The Hawkins Rerun

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Finished pottery

We finally have the pottery in its finished form!

Joe's tractor dishes...

Joe's snowman plate...

Jake's bowl...

And Jake's burlap bag...

The boys were really excited to see the finished product and were happy with how it turned out!

8

We celebrated Jake's 8th birthday!

On Sunday, we had the family over to enjoy celebrating. So...we had an M&M ice cream cake then!

And on Monday, we continued the fun.
After swim practice in the morning, we stopped by the bakery to grab a donut. Grammie and Grandpa were there, too. So, we enjoyed eating donuts with them.
Later we went to El Reparo for a taco lunch. And then we had dessert for dinner! :)Jake asked for chocolate cupcakes and mint chocolate chip ice cream!

'Twas a fun celebration!!!! :)

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Wood, fires, and a toad

Josh and I spent some time splitting wood over the weekend. Actually Josh did most of the labor. But with the hot, humid summer we have had, it was overcast both days which helped a little! (?)

We also were able to burn a bunch of wood that just needed to be burned.

In the process, a toad was found. So, the boys proceeded to entertain themselves with the toad for quite some time. (read that as..."poor toad") They created a habitat in the wheelbarrow (water, bricks, grass, etc) and played with it there!

"wheeeee..." Well, Joe's having fun!

an attempted escape

preparing to go down the slide

But the boys had fun and the toad survived...so it's all good!

Championship game

Yep, you are looking at it. The boys won each of their games leading up to the final game. So, they got to play in the championship game on Friday night.
The team they played was pretty tough and our boys got beat. But...they played much better against this team than what was true earlier in the season. So, that was great to see.

Another State Park

This state park has more ups and downs...lots of ins and outs. We started out crossing the river using a suspension bridge.

At one point we went into a canyon area...named Boulder Canyon. The boys loved traversing the rocks and dodging the water spots through this area.

We discovered this solid tree across the path. So, the boys each took a turn walking across it. It was about 15 feet up...so a little scary! But they loved it and were glad they did it.