Come on, Get Mappy!

The kids and I visited my parents 2 weekends ago. Man! I'm really falling behind on this blogging thing! Anyway, we gave the kids several options and they chose Northwest Trek for their way to spend the day. It was a great choice, perfect weather, wonderful scenery and we saw almost every single animal that resides on the 723 acres. I snapped quite a few pictures, though it was an off day for me, I still got a few that make me smile.

Come on, get mappy...

I Can See Clearly Now...
Every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man...

From the tummy of the grizzly bear...

These shoes were made for walkin'...
...but they were good for sitting too. Rylan had to "test" nearly every. single. bench. at the park. It ended up being a wonderful day.

The following day the kids and I took the opportunity to meet up with five other moms from an online group that I've been a member of since I was pregnant with Rylan. It was so wonderful to meet these women, and their kids, in "real" life. They have virtually walked with me during the best of time and during the worst of times, they held my hand. The kids acted like they've known each other forever and the four hours we spent in Seattle could have easily been doubled and still not felt long enough.

Nothing deep, just a few shares to get caught up a bit more. My poor brain is cooking, the weather has been so hot for our area. Actually? It's been pretty hot for just about anywhere. It was 103 today and, right now, at 11:30 pm, the heat index is 80 degrees with 64% humidity. Not fun. I would much rather be too cold than too hot. Thankfully, we don't have too many days like this. However, this was just the first day of 3 or 4 that will be up in the triple digits.

Oh and a Karleigh funny while the county guys were working on our road today, filling pot holes with hot asphalt (poor guys)... "Hey mom! Check it out! The guys are working so hard, they're smoking!" :-)