Summer Adventures

So I was just sitting here, enjoying the fact that both my boys are playing in the backyard without me needing to entertain.....awesome!
We took a great mountain trip to Colorado this year and enjoyed every minute of it! First we went to Tucker Ponds, up near Wolf Creek Pass, and camped out for 4 nights. Yes, in a tent. People think we are crazy, but I love it! Edward is 3 and Eli is 21 months and we could not have asked for a better way to spend time as a family. My parents, actually camped out with us too, in their tent, and that made getting meals and camped prepared a little easier, since we had some extra hands to help out with the boys. After our 4 nights of tent-living, we ventured on to Crested Butte, CO where we had rented a 'little yellow house' for 5 more nights and it was wonderful! Here are just a few memories from our great trip!

• Before we left Amarillo, we were waiting for my parents' on the outside of town, so we had stopped and Erick said "let's go camping" and Edward said in the most cutest way possible "here?"
• Bedtime in the tent, turned into playing in the tent, because Eli was all about rolling and tumbling all around on top of me and Edward. But one of the cutest parts was him spelling out Edward's name "edrdrd, Edward" in the cutest, most innocent voice, and all of us would just giggle and giggle.
• We forgot to take Erick's tent, so he engineered himself a side tent using a tarp.
• We did not have much luck fishing at all....so Edward insisted that "fish no awake" and Eli was obsessed with "fish bite".
• The first night my mom, nana, let out a big, terrifying scream, and then I could have sworn that she had seen a bear because of the little bits of conversation I could here my mom and dad having during the middle of the night, so I was up most of the night with heart pattering quickly. Needless to say, it was NOT a bear, mom had a cramp in her leg.
• When we got into CB, the boys most favorite thing to do was ride the 'bus', the free shuttle that would take us back and forth into town! Both would ask over and over and over again "bus, bus, bus"...
• On one of our bus trips, Eli is entertaining some young girls with his cuteness, then Edward "roars" and captures the attention of half the bus and of course Eli "roars" back.
• The boys could have thrown rocks in the river all day every day, and Max would have loved that too.
• We ended up running back to the car several times in the rain, glorious!
• Eli started covering his eyes and counting for hide and seek, as well as counting while climbing the steps up the playground, he sure is growing up!
• Eli copycats Edward "catch" (jumping off the bed, or boxes) and falling down. But sometimes Edward copies Eli "wobbling heads". I love have two active boys!
• Eli loves to sing "tip toe, tip toe, in the hot sand" a song from our music class-Ladeeda
• Eli before bed every night asks for a "hut", hug and "kiss"
• Killing flies in our house is becoming a hobby. Edward now chases the flies around with a big plastic crayon he has and actually got one the other day. And since it such a hobby Eli says "kill fly"
• The boys love listening to the "Puff the magic Dragon" CD and reading along with the book.
• "Zerberts"
• "I draw outside" Edward will take his magna doodle and go outside and sit down and draw and talk to Max. He is also obessed with chasing the birds and rabbits out of our yard!
• When Edward heads to the bathroom he is very purposeful about dragging Eli with him, so that when he is using the bathroom, Eli can not take over whatever toy he is currently playing with, smart little dude!

So this about takes us through the end of August! There is so much more that I know I'm forgetting, but I just want to live in the moment every single day that I get to be home with my two perfect little boys. Thank you God for blessing me with two sweet, energetic, kind, smart boys.