::this is amazing::

Any chance you remember this post from long long ago?

  http://lifekunst.blogspot.com/search?q=sandwich 

Go take a quick look if you don't remember it. You'll want to remember it. We were at Jimmy John's the other day, and Lucy was lucky enough to score half of Sandy's sandwich. She was really hungry, so she dug in. Right into the top of the sandwich, just like her brother before her!
 Sandwich eating skill--her father has it, her brother has it and SHE has it. I've never known anybody but my two small people to eat a hoagie this way.

 I tried for a better picture but she moves way too fast. Just know it was awesome and I was enjoying it to no end.

::more CA fun::

So after we had breakfast we went back to the hotel for some naps by way of a quick Target trip to pick up some necessities and a couple of snorkels for the boys.

Lucy actually did nap a little which was nice, and Kris went out to catch a few quick waves.  It was pretty cool and cloudy all morning but the sun came out as soon as Kris got back.  After he was back we headed out to walk to lunch.  One of our favorite things about this part of San Diego is that we can walk a lot of places.  It's super fun.



Miss Lou was super patient and relaxed about riding in the stroller.  We had fish tacos at Rubios and then walked over to Sandy's favorite ice cream sandwich place, the Baked Bear.



How I love that little Lucy in the big hat!



The boys love the ice cream sandwiches.  You pick what kind of cookies go on the top and bottom of the sandwich and what kind of ice cream goes inside.  The boys usually pick something rather gross.



Kris and I shared a sandwich with Lucy and she was very pleased about it.



After that we went out to the bay--the hotel room we stayed in opened right out to the bay so we just went downstairs and set up so the boys could swim and play.  There was a lot of snorkeling, a lot of digging in the sand and mud and a lot of goofing around.



Sandy in the snorkeling getup was hilarious.





This was the first time Lucy ever walked in the sand, and she was very unsure of herself at first.  Not scared to be put down like Sandy was when he was 1, but she thought it was pretty weird.







The bay is so fun for the little guys because it has a nice slow slope down into the water, there are hardly any waves, but there is still nice sand to play in and the water is fresh enough.



Lucy was having a blast playing.  Max was out noodling around like usual, he's basically a fish where things like that are concerned.



Sandy alternated between swimming and floating and digging and all that fun stuff.



It was a great fun day, and we all kind of felt like little Lucy there at the end, big smiles all full of ice cream and sunshine.

::lunch today::

I had to just force myself to post these photos without editing them because I just don't have the dang time right now. It's a little painful, but maybe it will help me to do better just taking them right instead of having to edit every dang photo.

I FORCED the guys to go outside a bunch today. Mean me. Somehow in the midst of all that forced fun they were excited to take lunch outside so that they could eat on the playground.

A storm was coming over the mountains, but it wasn't quite here yet.

I came out with the camera because I was guessing that they were being cute. I was right, but once I got out there they weren't cute anymore but just goofy and hamming in front of the camera.

Max tries to pretend he's not 100% aware of the camera.




"Wow! What a surprise! Who knew you had a CAMERA?! I just happened to have a sandwich hanging out of my mouth!!"



Har har





Sandy wants to be as cool and goofy as his brother. He's almost there.  Just a little more training.








Just imagine lots and lots of cute giggling. LOTS.  I do love to hear them giggling together even though it sometimes means trouble for me.

I sure do like these boys. They drive me nuts, but they're so dang cute the rest of the time.

And poor little Lucy had shots today so she was taking a long and serious nap in my bedroom. I think she's just about too big for her little bed.




She's so happy and peaceful when she actually sleeps--just wish I could get her to do it more.
And that's today. The fun part of today anyway. The rest was all working and running around and feeling tired.  Classic Monday.

::interruption::

We interrupt the long awaited bike race report to bring you some hilarious photos of a small baby eating a large sandwich.

See the bite hole in the top of the sandwich? Normally Sandy will share this sandwich with another person, and I will break it into smaller pieces for him. But today he was very adamant that he was going to eat this sandwich ON HIS OWN.

I love how his biggest bit still doesn't make it through to the innards.

Max can do it too of course!

He kept on attacking the sandwich--usually to quick for me to get a photo.

The most hilarious thing was that he was rooting around on the sandwich to try to find a mouth hold. Sooooo funny.

And there you go. He only got about three more bites than that one at the beginning before he ran out of steam and tried to wrap his leftovers up and put them away. I was very impressed with his tenacity. Dedication to eating, that's a good family trait we're happy to pass on!

::::

Ode to a Grandpa. My Dad is an awesome Grandpa. When my parents were here a couple of weeks ago I had a pretty stressful week that involved a lot of work, church work and other crazy stuff. My mom helped me with a lot of stuff, and my Dad stepped up and hung out with my boys a TON. They had so much fun together. He let Sandy drip bubble stuff all over him many times. He rode bikes with Max. He played board games and cars. When I came home from one of my long days doing whatever I found the sandwich cutter shaped like the Millennium Falcon out, so he cut sandwiches into shapes for the boys. I was impressed. Did you make Max still eat his crusts though Dad? And plus he fixed my pepper shaker so now it actually peppers food. He's amazing.

::easter part 2::

Easter part two! So once we had decorated the eggs, we needed an egg hunt. I love what my parents always did--the big friend easter egg hunt with piles of eggs and candy on saturday. I love it, and I've only pulled off doing it like once or twice since Max was tiny. Sadly, this was not one of those years where I made it happen. At church my presidency and I were in charge of the ward easter party which ended up being friday night and then saturday was crazy busy as usual. So we were left with sunday afternoon being the best and only time for any sort of egg hunting. And we did have to make it up to Max because at the church egg hunt he only got ONE EGG, although I know there were dozens more than that since I ran the whole thing. He's just not the running pushing kind of guy. Anyway, after church and a nap Kris and I hid some eggs for the boys. Easy eggs and hard eggs, plastic eggs and real eggs. Everybody's excited and ready in this picture except for Kris. He's just embarrassed by all the cardboard boxes and stuff in the front hall. Sandy was excited, but he didn't quite get what was going on, he kept dumping his basket and taking off in another direction. And off they went: Sandy just ran around for a while. Kris tried to help him figure out what was going on, but it was pretty much a lost cause. Max however, was a man on a mission. He wanted an egg salad sandwich, and he was willing to work to make it happen. I'm not sure why he's wearing a helmet--he must've been ready to take some serious risks for those eggs. This was pre yard clean up for us, now I look at these pictures and it all looks so junky! But everything does in the early spring I guess, except for those very motivated gardening people. Sultan of course wanted to get in on the action too, but the plastic eggs don't taste so good. And then finally Sandy clued in and found a couple of eggs, though by then Max had gotten all the easy ones and Sand had to almost sacrifice his arms to retrieve some eggs. Easter eggs hunts are really the best, aren't they? Even when reported on a month late. One more easter post to come. Soon I hope.

::kansas city::

In early November we got to go to Kansas City to see Kelly's family and to be present for baby Gray's blessing. We were pretty excited to go, considering it has been years since we've been back there. We're quite fond of Kansas City and there have been many things we've missed about it over the years.
The bummer was that it was seriously a whirlwind trip. We got there saturday afternoon and left monday morning.
So it was tough to squeeze in all we were hoping and wanting to do.

But of course, most importantly, we got to see family. Kelly and Lechelle had a nice little open house before the blessing with lots of yummy food. We got to hang out together for a bit there, and then go to church. The blessing was so nice and their ward seems great.
Before church we took a couple of photos, but Boston was NOT wanting to cooperate. Cute, but cranky!



This was the very cutest one:

And then the whole group of us Hendricks.

Some cute kids in there!

Besides the family time, we got to go and eat some of our favorite foods at our favorite places. The Taqueria Mexico was still there, just the same as when we left it.


And still delicious. Sandy loved digging into the rice and beans.

We also went to our favorite sandwich place--Planet Sub. Twice. And it was just so stinking good.
The funniest thing is that we started taking Max to Planet Sub (regularly) back when he was about Sandy's age. He would eat a little bite of the kid's sandwich and then be done.
Well Mr. Sand the crazy eater chowed the whole peanut butter and jelly sandwich and then asked for MORE!


I think he may have the potential to grow up to be a competitive eater. YIKES. I better watch out.

So it was a fun quick trip. Wish it could've been longer, truly it only seemed like we saw Kelly & Lechelle for a few minutes. But we can do it again soon! We're always up for more Planet Sub.