Tonight for family night we went to West Lake Fenwick Park, which is about 5 minutes from our place. Located in the ghetto, we were seriously the only white people there, but we had a great time. There was a little hill to climb that made for some great pictures. I guess our greatest accomplishment was being at the park for an hour and not hearing any gunshots!
Well for the second year in a row now we went to Zion's Camp with a bunch of couples from our ward (a total of 7 families comprising of 28 persons). This year the weather was not as nice as last year, but we still had a blast.
I took Dillon fishing for the first time, if you can call it that. We took a row boat out and he would hold onto his Diego fishing pole as we cruised around the lake. We didn't catch anything, but Dillon and Kenzie got a kick out of carrying around the fish our friend Jaron caught. They even took part in the cleaning and gutting of it.
Dillon and Kenzie had so much fun with all their friends. It was great having them old enough now that we didn't have to worry about them every second. They would come and go as they please and we always knew they were close by. Here's some pictures of them playing:
This year at Zion's Camp they put in a disc golf course, so I was able to teach a few of the guys how to play. It's been over a year since I've played, so it was great to get hold of a frisbee/disc gain. Even better was the fact that there was a softball field there. There happened to be a huge family reunion that was going on at the same time and they came over and challenged us to a softball game. Our team was down 8-0, but we rallied back in the last inning and ended up winning in the last inning. I managed to hit a homerun (out of the park), a ground-rule double, a single and was the game-winning run. I'd have to say softball was probably the highlight of my trip :-)
Located less than 10-minutes from Zion's Camp we found a state park called Twanoh State Park. It was AMAZING!!! You cannot possibly imagine how much sealife we saw at this park. Every square inch of sand was covered with literally millions of shells from all types of sealife. Most beaches we go to, to find crabs you have to search under rocks, but here the ground was crawling with them. There were thoussands!!! Also there were about 100 starfish just lying around. We walked out on the pier and the water was clear enough where you could see a lot of marine life too. We saw much bigger crabs walking around, lots of fish, more starfish and we even found a jellyfish swimming around. To top it off there were two sea lions swimming around and poking their heads out at us. We will definitly be heading back to this place again.
Millions of shells at the beach
Well only one more game of T-ball for Dillon. If I said it went as well as I thought it should, I'd be lying; however, Dillon did improve greatly and had fun doing it...most of the time. I think with him probably being the youngest had something to do with his season and him not showing his true Bradshaw baseball colors. One thing I can say is that he sure loved playing in the dirt. I'm proud of him though! He really seemed to have a lot of fun the last few weeks. Here are some pictures of his season.
This weekend my parents came up to visit us from Kennewick with the main purpose of watching Dillon in one of his last T-Ball games of the season. Friday afternoon we ventured up to Seattle and first visited the locks. It was beautiful there and we absolutely loved it; however, something Dillon ate previously in the day was not liking his tummy so much, so our visit there was short. We plan on returning there very soon to do a little bit more exploring. Unfortunately, we forgot the camera in the car thus there are no pictures.
Because of Dillon's stomach problems, we decided to head home, but ever since my parents watched a tv show called Man vs. Food, they wanted to go to Red Mill Burgers in Seattle, which was highlighted on the show, and try one of their famous hamburgers. Dillon's tummy seemed to be doing much better at this point, so we decided to eat there and take in the whole experience. They were sure great hamburgers and onion rings. Definitely worth it to hit up this joint!
After our burger stop we decided to head over to Burien and visit Seahurst Park. We always enjoy taking walks and spending some time on the water.
All in all, we had a great weekend, despite the temperature dropping from 90 degrees to 60 degrees within 12 hours. We sure love it when grandma and grandpa come and visit. Oh yes, and they brought their new truck which the kids loved!
Well this year Dillon started T-Ball. It sure seems early in his life for him to start T-Ball, but here in Kent they can start playing the year prior to them beginning kindergarten. It has been somewhat entertaining to go to his practices and seeing a bunch of 4-year olds trying to comprehend and learn the complex game of baseball. Dillon has had 4 practices now and today his Jamboree and I would confidently say that Dillon has no idea what is going on :-) To help him polish up on his T-ball skills we went to Big 5 and purchased him a T-ball with a practice bat and ball. We've been practicing in our back yard from time to time. When he's with me, he will swing hard and hits the ball well, but when he's at practice all that I have taught him seems to disappear.
Today they had his first "game"...well it was really a Jamboree where they played one inning where everybody hit the ball once and played in the field. It was quite hilarious. At any given moment, 5 of the 12 players on Dillon's team would be playing in the dirt in some form or another. Dillon informed me after the game that he was "building sand castles".
The best play of the game (and by best I mean the funniest) was the last play of the game. Dillon's team, the Skysox, were in the outfield. The kid on the other team hit a hard ball into the outfield. Everyone on Dillon's team then proceeded to chase after the ball into the outfield leaving their positions vacant. There was one little boy who stayed in the infield playing in the dirt which just so happened to be Dillon. Finally after a wrestle in the outfield someone got the ball and threw it to Dillon. Dillon was still playing in the sand and didn't even notice when the throw came in and bounced right over his head. He was more concerned about his sand castles.
Well, I guess I have a lot more to teach Dillon about baseball!
