SNOWCONES ARE ALWAYS THE ANSWER

Post- Irvine antique swap meet, but Pre- afternoon Angels game, we hit up the Irvine Farmer's Market for some Snowcones. It's true, snowcones can cure just about anything for my little dudes. Here we are enjoying some icy goodness at the Great Park.   

And if you were asking, yes, the Great Park in Irvine is pretty great. Sunday is Farmer's Market day (which also includes an assortment of food trucks), and every FIRST Sunday there's the Antique Swap Meet as well.  
This past Saturday we made our way over for the first event in the Summer Concert Series.  

We were lucky to catch the Aggrolites play their jam made famous from Yo Gabba, "BANANA". 









 The shows at the Great Park are FREE, you just gotta pack 10 bucks for parking. We brought our own food, but they have a couple of food trucks available as well. The shows take place on a big grass field, so if you bring some chairs and a blanket, you're good to go! 

On our way out we passed by the Art Gallery they have, and I noticed they've got a cool lookin' ZINE LIBRARY exhibit! Coop has promised he'll make the trip with me to check it out next time. I'll probably owe him a snowcone. 

PS. Up top Charley has got on an awesome summer shirt (tank top) from OF ONE SEA.
Carolyn has her summer uniform tee, which = the Hello apparel grey tank top. And in the bottom pics, Coop is wearing a THRASHER Magazine shirt, courtesy of my lovely friends at Thrasher. Cuz I know you wanna know... 

TROLLEY TRIP TO LAGUNA BEACH

Last week we took a trip down to Laguna Beach for an adventure on the FREE trolley around downtown. It runs during the summer and is a great way to get around Laguna Beach, from the Sawdust Festival to anywhere off PCH.  We started from south of town, and got off near downtown to wander around. here are a few shots from the trip!

waiting for the trolley!

everybody got window seats.

too many choices @ Scandia bakery!

SUGAR COOKIES.

found my Party Wave shirt at a rad kids store called Little Bohemian Kids!

quick stop at the candy store and the dudes are stoked!

KIDS WITH HAMMERS

This last Christmas we got Cooper a tool kit (a nice 14-piece beginner kit from Lowe's). he's had a Handy Manny plastic tool set that has familiarized him with the names of the different tools. But a while ago he figured out that the tape measure didn't work, and that you can't do too much with a plastic hammer. Since Christmas, his tool set has been sitting on our tool bench in the garage, just waiting for something cool to do. We've talked about building a car race ramp, kinda like the Pinewood Derby style, or like the one they have at the Lego Store... but it seemed like a bit too big of a task to be our first official project. But on a quick trip over to Lowe's, I saw a sign about their BUILD & GROW series. Build & Grow provides clinics for kids to learn about woodworking, and the best part is THEY ARE FREE. cool, right? I was pretty stoked to see the next clinic would be building your own miniature GRAVE DIGGER Monster Truck. The Grave Digger has always been one of my favorite Monster Trucks, but that's another story. 

The clinics usually take place around 10am on Saturdays, so we hurried over there before opening day of our baseball season, and lined up. They have the option to register on their site, which guarantees you a free project pack, or you can just arrive as a 'walk up'. They provide you with a free apron to keep, and a hammer to borrow, and when you finish up the clinic they give you a patch commemorating the project to throw on your apron. We took ours home so that we could use all of our own tools and have some more space (really just so we wouldn't be late to baseball). Cooper ended up hammering all the nails in(!) then we threw the stickers on, and we had our own GRAVE DIGGER! STOKED! 

Check out your local LOWE'S Build & Grow site for their upcoming clinics. There's another Monster Truck build this weekend, so we'll be there for sure!