Camping round 2

We only got a few pictures from this weekends camping trip but they're pretty priceless. 

Lily fell asleep in the pack. Could

You imagine if we were able to do that? Looks so uncomfortable!

How many Mendozas does it take to deflate the air mattress?

We had so much fun. Becky and Randy (my aunt and uncle) camped with us as

well as Luis's mom and siblings. My mom and Don also came out for Saturday to hang out and have dinner. It was some much needed relaxing family time. The best part was we were only 25 mins from home!

Until next time...

Bug

This little girl is such a blessing to our lives. She's so fiesty and so sweet. Love her!

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?".