Happy Veterans Day to all of the vets we know and love, and thank you for your service!

Our day was simple. Yesterday Trevor helped Bill fix his truck.

He asked all morning if he could go out in to the garage and work on it again. We had to go to the playground to distract him. The high today was 85, it is hard to believe the snow is coming already back east.

We are ready for snow now! It is on our to-do list to take the boys up to northern AZ this winter and let them play in real snow. I found a great deal plus a super coupon combination and got the boys each some bibbed snow pants and snow jackets with boots. I am hoping they are just the right size to fit them this year and next year for snow-cations before they get passed to cousins who might really get some wear out of them!!
Trevor was not wanting to try them on, but Brendan thought it made him a robot, and he ran around in them with the swishy noise they make. Even in just the bibs, he was sweating so much when I took them off!

Can’t stop puff-legs the robot!

Bill went out for his free meal at our favorite brewery and swapped stories with some other vets. The boys helped me make some fresh hummus for dinner.

Trevor became infatuated with the garlic press

I don’t need a food processor. Trevor was going to press each chickpea by hand. yummm.

The end result was too spicy for the boys but they really love helping.

Baking with Brendan and Trevor

We had three spotty soft bananas and Trevor asked if we could bake a cake, so we made muffins. (I think he wanted more birthday cake)

First we peeled bananas.

Mashed bananas…

Trevor liked chasing the egg yoke around in the bag

Then add the sugar

And mix

Stir dry ingredients

Together

Get some flour on your thumb and run away

Tasting vanilla extract

We cut the corner of the bag and squeeze it into the muffin pan. (Too messy to do and photo at the same time). Then the baking inspectors come and verify everything is good and sign off on the permits.

These would we cuter with clean magnifying glasses. 🙂

Trevor really likes baking and loved the batter, but then he hated the muffins when they were done. I thought they were really yummy! Brendan wore his glasses here and there today, he likes to pull them off.
He didn’t eat the muffins either.

Later the boys made “mac and roni” for dinner and both ate noodles.

We were in need of some family time and a little adventure. We wanted to do a little overnight camping trip, but the weather at our camping site would have been in the low 30’s or colder overnight. We decided yesterday to switch it up and just do a day trip to the Grand Canyon!

The boys were a little fidgety in the car, but they did well. They were happy when we got there!

Zoomed in

We had miles of scenic beauty to take in…

…and they were more interested in the dirt

More dirt!

Oh look, some dirt AND leaves!

Ice cream!

Brendan is modelling the new cap we bought at the gift shop

Oops, he fell asleep right in the middle of his mustard pretzels

I had to make Trevor a little tent to keep the sun out of his eyes

We stopped at a rest stop called “Sunset Point” right at sunset. The sunset was unremarkable though.

We tried throughout the day to get Brendan to wear his glasses. He will happily wear them without the strap but when they start to slide, he takes them off. I got him to wear the strap tonight by bribing him with sips of beer!! Then he enjoyed a nice book.

The boys got to bed pretty late, so they had better sleep in!!!