Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Ben's pontoon boat

Inspired by a country song, Ben decided to build a pontoon boat. This became a fun project for the Bradley guys to work on this Summer. After several land trials, Ben and Mark launched the "Gute Fahrt" (as Ben named it) in the Battleground lake. 

Ben and Mark setting things up for a land trial in our front yard

The boys and Ben taking a well-deserved break after some hard work

YARG!

Ben setting up the boat in the lake

Almost ready for launch!

Launched!
The frame for the tarp over was accidentally forgotten at home, but a great time was had by all anyway!

A little bit of catch-up from our trip to Montana...

Our trip to Montana was wonderful, and I have hundreds of pictures of it on my computer... since this blog is dedicated to the kids, though, here are just a few pictures of the boys!








Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Warm weather, shiners, and fun

I am several weeks behind in posting pictures of the boys... but in an effort to catch up just a little, here are some fun ones from last week. 

Horizontal surface + boy = climbed surface
Believe it or not, Sean actually had a full set of clothes on when we sent him outside to play. When I went outside to check on the boys, I found that Sean had stripped down to his underwear (which actually is a pair of Mark's underwear that he insisted on wearing in stead of his own), and his rubber boots. He was jumping up and down on the picnic table, watching his reflection in the window.

Mark, hard at work
Mark is earning himself a new bike this Summer. You know, because we are trying to raise good little Capitalists. We made a chart that has 100 bike points that need to be earned. For 5 bike points, Mark is scrubbing the algae/moss off of the railing of our deck - a job that took him about 1.5 hours.

My friendly bunch
Oh. That shiner? Yeah... Sean lost a fight with a door he was swinging on... I took this picture the day it happened. The next day it had turned more purple, and had spread out. We've watched some awesome colors show up in Sean's face over the last week!

Black eyes can't stop my boys from being happy!
My friends who have girls often marvel at the potential for chaos little boys have. I love our flavor of chaos. :)

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Family picture

I have a whole slew of cute pictures of the boys, but no time to sort through them right this moment.

Instead, here is the family picture my Uncle Bob took of us at my Bapoo's life celebration/ family reunion in Bozeman, MT a bit over a week ago.

Bradley family, Summer 2013