Lets go to the Movies

The kids have been playing with their Madagascar toys for awhile....and watching the movies 1 and 2.

Today, we took them to Madagascar 3!! 

Hard to get them both to look at me, so much to see! 

Enjoying popcorn at the movies!

Growing Garden

The corn rows 

Only a few sunflowers left blooming 

The raised beds

right (tomatoes and carrots)

center (zucchini and spaghetti squash)

left (cherry tomatoes, spinach and strawberries) 

Fruit trees with kid play house 

The kids found some shade 

Fruit trees 

Our first pumpkin 

Our daily harvest:

usually 5-8 zucchini

a couple tomatoes 

and a handful of cherry tomatoes

and a few leaves of spinach

Shaver Lake

We drove up to Shaver Lake for a cool swim day 

The kids had a blast running in and out of the water 

Happy faces! 

We took a picnic lunch to enjoy

Corben said "thank you Mom for bringing so much stuff!"

Sweet boy! 

Swimming with Daddy

Dresses

Meme made Mason a bunch of cute dresses in the pattern.

Some have pockets with squeaky toys in them!

Swimming

Corben & Mason went for a quick swim this evening

Notice how wet Corben's hair is...he is going under more and more. 

Corben swimming

Corben working on swimming

Dodger Baseball Game

We met Paul, Eli, Noah and Heather, Jeff and Colby at a LA Dodger game 

Sporting team gear

Mason is wearing a ruffle shirt that Meme hand dyed 

Our Family

(we had just walked up many steps to get to the way top and the kids were already tired) 

Our seats were initially in the sun....but we moved 

Corben and Colby 

Corben, Colby, Heather and Jeff 

Mason and Aunt Heather 

We moved lower and in the shade!  Yay!

Mason and cousin Eli 

Uncle Paul with the cousins

These 4 cousins sat together the entire game, had fun dancing, eating snacks and doing the "wave" with the crowd! 

Being silly eating snacks 

Of course Mason had to join along 

Dodger Stadium 

Noah and Corben 

Noah, Corben, Mason and Eli 

All the cousins 

Mason and Corben 

Daddy and the kids after the game 

Our family after a fun baseball game!

Sorting Shapes

Mason playing with play-dough

Made all the shapes and then sorted them

Sunflower

Love our sunflowers!!

Lowe's Workshop

We went to a Lowe's Build & Grow workshop for the kids 

Corben hammering 

Daddy helping Mason hammer the nails 

Mason wearing her safety goggles 

Finished project and happy boy

They made Madagascar Vans  

Happy Mason 

Lowe's gives them the aprons, goggles and project FREE 

Now cruising around the store picking up a few things we needed.

Owl Artwork

Corben is now attending Brighten Academy Preschool

He goes 2 days a week during the summer and then will switch to 3 days a week in the fall.

He had a great first day and made this Owl. He actually cut all the pieces out with scissors by himself and glued the pieces on!  His teachers are Mrs. Sheehan and Miss Amy.

He also went for his 4 year check up at the doctor

Weight: 38 pounds (50%)

Height: 40.5 inches (50%)

We are so proud of our little boy!!