Father's Day weekend

We had a nice weekend, it was so fun to be home together finally and not have anything else going on. Chris got home Friday after work and we headed down to Lincoln Park by our house to play some horse shoes. We really had fun and the kids loved being outside in the forest-like park. After we played, we took a walk through the trails of Lincoln Park, it's one of our favorite parks here because it's like we traveled out of town to the forest, but it's just 2 miles away. As we were walking and pulling the kids in the wagon, we found a caterpillar, Brooklyn was so excited since she knows so much about caterpillars and butterflies. She wanted to take it home...so we did and put him in a jar and called him Fuzz. Then on Sunday, we looked in the jar for him and he had already started making a cacoon.....Brooklyn said, "Oh and then he is going to go "Pop!" and come out and he'll be a beautiful butterfly." She can't wait.

Saturday, we went and rented a zip car....Hooray for Chris' work!!! All summer we get free zip cars and free gas....we weren't ever going to leave the house with the way that gas prices are, but now we are totally taking advantage. We loaded up for a day up near Snowqualmie. We decided to find some new spots to go. We tried Twin Falls trail and had so much fun. Brooklyn explored everything with her dad and Beckham, as always, enjoyed being in the backpack making cute noises. It was a beautiful trail, very green and mossy and the waterfalls were totally worth it. There were four different ones to look at, they were really cool. From there we went to Rattlesnake Lake, one of our favorite spots and had a picnic lunch...we wished it would have been a bit warmer so get in the water...hopefully soon. Then we hit a fun garage sale and found some fun stuff and went and looked in a few new neighborhoods in the area we hadn't seen before. It was a great day!

Sunday was Father's day. We went to church and stayed after for our ward's linger longer and then went home......it was finally summer weather out. We took advantage and played outside on our little playground. Beckham loves the slide, he would stay out there all day if he could. Then we made a couple buckets full of water balloons and had a good water fight with Brooklyn, she thought this was the greatest thing. She giggled and laughed, it was great to see her reaction to it all. We gave Chris a stepping stone with the kids handprints in it, he loved it and we put it out in the backyard, it turned out pretty cool. I made a yummy new pork loin recipe I got from my mom and we had dinner and then headed for some sand play at the beach. We found a great spot for the kids to play. They entertained themselves for an hour and a half....no crying, fighting, etc. it was awesome. It was beautiful out and the sun just sparkled off the water. It was a perfect day. We came home and had peanut butter brownies and ice cream to finish off our fun weekend together.