Today was Luke Day and we had a great day. The Copeland's are out for a visit and we got a great parking space, great weather and "cooperative" kids. We did have to leave before the Tbirds but the F15 and F22 more than made up for that. Great day today.

The Guys in a transport plane.

We got some pictures of the boys, most of them are in the picassa web gallery, here are a couple of my favorites.

Mom got back from her NH trip and we celebrated by going to the Ostrich Festival. We didn't actually see any ostrich but had fun at the carnival. A Nick funny, there was a ferris wheel there and on Friday we were on the freeway. Nick saw the ferris wheel and said "hey Disneyland, I want to go there." Anyway, fun but hot, we were roasting for much of the day.

Nick and Adam on the kangaroo ride.

So came the decision, the boys hair were to out of control for me to bear any longer. I tried to wait long enough to get them regular hair cuts but given Adam's complete disdain for the ordeal and Nick's desire to have a buzz cut the decision proved easy. They both did great, it is so much nicer when Nick goes along, Adam will follow right a long too.

Buzzed.

Well wasn't this a busy weekend. We started strong and wished Mom a happy vacation on her quest to bring Kate the Great home from Portsmouth. After work I got the boys and we got ready for a picnic.

We dusted the ol' wagon off and went to the close park. The boys had some ham lunchables and as Mom noticed from a picture they went straight for the Oreo cookies instead of the ham and crackers. Oh well, boys will be boys and they both ate most of the dinner. A bit of playing and homebound we went.

On Saturday we went to Costco for lunch and then back home to visit with the family. Grandma, Granpa, Herb and Bev all came over. Grandma brought over her Snow cone maker and it was a hit. In fact one time Adam did it himself. He just showed up with an empty cup and pushed on the top (like he saw Nick do) and put his cup underneath and he was good to go. Good job Adam. It was an early night for everyone on Saturday.

On Sunday we went to the Aquarium and the m

all to do the rides. The aquarium is pretty good, especially considering the size they had to work with. The boys prefer the jungle gym at the end though, Dad likes the Ray tank himself. After that we went home and baked a cake so we could have it at the park. This time we had a picnic at the bigger park. After a couple of minutes of eating both the boys litterally sprinted to the playground. I had to go get them to come back and finish the food... Crazy kids. Overall a great weekend and now I can go to work and rest a bit.

Adam checking out a shark.

Cake testing

Whoops, time does indeed fly. The kids are doing well, except for Nick being sick yesterday. He was roasting and told Mom that he wanted to lay on the couch "for a long time." Doing better today so hopefully it was a one day thing.

Adam is really growing and learning. He talks a lot, can name a ton of things (my favorite is part of a book with a Whooping Crane which sounds ridiculously cute when he says it) and is always looking for Nick. Not something Nick always appreciates but they play together pretty good.

We are letting their hair grow out from a buzz so they can get some pictures and then we will probably buzz them again come summer.

Big and bigger.