25 Seconds of FAME

On our last camping trip we were followed around by the NBC Today Show- it was a ton of fun and the kids felt like they were movie stars! And we got a few freebees too! It is amazing though-this footage was over 4 hours long and after the editing it ended up only 25 seconds! (and this was NOT our labor day campout! It was 4th of July!) Oh, well- we enjoyed our national fame-fleeting as it may be!

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BACK TO SCHOOL

Ah, yes-the return to school days has come! The end of the summer campouts, endless video games, homemade icecream and baseball games. Knowing all this, my boys were still excited to see the first day of school. They were well prepared-new shoes, backpacks, and hair cuts all jumped started their enthusiasom. Logan most excited that in first grade you get THREE recesses and Noah most excited to play basketball this year. As for me, just excited to get back into some sort of routine!

First day of school-Noah was a great big brother and made sure Logan found his way around on the 'big' playground! After thier first day, Logan said "first grade rocks!" and Noah said " Its waaay better then 4th grade!" We'll check back in a few weeks and see if anything has changed!!

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LIFES A BEACH

There are mountain people and there are ocean people. Luckly, for our boys they have one of each for a parent! (that is why we are content to live in fresno..halfway between both!) I am the ocean lover. As soon as we are near the ocean, I just have to open the window and smell that salty, fishy air to feel at peace. I love everything about the ocean and do my part to share that with the kids. Matt likes the ocean, but as soon as he smells the ocean, all he can think of is sand in his shorts and sticky seaweed. He is the mountain man. He feels at peace with the smell of pine trees. I like the pine trees, but as soon as I smell them I know im in for sticky pinecones and dirty toes! For this trip...it was all ocean baby!!



I think I can turn them into ocean kids yet!

Logan getting a lift from his big brother!

There is nothing quite as fun as being chased by the waves! You have to zoom in to see the smile on those faces..its awesome!

picture perfect day...life is truely a beach!

It just doesnt get any better then this for me...my boys and the ocean!

Play ball!

Its officaly summer time when you head off to the grizzly stadium for a some baseball! Its even better when you meet up with grandparents, cousins and friends for some good ol fashion fun! This nite the Jammies (kids musical group) played and there was free vanilla icecream for all...nice way to spend a summer evening!
Ethan and Matt..what do we get first? Peanuts, icecream, slurrpy?? So many choices!

Our friends the Moores :)

Papa marc and Noah and Logan hanging out

PLAY BALL!!!!

Retro 4th of july

For the 4th of July we headed to Santa Cruz to "camp" in an airstream. Matt has always admired them since he was a kid. I have to admit, it was awesome and I could definately get used to that kind of camping. You get all fun of the campfire, but no long hikes to the bathroom and nice comfy bed to sleep in. It was awesome!! The best part of camping is the smores!! Logan proved to be quite the marshmello roaster-perfectly golden brown everytime!!

Matt and I both grew up as tent campers...the rougher the better. (His dad was scout leader and my dad a biologist..) airsteams/campers were for softies. I think Im feeling the love of being a bit soft. Unfortunately, we realized that roughing it is much cheaper. This baby starts at 41,000.

While we were camping we were followed by the NBC morning show-they wanted to do a show on getting back to camping as family vacations. The kids loved it-they had mikes on and everything. They were such hams!!

We had an awesome 4th of July-just being together is the BEST!!(got to love those amazing tye dyed shirts too!!)

Bubble Trouble

I have this list in my head of what every kid should do in the summer time. Eat otter pops, slip n slide, make home made icecream, swim till your fingers get all pruney, play with sidewalk chalk, chase the iceream truck, swing in a swing, go camping and eat smores, stay in your jammies all day and play with bubles. Some I caught on camera-like the bubles. Others I just let happen. But I have to say- I LOVE this picture of Noah playing with bubles. That is the look of pure childhood fun.

Logan chasing the bubles

Logan becoming a pro buble blower

More giggles then I could have imaginged from 2 bottles of bubbles :)

Tye Dyed

About a month ago we got together with an old friend of mine-Gwen and her family to get the summer going. We decided to make tye dye shirts for the 4th of July, slip and slide and and top it off with pizza dinner. The kids had a blast and made some new friends (and loved meeting thier crazy uncle Gabe!)


Ethan loving the water!

Logan and his creative side-making super cool shirts(you will have to tune in latter to see the final results!)

Noahs fancy moves on the slip and slide. You just cant start summer without slip and slide and otter pops! Thanks Gwen!

What a cute gang!!

HELLOOOO SUMMER!!