This is what I woke up to one morning this last week... Grant quietly playing superheros at the dining room table, Joel still sleeping. I love the way this boy loves his toys and can play with anything that requires imagination all by himself.

Introduction to Flag Football!

Jeff is already preparing for and daydreaming about his return to flagfootball coaching a year from now. Buffalo's Comm Ed football program starts for kiddos going into first grade, and luckily Jeff's buddy that he had so much fun coaching Mitch's teams with, also happens to have a son Joel's age as well. I have a feeling that Grant will not be left out next year and already plans on going along to all the practices to get a year head start. Grant tends to be the little more focused of the two boys, but if Joel keeps his head in the game, he could have some potential:)

Spicer Triathlon - Second Time

My friends and I had a great weekend at the Spicer Triathlon, and we even took home a couple of medals. I got 4th place in my age category and actually almost won a medal too, despite a terrible experience once again in the water, due to my lack of swimming experience. I cut 8 minutes off my times from last year, which was great!

Hibbing Visit

The little guys and I took a special trip to Hibbing to visit the great grandparents one more time before school started.

We also got to spend some time on my mom's friend's pontoon and do some swimming with her daughters 2 little girls. The boys had a great time with their new friends Abby and Olivia. (more phone pics below)

Hugs goodbye:)

The boys loved watching my mom's friends son wakeboard

Grandma got them some new coloring activity sets, and they spent a good deal of time working on those.

 

Both Joel and Grant had a little success with the monkey bars for the first time while we were in Hibbing.

My view for much of the trip home from Hibbing:)

New Haircut

Well Mr. Joel, a few weeks before starting kindergarden, decided to take some serious length off several sections of this lovely auburn hair while I was upstairs giving Grant a bath... the bathroom was covered in hair when I found it, and I could see the back of Joel's head from a distance and I braced myself as I asked him to turn around so I could see the damage. He cut the front section and a couple other sections in the back to about a quarter of an inch long, because "it was bothering him". It was so short in those spots that we didn't even get it all cut that short when we went the next day to get it fixed. All in all, it turned out ok, and he actually likes sporting the shorter do. I actually like it too, although another half inch or so and it will be looking much better. yeesh!

Superhero Camp

The boys got to spend a few mornings at "Superhero Camp" this summer. These are a few pictures of the pictures the instructor sent home with them. Dressing up as a superhero was optional and you can see from the picture that Grant was the only one that chose to dress up for any of the days. He was a different superhero each day... spiderman, captain america, and iron man. When I picked them up from the first day of camp, he told me that he "hopes other kids dress up like superheros tomorrow". I told him I wasn't sure and thought maybe he would choose not to the next day, but my TRUE, to the bone superhero fan didn't disappoint and chose a new costume everyday.

Buffalo Weekend

A couple weeks ago now, we had a quiet weekend in Buffalo. Friday morning, we all hopped in the car to meet Mitch's aunt in Woodbury and get in off to WI Dells with aunt and cousins. After that, we hit the Bell Museum (a natural history museum on the UofM campus). I was glad we stopped, the place was packed with showcases of every MN animal species you could ever imagine and also had a couple of more interactive rooms where the kids could touch snakes, beetles, etc.

Saturday night we had a campfire. The boys favorite thing to do is hold a big stick in the fire and get it to smoke (such boys).

Check out Grant, yes, I purposely took this picture to show just how ridiculous his face sometimes looks at the end of the day. His nose it constantly running and if he wipes it enough times with dirty hands and then eats a sticky popsicle ,this is what he ends up looking like. As far as the smile... never ask Grant to smile for a picture. This "stroke-like" appearance is what you get. I have no idea...

Sparklers!

Trying to start the tree on fire with the sparklers, before we told them they shouldn't do that.

The weather was SOOOO beautiful, we decided to take a quick ride to Lake Mariah State Park in Monticello and check out a few of the trails. They have 2 half mile nature trails that the boys just loved, and there were hardly any bugs! (photos taken by Intstagram)