Crater of the Diamonds

The boys have had this idea of going to dig for diamonds for the past six months. They've been obsessed with it because of the game Minecraft. They found this place called crater of the diamonds in Arkansas and decided that's where we needed to go on a mini vacation this summer. It is about five hours away so after church we headed for Arkansas. We spent the night before in a hotel and the boys loved it. We had a huge room and they love jumping from bed to bed. They loved the breakfast in the morning, and there was a sign that said, Pool with an arrow pointing down. They could not figure out why the sign would say that. The next day we headed to the crater.we dug and dug, but the boys only lasted about two hours. A lady asked Brant during the digging if he was ready to go to school. He looked at her and said no, I hate school and I'm going to be at WWE wrestler. We found some quartz and a very nice piece sandstone.  Then we got in the car and drove five hours back. The highlight of the drive back was we listen to Hank the cow dog.

Kayaking

 The boys are learning to kayak and fish. We have been watching the Jones's dogs while they are on vacation, and they have a pond behind their house.  And we finally got the boys to kayak!! They were hooked! Of course Slade tried to scare Brant and tell him there were snakes. 

Brant is getting so brave!

Brant's swim school was canceled, so we tried to teach him how to swim. He figured it out last summer, but he forgot how over the winter. He was also very very nervous. He finally tried to swim, and now he is a swimming machine! He will jump off the side, do a flip off the diving board, and even be thrown into the deep end!

Slade's front flip!!

Slade has been perfecting his front flip on the trampoline for a few months. He finally figured it out, and now he can do one and land on his feet. He also can do one off the diving board!!! He is so excited. This is a pic of him at Flight Deck doing a flip into the pit.

Kisses

Brant thinks it is so funny to give me a kiss and then tell Billy to look over at us.  Sometimes he will hold my face and just press his entire face up against mine. Then he'll say but daddy. Billy acts like he gets mad and then Brant laughs. He does it over and over. It makes me so happy.

Ice Cream

It has been raining nonstop. Billy get cabin fever so we decided to go get some ice cream from sonic. Slade got a blast, and Brant got an ice cream cone. We looked back in the back of Billy's truck in the ice cream was all over Brant's face. Of course he was trying to pester Slade with his ice cream face.

Toe wrestling

We were driving home from school and Brant was so cute, he said, "Look mom my toes are wrestling." That kid is so obsessed with wrestling.