Happy day!

As we're packing for our 2nd camping trip of the summer, we're getting high on glue fumes from them installing our granite countertops! I couldn't be happier about such an awful smell. 

For those of you who know how long we've had plywood countertops and a temporary installed sink/no sink, it's a great day. 

Sol and I traced his body like a crime scene and started drawing on his face when he said "where's my armpits? Let's draw hair." 

Tomorrow we're headed to Cottage Grove lake. It will be nice to camp close to home. 

Sunday Fun day

Sunday is always such a great day, aside from the hurry and yelling to get everyone ready for church each week. Unfortunately it's the norm, so we're used to it now.

I love my sweet primary children that I get to teach! 12 today, it was a big class.

When we got home we ALL took a nap. I got in a solid 3 hours of Zzzz's. Aaaahhmazing!

Tonight we harvested the garden and here's our loot ( bug took a good solid bite out of the mato as Sol calls it), also 7 eggs! The kids rode around in the gator, it's the cutest thing to watch. 

Also, those white plywood countertops you see will be GONE this Thursday! Can't wait for our granite to be installed. 

Hey Sol, take a picture with mom. This cute picture...

Quickly turned to this...

King of the world

My little people and I had a nice day out of the house today. We played at the mall(which a lot of my friends can't believe I let them do) got a soft pretzel and cheese (sols fav), did some shopping and got froyo. Sol said he needed a new go ducks shirt which I proudly found for $7.99 at TJMaxx. 

Sol said here "I'm the king if the world!!". 

Little does he know, he's the king of my world. 

He loves me, he loves me not

Bug sure loves her brother...however he doesn't necessarily feel the same way.

Camping

The Mendozas went on the first camping trip of the summer this past weekend.  Sol held up his pepperoni sticks for everyone to see.

We're real classy...

Beachside campground is a place we stumbled upon by accident one year and we finally had a chance to book a spot. Let me say it was well worth the wait...aaaahhhmazing! You literally step out of your tent and boom, there's the sand. 

Mr. Mendoza recently bought a small fishing boat. He's been dieing to go crabbing in the bay and was tired of paying to rent one each time. Our past crabbing experiences weren't the best, normally ending up with just a crab or two (never enough to feed us all dinner). We'll I was thoroughly impressed this time. They ( Mr. Mendoza & his brother Chon) came back with 16! We had enough to share with our camping neighbors, which we traded for some yummy campfire peach cobbler. The boys (minus Sol), headed out at 5:30am, it couldn't have been a more beautiful morning!

There was one monster crab, which if course the captain (Mr. Mendoza) quickly claimed. 

We learned a few things this camping trip:

1. How to fail miserably at flying a kite

2. Bug loves to eat sand

3. Sol is the master marshmallow roaster. Seriously he never burned them and the were always perfectly browned. 

4. Sol will roast and eat a marshmallow anytime of the day, even before breakfast!

5. 5:30 am is way too early to be up on a Sunday for these two boys

6. Which than leads to number 6. He sleeps like his mama.

A pretty funny Sol-ism to add...

I told him in 5 minutes I was going to take him to shower, no and's if's or but's about it. He looks at me with a very puzzled look on his face and says "no ants in your butt?". 

Early birthday

My birthday isn't for another month and a half but he loves me! I've been wanting to use the berries and fruit from the farm in a delicious smoothie but our blender broke a few months ago. Well, after enough complaining this showed up one day...because he loves me!

Beach bound

Up until 11:00 last night packing every last detail for this weekends adventures. Our first camping trip of the summer! We are headed to the coast to escape this dreaded heat. At night we go outside to cool off. How sad is that?

Today one of my sweet older co-workers was cleaning out her desk, preparing for a big move across the room and found these two toys. She have them to me for Sol and Bug. It was very thoughtful of her and will keep them busy while camping. 

Blessed life

This morning I had the chance to sit (just sit there) and watch my kids play. Aside from the hurry, busy life we normally lead. It was wonderful and relaxing and wonderful ( did I say it was wonderful?). Bug looks up to her brother so much, just like she is in this picture. I love my kids. We live such a blessed life.

Sol-isms

More lately than ever, I've been listening closely to the funny things that come out of my 3 year olds mouth. Mr. Mendoza said last night "he's only going to be 3 once" after I said I need I start writing down the Sol-isms. So here are a few from last night-

*I farted in the pool mom! I farted twice!
*Mom, you have big legs (as he's shaking my thighs). You have a big butt mom.

I love him.