Hard to believe summer is almost over. The boys only have two more weeks until school starts. Saturday morning the boys met some friends at Pala racetrack to do some practice riding. Tyler is actually starting to show a little more speed. Saturday evening we went to one my new co-workers for a bbq. Jake met his reading goals for July so he got to met his buddy Maddox for sushi and Chuck-E-Cheese. Tyler was on a roll winning tickets. He alone won more than Jake and Maddox combined.

Yes, those are all Tyler's tickets!

Just enjoying the last few weeks summer. Tyler went bowling at a friend's birthday party this week. The boys started karate this week. They really like their gee outfits. It's a little more work than Ty thought it would be, but I think he will get used to it. Jake raced this week. It was a hot one but it went into night which was cool to race under the lights. We had a slight mechanical problem, luckily he was able to borrow his buddy Mason's spare bike to race on.

 Jake and his reading coach Mrs. Brittany

 Ty making his signature dish... Mac and cheese.

The boys had a buddy over for backyard camping Friday night. Unfortunately I forgot to turn off the sprinklers which come on around midnight. So after the boys changed in to dry clothes they slept the rest of the night inside.

Tyler is officially 6. We celebrated his day with dinner at Red Robin and then birthday donuts and presents at our house with friends. He got a pretty fun pie in the face game and he and Jake both got r/c cars. Another fun summer weekend of swimming and hanging out with friends. On a sad note our cat Tabby passed away. She had a great long life and was pretty healthy up until last week. The boys are pretty sad since the last past few months she was actually letting them pet her. Maybe she knew her time was coming soon and she was making a last ditch effort to get into heaven.

 Playing keep away from each other... Dungey won

Happy 4th of July

We had an awesome weekend of swimming and hanging out with friends. We had Tyler's birthday party at the local pool. We rented an inflatable that the kids could play on in the water. Jake loved the high dive and Tyler surprised us by wanting to do it a few times too. We started off the 4th with a parade around the neighborhood then spent that day swimming and bbq'ing with friends and neighbors. Tonight we rode our bikes to the high school to watch fireworks. When we got home the boys were asleep as soon as their heads hit their pillows.

 Jake and Ellie helping make cookies

 Dungey wasn't sure of what to make of Tyler's new toy tank

 Ready for the parade