Melissa 1st Birthday and the Fishes

Melissa and Jake are 8 days apart. We went down to Olympia to celebrate her turning one and it was so fun. The boys love going to see their cousins, especially Andrew and Jared because they're other boys their age to play with. It's so fun to see them playing together and having a blast. We wish we lived closer. :)

The boys played, then we had dinner and cake. After we went over to the salmon fish ladder, that's 5 minutes from Shawn and Traci's house. It was neat to see all the salmon coming up the river. And it was amazing how big some of the fish are. We also have some right in front of our house and I kid you not, some are at least 3-4 feet long!! They seriously look like little sharks!

Vince was so cute looking through these binoculars

Birthday girl and Jakers

Vince doing some yard work, such a helper :)

Melissa eating her cake. She's so funny, she wouldn't eat it until her mom cut it up.

This was at the fish ladder. The boys had a blast running around the whole time. It was so cute to watch.

Here's one fish that got into our pond. This one wasn't the monster size, but still pretty big.

22 mile Hike

Ok, this blog post is kinda lame because there's no pictures with people in them, but I had to post about this because my husbands a beast.

He's in the Young Men program for our church and they do lots of scouting things. One was a 22 mile hike. They started at 6:00 and finished about 8 hours later! Seriously walking for 22 miles, that's like a marathon. He was dead the rest of the day, but he did it. There was a good handful of boys that did it too and everyone completed it!! Go Cedar River Ward. You guys are awesome

Part of the hike they went through a 2 mile long tunnel!

Over look off a bridge down at least 100 feet

Do the Puyallup

Growing up we would always go to the Puyallup Fair. It's for 3 weeks starting in September and one of the top 10 biggest fairs in the USA. About 3 million visitors per year!! The first week of school, every kid would get a free ticket and parents would pull kids out of school all the time to go. We even got to one year during school! My parents are such rebels ;)

I've been telling Ryan about this fair for years and now that we live here we actually got to go. We actually went twice! Once on the opening weekend when my dad was here and another Ryan and I went for a date night. It was so fun!!

The fair has some amazing things to see. Especially the artwork and these wood carvings. This bear was incredible.

Of coarse there's tons of good food.

I'm sorry but that's just nasty. And no, we did not partake of the insaneness

These pulled pork sandwiches were heaven

Lots of animals to see. The boys loved them. I talked to one of the sheep owners for like 20 minutes all about her animals. We might be getting some sheep, if we can get the Enumclaw house we're looking to buy :)

Ok, the boys faces say it all. The cow behind them is named Oliver. Hes a Brown Swiss and weighs over 2,800 lbs!!!!

HOLY COW!! (literally)

They couldn't believe it either :)

I am so bad at taking pictures sometimes and thankfully my grandpa caught this one. My dad was in town visiting for a week and the only picture I got was up above, of the back of his head when he  was ordering food!

I love this picture of grandpa Craig and Vince! It was really fun to see my dad and for him to have got to see Vince and Jake and spend some time together. It's hard being so far away but, we were glad with the time we spent together.

We got to drive over to eastern Washington and see Kittitas where dad had lived for a few years in his childhood, went to the fair, hung out with my brothers a lot, showed him around here and just spent time together. It was great.

Twins

Yesterday I got Vince dressed in overalls and knew I had to put Jake in the same outfit. He even had a red shirt to match. I could not get enough and was taking pictures literally all day!

They are the cutest!

Later that day when Ryan came home and we were playing outside he thought to bring out the John Deere power wheel and we got more pictures. After looking at some, they reminded me of Awkward Family Photos, but since they are 2 and under it was just pure cuteness.

This was Jakes first time on the power wheel and he LOVED it! Just look at that smile.

Haha, Vince and his seriousness was cracking me up

After they had a tractor pull :)

Thunder Thighs

I just about died when I saw this and dashed to get my camera.

1. So cute when I see Vince and Jake playing together side by side

2. Jake with the black onsie and black socks

3. Both boys are pantless

4. The Thunder Thighs

I love my boys

Sand in the City

Last weekend Shawn (Ryan's brother) and family invited us down to Olympia to go to Sand in the City. It a fun festival with tons of children activities and they come and dump tons of sand in the streets and the kids get to go at it. Seems like a pain in the buns to clean up (thats probably the mom in me), but the kids had fun :)

It was good to see Andrew, Jared and Melissa too. There was obviously lots of sand to play in, crafts to make, music, water tables to play in, etc.

I can;t believe Jakers is big enough to get in on the action. Look at him standing there!!

Haha these hats you were supposed to decorate into a crab but I forgot Jake's hat and grabbed one to shield his head from the sun. It stayed on for about 4 seconds but it was dang cute :)

Jake and I were dancing to the music. They had a fun Puerto Rican band. 

We had a great time :)