And the Final Sunday Beach Picnic

We ended the weekend with another Beach Picnic. This one was for Boy Scouts. As the summer is beginning to wind down, the Boy Scout Pack got together for a bbq. We were at another Beach and this time the boys were busy searching for little crabs. Logan was very excited that he actually caught one. (I will update the photo tomorrow, camera is in car)

Once the sun was shining high in the sky, the weather was very pleasant and the boys enjoyed the afternoon at the park after lunch. Unfortunately, Brian was not able to join us since he was called into work. But the boys were happy to see their friends before school starts, which by the way is not until September 9th. So we have more than another week.

After a busy and exhausting weekend, I am ready to head to bed.

Saturday Beach Picnic

The rest of the weekend was filled with picnics at two different beaches. On Saturday evening, we had a Mom's Club Picnic that all involved had so much fun. We were supposed to be home and settled by 7:30, we didn't even leave the park until after 8:00, surprisingly there were very few meltdowns by the children.

I really only have one photo of the boys while they were eating dinner.

The rest of the pictures were of my friend Kristin's son, David. He is a three year old boy who knows how to work the crowd, well at least the moms of the group. Earlier in the evening he went walking along the beach and returned soaked from head to foot. Kristin, being the well prepared mother, had a change of clothes ready for him when he returned. As the group was beginning to clean up, Brian took the boys down to the beach again, five of them total. Another dad went with them with his son, Eliott. After the moms finished cleaning up, Kristin, Jessica and I went down to help Brian control the children. When we arrived, they were trying to copy Brian while he was skipping rocks, unfortunately most of their rocks were big thunks in the water. Still they were having fun. Eliott is only about two years old and knew he was not allowed to get wet. Well all of them knew they were not supposed to get wet, but that doesn't mean anything in boy speak. So Eliott would throw a stick and it would get too close to the water, so he would nicely encourage David to go and get it. This went on for about 15 minutes. Then the stick went further into the water and of course a few minutes later in went David to get it. Only the bottoms of his pants were wet, but since he already was there, he thought it would be alright to go in further. Again, I am sorry Kristin for laughing as hard as we were. It was just the funniest thing I have witnessed in a very long time. Here are a few of the pictures of David.

"Mom, I only got a little wet."

"Are you sure there isn't a dry spot back there?"

Friday Fair

This weekend the Kitsap County Fair and Rodeo came into town. For just $0.25, the boys and I were able to spend the day at the fair with some of our good friends. It is amazing at how expensive everything has become as you walk around a fair and look at all the food and rides available. The boys were able to go on only two rides and it still cost more than $10. Good thing it only cost a quarter to get in. They still had fun though.

The enjoyed their first ride on the planes:

Their second ride was on big green slide which they thought was so much fun.

They also got to sit up on top of a Marine Tank:

And be a farmer for a few minutes and dig for potatoes. They were a little disappointed when they had to rebury them for the next kids.

Danskin Triathlon

Most of you know that since the beginning of June, I have been in full training mode for Triathlons. This past weekend was one of the biggest triathlon that I will do this summer. Most of the races include about 300-500 people. This race had 5500 people. There were so many people it was amazing. Here is only one section of the transition area. It was not even my section, I was at the WAY back of the area.
There was a huge EXPO on Saturday, which afterwards you need to take your bike over to the transition area since there were so many people involved. Since the boys would have driven me crazy if they were over there the entire day, I met up with a few of my TriBabe Friends. We were all set and ready to go.
After completing .5 mile swim, 12 mile bike and 3.1 mile run, I felt pretty good. Of course, I would always like to be faster, but I was happy with my time overall. I have another triathlon coming up in three weeks which I am looking forward to doing just as well. The course will be much harder, so I am guessing my time will not be the same, but here's to more training. And possibly extending my comfort zone by completing an Olympic Distance Triathlon. Just in case you are wondering that is .93 mile swim, 25 mile bike and 6.2 mile run.

Dungeness Spit

Dungeness Spit

There are very few weekends that we do not have anything planned in advance and with our lovely weather (sarcasm again), it is very difficult to plan for outdoor activities. One afternoon, we decided to drive out to Sequim and visit the Dungeness Spit. The boys and I have been there once before but we never made it past the lookout spot where we had our picnic. Actually walking down by the water was amazing. We had our lunch on the logs and watched all the people walking along the beach.

After lunch, we walked about two miles down the 5.5 mile beach. I think if it was warmer the boys would have been able to walk to the end, but we were a little cold and the boys were ready to head back (ok, I guess I should be classified in that category, because I was very happy when they were able to convice Brian to start heading back to the car.

As the boys are getting older they are constantly trying to take pictures with my camera. So eventually there will be a decent one of Brian and me together. Here is one taken by Logan on our walk along the spit.

And of course, we almost always find a cute one of the boys when they are willing to cooperate. Here is one from the Lookout Spot.

Trip to SeaFair

Wow, where did the time go? I can not believe it has been almost a month since I last updated this blog. A big SORRY to Katy and Amy, I know this is the only way to update you on the boys.

I have tons of pictures of Big Andy's wedding that I will include over the next few posts. But this one was our trip to SeaFair. The boys had so much fun seeing the Blue Angels. They can not wait until Jeff graduates from the Academy so that we can see them again in May. (Guess that means we will definitely be planning a visit home about that time.)

It was an adventure just to get there. We took the Ferry over to Seattle and then parked our car at the Coast Guard Station. Because we figured there would not be enough walking at the Park (heavy sarcasm on my part), we decided to walk about a mile to the light train station. Here are the boys waiting anxiously for the train to arrive.

After taking the train to one of the stations near the park, we then had to jump on a bus to be shuttled to the actual park. This was very exciting because it started the boys talking about getting back to school. I am definitely ready for that to happen.

We watched the Blue Angels and Hydroracing. It was amazing. I only have a video of a few of the passes and I think it will take to long to try to download it, but while we were waiting Brandon was enjoying actually being allowed to play with my camera. Here is a cute one of Logan and me together and then Brandon finally figuring out how to smile into the camera while taking a picture of himself.