Since Ryan built a pirate ship in the backyard we figured it would be good to have a pirate theme party. We started of with some mustaches:
And lots of playing on the playset
This is what Zach did while the kids sang to him
We opened his present on the playset
The kids kept playing on it :)
I love this shot of Kelly with her toilet paper roll-scope
We had a treasure hunt
With a cool map!
The treasure was foam swords for everyone!
My boys LOVE this place! Nate is really good at painting.
I had to convince Zach to use a color other than green. For some reason he wanted everything green on green. (in the end he added a little blue and I"helped" paint some white & black)
All the components ready for speckles:
Drying station
Silly boy.
Joey and Nate's finished projects.
Ryan is building a "pirate ship" playset in the yard (he wont let me post photos of it till it's done) so we made our signs to go with the new set.
Here is his team minus his buddies Wes and Jesus:
Here's Wes!
Nate has some... interesting moves. For some reason he really likes to walk sideways and backwards while playing. Check out the "kick with the side of your ankle" move he's doing here:
The field he plays at has all these super big soccer balls
We LOVE having Wes on our team!
Here's the fam at this year's Camp-Out (minus about 200 church family members that were also there!)
Odette had this rad hammock out in front of her cabin and freely let all the kids run amuck on it! They loved it!
Nate playing his favorite new game with Ewan: Star Wars Guess Who
Ewan and Nate using the force!
Zachy on a make-shift tree swing (I think this was also Odette's)
With 2 bike riders in the family now (well 4 total I guess) We did ALOT of bike riding.
Heading out with Papa to go crawdad hunting in the nasty "under the overpass" nastiness.
Little brothers using the force!
Getting some Papa love and eating a smore, 1 component at a time
Nate goes for the traditional smore sandwich
Going cruisin with Uncle Joel:
Going cruisin with Auntie Becky and the dogs:
A little Star Wars Go Fish action:
Ok so on the last morning all the kids were playing with long balloons and making animals and crazy hats and stuff. Nate was copying the big boys with the balloon headband and later we saw him wearing part of James' balloon headgear but he chose a different place to wear it...
Hooray for Auntie Dawn taking our kids on those crazy bikes so we didn't have to do any of the pedaling!
We stayed an extra night, what a difference! Sunday night was so calm and peaceful, our boys had the run of the place! We got in 1 last campfire and Smores with The Corbetts!
Sunday day we took a sweet double bike ride to the nearby marina. There were lots of boats around and a little playground to take a break at. Papa got the boys ice creams and boy were they messy!
While daddy packed up the trailer, me and the boys checked out the foliage of the campground
Here's a still sleepy Nate with his basket.
Ready to go to church (check out those awesome ties I made the boys - LOVE EM! They totally wore them all day!)
Nate was rockin his shades too
After church we went to Ryan's Grandma's house in Norco for lunch and egg hunt #1
Nate loved feeding the next door horses tiny carrots WITH HIS BARE HANDS! Zach preferred launching the carrots over the fence at them from a safe distance.
Then it was over to the Smarts for dinner and egg hunt #2. Check out all these crazy kids!
This picture is fuzzy but I love the look of determination on Nate's face.
At 1 point Zach paused to show me each egg for a photo until he realized how much it slowed him down
