Dozer Days!

This year we attended Dozer Days as a family! This was Sean's first time going, and both boys had so much fun...

The boys posing by a huge wheel

We had to wait in line for a turn to drive an excavator for about 45 minutes.
Sean kept himself busy building things out of rocks.

Mark has been to Dozer Days every year since we moved here. 

Mark, driving a real excavator!

Mark got to use the controls to dig a hole

Sean driving a real excavator

Sean moving the lever that moves the bucket to dump the dirt out

The three Bradley guys

Of COURSE they wanted to make faces!

Waiting for our ride in the huge dump truck

Mark and Sean playing in the tracks of an XL excavator

Sean could almost stand up inside the tracks

Mark's opinion of how fun this was

I am sure this will be something we do every year for MANY years...

Ouchie!

Mark is the proud new owner of a(nother) scar. On Saturday he was at a birthday party at a gymnastics gym, and while swinging tarzanishly off of a platform via a rope into a pit full of foam cubes, he managed to get bonked in the face pretty badly. Face wounds always bleed like crazy - we were relieved to see that his teeth and his nose were fine. Unfortunately, he bit is lip badly in a few places. In one spot below his lip, he bit all the way through - involuntary piercing! 

"You have owie there, Mawk!"

After a visit to Urgen Care, where they cleaned and glued two spots, we brought a fat-lipped but content boy home. By dinnertime he was fine, and all appears to be healing just fine.