One of those 'Father-Son' moments

Sean was going to put new mud flaps on our new car today, and Shadwic couldn't wait to help out! He loves doing car stuff with his daddy! He was involved with everything..he read the directions, lifted the car with the car-jack, got Sean the correct tools. It was pretty adorable!
Sean and Shad putting the tire back on

Tightening the lug nuts

Umm..my hands are all dirty!

"Hey MOM my hands are all dirty...COOL"

Shad using the impact wrench, with the assistance of Sean, to loosen the lug nuts!! Check out the video below..

Hiking!

One of our favorite things to do is to go hiking! Lately, well, since kids...we really haven't had much opportunity to. Yesterday my grandma watched the kids all day for us so we could go hike! We went to Sugarloaf State Park, and climbed Hood Mountain. Once we got to the summit it was pretty much socked in with fog. We continued a bit further to Gunsling rock...it was suppose to have great views. Again, it was pretty foggy, but the sun was coming thru and it was so quiet and relaxing. As we finished lunch the fog started burning off a little more, and you could see some of the view. I think it was like 2600 feet up, or something like that. The hike was a little over 7 miles..and a LOT of that was uphill!! Surprisingly today neither of us are that sore! YAY! It was a great time..I hope we get to do it more often!! Thanks grandma for watching the kiddos all day!!

At the top, over the fog!

Sean at Gunsling rock

This is where we had lunch..it was so nice and sunny, private, quite..SO what we both needed!!!

Academy Of Science

My grandma bought our family a season pass to the Academy of Sciences this year!!! Thank you SO much GG!!! We took the kids a couple weeks ago and they had such a great time..(we did too) We can't wait to go back. They have a living rain forest that is amazing, and the butterfly's fly around freely, one kept landing on Sean..( I think she had a crush on him..or his cologne!) Me and the kids looking at some bugs in the living rain forest

They also have a few areas outside to play..Shad and Sean climbed this really cool tree!

Apparently Kaihla knows ALL about the fish, and shows Shad what they're all about.. " See brubbie, fish! big fish"

Shad see's them! They really re-modeled the aquarium nicely. Lots of big fish to see

Not sure if Shad knew this Zebra was not real...didn't matter to him though

Shad and Kai riding a big 'ol turtle

They had a few ladies dressed up like "trees" , walking around on stilts, faces painted etc. Well, Shad was terrified, and wanted nothing to do with this 'thing'..Kaihla on the other hand, made a new friend. While we were in one of the stores, she grabbed everything she wanted ( like 6 things) and shared them with the 'tree' lady. She talked to her, laughed, not scared in the least (not like I should be surprised, she doesn't have much fear at all....for anything!)

Not too sure about a butterfly getting that close..cool picture though!