Summer NIGHTS!

We've been having a lot of fun this summer! I love the evenings when it starts to cool down and the real fun begins! Here are some of the activities that we have been enjoying!

Real Soccer Game

I was worried about him wanting to run around and not stay in his seat, but he did awesome! He loved the thunder and lightning (the game was delayed for almost 30 min!!!), the loud drums, and the fireworks!

Demolition Derby!

This may just be the highlight of Garrett's summer so far! This kid absolutely LOVED it! The cars, the crashes, the dirt, the backhoes and tow trucks! He sat there in amazement and kept wanting more! The night ended with a car tipping over for the win and we have been hearing about that for weeks now! "Car tip over, CRASH!!!!"

What started out as a innocent boy helping his dad water the brown spot in the lawn...

Turned into a family water fight!

And ended with ALL of us being soaked!

That's what we get for letting the 2 yr. old be in charge of the hose!

First family campout of the season!

Nothing says happiness to a two year old like playing with a stick in the fire...especially if it has a GINORMOUS marshmallow on the end of it!!!

Neighborhood Fireworks!

Garrett didn't want to get too close, but finally agreed to do a sparkler!

Cooling down with dad on a hot evening with some yummy popsicles!

HAPPY SUMMER!!!

5 weeks....really?

Yikes! I can't believe it has been five weeks since my last post! I guess it doesn't seem like that long because I think about making a new blog post almost every day! I think maybe I have really created these blog posts (my mind is a pretty amazing thing!!) until I actually look at the blog and there are no updates! How many times have I looked through the pictures of the last few weeks and thought about which ones to use for the updates....too many times! Why can't I just do it!? I don't know why, but want to try and do better so that I don't feel so overwhelmed when I am behind. So, here's an attempt, but I feel like it would take too long to tackle all right now with the afternoon clock ticking! Hopefully I will give more details on some of these adventures in the near future! So, here's a glimpse into the past few weeks in the Lewis fam!

Seeing San Francisco twice in two years!

Enjoying the sunshine and the all the sand at the beach in San Diego!

Sherd and Adam's wedding! What a beautiful day!

Garrett's first tux...cutest kid ever!

Sea World was awesome! Garrett still is talking about it almost two months later!

First stitches...glad we survived it!

Beautiful hike up Bell Canyon

Enjoying the sunshine with two cute girls!

First canoe ride on their first fathers and sons!

My most recent favorite of these two handsome boys! (Notice G's shirt!)

At the "BOTTOM" of my list....potty training! :)

Slowly, but surely....we can do it!

You call it creativity...huh?!

So....the last post I did about Garrett being a creative kid...let's just say he took it a little TOO FAR today! Can you guess what I am about to admit? WELL, it happened today! My first true time of parental embarrassment and humiliation. (Won't be the last...right?)

We were over at a neighbor's house today having a church meeting. Several other kids were coloring nicely in the kitchen and Garrett asked me if he could color too. I said no because it was almost time to go and we needed to go and clean up the toys. He of course threw a tantrum (which I ignored) and we continued on with our meeting. Well, while I was distracted with finishing things up, Garrett found a colored pencil on the floor that someone had dropped. He then found a place to color......the wall in the hallway and in the toy room!!!! I of course didn't know this until one of the other kids came and said, "Your boy just colored all over the wall!" My response to this was, "No, my boy wouldn't do that!" Ha ha! He showed me! Well, after a timeout we found a rag and cleaned it up. Luckily the owner of the home didn't seem to care too much and offered her "magic eraser" to do the job right!

I hope we BOTH learned our lesson...Me to let him color with the other kids using paper in a place where I can supervise him and Garrett to color on the wall again so he can use a cool sponge to wash it off with! (That's what he kept talking about all day afterward and was excited to tell his dad about when he got home from work!) Grrrrrrrrr! :)

Creative kid!

Garrett still loves to draw! He has been enjoying all my "teacher stuff" including my whiteboard and markers. One day he was concentrating really hard and made a masterpiece! It was sooooo fun to ask him what he was drawing! They were ALL his ideas! I mostly just kept repeating,

"Oh WOW! What is that?!"

The first photo was too "crazy" so I didn't have room to label it. Don't be deceived by all the scribbles. There is a snake and crocodile swimming in the water, a snowman, an octopus, a butterfly, a bird and a chicken in there and much much more that I don't remember! :)

The second masterpiece is a little more controlled and I was able to label what he said each thing was!

I LOVE IT!!

Lacrosse Season!

This was Colin's second season refereeing lacrosse. It has been a nice side job, he enjoys being involved in a sport he loves, and he even gets a little bit of exercise! :) I think his favorite thing about it was his biggest fan on the sidelines, Garrett!

This was his usual...watching intently, eating his snacks, and yelling, "GO DADDY GO!"

Garrett found Colin's uniform very amusing! The first thing he would say when we arrived to the games was, "Where's Daddy. Daddy's right there! Daddy's striped shirt! Daddy's a zebra!" So, for his last game I made this sign to remember the cutest little fan of his most favorite daddy ever!

p.s. Now that the officiating season is over, Colin and Garrett spend time together playing lacrosse in our front yard together and watching re-runs of college teams playing on the internet! No joke, the other night for "story time" before bed, Colin had his laptop on the rocking chair and they were watching the 4th quarter of a really intense lacrosse match. Garrett cried when it was over because he wanted to watch more and daddy said it was FINALLY time for bed! :)

TOP TEN

Spring is definitely my favorite season! So on this list I tried to include some of the reasons why!

10 - It's not winter anymore! Ohhhhhhh wait a minute! I think we got more snow in the first few weeks of Spring than we did all winter! We took advantage of the extra inches and made a snow man complete with a carrott nose and oreos for the eyes! When it started to melt, Maggie ate the nose and Garrett ate the eyes! :)

9 - Cool dude! Gotta love the shades!

8 - Splashing in puddles - kids (and some adults) can't pass one up without a big stomp!


7 - Seeing all the animals at the farm and zoo! You know it is SPRING FEVER when your own husband requests a day off from work without the usual begging from the wife, JUST to go to the zoo on a beatiful day with his family! :)

6 - Easter egg hunts and new Easter outfits! This year we invited the cousins to come and have fun at the neighborhood hunt! We also enjoyed family time in our backyard finding some too!

5 - Mommy's birthday! I think April is a great time for celebrating! Here is some of the yumminess to prove it!

4 - Playing at the park! Just being outside!

3 - Bike rides - Garrett got a new trike for Easter. He had fun helping his dad put it together and looks adorable with his helmet on cruising the sidewalks!

2 - Flowers - We have made it a birthday tradition to go to the Tulip Festival! It is a great way to enjoy one of my most favorite parts of the season!

1 - Sunshine!

Sneek Peek

Here are a couple pictures of the little cutey patooty! I have been wanting to post these for awhile but haven't had the energy or patience to blog about them! So, be looking forward to a post soon about our "TOP TEN" things about SPRING!!