Christmas baking

This year I made sugar cookies with the boys, well mostly Ryan :) It was a lot of fun and Ryan was a big help and he had lots of fun decorating them. He even said that making them was one of his favorite parts of Christmas! I think my favorite part was eating them...

A visit to the Pumpkin Patch

A couple of weeks ago we visited the pumpkin patch that's just down the freeway from us. It was super crowded, but still a lot of fun. Ryan jumped in bounce houses and drove a little tractor car and got to pet a lot of different animals. Levi had fun too, although he didn't get to do as much :) 

 Climbing the hay tower

 Ryan had a smile on his face like the whole time he was driving.

 Levi loved all the animals

 I got to shake a monkey's hand

 Carving one of the pumpkins we picked.

(It's a ninja turtle, if you can't tell)

Ryan's Royal Birthday

Okay, so I have been really slacking with this lately, sorry! I'm hoping to stay on top of it now! So about a week ago was Ryan's 5th birthday (yes he's 5!) so I thought he would love to go to Medieval Times, and my guess was right. He had sooo much fun! We invited his cousins and a few other family members and we all had a blast!

 My big 5 year old!

 

 Checking out the horses

 We cheered for the yellow knight

Our group, such a fun time

Levi's Firsts

Dan has been on vacation for the past couple of weeks so we thought we would get out and visit some places that we haven't been to since Levi was born. We went to Sea World on Monday and Levi loved it! He really enjoyed looking at all the animals and Ryan is getting really brave and going on some "big kid" rides now. Then for the 4th of July we hit up the beach with some friends. It was a little hectic getting parking and settled in, but once we did it was a lot of fun and again Levi and Ryan did great. 

 Checking out some Beluga whales

 On his first "big boy" roller coaster

 Getting dizzy on the starfish ride

 Levi loved the sand and was pretty content playing in it for most of the day

 A big hole the boys dug... why? You ask, because they're boys

 Gonna check out the waves and...

 He LOVED them. It was cool/scary to see how fearless he was.

 Even when a wave knocked him over he just laughed.

 My little beach bum

 Taking a little nap