up north: day at the beach

putting our feet in the soft sand of seaside, or

starting our sand castle

the photographer of most of these pictures- at least the good ones that is!

wandering down the beach

steven, eric and my dad (pappy) hard at work

the kids may have wandered a bit

rolling in the sand

finally had to call campbell back

ahhh, sand

helping uncle steven dig "the hole"

dusting the sand castle

helping bury uncle eric

the finished sand castle

campbell walking on the sand

and mason walking on the sand

running on the sand

destroying the sand castle

uncle eric, still in the sand

great pic ash

venturing off to the ocean

she really loved being wet and dirty!

up north part 1

for the last 2 weeks of june the kids and i made the trek up to puyallup, wa to visit my family. here's a small taste of the pictures from our time in puyallup.
enjoy.

mason, playing in her awesome toy house.

henry, always happy with a ball

and henry is also happy playing in a kitchen

mason, exploring the front of nona's yard

henry, enjoying lunch with pappy

my dad/pappy took us to this wonderful restaurant- the buttered biscuit- for lunch, it was awesome!

complete with a rocket

it was fun to ride.

we didn't play the whole time we were there.

some of us worked hard (it wasn't me, i was in full on vacation mode, and enjoyed every second!)

sandbox

now i just need a big one at my house.

back in May

we used to play, outside that is. of course, now in august it is just to hot for rolling around in our grass.

playing in our tent- which we did break.

grass

yea! grass

can campbell's nigh nigh's fly?

campbell can fly!

henry eats a little bit of dirt.

the face of a very happy boy (and delirious from all the spinning and tossing)

things might have gotten a bit rough.

but in the end, it was all ok.

buddies.

no, this wasn't close to Christmas time, it was just the cool weather of spring, and Christmas jammies still fit.
one of these days i'll get campbell on video reading. its fairly impressive.
biased mom, your table is ready.

strikes fear.

this is never what a mom wants to see. your baby standing dreadfully close to the top of the stairs. sure it's only like 4 stairs, and yes- he has fallen down them before.
but please baby, sit down!

what he used to do

before henry could get himself to standing- well, even before he was really walking around, if he ran out of milk in his cup he would be quite distressed, and this was how he would come and find us, requesting more milk.


there is a chance i could blog pictures i have already shared. sorry if i do.