Worldwide Day of Play

Today was Nickelodeon's Worldwide Day of Play - Nick and all their networks (Noggin, The-N) go off-air from noon - 3pm to encourage kids to go outside to play.

The boys spend plenty of time outdoors anyway, but I figured it was a nice thing to celebrate anyway, so we spent those 3 hours outdoors.

First we went to Kids Oasis, which is a wooden playground on the other side of the lake. We haven't been there in years, AJ was under 2 and Drew wasn't born yet, so the boys had a lot of fun playing there since it was "new".

















Then we stopped at Target for some snacks, and headed for the beach. We went to a spot down the street from our house, the boys hadn't been to this beach during the daytime before, we've gone a few times at night to watch fireworks over the lake.

The plan was for them to play in the sand, of course AJ wound up in the water!

Another trip to Jetty Island

We went to Jetty Island on Wednesday with my friends Kristi and April, their kiddos, and Kristi's mom and sister and cousin. Kristi was kind enough to get us reservations so we didn't have to wait in line or chance not getting on the ferry.

It was a really nice day, it's windy on the island so we weren't noticing how hot it really was. I got a bit of a sunburn!

I was busy visiting and didn't get too many pictures.

On the boat on the way over

Our little "camp"

A crab I caught for the kids to see

More crabs

Corey and the boys building a sand castle

Andrew trying to flip over a log to find crabs

And a third beach!

Today we met my parents and sister at Jetty Island at 10 am, and the ferry was going to be full until at least 11:30 - so we opted to visit another beach instead. We went to Kayak Point, I hadn't been there in 20 years probably.

The tide was high, so no tide pools. The boys still had fun in the water and on the playground.

It's the best day ever!

We had such a great day today!! It was a blast, we were so busy but it was all so fun!

First, we went to a driving range with Tom, a guy Corey works with, and his daughter (I'm not pictures of them here since I didn't ask permission).






Andrew using Corey's club



Then I dropped Corey and my sister Carly off at the Children's Museum and walked the 4 blocks to therapy, and walked back again. It was so nice out today, it was nice to walk. I wish I could walk more often.

Carly took pictures for me since I wasn't there.






After that, we stopped and got burgers and then headed to Jetty Island. It's a really neat 2 mile long man-made Island off the Everett Marina. You take this 3 minute ferry to get there. And the best part - no ducks!







On one side of the island you can flip rocks over and find crabs, I'm the only one who would pick them up, everyone else wussed out.





On our way to catch the ferry home



Then we came home and dropped Corey off so he could steam clean while the boys and I took my sister to my parent's. There are frogs in their pond, and we caught several, they are teeny tiny - but I forgot my camera so no pictures of that :(

My carpet looks and smells lovely, Cor did a fantastic job.