Graham the Great turns 2

Today Graham turned 2 years old. We started off the day with a bike ride then picked up his cousin Landon and headed to Powell's Sweet Shoppe. WARNING: This post contains a lot of pictures.



















Graham got his first bike!




























Bring on the sweets!!!














After the the sweets the boys were ready to ride their bikes along the greenbelt.














Then on to lunch at McDonald's. You could tell it was almost nap time because these boys got pretty goofy as lunch continued.





























And you can't end a play date without a good sword fight.














After Graham's nap the rest of his evening was filled with sharpening his bike riding skills.






































And finally cupcakes shaped like a "2", I know Graham's mom is really creative.














Day of birth














1st Birthday



















2nd Birthday



















We love you Graham!!!!

The Coast

While visiting my family in Oregon last month Ryan, Graham and I decided to take a mini family trip to Lincoln City. We enjoyed the little shops and restaurants and of course the beach.
















































The first day was really sunny but really windy. We stayed on the beach just long enough to feel the warm sand on our feet and scoop a few buckets full of sand.


































The second day was really cloudy but it almost felt warmer than the first because it wasn't as windy. We decided to go for an early morning beach walk.















Graham giving me one of his sideways looks. This sideways look is saying "I'm going to run in the ocean, let's see if you can catch me."















Not only did Graham love running in the sand, he loved running in the water. Can you even tell he is wearing shoes in the picture below? Nope, it just looks like he has sand feet.















After the beach walk Graham kicked back and made himself cozy while watching some PBS kids.

Attention Attention!!!

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The Dirty Dash

Ryan and I ran The Dirty Dash 10k the last weekend of August. We ran it with a group of Ryan's co-workers. I figured the race would be hard since I didn't train at all for it, but I wasn't expecting the whole first half of the race to be uphill. We faced giant hay bails, muddy pipes to crawl through, climbing walls, a tire course, a root beer (or real beer) chug, a few different mud pits, and then finally the big slide and final mud pit. The experience was awesome, we will be doing it again!






































Here we are before the race, so clean!






















Pretty quick into the race we all concluded that cutoffs were a bad choice.





















And here we are after the race, so dirty!





















This is us right after the final mud pit along with Brooke, one of Ryan's co-workers.
















At the end we went down this huge slide. This was my favorite part.

















Then into this huge mud pit. Ryan cannon balled into the mud pit and then started swimming so fast as if he was going to win the Olympics. The crowd went wild when he started swimming. I didn't swim, I just trudged. While I trudged little kids sitting on the banks of the pit started chucking mud at me. It was one of the funniest things of my life.

Classic Graham

Here are a few pictures of Graham doing his daily routine.




















Eat rocks, check. Make mom mad because I'm eating rocks, check.




















Oops it wasn't a rock it was a huge dirt clod mess, but I'll eat it anyway.





















Look sweet and make mom forget she was mad, check.





















Put rocks through the fence into the neighbor's yard check, make mom mad again double check.

















And lastly wear my awesome shoes without socks because I'm Graham Wesley and that's what I do, check, check, check.

Zoo Boise

This morning my sister Jandi, who has been visiting all week, and I took our kids to Zoo Boise. We had a great time. The weather was nice and cool it even rained for a little bit. But I have concluded that Zoo Boise has a terrible lay out. There are dead ends everywhere!!! But the kids did really well for which we were incredibly grateful.

















The giraffes took forever to find but were probably the favorite of the day.

















Myles, Jandi and Wyn with the "Jeep" which ended up being an extremely disappointing form of transportation.

















G and I coming down the monkey slide.


















Myles and Graham checking out the giraffes.




















Graham growling at the lion.

















Poor Zoo Boise was compared to the Portland, Denver and San Diego Zoo all day. But overall the trip was a success.

July wrap up

Here are some pictures to wrap up our fun month.






















Playing at the park.

















Getting cleaned up.

















Going to the water park. Graham and I went to Roaring Springs with my sister in-laws, Jamie and Megan and their kids and of course Grandma came to help too.

















Graham loves water! And apparently he also really likes popcorn chicken from the snack shack.

















Ellie, Jamie, Megan, Landon, Graham and Brayden. Livi, Brooklyn and Grandma managed to sneak out of this picture.





















Megan and Landon catching some sun.





















Exploring the river.