Cousins

We were lucky enough to have the whole Hastings family come in July, (except for Danielle who we missed!)
Unfortunately I didn't really get any good pictures of us together. I did get some cute ones with all the cousins though.

We went on a few hikes. It was a beatiful time of year to be outdoors.
The boys gotta have their sticks!

This is such a cute one of Avi.

Brandon was so worn out, he crashed on the way back down. Uncle Alyn was nice enough to carry him down!

Seaworld

We got to have quite the adventure trip to California this year with my family. We had a great time seeing everyone and also went to seaworld, disneyland, AND legoland! I guess we just decided to do it all while we were there. We had a lot of fun. Here are some of the highlights......

We got great seats to the dolphin show at seaworld. We were warned that we could get sprayed, but it was a hot day so were weren't that worried. Besides, how bad could it be? Its just a little dolphin right? Those smiles didn't last long.....

Here's Ryan with Austin underneath the little blanket getting ready just in case we get sprayed. And oh boy did we ever.. The Blanket was definitely NOT thick enough! The dolphins soaked us before we even knew what was coming. The boys were really taken by surprise and cried pretty hard. We all dried out in the end though. I guess thats what you get for getting front row seats! Too bad I didn't get a picture of the aftermath. The show was pretty cool though.

There are the dolphins. They are amazing.

Lego land

We have some cousins that are really into legos so we went to Legoland. It was a blast. The rides were all just right for preschool age. And the lines weren't long at all. We would definitely go again.

It was cool to see all the stuff made out of legos

Brandon driving his lego car

They got to play miniature golf there and LOVED it. They still talk about it.

Disneyland

Carter loved this talking garbage can at disney land. There was actually a man standing by it doing the voice, but all the kids loved it.

Carter and Ryan in front of the Space Mountain ride. Carter actually went on Space Mountain! I didn't realize how scary this ride was and agreed to let him go. (He loves space/astronauts, etc.) He actually did really good! He said he was only screaming through the first part. I think I may have actually screamed more, just thinking about my 4 year old being on the ride!

(see space mountain reference in Things Carter and Brandon said today section to the right)

Carter on the teacups

All of us after the fireworks show. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa King, and Aunt Katie for coming with us!

Playing in the backyard

At the Lake

We got to go the lake quite a bit. Carter and Brandon loved these ducks at lake Samammish. They were pretty cute.

Austin Discovered he likes peanut butter and Jelly

Carter is my little lizard. He could just lay out in the sun forever.

And we did quite a bit of just chillin'

Spokane

We got to go to Spokane and spend some time with Cousins! Austin loves his Cousins, and they loved holding him. Here his is with cousin Mary

And here he is with Cienna

Brandon and Annie looking for "rolly pollies"

my park

We got to go to a park by where my grandpa used to live that I used to play at all the time as a kid. It was soo fun seeing it again and having my kids play there. It brought back so many memories!

This is the 2in deep pool I used to wade in as a baby!

These are the tunnels I used to crawl through
Cousins Avery and Bre. :)

This is the merrygoround I used to spend hours spinning on!

And this is the tire swing I loved to spin with my sisters on.
So fun. Sorry this post is probably really boring to everyone except for me!

My Smiley Guy

I love these. I don't usually get great pictures but it happened to be a sunny day so they were easier to capture.

So some of these aren't the best quality pictures but I just can't get enough of his smile. He is such a smiley guy, I just wanted to share them with you! He's the cutest kid ever.

This one is a bit fuzzy but I love it of him smiling up at me. He especially get this way when he is tired and I am trying to put him to sleep he starts giggling. Then a few minutes later he is out. :)

Austin's Blessing Day

Austin was blessed over a month ago and I have been meaning to post some pictures ever since. (It takes me about a month to get most anything done lately.) It was a very beautiful day and we were so happy for all of the friends and family that were able to come celebrate with us for the special occasion.

A shot of the whole fam. Its too much to ask now to have everone looking at the camera I think.

I didn't get a picture of the whole group of friends that came and celebrated with us at the dinner we had afterward but it was so good to see everyone! I did get to snap this one of my good friend Maria and Austin and her cute little guy Davis.

We were so happy to have my sister Amelia and her family there!! They have come up from Spokane for all of our boys blessings, and we were so glad that they could make it!

Little Austin with Grandma and Grandpa.

Mom Says I Can

My Mother-in-law is amazing. Every time they come to visit she always has something fun for the boys. This time when they came for Austin's blessing she brought the boys a new book called "Mom Says I Can" in the book it talks about a little boy dressing up as all sorts of different things, a pilot, an astronaut, a super hero, a pirate, an indian etc. It's a really cute book and the boys love it. Then she also brought them all the costumes they could wear to dress up like the different things in the book! Including all the little badges, a bow an arrow, and all kinds of things. Every boys dream! Here they are pretending with all of their new stuff..

Here she is reading them the story for the first time.

Carter as a superhero

The pirate and the indian chief searching their map to find the lost treasure. (The map was included of course)

Superman!!