the van again and on our way to Pet Evolution in Woodbury for their grand opening. I always thought I wanted 4 kids but man it is a lot of work to get 4 kids into their car seats and ready to go... major props to all the moms out there who do it everyday!!  We had a blast at the grand opening.  They had a petting zoo, pony rides, a balloon artist and free frozen yogurt.   After about an hour and half out in the sun we headed back home for a little cool down before our next adventure!  Colton had a birthday party for a classmate at Chuck E Cheese so after a little movie time we all loaded up into the van again and off we went.  We dropped Colton at his party and then the rest of us we and grabbed some Happy Meals and went to a local park to hang out for an hour or so.  The boys were all over the place and Mason was doing everything he could to keep up with his big cousins.  Once they wore themselves out a little we headed back to Chuck E Cheese to play a few games ourselves and then grab Colton from his party.  We met up with my brother-in-law around 7pm so he could get his boys back! I was kinda sad to see them go already, our day of fun went way too fast!  But I still had a little grocery shopping to do and I needed to get my boys into bed so I guess it was time to let 2 of my favorite boys go home!   It was a great Saturday with my Four Favorites!!