Crafts, Toys, and Peaches

We have been struggling coming up with things to do this summer. We walked around the craft store one day and found these cool wood building kits. Tommy picked out the race car, but glued everything on how he wanted (not like the picture). Damon picked out a "pirate boat." The next day they painted them. Damon was very careful and particular, Tommy not so much:)  A week or so after, we had to stop into the fabric store and the boys asked if they could get another craft. They were having a great sale so we picked up this pack of wood cars that you could color with markers and glitter. Damon spent more than a day on his, Tommy finished his up pretty quick.

Damon's boat and car. (I had to use the glue gun for the sales)

 Tommy's cars

Last week we took the wiffle bat and ball out to a real baseball diamond at the park. We had a pretty fun time. A few nights earlier, the boys had been playing in the back yard. Damon was cracking 'em left and right, but then he got hit by the ball (the wiffle ball!) which scared him for future "up to bats." He liked using Barrett's glove even though it was the wrong hand and huge for him. Barrett talked him into spending some of his money on his own glove. So, we headed to Target one night and Damon picked out his first baseball mitt. He loves it and they had to get outside right when we got home to break it in.

 Tommy had to spend some of his money too. Luckily we found this pretty awesome clearanced parachute guy. He spent most of the evening throwing it off the balcony. He even helped throw Damon some grounders...and was pretty good at it. They were both pretty proud:)

Saturday was the Peach Festival in one of the nearby towns. Barrett represents them and knows the mayor pretty well. We headed off to the parade, but were a little later than we had planned and had a hard time finding parking. Barrett dropped us off and we found a great spot while he went to look for parking. I felt bad because the mayor drove by and said to us, "Here's the 2 best looking boys at the parade!" then threw them tons of candy. I wish Barrett was there so she knew who they belonged to. Oh well. The boys got so much candy and like always, Tommy got plastered with candidate stickers:) After the parade, we walked around some of the booths and saw some church friends and our neighbors. It was incredibly warm, so we decided to head over to good ol' Fifers Orchards for free peach ice cream day!! Boy was it delicious! We hung out a bit, then headed home to cool off.