Week Fifteen: 4/13-4/19

This week included karate, swim, Scouts, book fair and a visit from Grandma & Grandpa N. Regular week + some fun extras! 

Thursday was the boy's shopping day at the Book Fair. Just like their Mom & Dad, they LOVE books and I love the they love books. We give them each a certain amount of money that they can spend on whatever they want. I try to help guide them but it's ultimately their choice of what they buy. I also love the Book Fair and love looking at the books - I ended up buying some good bargain books to give as gifts. 

LOVE Book Fair time! 

Had lunch with Cole before his Book Fair time

Yay Books!

Saturday Grandma & Grandpa Nelson came to visit. They brought some boxes of Tim's old toys/stuff and it was fun to see what they brought. The boys had fun playing and exploring. On Sunday, Grandma went to church with us and we had more hang out time with them. There was no Healthy Kids run this week because it was a rainy day. 

Polka dot socks make every bike ride better. =) Went out on a road bike ride on Saturday.

Epic driveway battle using Daddy's old toys

Surprisingly, this kept them occupied for a long time!

ohhhh - Old Matchbox cars

Cute little soldier

It was a lot of fun to look at everything. 

This really shows the boys personalities. 

Love Grandma & Grandpa N. 

Sunday was also make-your-own-pizza time with the boys. They thought it was super fun to do. And in my head, it's less-bad than a frozen pizza. 

Cole the pizza man

'sup Mom! 

Week Fourteen: 4/6-4/12

When I look at each week of the year so far and the things we do, we have an incredibly wonderful life! Each week is fun and filled with good stuff! Here's what we did this week.

Tuesday - We celebrated our buddy Evan's 8th birthday at Defy Gravity. Both boys were invited and LOVED it. A bunch of boys, jumping around on trampolines and playing dodge ball - how could that not be fun?!! 

As part of his birthday gift, I expanded Evan's blanket that I made for him when he was 5. He uses it on his bed so I wanted to make sure it was big enough to cover a twin bed. I love that he uses it daily. 

Made him a new Star Wars pillowcase too. =)

Ninja Cole

And his older sidekick, Ninja Eli

The boys love American Ninja Warrior and love that Defy Gravity has a course. 

The wobbly bridge was funny to watch. Eli didn't make it across. 

His power to weight ratio is amazing - so strong! 

I see you Cole-man!

Intense game of dodgeball

Pizza time!

EIGHT! 

Love this family!

With the Birthday Boy!!

The rest of our week was calm with swim and karate but the weekend.....woo-hoo! Tim did the Spartan Race on Saturday (I did a separate post but re-posting some of my favorite pictures) then we had Healthy Kids running series for the boys. Never a dull moment here!

I saw these at work on Friday and they just made me smile. 

Met Tara Costa!

Eli had a little audience while climbing. The adults couldn't believe he could do it. 

Spartan Bros

Cole is a tire flipping machine

Love this picture of Eli and Grandma

Kids race briefing

Eli off to a great start

"How about a hug Mommy?!"

Great job boys! 

One of my favorite pictures - Grandma capture the boys giving me muddy post-race hugs. 💙

We found Daddy on his course

Telling Daddy that he won his Spartan Kids heat. 

Yay Daddy!

Nice hair Daddy!

The Spartan Race was just a day trip and on Sunday, the boys had their first Healthy Kids Running Series Race. The series is 5 weeks held at their school. Eli's event was 1/2 mile and Cole's was 1/4 mile. They both did great and it was fun to watch. Two days, two races - go Eli and Cole!!

These two.....oh my. 

Eli's race

Finish line! 

Cole's race

Happy to see the Finish Line

Yay Done!