The last 2 weeks

The weekend before last, we had the entire day on Saturday free of plans.  I had wanted to go down to Ikea to pick up some frames and photo ledges, so we decided to look for a park down in Renton to visit on the way.  Yelp told me that Gene Coulon Memorial Beach Park was THE place to go, and it was soooooo much fun.  This place has everything: a beach, an enormous play structure, a boat launch, a lonnnnng running path right on the water, a fishing dock, and even an Ivar's!  We got there early and spent a few hours there taking turns running on the path, playing with Ben, and enjoying the beautiful morning.  We will definitely be back before summer is over.

When we returned home, Greg and I hung the shelves that I'm using as a book shelf (and a cheap/colorful decoration on a wall that needed something).  This blog has so many fun decor ideas that I'm always using in our house.

Ben and I hit up Trader Joe's (OH how I'm wishing a store would open up in our neighborhood).  The entire time I was shopping he was grabbing things from the cart to make truck ramps - and then driving his little firetruck down them until it fell onto the floor (about a hundred times).  That was fun for both of us.... 

When we got to the checkout stand, Ben was quite helpful handing groceries over to be scanned.  At one point, the checker asked if he should just pretend not to see him and see how long he would hold something out for him, (gotta love messing with your toddler) and we just laughed and laughed as Ben eagerly held out this bag of chips :)  And he was SO happy when the guy finally took it.  LOL.  

Our lives consist of trucks, trucks and more trucks.  The first thing Ben said the other day when he woke up was "Monster trucks are so. awesome".  His favorite thing to do is to hook up the iPad to our Apple TV and recreate the monster truck videos with his own trucks.  It's so adorable.  We are ABSOLUTELY taking him to the Monster Jam when it comes to town in January.

We went to the library to renew our library cards and get my kindle set up to borrow books.  Ben really does not understand the concept of "shhhhhh".  Like, at all.  I swear he talks even MORE when I ask him to talk quietly.  This was his reaction when I had to take him outside.

We have had a few days of boot weather.  And it's amazing.

Blurry picture of Laryd and Ben. 

Even blurrier picture of them + me and Jeannette.  Greg needs a photo-taking workshop.

Sunday night of Labor Day Weekend was spent relaxing at home.  We splurged and opened up a bottle a couple bottles of the better wines we had in our cabinet and enjoyed a fun night at home.

Pics of the boys at dinner in Downtown Bothell.