Beach day...

A few weekends ago, Ben and Mark had a 'father/son day' at our church, so Sean and I decided to spend the afternoon at the beach with my friend Rose and her pup. We had a lovely time! 

Catching frogs and salamanders in the nearby swamp

Ben took the boys to the swamp/pond at the end of our street for men's night last week. They had so much fun catching frogs and salamanders! Here are some of the pictures he took.

Evergreen Aviation Museum visit

It has been months and months since I last posted... sorry!
Today we went to the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon. The boys had so much fun! Here are a few pictures: 

Hammock camping!

We have been very busy bees this Summer... and have had so much fun that we hardly took any pictures. On our last camping trip, we slept in hammocks, and Ben took pictures with his phone. We slept in the hammocks for 2 nights. We went on a hike, built a dam in the river, explored ice caves, cooked over the fire, and we saw a momma bear with her twin cubs (we were in the car on a forest service road when this happened). I hope you enjoy the pictures!

Sean posing next to the hammocks

Yep, we actually slept in hammocks!

We went on a hike

We explored the ice caves

All of us together in the caves

More spelunking

Still in the cave

It was ICY cold in the ice caves. There were columns of ice and icicles inside

The boys climbed into Ben's hammock in the morning for a snuggle

Making silly faces together

Momma got to snooze until the boys piled into the hammock with her

The beautiful morning view from the hammocks

A morning pic of the whole family

Happy Easter 2014!

Mark and Sean let me snap a few quick pictures today before church. They are getting so big!

Happy Easter to you!

Oh how we love our man-children!