Jake’s best friend from school, that moved away last year, was in town this week and came over for dinner Wednesday night. We let Jake play hooky from school, and he spent the night at his friend's grandparents’ house and they hung out all day Thursday riding pit-bikes. Tyler had a “dress up for what you want to be when you grow-up” day Friday, so he dressed like an Engineer. We spent the weekend camping at the beach with friends. The water was freezing, but the boys still did a little boogie boarding. It was a nice relaxing weekend.

Jake and I went out with friends to fish for lobster and spend the night on their boat again. We did much better with our catch this time. Tyler stayed back with Kristin, decorating for St Patrick’s day and baked cookies.

 We had a great time camping and riding in the desert with the Ames boys.

Valentines from Grandma Gretchen

Nacho Tyler

I took the boys to the track again Saturday. Tyler is getting more comfortable on his 150. Sunday, I took the boys and Dungey on a hike up to Potato-chip rock. It’s a really popular hike that is really crowded most of the time. Going during the Super-bowl is the best time since there is hardly anybody there. The boys and Dungey had fun bouldering on all the rocks. Dungey was following the boys hopping up and down the rocks like a Billy goat.