Labor Day Weekend...Bumps, bruises, and lots of fun dirt!

Well, Derek & Trenton have officially been introduced to Washington camping. They loved every minute of it. We had the "best spot" according to Trenton. We decided to get away for the long weekend with Eric & Jamee's family so we went up to the Mount Vernon area, which was absolutely beautiful.

Trenton loved the dirt. I was always catching him with his shoes off. He said he loved to feel the dirt on his feet and that it tickled. He found all sorts of cool bugs, but he especially loves the slugs (we even found one in our tent...probably his "pet"). We could never keep him clean so we kinda gave up the idea after the first day. The poor little guy did so well at not getting hurt until we were getting ready to leave. He fell and cut up his knee pretty bad and bruised the other one, but he survived with his Spiderman band aids.

Derek got stinging nettle when we were helping set up Eric's trailer. Luckily he took it pretty well and it didn't effect his spirits for the weekend. He was excited when he got up on Friday night and we already had the tent set up. Derek didn't get officially introduced all the way yet as far as camping goes though because he missed all the rain storms when he came up Friday after work. Trenton, Jamee, Emma and I had that Wednesday night and Thursday night both, but it was still great.

Saturday night while the Maughan clan went to the World of Outlaws races, I got to take Trenton & Derek up to show them my "home town" (I figured it was the best time since we were only 15 minutes away). They had fun and I loved getting to show them around Bellingham. Trenton thought it was cool to see the lakes that I got to see the houses that "mommy" grew up in. I think Derek's part was going to Arby's. He brags to everyone how he got "hooked up" by the lady working the drive through. He asked for 5 handfuls of Arby's sauce and the next thing we knew we were getting a bag of food and then a bag of Arby's sauce. We aren't talking a little bag or anything like that. This thing was FULL. He wants to go back just for that reason. Derek did like it up there though and we wouldn't mind buying land up there eventually.

Sunday we had a good day. We went miniature golfing. Trenton was in HEAVEN! He was running around the course saying that he was winning and that he was awesome! He basically hit the ball once and if he couldn't get it in he would either pick it up or kick it into the hole. Then he would run to the next one and tell us to hurry up. He says it's a "new game" and he is the best at it. We also went to Deception Pass which is one of my favorite places in the whole world. Trenton got to see the ocean and he thought that was the coolest thing in the world. He loved the sand and the seaweed. He wanted to put his feet into the water so we pulled up his pants and took off his shoes. I went to go help him so he wouldn't get caught in the current and when the wave hit the beach it came in WAY farther than the other ones and I got SOAKED!! Trenton thought that was the funniest thing he had ever seen before. He loves to tease.

Monday we went and had a BBQ and celebrated Corey's (my nephew) birthday. He had a super yummy cake which none of us had ever tried before. He was called a Sundae cake. Then we packed up and went home later in the afternoon.

We added some pictures from our day at the beach and we will add more pics when we get them printed. Enjoy!! :-)