One More Baby Boy.

Once again today's post we are going back a few months. Almost 6 months ago we had a new addition to the family. No not me. My BIL and SIL had another baby BOY. 
Yes folk's I said BOY. I don't know if the Mink's can make girls. I guess we will have to wait a long time to see if any of these boys can produce us a Granddaughter. I sure hope so. But then again I am sure my mother-in-law was thinking the same thing and she has 5 grandsons now. 

Baby Grayson was born February 12, 2014 at 9:52pm. He weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces and 20.5 inches long. I cannot believe he 6 months old already. The little guy is finally starting to fill in a little. He was a little tiny dude. It always feel weird holding little babes since mine were ginormous. 
So now big brother Landon has someone to torture and fight with on a daily basis. Maybe not now but very soon it will start to happen. But Jen isn't a rookie. She knows first hand how rowdy and wild kids can be......oh I can't wait for it:)

Easton loves to hold baby Grayson:) and on this day {which was July 4th} he got to feed him. He sat there so good and held the bottle....he is so sweet with babies. 

 This picture was taken just the other day. I snatched it from Jen's facebook page...hehehe.

Brothers....Landon and Grayson.

Santa Cruz.

So last week Ryan was on vacation and we had originally planned to go on the Jeepers Jamboree, it's a 4 day camping trip on the Rubicon Trali {a post from last years trip will be in the near furture}, but our friends backed out last minute so we decided to take the kids on a little getaway. Ryan has been wanting to take them to the beach so we decided on Santa Cruz. It's only about a 3 hour drive from us and totally worth it. 

The kids had a BLAST. They loved the beach. Easton loved it so much I was afraid he was going to get sucked out into the ocean. He wanted to do nothing else but to swim and play in the waves. Bentley on the other hand wasn't as excited. The waves freaked him out and he held onto you for dear life. Cameron was in and out and loved playing in the sand. 

I was attempting to get a picture of all three of them smiling looking at the camera...You can see how well that went.

Cameron passed out at dinner. He slept like that for like 30 minutes.

We spent all day at the beach. We headed back to our hotel to swim in the pool and get ready for dinner. We decided to walk {it didn't seem that far} but once we were all the way on the wharf our hotel seemed soooooooooo far away. Took awhile to pick a place to eat and get seated. Cameron passed out at the table and Bentley was making a mess with his noodles and kethcup. The kids were exhausted!

The next day we went to the boardwalk to play some games and hang out. The kids freaking love all those arcade games. Easton wanted to play every game that had a claw and you win little rinky dink crap. And just like any kid they love winning tickets and they had enough at the end for each of them to get a little spongebob stuffed toy {oh joy another stuffed animal}.

This is one of those little games Easton played. We really had to watch him because he would just wonder off and swipe his little play card in every machine wasting his credits. Well this time he ran off over to the game with a bunch of soccer balls in it and he actually got it all by himself. It was so funny and cute. So Ryan had to get two more for Cameron and Bentley. 

After the arcade and boardwalk we decided to take a drive up the road about 30 minutes to another beach. Just a few miles up the road the tempature changes drastically and it was probably in the high 60's with a breeze and the water was much colder. The kids called this the "cold" beach. We hung out there for awhile before we headed home. 

The kids had SO much fun. They just ran around the beach like the crazies they are, getting their feet wet and playing in the sand. They found tons of sanddaollars and seashells {which of course we had to bring home} and built sandcastles. This was a great day and we will remember it forever. It was so nice sitting on the beach {we pratically had a huge area all to ourselves} watching the kids run and play. 

 Bentley is trying to catch up......WAIT FOR ME!!!!!!

Don't even ask about this picture. Easton had gotten his shorts wet on the walk down the beach and the shorts were rubbing his leg making him a little "chaffey" so he decided to take them off. So YES he had no shorts on half the day at the beach because he had one pair of shorts left which was for the ride home. 

 AND of course Bentley had to copy everything Easton was doing. They had sand all over:)

 Bentley was going crazy running around in the sand AND then he was running chasing the poor little birdies...crazy kid!

State Fair Fun.

So just like every year we made it to the State Fair last week. The kids know it's during the summer and once they start seeing and hearing commercials it's on! They ask like a million times when we are going and if it's still here.
We decided to go last week when Ryan was on vacation. This was our first year not going without our good friends Jerry and Beth. We will have to pick that tradition next year. 

The kids always want to take a ride on the monorail.

As always the kids had a blast. The one thing they always look forward to is the Monster Truck ride and this year they didn't have it:( the kids however took this news fairly well and there was no screaming or crying. They still had the Motorcross riders and they were able to watch two shows so they were super happy about that. 

Getting hi-fives from the riders.

Eating some dinner...nachos and corn dogs. Bentley was asleep for dinner:)

Poor Cameron is probably never EVER gonna want to go on another ride again after Ryan made him go. 

He was not happy and terrified. After the log ride he surprisingly like it and said, "Next time I want to go on that ride first". Easton loved ALL the rides and said, "That ride was awesome!"

 Waiting in line for the log ride. 

 Some jumping fun!!!!

 This is all they wanted to do....Play games. They did each pop A balloon and won another rinky dink stuffed animal.

 

 Love this precious face. He LOVED the motorbikes as well.

It was like only 90 degrees {which is actually cool for fair weather} BUT it felt like 100 degrees! The kids were hot and sweaty and Cameron was constantly asking to stand in the shade.